BIOGRAPHY
1947 Born in Samoa.
1966–1970 Royal College of Art, London.
1967 Worked for Henry Moore.
1971–1987 Taught at Goldsmith's College, University of London.
2001 Fellowship at the San Francisco School of Art, California.
2002 Ruskin Master of Drawing at Ruskin School of Art, Oxford.
2009 Head of The Royal College of Art’s Sculpture Department, London.
2011 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire, for services to art.
Lives and works in London.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Prats Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona. Rearview Mirror
(19 September – 23 November)
2020 Blind Alley, Fort Worth, Texas. Richard Wentworth
(12 June – 16 July)
2019 Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid. Lecciones Aprendidas
(12 September – 9 November)
2017 Peter Freeman Inc., New York. Now and Then
(7 November – 22 December)
Arebyte Gallery, in collaboration with APPARATA, London. Concertina
(5 October – 22 December)
Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona. Richard Wentworth: Paying a Visit
(30 September – 22 December)
Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris. Richard Wentworth at Maison Alaïa
(8 September – 26 November)
2015 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana. Richard Wentworth: False Ceiling
(25 September 2015 – 5 June 2016)
2014 Peter Freeman Inc., New York. motes to self
(17 April – 31 May)
2013 King’s Cross at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design,
in collaboration with GRUPPE, London. Black Maria (12 February – 12 March)
Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(29 January – 9 March)
2011 Museu da Farmacia, Experimenta Design, Lisbon. Richard Wentworth: Sidelines
(30 September – 27 November)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Richard Wentworth
(17 September – 10 November)
2010 Whitechapel Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth: Three Guesses
(6 November 2010 – 6 March 2011)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Richard Wentworth
(9 September – 30 October)
2009 Lisson Gallery, London. Boule to Braid: Curated by Richard Wentworth
(24 June – 15 August)
MMU Pavement Gallery, Manchester, UK. Scrape/Scratch/Dig: Richard Wentworth
(2 April – 14 May)
2006 Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus. Richard Wentworth
(9 May – July 31)
2005 Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(8 September – 8 October)
Tate Liverpool, UK. Richard Wentworth
(21 January – 24 April). Catalogue.
2003 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Glad That Things Don’t Talk
(23 April – 15 June). Catalogue.
2002 Artangel, King’s Cross, London. An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty
(3 September – 17 November)
2001 Calais Musée Des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, France.
Richard Wentworth: Socle, Point de Vue (5 July – 14 October). Catalogue.
2000 Galerie Margaret Biedermann, Munich. Richard Wentworth
(8 September – 30 October)
1999 Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(2 November – 4 December)
1998 Galerie Weisses Schloss, Zürich. Richard Wentworth
1997 Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany. Richard Wentworth
(19 September – 2 November 1997). Exhibition travelled:
Stadtische Galerie Göppingen, Germany (1 February – 8 March 1998);
Bonner Kunstverein, Germany (21 April – 7 June 1998). Catalogue.
1995 Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(25 March – 25 April)
1994 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
Calais Musée Des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, France.
Catalogue.
Kunst-Werke, DAAD, Berlin. Traveling Without a Map
Catalogue.
1993 Serpentine South Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(6 September 1993 – 3 January 1994). Catalogue.
1992 Kohji Ogura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan. Richard Wentworth
(15 February – 28 March). Catalogue.
1989 Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(5 June – 1 July)
Wolff Gallery, New York.
1988 Sala Parpalló, Valencia. Richard Wentworth, curated by Juan Vincente Aliaga
(1 April – 31 May). Exhibition travelled: Metronom, Barcelona. Catalogue.
1987 Riverside Studios, London. Richard Wentworth: Sculpture
(18 March – 12 April). Catalogue.
Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam.
1986 Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(9 June – 12 July). Catalogue.
Galeri Lång, Malmö, Sweden.
1984 Lisson Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth
(27 June – 21 July) Catalogue.
