Richard Deacon

Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom, 1949 -

BiographyEducation: Somerset College of Art, Taunton, England, 1968-69
St. Martin's College of Art, London, England, 1969-72
B.A., Royal College of Art, London, England, 1974-77
M.A., Chelsea School of Art, London, England, 1977-78

Awards: Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England, 1987

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003
-"Made in Cologne," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
-Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria

2001
P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

1999
"New World Order," Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool, England

1998
"Sculpture and Drawing," Shiraishi Contemporary Art, The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

1997
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Richard Deacon: Show and Tell," Musée Départemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France

1995
"Richard Deacon: Esculturas: 1984-1995." Museo de Arte Moderna, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional, Santiago, Chile; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Cáracas Sofia Imber, Caracas, Venezuela; Wilfredo Lam Arts Center, Havana, Cuba
"Atlas" and "This is Not a Story," Customs House, South Shields, England

1993
"Skulpturen 1987-1993," Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany; Orangerie, Herrenhauser Garten, Hannover, Germany

1992
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Art for Other People," Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
"The Interior is Always More Difficult," École Régionale d'Art de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France

1991
"Skulpturen und Zeichnungen," Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

1990
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Richard Deacon: Nye Arbeider/New Works," Kunstnerner Hus, Oslo, Norway

1989
"Richard Deacon: 10 Sculptures 1987/89," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
"New Sculpture," Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth, England
Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland

1988
"3 Sculptures," Ecoles des Beaux-Arts de Macon, Macon, France
"Distance no Object," Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1987
Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain; Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

1986
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Sculpture for Exterior & Interior," Interim Art, London, England
Galerie Arlogos, Nantes, France
"For Those Who Have Eyes. Richard Deacon Sculptures 1980-86," Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, England; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, England; Turner House, National Museum of Wales, England; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, England; Warwick Art Centre, Warwick, England; City Museum of Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, England

1985
"Five Recent Sculptures," Gallery of New Art, the Tate Gallery, London, England

1984
Riverside Studios, London, England
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, England

1981
Sheffield City Polytechnic Gallery, Sheffield, England

1976
Royal College of Art Galleries, London, England

1975
Royal College of Art Galleries, London, England

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003
-"Independence," South London Art Gallery, London, England
Kunstoff, M.A.R.T.A. Herford, Germanyj
Triennial 2003, Tate Britain, London, England

2003
"A Sculpture Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2001
"Animations,"P.S.1 MoMA, New York, New York

1999
"Intensita in Europa," Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"Am Horizont," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
"At Home with Art," The Tate Gallery, London

1998
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Anos 80," Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
"Direcção Escultura," Centro de Arte Moderna, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
"Thinking Aloud," Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England; Corner House, Manchester, England; Camden Art Center, London, England
"Artist's Proof," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany; Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany

1997
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
"Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 90s," Hayward Gallery, London, England

1996
"Un Siècle de sculpture anglaise," Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
"Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo 2000," Moderna Ljubjlana, Sarajevo, Bosnia
"Sculptors: 7 Attitudes," Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, Belgium
"Till Brancusi," Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden

1995
"Weltkunst Collection of Contemporary British Art," Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, Ireland
"ARS 95," Museum for Contemporary Art/Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

1994
"Prospect/Retrospect," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

1993
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"New Sculptures," Middelheim Park, Antwerp, Belgium

1992
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
"Platzverführung," Waiblingen, Germany
"Allegories of Modernism, Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

1991
"Weitersehen," Museum Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Devil on the Stairs: Art from on the Eighties," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Inheritance and Transformation," Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

1990
"Before Sculpture—Sculptors' Drawings," New York Studio School, New York, New York
"Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and Richard Deacon," Saatchi Collection, London, England
"Terskel I/Threshold I," Museet für Samtidskunst, Olso, Norway
"Contemporary British Art for Japan," Setegaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"British Art Now: A Subjective View" (organized by the British Council, London), Setagana Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan; Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Kobe, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
"New Works for Different Places: Four Cities Project," Victoria Park, Plymouth, England

