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Bridget Riley

(British, born 1931)

Bridget Riley

Study for Measure for Measure 49, 2020

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Biography

Timeline

1931: Born in London, England
1949 - 1952: attended Goldsmiths College, University of London
1952 - 1956: attended Royal College of Art, London
: 1963 AICA Critics Prize
: 1964 Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Travel Bursary to USA
: 1969 The International Prize for Painting, XXXIV Venice Biennale
: 1972 Ohara Museum Prize, 8th International Print Biennale, Tokyo
: 1974 Awarded CBE
: 1976 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Manchester
: 1979 Gold Medal at Grafikk-Biennale, Frerickstad, Norway
: 1981-88 Trustee of the National Gallery, London
: 1986 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Ulster
: 1994 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Oxford University
: 1995 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Cambridge University
: 1996 Honorary Doctor of Arts, De Montfort University
: 1997 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Exeter
: 1999 Awarded Companion Honour
: Awards
: Lives and works in London, Cornwall and France
: 1963 Prize of the John Moores’ Exhibition, Liverpool
: 2009 Awarded with Kaiserring of Goslar

Exhibitions

2019: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Bridget Riley: Messengers, National Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh [itinerary: Hayward Gallery, London] (solo exhibition)
2018 - 2020: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2018-2020:
Op Art in Focus, Tate Liverpool, England
2018: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings 2014-2017, David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 1960s to the Present, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan (solo exhibition)
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, Tate Modern, London
A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett (1984- 2017), New Temporary Parkett Space, Zurich
2017 - 2019: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2019:
Bridget Riley, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas (solo exhibition)
2017: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Bridget Riley: Cosmos, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (solo exhibition)
Lines of Thought – A British Museum Touring Exhibition, Brynmor Jones Library, University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull [itinerary: venues in U.K.]
Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
6 X Francis Bacon…Und andere höhepunkte der Sammlung Lambrecht-Schadeberg/And other highlights of the Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, German
Thread Benefit Exhibition, David Zwirner, New York
Quiet Dislocations: Notes on Contemporary Art, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura, Japan
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White, The National Gallery, London [itinerary: Black & White. Painting from Dürer to Eliasson, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf]
Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception, Compton Verney, Warwickshire [itinerary: The Holburne Museum, Bath, England]
A Century of Women in Prints: 1917–2017, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Stern Gallery West, Oberlin College, Ohio
Never Ending Stories: The Loop in Art, Film, Architecture, Music, Literature and Cultural History, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Gemany
2016: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Bridget Riley: Venice and Beyond, Paintings 1967–1972, Graves Gallery, Museums Sheffield (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley: Paintings 1963–2015, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley: The Interactive Character of Color, 1970-2014, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (solo exhibition)
Eye Attack – Op Art and Kinetic Art 1950 – 1970, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Passages in Modern Art: 1946-1996, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
She: International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai
Aspects of Minimalism, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
Die Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Zu Gast in den Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
On the Origin of Art, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
2015: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Bridget Riley: The Curve Paintings 1961–2014, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, The Courtauld Gallery, London (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley: Works 1981–2015, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Images Moving Out Onto Space, Tate St Ives, England
After 1965, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State College of New York
2014: Bridget Riley Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961–2014, David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)
Bridget Riley, Art Institute of Chicago (solo exhibition)
Cool Place. Sammlung Scharpff, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
2013: Die Streifenbilder / The Stripe Paintings 1961–2012, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
REMEMBER EVERYTHING: 40 Years Galerie Hetzler, Galerie Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Michael Graig-Martin, Langlands & Bell, Julian Opie, Bridget Riley, Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid, Spain
Here We Go, Karsten Schubert, London, England
Auf Zeit. Wandbilder - Bildwände, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Moving Norman Foster on Art, Carré d'art, Nîmes, France
Dynamo: A century of light and movement in art form 1913 to 2013, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, USA
Into the Void, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman, USA
Mixed Exhibition, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London, England
Vibrations, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA
2012: 12th Rubens Prize Awarded by the City of Siegen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany (solo)
Works 1960-1966, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
Ghost in the Machine, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Die Kunst der Entschleunigung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
New Departures: Painting and Real Space, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Aspects of Modern British Art 2012, Austin/Desmond Finde Arts, London, England
Print Masters, Quest Gallery, Bath, England
Modern British Art, A Gallery Selection, Austin/Desmond Fine Arts, London, England
circa 1963, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge, England
Der Raum der Linie, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Punkt. System - Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Outside In, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
The Space Between, Karsten Schubert, London, England
My Generation: Art of the 60s and Early 70s, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Gebaute Bilder. Werke aus der Sammlung Hupertz, Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, Germany
Roesler Hotel # 21 - Buzz curated by Vik Muniz, Galerie Nara Roesler, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2011: Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work 1983-2010, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Paintings and Studies 1979-1981 & 2011, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
Colour, Stripes, Planes and Curves, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England (solo)
Bridget Riley - Grafische Werke, Galerie Nicole Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Moderne: Selbstmord der Kunst? Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria
Die Kunst der Entschleunigung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Divided Heaven: 1945-1968. The Collection. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Musée national d'art moderne. Collections contemporaines (des années 1960 à nous jours), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Indiscipline of Painting. International abstraction from the 1960s to now, Tate St Ives, Cornwall; travelled to Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, England
