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1958
Born Melbourne, Australia
Worked in children's television, motion picture special effects and advertising for twenty years in Australia and Great Britain.
Lives and works in London.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Ron Mueck, National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Ontario
2006
Ron Mueck, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, November 3, 2006–February 4, 2007
Ron Mueck, Scottish National Gallery Museum of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
2004
Ron Mueck, Boy, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Århus C, Denmark
2003
Ron Mueck, Frans Hals Museum, November 15, 2003-January 18, 2004
Ron Mueck: Making Sculpture at the National Gallery, The National Gallery, London, March 19-June 22, 2003
Ron Mueck: Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, December 19-March 2, 2003
Ron Mueck, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2002
Directions – Ron Mueck, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, July 18-October 27, 2002
2001
James Cohan Gallery, New York
2000
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1998
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006
Slow Tech, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Best in Show: Dogs in Art from the Renaissance to the Present, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT; travelled to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.
2005
Mélancolie: Génie et folie en Occident, Les galeries nationals du Grand Palais, Paris, France (through January 16, 2006) (catalogue)
Getting Emotional, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Tate Sculpture: The Human Figure in British Art from Moore to Gormley, Sheffield's Millenium Galleries, London
In Limbo, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, School of Art and Art History, University of Denver, Denver, CO (catalogue)
2004
Noah's Ark, National Gallery of Canada, Shawinigan Cité de l'énergie, Quebec
Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2003
Supernova: Art of the 1990's from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Body Transformed, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2001
Aperto: Plateau of Humankind, 49th Venice Biennale, Italy
2000
Extra Ordinary, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Ant Noises, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Mind Zone, Millennium Dome, London
House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico
1999
Unsichere Grenzen, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel (catalogue)
1998
Sensation: Works of Art from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London (catalogue); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
1996
Spellbound, Hayward Gallery, London (exhibited as part of Paula Rego installation)
SELECTED BIBILIOGRAPHY
2006
Ron Mueck, Fondation Cartier Pour l'art contemporain (catalogue)
Mottram, John, "Ron Mueck, Royal Scottish Academy," The Herald, August 11, 2006
Cornrwell, Tim, "Sculptor Brings Big Figures to Gallery," The Scotsman, August 9, 2006
Miller, Phil, "Art show sees larger than life sculptures," The Herald, August 1, 2006
Millard, Rachel, "Galleries think big to stand out from the crowd," Scotsman.com, July 23, 2006
"What's On: Edinburgh Art Festival," The Art Newspaper, July 20, 2006
"Strange Bodies," The Guardian, July 13, 2006
"Art exhibition kicks off that focuses on the aesthetic of slowness," Taiwanese Headlines, June 23, 2006
2005
Molloy, Molly, "Dear Dad sculpture by Ron Mueck," .Cent, Autumn 2005 (p. 38)
Fresnault-Deruelle, Pierre, "La chair de sa chair," étapes, March 2005 (pp. 74-75)
Pinter, Vanina, "Prolongement sur l'oeuvre et le parcours de Ron Mueck," étapes, March
2005 (p. 76)
Bevan, Roger, "Saatchi Britart Sell-off Continues," The Art Newspaper, February 25, 2005
Schneider Adams, Laurie. A History of Western Art. New York: McGraw Hill, 2005, p. 549.
2004
Portelli, Guy, Modern British Sculpture, Atglen: Schiffer Books, 2004.
Wagner, Anselm, "Stirbt die Skulptur?", Parnass, 03/2004, pp. 54,55.
2003
Holborn, Mark, ed. 100: The Work That Changed British Art. London: Jonathan Cape in association with The Saatchi Gallery, 2003, pp. 152-159
Bastian, Heiner, ed. Ron Mueck. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2003. (exhibtion catalogue)
Greeves, Susanna and Colin Wiggins. Ron Mueck. National Gallery of London, published in collaboration with Yale University Press, 2003. (exhibition catalogue)
Tanguy, Sarah, "The Progress of Big Man: A Conversation with Ron Mueck", Sculpture, Vol. 22, No. 6. July/August 2003, pp. 28-33 (cover)
2003
"Sculpture Forever", Flash Art, Vol. XXXVI, No. 230, May/June 2003, p.127
Wiggins, Colin, "Pregnant Pauses", ArtReview, Artist Profile, International Edition V1N05, pp. 92-95, 2003
2001
Leffingwell, Edward, "Ron Mueck at James Cohan" Art in America, November 2001
Saltz, Jerry, "Like Life" The Village Voice, June 12, 2001
"Review: Galleries Uptown, Ron Mueck", The New York Times, June 8, 2001
Levin, Kim, "Ron Mueck," The Village Voice, Voice Choices, June 5, 2001
"Ron Mueck," The New Yorker, June 4, 2001
Newhall, Edith, "Naked Truth," New York Magazine, June 4, 2001
Kimmelman, Michael, "Veering from the End of Life to the Beginning, With Lucidity and Awe," The New York Times, June 1, 2001, p. E34
Plagens, Peter, "Less is Mueck," Newsweek.com, May 23, 2001
Herbert, Martin, "Ron Mueck", Tema Celeste, January-February 2001, vol. 83
2001
Leffingwell, Edward, "Ron Mueck at James Cohan" Art in America, November 2001
Sutton, Polly, "49th Biennale: Ron Mueck's 'Boy,'" ABC Arts Online, October 2006
Saltz, Jerry, "Like Life" The Village Voice, June 12, 2001
"Review: Galleries Uptown, Ron Mueck", The New York Times, June 8, 2001
Levin, Kim, "Ron Mueck," The Village Voice, Voice Choices, June 5, 2001
"Ron Mueck," The New Yorker, June 4, 2001
Plagens, Peter, "Less is Mueck," Newsweek.com, May 23, 2001
Herbert, Martin, "Ron Mueck", Tema Celeste, January-February 2001, vol. 83
Boy, catalogue published by Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, photographs by Gautier Deblonde
2000
Restorff, Jorg, "Flugelwesen und Bruchpiloten" Kunstzeitung, December 2000
Ant Noises, catalogue published by Saatchi Gallery, London, 2000
1999
Gayford, Martin, "A disconcerting world", Harpers & Queen, January 1999
Unsichere Grezen, catalogue, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, 1999
1998
Bishop, Claire, "Ron Mueck", Flash Art, October 1998
Myers, Terry R., "Ron Mueck", Art/Text, August 1998
Adams, Brooks, "Sensation's Sensation", Interview, July 1998
von Planta, Regina, "Ron Mueck bei Anthony d'Offay", Kunst Bulletin,
May 1998
1997
Bumpus, Judith, "Do You Believe in Fairies?" RA Magazine, Winter 1997
Questionnaire, "Ron Mueck", Elle Magazine, October 1997
Phillips, Shaun, "Big Ron, Little Ron", The Face, June 1997
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA