Bio
Nicolas Feldmeyer is a visual artist working across different media, including watercolour, charcoal, installations and 3D renderings. Feldmeyer was born in Switzerland where he completed his architectural studies at ETH Zurich before studying Fine Arts at the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Fellow and The Slade UCL. He lives in London and is a senior lecturer on the BA Drawing course at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL. His work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of the British Museum and the V&A.
CV
* 1980 in Lausanne, Switzerland, lives in London.
Represented by Encounter, Lisbon and London.
Education
2010 - 2012 Slade School of Fine Art, MFA in Fine Art (distinction)
2006 - 2007 San Francisco Art Institute, Fulbright Grant
1999 - 2005 ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich, MSc in Architecture
Public Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
British Museum, London
Kupferstich-Kabinett, State Art Collections, Dresden
MACAM Lisbon
UCL Art Museum, London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023 Terrain Vague, Encounter, Lisbon
2018 Beacon, site-specific installation, Hammersmith & Fulham Town Hall, London
2016 Towards the Horizon, site-specific installation, Fanø, Denmark
2015 Lacunae, Art Lacuna Project Space, London
2015 Subliminal Spaces, Maddox Arts, London
2014 mc2 gallery, Milan
2011 Untitled (Crypt), Christ Church Spitalfields, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Royal Watercolour Society Open, London
2023 Highlights, Encounter, London
2021 Fermata, Encounter at Cromwell Place, London
2021 What Remains, Encounter at Copeland Gallery, London
2021 Drawing Postal Project, SU Gallery, Camberwell College, UAL, London
2020 Shapes in Clouds, Encounter Contemporary, Bury Street, London
2019 Everything Must Go, Assembly Point, London
2019 Border Lines, Maddox Arts, London
2019 Photographs, Sotheby's, London
2018 Five Trillion Times, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2018 A History of Drawing, Camberwell Space, UAL, London
2017 No Lemon, No Melon, Flowers Gallery, New York
2017 Artist Rooms, Encounter Contemporary at Copeland Gallery, London
2017 Right Through You, with Miraj Ahmed and Richard Wentworth, Koppel Project, London
2016 Taking Control, Urban Photo Fest, Old Police Station Deptford, London
2016 Romanticism and the Sublime, Lubomirov / Angus-Hughes, London
2016 Paper Moon, Greenbelt Festival, Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK
2016 Exhibition public art projects Rosengarten, Fachstelle Kunst und Bau, Zurich
2016 Märkli. Chair of Architecture at the ETH Zurich 2002-2015, Semester Works, ETH Zurich
2015 Wish You Were Here?, 24 Oct 2015 - 28 Feb 2016 Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton
2015 Perfectionism (Part II), Griffin Gallery, London
2015 Weight for the Showing, curated by Paul Carey-Kent, Maddox Arts, London
2014 Hacking Spaces, Bosse&Baum with Orproject, London
2014 Academy Now I Bologna, Art Defender, Bologna
2013 FreshFaced+WildEyed 2013, The Photographer's Gallery, London
Selected Art Fairs
2024 Arco Lisbon
2023 Art Düsseldorf, Encounter
2021 Photo London 2021 with Encounter, Somerset House, London
2020 London Art Fair, with Encounter Contemporary
2016 Unseen Photo Fair with mc2 gallery, Amsterdam
2016 Art16 Art Fair, with Maddox Arts, London
2015 Photo Basel, with mc2 gallery, Basel
2015 Off-course art fair, with Academy Now and mc2 gallery, Bruxelles
2015 MIA art fair, with mc2 gallery, Milan
2015 Arte Fiera art fair, with mc2 gallery, Bologna
2013 Liste 18, de Appel arts Centre and The Fair Gallery, Basel
Awards and nominations
2018 Aesthetica Art Prize - longlisted
2016 1st prize public art competition 'Rosengarten' Zurich
2015 Nominated, BNL BNP Paribas Group Award
2015 1st prize public art competition 'Cork Street Mews' London
2015 Nominated, Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts, Trinity College, Cambridge
2013 Lumen Prize Finalist Award
2013 Finalist, FreshFaced+WildEyed 2013, The Photographer's Gallery, London
2012 Winner, Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4's New Sensations 2012
2012 Best Category Prize (Contemporary), East-West Art Award 2012
2012 William Coldstream Prize
2012 Nomination, Land Securities Award
2011 Shortlisted, Bloomberg New Contemporaries
2006-2007 Institution Award, San Francisco Art Institute, USA
2006 Fulbright Grant, USA
2005 Erich Degen Scholarship, ETH Zurich
Teaching
Teaching Qualifications
Since 2021 FHEA - Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
2019 - 2021 PgCert in Academic Practice, UAL (distinction)
Teaching Positions
2023 – Senior Lecturer BA Drawing, Camberwell College, UAL
2023 Visiting Lecturer, Kingston School of Art, Kingston University
2016 – 2023 Associate Lecturer, BA Drawing, Camberwell College, University of the Arts London
2018 – 2019 Short Course Tutor, Central Saint Martins, UAL
Other Teaching Experience
2013 – 2023 Guest Lecturer, AA School of Architecture
2023 Guest Lecturer, LIS London Interdisciplinary School
2023 Guest Lecturer, ZHAW Winterthur, Architecture
2021 Speaker, Education Conference UAL
2020 Guest Critic Prof. Charbonnet/Heiz, ETH Zurich
2017 Guest Lecturer, Art and Interdisciplinarity: Measuring the World, UCL
2017 Guest Teacher, Newstead Wood School (Sixth-Form College)
2016–2017 Guest Critic, Architectural and Interdisciplinary Studies, Bartlett, UCL
2013–2017 Guest Critic, Architecture, London Metropolitan University
2014 Volunteer, Art Therapy Tutor, Studio Upstairs
2013 Guest critic, Department of Architecture, Cambridge University
2013 Workshop with Hungerford Primary School, Islington Arts Factory
2013 Visiting Artist, West Dean College
2007 Teaching assistant, Critical Theory Seminar, Prof. Jon Lang, San Francisco Art Institute
2003–2004 Teaching Assistant, Contemporary Art History, Prof. P. Ursprung, ETHZ
Board Membership
2021– Trustee, Swiss Cultural Fund UK
Other
2008–2023 Founder, Architecture in Perspective
2005-2008 Architect at Peter Märkli architect, Zurich
2005-2006 Studio assistant at Lang & Baumann, artists, Burgdorf
2001-2002 Intern at Herzog & deMeuron architects, Basel