| Born in 1974 | |
| Lives and works between Amsterdam (NL) and Los Angeles (US) |
Education
| 2001 | M.A. (Sculpture), Royal College of Art (GB) |
| 1999 | B.F.A., The Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, Oxford University (GB) |
Solo shows
| 2019 | The Aalto Natives, Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås (SE) |
| Bad Mantra, Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen, Matt’s Gallery, London (GB) | |
| BAD MANTRAS, Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen, The Box, Los Angeles (US) | |
| ATTO 2 — ME UOMO, Me Uomo. Hai paura dell’uomo nero?, Museo Burel, Belluno (IT) | |
| 2018 | Progressive Rocks, New Museum, New York (US) |
| 2017 | Escaping from Neolithic, MONITOR, Rome (IT) |
| The Aalto Natives, Nathaniel Mellors & Erkka Nissinen, Finnish Pavilion, 57th International Venice Biennale, Venice (IT) | |
| 2016 | Prequel Dump, The Box, Los Angeles (US) |
| 2014 | NEW_CAVE_ART_NOW, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam (NL) |
| The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (PL) | |
| The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (GB) | |
| Nathaniel Mellors – The Sophisticated Neanderthal, art:concept, Paris (FR) | |
| INTRUSION#1, Nathaniel Mellors – Ourhouse Episodes 1&2, The View, Switzerland (CH) | |
| Nathaniel Mellors, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US) | |
| 2013 | Nathaniel Mellors – Ourhouse, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland (GB) |
| Nathaniel Mellors & Jimmy Joe Roche, Baltimore Museum of Art (US) | |
| 2012 | Recent Collaborations Before THE SAPROPHAGE, MONITOR, Rome (IT) |
| Ourhouse Episode 3, ‘The Cure of Folly’, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (SE) | |
| Ourhouse E3 feat. BAD COPY, Salle de Bains, Lyon (FR) | |
| Ourhouse E3 feat. BAD COPY, Matt’s Gallery, London (GB) | |
| 2011 | Nathaniel Mellors – The Nest, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen (NL) |
| :Hypercolon:, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam (NL) | |
| Nathaniel Mellors: Ourhouse, I.C.A., London (GB) | |
| 2010 | Ourhouse, De Hallen, Haarlem (NL) |
| The 7 Ages of Britain Teaser, Kiasma, Helsinki (FI) | |
| The 7 Ages of Britain Teaser, MONITOR, Rome (IT) | |
| 2009 | Giantbum, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (NL) |
| Giantbum, Lombard – Freid Projects, New York (US) | |
| Giantbum, Monterhermoso, Vitoria (ES) | |
| The Time Surgeon, South London Gallery (GB) | |
| 2007 | The Time Surgeon, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire (GB) |
| 2006 | Hateball, Alison Jacques, London (GB) |
| 2005 | Nathaniel Mellors / Maaike Schoorel, Ibid Projects, Vilnius (LT) |
| Hateball, The Collective, Edinburgh (GB) | |
| Brain One / Mózg Jeden, Galeria Potocka, Krakow (PL) | |
| The Pink Mist, Playstation, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL) | |
| 2004 | Profondo Viola, Matt’s Gallery, London (GB) |
| 2003 | Prince Lightning – The Long Scratch, Touring: The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, The Brewery, Kendal (GB) |
| 2002 | IBID Projects, with Dan Perjovschi, London (GB) |
| 2001 | Black Gold, Matt’s Gallery, London (GB) |
Group shows
| 2020 | Busan Biennale, Busan (KR) |
| 2019 | Magic Lantern Film Festival, Cinema dei piccoli, Rome (IT) |
| Cave Myths (Endless Spelunking), co-curated by Aveline de Bruin and Xander Karskens, Quinta do Quetzal, Vidigueira, Portugal (PT) | |
| 2018 | “ It’s all the same fucking day, man… “, Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) |
| 2017 | National Gallery of Victoria Triennial, Melbourne (AU) |
| 2016 | iwillmedievalfutureyou4, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK) |
| Nothing happens twice: Artists explore the absurdity of life, Harris Museum, Preston (GB) | |
| 2015 | Anatomies of the Automaton, La Panacee, Centre de Culture Contemporaine, Montpellier (FR) |
| Archipelago, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris (FR) | |
| Super-Spreader: Media Virus, Nam June Paik Art Center, Giheung-gu (KR) | |
