Bridget Riley

(British, born 1931)

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Bridget Riley

Frieze, 2000

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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

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

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

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