1972 Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Peter Freeman, Inc., Paris. En travaux
(16–26 October)
Prats Nogueras Blanchard, L’Antiga Ferinera, Spain. Enlaire
(22 June – 31 August)
2023 Hauser & Wirth, London. Hospital Rooms / Holding Space
(17 August – 12 September)
Istanbul Modern, Turkey. Floating Islands
(4 May 2023 – 13 July 2025)
Hypha Studios, London. Behold (A Show About Touch)
(23 February – 16 March)
2022 Masterpiece Art, London. Celebrating Masterpiece(s):
Modern and Contemporary Art Highlights (23 August – 31 October)
2021 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin. Before the Cockerel Crows
(5 June – 1 August)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. RHE: Jan Dibbets, Helen Mirra, Fiona Tan,
Richard Wentworth, in collaboration with Galleries Curate (8–30 January)
2020 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. In Situ: A Changing Installation
(15 September – 19 December)
Galerie Biedermann, Munich. Reisen mit der Kamera Fotografien
(9 July – 4 September 2024)
2019 The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, UK. Mariner: A Painted Ship
Upon A Painted Ocean (23 September – 16 November 2019). Exhibition travelled:
The Andrew Brownsword Gallery, University of Bath, UK (24 January – 21 March 2020)
KARST, Plymouth, UK. Light, observed, organized by Damian Griffiths
(26 June – 17 August)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. IMMA Collection: A Fiction Close to Reality
(15 February – 29 September)
PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank, Berlin. Objects of Wonder:
British Sculpture from the Tate Collection 1950s – Present (1 February – 27 May)
The Hepworth Wakefield, UK. School Prints 2019
(19 January – 2 June)
Pangolin London, UK. Carl Plackman & His Circle
(16 January – 2 March). Catalogue.
2018 The Cob Gallery, London. NEW WORK PART III: SUBJECT
(3 October – 3 November)
The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, UK. Great Artists | Great Teachers
(17 September – 17 November)
Graves Gallery, Sheffield, UK. Heads Roll
(11 August – 24 November)
Royal Academy of Arts, London. Summer exhibition 2018 – Gallery VII
(12 June – 19 August)
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK. The Everyday and Extraordinary
(9 June – 9 September). Exhibition travelled: Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
(29 September 2018 – 6 January 2019)
Cork Street Galleries, London. Artists for Artangel. A Fund for the Future
(8–27 June)
Bold Tendencies, London. Coppice
(18 May – 22 September)
The Design Museum, London. Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
(10 May – 7 October)
Glasgow International Festival, Scotland. A Roomful of Lovers (Glasgow),
curated by Richard Wentworth and Victoria Miguel (20 April – 7 May)
Attercliffe™, Sheffield, UK. Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking
(24 March – 5 May)
2017 Tintype, London. Essex Road IV
(8 December 2017 – 13 January 2018)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. ISelf Collection: The Upset Bucket
(5 December 2017 – 1 April 2018)
Nottingham Castle Project, UK. Shifting Landscapes
(23 September 2017 – 31 March 2018)
Lisson Gallery, London. Lisson Presents… 11 artists through time
(22 September – 11 November)
ARQUIPÉLAGO, Centro de artes contemporãneas, Ribeira Grande, Azores, Portugal.
The Laughable Enigma of Ordinary Life (15 September – 31 December)
Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago. Small Sculpture
(8 September – 14 October)
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK. Occasional Geometries:
Rana Begum Curates the Arts Council Collection (15 July – 29 October)
Annka Kultys Gallery, London. ][
(6–29 July)
Somerset House, London. The Learned Society of Extra Ordinary Objects
(5 July – 3 September)
The Koppel Project Hive, London. Right Through You
(28 April – 8 June)
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen. On Photography
(21 April – 27 May)
Griffin Gallery, London. Architecture as Metaphor
(9 March – 21 April)
Lisson Gallery, London. Lisson Presents…
(27 January – 18 March)
2016 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Five Years of Heddon Street
(25 November 2016 – 14 January 2017)
Under the Bridge Art Space, Miami. 12425 NE 13th Ave #4 North Miami FL 33161
(18 September – 30 October)
Elevation 1049, Gstaad. Project 1049
(30 July – 21 August)
The Foundling Museum, London. FOUND
(27 May – 4 September)
Fórum Eugénio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal.
Todo o Património é Poesia (All Heritage is Poetry) (14 May – 11 September)
The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast. Double Act: Art and Comedy
(6 May – 31 July). Catalogue.
