NICK MAUSS
Born 1980, New York
Lives and works in Berlin and New York
EDUCATION
2003, B.F.A., The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
TEACHING AND FELLOWSHIPS
2011-2012 Guest Professor, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
2013 – Faculty, Bard MFA Program
2016 Fellow, Center for Ballet and the Arts
2008 Kunstzeitraum, Munich
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Kadist Collection, San Francisco
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton
Long Museum, Shanghai
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
National Museum of Monaco, Princesse-Grace, Monaco
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Fiorucci Art Trust, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Solo exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2017 Illuminated Window, Palazzo della Triennale and Torre Velasca, Milan
Intricate Others, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Portugal
until: and then: blinding, Campoli Presti, Paris
2015 303 Gallery, New York
Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
2014 Campoli Presti, London
By, With, To & From, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
2013 Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
MD 72, Berlin
2012 answering a glance, glance up, Indipendenza Studio, Rome
The desire for the possibility of new images, 303 Gallery, New York
Invitation a l’Étude,kim?, Riga
2011 Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Disorder, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne
Reversible Surface, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
Perforations, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2010 Galerie Neu, Berlin
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice
2009 303 Gallery, New York
2008 have meant, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo
2007 A Fair to Meddling Story, (with Ken Okiishi), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Lymph Est, Galerie Neu, Berlin
One Season in Hell, (with Ken Okiishi), Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2005 Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
2003 Magnetic Living, (with Shelby Hughes), Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
CURATED EXHIBITIONS, INTERVENTIONS, SPECIAL PROJECTS
2017 Artists on Artists Lecture Series: Hanne Darboven (with Ken Okiishi), DIA Art Foundation, New York
2016 Designing Dreams, A Celebration of Leon Bakst, Nouveau Musée National De Monaco, Monaco
2015 Poetry as not, with singing (with Ken Okiishi), DIA Art Foundation, New York
2014 Florine Stettheimer, Lenbachhaus, Munich
INVERSIONS, Frieze Projects, London
By, With, To & From, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
Art Unlimited, Basel
2012 Volcano Extravaganza, co-curated with Milovan Farronato, Stromboli
Crystal Flowers (LP, various artists), Mathew Records, Berlin
2011 The 6th White Columns Annual (with Ken Okiishi), White Columns, New York
2010 Bloodflames III, Alex Zachary, New York
2007 Between the Lines, Hotel Chelsea, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Medusa, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Plages, Campoli Presti, London and Paris
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin
2016 Question the Wall Itself, curated by Fionn Meade, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Designing Dreams, A Celebration of Leon Bakst, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, exhibition design by Nick Mauss
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, The Jewish Museum, New York
2015 Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Nicola Lees, Slovenia
Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Curated by: Impossible Love, curated by Vincent Honoré (David Roberts Art Foundation), Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna
Drawing. The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent
2014 F.S. Interval I & II for Florine Stettheimer, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Portraits d’Interieurs, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
The Material Image, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Nick Mauss & Ken Okiishi, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo
Essential Loneliness, Taylor Macklin, Zurich
