Richard Wentworth
Biography
1966-70 Royal College of Art, London
1967 Worked for Henry Moore
1971-87 Taught at Goldsmith's College, University of London
2001 Fellowship at the San Francisco School of Art
2002 Ruskin Master of Drawing at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford
2009 Head of The Royal College of Art’s Sculpture Department, London
Solo Exhibitions
2009 MMU Pavement Gallery, Manchester. Scrape/Scratch/Dig: Richard Wentworth
(2 April - 14 May)
2006 Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus. Richard Wentworth (9
May - July 31)
2005 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool. Richard Wentworth (21 January - 24 April)
Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth (8 September - 8 October)
2002 Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France. Point de Vue – Point of View
Artangel, King’s Cross, London. An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty
(04 September - 12 November)
2000 Galerie Margaret Biedermann, Munich, Germany. Richard Wentworth
1999 Lisson Gallery, London. (2 November - 4 December)
1998 Galerie Weisses Schloss, Zürich, Switzerland. Richard Wentworth
1997 Kunstverein Freiburg, touring in 1998 to Stadtische. Richard Wentworth
Galerie Göppingen, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany.
1994 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France.
Kunst-Werke, DAAD, Berlin Germany. Traveling Without a Map
1993 The Serpentine Gallery, London.
1992 Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan.
1989 Wolff Gallery, New York.
1988 Sala Parpallo, Valencia.
1987 Riverside Studios, London.
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Holland.
Wolff Gallery, New York.
1986 Galeri Lang, Malmö, Sweden.
Lisson Gallery, London.
1984 Lisson Gallery, London.
1972 Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London.
Group Exhibitions
2009 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Making Worlds (7 June - 22 November)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Cabinet of Curiosities
Haunch of Venison, London, Mythologies (12 March - 26 April)
Montreal Curating, La Biennale de Montréal 2009 (1 May - 31 May)
2008 Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK, Tales of Time and Space (14 June - 14 September)
Natural History Museum, London, Darwin’s Canopy (4 June - 14 September)
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, Safe as Houses
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere, Netherlands, Localisms (12 April - 18 October)
Art on the Underground, London, The History of the Roundel
The Red Mansion Foundation, Beijing, Building Bridges (July)
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Book-ish (1 July - 24 October)
Barbican Art Gallery, London, Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art (6 March - 18 May)
MuKHA, Antwerp, Die Lucky Bush (23 May - 17 August)
2007 Sotheby’s, London, Venice: City of Dreams?
University Gallery, Colchester, Reality Undone
Tate Modern, London, Global Cities (20 June - 27 August)
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, It Starts From Here (22 June - 9 September)
2006 New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, Out of Place
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal, The 80s: A Topology
2005 ‘Museum of the History of Science, Oxford ‘STATE OF MIND”, London School of
Economics, England. Bye-Bye blackboard…from Einstein and others
London School of Economics, England, (May)
Musee des Beaux Arts, Angers, Effervescence
Great Eastern Hotel, London, Be Ready, Heart, For Parting, New Endeavour (3 October - 4 November)
Arnolfini, Bristol Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, England. Like Nothing Else: Experiment
Risk and Gallery Education (November)
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Centre of Gravity
Tate Modern, London, Raised Awareness (19 July - 30 September)
Musee Auguste Rodin – Hotel Biron, Paris, La sculpture dans l’espace
2004 Musee D’Art Moderne, St Etienne, Curated by Lorand Hegy, Settlements
2003/2004 Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Mexico as part of the British Council
curated section
2003 Harewood House, England, Out of Place (12 March - 06 July)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland. Glad that things don’t talk (24
April-15 June)
South London Gallery, London, Independence (3 May - 3 August)
50th Venice Biennale, Absolute Generation
2002/2003 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, Blast to Freeze – British Art in
the 20th century
2002 Wisbaden, Germany. Curated by Rene Block, Fluxus Memorial Show
Serpentine Gallery, London, En route (2 October - 27 October)
2001 Taipei Fine Arts Museum and The British Council, Field Day, Sculpture from Britain
The Photographer’s Gallery, London, Faux Amis - Richard Wentworth and Eugene Adget (5 October - 18 November)
2000 Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy, Quotidiana Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico; curated by Patricia Martin (toured to
Guadalajara), Learning Less
Sperone Westwater , New York. American Bricolage (2 November - 22December)
Science Museum, London. Head On
1998/99 National Touring Exhibition (Hayward Gallery) Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; toured
to Corner House, Manchester and Camden Art Centre, London, Richard
Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud
1997 Hayward Gallery, London, Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s
and 1990s
1995 Santiago de Compostela, Spain (touring to Serralves Foundation, Portugal), De
Henry Moore ós anos 90 – Escultura británica contemporánea
Serpentine Gallery, London, Here and Now
Lisson Gallery, London, Ideal Standard Summertime (25 March - 22 April)
4th Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul
1993 Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain, Derby Museum and Art Galley.