20/21 at Ceri Hand Gallery, Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, England
Der Raum der Linie, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Compass: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Drawn from Life, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England
2010: Colorscope: Abstract Painting, 1960-1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work, National Gallery, London, England
Bridget Riley Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, England
Flashback: Bridget Riley, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Southhampton Art Gallery, Southhampton, England (solo)
Let Us Face the Future: British Art 1945-1968, Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
ganz konkret II, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
8th Gwangju Biennale - 10,000 Lives Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
Summer Show, Andipa Gallery, London, England
OPTICAL SHIFT. Illusion und Täuschung, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur, Germany
Visions: Spectacular Art from the Ulster Museum, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Summer Special, Galerie Schlégl, Zurich, Switzerland
Group Exhibition, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Colorscope: Abstract Painting 1960-1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
2009: Colour Structure: Studies 1970/71, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Timothy Taylor Gallery/Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany (solo)
konkret - Die Sammlung Heinz + Annette Teufel, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Numbers, Color and Text: Works from the Collection, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA
Pattern Recognition, City Gallery, Leicester, England
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Begegnungen Bauhaus. Kurt Schmidt und Künstler der Avantgarde - von Kandinsky bis Vasarely, Kunstsammlung Gera, Orangerie Gera, Germany
Here/Now, Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Alles, Wilhelm HAck Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Notation. Form und Kalkül in den Künsten, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Enacting Abstraction, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2008: Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Bridget Riley: Circles Colour Structure; Studies 1970/71, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
rep’e.t’tion, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Bridget Riley: Retrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
Bridget Riley: Two Paintings, 1988 & 1986, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
2007: Bridget Riley, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
The Neo-Impressionism, the Blossom of Modernity, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
2006: Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Bridget Riley: Prints 1962-2005, Exeter University, Exeter, England (solo)
2005: Bridget Riley: Works on Paper in the Artists’ House, New Art Centre, Salisbury, England (solo)
L’oeil Moteur, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Bridget Riley: Print Retrospective 1981-2005, Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Studies, 1963-2005, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA (solo)
Bridget Riley, British Council touring exhibition, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland (solo)
Bridget Riley: Complete Prints, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia (solo)
2004: Bridget Riley: New Work, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
Bridget Riley, Galerie Aurel Schiebler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Bridget Riley: Works from the Sixties, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
Art and the Sixties, Tate Britain, London, England
2003: Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France
Bridget Riley, Tate Britain, London, England (solo)
Bridget Riley, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Bridget Riley: New Paintings, Prints and Studies, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Urban Codes, Langlands and Bell, Julian Opie, Bridget Riley and Stephen Willats, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Painting from Rauschenberg to Murakami 1964-2003, Museo Correr, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
From Blast to Freeze: A Century of British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Bridget Riley: Complete Prints, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, Hull, Kendal, Rugby, Eastbourne, Colchester, England; Glasgow, Scotland; Swansea, Wales (solo)
Bridget Riley: New Work, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (solo)
2001: Bridget Riley: Black & White, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
Bridget Riley, fig-1, London, England (solo)
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, USA
2000: Blue, New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Works on Paper, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA (solo)
Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
1999: Bridget Riley: Selected Paintings 1961-1999, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 60’s and 70’s, Serpentine Gallery, London, England (solo)
45-99, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, England
Sublime: The Darkness and the Light, Works from the Arts Council, UK Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London, England
1998: Bridget Riley: Works 1961-1998, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, England (solo)
Bridget Riley, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
1997: Bridget Riley: Selected Works from 1980 onwards, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
White Noise, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
A Quality of Light, Tate Gallery St Ives, Cornwall, England
Treasure Island, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1996: Artists in Print, Michael Craig-Martin, Fergus Feehily, Terry Frost, Hamish Fulton, John Graham, Bridget Riley; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
British Abstract Art III: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London, England
Take it From Here, CAS purchases 1992-1995, City Library, Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, England
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Gouaches 1980-1995, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England (solo)
Bridget Riley: Gouaches 1980-1995, British School at Rome, Italy (solo)
Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
1995: Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England (solo)
Bridget Riley: Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches 1980-1995, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England (solo)
Bridget Riley Gouaches 1980-1995, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (solo)
From Here (Art and Language, Glenn Brown, Alan Charlton, Keith Coventry, Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport, Peter Davis, Mark Francis, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Callum Innes, Zebedee Jones, Julian Lethbridge, Simon Like, Jason Martin, Fiona Rae and Bridget Riley), Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London, England
1994: Drawing the Line, Southampton City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
Bridget Riley: Six paintings 1963-1993 from the collection, Tate Gallery, Room 28, London, England (solo)
Three New Paintings, Karsten Schubert, London, England (solo)
Bridget Riley: Works on Paper 1963-1993, Karsten Schubert at ART94 (solo)
1993: Bridget Riley: Colour Studies, Karsten Schubert Ltd. London, England (solo)
Summer Group Show: Gallery Artists, Karsten Schubert, London, England
British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East Gallery, London, England
A Group Show: Keith Coventry, Peter Davis, Anya Gallaccio, Zebedee Jones, Bridget Riley and Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert, London, England