Installation view, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2013 Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Avant de rentrer, il faut incendier la maison, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
On the Move – European Kunsthalle in der KUB Arena, KunsthausBregenz
Festival der Kleinskulptur, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Catch as Catch Can, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
2012 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Monika Baer, Kim Gordon, Nick Mauss, Mathew, Berlin
Relocated, (with Ken Okiishi), MD72, Berlin
Grosse Jahresgabenausstellung, KoelnischerKunstverein, Cologne
2011 The Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Lukas Duwenhögger, Nick Mauss, Birgit Megerle, Katharina Wulff, Amelie von Wulffen, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Germany is Your America, Broadway 1602, New York
Grand Opening Pt. 1, Mathew, Berlin
Nobody Can Tell The Why Of It, 1857, Oslo
Kompass: Zeichnungenausdem MoMA New York, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
ValodaMaksla / Two Occasions, kim?, Riga
A Different Person, BadischerKunstverein, Karlsruhe
One is the Loneliest Number (with Ken Okiishi), ICA Philadelphia
Adequate (with Michaela Eichwald and David Lieske), Sommer Contemporary, Tel Aviv
2010 Novel, Dependance, Brussels
Strange Comfort (Afforded by the Profession), Kunsthalle Basel
At Home / Not at Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, Hessel Museum of Art, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson
The Mass Ornament, Gladstone Gallery, New York
The Evryali Score, David Zwirner, New York
Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The Baghdad Batteries, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Provence ‘O’, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg
Surviving H1N1, Contemporary by Golconda, Tel Aviv
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, IVAM, Valenica
Ne Vivre Jamais, Elgarafi, Berlin
Broadway 1602, New York
2009 Non-Solo Show, Non-Group Show, Kunsthalle, Zurich
Never on Sunday – Tbilisi6, Tbilisi, Georgia
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
modernmodern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Quodlibet II, Galerie Daniel Bucholz, Cologne
2008 One Season in Hell, MD72, Berlin
Not so subtle subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Some Neighbors,KunstvereinMünchen, Munich
Sunset, Magasin, Grenoble Review, GalerieNeu, Berlin
Were, there, severe (thin line),Galeria Alessandro de March, Milan
Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be, curated by Sharon Hayes and Brooke O’Hara, La MaMa E.T.C., New York
2007 Exposition N° 1, Balice/Hertling, Paris
2006 When Artists Say We, Artist’s Space, New York
All Dressed Up With Nowhere to Go, Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow
Between the Lines, (organized by Nick Mauss), Hotel Chelsea, New York
2005 Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Nick Mauss & Elizabeth Peyton, Glenn Horowitz Booksellers, Easthampton, New York
Exile: New York is a Good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
2004 Home (organized by Patterson Beckwith), American Fine Arts Co., Colin de Land Fine Art, New York
Happy Days Are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Nowojorskie Porno (curated by Monika Szukowska), Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw
The New Romantics, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
It’s About Memory, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2003 my people were fair and had cum in their hair, Team Gallery, New York
Now Playing, D’AmelioTerras, New York
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York
Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
Memory of a Free Festival (Marisha Farnsworth, Shelby Hughes, Alpha Lubicz,Nick Mauss), Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
2001 Sharing Horizons That Are New to Us (Natalie Conn, Nick Mauss, Aleksandr Rossman, Sasha Stim-Vogel, Ken Okiishi), Houghton Gallery, Cooper Union School of Art, New York
Coal By Any Other Name: The Journey Towards The Good Taste (compiled and set on stage by Syntax, Early Century Unrest & The Society of Control a.k.a Stephan Dillemuth), » American Fine Arts Co., Colin de Land Fine Art, New York
PUBLICATIONS
2017 Intricate Others, Fundacao Serralves / Mousse Publishing
Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2016 Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Leon Bakst, Mousse Publishing/Nouveau Musee National de Monaco
Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, Jewish Museum, New York
2015 1NVERS1ONS, HIT Studio
Hudson, Suzanne, “Painting Now”, Thames and Hudson, New York, p.169
2014 Portraits d’interieur (cat.), Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Mousse Publishing
Inversions, Bergen Kunsthall
One Season in Hell (with Ken Okiishi), FRAC Champagne/Ardenne/Mousse Publishing
2013 Bloodflames III
2012 Crystal Flowers (LP, various artists), Mathew Records, Berlin
Whitney Biennial 2012 (cat.), ed. by Elisabeth Sussmann and Jay Sanders, New Haven: Yale University Press
2011 Come and Interrupt me, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
2010 Geschenkpapiere, Koenig Books, London
Greater New York 2010 (cat.), ed. by Klaus Biesenbach, Cornelia Butler, Neville Wakefield, New York: MoMA P.S.1
At Home / Not at Home (cat.), CCA Bard College: New York
2009 Rattemeyer, Christian (ed.), The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. Catalogue Raisonné, New York: The Museum of Modern Art
modern, modern (cat.), ed. by PatiHertling, Berlin: Starship and New York: Chelsea Art Museum
2008 A Fair to Meddling Story, with Ken Okiishi and Jill Johnston, JRP Ringier, Zurich
2007 One Season in Hell, with Ken Okiishi, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2005 Nick Mauss and Elizabeth Peyton, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller: East Hampton, New York
PUBLISHED WRITINGS
2016 “Introduction for: Fireworks, Kenneth Anger, 1947; Un Chant d’amour, Jean Genet, 1950; Blood of a Poet, Jean Cocteau, 1932”, Starship 15
2015 “Radical Chic: The Art of Susan Cianciolo”, Artforum, November 2015, p. 244-250
“Theatre de la Mode”, Art in America, April, 2015
2014 « Second Thoughts », Nadira Husain, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Birgit Megerle, Amelie von Wulffen, Leipzig: Tobian Naehring
« Interwoven Globe / Decorum », May, n.12
« Quivers in Time and Place », Florine Stettheimer, Lenbachhaus, Munich
2013 « Carlo Scarpa », Artforum, November
« Being Curated », Frieze, Issue 154, April
2012 “Destroy the Destroyer: Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss on Zoe Leonard’s Sun Photographs” AP magazine, Late autumn http://mapmagazine.co.uk/9611/ken-okiishi-nick-mauss-zoe-leonards-sun-photograph/
“Whose Sleeves?,” Peep-Hole Sheet, October
“New Work: Katharina Wullf,” Artforum, April
2011 “On Madame Gres at the MuseeBourdelle,” Artforum, October
“Études”, Triple Canopy, Issue 14, http://canopycanopycanopy.com/14/_tudes
“Openings: Nina Könnemann,” Artforum, January
“Abandoned Painting,” in Jochen Klein 1967-1997, Ostfilerd: HatjeCantz
2010 “on Isa Genzken, in Isa Genzken,” Bolzano: Museion Bolzano
“Depuis”, with Ken Okiishi, Provence, Issue O Interview with Nikolas Gambaroff, “…and at Some Point the Painting Starts Again…”, Mousse, March
2009 “The Poem Will Resemble You: The Art of Lorraine O’Grady,” Artforum, May
2008 “Abandoned Painting: The Art of Jochen Klein,” Artforum, October
« Top Ten, » with Ken Okiishi, Artforum, March
2007 « K/L/M/N/O/P – A Conversation via E-mail, January, » with Lucy McKenzie, Ken Okiishi and Paulina Olowska, in Noël sur le balcon/HOLD THE COLOR, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, pp. 64-112
2006 “The Artist’s Artists: Ei Arakawa, RIOT THE BAR,” Artforum, December
SELECTED REVIEWS AND FEATURES
2017 Wood, Catherine, « Point of Undoing », (conversation with Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker, Nick Mauss, and Heimo Zobernig), Mousse magazine
2016 Nicolao, Federico, « Designing Dreams: a Celebration of Leon Bakst », Chroniques Fialho, Alex, « Nick Mauss », artforum.com
2015 “Nick Mauss,” New Yorker, Online, April
“Nick Mauss,” Art in America, Online, March
Sam, Sherman, “Nick Mauss,” Artforum, March
Sherlock, Amy. « World of Interiors », Frieze, January- February
Gordon, Kim, “Second Act Kim Gordon Talks with Nick Mauss” Artforum, March
Fulton, Jeni, “Contemporary Happening” Sleek, Winter
Herbert, Martin “Previewed” ArtReview, vol. 67, no. 1 January
“Nick Mauss” L’Officiel, July-August
2014 Fox, Dan “Florine Stettheimer,” Frieze Magazine, October
Burke, Harry. “pics or it won’t happen – an overview of performance art at frieze 2014.” i-D. October 2014.
