1985 - 89 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art
2003 Artist Award, Scottish Arts Council
2001 Henry Moore Fellowship, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, University of
Dundee
Creative Scotland Award, Scottish Arts Council
2000 Scottish Cultural Enterprise, ‘Scotland’s Year of the Artist’‚ Public Art Initiative
Scheme, Scottish Arts Council
1997 RSA, Art for Architecture Award
1996 Artist Award, Scottish Arts Council
2006
There Will Be No Miracles Here, Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Scotland
2005
Jerusalem Syndrome, University of Dundee Cooper Gallery, Dundee
Nathan Coley, Haunch of Venison, London
2004
Nathan Coley, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Show Home, City Arts Centre, Dublin
Show Home, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
2003
Black Tent, Portsmouth Cathedral, Portsmouth *
Show Home, North Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne *
2002
Ruskin’s Road, Leidsche Rijn, the Netherlands (as part of ‘Super Utrecht’)
The Black Maria, The Physics Room, (as part of ‘Scape: Art and Industry Urban
Biennale’) Christchurch, New Zealand
2001
Nathan Coley and Bas Jan Ader, Vilma Gold, London
The Italian Tower, Kielder Reservoir, Northumberland
The Land Marked, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon *
2000
International Style, Architectural Association, London
Nathan Coley (with de Rijke / de Rooji), Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich
1999
Der Standard, Museum in Progress, Vienna
1998
A Public Announcement, The Changing Room, Stirling *
1997
Urban Sanctuary: a public artwork, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh *
Demolition in Progress (collaboration with Thomas Bechinger), Pavillon der
Volksbühner, Berlin (as part of ‘Blind Date’) *
1996
Nathan Coley, Galleri Index, Stockholm *
1992
Pure Ideas in a Wicked World, Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews *
2006
Solitude, Upstairs Berlin, Berlin
British Art Show 6, Manchester, Nottingham & Bristol
Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool
2005
British Art Show 6, BALTIC, Gateshead*
Changes of Mind: Transformation and Belief, Haunch of Venison
Thinking of the Outside: New art and the city of Bristol, Bristol*
2004
The Stars Are So Big, The Earth is So Small....Stay As You Are, Schipper &
Krome, Berlin
On Reason and Emotion, Biennale of Sydney 2004 *
Art School, Bloomberg Space, London
Tales of the City, Arte Fiera, Bologna, 2004
2003
Independence, South London Gallery, London
Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain,
London *
2002
Recent Acquisitions, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Fabrications, Cube (Centre for Understanding the Built Environment),
Manchester *
The Gap Show, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund *
Happy Outsiders, Zacheta Panstwowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw *
2001
Audit, Casino Luxembourg, Luxemburg *
Believe, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster
Here and Now, “Fourteen Churches of Münster”(2000), DCA, Dundee *
Making History, Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
Circles 3, ZKM, Karlsruhe *
Local Motion, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
2000
Jahresgaben 2000, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster.as it is, Ikon Gallery,
Birmingham *
Contemporary Scottish Artists Books, Printed Matter, New York
Tabley, Tabley House, Knutsford
Salon d’Art Contemporain de Montrouge, touring to ICA, Lisbon *
What If, Moderna Museet, Stockholm *
Without Day, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh *
Continuum 001, CCA, Glasgow
Inside Out, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster *
1999
Blue Suburban Skies, Photographers’ Gallery, London
In the Midst of Things, Bournville, Birmingham *
School Reunion, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
Exhibition without an exhibition, Leipzig
Threshold, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh
1998
In Visible Light, Moderna Museet, Stockholm *
Strolling, Museum of Modern Art at Heidi, Melbourne *
Artranspennine98, Tate Gallery Liverpool *
Nettverk, Glasgow, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo*
1997
Correspondences, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Scottish National Gallery of
Modern Art, Edinburgh *
Glasgow, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern *
A Scottish Collection, Berwick Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick
Blueprint, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow *
Wish you were here too, 83 Hill Street, Glasgow
1996
Girls’ High, Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow *
Try, Royal College of Art, London
1995
Swarm, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh *
Cameraless Photography, National Museum of Photography, Film and
Television, Bradford
1994
New Art in Scotland, CCA, Glasgow, Aberdeen Art Gallery *
Riviera, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno *
Gol! – The Soccer Show, Mark Boote Gallery, New York
1993
Pure Fiction, Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
Exposure, CCA, Glasgow
Five from Transmission, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago
1992
Love at First Sight, The Showroom, London
Lux Europae, Edinburgh
1991
Speed, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
Windfall ’91, Seamen’s Mission, Glasgow *
1990
Fem fra Glasgow, Hordaland Kunstner Centrum, Bergen
Dependents, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow