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Grant Nimmo

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, Shepparton Art Museum, 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. 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.



  • Grant Nimmo (Born Naarm/Melbourne, 1979, lives Naarm/Melbourne)

    Education

    2002 Bachelor of Fine Art, Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University

    Selected Solo Exhibitions
    2024  At the altar of Earth, Daine Singer >>
    2022  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 Exhibitions
    2024  The Land is Us, Shepparton Art Museum
    2024  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

    Prizes
    2024 Finalist, Len Fox Painting Award, Castlemaine Art Museum
    2024  Finalist, John Leslie Art Prize, Gippsland Regional Art Gallery, Sale
    2023  Finalist, Bayside Acquisitive Art Prize
    2022  Finalist, Len Fox Painting Award, 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, Melbourne

    Bibliography
    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

    Collections
    National Gallery of Victoria
    Artbank
    Circle Collective
    Gippsland Art Gallery

SELECTED WORKS