GRANT NIMMO
Grant Nimmo is a Melbourne/Naarm-based artist. He has held solo exhibitions at Daine Singer (2022, 2021, 2016); Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland (2021, 2019); Fort Delta, Melbourne (2018); Westspace, Melbourne (2014); Chapter House Lane, Melbourne (2014); Sawtooth, Launceston (2013); Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne (2013, 2011, 2010); Stockroom Kyneton, Victoria (2012); TCB Art Inc (2011); Rearview Gallery, Melbourne (2010); and Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney (2009). He has participated in group exhibitions at galleries including the National Gallery of Victoria, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Spring 1883, Bus Projects, Westspace, TCB Art Inc, Art Athena Athens Art Fair, Seventh, Anna Pappas, Death Be Kind, Korean International Art Fair, Melbourne Art Fair, Salamanca Art Centre and Gertrude Contemporary, and is currently exhibiting in Melbourne Now at the NGV. Nimmo has a Bachelor of Fine Art from Monash University. His work is held in collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Artbank and Gippsland Art Gallery.
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Grant Nimmo (Born Naarm/Melbourne, 1979, lives Naarm/Melbourne)
Education2002 Bachelor of Fine Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University
Selected Solo Exhibitions2022 Seldom Sorrows, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2021 How the prisoners yearn when the forests burn, Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide
2021 The Falling Spirits, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2021 The Soldiers of Art, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2019 The Hammer That Beats, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2018 I enter the world from the hollow cavern of a dream, Fort Delta, Melbourne
2016 The Goat Herders Cry, Daine Singer, Melbourne
2014 Dreams that I've thrown down the hall, Westspace, Melbourne
2014 Worm, Chapter House Lane, Melbourne
2013 Shake Hands With the Pineapple, Sawtooth ARI, Tasmania
2013 World Headquarters 2013, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2012 When the Northern Wheel Turns, Stockroom Kyneton, Australia
2011 This is Woven Piper: Paintings for the Funnel, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Goblin, TCB Art Inc, Melbourne
2010 No Thanks, No Thank You, Rearview Gallery, Melbourne
2010 If You Are a Big Tree, We Are a Small Axe, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2009 Inside the Black Robe, Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions2024 Melbourne Art Fair
2023 Daine Singer at Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
2023 Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize, Bayside Gallery
2023 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2022 O Horizon, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2022 Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2021 Spring1883, Melbourne
2020 1997 - 2020 Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2018 Spring 1883, Fort Delta, The Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2018 Multiples, Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2017 Window Shopper, Campbell Arcade, Melbourne
2017 Spring 1883, Fort Delta, The Establishment, Sydney
2016 Untitled, Bus Projects, Melbourne
2016 Unsettled Bodies, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton, Victoria
2016 MGM, Artery Gallery, Warrnambool, Victoria
2015 Bus Editions, Bus Projects, Melbourne2014 Post Love, None Gallery, Dunedin, NZ
2014 Paintface, Adelaide City Council Art Pod, Adelaide
2014 Threats From the Brides Former Lover, Rearview, Melbourne
2013 Art Athina Art Fair, Athens, Greece
2013 Sixth Sense, Westspace, Melbourne
2013 Filling the Void, Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Anna Pappas at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2011 The Rest is Silence, Death Be Kind, Melbourne
2011 Korean International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
2010 Gallery Artists Survey, Anna Pappas Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Anna Pappas at Melbourne Art Fair, Melbourne
2010 Supermarket for Always Moving, Gertrude Contemporary Art Space, Melbourne
2010 Anna Pappas Gallery at Danks Street, Sydney
2009 The Big Drawing Exhibition, Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2009 First Show, Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2008 Introducing… Evan Hughes Gallery, Sydney
Prizes2023 Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
2022 Finalist, Len Fox Painting Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum
2016 John Leslie Art Prize Finalist, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale
2013 Linden Centre for Contemporary Art Postcard Award
2012 John Leslie Art Prize (Runner Up), Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale
2011 Finalist, Salon Des Refuses, National Trust Gallery, Sydney
2010 Finalist Paul Guest Drawing Prize, Bendigo Regional Gallery, Bendigo
2009 Finalist, The Metro Art Award, Metro Gallery, MelbourneBibliography
2016 Michael Ascroft, The Goat Herder’s Cry, catalogue essay, Daine Singer, 2016
2014 Dan Rule, Your Weekend in the Galleries, The Age 22 Feb 2014
2013 Lucy Hawthorne, Under 5K, Art Collector, Issue 65 Jul Sept
2013 Toby Fehily, World Headquarters 2013, Three Thousand
2013 Dan Rule, Your Weekend in the Galleries, The Age, 20 July 2013
2013 Dan Rule, Your Weekend in the Galleries, The Age, 9 Feb, 2013
2012 The Rest is Silence
2012 Owen Craven, Process Grant Nimmo, Artist Profile, Issue 19
2011 This is Woven Piper, Paintings for the Funnel, ISBN 97806465517222011
2011 Prue Gibson, Grant Nimmo, Australian Art Review, Sep/Oct 2011
2011 Penny Webb, The Idea of Nature, Art Guide Australia, March/April 2011
2011 Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age 22 April 2011
2010 Pip Wallis, Supermarket, Un Magazine, Issue 4.2
2010 Dan Rule, Around the Galleries, The Age, 1 May 2010
2010 Tim Richards, The Arts, What’s On, 15 April, 2010
CollectionsNational Gallery of Victoria
Artbank
Circle Collective
Gippsland Art Gallery -