The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, UK. good things come…
(25 April – 4 June)
DeLéon, Bath, UK. The Universe Cleft To The Core
(10 April – 7 May)
2015 The Collyer Bristow Gallery, London. Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry
(30 October 2015 – 24 February 2016)
Edition Block, Berlin. Remember Lidice
(12 September 2015 – 13 February 2016)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York. Summer Reading, curated by Richard Wentworth
(4 June – 24 July)
Bold Tendencies, London. 2015 Bold Tendencies 9
(27 May – September)
Bienal de La Habana, Cuba. Mountains with a Broken Corner
(22 May – 22 June)
Hayward Gallery, London. History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain
(10 February – 26 April). Catalogue.
2014 Lisson Gallery, London. Genius Loci (Spirit of Place)
(7 June – 23 November)
KARST, Plymouth, UK. FAX, curated by João Ribas
(15 May – 15 June). Catalogue.
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen. Object Matter
(25 April – 31 May)
Nottingham Contemporary, UK.
Somewhat Abstract: Selections from the Arts Council Collection (12 April – 29 June)
Large Glass, London. Edge of the Seat: The Artist’s Chair
(14 March – 14 June)
Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK. Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing
(25 January – 26 April)
2013 Lisson Gallery, London. Nostalgic for the Future
(15 November 2013 – 11 January 2014)
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK. The World Turned Upside Down:
Buster Keaton, Sculpture and the Absurd (4 October – 14 December)
Manchester Art Gallery, UK. do it 2013
(5 July – 22 September)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris. Push Pins in Elastic Space, curated by Gabriel Kuri
(11 June – 2 August)
Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent. Curiosity: Art and the Pleasures of Knowing
(24 May –15 September)
Museo delle Arti Catanzaro, Italy. Bookhouse: The Shape of a Book
(4 May – 5 October)
St Albans Museum, UK. Arthouse Select
(3 May – 30 June)
British Brasilian Centre, São Paolo. Nostalgia Para o Futuro
(2–22 April)
PMG, London. Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff – 40 years of Art Walking
(26 March – 6 May 2013). Exhibition travelled: Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Sunderland, UK (1 June – 5 August 2013); Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK
(8 February – 31 March 2014); The Atkinson, Southport, UK (12 April – 9 August 2014);
The Gallery at Plymouth College of Art, UK (19 September – 12 December 2014). Catalogue.
2012 Balin House Projects, London. The Laundry Room
(29 September – 28 October). Catalogue.
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas Christian University. Where is the Power
(25 August – 27 October)
Spike Island, Bristol, UK. The Artists’ Postcard Show
(6 April – 17 July)
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Sweethearts: Artist Couples
(21 March – 21 April)
2011 National Galleries, Edinburgh. The Sculpture Show
(17 December 2011 – 24 June 2012)
Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London. #40 Ideal Home
(20 September – 22 October)
Pump House Gallery, London. A Future Pump House: Ideas, Thoughts and Plans,
curated by Nick Aikens (29 July – 25 September)
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany. Through the Looking Brain:
A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography (23 June – 25 September)
La Box, École nationale supérieure d’art de Bourges, France. Qui admirez-vous?
(28 January – 7 May)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York.
Shelter: Art Against Trafficking in Women and Sexual Exploitation (27 January – 12 February)
2010 The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK. Make Room I: Interventions into the Garman Ryan Collection
(22 October 2010 – 7 October 2011)
Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. Gestures & Procedure
(6 August – 26 September)
James Fuentes, New York. Book ends.
(5–28 March)
International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana. Quartet–Four Biennials Reflected in Prints
(21 January – 28 March)
2009 Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia. More Mergers & Acquisitions
(10 December 2009 – 14 February 2010)
Paradise Row, London. Play
(9 October – 13 November)
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK. Upside Down / Inside Out
(18 July – 27 September)
Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys, Wales. Extraordinary Days
(4 July – 5 September)
La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Just around the corner
(30 June – 30 August)
Whitechapel Gallery, London. British Council Collection: The Third Dimension
(27 June – 20 September). Catalogue.
