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Biography
- 1974
Born in Birmingham
- 1995
BA, Staffordshire University, UK
- 2003
MFA, Goldsmiths College, London
Lives and works in London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
- 2019
The Great Perhaps, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2014
Field Trip, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Scene Inbetween, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2013
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Time is over, time has come, Firstsite, Colchester, UK - 2012
Where it All Happened Once, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
- 2011
Endless Bummer, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
- 2010
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2009
One Man’s Struggle to Struggle to Take It Easy, The Modern Institute at Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK
- 2008
Nothing left, it's alright, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd., Glasgow, Scotland
One Man’s Struggle to Struggle to Take It Easy, The Modern Institute at Sadie Coles HQ - 2007
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006
KEEP ON ONNIN’, Sculpture Court, Tate Britain, London, UK
- 2005
What a Dude’ll Do, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland - 2004
RomaRomaRoma, Rome, Italy
The Shelf-life of Milk, The Showroom, London, UK - 1998
Nothing Original To See Here, Turnpike Gallery, Manchester, UK
Group Exhibitions
- 2017
O ENIGMA RISÍVEL DO QUOTIDIANO/ THE LAUGHABLE ENIGMA OF THE EVERYDAY, Arquipelago Centro de Artes Contemporaneas, Azores, Portugal
- 2016
Double Act: Art and Comedy, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
- 2015
I hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, Carlier Gebauer Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Birmingham Show, curated by Ruth Claxton and Gavin Wade. Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK,
THE NOING UV IT, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway - 2014
Beautiful Monster, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece
- 2013
0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY; traveling to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Krasj 0.1, Ninove, Belgium
Lost Boys, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland - 2012
WONDERS- Masterpieces from Private Collections in Denmark, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Panem et Circenses, 83 Page Street, London, UK - 2011
Art Public, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
Yes, we don’t, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Niles Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark - 2010
Rive Gauche, Rive Droite, Paris, France
Country Music, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA - 2009
Mapping the studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
TONITE, The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow, UK
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Suns Neither Rise Nor Set, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Trying to Cope with Things that Aren’t Human (Part 1), Cell Project Space, London, and Airspace Gallery, Stock on Trent, UK
Richard Hughes and Des Hughes, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA - 2008
Family and Friends, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh
All Inclusive, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankurt
NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Variable Capital, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Living London, 176, London, UK
All Inclusive. A Tourist World, Schirn Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland - 2007
When We Build, Let Us Think We Build Forever, Baltic Gateshead, UK
Clarke and McDevitt Present: Expect Nothing, Gallery For One, Dublin, Ireland
Summer Show, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
Re-dis-play, Kunstverein Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Drawing 2007, The Drawing Room, London, UK - 2006
Goshka Macuga, A Foundation: The Furnace, Liverpool, UK
Among The Ash Heaps And Millionaires, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
deep into that darkness peering, Galerie KAMM, Berlin, Germany
Life’s a Beach, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Strange I’ve Seen That Face Before, Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach, Germany
Summer, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
Beck’s Futures, (nominee), ICA, London; CCA offsite, Glasgow; Arnolfini offsite, Bristol, UK
If it didn’t exist you’d have to invent it: a partial Showroom history, The Showroom, London, UK - 2005
BRITISH ART SHOW 6, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead touring to Manchester, Nottingham, and Bristol, UK
The Pantagruel Syndrome, The Turin Triennial, Threemuseum Pala Fuksas, Turin, Italy
Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, NY
The Addiction, curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers), Gagosian Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Closing Down, Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Ordering The Ordinary, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Drawing 200, The Drawing Room/ Tannery Arts, London, UK
Herald St and The Modern Institute present, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
Post Notes, ICA, London; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Showcase, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland - 2004
Wider than the Sky, 117 Commercial Street, London, UK
Goldsmiths college graduates 2003, Mirko Mayer Galerie, Cologne, Germany
No More Reality, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Genesis Sculpture, Domain Pommery, Rheims, France
Like Beads On An Abacus Designed To Calculate Infinity, Rockwell, London, UK
Granite, Whitechapel Project Space, London, UK
Tealeaf, Cell Project Space, London, UK - 2003
Corpa Nova, London, UK
Have A Go Heroes, Cell Project Space, London, UK
East International, (winner), Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
BagLady, Cell Project Space, London, UK - 2002
Sitting Tenants, Lotta Hammer, London, UK
Allotment Archive, 125 Lambeth Walk, London, UK
Lilo2, ASC, London, UK - 2001
Blue Screen at Levi’s, Levi’s Store, Regent Street, London, UK
- 2000
Glory Hole, 2 Magri Walk, London, UK
Artists Edition, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK - 1999
Away From Home, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- 1998
Glitter, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- 1997
On The Buses, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, Scotland
Young Parents, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK - 1996
Pulse, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- 1995
Gift Rap, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK
No Exit, Visionfest, Liverpool, UK
Press
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March 23,
2013The Guardian -
December 1,
2012Art ReviewRichard Hughes: Where It All Happened At Once -
September 1,
2010Modern PaintersRichard Hughes, p.71 -
July 5,
2010New YorkerRichard Hughes, p.10 -
June 16,
2010Village VoiceThe Buoys of Summer -
March 1,
2008Flash ArtRichard Hughes, p.134.
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May 1,
2006Art Now Tate BritainRichard Hughes -
October 1,
2005FriezeRichard Hughes p.118 -
November 1,
2004Exhibition CatalogueThe Shelf Life of Milk
Publications
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Richard Hughes [2012]
Richard Hughes
Edited by Lionel Bovier
Text by Martin Clark, Tom O'Sullivan, and Joanne Tatham