Mangan Nicholas / Australia

Nicholas Mangan has exhibited in numerous recent institutional shows in Australia and internationally . These include an ambitious new body of work concerning eco-politics on the island of Nauru, as part of the "2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art: Before & After Science" and "Between a Rock and a Hard place", shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Project Space in 2009. In 2008 Mangan was invited to represent Australia in "Lucky Number Seven", SITE International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include "Nauru, notes from a cretaceous world" shown at both Sutton Gallery, Melbourne and Hopkinson Cundy, Auckland, New Zealand. Group exhibitions include "The Shadow Cabinet", the second phase of "Master Humphrey's Clock," de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, "Event Horizon", Centre for Contemporary Photography, "Super Natural", The Physics Room, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2006, "Balnaves Sculpture Exhibition", Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2006, "A Molecular History of Everything", curated by Juliana Engberg, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2004-2005. In his short exhibiting career his work has received much critical acclaim in the form of publications, grants and scholarships. Nicholas Mangan's work has featured in "Art and Australia", "Art Forum International", "Art in America", "Eyeline" and "Broadsheet". In 2009 Mangan's work was included in "Voids - A retrospective" as part of an exibition at the Centre Pompidou Paris, France. In 2007 he was awarded the Gordon and Anne Samstag Award: 12 month Post - graduate Scholarship, undertaken in Berlin, Germany.