Richard Rigg British, b. 1980

Biography

Born 1980 Perith, Cumbria, UK.

2001-2005 BA(hons) Fine Art, Newcastle University

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2015
Reoccurring Rose Garden, Workplace London, London, UK
Mirror Images in Art and Medicine, Berlin Museum of Medical History, Berlin, DE
2013

LACUNA, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

 

2012

The Inhabitant of the Watchtower, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, California, USA

2012 LONDON ART NOW, Lodge Park, Gloucestershire, UK

 

2010
Holography, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Performance - Ballade op.23 (without words), Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
 
Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2015
I'M TEN, IMT Gallery, London, UK

Afternoon Distance, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

 

2014

Chance Finds Us, MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK

 

2013

be like water, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK

The Difference Loom, Iziko South African National Gallery, South Africa

 

2012

20/12 London Art Now, Lodge Park, Gloucestershire, UK

Laura Lancaster and Richard Rigg, Expo Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA

Glamourie, PSL, Leeds, UK

Quiet Works, Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, USA

 

2011

Northern Art Prize 2011, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK

ROTATE, Contemporary Arts Society & Shortlist Media, London, UK

Broken Fall (organic), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy

 

2010

NADA Art Fair with Workplace Gallery, Miami, USA

Manchester Contemporary with Workplace Gallery, UK

Brick by Brick, xsite Architecture, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Cage Mix: Sculpture & Sound, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

The Glass Delusion, The National Glass Centre, Sunderland, UK

 

2009
Suns Neither Rise Nor Set, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Solo presentations, Zoo Art Fair, London, UK
Zoo Art Fair, with Workplace Gallery, London, UK
Morphic Resonance, PSL, Leeds, UK
Explum 09, Murica, SPAIN

 

2008
TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
Draw a Line, Follow it, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, UK
King Fisher's Tales, Union Gallery, London, UK
Explum 08, Murica, Spain

 

2007
Zoo Art Fair, Royal Academy, London, UK
Traumaqueen, Athens, Greece
Moved, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Textual Healing, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

 

2006
Formal Dining, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Coales to London, Temporary Exhibition Space, Carnaby Street, London, UK
Normalife Unlimited 6, Neal's Yard, London, UK

 

2005
Everything Must Go Part 1, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
The Space Between The Sole And The Heel, Globe Gallery. North Shields, UK
Degree Show 05.  Newcastle University Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Part 2   Normalife, 267 Cradlewell Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

 

Awards

Visual Artist of the Year 2012, The Journal Culture Awards

 

Collections

 

Progressive Collection, USA

Private Collections, UK, Europe, USA