Lisson Gallery, London. Boule to Braid, curated by Richard Wentworth
(24 June – 15 August)
53rd Venice Biennale, Italy. Making Worlds
(7 June – 22 November). Catalogue.
Leeds Art Gallery, UK. Mark Wallinger Curates the Russian Linesman
(16 May – 28 June)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Between Metaphor and Object:
Art of the 90s from the IMMA Collection (14 May 2009 – 4 April 2010)
Montreal, Canada. La Biennale de Montréal 2009
(1–31 May)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Social Sculpture
(5 April 2009 – 5 April 2010)
Haunch of Venison, London. Mythologies
(12 March – 26 April)
Lisson Gallery, London. Lisson Presents 2
(4–28 March)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Cabinet of Curiosities
2008 Museum 52, London. Grotto
(16–20 December)
Serpentine Gallery, London. Manifesto Marathon
(18–19 October)
The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK. Fresh out of the Box
(14 October 2008 – 14 October 2009)
Art on the Underground, London. 100 Years, 100 Artists, 100 Works of Art
(9–30 October)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Tuesday Evenings at the Modern:
Walking Through Hedges Backwards (2 September – 18 November)
Fort Worth Contemporary Arts Gallery, Texas Christian University. Uncommon Sense
(30 August – 12 October)
Karsten Schubert Gallery, London. Safe as Houses
(30 July – 3 October)
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland. Book-ish: When Books Become Art
(1 July – 24 October)
Today Art Museum, Beijing. Building Bridges: Eight Visions, One Dream
(July). Catalogue.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais, France. Alice, son miroir et ses merveilles
(20 June 2008 – 31 December 2010)
Quint Contemporary Art, San Diego. SHOW DOWN
(20 June – 19 July)
Folkestone Triennial, UK. Tales of Time and Space
(14 June – 14 September). Catalogue.
Natural History Museum, London. Darwin’s Canopy
(4 June – 14 September)
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp. Die Lucky Bush
(23 May – 17 August)
Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, the Netherlands. Localisms
(12 April – 18 October)
Barbican Art Gallery, London. Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
(6 March – 18 May)
Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Long Distance Information
(28 January – 13 February)
2007 The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK. Out of the Box and Around the Corner:
Interventions in the Garman Ryan Collection (4 October 2007 – 4 October 2008)
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UK. It Starts From Here
(22 June – 9 September)
Tate Modern, London. Global Cities
(20 June – 27 August)
University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, UK. Reality Undone
(23 April – 23 June)
Conduit Street Gallery, Sotheby’s, London. Venice: City of Dreams?
(15–19 January)
2006 Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Fundação de Serralves, Porto. The 80s: A Topology
(10 November 2006 – 25 March 2007). Catalogue.
The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK. Out of Place
2005 Musée Rodin, Hôtel Biron, Paris. La sculpture dans l’espace
(18 November 2005 – 26 February 2006)
Arnolfini Arts, Bristol, UK. Like Nothing Else: Experiment Risk and Gallery Education
(16–19 November). Exhibition travelled: Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk, UK
Great Eastern Hotel, London. Be Ready, Heart, For Parting, New Endeavour
(3 October – 4 November)
Istanbul Modern, Turkey. Centre of Gravity
(18 September 2005 – 15 January 2006)
Tate Modern, London. Raised Awareness
(19 July – 30 September)
Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Angers, France. Effervescence
(2 July – 18 September). Catalogue.
Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. Bye-Bye blackboard…from Einstein and others
(16 April – 18 September)
London School of Economics, UK. STATE OF MIND
2004 Musée d’art moderne, Saint-Étienne, France. Settlements, curated by Lóránd Hegyi
(19 March – 2 May). Catalogue.
2003 50th Venice Biennale, Italy. Absolute Generation
(15 June – 2 November). Catalogue.
South London Gallery, UK. Independence
(3 June – 3 August)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Glad That Things Don’t Talk
(24 April – 15 June). Catalogue.
Harewood House, Leeds, UK. Out of Place
(12 March – 6 July)
2002 Serpentine Gallery, London. En route
(2–27 October)
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany. Blast to Freeze – British Art in the 20th century
(14 September 2002 – 19 January 2003). Exhibition travelled:
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France (24 February – 11 May 2003). Catalogue.
