Richard Hughes
Born 1974, Birmingham; Lives in Herefordshire.
Education
| 2003 | Goldsmiths College |
| 1995 | Staffordshire University |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 | ‘Paperwork’, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Bricks Space |
| 2021 | ‘WINDOW’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| 2019 | ‘The Great Perhaps’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| 2014 | ‘Field Trip’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow |
| ‘Scene Inbetween’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen | |
| 2013 | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, New York |
| ‘Time is over, time has come’, Firstsite, Colchester, Firstsite, Colchester | |
| 2012 | ‘Where It All Happened Once’, Tramway, Glasgow |
| 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, London, 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, Leigh, Wigan |
Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | Ikon Gallery, Birmingham |
| 2021 | ‘Balls’, OOF Gallery, Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London |
| 2020 | ‘The Lie-By’, Palfrey, London |
| ‘Old Technology’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York | |
| 2018 | ‘Colours that no-one knows the name of’, Recent Activity, Birmingham (with Bernadette Kerrigan) |
| 2017 | ‘THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER’, The Modern Institute, 3 Aird's Lane, Glasgow |
| 2016 | ‘Implosion 20’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York |
| ‘Double Act: Art and Comedy’, The MAC, Belfast | |
| 2015 | ‘Birmingham Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade) |
| ‘I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me’, carlier | gebauer, Berlin | |
| ‘THE NOING UV IT’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen | |
| 2014 | ‘On the Devolution of Culture’, 83 Page Street, London |
| 2013 | ‘Lost Boys: The Territories of Youth’, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork |
| ‘0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art’, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh | |
| 2012 | BAM, Ghent |
| ‘Panem et Circenses’, 83 Page Street, London | |
| ‘WONDERS — Masterpieces from Private Collections in Denmark’, KUNSTEN museum of modern art, Aalborg | |
| 2011 | Nils Staerk, Copenhagen |
| ‘Yes, We Don't’, Institute d'Art contemporain, Villeurbanne (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 |
| ‘Trying To Cope With Things that Aren’t Human (Part 1)’, Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (touring to Airspace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent) | |
| Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Suns Neither Rise Nor Set’, Royal College of Art, London (MA Curating Contemporary Art) | |
| Francois Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi | |
| 2008 | ‘Life on Mars - 55th Carnegie International’, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| ‘Living London’, 176, London | |
| ‘Des Hughes/Richard Hughes’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles | |
| ‘All Inclusive. A Tourist World’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Zurich | |
| ‘Variable Capital’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool | |
| 2007 | ‘The Zabludowicz Collection’, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead |
| ‘Clarke and McDevitt Present: Expect Nothing’, Gallery For One, Dublin | |
| ‘Summer Show’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Drawing 2007’, The Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, London | |
| ‘re-dis-play’, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg | |
| 2006 | ‘Life's a Beach’, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
| ‘Beck's Futures 2006’ (Nominee. CCA Glasgow, offsite; Arnolfini, Bristol, offsite.) | |
| ‘Sleep of Ulro by Goshka Macuga’, A-Foundation, Liverpool (Liverpool Biennale 2006) | |
| ‘deep into that darkness peering’, Galerie Kamm, Berlin | |
