Nicholas Ferguson is a British artist, theorist and curator. He is an advocate for the public value of radical art, art pedagogies within and beyond the academy and an expanded role for art in planetary social thought. His photo essays and urban interventions have contributed to political and/or natural histories of the built environment, philosophies of art and infrastructure, and theoretical discourses on art, ecology and flight.
Recent and ongoing research has centred on Heathrow Airport, its neighbourhoods and airspaces in order to uncover the part played by art and aesthetics in running and fighting the airport. This work has been used to pick apart wider theoretical problems around art and environmental knowledge making, the role played by art in the environmental strategies of organisations and the future of international cultural collaboration under the conditions of net zero.
His work has featured at/in Wyspa Gallery, Poland, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, WRO Biennial, Poland, Watermans Arts, London, as well as various publications dedicated to the study of the Anthropocene, cultural geography, futures, geo-humanities and mobilities. He holds a BA from Oxford University, an MA from the University of the Arts and a PhD from Goldsmiths, University of London. He is Associate Professor of Art and Environmental Cultures at Richmond, the American University in London and Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at Kingston School of Art.