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon. Walk Ways
(4 September – 2 November 2002). Exhibition travelled:
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham (6 January – 1 March 2003);
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada (20 March – 11 May 2003);
Oakville Galleries in Gairloch Gardens, Canada (14 June – 17 August 2003);
Oakville Galleries at Centennial Square, Canada (21 June – 17 August 2003);
Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, Pennsylvania
(6 February – 28 March 2004). Catalogue.
25. Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil. Iconografias Metropolitanas
(23 March – 2 June). Catalogue.
Wiesbaden, Germany. Fluxus Memorial Show, curated by René Block
2001 The Photographers’ Gallery, London. Richard Wentworth / Eugène Atget: Faux Amis
(5 October – 18 November). Catalogue.
Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, in collaboration with the British Council.
Field Day, Sculpture from Britain (7 April – 9 August). Catalogue.
2000 Sperone Westwater, New York. American Bricolage
(2 November – 22 December). Catalogue.
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy. Quotidiana
(5 February – 21 May). Catalogue.
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. Aprendiendo Menos / Learning Less,
curated by Patricia Martín. Catalogue.
Science Museum, London. Head On
1998 Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK. Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud
(7 November 1998 – 3 January 1999). Exhibition travelled:
Corner House, Manchester, UK (9 January – 28 February 1999);
Camden Arts Centre, London (9 April – 30 May 1999). Catalogue.
1997 Hayward Gallery, London. Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 1990s
(3 April – 18 May). Catalogue.
1995 Lisson Gallery, London. Ideal Standard Summertime
(17 July – 30 September)
Serpentine Gallery, London. Here and Now:
British Painters at the Serpentine Gallery from 1970 to the present (11 June – 10 July)
Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Escultura Británica contemporánea: de Henry Moore a los años 90 (10 June – 30 July).
Exhibition travelled: Museu de Arte Contemporânea – Fundação de Serralves, Porto
(7 September – 5 November). Catalogue.
Istanbul, Turkey. 4th Istanbul Biennial
1993 Derby Museum and Art Gallery, The Strand, UK.
Recent British Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection (27 March – 9 May). Catalogue.
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva.
1992 Tate Gallery, London. The Saatchi Gift
1990 Sydney, Australia. Biennale of Sydney
1988 The World Financial Center, Battery Park City, New York. The New Urban Landscape
(14 October – 15 December). Catalogue.
Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France. Britannica: trente ans de sculpture
(15 October – 12 December). Catalogue.
1987 Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, Canada. Object Lessons:
Tom Marioni, Gilles Mihalcean, Richard Wentworth (8 October – 1 November). Catalogue.
Lisson Gallery, London. 20th Anniversary Show
(23 July – 19 September)
Wolff Gallery, New York. New Locations
(4–25 April). Catalogue.
Kent Fine Art, Inc., New York. Metaphor
(12 February – 14 March). Catalogue.
British Council, London. Inscriptions and Inventions: British Photography in the 1980s
Catalogue.
1986 Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio. New Visions in Contemporary Art: The RSM Collection
(21 March – 4 May). Catalogue.
Carpenter & Hochman, New York.
Sculpture: Vito Acconci, Stuart Sherman, Haim Steinbach and Richard Wentworth
1985 The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Three British Sculptors: Richard Deacon, Julian Opie and Richard Wentworth
1984 City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, UK. The British Art Show,
organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain (2 November – 22 December 1984).
Exhibition travelled: Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh (19 January – 24 February 1985);
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, UK (16 March – 4 May 1985);
Southhampton Art Gallery, UK (18 May – 30 June 1985). Catalogue.
1983 Hayward Gallery and Serpentine South Gallery, London. The Sculpture Show:
Fifty Sculptors at the Serpentine and the South Bank (13 August – 9 October). Catalogue.
1981 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK. Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts: 3rd National Exhibition
(4 April – 10 May). Exhibition travelled: Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, UK
(24 May – 21 June); Castle Museum, Norwich, UK (4 July – 9 August). Catalogue.
1977 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Whitechapel Open
(3–28 August)
1971 Lisson Gallery, London. Wall Show
(10 December – 30 January)
1970 Royal Academy of Arts, London. Young Contemporaries
(6–26 November)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
2019 Bielecka, Polly, Richard Wentworth, et al. Carl Plackman & His Circle
(London: Pangolin Gallery, 2019). Exhibition catalogue.
2018 Miguel, Victoria, and Richard Wentworth. A Volume of Fanatics (Glasgow)
(Glasgow: SWG3 Ltd, 2018). Exhibition catalogue.
2016 Campbell, David, and Mark Durden. Double Act: Art and Candy
(Liverpool: Bluecoat, 2016). Exhibition catalogue.
Fellrath, Kiersten. Art at Work: The JPMorgan Chase Art Collection
(New York: JPMorgan Chase & Co., 2016).
2015 Lauson, Cliff, Ralph Rugoff, et al. History is Now: 7 Artists Take on Britain
(London: Hayward Publishing, 2015). Exhibition catalogue.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, et al. Richard Wentworth: Making Do and Getting By
(London: Koenig Books in cooperation with Lisson Gallery and Peter Freeman, Inc., 2015).
Ribadeniera, Manuela. Drawing Room Confessions | Richard Wentworth, Issue #11
(London: Drawing Room Confessions / Milan: Mousse Magazine and Publishing, 2015).
Self, Jack, ed. Symbolic Exchange (London: REAL Foundation, 2015).
2014 Burgoyne, Greig. FAX (New York: The Drawing Center and
Independent Curators International (ICI), 2014). Exhibition catalogue.
Herschend, John. The Thing The Book: A Monument to the Book as Object
(San Francisco: Chronicle Books LLC, 2014).
Jalili, Sami and Richard Wentworth. E.R.O.S. Issue IV: Man (London: EROS Press Ltd., 2014).
Redstone, Elias. Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography
(London: Phaidon Press Ltd, 2014).
2013 Gunn, Dan, ed. Thinge (Berlin: Dan Gunn, 2013). Exhibition catalogue.
Morrison-Bell, Cynthia, Mike Collier, Tim Ingold, and Alistair Robinson.
Walk On: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff – 40 years of Art Walking
(Sunderland: Art Editions North, 2013). Exhibition catalogue.
2012 Padilha, Eduardo, et al. The Laundry Room (London: Balin House Projects, 2012).
Exhibition catalogue.
2010 MacAdam, Barbara A. “Richard Wentworth,” Art News (November 2010), pp. 123–124.
2009 Davis, Lilian. “Boule to Braid,” Artforum (13 July 2009).
Dorment, Richard. “Venice Biennale 2009: Prize Collector’s Leap of Faith,”
Telegraph (8 June 2009).
Higgins, Charlotte. “Artist Richard Wentworth pulls string for Whitechapel Gallery,”
The Guardian (7 April 2009).
Marlow, Tim. British Council Collection: The Third Dimension
(London: British Council, 2009). Exhibition catalogue.
Vetrocq, Marcia E. “Worlds Enough, And Time: Daniel Birnbaum’s Biennale,”
Art in America (18 September 2009).
2008 Bracewell, Michael, et al. Building Bridges: 8 Visions, One Dream
(London: The Red Mansion Foundation, 2008). Exhibition catalogue.
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).
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.
2007 Halliburton, Rachel. “Object Lessons,” Time Out London (November/December 2007), pp. 24–25.
Smith, Dan. “Unnatural Histories,” Art Monthly, no. 304 (March 2007), pp. 13–16.
2006 Delacroix, Stephanie. “Richard Wentworth,” A-N Magazine (September 2006), p. 16.
Loock, Ulrich. The 80s: A Topology (Porto: Fundação de Serralves, 2006). Exhibition catalogue.
2005 “An object lesson,” The New York Times (September 3, 2005).
Bracewell, Michael, et al. Richard Wentworth (London: Tate Publishing, 2005). Exhibition catalogue.
Ferbos, Catherine. Effervescence (Paris: Musée Somogy, 2005). Exhibition catalogue.
Herbert, Martin. “Richard Wentworth,” The New York Times (21 September 2005).
“Is the Turner Prize Ageing too Gracefully?” The New York Times (1 June 2005).
