The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Richard Hughes

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Born 1974, Birmingham; Lives in London

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011

'Endless Bummer', Gladstone Gallery, Brussels

2010

Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2008

'nothing left, it’s alright', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'One Man’s Struggle to Take It Easy', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd. at Sadie Coles HQ, 35 Heddon Street

2007

'Richard Hughes', Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2006

'KEEP ON ONNIN’', Sculpture Court, Tate Britain

2005

'Richard Hughes', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

'What a Dude’ll Do', Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

2004

'Richard Hughes', Roma Roma Roma, Rome

'The Shelf-life of Milk', The Showroom, London

1998

'Nothing Original To See Here', Turnpike Gallery, Manchester

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Nils Staerk, Copenhagen

'Yes, We Don’t', Institute d’Art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France (with Alan Kane)

2010

'Rive Gauche, Rive Droite', Marc Jancou Contemporary, Paris

'Country Music', Blum and Poe Gallery, Los Angeles

2009

'TONITE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi

'Suns Neither Rise Nor Set', Royal College of Art, London (MA Curating Contemporary Art)

'Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part 1)', Cell Project Space, London

'Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part 1)', Airspace Gallery, Stock on Trent, Stock on Trent

2008

'All Inclusive. A Tourist World', Schirn Kunsthalle, Zurich

'Des Hughes/Richard Hughes', Michael Benevento, Los Angeles

'Life on Mars - 55th Carnegie International', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

'Living London', 176, London

'Variable Capital', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool

2007

'Clarke and McDevitt Present: Expect Nothing', Gallery For One, Dublin

'Drawing 2007', The Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, London

're-dis-play', Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg

'Summer Show', Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

'The Zabludowicz Collection', Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

2006

Beck’s Futures (nominee), ICA

'Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires', Ancient & Modern, London

'Beck’s Futures', ICA, London (CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol, nominee)

'deep into that darkness peering', Galerie Kamm, Berlin

'If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history', The Showroom, London

'Life’s a Beach', Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv

'Liverpool Biennial 2006 - Sleep of Ulro, A Foundation', The Furnace, Liverpool

'Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach

2005

'Bridge Freezes Before Road', Gladstone Gallery, New York

'BRITISH ART SHOW 6', Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead touring to Manchester

'Closing Down', Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York

'Drawing 200', The Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, London

'Golden Crust', Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

'Herald St & The Modern Institute', Upstairs at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

'Ordering The Ordinary', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

'Post Notes', ICA, London and Midway Contemporary Art

'Showcase', City Art Centre, Edinburgh

'The Addiction', Gagosian Gallery, Berlin (curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers)

'The Pantagruel Syndrome', The Turin Triennial, Threemuseum Pala Fuksas

2004

Goldsmiths college graduates 2003, Mirko Mayer Galerie

'Genesis Sculpture', Domaine Pommery, Reims

'Granite', Whitechapel Project Space, London

'Like Beads On An Abacus Designed To Calculate Infinity', Rockwell, London

'No More Reality', Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen

'Tealeaf', Cell Project Space, London

'Wider than the Sky', 117 Commercial Street, London

2003

East International 2003, Norwich Gallery (Winner)

'BagLady', Cell Project Space, London

'Corpa Nova', London, UK

'Have A Go Heroes', Cell Project Space, London

2002

'Allotment Archive', 125 Lambeth Walk, London

'Lilo2', ASC, London

'Sitting Tenants', Lotta Hammer, London

2001

'Blue Screen at Levi’s,', Levi’s Store, Regent Street

2000

'Artists Edition', Camden Art Centre, London

'Glory Hole', 2 Magri Walk, London

1999

'Away From Home', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool

1998

'Glitter', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool

1997

'On The Buses', Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow

'Young Parents', Castlefield Gallery, Manchester

1996

'Pulse', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool

1995

'Gift Rap', Bluecoat Gallery, LIverpool

'No Exit', Visionfest, Liverpool