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Susan Derges
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British
, born 1955)
Susan Derges
Full Moon – Black Thorn,
2004
9,000 USD
Biography
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Timeline
1955
Born in London
1973 - 1976
Chelsea School of Art and Design, London
1976 - 1977
British Council/DAAD Scholarship to Berlin
1977 - 1979
Postgraduate studies, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1979
Boise Travel Scholarship to Holland
1981 - 1982
Rotary Foundation Award, Japan
1981 - 1985
Living and working in Japan
1982 - 1983
Postgraduate Research Tsukuba University, Japan
1984
JVC Award, Japan
1986 - 1991
Living and working in London
1992
Living and working in Dartmoor, Devon
1993
South West Arts Major Award
1998
Dorchester Hospital Award
2004 - 2005
Eden Project Education Centre/Solar Terrace Award
2006 - 2007
The Stille Room, Fyllingsdaten Nursing Home, Bergen, Norway
2008
Prix Pictet, Shortlisted Artist
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Exhibitions
2012 - 2013
Alder Brook, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2011 - 2012
Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
2010 - 2011
A Little Bit of Magic Realised, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (with Garry Fabian Miller)
Shadowcatchers, The Art of Camera- Less Photography Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2010
Dust in the Mirror, Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham
2009
Hitchhikers to the Galaxy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
Night, RWA Galleries, Bristol
A History of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Johyun Gallery, Seoul and Busan, South Korea (solo)
2008
Water, Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Susan Derges and Hildegard van Bingen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
2007 - 2008
Something that I�ll never really see: Contemporary Work from the V&A, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich; Castle Museum, Nottingham
2007
Trace and Transience, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter
2006 - 2008
Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics, The Field Museum, Chicago. Touring to COSI, Columbus, Ohio; Memphis Museum, Tennessee; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2006 - 2007
Alchemy, Harewood House, Leeds; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2006
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, New York
2005 - 2006
Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Southampton City Art Gallery
2005
Photographs Without a Camera, Gallery 314, Bergen (solo)
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
Made in Britain, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Recent Work, Photo London (solo)
Recent Work, Galerie Nichido, Paris (solo)
Dark Waters, The Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds (solo)
FotoFest 2004 � Water, Houston, Texas (solo)
From Here To Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Photo Synthesis, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
2004
Lightfall, Brewhouse, Taunton
Synthetic Lightening: Complex Simulations of Nature, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Camera-less Image, Photo-eye, santa Fe, NM
Prima Facie, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, buffalo, New York, USA
New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Observed: Photographs, Gallery Kayafas, Boston
The Camera-less Image, Photo-eye, santa Fe, NM
Recycling Lucifer's Fall, Houldsworth Gallery, London
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Ingleby Gallery (solo)
Transience of Nature, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Design Centre (solo)
2003
New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
Metamorphing, Science Museum, London
The Streens, Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset (solo)
Liquid Form, Ediciones Wu, Lima (solo)
New Work, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London (solo)
The Genius of Genetics Gregor Mendel, Abbey of St Thomas, Brno
Landscape and Photography, Ingleby Gallery
2002
Natural Magic, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Now What is Photography, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Natural Magic, Museum of History and Science, Oxford (solo)
Kingswood, St Mary�s Church, Ashford, Kent (solo)
This is not a Photograph, traveling exhibition through 2002
From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
2001
Summer Exhibition, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Sea Change, Spacex Gallery. Exeter
Summer 2000 Unique Photographs, Paul Kasmin Gallery
This is Not a Photograph, Pace University Choate Art Gallery (touring)
Particle Accelerators: At the Intersection of Photography, Science & Technology Photographic Resource Center, Boston
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston (solo)
Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art
Now! Modern Photography from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of art, NY
Liquid Form, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
2000
Susan Derges/Christopher Bucklow, Recent work, Vaknin Schwartz, Atlanta
New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Wilshire (with Hideo Furuta)
200 - 2000
Fluid Flow, James Graham & Sons, NY
1999
Phenomena, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco
Woman Thinking River, James Danziger Gallery, New York (solo)
Woman Thinking River, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
Recent Work, Michael Hue Williams Fine Art (solo)
Ingleby Gallery (with Patricia Macdonald)
20 Twenty, Fraenkel Gallery
River Taw, Musee D�Elysee, Lausanne (solo)
Recent work, Gallery Mocca, Gottenberg, Sweden
River Taw, Spacex Gallery, Exeter (solo)
River Taw, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall (solo)
Dark Matter, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (touring)
Dust Breeding, Fraenkel Gallery
1998
