Ray Richardson (b.) 1964, Woolwich (S.E. London)

Education 1983-1984 St Martins School of Art, London 1984-1987 Goldsmiths College, London

Solo exhibitions 2021 Brighter Later, Beaux Art Gallery, London 2020 London is up for Grabs, Beaux Art Gallery, London 2019 Same Meat Different Gravy, Zedes Art gallery, Brussels … and I Live by the River, Zedes Art gallery, Brussels 2018 Made in London, Beaux Art Gallery, London Coasteroller, Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth 2016 You Caught Me Smilin' Again, Zedes Art gallery, Brussels The Outer Limits, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg London Soul, Beaux Art Gallery, London 2015 Come On The Six Dog, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 2014 The Jack Lord, Ben Oakley Gallery, London I Get Along, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 2012 Keep The Faith, The Drawing Schools, Eton College Everything Is Everything, Beaux Arts London, London Homecookin', Boycott Gallery, Brussels London’s Top Dog, Ben Oakley Gallery, London 2011 Londons No. One, Ben Oakley Gallery, London L'ironie du Sort, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 2009 Southern Comfort, Boycott Gallery, Brussels Music For Pleasure, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris With A Little Pinch Of London, Advanced Graphics, London 2006 Leftfield, Eleven Fine Art, London Rare Prints, Advanced Graphics, London A to Z, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 2005 Ordinary People, New Arts Gallery, Connecticut An English Phenomenon, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles Not A Lot To Do, Boycott Gallery, Brussels Lazy Sunday, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne 2004 Days Like These, Fabien Fryns Gallery, Marbella Storyville, Advanced Graphics, London 2003 Short Stories, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris Views From My Island, Boycott Gallery, Brussels Absolute Richardson, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne 2002 All Around The World, Fabien Fryns Gallery, Marbella

A London Film, Advanced Graphics, London 2001 Out Of Town, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 2000 London Calling, Boycott Gallery, Brussels Jigsaw Puzzle, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris 1999 MFSB, Beaux Arts Gallery, London 1998 Tender Moments, Boycott Gallery, Brussels The Circus Comes To Town, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris In Search Of A New Land, Mendenhall Gallery, Los Angeles The Morcambe And Wise Show, Glasgow Print Studio 1996 One Man On A Trip, Beaux Arts Gallery, London The Luckiest Man In Two Shoes, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris Miami Art Fair, Beaux Arts Gallery 1995 The Last Laughers, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 1994 Oostenders, Beaux Arts Gallery, London Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris 1993 Eastenders, Hunt Jennings Gallery, London Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath 1992 Good Old England, Boycott Gallery, Brussels Coals To Newcastle, Glasgow Print Studio The Odd Man Out, Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris Art LA, Los Angeles Lineart, Ghent, Beaux Arts Gallery 1991 Art LA, Los Angeles Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath 1990 The Sporting Life, Galerie 31, Lille 1989 The Cat In The Hat, Boycott Gallery, Brussels 1985 Greenwich Theatre, London

Group shows 2020 Zedes Art gallery, Brussels 2019 Brother From Another Mother (with Mark Hampson), Ben Oakley Gallery, London 2017 The Poetry of the Real, Beaux Arts Gallery, London YIA Art Fair #11, Paris, Jean-Marie Oger Jeux sans Frontières, Galerie Raison d’ARt, Lille Art Kalrsruhe, Galerie Clairefontaine London Art Fair, London, Beaux Art Gallery 2016-2017 Beaux Art Gallery, London 2016 Fablon, Ben Oakley Gallery, London Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, Thames-Side Print Studio The Ruth Borchard Collection: The Next Generation – Self-Portraiture In The 21st Century, Piano Nobile Kings Place, London

Art Car Boot Fair, Hastings, Ben Oakley Gallery Still life – Style of life, Jean-Marie Oger/24Beaubourg, Paris 2015 LinolCut, Paul Stolper Gallery, London Kevin Foursands, Ben Oakley Gallery, London The Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Prize, London REALITY: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2014 REALITY: Modern and Contemporary British Painting, Sainsbury’s Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich RA Summer Exhibition - Royal Academy, London Kevin Threesauds Room To Let, Ben Oakley Gallery, London 2012 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London Never Promised Poundland, No Format Gallery, London 2013 The Dog and Crow, Ben Oakley Gallery, London Kevin Threesauds, Ben Oakley Gallery, London 2011 Little Pictures, Advanced Graphics London, London 2010 Collectors Prints, Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames Advanced Graphics London, Caterham School, Surrey London Calling, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon 2008 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London Painter-Printmakers from Advanced Graphics London, Eton Drawing Schools, Windsor 2007 Prints from Advanced Graphics London, Deutsche Bank, London 2006 Made in England, Prints from Advanced Graphics London, Original Print Gallery, Dublin Prints from Advanced Graphics London, Friend’s Room, , London 2005 The Bestiary, Jill George Gallery, London 2004 Sea into the Future, Old Billingsgate Market, London Buon Natale, Advanced Graphics London 2003 Hitch, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow ARTfutures 2003, Contemporary Art Society, London Prints from Advanced Graphics London, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen 2002 England Away (with Mark Hampson), Gallery Aoyama & Laforet Museum, Tokyo Sense and Form, Consument Art 2002, Nuremberg 2001 Impressions of the 20th Century: Fine Art Prints from the V&A Collection, V&A, London 1999-2010 New Publications, Advanced Graphics London 1999 OKUK (with Mark Hampson), Gallery Aoyama & Laforet Museum, Tokyo 1998 Short Series: British Contemporaries, Trinity Art Centre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent

Yellow, Advanced Graphics London Contemporary Prints from Advanced Graphics London, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow Summer Show, Gallagher and Turner, Newcastle upon Tyne British Sporting Heroes, National Portrait Gallery, London 1997-2010 London Art Fair, London, Advanced Graphics London AAF 10, London, Advanced Graphics London Contemporary Print Show, London, Advanced Graphics London London Original Print Fair, London, Advanced Graphics London Art on Paper, London, Advanced Graphics London Glasgow Art Fair, Glasgow, Advanced Graphics London 20/21 British Art Fair, Advanced Graphics London The Print Fair, New York, Advanced Graphics London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 1997 Chicago Art Fair, Beaux Arts 30 Years of Printmaking, Berkeley Square Gallery, London Animals in Art, Blue Cross Charity touring exhibition (London, Brighton, Preston) 1996 Kunstler Sonderbund, Berlin, Galerie Alain Blondel 1995-1997 Artists Of Fame & Promise, London, Beaux Arts Gallery 1994 Beaux-Arts Collections, Beaux Arts Gallery, London 1993 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 1993-1995 Salon de Mars, Paris, Galerie Alain Blondel Lineart, Ghent, Beaux Arts Gallery FIAC, Paris, Galerie Alain Blondel 1991-1998 Contemporary Art Fair, London, Beaux Arts Gallery 1990 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 1988 John Player Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London

Awards 2012 Artist in Residence Eton College Founders Painting Prize ING Discerning Eye 2007 Association of Painter Printmakers A.R.E. 2002 British Council Award 1999 British Council Award 1990 BP Portrait Award - Special Commendation 1989 British Council Award

Public commissions 1997 Paintings and drawings for the 1997 season of the Royal Shakespeare Company, exhibited in London and in Stratford Upon Avon and then for the RSC publications.

1995 Paintings reproduced on the Manchester’s Metrolink Trams, commissioned by Stuart Glass for the Boddington’s Manchester Art Festival from October 1995 to January 1996. 1993 Paintings and drawings of the heavyweight boxer world champion boxer Lennox Lewis, commissioned and published by The Telegraph Magazin and then given to The National Portrait Gallery, London.

Collections National Portrait Gallery, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Musée L, Louvain; De Beers Diamond Trading Co., London; Susan Kasen Summer Collection, Connecticut; The Royal Bank of Scotland; London Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford; JP Morgan Collection, London; St George's Hospital Trust Collection, London; Tama Art University Collection, Tokyo; Isle of Man Government Collection, Isle of Man; Royal Overseas League Collection, Edinburgh; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Carmignac foundation, Paris; Pallant House Museum, Chichester; Ingram Collection, London; The Ruth Borchard Collection, London

Publications 2018 Ray Richardson - Made in London, texts by James Ellroy and Austin Collings, Beaux Arts Gallery, London 2016 Ray Richardson – London Soul, text by Paul Greenhalgh, Beaux Arts Gallery, London 2012 Ray Richardson – Everything is Everything, text by Jake Auerbach, Beaux Arts Gallery, London 2004 Ray Richardson – Storyville, interview with Hanif Kureishi, Advanced Graphics London. 1999 Ray Richardson - MFSB, Beaux Arts Gallery, London. 1996 Ray Richardson – One Man On A Trip, texts by Edward Lucie-Smith and Iain Gale, Beaux Arts Gallery

Selected TV, Radio and Film 2017 Ray Richardson: Our Side Of The Water, Nina Degraeve, Les A.P.A.C.H. 2012 Londons No.One, shortlisted Edge Of the City Film Festival, Total Thrive Productions 2005 From the Artist’s Studio, BBC Radio 3 2004 Robert Elms Show, BBC Radio London 2004 Reflections, film made by Ray Richardson and Glen Maxwell in association with Deptford Albany, London 2001 Titian, , London

1999 Robert Elms Show, BBC Radio London 1997 Oil on Canvas, BBC 2 1999 Oil on Canvas, BBC 2 1998 Fresh - LWT, Sampled, Channel 4 1993 Robert Elms Show, GLR Radio London