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Susan Derges    (British, 1955)

 Susan Derges - Half Moon – Birch (Photographs)
Susan Derges
Half Moon – Birch 2003
 
 Susan Derges - The Observer and the Observed No 2 (Photographs) h: 20 x w: 24 in / h: 50.8 x w: 61 cm
Susan Derges
The Observer and the Observed No 2 1991
 
 

Biography
1955 Born London
1973 - 1976 Chelsea School of Art, London (BA Hons) Painting
1976 - 1977 British Council/DAAD Scholarship to Berlin
1977 - 1979 Postgraduate studies, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1981 - 1985 Living and working in Japan
1986 - 1991 Living and working in London
1992 Living and working in Dartmoor, Devon
Awards and Commissions
2008 Prix Pictet, Shortlisted Artist
2006-07 The Stille Room, Fyllingsdaten Nursing Home, Bergen, Norway
2004-05 Eden Project Education Centre/Solar Terrace
1998 Dorchester Hospital
1993 South West Arts Major Award
1984 JVC Award, Japan
1982-83 Postgraduate Research Tsukuba University, Japan
1981-82 Rotary Foundation Award, Japan
1979 Boise Travel Scholarship to Holland

Exhibitions
2009 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2008 Water, Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2008 Johyun Gallery, Seoul and Busan, South Korea (solo)
2008 Susan Derges and Hildegard van Bingen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
2008 A History of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2008 Night, RWA Galleries, Bristol
2007 - 2008 Something that I’ll never really see: Contemporary Work from the V&A, Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich; Castle Museum, Nottingham
2006 - 2008 Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics, The Field Museum, Chicago. Touring to COSI, Columbus, Ohio; Memphis Museum, Tennessee; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
2007 Trace and Transience, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Exeter
2006 - 2007 Alchemy, Harewood House, Leeds; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham
2006 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, New York
2006 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2006 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
2005 - 2006 Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Southampton City Art Gallery
2005 Photographs Without a Camera, Gallery 314, Bergen (solo)
2005 Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
2005 Made in Britain, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
2004 Lightfall, Brewhouse, Taunton
2004 Photo Synthesis, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
2004 From Here To Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2004 FotoFest 2004 – Water, Houston, Texas (solo)
2004 Dark Waters, The Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds (solo)
2004 Recent Work, Galerie Nichido, Paris (solo)
2004 Recent Work, Photo London (solo)
2003 New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (solo)
2003 Transience of Nature, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Design Centre (solo)
2003 Ingleby Gallery (solo)
2003 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
2003 Recycling Lucifer's Fall, Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002 The Genius of Genetics Gregor Mendel, Abbey of St Thomas, Brno
2002 Landscape and Photography, Ingleby Gallery
2002 Now What is Photography, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 New Work, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London (solo)
2002 Liquid Form, Ediciones Wu, Lima (solo)
2002 The Streens, Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset (solo)
2002 Metamorphing, Science Museum, London
2001 Summer Exhibition, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2001 From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
2001 Sea Change, Spacex Gallery. Exeter
2001 Natural Magic, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford (solo)
2001 Kingswood, St Mary’s Church, Ashford, Kent (solo)
2000 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston (solo)
2000 Particle Accelerators: At the Intersection of Photography, Science & Technology Photographic Resource Center, Boston
2000 This is Not a Photograph, Pace University Choate Art Gallery (touring)
2000 Summer 2000 Unique Photographs, Paul Kasmin Gallery
2000 New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire (with Hideo Furuta)
2000 Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art
1999 Phenomena, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco
1999 Woman Thinking River, James Danziger Gallery, New York (solo)
1999 Woman Thinking River, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
1999 Recent Work, Michael Hue Williams Fine Art (solo)
1999 Ingleby Gallery (with Patricia Macdonald)
1999 20 Twenty, Fraenkel Gallery
1998 Woods and Water, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (with Andrew Smith)
1998 River Taw (two person exhibition) Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh
1998 Dark Matter, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Turnpike Gallery, Leigh (touring)
1998 Dust Breeding, Fraenkel Gallery
1998 Silver and Syrup, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1998 River Taw, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall (solo)
1998 River Taw, Musee D’Elysee, Lausanne (solo)
1998 River Taw, Spacex Gallery, Exeter (solo)
1997 - 1998 About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1997 On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1997 Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection, International Centre of Photography, New York
1997 River Taw, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art (solo)
1997 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery
1996 Under the Sun, Fraenkel Gallery
1996 Elective Affinities, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
1996 Light, Time, Focus, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1995 Possibilities of Extention, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1995 Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths, National Museum of Film, Photography & Television, Bradford
1995 Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography, Ansel Adams Centre for Photography
1995 Print Room, The Photographers’ Gallery, London (solo)
1995 James Danziger Gallery (solo)
1995 Embodied, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (solo)
1994 The Observer and the Observed, James Danziger Gallery (solo)
1994 Wellsprings, Bath Festival, Bath
1994 Growth and Form, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
1994 Umbra Penumbra Signals Festival of Women Photographers, Spacex Gallery
1994 Cameraless Photography, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
1993 Between Sun and Earth, The Photographers’ Gallery (solo)
1993 Full Circle, Cairn Gallery, Stroud (solo)
1992 Salama-Caro Gallery, London
1992 New Inhabitants, Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery
1992 New Acquisitions, Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, London
1991 Post Modern Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum
1989 Machine Dreams, The Photographers Gallery’, London
1989 AVE Festival of Audio Visual Arts, Arnhem
1989 Phenomenart, Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
1989 Gallery ON, Poznan (solo)
1989 Tokyo Science Museum, Exploratorium, Tokyo (video) (solo)
1988 Presence 2, Gallery ON Poznan
1987 O² Art Museum, Tokyo (video) (solo)
1985 JVC VIC Centre, Tokyo (video) (solo)
1985 Gallery Okazaki, Tokyo (solo)
1985 High Technology Art, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
1984 Art Space Niji, Kyoto (solo)
1984 Art and Technology, Gekkoso Gallery and Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
1984 Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1980 Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin (solo)
1978 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (solo)
1978 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Collections
Arts Council of England
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford
Arnolfini Trust, Bristol
Dorset County Hospital
Eden Project, Cornwall
Wellcome Trust
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
The Hara Art Museum, Tokyo
British Airways
Citibank Private Bank Collection, London
Conoco Ltd, London
Deutsche Bank
Man Group plc., London
Hess Collection Napa, Bern, London
NatWest Group, London
Texaco Plc, London

