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Personal profile
Biography
Born in 1979 on Wathaurong Country, Geelong, Nicholas Mangan lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne where he is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include shows at LABOR, Mexico City (2020), Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2020), Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth (2019), Mossman, Wellington (2019), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017), the Dowse Museum of Contemporary Art, Lower Hutt (2017), Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2016), the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2016), Artspace, Sydney (2016), and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015).
Mangan's work has been included in major group exhibitions and surveys of contemporary art globally including most recently A Biography of Daphne, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia (2021), trust & confusion, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2021), The Penumbral Age: Art in the Time of Planetary Change, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland (2020), 11th Taipei Biennial: Post-Nature - A Museum as an Ecosystem, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2019), Antipodean Stories, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (2019), The Posthuman City, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore (2019), 21st Biennale of Sydney: Superposition, Sydney, Australia (2018), The National 2017: New Australian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (2017), SeMA Biennale Mediacity Seoul 2016: NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2016) and the 11th Gwangju Biennale: The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), Gwangju, South Korea (2016).
Selected awards and residencies include a residency at Heron Island Research Station, facilitated by UQ Art Museum as part of Blue Assembly (2022), Australia Council Fellowship for Visual Arts (2020), Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (co-winner, 2020), Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence by an Early Career Researcher, Monash University (2018), Australia Council Creative Australia Fellowship (2014), Residency at Centre International des Recollets, Paris (2011), Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship (2007), and the Australia Council New York Green Street Residency (2006), alongside numerous other grants.
His work is held in major public and private collections globally including Tate Modern, London; Lafayette Anticipations Collection, Paris, France; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Artbank, Sydney; Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand; Michael Buxton Collection, Melbourne; Geelong Gallery, Victoria; Koc Contemporary Art Collection, Istanbul, Turkey; McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery, Melbourne; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney; and Te Papa, New Zealand.
Mangan is represented by Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, and LABOR, Mexico City.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- Ecology
- climate extremes
- Material Culture
- Ecoterrorism
- Mining
- Extraction
- Economic history
- materiality
- agency
- Energy Materials
- Energy Economics
- extractivist capitalism
Projects
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Termite Economies Phase 2 - major solo exhibition Mexico and international group exhibition Germany
1/05/19 → 1/06/20
Project: Research
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A series of filmic works and installation concerning the themes of sun powered by the sun itself
Australia Council for the Arts
1/08/14 → 1/12/15
Project: Research
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Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone
Mangan, N., 2024Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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Core-Coralations (Death Assemblages)
Mangan, N., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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'Core coralations' and 'Death assemblage'
Mangan, N., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
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'Sarcophagi' - SM - 'Beneath the Surface, Behind the Scenes'
Mangan, N., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Other
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Selected works in 'Sydney Contemporary'
Mangan, N., 2023Research output: Non-textual form › Commissioned or Visual Artwork › Research
Prizes
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2020 Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture - Joint Winner
Arnold, Beth (Recipient), Dwyer, Mikala (Recipient), Floyd, Emily (Recipient), Mangan, Nicholas (Recipient) & Temin, Kathy (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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The Cornish Family Prize for Art and Design Publishing 2017 - Finalist
Mangan, Nicholas (Recipient) & Testen, Ziga (Recipient), 3 Dec 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Artist Plus One: Nicholas Mangan and Cameron Allan McKean
Nicholas Mangan (Contributor)
8 Jun 2024Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Museum of Contemporary Art Australia: In conversation: Nicholas Mangan
Nicholas Mangan (Contributor)
8 Jun 2024Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Artist Plus One: Nicholas Mangan and Professor Katerina Teaiwa
Nicholas Mangan (Contributor)
25 May 2024Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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ACCA: A Biography of Daphne Artist talks: Lauren Burrow and Nicholas Mangan
Nicholas Mangan (Contributor) & Lauren Burrow (Contributor)
3 Jul 2021Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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ACCA x CoVA Panel Discussion: A Biography of Daphne
Belinda Scerri (Host), Mihnea Mircan (Contributor), Lauren Burrow (Contributor) & Nicholas Mangan (Contributor)
3 Sept 2021Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
Press/Media
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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA: 'Cross-disciplinary talk: Professor Angie Abdilla'
30/06/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA: 'Curator talks: Nicholas Mangan'
25/05/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Profile/Interview
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ART GUIDE AUSTRALIA: 'The Material Action of Nicholas Mangan'
14/05/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AUSTRALIA: 'Cross-disciplinary talk: Professor Alice Motion'
27/04/24
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Other
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