Richard Deacon (sculptor)
Richard Deacon ( born August 15, 1949 in Bangor / Wales) is an artist ( objects, installations, ceramics).
From 1968 to 1969 he attended the Somerset College of Art, Taunton, and from 1969 to 1972 the St Martins School of Art, London. 1974 to 1977 he studied at the Royal College of Art, London. 1977/1978 he studied art history and philosophy at the Chelsea School of Art, London.
Since 1977, Deacon guest lecturer, among others, at the Central School of Art & Design, London, Chelsea School of Art, London, Sheffield City Polytechnic, the Bath Academy of Art, Winchester School of Art, the Ateliers 63, Haarlem and Amsterdam, the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, and as advisor to the Rijksakademie van Beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. 1978/1979 was followed by a second stay in the U.S., which was described by Deacon as an artistic turning point. Since 1999 he is professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux -arts, Paris. Richard Deacon is represented among others by the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Richard Deacon lives and works in New York and London.
Exhibitions and works
- Since 1970, participation in various group exhibitions worldwide, including the Nouvelle Biennale de Paris (1985 ), Sonsbeek '86, Arnhem (1986 ), Documenta IX (1992) and the Skulptur.Projekte Münster 1997
- 1978 first solo exhibition at The Gallery, Brixton, London; since 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, Germany (1991 ), the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London ( 1998), Tate Gallery Liverpool ( 1999), the PS1 New York ( 2001), the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck (2006), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam ( 2008), the Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2011)
- Since 1990 Application works in public spaces including Toronto, Auckland, Krefeld, Villeneuve d' Ascq, Vienna, Antwerp, Tokyo, Beijing, Haarlem, Paris, San Francisco and New York.