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Bridget Riley    (British, 1931)
Bridget Riley - Firebird (Prints)
Bridget Riley
Firebird 1971
 
Bridget Riley - From One to the Other (Prints) h: 11 x w: 33 in / h: 27.9 x w: 83.8 cm
Bridget Riley
From One to the Other 2005
 
Bridget Riley - Going Across (Prints) h: 41.9 x w: 73.2 cm / h: 16.5 x w: 28.8 in
Bridget Riley
Going Across 2001
 
Bridget Riley - June (Prints) h: 80 x w: 114.3 cm / h: 31.5 x w: 45 in
Bridget Riley
June 1992
 
Bridget Riley - Large Fragment (Prints) h: 106.5 x w: 91 cm / h: 41.9 x w: 35.8 in
Bridget Riley
Large Fragment 2006
 
Bridget Riley - Light Between (Prints) h: 30 x w: 24 in / h: 76.2 x w: 61 cm
Bridget Riley
Light Between 1981-2004
 
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Biography
1931 Born in London
Lives and works in London, Cornwall and France
Awards
1999 Awarded Companion Honour
1997 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Exeter
1996 Honorary Doctor of Arts, De Montfort University
1995 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Cambridge University
1994 Honorary Doctor of Letters, Oxford University
1986 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Ulster
1981-88 Trustee of the National Gallery, London
1979 Gold Medal at Grafikk-Biennale, Frerickstad, Norway
1976 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Manchester
1974 Awarded CBE
1972 Ohara Museum Prize, 8th International Print Biennale, Tokyo
1969 The International Prize for Painting, XXXIV Venice Biennale
1964 Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Travel Bursary to USA
1963 AICA Critics Prize
1963 Prize of the John Moores’ Exhibition, Liverpool