| ‘Strange I've Seen That Face Before’, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach | |
| ‘Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires’, Ancient & Modern, London | |
| ‘Life's a Beach’, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv | |
| ‘If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history’, The Showroom, London | |
| 2005 | ‘British Art Show 6’, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (Hayward touring exhibition. Touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester; New Art Exchange, Nottingham; Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol) |
| ‘Showcase’, City Art Centre, Edinburgh | |
| ‘Herald St and The Modern Institute present’, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York | |
| ‘Golden Crust’, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York | |
| ‘The Pantagruel Syndrome’, The Turin Triennial, Threemuseum Pala Fuksas | |
| ‘Ordering The Ordinary’, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London | |
| ‘Bridge Freezes Before Road’, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (curated by Neville Wakefield) | |
| ‘Closing Down’, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Drawing 200’, The Drawing Room / Tannery Arts, London | |
| ‘The Addiction’, Gagosian Gallery, New York | |
| ‘Post Notes’, ICA, London; Midway, Minneapolis | |
| 2004 | ‘Wider than the Sky’, 117 Commercial Street, London |
| ‘Tealeaf’, Cell Project Space, London | |
| ‘Genesis Sculpture’, Domaine Pommery, Reims | |
| ‘Goldsmiths College Graduates’, Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne | |
| ‘No More Reality’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen | |
| ‘Like Beads On An Abacus Designed To Calculate Infinity’, Rockwell, London | |
| ‘Granite’, Whitechapel Project Space, London | |
| 2003 | ‘BagLady’, Cell Project Space, London |
| ‘Have A Go Heroes’, Cell Project Space, London | |
| East International 2003, Norwich Gallery (Winner) | |
| ‘Corpa Nova’, London, UK | |
| 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 | ‘Glory Hole’, 2 Magri Walk, London |
| 1999 | ‘Away From Home’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1998 | ‘Glitter’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1997 | ‘Young Parents’, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester |
| ‘On The Buses’, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow | |
| 1996 | ‘Pulse’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1995 | ‘No Exit’, Visionfest, Liverpool |
| ‘Gift Rap’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool |
Bibliography
Press
| 2023 | Elaine YJ Zheng: ‘Frieze London 2023 Artwork Highlights’, Ocula, 18/10/2023 |
| 2019 | Toby Kamps: ‘Art | In Conversation: RICHARD HUGHES with Toby Kamps’, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2019 -Jan 2020 11/12/2019 |
| 2011 | Pierre-Yves Desaive: ‘Richard Hughes’, Flash Art, May-June 2011 2011 |
| 2010 | ‘Goings On About Town: Art, Richard Hughes’, New Yorker, 05/2010 |
| 2008 | James Garner: ‘Art Review’, The Metro, 26/09/2008 |
| Jack Mottram: ‘When Art Brings a Reality Check, The Herald’, The Herald, 09/2008 | |
| Adam E. Mendelson: ‘Flash Art’, Flash Art International, 30/04/2008 | |
| Tim Scott: ‘Expect Nothing’, Art Review, 03/2008 | |
| Morgan Falconer: ‘Richard Hughes’, Art Review, 03/2008 | |
| 640: ‘Time Out’, Time Out NY, 2008 | |
| 2007 | ‘Richard Hughes’, French Vogue, 02/2007 |
| 2006 | Adrian Searle: ‘Foot Fetish’, The Guardian, 04/04/2006 |
| Megan Ratner: ‘Turin Triennial’, Frieze, 98 04/2006 | |
| Ossian Ward: Can Ekow Eshun bring back the ICA‘s Glory dyas, London Evening Standard, 31/03/2006 | |
| Oliver Duff: Beck‘s pushes boundaries with a ‘Bums Breakfast’ and smelly shoes, The Independent, 29/03/2006 | |
| Andrew Hunt, Neil Mulholland: ‘British Art (Does It) Show?’, Frieze, 96 01/2006 | |
| Susanne Titz, Toby Webster: Strange I‘ve Seen That Face Before, Stadtisches, 2006 | |
