Richard Long (artist)

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Detail of Riverlines installed in the lobby of the Hearst Tower (New York City)

Richard Long (born June 2, 1945) is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists.

Long was born in Bristol, and studied art there at the West of England College of Art from 1962 to 1965, and graduated from St Martin's School of Art in London in 1968.

Several of his works are based around walks that he has made, and often consist of photographs or maps of the landscape he has walked over. Sometimes the landscape would be deliberately changed in some way, as in A Line Made by Walking (1967), and sometimes sculptures were made in the landscape from rocks or similar found materials and then photographed. Other pieces consist of photographs or maps of unaltered landscapes accompanied by texts detailing the location and time of the walk it indicates.

A permanent installation is on view in the main lobby of Hearst Tower (New York City) entitled Riverlines. Completed during the summer of 2006 and the biggest wall work he had ever made - about 35 x 50 feet (11 x 15 meters).^[1]

Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times. He was nominated in 1984, 1987, 1988 and he then won the award in 1989 for White Water Line.^[2]

[edit] Recent exhibits

7 September - 7 October, 2006 1 + 1 = 2 with Roger Ackling at Von Lintel Gallery, New York Vonlintel.com
21 May - 1 October 2006 at Lismore Castle, Lismore (Ireland) from the Richard Long newsletter
January 21 - April 25, 2006 The Path Is the Place Is the Line SFMoMA