British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection.
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
1992-93 Tate Gallery, London, The Saatchi Gift
1990 Sydney, Australia. Biennale of Sydney
1988 Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France. Touring to Ecole
d’Architecture de Normandie, Rouen Darnetal and to Musée d’Evreux, Evreux.
Britannica: 30 Years of Sculpture
1987 British Council touring exhibition. Inscriptions and Inventions: British Photography
in the 1980s
Lisson Gallery, London. 20th Anniversary Show (23 July - 19 September)
1986 Carpenter & Hochman, New York, NY, USA. Sculpture: Vito Acconci, Stuart
Sherman, Haim Steinbach and RichardWentworth
1985 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Three British Sculptors
1984 Organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain; touring to the City Museum and
Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh;
Mappin Art Gallery,Sheffield; Southhampton Art Gallery), The British Art Show
1983 Hayward Gallery and Serpentine Gallery, London, The Sculpture Show (13
August - 9 October)
1981 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts, Prize Winner
1977 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Whitechapel Open
1971 Lisson Gallery, London, Wall Show (10 December - 30 January)
1970 Royal Academy of Arts, London, Young Contemporaries
Literature
Crichton, Fenella. Symbols, Presences and Poetry (Whitechapel, 1981).
Open catalogue. British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, 1982.
Lynton, Norbert. Looking at Sculpture (Guide for Hayward Annual exhibition, 1982).
Cooke, Lynne and Stuart Morgan. Richard Wentworth, exh. cat. London, 1983.
Tate Gallery Publications, August. Richard Wentworth: Making Do and Getting By, 1984.
Jeffery, Ian. Things with Words, essay in Richard Wentworth, exh cat. (Lisson Gallery, London),
1986
Morgan, Stuart. “Richard Wentworth: Lisson Gallery,” Artforum (September 1986).
Bonaventura, Paul. “Today, We Have Naming Parts, Interview with Wentworth,” Artefactum
(September - October 1987).
Hilty, Greg and Milena Kalinovska. Richard Wentworth, exh. cat. (Riverside Studios), 1987.
Bonaventura, Paul and Juan Vincente Aliaga. Richard Wentworth, exh. cat. (Colleccion Imagen,
Sala Parpallo Valencia). 1988
Livingstone, Marco, ed. “British Object Sculptors of the ‘80s,” Art Random (1989)
Renton, Andrew. “Richard Wentworth, Lisson, London,” Flash Art (October 1989), pp. 138.
Watkins, Jonathan. Richard Wentworth, exh. cat. Nagoya, Japan, 1992.
Watkins, Jonathan. “Lighting Fires, Richard Wentworth,” Frieze Magazine (1992), pp. 28-31.
Cummings, Neil, ed. Richard Wentworth, Reading Things (London: Chance Books, 1993).
Warner Marina. Richard Wentworth (London: Thames & Hudson, 1993).
Herbstreuth, Peter. “Berlin: Richard Wentworth in der DAAD-Galerie und in Kunst Werke,” Das
Kunst Bulletin (No. 11, October 1994), pp.29-30.
Warner, Marina. Richard Wentworth, exh. cat. (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais), 1994
Kent, Sarah. Here and Now, exh. cat. (Serpentine Gallery, London), 1995.
Gleadell, Colin. “Little Jack Horner & the Wunder-Barn Kid,” ArtMonthly (December 1995 -
January 1996), pp. 46-47.
Barrett, David. “Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud,” Frieze (Issue 45, 1999), pp. 78-79.
Lubbock, Tom. “Richard Wentworth - Thinking Aloud,” Modern Painters (Spring, 1999), pp.
121-122.
Withers, Rachel. “Thinking Aloud,” Artforum International (September 1999), pp. 176.
Slyce, John. “Richard Wentworth” Art Monthly (Issue 323, December 1999), pp. 36.
McCarthy, Gerard. “Richard Wentworth at Lisson,” Art in America (June 2000), pp. 133.
Ulmer, Brigitte. “Kunstzene London: Explosion an Kreativitaet!,” Bolero (September 2000), pp.
26-32.
Doherty, Claire. “Soft Cities,” Contemporary Visual Arts (Issue 31, 2000), pp. 52-57.
Consejo Nacional Cultura Y Art, Mexico City. Learning Less - Gabriel Orozco, Fischli & Weiss,
Richard Wentworth
“Makeshift,” Contemporary Visual Arts (Issue 33, 2001), pp. 80.
Jeffrey, Ian. “Picking up the Traces,” Modern Painters (Spring 2001), pp.35-37.
Bougnoux, Daniel. “Transmuniguer/Commettre,” Les Cahiers de médiologie (No. 11 Fall 2001), pp. 343-349.
JL. “On the Street Where We Lived,” Tate (Autumn 2001), pp. 14.
Green, David. “Richard Wentworth and Eugene Atget: Faux Amis,” Portfolio (Number 34,
2001), pp. 70-71.
Kennedy, Maev. “Brain Scans Show Art and Science in True Colors,” The Guardian (13 March
2002).
Mullins, Charlotte. “Precious Stone of the North,” The Independent (23 June 2002), pp. 7.
Morton, Tom. “The Object Sculpture,” Frieze (Issue 69, September 2002), pp. 103.
Richard Wentworth in conversation with Neil Robert Wenman. “A Portrait of the City, the City a
Portrait.” SM05 (Summer 2002), pp. 7-10.
Mullins, Charlotte. “West to East and Back,” RA (Number 76, Autumn 2002), pp. 40-47.
Renton, Andrew. “All Change at King’s Cross,” Evening Standard (3 September 2002), pp. 65.
Delcroix, Stephanie. “Crossing the Road,” A-N Magazine (March 2002), pp. 34-35.
Battista, Kathy. “Richard Wentworth; Peripheral Visions,” Contemporary (issue 53/54, 2003).
Richard Wentworth (London: Tate Publishing in cooperation with Lisson Gallery, 2004).
The New York Times, June 1, 2005. Is the Turner Prize Ageing too Gracefully?.
The New York Times, September 3, 2005. An object lesson.
Herbert, Martin. “Richard Wentworth,” The New York Times (21 September 2005).
Kleerebezem, Jouke. Metropolis M (Number 6, 2005).
Delacroix, Stephanie. “Richard Wentworth,” A-N Magazine (September 2006), pp. 16.
Smith, Dan. “Unnatural Histories,” Art Monthly (Number 304, March 2007), pp. 13-16.
Halliburton, Rachel. “Object Lessons,” Time Out London (November/December 2007), pp.
24-25.
Sharp, Rob. “Fountainhead: Duchamps’ Disciples,” The Independent (20 February 2008) pp. 4-
5.
Wiles, William. “This is a Place that Doesn’t Exist,” Icon Magazine (1 May 2008), pp. 107-114.
Heathcote, Edwin. “Folkestone Triennial,” Financial Times (20 June 2008).
“Meet the Artists,” Herne Bay Gazette (12 June 2008).
Searle, Adrian. “Magical Moments as Folkestone Emerges from the Waves,” The Guardian (20
June 2008).
Davis, Lilian. “Boule to Braid” Artforum (13 July 2009).
Vetrocq, Marcia E. “Worlds Enough, And Time: Daniel Birnbaum’s Biennale” Art in America (18
September 2009).
Dorment, Richard. “Venice Biennale 2009: Prize Collector’s Leap of Faith” Telegraph (8 June
2009)