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Mangan's research interests include materiality, art and ecology, climate emergency, systems and networks, economies of climate change, extractivist capitalism, ecology, climate extremes, material culture, ecoterrorism, mining, extraction, economic history, materiality, agency, energy materials, and energy economics. Notable projects encompass Termite Economies, which draws on neural and biological systems to question labour, consumption, capitalism, and its rifts; Progress in Action; Limits to Growth; and Ancient Lights. He has presented solo exhibitions at LABOR, Mexico City (2020); Sutton Gallery, Melbourne (2020); Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (2019); and Chisenhale Gallery, London (2015). Group exhibitions include the 21st Biennale of Sydney (2018), 11th Taipei Biennial (2019), and 11th Gwangju Biennale (2016). His works reside in collections such as Tate Modern, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Awards include the Australia Council Fellowship for Visual Arts (2020), Melbourne Prize for Urban Sculpture (co-winner, 2020), Monash University Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence by an Early Career Researcher (2018), and Australia Council Creative Australia Fellowship (2014). Key publications feature Nicholas Mangan: A World Undone (2024) and Limits to Growth (2016). Mangan serves as a graduate research supervisor at Monash.