Literature
2006 Stilled Lives – Contemporary Still Life Photography by Women, Ffoto Gallery
2006 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House (Steidl)
2005 Wild Track, Trace
2005 Surface, University of Plymouth
2003 Transience of Nature (catalogue) Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2003 Next Level Magazine, London
2003 Recycling Lucifer’s Fall (catalogue) Houldsworth Fine Art, London
2002 Kingswood (book) Photoworks and Stour Valley Arts Project
2002 Now What is Photography (catalogue) Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
2002 Portfolio Magazine Issue 34
2002 The Genius of Genetics Gregor Mendel (catalogue) ARTAKT
2000 20 Twenty (catalogue) Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
1999 Woman Thinking River (book) Fraenkel and Danziger Galleries, US,
1999 Susan Derges Liquid Form (book) Michael Hue Williams Fine Art, London.
1999 Essay by Martin Kemp
1998 Dark Matter (catalogue) Harris Museum, Preston, and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
1998 Essays by Clive Cazeau, Michael Petry and David Peat
1998 Dust Breeding - Photographs, Sculpture & Film Fraenkel Gallery. Essay by Steve Wolfe
1997 River Taw (book) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art. Essay by Richard Bright.
1996 Elective Affinities (catalogue) Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art. Essay by Mark Haworth - Booth
1996 Under the Sun (catalogue) Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. Essay by David Alan Mellor
1996 On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin. Essays by David Chandler, Val Williams, David A. Bailey, David Alan Mellor, Brett Rogers
1995 Possibilities of Extension (catalogue) Aspex Visual Arts Trust, Portsmouth. Essay by Lisa Moran
1995 Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography Independent Curators Incorporated, New York. Essay by Andy Grundberg.
1995 Embodied (catalogue) Arnolfini, Bristol. Essays by Tessa Jackson and Christopher Bucklow
1994 Umbra Penumbra (catalogue) Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1994 Well Spring (catalogue) Bath Festivals Trust, Bath. Essay by Antonia Payne
1993 New Inhabitants - Seven Artists on Dartmoor (catalogue) Royal Albert Museum &
1993 Between Sun and Earth (catalogue) Photographers’ Gallery, London. Essays by David Chandler and Christopher Bucklow
1989 Phenomenart (catalogue) Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
1984 Hara Annual (catalogue) Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1978 Hayward Annual 1978 (catalogue) Arts Council of England
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