Karsten Schubert at Aurel Scheibler: Keith Coventry, Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
1992: Ready Steady Go: Paintings of the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Bridget Riley: Paintings, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Bridget Riley: Works on Paper, 1982-1992, Karsten Schubert Ltd. London, England (solo)
1991: Bridget Riley: Paintings 1982-1992, Kunsthalle, Nürnberg; Quadrat Bottrop, Germany; Josef Albers Museum; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England (solo)
1990: Bridget Riley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Bridget Riley, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Künstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition, Mclennan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
1989: Bridget Riley, Works on Paper, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
Bridget Riley, Galerie und Edition Schegl, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
The Presence of Painting, Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-88, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England
The Experience of Painting, Eight Modern Artists, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
1987: Bridget Riley, Galerie Konstructiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Bridget Riley, Galerie und Edition Schegl, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Bridget Riley: New Works, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1986: XLII Esposizione International d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1985: Hayward Annual, 25 Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Sixties, The Seventies and the Eighties, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Working with Colour, Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition: D.L.I Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, England (solo)
1984: A Different Climate, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1983: Britain Salutes New York, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Gouaches, Juda Rowan Gallery, London or the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, England (solo)
Bridget Riley Paintings and Drawings 1981-83, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1982: Aspects of British Art Today, British Council Exhibition touring Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; Tochigi Prefectural Museum; National Muesum of Modern Art, Osaka; Fukuoka Art museum; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1981: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Rowan Gallery and Warwick Arts Trust, London, England (solo)
1979: Bridget Riley, Works 1959-78, British Council retrospective exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, USA; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Bridget Riley Drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne; Bouython Gallery, Adelaide, Australia (solo)
Colour 1950-78, D.L.I Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, England
Sonia Delaunay, Viera da Silva, Bridget Riley, Galerie Beyeler, Basel Art fair, Basel, Switzerland
1978: The Mechanised Image, Arts Council Exhibition, City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, England
Bridget Riley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Recent British Art, British Council Exhibition, touring Yugoslavia, Greece, Austria, Poland Sweden, Norway, and Finland
1977: Bridget Riley, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
British Artists of the 60’s, Tate Gallery, London, England
Biennale de Paris, une anthologie: 1959-1967, Paris, France
Less is More, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany
1976: Contemporary British Art, Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA
Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Real, Milan, Italy
Art as thought process, XI Biennale International d’Art. Palais de l’Europe, Menton, France
Bridget Riley, Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
Bridget Riley, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1975: Bridget Riley, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Bridget Riley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Contemporary British Drawings, XII Bienale de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
British Exhibition, Art 6 ’75’, Basel, Schweizer Mustermesse, Basel, Switzerland
1974: British Painting ‘74’, Hayward Gallery, London, England
1973: Arts Council of GB Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1961-73, touring UK (solo)
La peinture anglaise aujourd’hui’, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1972: Colour, D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, England
Städtische Galerie, Göttingen, Germany
Drawings, Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
1971: Drawings, Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
ROSC, Dublin, Ireland
1970: Retrospective Exhibition Tour: Kunstverein Hannover; Kunsthalle Berne, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Museo Civico, Turin, Italy; Hayward Gallery, London, England; National Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia (solo)
1969: Bridget Riley, Rowan Gallery, London, England (solo)
Marks on Canvas, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany; Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Contemporary Art: Dialogue Between East and West, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1968: British Pavilion 34th Venice Biennale (with Phillip King) and tour to Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Bridget Riley, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The New Generation, Interim Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Britische Kunst Heute, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
European Painters of Today, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France and touring USA
20th Century Art, Fondation Maeght, France
British Artists: 6 Painters, 6 Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York and touring USA
New British Painting and Sculpture, organized by Whitechapel Gallery, touring USA and Canada
Junge Generation Großbritannien, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany
1967: Bridget Riley, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Drawing Towards Painting 2, Arts Council, London, England
British Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York and touring USA
Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
Acquisitions of the Sixties, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Recent British Painting, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, New York, USA
Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Bridget Riley, Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York and touring USA (solo)
1966: Drawings, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Group exhibition, Galerie Aujord’hui, Brussels, Belgium
London Under Forty, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Multiplicity, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1965: London: The New Scene, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA
Bridget Riley, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York and touring USA
4th Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France
John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, England
Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
1964: The New Generation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Nouvelle Tendance, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Profile 3, Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Bochum, Germany
Six Young Artists, British Arts Council touring exhibition
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954-64, Tate Gallery, London, England (Gulbenkian Foundation)
Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
Young Artists Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
1963: Critics Choice, Tooth Gallery, London, England
Gallery One, London, England (solo)
1962: Gallery One, London, England (solo)
Towards Art, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1955: Young Contemporaries, London, England