Dickens, Zone, “The Highlights: Frieze London and Frieze Masters” Harper’s Bazaar, October
Pini, Gary, “10 Must-See Art Shows Opening This Week” Paper Magazine, October
Gat, Orit “Frieze Art Fair” Art Agenda, October
Jaeger, Anne-Celine “Eight Photo Discoveries to See at Frieze London and Frieze Masters,” Time, Online, October
Sherwin, Sky “Frieze art fair preview” The Guardian, October 11
“Phaidon’s Frieze Interviews – Nick Mauss”, Phaidon Online, October
Musteata, Natalie. “The Material Image”, Artforum, September
Schillinger, Jacob, “Florine Stettenheimer”, Artforum, September
Dagen, Philippe, “Cinq artistes imaginent leur habitat intime a la villa Sauber de Monaco”, Le Monde, March 9
“Contemporary happenings”, Sleek Magazine #44, p62-63
Agnieszka Gratza. “Nick Mauss stages 1NVERS1ONS at Frieze London”, FT.com, October 10
“Phaidon’s Frieze Interviews – Nick Mauss”, Phaidon Online, October
2013 Vettese, Angela. “Cumulus from Italy.” Parkett, no. 93, 2013.
2012 Schjeldahl, Peter. “Not Like the Other Ones,” The NewYorker, March 12
O’Dwyer, Deirdre. “Before Nostalgia: The Whitney Biennial 2012.” Afterall online, July 27, http://www.afterall.org/online/before-nostalgia-the-whitney-biennial-2012
“Die KunstimZeitalter von Occupy”, FrankfurterAllgemeineZeitung, June 3
Caws, Mary Ann. “Whitney Biennial,” New York, Provence, Poetry, March 18,http://blog.maryanncaws.com/2012/03/whitney-biennial.html
Sanchez, Michael. “Pandora’s Black Box”, Artforum, March 1
Archey, Karen. “Liden / Issa/ Slavs& Tatars / Macuga / Mauss.” Leap, May 8, http://leapleapleap.com/2012/05/liden-issa-slavs-and-tatars-macuga-mauss/
Vogel, Carol. “Biennial Tweaks Its Boundaries,” New York Times, February 16
Smith, Roberta. “Looking Back / The 6th White Columns Annual – Selected by Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss, New York Times, February 9
Yago, Dena. “Against Interpretation: Q+A with Nick Mauss,” Art in America online, February 8 http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/conversations/2012-02-08/nick-mauss-303-gallery/
“Going on About Town,” The New Yorker, February 8
Sachs, Zachary. “Nick Mauss. 303 Gallery,” Artforum.com/critic’s picks, February 6, http://artforum.com/new.php?pn=picks&id=30185&view=print
McKinnon, John. “Nick Mauss”, Artforum, January
2011 Boukobza, Julie. “A View of the New York Art Scene,” Art press, March
2010 Cotter, Holland. “Bloodflames III,” The New York Times, October
“Bloodflames III,” New Yorker, November 8
Lewis, David. “Non-solo show, Non-group show”, Artforum, April
Pulimood, Steve. Art in America, February, p.116
Baier, Simon, “EinsamkeitistkeineKunst.”, TexteZurKunst, March, issue 77
2009 Marshall, Piper. “Nick Mauss. 303 Gallery,” Artforum.com/critic’s picks
Eichler, Dominic. “How Do These Things Touch Each Other?” Mousse Magazine, September/October
2008 Bell, Kirsty. review, frieze, Issue 112, Jan/February
Wolin, Joseph R. “Feature”, Modern Painters, December/January
Jones M. Kristin. « Not So Subtle Subtitle, » frieze, Issue 118, October
2007 Sacher, Marko. « AusstellungalsSchnitzeljagd, » StuttgarterNachrichten, September 11
Zerweck, Dietholf. « RealitätmitFragezeichen, » EsslingerZeitung, October 19
