Richard Deacon (artist)

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Richard Deacon (born August 15, 1949 in Bangor / Wales) is an artist (objects, installations, ceramics).

Richard Deacon (2017)

biography

Richard Deacon attended Somerset College of Art , Taunton from 1968 to 1969 , and St Martins School of Art , London from 1969 to 1972 . 1974 to 1977 he studied at the Royal College of Art , London. In 1977/1978 he studied art history and philosophy at the Chelsea School of Art , London.

Since 1977 Deacon has been visiting professor at the Central School of Art & Design , London, the Chelsea School of Art , London, the Sheffield City Polytechnic , the Bath Academy of Art , the Winchester School of Art , Ateliers 63 , Haarlem and Amsterdam , the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design , Jerusalem and as a consultant to the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten , Amsterdam.

1978/1979 followed a second stay in the USA, which Deacon described as an artistic turning point. Since 1999 he has been a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts , Paris. Richard Deacon is represented by the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, and the Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery , Paris. In 2009 Deacon was appointed professor for sculpture at the Düsseldorf Art Academy . Richard Deacon lives and works in New York and London.

Exhibitions and works

Sculpture Zeitweise, 1993, Vienna
  • Since 1970: Participation in various group exhibitions worldwide, including the Nouvelle Biennale de Paris (1985), Sonsbeek '86, near Arnhem (1986), documenta IX (1992) and the Skulptur.Projekte Münster 1997
  • 1978: first solo exhibition at The Gallery, Brixton, London; since then solo exhibitions and retrospectives in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Riverside Studios (1984), the Tate Gallery London (1985), the Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld (1991), the Whitechapel Art Gallery , London (1998), the Tate Gallery Liverpool (1999), the PS1 New York (2001), the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (2006), the Stedelijk Museum , Amsterdam (2008), the Sprengel Museum , Hanover (2011)
  • Since 1990: Commissioned work in public spaces, including in Toronto, Auckland, Krefeld, Villeneuve d'Ascq, Vienna, Antwerp, Tokyo, Beijing, Haarlem, Paris, San Francisco and New York.
  • 2014: Form and Color? , Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac , Salzburg Villa Karst.
  • 2014: Richard Deacon , Tate Britain , London.
  • 2014: Gripping , the sand-cast aluminum sculpture is part of the “Sculpture Stop” project in front of the Fjellhallen in Gjøvik , Norway
  • 2016: Richard Deacon. Drawings and Prints 1968 - 2016 , Museum Folkwang (guest curator Julian Heynen )
  • 2016: Richard Deacon. "Under The Weather" , Sculpture Hall Neuss (curated by Dieter Schwarz)
  • 2016/2017: Richard Deacon. On The Other Side , Langen Foundation Neuss
  • 2017: About Time . Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture 2017, Kunsthalle Vogelmann, Heilbronn, October 29, 2017 to February 25, 2018

Awards and (honorary) positions

Web links

Commons : Richard Deacon  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kunstakademie Düsseldorf: These are the new professors : Prof. Richard Deacon was appointed to a professorship for sculpture in the “Fine Arts” department. , on duesseldorf-blog.de, October 21, 2009, accessed on March 17, 2016.
  2. ↑ Notice on the exhibition , accessed on August 7, 2014.
  3. ↑ Deacon's two-ton sculpture »Gripping« is on its way to Norway , at niesen.de, accessed on November 19, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Deacon, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangor , Wales