MIKE NELSON TO REPRESENT BRITAIN AT 2011 VENICE BIENNALE

Mike Nelson has been named the artist to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2011, reports Charlotte Higgins for the Guardian Blog. The artist, born in Loughborough, UK in 1967, won the Paul Hamlyn Award in 2001 and has been twice shortlisted for the Turner Prize.

Nelson was selected by a panel of arts experts drawn from across the UK. The members of the panel change for every edition of the Biennale. The selection committee for the 2011 edition consisted of Rachel Campbell-Johnson, art critic, The Times; Christoph Grunenberg, director of Tate Liverpool; Nav Haq, curator, Arnolfini, Bristol; Keith Hartley, senior curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Hugh Mulholland, director of The Third Space Gallery in Belfast; Karen McKinnon, curator, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea; Richard Riley, head of exhibitions, Visual Arts, British Council; Ralph Rugoff, director of the Hayward Gallery; and Godfrey Worsdale, director of BALTIC. The British Council chair is Andrea Rose.

Quiver of Arrows, Nelson’s latest installation, is on view at 303 Gallery in New York through April 10.