Richard Wentworth b. 1947, Samoa

Education

1966-70 Royal College of Art, London 1967 Worked for Henry Moore

Teaching

1971-87 Lecturer at Goldsmith's College, University of London 2001 Fellowship at the San Francisco School of Art 2002 Ruskin Master of Drawing at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford. 2009-2011 Head of Sculpture Department at The Royal College of Art, London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1972 Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London

1984 Lisson Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue)

1986 Galeri Lang, Malmö, Sweden Lisson Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue)

1987 Riverside Studios, London (exhibition catalogue) Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Holland Wolff Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1988 Sala Parpallo, Valencia (curated by Juan Vincente Aliaga); touring to Metronom, Barcelona, Spain (exhibition catalogue)

1989 Wolff Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1992 Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan (exhibition catalogue)

1993 The Serpentine Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue)

1994 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France (exhibition catalogue) ‘Travelling Without a Map’, Kunst-Werke, DAAD, Berlin Germany (exhibition catalogue) ‘Richard Wentworth: Sculptuur’, Stedelijk Museum, Hertogenbosch

1995 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Lisson Gallery, London

1997 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Kunstverein Freiburg, touring in 1998 to Stadtische Galerie Göppingen, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany ‘Richard Wentworth’, Monica De Cardenas, Milan

1998 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Galerie Weisses Schloss, Zürich, Switzerland ‘Richard Wentworth’, Kunsthalle Goppingen, Goppingen ‘Richard Wentworth’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn ‘Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

1999 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Lisson Gallery, London

2000 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Galerie Margaret Biedermann, Munich, Germany

2002 ‘Point de Vue – Point of View’, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France ‘An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty’, Artangel, King’s Cross, London

2003 ‘Glad that things don’t talk’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

2005 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool ‘Richard Wentworth’ Lisson Gallery, London

2006 ‘Richard Wentworth’ Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art

2009 ‘Scrape/Scratch/Dig – Pavement Gallery, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester

2010 ‘Richard Wentworth: Three Guesses’, Whitechapel Gallery, London ‘Richard Wentworth’, Peter Freeman Inc., New York

2011 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris

2012 ‘Richard Wentworth/ Alessandra Spranzi’, Galeria Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan ‘Richard Wentworth’, Art Unlimited Basel with Nelson Freeman Gallery

2013 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Lisson Gallery, London ‘Black Maria’, Granary Building, Kings Cross ‘Twenty Four Hour Flag’, Sculpture in the City, St Helens, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

1970 ‘Young Contemporaries’, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1971 ‘Wall Show’, Lisson Gallery, London

1977 ‘Whitechapel Open’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1981 Prize Winner, ‘Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts’, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

1983 ‘The Sculpture Show’, Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London

1984 ‘The British Art Show’, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain; touring to the City Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery)

‘Richard Wentworth, Allan McCollum’, Lisson Gallery, London

1985 ‘Three British Sculptors’, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1986 ‘Sculpture: Vito Acconci, Stuart Sherman, Haim Steinbach and Richard Wentworth’, Carpenter & Hochman, New York, NY, USA

1987 ‘Inscriptions and Inventions: British Photography in the 1980s’, British Council touring exhibition ‘20th Anniversary Show’, Lisson Gallery, London ‘Britannia – Paintings and Sculptures from the 19080’s’, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere ‘Metaphor’, Kent Gallery, New York

1988 ‘Britannica: 30 Years of Sculpture’, Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France Touring to Ecole d’Architecture de Normandie, Rouen Darnetal and to Musée d’Evreux, Evreux (exhibition catalogue)

1989 ‘European Avant-Garde’, Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA

1990 ‘Biennale of Sydney’, Sydney, Australia (exhibition catalogue) ‘It’s a Still Life’, Wolsey Art Gallery & The Room Upstairs, Ipswich

1992-93 ‘The Saatchi Gift’, Tate Gallery, London

1993 ‘British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection’, organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Derby Museum and Art Galley (touring show - Exhibition catalogue) Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1995 ‘De Henry Moore ós anos 90 – Escultura británica contemporánea’, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (touring to Serralves Foundation, Portugal) (exhibition catalogue) ‘Here and Now’, Serpentine Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue) ‘Ideal Standard Summertime’, Lisson Gallery, London 4th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul (exhibition catalogue) ‘Pretext: Heteronyms’, Rear Window, London ‘Arte inglese d’oggi nella Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin

1996 ‘Michael Corris “Gang Warefare”’, Le Consortium, Dijon

1997 ‘Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 1990s’, Hayward Gallery, London ‘We Gotta Get Out of This Place’, CUBITT, London ‘A Ilha Do Tesouro/Treasure Island’, Centro de Arte Moderna, CAM, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

