"The public presence of Nicholas Rena as a ceramic artist in the international field has been quickly consolidated.  He has become known for monumentality.  Perhaps you might expect this of an ex-architect - a grander, deeper feeling for interior space and containing wall."  Alison Britton OBE, 2003

Biographical Notes

 Born in 1963, Nicholas Rena's postgraduate qualifications include an MA in Architecture from Cambridge University (1986) and MA in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art (1995).

He was educated at Eton College where he studied art under Gordon Baldwin, who was to have a lasting influence on him.  His work is represented in the permanent public collections of the British Council, the Louvre Paris, the V&A Museum, the Crafts Council and Canary Wharf in London, and the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, amongst others.  He has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. 

Nicholas Rena lives in west London with his wife and their two sons.

Currently showing at:

Marsden Woo Gallery, 17-18 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V ODN www.bmgallery.co.uk  Tel: 020 7336 6396 for Tatjana Marsden


    Previous shows: 

    Palais du Louvre Paris, musee des Arts decoratifs 11 June - 04 October 2009 - for full  details click on Current Exhibition in menu

    Saatchi Gallery 15-17 May 2009

    Firing Imaginations, British Council Touring Exhibition, Brazil, 2000                    Sotheby's London & Sotheby's New York (curated by Janice Blackburn)                           The Garth Clark Gallery, New York                                                                             Jerwood Prize 2008, Jerwood Space

    Jerwood Prize 2001 at the Crafts Council Gallery
    The Woo Foundation Bursary Award 2000
    Barrett Marsden Gallery, Clerkenwell, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009
    Jerwood Contemporary Exhibition, The Galleries at Dovecot, 10 Infirmary Street, Edinburgh 13 November 2008 - 29 January 2009  Tel:  0131 315 3054

    The Scottish Gallery, 16 Dundas Street, Edinburgh 2002, 2007, 2008

    Driven to Abstraction, Edinburgh International Festival Exhibition 1999
    Lynne Strover Gallery, Cambridge,1999
    Oxford Gallery, Oxford, New Masters, Old Masters, 2000
    Glynn Vivian Gallery Swansea: New Directions in Ceramic Sculpture
    Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery 1997
                         
    Galerie Norby, Copenhagen, Denmark (with Karen Bennicke) November 2003
    British Ceramics, Keramikmuseet Grimmerhus, Denmark, 2000
    Galerie Puls, Brussels
    Galerie Binnen, Amsterdam, 1999

    Nicholas Rena is a member of the Peter Dormer Committee at the Royal College of Art, London.