EXHIBITION HISTORY
Solo and 2-4 Person Exhibitions
2018 Objection (with Madi Acharya-Baskerville, Hayley Harrison and Anne Parfitt) Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2015 I'm Not Being Funny But The Gallery LCCA London. Solo exhibition
2014 I'm Not Being Funny But Leeds College of Art Blenheim Walk Gallery, Leeds. Solo exhibition
2013–14 Material Matters: Martin Newth with Katie Cuddon, Matt Franks and Nick Pearson Gerald Moore Gallery, London
2010 Neither Use nor Ornament Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, West Yorkshire. Solo exhibition
2005 Drawing (Nick Pearson & David Ross) Central Space Gallery, London
1998 Wish You Were Here (365 days) Central Space Gallery, London Solo exhibition
Group Exhibitions
2021 Visibly Evident IV The Old Furniture Warehouse, Gortin, Omagh, N. Ireland.
2018 Uncommon or Garden Jugg Art Foundation, Ipswich.
2018 Floor 2 – U-Think (part of Hammersmith & Fulham Arts Fest 2018) Riverside Building, London.
2014 We Are LDN/The London Collection Westfield Centre, London. Group exhibition
2013 Shelf Life Shed Gallery, Ilkley.
2010–11 Visibly Evident Central Space Gallery, OPEN Arts Centre and Spinach (all London). Touring group exhibition of artists using photography www.visiblyevident.com
2009–10 The Sketchbook Project III Art House Co-op Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Group exhibition touring US venues including Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC., Laconia Gallery, Boston, Antenna Gallery, Chigago
2007–09 Sitting Room UK and international exhibition of artists’ books, touring venues including Alsager Arts Centre, Manchester Metropolitan Univ., Permanent Gallery, Brighton and venues in the Netherlands, USA and Mexico
2005 Rein a Declarer Kingsgate Gallery, London.
2004 Rein a Declarer La Faiencerie Bordeaux, France (part of NovArt ‘04 Bordeaux).
2003 MoDa Outsized Museum of Design & Domestic Architecture, Middlesex Univ., London.
2002 MoDarchitecture Museum of Design & Domestic Architecture, Middlesex Univ., London.
2002 A suitable case...(part of ‘Arts Upstream’ Hammersmith & Fulham Arts Festival) Central Space Gallery, London.
2002 No sleep 'til Hammersmith Short video works at Central Space Gallery, London.
2001 Drawing the Central Space Central Space Gallery, London.
2000 City Projects Century Gallery, London (exhibitor and co-curator on behalf of ANP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium).
2000 City Projects de Buck Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
1999 Fin de Siecle Riverside Studios, London.
1998 The Death of Paper Varkhaus Museum Finland.
1998 Do-Fe-Su ANP Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium.
1997 20-20 Kingsgate Gallery, London.
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INTERVIEWS
2019 Creative Minds
[Watch Nick as he tries to field random, unconnected questions thrown at him by the nice film-making people at GUS/LCCA where he works as a part-time art lecturer in the LCCA School of Visual Media and Fashion.] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIlGGJbC19E&t=1s
2014 Interview with Leeds College of Art
https://www.leeds-art.ac.uk/news-events/news/interview-with-alumnus-nick-pearson
2014 I'm Not Trying To Be Funny But
[Fully illustrated, full colour catalogue to accompany Leeds College of Art exhibition with essays by Garry Barker and Norman Barnfather]
2014 Review on Yorkshire Sculptors Group website
2010 Neither Use Nor Ornament
[Fully illustrated, full colour, catalogue to accompany Dean Clough exhibition, with essays by Terry Bond, Peter Millson, Graham Revell and David Ross]
2007 The Blue Notebook Vol 1, No. 2,
[(Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol School of Art, Media & Design). Featured artist's page, April issue]
2001 Zingmagazine, New York
[review of work in 2000 City Projects exhibition in Antwerp, by Angus Ivy in issue 14.]
RECENT TEACHING/RESIDENCIES
2016–present Head of Art History, School of Ideas, Richmond Art College/Richmond and Hillcroft Adult Community College
2013–21 Lecturer, Foundation in Art & Design Foundation. Various studio-based practical/critical modules in drawing, sculpture, assemblage etc. Also running programme of Art History & Contextual Studies at LCCA, London
2012–present Lecturer in Modern Art History and 20th Century Design at OPEN Ealing Arts, London
2010–11 Adult Education lecturer in Modern Design History at Hounslow Continuing and Community Education, London
2010–12 Senior Lecturer in Modern Art & Design History and Contextual Studies at Cavendish College, London
2007–09 Occasional artist’s residency at Knowsley Hey Arts College, Huyton, Merseyside (slide lectures and sculpture workshops with mainstream secondary school pupils)
2002–12 Visiting fine art and visual studies lecturer at Cavendish College, London
OTHER WORK
2000–09 Project manager, writer and picture editor for Channel 4 New Media Dept., various projects, particularly, project management over the four-year lifetime of the Channel 4 Big Art Project
2006 writer of a guide to contemporary art practice and genres, in Gallery section Channel 4 Big Art Project
2005 writer Creative Campaigning: Art and Politics. Article in EleXion ’05, website for Channel 4 to accompany the broadcaster's coverage of the 2005 UK General Election