1998 ‘Fast Forward – 2. Abschnitt: FFWD trade marks, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg

1999 ‘Furnitutre’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

‘La casa, il corpo, il cuore. Konstruktion der Identitaten’, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna ‘Frisch gerahmt’, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn ‘Linhas de Sombra’, Centro de Arte Moderna, CAM, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon

2000 ‘Quotidiana’, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy (exhibition catalogue) ‘Learning Less’, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico; curated by Patricia Martin (touring to Guadalajara) ‘American Bricolage’, Sperone Westwater , New York ‘Dinge in der Kunst des XX. Jahrhundert’, Haus der Kunst, Munich ‘As it is’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ‘At Home With Art’, ArtSway, Sway, Hampshire ‘Aprendiendo menos’, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City

2001 ‘Field Day’, Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and The British Council (exhibition catalogue) ‘Faux Amis - Richard Wentworth and Eugene Adget’, The Photographer’s Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue) ‘Head On’, Science Museum, London ‘>Double Vision<’, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, GfZK, Leipzig ‘Kunster der Galerie’, Galerie Biedermann, Munich ‘The Language of Things’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

2002 ‘Fluxus Memorial Show’, curated by Rene Block, Wisbaden, Germany ‘En route’, Serpentine Gallery, London ‘Utopie Quotidiane – L’uomo e I suoi sogni nell’arte dal 1960 ad oggi’, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan ‘SCAPE 2002’, SCAPE Biennal of Art in Public Space, Christchurch 25th Bienal de Sao Paolo, Bienal de Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo

2002/2003 ‘Blast to Freeze – British Art in the 20th century’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (exhibition catalogue)

2003 ‘Out of Place’, Harewood House, England ‘Independence’, South London Gallery, London ‘Absolute Generation’, 50th Venice Biennale ‘Ex-press’, Royal College of Art Galleries, London ‘Weltkunst Collection: Glad that things don’t talk’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, IMMA, Dublin

2003/2004 Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil mExico as part of the British Council curated section Mexico as part of the British Council curated section

2004 ‘Settlements’ curated by Lorand Hegyi, Musee D’Art Moderne, St Etienne ‘Walk Ways’, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC ‘Still Life e Natureza’, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo

2005 ‘Bye-Bye blackboard…from Einstein and others’, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford ‘STATE OF MIND”, London School of Economics, England

‘STATE OF MIND’, London School of Economics, England May curated by Ruth Maclennan and Simon Gould. ‘Effervescence’, Musee des Beaux Arts, Angers ‘Be Ready, Heart, For Parting, New Endeavour’, Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool St. London EC2 ‘Like Nothing Else: Experiment , Risk and Gallery Education’, Arnolfini, Bristol Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, England ‘Centre of Gravity’, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art ‘Raised Awareness’, curated by Bill Woodraw, Tate Modern, London ‘La sculpture dans l’espace,’ Musee Auguste Rodin – Hotel Biron, Paris ‘(Hi)story’, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun ‘Centre of Gravity’, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul ‘Still Life – Naturaleza muerta arte contemporaneo britanico y peruano’, Museo de Arte de Lima, Lima ‘Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing’, Compton Verney, Warwickshire

2006 ‘Out of Place’, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall ‘The 80s: A Topology’, Museu Serralves, Porto ‘Tuttolibri’, Galleria Milano, Milan ‘Multiplication’, MAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago ‘Hande’, Galerie Biedermann, Munich ‘Everydebris’, St Pauls Artspace, London ‘Natures Silencesioses’, Fundacion Ordonez-Falcon de Fotografia, Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida ‘De literature, libros y librerias’, Galeria Rafael Ortiz, Sevilla

2007 ‘Venice: City of Dreams?’, Sotheby’s, London ‘Reality Undone’ University Gallery, Colchester ‘Global Cities’, Tate Modern, London ‘It Starts From Here’, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea ‘Out of the Box and In the German Ryan Collection’, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall ‘Shifting Ground’, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

2008 ‘Tales of Time and Space’ Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK ‘Darwin’s Canopy’, Natural History Museum, London ‘Safe as Houses’, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London ‘Localisms’, Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands ‘The HIistory of the Roundel’, Art on the Underground, London ‘Building Bridges’, The Red Mansion Foundation, Beijing ‘Book-ish’, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, Barbican Art Gallery, London ‘Die Lucky Bush’, MuKHA, Antwerp ‘Grotto’, Museum 52, London ‘Manifesto Marathon’, Serpentine Gallery, London ‘Uncommon Sense’, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX ‘Show Down’, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA ‘Long Distance Information’, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka ‘Alice, son miroir et ses merveilles’, Musee des Beaux Arts de Calais, France

