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1963
Born, Leatherhead, Surrey, England
EDUCATION
1983-86
Goldsmiths College B.A. Hons (Fine Art)
1982-83
Watford College of Art & Design Foundation Course
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Richard Patterson: Paintings from Dallas, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2002
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Concentration 35: Richard Patterson, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX (exhibition brochure with essay by Suzanne Weaver)
1999
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (exhibition catalogue)
1997
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England (exhibition catalogue, text by Stuart Morgan)
1995
Project Space, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
GROUP EXHIBITION
2004
She's Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Pixels: Painting and Photography in the Digital Age, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Tim Taylor Gallery, London, England
2002
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Arte Contemoporanio Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City Mexico
2001
Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
My Reality-Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Exhibition traveled through 2004 to: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Casino 2001, curated by Jeanne Greenberg-Rohaytn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
1999
Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Mode of Art, Kunstverein for die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany (exhibition catalogue, essay by Raimund Stecker, color illustrations
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Hamburger, Bahnhof-Museum für Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY
1998
Head First: Portraits from the Arts Council Collection, The City Gallery, Leicester; City Art Gallery, Southampton; Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull (exhibition catalogue, essay by Richard Shone).
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, TX, (exhibition catalogue, essays by David Pagel, Raphael Rubinstein and Peter Schjeldahl)
1997
False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Italy (exhibition catalogue, text by Alison Jaques)
Package Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchius Collectio, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece; Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia 1997-98; City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand 1998; (exhibition catalogue, text by Bernice Murphy and Andrew Wilson)
Sensation:Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection,
Royal Academy of Arts, London (exhibition catalogue, essays by Brooks Adams, Lisa Jardine, Martin Maloney, Norman Rosenthal and Richard Shone)
1996
ACE!: Arts Council Collection of New Purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Art Gallery, Oldham; Hayward Gallery, London; Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Arnolfini, Bristol, Royal Museum, Canterbury
Answered Prayers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
Faustrecht der Freiheit, Sammlung Volkmann; Kunstammlung Gera; Neues Museum Weserberg Brenen
About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990s, MOMA, Oxford, England; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 1997
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, 1997-98 (exhibition catalogue)
1988
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London (exhibition catalogue, text by Ian Jeffrey)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2003
Holborn, Mark, ed. 100: The Work That Changed British Art. London: Jonathan Cape in association with The Saatchi Gallery, 2003, pp. 160-165.
de Cruz, Gemma. British Artists Studios, Paris: Assouline Press, April 2003.
2001
Hunt, David. "Richard Patterson", Tema Celeste, May/June 2001, p. 93
2000
Lee, Jody. "Concentrations 35: Richard Patterson at The Dallas Museum of Art",
Artlies, Spring 2000, No. 26, p. 65
McCabe, Bret. "Lens Crafter", The Met, Vol.7, Issue 12, March 22-29, 2000, p. 30
Arning, Bill. "Richard Patterson at James Cohan", Art in America, February 2000, p. 129
Nakamura, Marie-Pierre. "New York: Corps à corps", Art Actuel, January-February 2000, p. 25-28 (color illustration)
Pollack, Barbara. "Richard Patterson", ARTnews, January 2000, p. 164
1999
Ebony, David. "Richard Patterson at James Cohan", Artnet.com Magazine, November 24, 1999
Henry, Max. "Gotham Dispatch", Artnet.com Magazine, November 23, 1999
Johnson, Ken. "Richard Patterson", The New York Times, November 19, 1999, p. E42
Newhall, Edith. "Toy Story", New York Magazine, November 8, 1999, p. 106
Collings, Matthew. "Rabble Rousing", Vogue, October 1999, pp. 219-226
1997
del Re, Gianmarco. "Richard Patterson", Flash Art, November/December 1997
Shone, Richard. "Top ten x 12" Artforum, December 1997, p. 102
Maloney, Martin. "Richard Patterson's Young Minotaur", Frank, November 1997
Coomer, Martin. "Richard Patterson", Time Out, September 24-October 1, 1997
Herbert, Martin. "Richard Patterson", Time Out Sensation Supplement, September 10-17, 1997
Lambeth, Andrew. "Fashion Parade," The Spectator, January 4, 1997, pp. 40-41
1996
Hilton, Tim. "The Eyes of the Beholder," The Independent on Sunday Review, 1996, pp. 22-23
Cork, Richard. Paint your bandwagon, The Times, December 31, 1996
Hilton, Tim. "The best painting in Britain?," Independent on Sunday, November 17, 1996, p. 30
Linton, Norbert. "Open Plan," The Royal Academy Magazine, Autumn 1996, pp. 60-63
Shone, Richard. "London & Edinburgh contemporary exhibitions"Burlington Magazine, August 1996
1995
Maloney, Martin. "London's Wannabe Art Scene," Flash Art, October 1995, pp. 60-61
1988
Jeffrey, Ian. Platonic Tropics, Introductory text to Freeze exhibition catalogue
Craddock, Sasha. The Fast Dockland Track to Simplicity, The Guardian, September 13, 1988
Bulloch, Angela. "Freeze," Art and Design Magazine, Vol. V No. ¾, 1988,
pp. 52-53