Public Collections

: The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
: Nationalgalerie, Berlin
: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
: National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
: Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
: Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
: Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
: Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
: Tate Gallery, London
: Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
: Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
: Ulster Museum, Belfast
: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
: Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
: Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Kitasaku, Japan
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio
: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
: Arts Council, U.K.
: The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
: British Council, U.K.
: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
: Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
: Dia Art Foundation, New York
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
: Government Art Collection, London
: Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
: Israel Museum, Jerusalem
: Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan
: Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
: Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
: Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
: Moderne Museet, Stockholm
: Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna (MAMbo), Italy
: Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
: Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Literature

2008: Bridget Riley: Circles Colour Structure; Studies 1970/71, (cat.) Riding House / Karsten Schubert, London
: Bridget Riley: A Retrospective, Musee D'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Ridinghouse, London
2006: Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches, (cat.), Timothy Taylor Gallery/ Karsten Schubert, London, UK
2004: Embodied Visions: Bridget Riley, Op Art and the Sixties, Thames and Hudson
: Bridget Riley: Paintings and drawings 1961 - 2004, Ridinghouse, London
2003: Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art (reissue) Thames and Hudson
: Bridget Riley Tate Retrospective catalogue
2002: Bridget Riley – Complete Prints, to coincide with Hayward Gallery touring exhibition
: Bridget Riley – New Work (cat.), Kiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
2001: Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA
2000: Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches (cat.), Waddington Galleries/ Karsten Schubert, London, UK
: Bridget Riley: Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
1999: Kudielka, Robert, ed., The Eyes Mind: Bridget Riley: Collected Writings 1965-1999, published by Thames and Hudson, Serpentine Gallery and De Montfort University
: Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 60s and 70s (cat.), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
: Bridget Riley: Selected Paintings 1961-1999, Kunstverein für die Rheinelande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (cat.), Hatje Cantz Publishers, Germany
1998: Bridget Riley: Works 1961- 1998 (cat.), Abbot Hall Gallery and Museum, Kendel, Cumbria, UK
1995: From Here (cat.)
: MacGregor, Neil, E.H. Gombrich, Michael Craig- Martin, Andrew Graham Dixon and Bryan Robertson, Bridget Riley: Dialogues On Art
: Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches 1981-1995, Spacex (cat.)
: Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries/ Karsten Schubert, London UK

Bridget Riley

(British, born 1931)

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