| A Modest Proposal for Radical Bourgeoisie, De Hallen, Haarlem (NL) | |
| 2014 | Magnus - Scènes de l’imaginaire automate, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva (CH) |
| The Great Acceleration, Taipei Beinnial 2014, Taipei Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan (TW) | |
| How Soon is Now?, Manifesta Foundation, Amsterdam (NL) | |
| Weberwoche, Stroom, Den Hague (NL) | |
| Alter Heroes, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (BR) | |
| All About These… Ladies And Gentlemen, National Gallery of Arts, Tirana, Tirana (AL) | |
| Tala Madani & Nathaniel Mellors, PKM Gallery, Seoul (KR) | |
| 2013 | Ghost in the System - Scenarios for Resistance, curated by Xander Karsken and Irina Gorlova, NCCA, Moscow (RU) |
| What’s the first thing you’re going to do when you get your new arms put on?, Galerie Crèvecœur, Paris (FR) | |
| The Tolerant Home, Amsterdam (NL) | |
| The Actor, Petach Tikva Museum, Petah Tikva (IL) | |
| DEEP FEELINGS. From antiquity to now, Krems Kunsthalle (AT) | |
| The Long Leash, The Ister, Brussels (BE) | |
| Transformation, The Garage, Rotterdam (NL) | |
| 2012 | Radical Languages, The Centre for the Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor, Cricoteka, Krakow (PL) |
| Panegyric, Forde, Geneva (CH) | |
| 2011 | British Art Show 7 – In The Days of the Comet, The Slaughterhouse, Plymouth (GB) |
| British Art Show 7 – In The Days of the Comet, CCA, Glasgow (GB) | |
| *PQ2011 - Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Prague (CZ) | |
| La Biennale di Venezia – 54th International Art Exhibition - ILLUMinations, Venice (IT) | |
| Un’Expressione Geografica, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT) | |
| Narrative Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (GB) | |
| The Big Society, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (FR) | |
| Thinking Through Cinema (Deep Red), LUX Projects; Glasgow Tramway (GB) | |
| *British Art Show 7 – In The Days of the Comet, Hayward Gallery, London (GB) | |
| 2010 | *British Art Show 7 – In The Days of the Comet, Nottingham City Art Gallery (GB) |
| More Pricks Than Kicks, David Roberts Foundation, London (GB) | |
| *Hey, We’re Closed! – Hayward Gallery, London (GB) | |
| *Thinking Through Cinema (Deep Red), Artissima, LUX Projects (GB) | |
| 2009 | Altermodern, Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London (GB) |
| *Contour 2009, Mechelen (BE) | |
| 2008 | Art Now, Tate Britain, London (GB) |
| Deep Screen, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam (NL) |
Performances
| 2015 | All The Instruments Agree – an exhibition or a concert, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (The God In Hackney) |
| 2012 | Radical Languages, Cricoteka, Krakow (The God in Hackney) |
| 2011 | Performa Biennial 2011, different venues, New York (US) |
| 2010 | Fun Palace (with Junior Aspirin Records), Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR) |
| MEGACOLON / For & Against Language (lecture), L’Ecole de Stephanie, K.W. Institute, Berlin (DE) | |
| 2009 | Volatile Dispersal, Whitechapel Gallery, London (GB) |
| 2008 | The Ill-Tempered Manifesto, Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (GB) |
| Nought to Sixty, I.C.A., London (Junior Aspirin Records performance) (GB) | |
| 2006 | OHR, Virtually Grizedale, A Foundation, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (GB) |
| Tokyo Rambo, Tokyo- Ikebukuro Festival of International Art, Tokyo (JP) | |
| Mysterius Horse, Itchy Park, London (with Dan Fox) (GB) | |
| 2004 | The Landscape Critics Limp, Modern Art Oxford (with Ashley Marlowe), Oxford (GB) |
Residencies
| 2010 | The seven ages of Britain Teaser, BBC 1. broadest 21st |
| 2008 | Montehermoso Visual Arts Grant 08 |
| 2007-08 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 2007 | Production Residency, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire |
| 2006-07 | Berwick Gymnasium Fellowship, Berwick-Upon-Tweed |
| 2002-03 | Grizedale Arts Production Residency, Ambleside |
Works in Public and Institutional Collections
| Hammer Museum, Los Angeles | |
| De Hallen, Haarlem | |
| Tate |