Richard Wright
Print-friendly versionBorn 1960, London; Lives in Glasgow
Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions
| 2012 |
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (Solo, 20/04—23/06/2012. Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art) |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2010 |
The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (Commison) |
| 2009 | |
| 2007 | |
| 2006 | |
| 2005 |
Centre d’Art contemporain, Le Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France |
| 2004 | |
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| 2002 |
Gagosian Gallery, London Kunstverein für die Rhinelande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
| 2001 |
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool |
| 2000 | |
| 1999 |
Inverleith House, Edinburgh |
| 1994 |
California Institute of the Arts, LA |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2011 |
'Kunst und Philosophie', NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin 'Space Oddity', Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca 'Still Life: Between Image and Object', Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore (Curated by Polly Staple) |
| 2010 |
'Made in Britain – Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection 1980 – 2010', Sichuan Museum, China (Touring) 'The Sleeping Congregation', Tate Britain, London |
| 2009 |
'TONITE', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow |
| 2008 |
'Draw A Straight Line and Follow It', Tate Modern, London 'Life on Mars - 55th Carnegie International', Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh 'Richard Wright & Samuel Beckett', Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh 'Wenn ein Reisender in einer Winternacht. Variationen über Max Bill', Museum MARTa Herford, Herford |
| 2007 |
'Tbilisi 4. Every Day Is Saturday', Nato Vachnadze St.9 / 2nd floor - 0105 Tbilisi Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough (commission) |
| 2006 |
'Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach 'The subversive charm of the bourgeoisie', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 'Thread', Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2005 |
MOCA, San Diego 'Art Futures', Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space 'No Manifesto', La Galleria d’Arte Modema & Contemporanea (GAMEC), Bergamo 'ShowCASe', City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 'Supernova', cil group show, touring (Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland; Tallinn Kunstihoone, Estonia; CCA, Vilnius, Lithuania; City Gallery, Prague; Jan Koniarek Gallery, Trnava, Slovakia) |
| 2004 |
'Sodium & Asphalt', British Council exhibition at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey 'Werke aus der Sammlung Boros', Museum für neue Kunst, ZKM Karlsruhe 'What is in my apartment when I am not there', Berlin |
| 2003 |
'Drawings', Gagosian Gallery, London 'Killing Time and Listening Between the Lines', Jumex Foundation, Mexico |
| 2002 |
'Drawing Now: Eight Propositions', Museum of Modern Art, New York 'FAIR', Royal College of Art, London 'My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love', Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen 'Sphere', Sir John Soane’s Museum, London 'The Garden of Violence', Swiss Expo 2002, Murten Historisches Museum |
| 2001 |
'Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990-2001', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee 'Painting at the Edge of the World', Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis |
| 2000 |
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh 'Amateur/Eldsjäl', MOCA, Gothenburg 'Home…', Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam 'Intelligence', Tate Britain, London 'The British Art Show', Edinburgh, Cardiff |
| 1999 |
Bourneville, Birmingham The Drawing Center, New York 'A Radiant Future', Forde, Geneva 'Creeping Revolution', Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw 'de coras(i)on', TeclaSala, Barcelona 'Free Coke - Contemporary Drawing', Greene Naftali, New York 'In The Midst of Things', Art Architecture and Design. Bournville, Birmingham 'Xn 1999', Espace des Arts, Chalon |
| 1998 |
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 'Netverk', Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo 'Roundabout', Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 'Salon 3', London 'Surfacing', Contemporary Drawing at the ICA, London |
| 1997 |
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 'Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 90s', Hayward Gallery, London 'Pictura Britannica', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney 'Pure Fantasy: Inventive Painting of the 90s', Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno 'Wish You Were Here Too', 83 Hill Street, Glasgow |
| 1996 |
ARC Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris 'Absolut Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 'Insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Concrete Skates, Glasgow and Cubitt Street 'Live/Life', Musee d 'Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 'No Tell Hotel', Moat House Hotel, Glasgow 'Stepping Out', 33 Great Sutton Street, London |
| 1995 |
'30 Secs + Title', The Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada 'About Place', Collection Gallery, London 'Landscape Show', CalArts, Los Angeles |
| 1994 |
'New Art in Scotland', CCA, Glasgow and Aberdeen City Art Gallery |
| 1993 |
City Racing, London 'Pure Fiction', Intermedia, Glasgow 'Transmission in Belfast', Exchange Show with Transmission Gallery Glasgow and Catalyst Arts Belfast |