Exhibitions
2009 Colour Structure. Studies 1970/71. Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2008 Bridget Riley: Circles Colour Structure; Studies 1970/71, Karsten Schubert, London (solo)
2008 Bridget Riley: Two Paintings, 1988 & 1986, Karsten Schubert, London (solo)
2008 Bridget Riley: Retrospective, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (solo)
2008 rep’e.t’tion, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2008 Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection, MoMA, New York, USA
2007 The Neo-Impressionism, the Blossom of Modernity, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, Spain
2007 Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
2007 Optic Nerve – Perceptual Art of the 1960’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
2007 Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2007 Bridget Riley, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (cat) (solo)
2006 Bridget Riley: Prints 1962-2005, Exeter University, UK (solo)
2006 The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Super Vision, ICA Boston, USA (until April 2007)
2005 L’oeil Moteur, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
2005 Bridget Riley: Print Retrospective 1981-2005, Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
2005 Bridget Riley: Paintings and Studies, 1963-2005, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA (solo)
2005 Bridget Riley - Works on Paper in the Artists’ House, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK (solo)
2004 - 2005 Bridget Riley, British Council touring exhibition, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland (solo)
2004 - 2005 Bridget Riley - Complete Prints, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia (solo)
2004 Bridget Riley - New Work, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2004 Bridget Riley, Galerie Aurel Schiebler, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2004 Bridget Riley – Works from the Sixties, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (solo)
2004 Art and the Sixties, Tate Britain, London, UK
2003 Biennale d’art Contemporain de Lyon, France
2003 Bridget Riley, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)
2003 Bridget Riley, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
2003 Bridget Riley - New Paintings, Prints and Studies, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
2003 Urban Codes, Langlands and Bell, Julian Opie, Bridget Riley and Stephen Willats, Mouans-Sartoux, France
2003 Painting from Rauschenberg to Murakami 1964-2003, Musee Correr, Venice Biennale, Italy
2002 - 2003 From Blast to Freeze: A Century of British Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
2002 - 2003 Bridget Riley- Complete Prints, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition, Hull, Glasgow, Kendal, Rugby, Swansea, Eastbourne, Colchester, UK (solo)
2002 - 2003 Bridget Riley – New Work, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany (solo)
2001 Bridget Riley – Black & White, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (solo)
2001 Bridget Riley, fig-1, London, UK (solo)
2001 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, UK
2001 UBS Warburg-British Council loan Exhibition
2001 Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, USA
2000 Blue, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
2000 Bridget Riley: Paintings and Works on Paper, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA (solo)
2000 Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA (Sept 2000 - June 2001) (solo)
2000 Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries, London, UK (solo)
1999 Bridget Riley: Selected Paintings 1961-1999, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
1999 Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 60’s and 70’s, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1999 45-99, Kettles Yard, Cambridge and touring, UK, selected by Bryan Robertson
1999 Sublime. The Darkness and the Light, Works from the Arts Council, UK Collection, Southampton City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London and touring, UK
1998 Bridget Riley: Works 1961-1998, Abbot Hall Art Gallery and Museum, Kendal, Cumbria, UK (solo)
1998 Bridget Riley, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
1997 Bridget Riley: Selected Works from 1980 onwards, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
1997 White Noise, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1997 A Quality of Light, Tate Gallery St Ives, Cornwall, UK
1997 Treasure Island, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 Artists in Print, Michael Craig-Martin, Fergus Feehily, Terry Frost, Hamish Fulton, John Graham, Bridget Riley; Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
1996 British Abstract Art III: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London, UK, August 9 to September 15
1996 Take it From Here, CAS purchases 1992-1995, City Library, Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
1996 Bridget Riley: Paintings and Gouaches 1980-1995, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK (solo)
1996 Bridget Riley: Gouaches 1980-1995, British School at Rome, Italy (solo)
1996 Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London, UK (solo)
1995 Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK (solo)
1995 Bridget Riley: Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches 1980-1995, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK (solo)
1995 Bridget Riley Gouaches 1980-1995, Aberdeen City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (solo)
1995 From Here, (Art and Language, Glenn Brown, Alan Charlton, Keith Coventry, Michael Craig-Martin, Ian Davenport, Peter Davis, Mark Francis, Patrick Heron, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Callum Innes, Zebedee Jones, Julian Lethbridge, Simon Like, Jason Martin, Fiona Rae and Bridget Riley), Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London, UK
1994 Drawing the Line, (curated by Michael Craig-Martin), Southampton City Art Gallery; Manchester City Art Gallery; Ferrens Art Gallery, Hull; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1994 Bridget Riley: Six paintings 1963-1993 from the collection, Tate Gallery, Room 28, London, UK (solo)
1994 Three New Paintings, Karsten Schubert, London, UK (solo)
1994 Bridget Riley: Works on Paper 1963-1993, Karsten Schubert at ART94 (solo)
1993 Bridget Riley: Colour Studies, Karsten Schubert Ltd. London, UK (solo)
1993 Summer Group Show: Gallery Artists, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
1993 British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
1993 A Group Show: Keith Coventry, Peter Davis, Anya Gallaccio, Zebedee Jones, Bridget Riley and Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
1993 Karsten Schubert at Aurel Scheibler: Keith Coventry, Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, (curated by David Mellor), Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1992 Ready Steady Go. Paintings of the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, the South Bank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, London, and touring UK
1992 Bridget Riley: Paintings, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
1992 Bridget Riley: Works on Paper, 1982-1992, Karsten Schubert Ltd. London, UK (solo)
1991 Bridget Riley: Paintings 1982-1992, Kunsthalle, Nürnberg; Quadrat Bottrop, Germany; Josef Albers Museum; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK (solo)
1990 Bridget Riley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1990 Bridget Riley, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1990 Künstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
1990 Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition, Mclennan Galleries, Glasgow, Scotland
1989 Bridget Riley, Works on Paper, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1989 Bridget Riley, Galerie und Edition Schegl, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
1989 The Presence of Painting, Aspects of British Abstraction 1957-88, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield and touring UK
1989 The Experience of Painting, Eight Modern Artists, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne and touring UK
1988 - 1989 Viewpoints: Postwar Painting and Sculpture from the Guggenheim Museum Collection and major loans, USA Tour
1987 Bridget Riley, Galerie Konstructiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
1987 Bridget Riley, Galerie und Edition Schegl, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
1987 Bridget Riley: New Works, Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1987 British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1986 XLII Esposizione International d’Arte La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1985 Hayward Annual, 25 Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Sixties, The Seventies and the Eighties, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1980 - 1985 Working with Colour, Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition: D.L.I Museum and Arts Centre, Durham and UK tour (solo)
1984 A Different Climate, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
1983 Britain Salutes New York, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1983 Gouaches, Juda Rowan Gallery, London or the Royal Liverpool Hospital, Royal Institute of British Architects, London, UK (solo)
1983 Bridget Riley Paintings and Drawings 1981-83, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1982 Aspects of British Art Today, British Council Exhibition touring Japan: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; Tochigi Prefectural Museum; National Muesum of Modern Art, Osaka; Fukuoka Art museum; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
1980 - 1982 Bridget Riley Silkscreen Prints 1965-78, Arts Council of Great Britain touring Exhibition (solo)
1981 Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Rowan Gallery and Warwick Arts Trust, London, UK (solo)
1979 Bridget Riley, Works 1959-78, British Council retrospective exhibition, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA; Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Texas, USA; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, USA; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1979 Bridget Riley Drawings, Australian Galleries, Melbourne, Australia; Bouython Gallery, Adelaide, Australia (solo)
1979 Colour 1950-78, D.L.I Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, UK
1979 Sonia Delaunay, Viera da Silva, Bridget Riley, Galerie Beyeler, Basel Art fair, Basel, Switzerland
1978 The Mechanised Image, Arts Council Exhibition, City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, UK and touring
1978 Bridget Riley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1977 - 1978 Recent British Art, British Council Exhibition, touring Yugoslavia, Greece, Austria, Poland Sweden, Norway and Finland
1977 Bridget Riley, Minami Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1977 British Artists of the 60’s, Tate Gallery London
1977 Biennale de Paris, une anthologie: 1959-1967, Paris, France
1977 Less is More, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1977 Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany
1976 Contemporary British Art, Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA
1976 Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Real, Milan, Italy
1976 Art as thought process, XI Biennale International d’Art. Palais de l’Europe, Menton, France
1976 Bridget Riley, Rowan Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1976 Bridget Riley, Coventry Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1975 Bridget Riley, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1975 Bridget Riley, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1975 Contemporary British Drawings, XII Bienale de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1975 British Exhibition, Art 6 ’75’, Basel, Schweizer Mustermesse, Basel, Switzerland
1974 British Painting ‘74’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1973 Arts Council of GB Exhibition, Paintings and Drawings 1961-73, touring UK (solo)
1973 La peinture anglaise aujourd’hui’, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1972 Colour, D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, UK
1972 Städtische Galerie, Göttingen, Germany
1972 Drawings, Rowan Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1971 Drawings, Rowan Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1971 ROSC, Dublin, Ireland
1970 Retrospective Exhibition Tour: Kunstverein Hannover; Kunsthalle Berne, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; Museo Civico, Turin, Italy; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; National Gallery, Prague, Czechoslovakia (solo)
1969 Bridget Riley, Rowan Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1969 Black White, Smithsonian Institution touring exhibition
1969 Marks on Canvas, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Kunstverein Hannover, Germany; Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
1969 Contemporary Art: Dialogue Between East and West, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1968 British Pavilion 34th Venice Biennale (with Phillip King) and tour to Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum; Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1968 Bridget Riley, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1968 The New Generation, Interim Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
1968 Britische Kunst Heute, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1968 European Painters of Today, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France and touring USA
1968 20th Century Art, Fondation Maeght, France
1968 British Artists: 6 Painters, 6 Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York and touring USA
1968 New British Painting and Sculpture, organized by Whitechapel Gallery, touring USA and Canada
1968 Junge Generation Großbritannien, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1968 Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany
1967 Bridget Riley, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1967 Drawing Towards Painting 2, Arts Council, London and touring UK
1967 British Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York and touring USA
1967 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, USA
1967 Acquisitions of the Sixties, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1967 Recent British Painting, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, New York, USA
1967 Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1966 - 1967 Bridget Riley, Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York and USA tour (solo)
1966 Drawings, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1966 Group exhibition, Galerie Aujord’hui, Brussels, Belgium
1966 London Under Forty, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
1966 Multiplicity, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1965 London: The New Scene, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA
1965 Bridget Riley, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York and USA tour
1965 4th Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France
1965 John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, UK
1965 Tel Aviv Museum, Isreal
1964 The New Generation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
1964 Nouvelle Tendance, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
1964 Profile 3, Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Bochum, Germany
1964 Six Young Artists, British Arts Council touring exhibition
1964 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954-64, Tate Gallery, London, UK (Gulbenkian Foundation)
1964 Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
1964 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
1964 Young Artists Biennale, Tokyo, Japan
1963 Critics Choice, Tooth Gallery, London, UK
1963 Gallery One, London, UK (solo)
1962 Gallery One, London, UK (solo)
1962 Towards Art, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1955 Young Contemporaries, London, UK