2009 ‘Making Worlds’, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London ‘Mythologies’, Haunch of Venison, London

‘La Biennale de Montréal 2009’, Montreal ‘British Council Collection: The Third Dimension’, Whitechapel Gallery, London ‘More Mergers & Acquisitions’, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta ‘Play’, Paradise Row, London ‘Extraordinary Days’, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newton, Powys ‘Just Around the Corner’, La Casa Encendida, Madrid ‘Boule to Braid’, Lisson Gallery, London ‘Lisson Presents 2’, Lisson Gallery, London

2010 ‘Gestures & Procedures’, ACCA – Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne ‘Book Ends’, James Fuentes LLC, New York ‘Quartet-Four Biennials Reflected in Prints’, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana

2011 ‘THROUGH THE LOOKING BRAIN - A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn ’40 Ideal Home’, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London ‘A Future Pump House: Ideas, Thoughts and Plans’, Pump House Gallery, London ‘Sculpture’, Peter Freeman Inc, New York, NY ‘Qui admirez-vous?’, La Box, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Art de Bourges, Bourges ‘Shelter’, Peter Freeman Inc, New York, NY

2012 ‘The Sculpture Show’, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh ‘Where is the Power’, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Dallas “The Artists’ Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol ‘Frieze Masters’, Lisson Gallery, Frieze, London

2013 ‘Walk On’ Art Circuit, PMG, London ‘Bookhouse’ Museo Marca, Catarzano ‘Curiosity’, a Hayward touring exhibition, Turner Contemporary, Margate

Curating

1998/99 ‘Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud’, National Touring Exhibition (Hayward Gallery) Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; touring to Corner House, Manchester and Camden Art Centre, London.

2009 ‘Boule to Braid’, Lisson Gallery, London

Lectures

1991 Talking Art, ICA, London, 4 December

1992 Lecture, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 26 August

1995 The Joseph Beuys Lectures, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford

Bibliography

1978 Richard Wentworth: "Making Do and Getting By", Artscribe, no 14, October

1981 Fenella Crichton: "Symbols, Presences and Poetry", essay from Whitechapel

1982 Open catalogue, British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century Norbert Lynton: Looking at Sculpture, Guide for Hayward Annual exhibition

1983 Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat). Text By Lynne Cooke and interview by Stuart Morgan.

1984 Richard Wentworth: Making Do and Getting By, Tate Gallery Publications, August

1986 Ian Jeffrey, “Things with Words", essay in Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery (cat) Stuart Morgan: "Richard Wentworth: Lisson Gallery", Artforum, September

1987 Paul Bonaventura: "Today, We Have Naming of Parts", interview with Wentworth, Artefactum, September - October Milena Kalinovska and Greg Hilty: Richard Wentworth, Riverside Studios (exhibition cat)

1988 Richard Wentworth, Coleccion Imagen, (exh cat) Sala Parpallo, Valencia (interview with Paul Bonaventura, and introduction by Juan Vincente Aliaga)

1989 British Object Sculptors of the '80s I, Art Random, edited by Marco Livingstone, Kyoto, Japan. Andrew Renton, "Richard Wentworth, Lisson, London", Flash Art, October, p.138

1992 Richard Wentworth, Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, (exh cat). Text by Jonathan Watkins. "Lighting Fires, Richard Wentworth interviewed by Jonathan Watkins", Frieze, Issue 3, pp.28-31. 1993 Richard Wentworth, Reading Things, Edited by Neil Cummings, SightWorks Series, Chance Books, London Marina Warner , Richard Wentworth, Thames & Hudson, London 1994 Peter Herbstreuth, "Berlin: Richard Wentworth in der DAAD-Galerie und in ‘Kunst Werke’", Das Kunst Bulletin, No11, October 1994, pp.29-30 Berlin 117 Landmarks/Marksteine, Berliner Künstlerprogram, DAAD, Berlin (exh cat) Richard Wentworth, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais (exh cat), text by Marina Warner

1995 “Richard Wenthworth”, The Architects’ Journal, Vol.201, No.16, London, April, Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London (exh cat); text by Sarah Kent De Henry Moore ós anos 90. Escultura británica contemporánea , Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostella, Spain (touring to Serralves Foundation, Oporto, Portugal); (exh cat)

1995-96 Colin Gleadell, “Little Jack Horner & the Wunder-Barn Kid”, ArtMonthly, No.192, Dec.1995-Jan.1996, pp.46-47

1999 David Barrett, “Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud”, Frieze, March-April, Issue 45, pp. 78-79

Tom Lubbock, “Richard Wentworth - Thinking Aloud”, Modern Painters, spring pp. 121-122 Rachel Withers, “Thinking Aloud”, Artforum International, p.176, Sept. 99 John Slyce, “Richard Wentworth”, Art Monthly, p.36, issue n.323, December

2000 Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Feb. 5 – 21 March., Torino, Italy, (exh. cat.) Gerard McCarthy, “Richard Wentworth at Lisson”, Art in America, p.133, June 2000 Brigitte Ulmer, “Kunstszene London: Explosion an Kreativitaet!”, Bolero, pp.26 - 32,Sept. 2000 Claire Doherty, “Soft Cities”, Contemporary Visual Arts, pp. 52-57, issue 31 “Learning Less - Gabriel Orozco, Fischli & Weiss, Richard Wentworth”, Consejo Nacional Cultura Y Art, Mexico City

2001 DF, “Makeshift”, p. 80, Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 33 Ian Jeffrey, “Picking up the Traces”, pp. 35-37, Modern Painters, Spring 2001 Daniel Bougnoux, “Transmuniquer/Commettre”, Les Cahiers de médiologie, No. 11, Premier Semestre 2001, pp. 342 – 349 JL, “On the street where we lived”, Tate, Autumn 2001, p. 14 “Field Day: Sculpture from Britain”, Tapei Fine Art Museum, Japan (exh cat) ISBN: 957-02-8172-3 David Green, “Richard Wentworth and Eugène Atget: Faux Amis”, Portfolio, #34, p. 70-71

2002 Maev Kennedy, “Brain scans show art and science in true colours”, The Guardian, March 13 2002 Charlotte Mullins, “Precious stone of the North”, The Independent on Sunday, 23 June 2002, p. 7 Tom Morton, “The Object Sculpture”, Frieze, issue 69, September 2002, p. 103 Sexy Machinery, “A Portrait of the City, the City as a Portrait”, Richard Wentworth in conversation with Neil Robert Wenman, SM05, summer 2002, p. 7 - 10 Charlotte Mullins, “West to East and Back”, RA, no. 76, autumn 2002, p. 40-47 Andrew Renton, “ All Change at King’s Cross”, Evening Standard, 3 September 2002, p. 65

2003 Stephanie Delcroix, “Crossing the Road”, A-N Magazine, Mar.2003, p34-35. Kathy Battista, “Richard Wentworth; Peripheral Visions”, Contemporary, issue 53/54

2004 “To be continued >Artists’ interventions into the public realm”, essays by Will Bradley, Kate Fowle and Alan Read, Deborah Smith and Kate Fowle eds., BT Batsford, ISBN 0 7134 8794 1

2005 Richard Wentworth, Tate Publishing in cooperation with Lisson Gallery, ISBN 1 85437 574 1 ‘Is the Turner Prize Ageing too Gracefully?’, The Times, June 1, 2005. ‘An object lesson’; The Times, September 3, 2005 ‘Richard Wentworth’, Martin Herbert, Timeout, 21st September 2005 ‘Metropolis M 2005. No. 6 ‘ Jouke Kleerebezem December 2005

2006 Stephanie Delacroix, “Richard Wentworth”, A-N Magazine, September 2006, p. 16

2007 Dan Smith, “Unnatural Histories”, Art Monthly, March 2007, no. 304, p. 13-16 Rachel Halliburton, “Object Lessons”, Time Out London, Nov/Dec 2007, p. 24- 25

2008 Rob Sharp, “Fountainhead: Duchamp’s Disciples”, The Independent, 20 February 2008, p. 4-5 William Wiles, “This is a place that doesn’t exist”, Icon Magazine, 1 May 2008, p. 107-114 Edwin Heathcote, “Folkestone Triennial”, Financial Times, 20 June 2008 “Meet the artists”, Herne Bay Gazette, 12 June 2008 Adrian Searle, “Magical Moments as Folkestone emerges from the waves”, The Guardian, 20 June 2008

2009 Mark Prince, “Boule to Braid”, Art Monthly, 1 September 2009, p.21,22

2010 Barbara MacAdam, “reviews: New York”, Art News, 1 November 2010, p.123

2011 Barbara MacAdam, “reviews: New York”, Art News, 1 November 2010, p.123

Selected Public Collections

Arts Council of Great Britain, London Tate Britain, London Wadsworth Atheneum, Collection Sol Lewitt, USA Israel Museum, Jerusalem Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin CAM, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Cass Sculptural Foundation, West Sussex Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Rhode Island Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria