Richard Patterson (artist)

Richard Patterson (born 1963 in Leatherhead, Surrey) is an English artist and one of the Young British Artists (YBAs). He is currently based in Dallas, Texas. Patterson's work is primarily painterly, but occasionally morphs into three-dimensional works as well.

Education

Patterson attended a Watford College of Art and Design Course from 1982-83. He received a B.A. Honors degree in Fine Art from Goldsmiths' (1983–86).

Solo exhibitions

• 2013 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London^[1]
• 2005 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London^[2]
• 2002 James Cohan Gallery, New York City
• 2000 "Concentration 35: Richard Patterson", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA (exhibition brochure with essay by Suzanne Weaver)
• 1999 James Cohan Gallery, New York City (exhibition catalogue)
• 1997 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England (exhibition catalogue, text by Stuart Morgan)
• 1995 "Richard Patterson: Motocrosser", Project Space, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England

Group exhibitions

• 2004 She's Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City and Pixel, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York City
• 2003 Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (exhibition catalogue) and Inaurgral Group Show, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
• 2002 The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (exhibition catalogue) and Arte Contemoporanio Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
• 2001 Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City. My Reality—Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa. Exhibition travelled to: The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2002); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (2003); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, USA (2004). Casino 2001, curated by Jeanne Greenberg-Rohaytn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
• 1999 Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA. Mode of Art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (exhibition catalogue, essay by Raimund Stecker)
• 1998 Head First: Portraits from the Arts Council Collection, The City Gallery, Leicester; City Art Gallery, Southampton; Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England (exhibition catalogue, essay by Richard Shone). Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA (exhibition catalogue, essays by David Pagel, Raphael Rubinstein and Peter Schjeldahl)
• 1997 False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy (exhibition catalogue, text by Alison Jaques). Package Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchius Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece. Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, MoCA, Sydney, Australia touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, and City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand (exhibition catalogue, text by Bernice Murphy and Andrew Wilson). Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City (exhibition catalogue). About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990s, MoMA, Oxford; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (1997); Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England (1997–98) (exhibition catalogue)
• 1996 ACE!: Arts Council Collection of New Purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham; Hayward Gallery, London; Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Arnolfini, Bristol, England. Answered Prayers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany. Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England. Sammlung Volkmann Zeigt: Faustrecht Der Freiheit, Kunstsammlung Gera and Neues Museum Weserburg, Berlin, Germany.
• 1988 Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, England (exhibition catalogue, text by Ian Jeffrey)

Selected publications

• 2013 Kamps, Toby and Jeremy Strick, Richard Patterson, Ridinghouse in association with Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
• 2003 de Cruz, Gemma, British Artists' Studios, Paris: Assouline Press. van Tuyl et al., Gijs, Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
• 2002 The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British and Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
• 2001 Fleming et al., Jeff, My Reality – Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
• 1999 Richard Patterson: New Paintings, James Cohan Gallery, New York City. Stecker, Raimund, Mode of Art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1998 Shone, Richard, Head First: Portraits from the Arts Council Collection, Arts Council. Collection, London, England. Pagel et al., David, Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
• 1997 Paintings by Richard Patterson, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, England. Jacques, Alison, False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy. Rosenthal, Norman, Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990s, MoMA, Oxford, England
• 1988 Jeffrey, Ian, Platonic Tropics, Introductory text to Freeze exhibition, catalogue, UK.

Selected articles

• 2002 Hunt, David, 'Richard Patterson', Tema Celeste, May / June, p. 93
• 2000 Jeffe Jeffet, William, 'Richared Patterson: Concentrations 35 @ Dallas Museum of Art', NY. Arts, June, p. 47. Lee, Jody, 'Concentrations 35: Richard Patterson at The Dallas Museum of Art", Artlies, Spring, No. 26, p. 65. McCabe, Bret, 'Lens Crafter', The Met, Vol.7, Issue 12, 22–29 March, p. 30. Arning, Bill, 'Richard Patterson at James Cohan', Art in America, February, p. 129. Nakamura, Marie-Pierre, 'New York: Corps à corps', Art Actuel, January - February, p. 25 - 28. Pollack, Barbara, 'Richard Patterson', ARTnews, January, p. 164
• 1999 Ebony, David, 'Richard Patterson at James Cohan', Artnet.com Magazine, 24 November. Henry, Max, 'Gotham Dispatch', Artnet.com Magazine, 23 November. Johnson, Ken, 'Richard Patterson', The New York Times, 19 November, p. 42. Newhall, Edith, 'Toy Story', New York Magazine, 8 November, p. 106. Collings, Matthew, 'Rabble Rousing', Vogue, October, pp. 219 – 226.
• 1997 del Re, Gianmarco, 'Richard Patterson', Flash Art, November/December. Shone, Richard, 'Top ten x 12', Artforum, December, p. 102. Maloney, Martin, 'Richard Patterson’s Young Minotaur', Frank, November. Coomer, Martin, 'Richard Patterson', Time Out, 24 September – 1 October. Herbert, Martin, 'Richard Patterson', Time Out Sensation Supplement, 10 – 17 September. Lambeth, Andrew, 'Fashion Parade', The Spectator, 4 January, pp. 40 – 41.
• 1996 Hilton, Tim, 'The Eyes of the Beholder', The Independent on Sunday Review, pp. 22 – 23. Cork, Richard, 'Paint your bandwagon', The Times, 31 December. Hilton, Tim, 'The best painting in Britain?', Independent on Sunday, 17 November, p. 30. Linton, Norbert, 'Open Plan', The Royal Academy Magazine, Autumn, pp. 60 – 63. Shone, Richard, 'London & Edinburgh contemporary exhibitions', Burlington Magazine, August
• 1995 Maloney, Martin, 'London’s Wannabe Art Scene', Flash Art, October, pp. 60 – 61. Wilson, Andrew: 'Gerhard Richter, Richard Patterson', Art Monthly, July.
• 1988 Bulloch, Angela: 'Freeze' Art and Design Magazine, Vol. V, No. 3/4, pp. 52 – 3. Craddock, Sacha, 'The Fast Dockland Track to Simplicity', The Guardian, 13 September.

Public collections

• Arts Council, London, England
• British Council, London, England
• Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
• Saatchi Collection, London, England
• SFMoMA, San Francisco, California, USA
• Southampton Museum and Art Gallery, Southampton, England
• Tate Gallery, London, England

See also

• Young British Artists
• Freeze

References

External links

• Tate Britain, London
• Tate Collection, London