Kleerebezem, Jouke. Metropolis M, no. 6 (2005).
2004 Hegyi, Lóránd. Settlements (Lyon: Fage éditions, 2004). Exhibition catalogue.
Richard Wentworth (London: Tate Publishing in cooperation with Lisson Gallery, 2004).
2003 Battista, Kathy. “Richard Wentworth; Peripheral Visions,” Contemporary, Issue 53/54 (2003).
Searle, Adrian. Glad That Things Don’t Talk (Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2003).
Exhibition catalogue.
2002 Delcroix, Stephanie. “Crossing the Road,” A-N Magazine (March 2002), pp. 34–35.
Horodner, Stuart. Walk Ways (New York: Independent Curators International (ICI), 2002).
Exhibition catalogue.
Hughes, Henry Mevric and Gijs van Tuyl. Blast to Freeze – British Art in the 20th century
(Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2002). Exhibition catalogue.
Kennedy, Maev. “Brain Scans Show Art and Science in True Colors,” The Guardian
(13 March 2002).
Morton, Tom. “The Object Sculpture,” Frieze, Issue 69 (September 2002), p. 103.
Mullins, Charlotte. “Precious Stone of the North,” The Independent (23 June 2002), p. 7.
Mullins, Charlotte. “West to East and Back,” RA, no. 76 (Autumn 2002), pp. 40–47.
Renton, Andrew. “All Change at King’s Cross,” Evening Standard (3 September 2002), p. 65.
Wentworth, Richard in conversation with Neil Robert Wenman.
“A Portrait of the City, the City a Portrait.” SM05 (Summer 2002), pp. 7–10.
2001 Bougnoux, Daniel. “Transmuniguer/Commettre,” Les Cahiers de médiologie, no. 11
(Fall 2001), pp. 343–349.
Bush, Kate, Peter Ackroyd, and Geoff Dyer. Richard Wentworth / Eugène Atget: Faux Amis
(London: The Photographers’ Gallery and Lisson Gallery, 2001). Exhibition catalogue.
Field Day, Sculpture from Britain (Taipei: Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, 2001). Exhibition catalogue.
Green, David. “Richard Wentworth and Eugene Atget: Faux Amis,” Portfolio, no. 34
(2001), pp. 70–71.
Haudiquet, Annette, et al. Richard Wentworth: Socle, Point de Vue
(Calais: Calais Musée Des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, 2001). Exhibition catalogue.
Jeffrey, Ian. “Picking up the Traces,” Modern Painters (Spring 2001), pp. 35–37.
JL. “On the Street Where We Lived,” Tate (Autumn 2001), p. 14.
“Makeshift,” Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 33 (2001), p. 80.
2000 Doherty, Claire. “Soft Cities,” Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 31 (2000), pp. 52–57.
Martín, Patricia, et al. Aprendiendo Menos / Learning Less – Gabriel Orozco, Fischli & Weiss,
Richard Wentworth (Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y lasArtes /
Centro de la Imagen, 2000). Exhibition catalogue.
McCarthy, Gerard. “Richard Wentworth at Lisson,” Art in America (June 2000), p. 133.
Ross, David A. Quotidiana: immagini della vita di ogni giorno nella̓rte del XX secolo
(Milan: Charta, 2000). Exhibition catalogue.
Ulmer, Brigitte. “Kunstzene London: Explosion an Kreativitaet!,” Bolero (September 2000), pp. 26–32.
1999 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.
Slyce, John. “Richard Wentworth,” Art Monthly, Issue 323 (December 1999), p. 36.
Withers, Rachel. “Thinking Aloud,” Artforum International (September 1999), p. 176.
1998 Wentworth, Richard and Nick Groom. Richard Wentworth’s Thinking Aloud
(London: Hayward Publishing, 1998). Exhibition catalogue.
1997 Archer, Michael and Greg Hilty. Material Culture: The Object in British Art of the 1980s and 1990s
(London: South Bank Centre, 1997). Exhibition catalogue.
Muir, Gregor. Richard Wentworth (Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 1997). Exhibition catalogue.
1995 Escultura Británica contemporánea: de Henry Moore a los años 90
(Santiago de Compostela: Auditorio de Galicia, 1995). Exhibition catalogue.
