© Howard Sooley LIZ RIDEAL Born in England. Lives and works in London. Solo shows: (* indicates catalogue) 2007 St Bartholomew the Less, Smithfield, London, England Cloth Fair (light projections on to bell tower) 19 March 2006 Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England Fall, River, Snow 27 October - 10 December The Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames, England K2 (scanachrome installation) 25 September - 25 September 2007 Gallery 339, Philadelphia, USA Above and Below Ground 2 February - 19 March Lucas Schoormans, New York, USA Suc des Vosges 26 January - 4 March ............................................................................................... 2005 Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham, England Light Column (permanent stairwell glass sculpture) ............................................................................................... 2004 BBC Broadcasting House, London, England Kerfuffle 10 May - 10 September Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, London, England Mandrake Tango* 5 January - 20 March ............................................................................................... 2003 HackelBury Fine Art, London, England Tango Two* 13 March - 25 May ............................................................................................... 2002 The Fine Art Center, University of Massachusetts, USA Works 1992/2002, Mandrake Tango* 13 September - 20 October Aurobora Press, San Francisco, USA Monotypes 1 February - 9 March ............................................................................................... 2001 Lucas Schoormans, New York, USA Stills* 13 March - 21 April Hippodrome Theatre, Birmingham, England Glass Drapes (west face of theatre, 15 x 8 metres) Special mention in the Riba award ............................................................................................... 2000 Hiscox Gallery, London, England Lignum/Silva 29 June - 10 August Lucas Schoormans, New York, USA Photographs 96-98 1 August - 8 September HackelBury Fine Art, London, England Seasonal Stills 6 September - 6 October Lyon Town Hall, Lyon, France Swimming towards Christmas (48x23 metres projection onto C17th Town Hall, commissioned by Sculpture Urbaine) ............................................................................................... 1999 The Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England 1 April - 13 June Plus new commission for the collection Focal Point Gallery, Southend, England 30 January - 13 March Ramsgate Gallery, Ramsgate, England Up on Deck 13 February - 20 March ............................................................................................... 1998 Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England New Work* 30 May - 4 July touring to Rochester Art Gallery Rochester Art Gallery, Rochester, Kent, England 11 July - 22 August The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England Originals 30 June - 24 July ............................................................................................... Films: 2006 Fall, River, Snow 12 minutes, Super 8 > DVD Projected onto the Capability Brown landscape nightly at Compton Verney, Warwickshire, England from 27 October - 10 December 2006 2005 Suc des Vosges 6 minutes, Super 8 > DVD Shown at Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, USA, 2006 2004 Killing Fields 12 minutes, Super 8 > DVD, with sound by Alex Gifford and Jamie Telford Shown at the Imperial War Museum, London, England, 2006 2000 Lignum Silva 7 minutes, Super 8 > video. Shown at Hiscox Gallery, London, England, 2000 1998 Les Draps dans le Jardin (Blue Moon) 9 minutes, Super 8 > video Shown at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England, 1998 ............................................................................................... Catalogues: 2002 Mandrake Tango. Published jointly by the University of Massachusetts, USA and HackelBury Fine Art, London, England, essays by Judith Collins and Emmanuel Cooper and poetry by Bill Berkson and Emily Dickinson. 2001 Stills. Published by Lucas Schoormans New York, USA, essays by Charles Darwent and Norman Bryson. 1998 Liz Rideal: New Work. Published by Angel Row, Nottingham, England and Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England, with essays by Briony Fer and Anna Moszynska. 1990 Lusus Naturae. Circle Press Publications, London, England. Illustrations by Rideal, poem by Wendy Mulford. Liz Rideal, Photobooth Collages. Published by Circle Press to coincide with the exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery, London, England, with an essay by David Chandler. 