Woods and Water, Kettle�s Yard, Cambridge (with Andrew Smith)
Silver and Syrup, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
River Taw (two person exhibition) Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh
1997 - 1998
About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1997
On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Centre of Photography, New York
River Taw, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art (solo)
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XI, Fraenkel Gallery
Elective Affinities, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
Light, Time, Focus, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1996
Under the Sun, Fraenkel Gallery
1995
Possibilities of Extention, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Heaven�s Embroidered Cloths, National Museum of Film, Photography & Television, Bradford
Content and Discontent in Today�s Photography, Ansel Adams Centre for Photography
Print Room, The Photographers� Gallery, London (solo)
James Danziger Gallery (solo)
Embodied, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (solo)
Umbra Penumbra Signals Festival of Women Photographers, Spacex Gallery
Cameraless Photography, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
Growth and Form, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
1994
The Observer and the Observed, James Danziger Gallery (solo)
Wellsprings, Bath Festival, Bath
1993
Between Sun and Earth, The Photographers� Gallery (solo)
Full Circle, Cairn Gallery, Stroud (solo)
1992
Salama-Caro Gallery, London
New Inhabitants, Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery
New Acquisitions, Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, London
1991
Post Modern Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum
1989
Machine Dreams, The Photographers Gallery�, London
AVE Festival of Audio Visual Arts, Arnhem
Phenomenart, Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
Gallery ON, Poznan (solo)
Tokyo Science Museum, Exploratorium, Tokyo (video) (solo)
Studio 2000, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
1988
Presence 2, Gallery ON Poznan
1987
O� Art Museum, Tokyo (video) (solo)
High Technology Art, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
1985
JVC VIC Centre, Tokyo (video) (solo)
Gallery Okazaki, Tokyo (solo)
1984
Art Space Niji, Kyoto (solo)
Art and Technology, Gekkoso Gallery and Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1983
Union des Femmes Peintres, Luxembourg Museum, Paris
1981
The House Construction Show, House Gallery, London
Art into Architecture, Swiss Cottage Library, London
1980
Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin (solo)
1978
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (solo)
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
NatWest Group, London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
The Hara Art Museum, Tokyo
British Airways
Hess Collection Napa, Bern, London
Conoco Ltd, London
Deutsche Bank
Man Group plc., London
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Citibank Private Bank Collection, London
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Wellcome Trust
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Eden Project, Cornwall
Dorset County Hospital
Arnolfini Trust, Bristol
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Arts Council of England
Collections
The Art Institute of Chicago
Texaco Plc, London
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Literature
2006
Stilled Lives – Contemporary Still Life Photography by Women, Ffoto Gallery
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House (Steidl)
2005
Wild Track, Trace
Surface, University of Plymouth
2003
Transience of Nature (catalogue) Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Next Level Magazine, London
Recycling Lucifer’s Fall (catalogue) Houldsworth Fine Art, London
2002
Kingswood (book) Photoworks and Stour Valley Arts Project
Now What is Photography (catalogue) Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
Portfolio Magazine Issue 34
The Genius of Genetics Gregor Mendel (catalogue) ARTAKT
2000
20 Twenty (catalogue) Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1999
Woman Thinking River (book) Fraenkel and Danziger Galleries, US,
Susan Derges Liquid Form (book) Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London.
Essay by Martin Kemp
Dust Breeding - Photographs, Sculpture & Film Fraenkel Gallery. Essay by Steve Wolfe
1998
Dark Matter (catalogue) Harris Museum, Preston, and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
Essays by Clive Cazeau, Michael Petry and David Peat
1997
River Taw (book) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art. Essay by Richard Bright.
1996
Elective Affinities (catalogue) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art. Essay by Mark Haworth - Booth
Under the Sun (catalogue) Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Essay by David Alan Mellor
On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin. Essays by David Chandler, Val Williams, David A. Bailey, David Alan Mellor, Brett Rogers
1995
Possibilities of Extension (catalogue) Aspex Visual Arts Trust, Portsmouth. Essay by Lisa Moran
Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography Independent Curators Incorporated, New York. Essay by Andy Grundberg.
Embodied (catalogue) Arnolfini, Bristol. Essays by Tessa Jackson and Christopher Bucklow
1994
Umbra Penumbra (catalogue) Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Well Spring (catalogue) Bath Festivals Trust, Bath. Essay by Antonia Payne
1993
New Inhabitants - Seven Artists on Dartmoor (catalogue) Royal Albert Museum &
Between Sun and Earth (catalogue) Photographers’ Gallery, London. Essays by David Chandler and Christopher Bucklow
1989
Phenomenart (catalogue) Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
1984
Hara Annual (catalogue) Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1978
Hayward Annual 1978 (catalogue) Arts Council of England
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