1989
"British Sculpture 1960-1988," Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
"Sculpture Anglaise," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Labège, France
Skulptur für Krefeld I, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
"Edinburgh International. Reason and Emotion in Contemporary Art" (organized by the Scottish Arts Council), Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland

1988
"Art in the Garden," The Glasgow Garden Festival 1988, Edinburgh, Scotland
"The Analytic Theater," Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio; Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Schlaf Der Vernunft," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
"Starlit Waters: British Sculpture, An International Art 1968-1988," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
Rosc '88, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
"Brittanica: 30 ans de Sculpture," Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France; École d'Architecture de Normandie, Rouen, France; Musée de l'Evreux, Evreux, France; Musee van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

1987
Skulptur Projekte Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
"A Quiet Revolution: British Sculpture Since 1965," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
"Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary; National Gallery, Prague, The Czech Republic; Zachenta, Warsaw, Poland
"Britannia. Paintings and Sculptures from the 1980s" (organized by the British Council, London), Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finland
"Juxtapositions: Recent Sculpture from England and Germany," P.S.1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York
"Turner Prize Exhibition," Tate Gallery, London, England

1986
"Entre el Objeto y la Imagen; Escultura Britanica Contemporane" (Organized by the Brittish Council, London), Palacio Velasquez, Madrid, Spain; Fundació Ciaxa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
"Skulptur 9 Kunstnere fra Storbrittanien," The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Sonsbeek '86. International Sculpture Exhibition, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Prospect 86, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Correspondence Europe," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1985
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
"Beyond Appearances: Sculpture for the Visually Handicapped and Sighted to Share," Castle Museum, Nottingham, England
"The British Show," British Council Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; The Exhibition Hall, Melbourne, Australia; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
"Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon, Julian Opie, Richard Wentworth," The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Place Saint Lambert Investigations," Espace Nord, Liège, Belgium
"Sculptures, premiere approche pour un parc," Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

1984
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
"Turner Prize Exhibition," Tate Gallery, London, England

1983
"New Art," Tate Gallery, London, England
"Transformations: New Sculpture from Britain" (organized by the British Council, London), 17th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Arte Moderno-Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico; Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkien, Lisbon, Portugal

1982
"Englische Plastik heute/British Sculpture Now," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

1981
"Objects and Sculpture," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England

COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS

2000
"Just Us," Ocean Plaza, Fuxingmennei Street, Beijing, China (commissioned by the COSCO Corporation)

1999
"How Much Does Your Mind Weigh?," Millenium Dome, Greenwich, England (commissioned for "Mind Zone")
"No Stone Unturned," Bemalter Stahl Platz, Liestal, Switzerland (commissioned by UBS Switzerland)

1996
Gates and Railings for Custom House Arts Centre, South Shields, England (commissioned by the Tyne & Wear Development Authority)
"One Is Alseep, One Is Awake," Tokyo International Forum Building, Tokyo, Japan (commissioned by the Tokyo International Forum Artworks Project)

1993
"Zeitweise," Mexicoplatz, Vienna, Austria (commissioned by Stadt Wien)

1992
"Between Fiction and Fact," Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France (commissioned by the Ministry of Culture and the Urban Community of Lille/Villeneuve d'Ascq)
"Building From The Inside," Voltaplatz, Krefeld, Germany (commissioned by the Krefelder Kulturstiftung)
"This Is Not A Story," Rathausplatz, Waiblingen, Germany (commissioned by the Region of Stuttgart)
"One Step, Two Step," Landspitz and Nieumarkt, Nordhorn, Germany (commissioned by Stadt Nordhorn)

1991
"Nobody Here But Us," Office Tower Plaza, 135 Albert Street, Auckland, New Zealand (commissioned by ASP Properties Limited and Albert Street Developments Limited)
"Let's Not Be Stupid," Former Air Hall Site, University of Warwick, Coventry, England (commissioned by the University of Warwick)

1990
"Between The Eyes," Yonge Square International Plaza, No 1 Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario (commissioned by Camrost Development Corporation)
"Once Upon A Time...," Former Redheugh Bridge Abutment, Gateshead, England (commissioned by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council)
"Moor," Victoria Park, Plymouth, England (commissioned by TSWA for New Works for New Places; Four Cities Project)

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