Literature
2008 Bridget Riley: Circles Colour Structure; Studies 1970/71, (cat.) Riding House / Karsten Schubert, London
2008 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
2004 Bridget Riley: Paintings and drawings 1961 - 2004, Ridinghouse, London
2003 Bridget Riley: Dialogues on Art (reissue) Thames and Hudson
2003 Bridget Riley Tate Retrospective catalogue
2002 Bridget Riley – Complete Prints, to coincide with Hayward Gallery touring exhibition
2002 Bridget Riley – New Work (cat.), Kiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
2001 Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA
2000 Bridget Riley: New Paintings and Gouaches (cat.), Waddington Galleries/ Karsten Schubert, London, UK
2000 Bridget Riley: Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
1999 Kudielka, Robert, ed., The Eyes Mind: Bridget Riley: Collected Writings 1965-1999, published by Thames and Hudson, Serpentine Gallery and De Montfort University
1999 Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 60s and 70s (cat.), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1999 Bridget Riley: Selected Paintings 1961-1999, Kunstverein für die Rheinelande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (cat.), Hatje Cantz Publishers, Germany
1998 Bridget Riley: Works 1961- 1998 (cat.), Abbot Hall Gallery and Museum, Kendel, Cumbria, UK
1995 From Here (cat.)
1995 MacGregor, Neil, E.H. Gombrich, Michael Craig- Martin, Andrew Graham Dixon and Bryan Robertson, Bridget Riley: Dialogues On Art
1995 Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches 1981-1995, Spacex (cat.)
1995 Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries/ Karsten Schubert, London UK
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