Nick Veasey

Nick Veasey Biography

We live in a world obsessed with image. What we look like, what our clothes look like, houses, cars… I
like to counter this obsession with superficial appearance by using x-rays to strip back the layers and
show what it is like under the surface. Often the integral beauty adds intrigue to the familiar. We all
make assumptions based on the external visual aspects of what surrounds us and we are attracted to
people and forms that are aesthetically pleasing. I like to challenge this automatic way that we react to
just physical appearance by highlighting the, often surprising, inner beauty.

This society of ours, consumed as it is by image, is also becoming increasingly controlled by security
and surveillance. Take a flight, or go into a high profile courtroom and your belongings will be x-rayed.
The post arriving in corporations and government departments has often been x-rayed. Security
cameras track our every move. Mobile phone receptions place us at any given time. Information is key
to the fight against, “whatever” we are meant to be fighting against. To create art with equipment and
technology designed to help big brother delve deeper. To use some of that fancy complicated
gadgetry that helps remove the freedom and individuality in our lives, to use that apparatus to create
beauty, brings a smile to my face!

To mix my metaphors, we all know we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, that beauty is more than
skin deep. By revealing the inside, the quintessential element of my art speculates upon what the
manufactured and natural world really consists of.

EXHIBITIONS
2017:
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Boca, Evan Lurie Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Palm Beach Art & Antique Show, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Naples Art & Antique Show, Evan Lurie Gallery, Naples, FL

2016:
Art Boca, Evan Lurie Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Art Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Aspen, Evan Lurie Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Palm Springs, Evan Lurie Gallery, Palm Springs, FL
SCOPE MIAMI, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL

2015:
M.A.D. Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Axiom Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
Art Angels, Los Angeles, CA
Bluerider Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
“Let There Be Art”, Emilio Castelar, Mexico City, Mexico
Art Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Aspen, Evan Lurie Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Palm Springs, Evan Lurie Gallery, Palm Springs, FL
SCOPE MIAMI, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL

2014:
Art Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Market & Design Hamptons, Evan Lurie Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
Art Aspen, Evan Lurie Gallery, Aspen, CO
Art Palm Beach, Evan Lurie Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
Art San Francisco, Evan Lurie Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art Palm Springs, Evan Lurie Gallery, Palm Springs, FL
SCOPE MIAMI, Evan Lurie Gallery, Miami, FL
Traffic Jam Galleries, NSW, Australia
NOVA Gallery, Makati City, Philippines
‘Masters of Illusion’, bG Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
‘Art & Photography of the Spectacular’, bG Gallery,Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Guns n Roses, Nick Veasey X-ray Galerie Frangulyan, Paris, France

2013:
Bluerider Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Opiom Gallery, Opio, France
Linda Matney Gallery, Williamsburg, VA
Galerie Frangulyan, Paris, France

2012:
Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, UK
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla CA
Brucie Collections, Kiev, Ukraine
Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art Gallery, Miami, FL

2011:
Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Split Photo Gallery, Croatia
Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Atelier Jungwirth, Graz, Austria

2010:
‘British Photography’ V&A Museum, London, UK
Gallerie LeRoyer, Montreal, Canada
Dubinsky Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
21 Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Tagomago, Barcelona, Spain
Young Gallery Photo, La Galerie Pierre Mahaux, Megeve, France

2009:
Young Gallery Photo, Knokke, Belgium
Maddox Arts, London, UK
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, Remscheid, Germany
Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, UK
Young Gallery Photo, Brussels, Belgium

2008:
‘XFUNS Gala 08 X = Secret’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
‘The Really Naked Celebrity Exhibition’,National Osteoporosis Society,Redchurch St., London, UK
David Gallery, Culver City, CA
‘See Through The World Around You’, Hunterian Gallery, Royal College of Surgeons, London, UK
Logan Airport, Boston, MA, USA

2007:
Parker Technologies, Cleveland, OH

2003:
Deutsche Poste, Bonn, Germany

PUBLICATION
A Decade in X-ray
X-ray – See Through The World Around You
X-Treme X-ray in association with The Science Museum

COLLECTIONS
Michael Bay, Director/ Producer
EUROPE, Deutsche Post, Bonn, Germany
Deutches Roentgen Museum, Remscheid, Germany
Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany
Science and Technology Museum, Milan, Italy
UK Investec, London, UK
Natural History Museum, Tring, UK
National Media Museum, Yorkshire, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
WORLDWIDE, AMOREPACIFIC Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Crossfit, San Diego, CA, USA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Fort Wayne, IN, USA
MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Musée de Design et D’Arts Appliqués Contemporains (MUDAC), Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Parker Technologies, Cleveland, OH
Seabury Group, New York, NY
The Museum at FIT, New York, NY