Nigel Hall

Nigel Hall (b. 1943)

Nigel Hall is a sculptor and draughtsman. He was born in Bristol and lives in London. He has been a Royal Academician since his election in 2003. He studied at the Royal College of Art in 1964–67, and travelled in North America on a Harkness Fellowship in 1967–69. For a decade between 1971 and 1981 he taught at the RCA then Chelsea School of Art. His first solo exhibition was held at Galerie Givaudan, Paris, in 1967, and he has subsequently held exhibitions around the world at galleries in Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland and the USA. Significant retrospectives of his work have been held at Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 2008 and the Royal Academy in 2011. He has received large-scale public commissions including those for the National Gallery of Australia (1982), the Seoul Olympics (1988), the entrance to the Thameslink Road Tunnel, London (1993), Schoenthal Monastery, Langenbruck (2001), and the University of Iowa (2021). His work is owned by public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Arts Council Collection, the British Museum, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Tate, and Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.