BIOGRAPHY

Nigel Hall studied at the West of England College of Art, Bristol from 1960 to 1964 and at the Royal College of Art, London from 1964 to 1967. A Harkness Fellowship took him to the United States from 1967 to 1969.

Hall has had many exhibitions around the world and has been widely collected. His first tubular aluminium sculpture was made in 1970. In subsequent years he explored the ways in which tubular construction alters the viewer’s perception of space. This interest in the qualities of spatial construction was balanced by an equally strong pre-occupation with the particular sites his sculptures occupy. His recent work has been less minimal in feel, tending towards stronger, more solid forms. A solo exhibition of his work was held at the Royal Academy in 2011.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS AND POSTS

1967-69 Harkness Fellowship, USA

1971-74 Tutor, Royal College of Art, London

1974-81 Principal Lecturer, Head of MA Sculpture, Chelsea School of Art, London

1977-79 External Examiner, Royal College of Art, London

1979-83 Faculty Member of British School at Rome

1992-94 External Examiner, Royal College of Art, London

1995 Pollock-Krasner Award

2001 Residency at Chretzeturm, Stein Am Rhein, Switzerland

2002 Jack Goldhill Sculpture Prize, Royal Academy

2003 Elected to Royal Academy

2017 Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Arts, London

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago

British Museum, London

Churchill College, Cambridge

Dallas Museum of Fine Art

Fred Jones Junior Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma

Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Goteborg Art Museum, Sweden

Iwaki City Museum of Modern Art, Japan

Kunsthalle, Mannheim

Kunsthaus, Zurich

Los Angeles County Museum

Louisiana Museum, Denmark

Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris

Museum Biedermann Donaueschingen, Germany

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

National Museum of Art, Osaka

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Said Business School, University of Oxford

Sapporo Sculpture Park

Schoenthal Monastery, Switzerland

Tate Gallery, London

Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum

SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

AXA AG, Cologne

Bank of America, London & Pairis

Bank for International Settlements, Basel

Banque Lambert, Brussels

British Airways

Clifford Chance, London

Deutsche Bank, Athens & London

Deutsche Leasing, Bad Homburg, Germany

Energiedienst AG, Laufenberg, Switzerland

Falcon Private Bank, Abu Dhabi, Geneva, Hong Kong & Zurich

Fidelity, London

Glaxo Research & Development, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

Goldman Sachs, London

Kirkpatrick Oil, Hennessey, Oklahoma

Landesbank Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz

Landeszentralbank in Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz

Mercedes-Benz, Sindelfingen & Stuttgart, Germany

NTT, Tokyo

NTT, DoCoMo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Qantas Airlines

Sparkasse, Lörrach, Germany

Unilever Collection, London & Rotterdam

COMMISSIONS

2024 Free standing, painted steel 3.5m high private collection California

2023 Five bronze sculptures, each 45cm height for Hotel in London

Natural Pearl, 50cm for private collection Iowa

2022 Wall mounted bronze for private collection in London 140 x 210 x 23.3cm

2021 Free standing sculpture in corten steel for University of Iowa, USA

2021 Free standing sculpture in bronze for private collection, Switzerland

2018 Wall mounted bronze for private collection, Mannheim, Germany

2015 Free standing sculpture in painted steel for Kensington Leisure Centre, London 500 x 354 x 71cm

2011 Free standing sculpture in painted steel for Kirkpatrick Oil, Hennessey, Oklahoma, US. 269 x 73.4 x 68cm

2008 Free standing sculpture in corten steel for Energiedienst AG, Laufenburg, Switzerland 293 x 300 x 160cm

2006 Wall mounted sculpture in polished wood for Bank for International Settlements, Basel 129.5 x 280 x 37.5cm

2005 Wall mounted sculpture in polished wood for Said Business School, University of Oxford 320 x 212 x 49cm

2003 Free standing sculpture in corten steel for Bank of America, London 230 x 230 x 125cm

2001 Free standing sculpture in corten steel set in landscape at Schoenthal Monastery, Switzerland 360cms x 828 cms x 192 cm

1998 Free standing sculpture in painted steel outside entrance to Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, DoCoMo, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan 332.5cms x 474 cms x 254.5cm

1996 Wall sculpture in polished wood for Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, Tokyo 200 x 300 x 60cm

1994 Wall sculpture in wood for Glaxo Wellcom Medicines Research Centre, Stevenage, Hertfordshire In two parts: 210 x 350 x 40cm and 250 x 250 x 60cm

1993 Free standing steel sculpture for entrance to Thameslink Road Tunnel, London Docklands 914 x 838 x 305cm

1988 Free standing sculpture in cast bronze for Olympic Park in Seoul 472 x 457 x 365cm

1982 Wall mounted sculpture for entrance to Australian National Gallery, Canberra 365 x 730cm Painted aluminium