| Matt Price: ‘What a Performance’, Art Review, 2006 | |
| 2005 | Bill Roberts: ‘Bright Young Things’, Art Review, 12/2005 |
| Alex Farquharson, Richard Hughes: ‘The decay of modernity, melancholy objects and shared cultural moments’, Frieze, 95 12/2005 | |
| Chris Evans: ‘Open Frequency’, Open frequency, 11/2005 | |
| Gale Iain: ‘A Truly Cosmoploitan Affar’, Scotland on Sunday, 02/10/2005 | |
| Adrian Searle: ‘The State of Art’, The Guardian, 27/09/2005 | |
| Rachel Campbell-Johnston: ‘Brit Art: the next generation’, The Times, 21/09/2005 | |
| Martin Herbert: ‘Ordering the Ordinary’, Time Out London, 17/08/2005 | |
| Jack Mottram: ‘Richard Hughes’, The List, 07/07/2005 | |
| Alison Gingeras: ‘First Take’, Artforum, 01/2005 | |
| Jack Mottram: ‘Richard Hughes’, Map, #2 Summer 2005 | |
| Kerry Duggan, Lewis Ceri: ‘Showcase’, City Art Centre, 2005 | |
| ‘The Shelf Life of Milk’, Number 33, 2005 | |
| 2004 | Martin Herbert: ‘On the Ground’, Artforum, 12/2004 |
| David Barrett: ‘Profile - Richard Hughes’, Art Monthly, 281 11/2004 | |
| Fabrice Bousteau: ‘Genesis Sculpture, Experience Pommery’, BEAUX ARTS MAGAZINE, 2004 | |
| Rob Tuffnell: ‘Keep on Keeping on, in Richard Hughes’, RomaRomaRoma, 2004 | |
| Tobi Maier: ‘The Shelf Life of Milk’, an, 2004 | |
| 2003 | Helen Sumpter: ‘Bag Lady’, Time Out London, 17/12/2003 |
| Sally O'Reilly: ‘Have a go Heroes’, Time Out London, 05/11/2003 | |
| Dan Smith: ‘East International’, Art Monthly, 269 10/2003 | |
| 2002 | Richard Hughes: Nick Drake‘s Poncho, Frieze, 68 08/2002 |
| Neil Zaciewicz: ‘Sitting Tenants’, an, 03/2002 | |
| Sally O'Reilly: ‘Sitting Tenants’, Time Out London, 1642 06/02/2002 |
Exhibition Reviews
| 2013 | Sherwin, Skye: ‘‘It‘s about finding that element of romance‘‘, The Observer, 24/03/2013 |
| Cairns, Steven: ‘Richard Hughes‘, Artforum, No. 7 03/2013 | |
| 2012 | Thompson, Susannah: ‘Exhibition Reviews: Richard Hughes’, Art Review, 12/2012 |
| Bond, Bryony: ‘Richard Hughes: Where It all Happened Once’, Art Monthly, Issue 362 12/2012 | |
| Sheerin, Mark: ‘Richard Hughes presents landmark show complete with landmark at Tramway‘, Culture 24, 06/11/2012 | |
| Clark, Robert: ‘Exhibitionist‘, The Guardian, 11/2012 | |
| Clark, Robert: ‘Richard Hughes‘, The Guardian Guide, 11/2012 | |
| Jeffrey, Moira: ‘Wizard of Dross: Previewing Richard Hughes’ new exhibition‘, Scotland on Sunday, 28/10/2012 | |
| Patience, Jan: ‘Rubbish Reinvented’, The Herald, 20/10/2012 |
Publications
| 2017 | I aint the noing uv it im jus onle the showing uv it, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen |
| 2012 | Richard Hughes, JRP|Ringier, Zurich |
| 2010 | Creamier, Contemporary Art In Culture: 10 Curators, 100 Contemporary Artists, 10 Sources, Phaidon Press, London/ New York (Selected by Douglas Fogle) |
| 2008 | Art 39 Basel, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern |
| 2006 | Art Now: Richard Hughes, Tate Britain, London |
| 2005 | Frieze Art Fair Book 2005-6, Thames & Hudson, London |
Exhibition Publications
| 2008 | All Inclusive. A Tourist World, Snoeck Verlag, Cologne |
| Life on Mars: 55th Carneige International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | |
| Variable Capital, Liverpool Univeristy Press, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool | |
| 2006 | Becks Futures 2006, ICA, London |
| Richard Hughes: Keep On Onnin', Tate Publishing, London | |
| Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach | |
| 2005 | Bridge Freezes Before Road, Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| British Art Show 6, Hayward Publishing, London | |
| Showcase, City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh | |
| T1 - Turin Triennial Three Museums 2005: The Pantagruel Syndrome, Skira Editore, Milan | |
| The Shelf Life of Milk, The Showroom, London | |
| 2004 | Keep On Keeping On, RomaRomaRoma, Rome |
| 2003 | East Intertnational 2003, Norwich Gallery (ed.), Norwich |