Bio
Nick Veasey is a British photographer working primarily with images created from X-ray imaging. Some of his works are partial photomanipulations with Photoshop. He therefore works with digital artists to realize his creations.
Born in London in 1962, he worked in the advertising and design industries and pursued work in conventional still photography before being asked to X-ray a cola can for a television show. Veasey also X-rayed the shoes he was wearing on the day and upon showing the finished image to an art director was galvanized by the response it provoked.
He lives near Maidstone, England. His work has featured in many international advertising campaigns and adorned products and packaging worldwide, notably Adobe’s Creative Suite livery and Lenor/Downy fabric conditioner.
In 2009, a major exhibition of his works began at Maddox Fine Arts in Mayfair, London. Artworks are also exhibited in galleries internationally, with exhibitions running in 2010 in Europe, North America and Asia.
Veasey’s first collection of images collated into hardback format: X-ray: See Through The World Around You was recently released by Carlton/Goodman in the UK and Penguin in North America. The book collects images captured over a 13-year period of experimentation with X-ray imaging and equipment.
He is the recipient of many photographic and design awards including IPA Lucie Awards, AOP, Graphis, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, PX3 and awards from the D&AD also being nominated for the IPA Lucie International Photographer of the Year 2008. He claims to be responsible for realizing the possibly largest X-ray to date, a life size Boeing 777 jet, which currently resides upon a hangar at Logan Airport, Boston.
Artist CV
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2013 Nov – 2014 Jan; BlueRider ART, Taipei City, Taiwan
2013 Jan – Feb; Galerie Frangulyan, Paris, France
2012 Jun – July; Richard Goodall Gallery, Manchester, UK (solo exhibition)
2012 Apr – Jun; Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla CA, USA (Nick Veasey Cyanotypes)
2012 Mar – May; Brucie Collections, Kiev, Ukraine
2012 Mar – Apr; Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art Gallery, Miami FL, USA
2011 Oct – Nov; Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 Sept – Oct; Split Photo Gallery, Croatia (exhibition is also travelling to Rijeka and Zagreb)
2011 Aug – Oct; Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, West Hollywood CA, USA
2011 Mar – Jun; Atelier Jungwirth, Graz, Austria
2010 Oct – 2011 Feb; V&A Museum, London, GB (‘British Photography’)
2010 Sept; Gallerie LeRoyer, Montreal, Canada (Permanent Group Exhibition)
2010 Sept – Nov; Dubinsky Fine Arts, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Jun – Sept; 21 Galleries, Berlin, Germany
2010 May – Jun; Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, USA
2010 Apr – Jun; Galerie Tagomago, Barcelona, Spa
2010 Jan – Feb; Young Gallery Photo, (Nick Veasey X-RAY- in Collaboration with), La Galerie Pierre Mahaux , Megeve, France
2009 Dec – 2010 Jan; Young Gallery Photo, (Nick Veasey X-RAY ‘In Knokke’), 811 Zeedijk 8300 Knokke, Belgium
2009 Nov – 2010 Jan; Maddox Arts, (Nick Veasey X-RAY – including installations), London, UK
2009 Mar – Current; Great Ormond Street Hospital, (Exhibition following Artist in Residence), London, UK
2009 Sept; Deutsches Röntgen-Museum, (Nick Veasey – Opening exhibition for X-ray Museum), 42897 Remscheid, Germany
2009 May; Richard Goodall Gallery, (Permanent group exhibition), Manchester UK
2009 Feb – Mar; Young Gallery Photo, (Nick Veasey X-RAY), 1050 Brussels, Belgium
2008 Nov – Jan; Museum of Contemporary Art, (XFUNS Gala 08 X = Secret), Taipei, Taiwan
2008 Nov; The National Osteoporosis Society, (The Really Naked Celebrity Exhibition), The Gallery in Redchurch Street, 50 Redchurch Street, London UK
2008 Sept – Oct; David Gallery, (Nick Veasey: X-RAY), Culver City, CA USA
2008 Apr; Hungarian Gallery, (X-ray: See Through The World Around You), Royal College of Surgeons, 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London UK
2007- Current; Logan Airport, (Nick Veasey X-ray Mural), Boston, USA
2007 Mar – Apr; Parker Technologies, (Nick Veasey X-ray), Cleveland, Ohio USA
2003; Deutsche Poste, (Nick Veasey Installation), Bonn, Germany
MUSEUMS/PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Investec, London, UK
Natural History Museum, Tring, UK
National Media Museum, Yorkshire, UK
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA
MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
Parker Technologies, Cleveland, USA
Seabury Group, New York, USA
The Museum at FIT, New York, USA
Deutsche Post, Bonn, Germany
Deutches Roentgen Museum, Remscheid, Germany
Museum Villa Rot, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Science and Technology Museum, Milan, Italy
Videos
BBC The One Show Clip
Nick Veasey: Exposing the Invisible
Reuters VIDEO XRay Artist Nick Veasey Explores Beauty Within
Adobe Creative Voices – Nick Veasey