CV
b. 1988, Naarm (Melbourne) lives and works in New York
Email: nicholasam88[at]gmail.com
Qualifications
2016 Bachelor of Fine Art (Visual Arts), Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne
2011 Bachelor of Laws (Hons) / Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
Selected solo exhibitions
2025 Gargantua Eats Himself, Lyles and King, New York
Misbehaviour in the Age of Geometry, COMA, Sydney, Australia
2024 Social Ledger, Sarah Kravitz, London
Modern Handshake, The Cabin, Los Angeles
2023 Pulping at the Forum, COMA, Sydney, Australia
2022 Jiggery-Pokery, COMA, Sydney, Australia
The Laws of Landscape Painting, Watch This Space, Mparntwe/Alice Springs, Australia
Shadow Estate, Melbourne Art Fair with Discordia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2021 The Plaintiff’s Third Face, COMA, Sydney, Australia
2020 The Knees and Ankles of a Landlord, Discordia Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2019 Love Cushions (with Nabilah Nordin), First Draft, Sydney, Australia
Selected group exhibitions
2026 Project Space, Lyles & King, New York
Artistic Noise Benefit Auction, Olney Gleason, New York
ALMOST FAMOUS, La Loma, Los Angeles
Felix Art Fair (with COMA), Los Angeles
The World as Glass, COMA, Sydney, Australia
Membrane, Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York
2025 Puppets? Everybody Loves Puppets, Oigall Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Beyond the Surface, Make Room, Los Angeles
Baker’s Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
Felix Art Fair (with COMA), Los Angeles
Sydney Contemporary with COMA, Sydney
Suspended in Time, curated by Thom Oosterhof, with Claudia Rega, Kolja Kärtner Sainz, and Sofia Nifora (online exhibition)
2024. Embodied Rituals, Times Museum, Guangzhou, curated by Lastpiece Collection, with Ashley Hans Scheirl, Daniel Firman, David Altmejd, Ding Shiwei, Gabriel Rico, Jin Shan, Joy
Li, Liang Hao, Ma Qiusha, Ni Youyu, Pakui Hardware, Pieter Hugo, Li Li Ren, Sydney Shen, Song Gewen, Vivian Caccuri
The Armory Show (with Ames Yavuz), New York
Lover’s Concerto, La Loma, Los Angeles with Nabilah Nordin, David Korty, Jude Pauli, Kate Pinucus-Whitney, Merrick Adams
New Boundaries, curated by Carl Larsson, Invisible Dynamics, Los Angeles, with Aryo Toh Djojo, Connor Tingley, Lacey Stoffer, Meegan Barnes, Nabilah Nordin, Nicolas Shake and Tim Irani
Remembrance of Things Future, curated by Olivia Stutz, V-ZUG, London, with Lisa Liljeström, Anna Ruth, Xanthe Burdett, Bella Hunt & DDC, Holly Mills, Levi de Jong, Polina Osipova, Wincenty Czwartos, Karolina Żądło, and Noemi Conan
ART021 (with Ames Yavuz), Shanghai
Sydney Contemporary (with COMA), Sydney, Australia
ArtSG (with Ames Yavuz), Singapore
2023 THIN SKIN, Monash University Museum of Art, curated by Jennifer Higgie, with Mamma Andersson (SE), Michael Armitage (KE/GB), Paul Becker (GB), Gordon Bennett (AU),
Karen Black (AU), Mia Boe (Butchulla-Burmese/AU), Lisa Brice (ZA/GB), Mitch Cairns (AU), Ms D. Yunupiŋu (Rirratjiŋu/AU), David Egan (AU), Tracey Emin (GB), Denzil Forrester (GD/GB), Peter Graham (AU), Ellen Gronemeyer (DE), Brent Harris (NZ/AU), Tamara Henderson (CA/AU), Donna Huddleston (IE/AU/GB), Dorota Jurczak (PL), Tom Kreisler (AR/NZ), Tala Madani (IR/US), Helen Maudsley (AU), Nick Modrzewski (AU), Sidney Nolan (AU/GB), David Noonan (AU/GB), Jennifer Packer (US), Jem Perucchini (ET/IT), Rosslynd Piggott (AU), Tom Polo (AU), Gareth Sansom (AU), Kieran Seymour (GB/AU), Vivienne Shark LeWitt (AU), John Spiteri (AU), Jelena Telecki (HR/AU), Michelle Ussher (AU/GB), Jenny Watson (AU) and Rose Wylie (GB)
The Armory Show (with Yavuz Gallery), New York
Sydney Contemporary (with COMA), Sydney, Australia
Homo Sacer, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo, Australia (co-curated by Nick Modrzewski and Jack Ky Tan, with Helen Johnson, Jonathan Baldock, Martha Atienza, Kait James, Nick Modrzewski and Jack Ky Tan)
This Oyster is your World, COMA Gallery, with Blake Daniels, Katja Farin, Pierre Mukeba, Nick Modrzewski, Tariku Shiferaw and Kansas Smeaton
2022 Contour 556 Sculpture Biennial, Canberra, Australia
Selected press
New American Paintings, Issue 181, 2026
Collecting, Living with Art, Thames & Hudson, 2025
Palette Talk, Enter the Mesmerising Paintings of Nick Modrzewski, 2025.
Artforum, Must See: Gargantua Eats Himself at Lyles & King, 2025.
Los Angeles Times, ‘Looking for LA’s art cool kids? They’re hosting exhibitions in laundry rooms and garages’, 2024.
The Art Show, ABC Radio National, ‘Art scandals, art couples and art poets’, 2024.
Memo Review, Homo Sacer, 2023.
OFluxo Platform, Jiggery Pokery, 2022.
KubaParis, Jiggery-Pokery, 2022.
KubaParis, The Plaintiff’s Third Face, 2021.
KubaParis, The Knees and Ankles of a Landlord, 2020.
Art Verge, Nick Modrzewski, 2022.
The Australian, 50 works by 50 Artists (The Australian’s Inaugural Summer Exhibition), 2021.
Tessa Laird, 'Heavy Petting at the Cat Cafe”, Catalogue essay for Love Cushions, 2019.
Dumb Brun(ette), 'Nick Modrzewski: An Anomalous Ritual,' 2017.
Art and Australia, 'Mark all as read: Nabilah Nordin, Nick Modrzewski and Katie Paine,' 2017.
Hannie Rayson, 'Contemporary art cuts the scrap as Niddrie surrenders its nocturnal treasures,' The Age, 2015.
Dan Rule, 'Comfortable Living: Nabilah Nordin and Nick Modrzewski,' The Age, 2015.
Publications
2023 Homo Sacer, A Conversation between Nick Modrzewski and Jack Ky Tan, La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo
2021 There’s Law In Your Mouth, Writing + Concepts, Melbourne
2020 The Prince and The President’s Daughter: A Tale of Copyright and Contemporary Art, with Julian R Murphy, The Research Handbook on Art and Law (Edward Elgar)
2021 Quaking Aspen is Inviting You to Join a Meeting, Tree Story, Monash University Publishing
The Advice, Running Dog
Quaking Aspen Is Inviting You to Join a Meeting (online), Art + Australia, Issue 8
2020 The Sausage Eats Itself, Running Dog
The Knees and Ankles of a Landlord, Limited Edition Publication
Chief Executive Officer, VRE Books
2018 To Disappear Entirely, Art + Australia, Issue 3
The Prince and the President’s Daughter (video essay), Art + Australia, Online
2016 A crowd of soccer players, a group of lawyers, a band of Malay Muslims, un Magazine issue 10.2
Board memberships
2019 - 2023 West Space
2019 - present Play On