Nick Mauss

Nick Mauss (New York, 1980) lives and works in New York. The American/German artist Nick Mauss has formed his work through a finely tuned sensory register, with drawing at the centre of a praxis which otherwise eludes all simple categorizations. Expanding the medium of drawing through multiple registers at the same time, Mauss’ approach to drawing fuses peripatetically to other possible formats, including sculpture, publications, the format of the exhibition, and writing.

He has had several solo exhibition such as Close-fitting Night at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris (2024); Nick Mauss at Campoli Presti in Paris (2021); Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc at Kunsthalle Basel, in Basel (2020); Transmissions at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2018, 2020); Illuminated window at Triennale di Milano and Torre Velasca in Milan (2017); Intricate Others at Museo Serralves in Porto (2017); Nick Mauss at Bergen Kunsthall in Bergen (2013); at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne in Reims (2011).

His work has been displayed in several group exhibitions such as Boros Collection #4 at the Boros Collection in Berlin (2022-till now); Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in Monaco (2022); Les Flames: L'Âge de la céramique at Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris (2021); Transcorporealities at Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2019); A Vision For Painting at Foundation Louis Vuitton in Paris (2019); Medusa at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris (2017); Question the Wall Itself at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2016); Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist at The Jewish Museum in New York (2016); Designing Dreams at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in Monaco (2016); Portraits d’ Intérieurs at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco in Monaco (2015), Test Pattern at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2015); On the Move at Kunsthaus Bregenz in Bregenz (2013); Test Pattern at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2013); Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (2012); The Midnight Party at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2011); Compass in Hand at Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin (2011); Greater New York at MoMA in New York (2010); Non-Solo Show, Non-Group Show at Kunsthalle Zürich in Zürich (2010).

Mauss created a permanent installation commissioned for the I.M. Pei designed Building 66 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, USA, which was inaugurated in October 2018.

Numerous public collections contain his works, including the Whitney Museum in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Lenbachhaus in Munich, the Museo Serralves in Porto, the Long Museum in Shanghai , the Nouveau Musée national de Monaco, the Louis Vuitton Fondation in Paris and The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles among others.