Nils Norman is an English artist

Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...

. He is "known for combining wacky invention with a vision of how cities should be used [and] has developed his own mix of art and activism." In 2007, his work was on show at Tate Modern

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London, England. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group . It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year...

 in the Global Cities exhibition, his presentation featured a series of posters displaying ecological and environmental information, which were a "comment on bad urban planning, architecture and street design, as well as capitalism’s lack of environmental concern." In her 2006 survey Beyond Green, Stephanie Smith highlighted Norman's interest in the apparent homogenization

Species homogeneity

Homogeneous means consisting of parts or people which are similar to each other or are of the same type. Homogeneity means all of the same or similar kind or nature. In ecological terms it can also be expressed as a lack of, or reduction in biodiversity. Species richness is the fundamental unit...

 of urban spaces resultant from regeneration projects. It has been claimed that "Norman’s work has been compared to the urban projects of artists such as Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...

, Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art.-Background and education:Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York....

, Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...

, and Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko

Krzysztof Wodiczko, born April 16th 1943, is an artist renowned for his large-scale slide and video projections on architectural facades and monuments...

." Norman's exhibitions include several projects in the 1990s at Friesenwall 120 in Cologne, Germany. He has been a regular contributor to Mute Magazine