Stange, Raimar. « Da(n)dy Cool, » Spike, Issue 14, Winter
kbm, « Füreinen Moment der vergeht, » tip Magazin, Issue 20, September 20- October 3
2006 Yablonsky, Linda. « Slides and Prejudice, » ARTnews, April
Cotter, Holland, « Between the Lines, » The New York Times, March 24
Smith, Roberta, « Who Needs a White Cube These Days?, » The New York Times, January 13
2005 Cotter, Holland. “Exile in New York is a Good Hotel,” New York Times, August 5
Cotter, Holland « Mind of a Writer, Hand of an Artist, » The New York Times, October 28
2004 Schambelan, Elizabeth, “Works on Paper,” Artforum, February 14
“Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom, Ken Okiishi & Nick Mauss,” Dune (Tokyo), No. 28
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Modern is Offered Trove of Drawings,” The New York TimesT, September 21, E1 and E5
“Happenings: Home Economics,” New York Magazine, August 9
Smith, Roberta. “Emerging Talent, And Plenty of It,” The New York Times, March 12
Wilson, Michael. “Nick Mauss and Shelby Hughes / Christian Holstad,” Artforum, March
Staniszewski, Jancek. “W DrgawkachLambady,” Fluid, No. 38
“Mlodzinowojorczycy w Warszawie,” GazetaWyborrcza (National Edition), 24-25 January
“Nowojorskieprono,” GazetaWyborcza (Co Jest Grane), 23 January
Cotter, Holland. “Sampling Brooklyn, Where Eclectic Flames Continue to Flicker,” The New York Times, January 23
Genocchio, Benjamin. “How an Art Scene Became a Youthscape,” The New York Times, January 23
2003 Yablonsky, Linda. “Nick Mauss, Shelby Hughes and Christian Holstad,” Daniel Reich Gallery, Time Out New York, December 11
Levin, Kim. “Magnetic Living: Daniel Reich Gallery,” The Village Voice, December 10
Ammirati, Domenick. “Now Playing,” Art US, November-December
Cotter, Holland. “By and About Men, and They’re Running With It,” The New York Times, August 8
Carpenter, Susan. “The Scope L.A. Festival Trains its Gaze on the Cutting Edge,” The Los Angeles Times, July 17
Yablonsky, Linda. “Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame,” Art Review, July
Dzuverovic-Russell, Lina. “New York: Daniel Reich Gallery: Karaoke Death Machine,”Contemporary, July
Kimmelman, Michael. “Now Playing,” The New York Times, July 18
Pollack, Maika. “Karaoke Death Machine at Daniel Reich,” Flash Art, May-June
Rimanelli, David. “Karaoke Death Machine at Daniel Reich,” Artforum, Summer
Johnson, Ken. “Karaoke Death Machine,” The New York Times, May 2

Disorder
Installation view
13 May – 14 August 2011
FRAC Champagne- Ardenne, Reims
- ARTFORUM, October – December 2017
- FEDERICO NICOLAO, DESIGNING DREAMS
- MOUSSE, October – November 2017
- FREIZE, 2014
- PORTRAITS D’INTERIEUTS, 2014
- ARTFORUM, May 2012
ART IN AMERICA, August 2012
ART IN AMERICA, October 2012
LEAP, May 2012
NEW YORK TIMES, May 2012
NEW YORKER, February 2012
TEXTE ZUR KUNST, June 2012
ART IN AMERICA, February 2010
FRIEZE, September 2010
ARTFORUM, November 2009
FRIEZE, January – February 2008
THENnow with Gastone Novelli & Nick Mauss
08 Apr, 2016-10 Apr, 2016Fieramilanocity, Milan
Plages
16 Feb, 2017-18 Mar, 2017Campoli Presti, London
Plages
01 Feb, 2017-03 Mar, 2017Campoli Presti, Paris