1988 People Profile - Pillars of Society. Published by Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, England. Interview by Judith Collins, Tate Gallery and text by David Chandler and Jim Shea. ............................................................................................... Group shows: (* indicates catalogue) 2007 Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England Collect 7 - 12 February 2006 The George Eastman Kodak Museum, Rochester, USA* and touring Picturing Eden 27 January - 18 June Midlands Art Centre, Manchester, England* and touring Depth of Field 21 January - 19 March 2005 Gallery 339, Philadelphia, USA Fifteen Photographers 2 December 2005 - 22 January 2006 Castle Museum, Nottingham, England* Revealed 16 September - 26 November 2004 Global Art Source, Zurich, Switzerland Focus on Photography 17 March - 20 April The Drawing Room, London, England Drawing 100 9 May - 11 May 2003 Artlab, Imperial College, London, England Hybrid 2 December 2003 - 22 April 2004 Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, England Chockerfuckingblocked 31 January - 1 March The Grolier Club, New York, USA The Auroral Light: Photographs by Women 14 May - 2 August 2002 The City Art Gallery, Leicester, England* Fold: Drapery in Contemporary Visual Culture 30 August - 19 October HackelBury Fine Art, London, England 100% Photography 1 November 2002 - 11 January 2003 2001 Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, USA Cinema Studies 26 January - 3 March Flowers East, London, England Small is beautiful: Self-Portraits 25 November - 23 December Laystall Project Space, London, England* 2001 A Space Oddity, The Colony Room Club 28 October - 16 November 2000 Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, USA LUX 11 January - 19 February Winchester Gallery, England* and touring the South East Grid Visions 1 February - 1 March Museum of Photography, Odense, Denmark* The Photo-Booth 14 October 2000 - 14 January 2001 1999 Oficina Cultural Oswald de Andrade, Sao Paulo, Brazil* Pacaembu: a planetary reply for the world 10 June - 20 June 1998 Musée des Art Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France* 50 Ans de Tati 13 March - 4 April Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, The Towner, Eastbourne and Cartright Hall, Bradford, England* The Mag Collection 14 March - 31 May ............................................................................................... Authored work and exhibitions curated: 2005 Insights: Self-portraits National Portraits Gallery Publications, London, England 2004 The Practice of Portraiture, Perspective - seeing where you stand, Self-portraits / Identity, Portraits in disguise Web content for National Portrait Gallery, London, England 2003 Drapery and Pattern in Portrait Painting as a Source for my Work in the Photobooth, with particular reference to The Curtain Maker William Larkin. Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp 274-287 Berg, Oxford, England and New York, USA 2002 Conference: Drapery in visual culture: Contexts, clothing, corporealities. Paper given: The Curtain Master: Drapery and pattern in Larkin’s early British portrait painting and its affinity with my work in the photo-booth. (30 and 31 August). The National Gallery, London, England 2001 Mirror/Mirror: Self-portraits by women artists National Portraits Gallery Publications, London, England and Watson-Guptill, New York, USA Exhibition shown in London, then touring to Leeds, Canterbury and Bath*. Conference papers see website: http://www.npg.org.uk/live/mirror.asp 2000 Production of Drawings: From Holbein to Freud, 20th Century portraits, The Self-portrait Web content for National Portraits Gallery, London, England 1999 Girls, Girls, Girls, selected from the permanent collection. Exhibition curated for Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England 1 April - 13 June ............................................................................................... Collections: Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark Bibliothèque Nationale (Estampes), Paris, France Vancouver Art Gallery, B.C. Canada U.K. BBC Arts Council of England The National Portrait Gallery Clock Museum, Bury St. Edmunds Edinburgh District Council The Reader’s Digest The Mag Collection The Seagram Collection The Ferens Art Gallery The Government Art Collection Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery The Victoria and Albert Museum The British Museum U.S.A. Henry Buhl Collection, New York Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio Microsoft Art Collection, Seattle, Washington State Pfizer, Inc., New York Sidley, Austin & Wood Collection, New York ABN AMRO Bank Collection, New York J.P.Morgan Chase Collection, New York The Groiler Club, New York ............................................................................................... Library Collections: The National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum The National Poetry Library Cambridge University Library Bridwell Library, Dallas, Texas The National Art Library, Victoria, Australia Washington Library of Congress ............................................................................................... Awards: 2007 Foundation Valparaiso, Spain, Residency Award 2005 British Council Exhibition Grant 2004 The Lorne Award 2002 Riba: Special mention for ’Glass Drapes’ at the Birmingham Hippodrome 1997 London Arts Board. Individual Artist Award 1988 West Midlands & Northern Arts. Publishing Grant 1987 Eastern Arts. Artist in Residence Award 1986 Scottish Arts Council. Purchase Award 1982 South East Arts. Exhibition Grant