Biography

Born in 1963, lives and works in East Sussex, UK

Education and Qualifications

1996-99 Royal Academy Schools, Postgraduate Diploma in painting

1982-85 Leeds Polytechnic BA (Hons)

1981-82 Mid-Cheshire College Art Foundation Studies

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2021 – ‘Dereliction’ Christine Park Gallery, Shanghai, China

2020 - Twin Peaks, Private and Public, Jersey, UK

2019 - Beautiful Abandonment, Long & Ryle, London, UK

2019 - Nick Archer solo booth, UNTITLED Art Fair, with Christine Park Gallery,

The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA

2017 - The Journey, Long & Ryle, London, UK

2016 - Last light paintings by Nick Archer, 10 Gresham Street, London, UK

2014 - Lost in Paradise, Long & Ryle, London, UK

2013 - Dystopie, Galerie Hug, Paris, FR

2013 - Sixty Threadneedle street, in association with Long and Ryle, London, UK

2013 - MCL, France in association with Louise Alexander Gallery, Metz, FR

2009 - Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London W1, UK

2008 - Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, UK

2005 - Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London W1, UK

2005 - Royal Overseas League, London and Edinburgh, UK

2004 - Beaux-Arts, Bath, UK

2002 - Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London W1, UK

2000 - Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax, UK

Duo exhibitions

2019 - Nick Archer & Xyza Cruz Bacani, ART FAIR TOKYO 2019, with Christine Park Gallery, JPN

2017 - Beyond the Sublime, Nick Archer and Jenny Pockley, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, CH

2014 - Meurtrière Bleue - Nick Archer and Yifat Bezalel, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, CH

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021 – Westbund Art Fair, Shanghai, China with Christine Park Gallery

2020 - Dallas Art Fair (online), with Christine Park Gallery

2020 - London original Pint fair, Royal Academy London (online), with Long and Ryle

2019 -Nick Archer. Solo Show, Art Aspen 2019 with Christine Park Gallery New York, USA

2019 - Fair for Saatchi Art Fair, with Long & Ryle, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

2019 - Dallas Art Fair with Christine Park Gallery, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, USA

2018 - Pockley/Archer/Overlap. Verge, Long & Ryle, London, UK

2018 - Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2018, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2018 - London Art Fair 2018, with Long & Ryle Gallery, London, UK

2017 - Time Memory and Landscape, Long & Ryle Gallery, London, UK

2016 - Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, Olympia, London, UK

2016 - ART16, London’s Global Art Fair, Olympia, London, UK

2016 - The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2015 - The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2015 - The London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, UK

2014 - LAPADA Art and Antiques Fair, Berkeley Square, London, UK

2014 - ART14, London’s Global Art Fair, Olympia, London, UK

2014 - 6 Contemporary painters, Hastings Museum, East Sussex, UK

2014 - Works on show with Long and Ryle contemporary, London, UK

2014 - Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, Arts festival Porto Cervo, Italy with Louise Alexander Gallery, FR

2013 - Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, Arts festival Porto Cervo, Italy with Louise Alexander Gallery, FR

2012 - Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, Arts festival Porto Cervo, Italy with Louise Alexander Gallery, FR

2012 - CEAF Wandsworth Museum, London, UK

2012 - Meltwater, Eagle Gallery, London, UK

2011 - Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, Arts festival Porto Cervo, Italy with Louise Alexander Gallery, FR

2011 - Art in Romney Marsh, Installation in Ivychurch, UK

2010 - Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, Arts festival Porto Cervo, Italy with Louise Alexander Gallery, FR

2009 - Threadneedle art Prize, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2008 - Lynn painter-stainers prize, Painters’ Hall, London, UK

2008 - Community in contemporary art, Clifford Chance gallery, Canary Wharf, London, UK

2006 - Contemporary British Art, Chelsea Art Gallery, San Francisco, US

2006 - Arts project space, London Contemporary Art Fair, UK

2005 - Sea Voices, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, East Sussex, UK

2004 - Arts Futures Exhibition, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK

2004 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

2004 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

2004 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

2003 - Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood space, London, UK

2003 - Cast Iron Gallery, New York, US

2002 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

2002 - Hunting Art Prizes, RCA London, UK

2001 - Hunting Art Prizes, RCA London, UK

2000 - Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1999 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

1999 - Hunting Art Prizes, RCA London, UK

1999 - The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK

1998 - BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

1998 - The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, UK

1998 - Singer & Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition

1998 - Premiums Exhibition, Sackler Galleries, RA, London, UK

1997 - Premiums Exhibition, Sackler Galleries, RA, London, UK

1997 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK

1994 - Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1993 - Hunting Art Prizes, RCA London, UK

1990 - Hunting Art Prizes, RCA London, UK

 

Career History

2013 - part time art tutor, studio school, Rye, East Sussex

2005 - Guest speaker on contemporary portraiture, National portrait gallery

2001 - 2013 Part-time Lecturer- Heatherley School of Art, Chelsea, London

1999 - 2000 Artist in Residence, London Business School, London

1999 - Visiting Lecturer- Loughborough University, Winchester School of Art & John Moores `University, Liverpool

1997-98 - President of Students Union, RA Schools

1994 & 1986 - Leeds Metropolitan University, Visiting Lecturer, printmaking

1991 - Florence Trust, London- 10 Month Residency

1990 - Cyprus College of Art

1987 - St Pauls Gallery, Leeds- Artist in Residence Awards, Publications & commissions

2018 - Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2018 (nominated)

2012 - Commissioned by the Historic Royal Palaces, Tower Bridge, London

2008 - Winner of ING Fresh Eyes competition

2006 - Commissioned portraits for the Royal family of Kuwait

2002 - 1st Prize, Hunting Art Prizes

2000 - Commissioned by ‘The Mill’ film production company

1999 - Cyril Sweett Award, Worshipful Company of Painter Stainers, for the most outstanding Post-graduate degree show of 1999

1999 - Haite Travel Scholarship

1999 - London Prize, Hunting Art Prizes

1998 - Commended, BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

1998 - Discerning Eye Award for figure painting

1998 - Elizabeth Scott-Moore Watercolour Prize, RWS

1998 - Richard Jack And George Isted Prizes for portraiture, Premiums Exhibition, Sackler Galleries, RA, London

 

Selected Public and Corporate Collections

Stormont collection, East Sussex

The future satellite of the Hermitage Museum, Moscow

Peoples Portraits Girton college, Cambridge

The Mill Film production company, London

London Business School

The Hurlingham sports club, London

Smith and Williamson Bank, London

El –Sabah family collection, Kuwait

Historic Royal Palaces, Tower of London

Royal Overseas League, St James’s, London

 

Bibliography

2017 - Nicholas Usherwood, galleries magazine 2017

2017 - jackdaw magazine ‘Time memory and landscape’

2016 - Fresh paint magazine interview

2009 - Melanie Abrams, Galleries Magazine, June 2009

2003 - John Holden, Galleries Magazine, April 2003

2003 - Sue Hubbard, Forever England, Independent, 8 April

2003 - Martin Gayford Catalogue introduction April 2003

2000 - Jay Merrick, Reflections in a darkling eye, The Independent, 14 March

1999 - Martin Gayford, Freudian tendency, Daily Telegraph, 30 June

1999 - Morgan Falconer, Archer quietly hits the bullseye-yet again, Highbury and Islington Express

1998 - William Packer, Changing face of contest, Financial Times,7 July

1998 - Martin Gayford, Choose from lively, quirky or accomplished, Daily Telegraph, 22 July

1998 - Martin Gayford, Painting in the rain, Daily Telegraph, 30 September