BIO / BIBLIOGRAPHY

Richard Wright

BORN1960
Lives and works in Glasgow

Forthcoming/Current Exhibitions

2008 The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, TBC (solo)

2007 'Richard Wright', MCASD Downtown, San Diego, 21/01/07-23/09/07 (solo)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 BQ, Cologne
2005 Centre d'art contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, Brittany
Gagosian Gallery (uptown), New York
2004 DCA, Dundee
2003 The Modern Institute, Glasgow
BQ, Cologne
2002 Gagosian Gallery, London
Kunstverein für die Rhinelande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2001 Tate Gallery Liverpool
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
2000 Milton Keynes Art Gallery
Gagosian, New York
1999 BQ, Cologne, Germany
Inverleith House, Edinburgh, UK
1994 California Institute of the Arts, LA, USA
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 'Strange Iíve Seen That Face Before', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach
'Thread', Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
'The subversive charm of the bourgeoisie', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
2005 'Art Futures', Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, London
'No Manifesto', La Galleria d’Arte Modema & Contemporanea (GAMEC), Bergamo, Italy (group)
'Supernova' British Council group show, touring: Krakov, Poland; City Gallery, Prague; Tallinn Kunstihoone, Estonia; CCA, Kiev; ESPOO, Finland
MOCA, San Diego
2004 'What is in my apartment when I am not there', Berlin
'Werke aus der Sammlung Boros', Museum für neue Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe
'Sodium & Asphalt', British Council exhibition at Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey
2003 'Drawings', Gagosian Gallery, London
Jumex Foundation, Mexico
2002 'Drawing Now: Eight Propositions', Museum of Modern Art, New York
'Sphere', Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
'FAIR' (with BQ, Cologne), Royal College of Art, London
'My Head Is On Fire but my Heart is Full of Love', Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
'The Garden of Violence', Swiss Expo 2002, Murten Historisches Museum, Switzerland
2001 'Here and Now', Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
'Painting at the Edge of the World', Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis
2000 'Home...', Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam
'Intelligence', Tate Britain, London
'The British Art Show', Edinburgh, Cardiff, Birmingham, Southhampton
'Amateur/Eldsjal', MOCA, Gothenburg
1999 'A Radiant Future', Forde Gallery, Geneva
'Creeping Revolution', Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
'In The Midst of Things', Art Architecture and Design. Bournville, Birmingham
'de coras(i)on', TeclaSala, Barcelona
'Xn 1999', Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Soane, France
'Free Coke - Contemporary Drawing', Greene Naftali, New York
The Drawing Centre, New York
1998 'Roundabout', Centre For Contemporary Art, Warsaw
'Surfacing', Contemporary Drawing at the ICA, London
'Manifesta 2', Luxembourg*
'Netverk', Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
1997 'Correspondences: Art from Scotland and Berlin', Berlinische Gallerie im Martin-Gropius-Bau and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
'Pictura Britannica', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
'Pure Fantasy: Inventive Painting of the 90s', Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
'Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 90s', Hayward Gallery, London
'Wish You Were Here Too', 83 Hill St, Glasgow
1996 'Absolut Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
'Loaded: A Contemporary View of British Painting', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
'Live/Life', Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
'Stepping Out', 33 Great Sutton Street
'Insanestupidphatfuctpervert', Concrete Skates, Glasgow and Cubitt Street, London
'No Tell Hotel', Moat House Hotel, Glasgow
'Sugarhiccup', Tramway, Glasgow
1995 '30 Secs + Title', The Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada
'The Belmont Hotel Installation Project', Glasgow
'Landscape Show', CalArts, Los Angeles
1994 'New Art in Scotland', CCA, Glasgow and Aberdeen City Art Gallery
1993 'Transmission in Belfast', Exchange Show with Transmission Gallery Glasgow and Catalyst Arts Belfast
'Pure Fiction', Intermedia Gallery, Glasgow
City Racing Gallery, London