Nick Mauss
Biography
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 including Nick Mauss at Campoli Presti, Paris (2021); Bizarre Silks, Private Imaginings and Narrative Facts, etc at Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2020); Transmissions at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2018, 2020); Illuminated window at Triennale di Milano and Torre Velasca, Milan (2017); Intricate Others at Museo Serralves, Porto (2017); Nick Mauss at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (2013); at FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims (2011).
His work has been displayed in several group exhibitions including Resonance at The Espace Louis Vuitton, München (2025); Boros Collection #4 at the Boros Collection in Berlin (2022); Christian Bérard, Excentrique Bébé at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (2022); Les Flames: L'Âge de la céramique at Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris (2021); Transcorporealities at Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2019); A Vision For Painting at Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2019); Medusa at Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2017); Question the Wall Itself at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist at The Jewish Museum, New York (2016); Designing Dreams at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (2016); Portraits d’ Intérieurs at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco (2015), Test Pattern at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015); On the Move at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz (2013); Test Pattern at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); Whitney Biennial at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2012); The Midnight Party at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2011); Compass in Hand at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2011); Greater New York at MoMA, New York (2010); Non-Solo Show, Non-Group Show at Kunsthalle Zürich, 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, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Lenbachhaus, Munich; the Museo Serralves, Porto; the Long Museum, Shanghai; the Nouveau Musée national de Monaco; the Louis Vuitton Fondation, Paris; and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; among others.
