Just before the most significant events, people are particularly prone to deny the possibilities of the future. (cause all we're doing is learning how to die), 2014 - 2017
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 24ct gold leaf, 12ct white gold leaf, copper leaf, museum synthetic polymer on canvas and wood
236.5 x 186.4 x 17 cm
Art Gallery of NSW, Bulgari Art Award 2017
Collections 2000 - Present, Naala Badu, Lower Level 1, Art Gallery of NSW, 2024
Julie Ewington, Tomislav Nikolic: Edging ecstasy, invocations of consciousness, MER. Borgerhoff & Lamberights, May 2023
Matthew Westwood, Prize winner owes debt to old master, The Australian, 28 April 2017
Elissa Blake, Bulgari Art Award 2017 : Tomislav Nikolic sees red, The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 April 2017
Gabriella Coslovich, Bulgari Art Award 2017 winner Tomislav Nikolic, AFR Magazine, 27 April 2017
Installation view:
to explain how it feels, 2021
Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
18 March – 24 April 2021
photography: Sait Akkermin
the illusion of thorough understanding, 2016 - 2017
acrylic, marble dust, silver, 24ct gold leaf, platinum leaf, museum glass on quartz crystal, wood and plaster gesso + radiata pine, basalt and mdf
2 parts: 50 x 45.5 x 10 cm & 81.5 x 65 x 65 cm
Private Collection, Melbourne, Australia
transparent myths for the transcendent + vestiges of now,
Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 25 February – 18 March 2017
Julie Ewington, Tomislav Nikolic: Edging ecstasy, invocations of consciousness, MER. Borgerhoff & Lamberights, May 2023
What you think is worthless, I'm adoring, 2025
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 22ct gold leaf, on canvas, composition and wood
59.5 x 63.5 x 14.7cm
Courtesy of Fox Jensen & Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand
Art Basel Hong Kong, Fox Jensen & Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery, Hong Kong, 26 – 30 March 2025
4: lies come hard in disguise, 2018 - 2019
acrylic polymer, marble dust, 16.9ct lemon gold leaf, bronze, on wood and steel
66 x 70 x 5 cm
Private Collection, Melbourne, Australia
pay the prophets to justify your reasons, Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, 14 August – 14 September 2019
John Hurrell, Tomislav Nikolic: Eight Paintings, EyeContact,
28 August, 2019
Installation view:
Being's believin', 2023
Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
23 November – 16 December 2023
photography: Sait Akkermin
Installation view:
codice chronicles + vibration translations
STATION Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
31 May – 28 June 2025
Come on, let's have it out, try a little crazy on me, 2024
synthetic polymer, marble dust, 15.3ct green gold leaf, 24ct gold leaf, museum glass on linen, composition and wood
50.4 x 57.8 x 11.3 cm
Private Collection, Melbourne, Australia
Frieze Seoul, STATION Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, 4 - 7 September 2024
Installation view:
vestiges of now, 2017
Xavier Fiol Projects, Madrid, Spain
21 November 2017 – 13 January 2018
the inaction of words, 2013 - 2017
acrylic, marble dust, 22ct gold leaf, 12ct white gold leaf on canvas and wood
corner diptych: 209.8 x 192.1 x 7 cm & 210.2 x 192.5 x 6.6 cm
Collection of the Artist
transparent myths for the transcendent + vestiges of now,
Station Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 25 February – 18 March 2017
Julie Ewington, Tomislav Nikolic: Edging ecstasy, invocations of consciousness, MER. Borgerhoff & Lamberights, May 2023