Gleadell, Colin. “Little Jack Horner & the Wunder-Barn Kid,” ArtMonthly
(December 1995 – January 1996), pp. 46–47.
Kent, Sarah. Here and Now (London: Serpentine Gallery, 1995). Exhibition catalogue.
1994 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 (Calais: Musée des Beaux-Arts, 1994). Exhibition catalogue.
Wentworth, Richard. Richard Wentworth: Berlin 117 Landmarks (Berlin: DAAD, 1994).
1993 Cummings, Neil. Reading Things. Sight Works Volume Three (London: Chance Books, 1993).
Hilty, Greg, Isobel Johnstone, and Ann Jones. Recent British Sculpture from the
Arts Council Collection (London: The Centre, 1993). Exhibition catalogue.
Warner, Marina. Richard Wentworth (London: Thames & Hudson Ltd / Serpentine Gallery, 1993).
Exhibition catalogue.
1992 Watkins, Jonathan. “Lighting Fires, Richard Wentworth,” Frieze (1992), pp. 28–31.
Watkins, Jonathan. Richard Wentworth (Nagoya: Kohji Ogura Gallery, 1992). Exhibition catalogue.
1989 Livingstone, Marco, ed. “British Object Sculptors of the ‘80s,” Art Random (1989).
Renton, Andrew. “Richard Wentworth, Lisson, London,” Flash Art (October 1989), p. 138.
1988 Bonaventura, Paul and Juan Vincente Aliaga. Richard Wentworth
(Valencia: Colleccion Imagen, Sala Parpalló, 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
Grenier, Catherine. Britannica: trente ans de sculpture
(Rouen: Association des Conservateurs de Haute-Normandie, 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
Richard, Martin. The New Urban Landscape (New York: Olympia & York Companies /
Drenttel Doyle Partners, 1988). Exhibition catalogue.
1987 Bonaventura, Paul. “Today, We Have Naming Parts, Interview with Wentworth,”
Artefactum (September – October 1987).
Gleadowe, Teresa, ed. Inscriptions and Inventions: British Photography in the 1980s
(London: British Council, 1987). Exhibition catalogue.
Harris, Susan. Metaphor (New York: Kent Fine Art Inc., 1987). Exhibition catalogue.
Hilty, Greg and Milena Kalinovska. Richard Wentworth: Sculpture
(London: Riverside Studios, 1987). Exhibition catalogue.
Pakasaar, Helga. Object Lessons: Tom Marioni, Gilles Mihalcean, Richard Wentworth
(Banff: Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre, 1987). Exhibition catalogue.
Saltz, Jerry and Robert Pincus-Witten. New Locations (New York: Wolff Gallery, 1987).
Exhibition catalogue.
1986 Jeffery, Ian. Richard Wentworth: Sculptures (London: Lisson Gallery, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Kirshner, Judith Russi. New Visions in Contemporary Art: The RSM Collection
(Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1986). Exhibition catalogue.
Morgan, Stuart. “Richard Wentworth: Lisson Gallery,” Artforum (September 1986).
1984 Richard Wentworth (London: Lisson Gallery, 1984). Exhibition catalogue.
Thompson, Jon, et al. The British Art Show: old allegiances and new directions, 1979–1984|
(London: Orbis, 1984). Exhibition catalogue.
1983 Blacker, Kate, Fenella Crichton, and Paul de Monchaux.
The Sculpture Show: Fifty Sculptors at the Serpentine and the South Bank
(London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1983). Exhibition catalogue.
Cooke, Lynne and Stuart Morgan. Richard Wentworth (London: Serpentine Gallery, 1983).
Exhibition catalogue.
1982 Lynton, Norbert. Looking at Sculpture (London: Hayward Publishing, 1982).
[guide for Hayward Annual exhibition]
1981 Crichton, Fenella. Symbols, Presences and Poetry (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1981).
Exhibition Catalogue.
George, Patrick. Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts: 3rd National Exhibition
(London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1981). Exhibition catalogue.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
Arts Council Collection, London
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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
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Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
First National Bank of Chicago, Illinois
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The LeWitt Collection, Chester, Connecticut
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Saatchi Collection, London
Tate, London
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut