One of the most distinctive voices in British contemporary photography, John Riddy's practice exists in a singular relationship to a particular photographic inheritance. His photography is made in the belief that clear photographic description allows for the most complex and unique of images. Riddy focuses on the particular poetics of place and space. His subject matter is broad; the architecture of Ancient Rome or the modernism of Rietveld and Lubetkin; from the London streets at night to a small town at the base of Mount Fuji. Time, atmosphere, spatial illusion and cultural histories are compressed and extended in pictures that aim to defeat our expectations of photographic description.
John Riddy's exhibition Views from Shin-Fuji was staged at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 2006. Riddy's
work has been included in many group exhibitions including: Cloud Pictures Translated at Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2005. Other shows include: British Modernism from The Thirties (photographs
of selected 30's buildings), Design Museum, London; John McLaughlin, John Riddy, Fred Sandback, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York and Jan Dibbets, John Riddy, Richard Ross, Milton Keynes
Gallery.
He is represented in public and private collections worldwide including the Arts Council of Great Britain, Group Lhoist Collection, Belgium, Goldman Sachs International, Rubell Family Collection
and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
Please click on the News section of the site to read about forthcoming exhibitions and projects.
BIOGRAPHY
1959
Born Northampton
1979-80
Foundation Course, Coventry Polytechnic
1980-83
BA Painting, Chelsea School of Art
1983-84
MA Painting, Chelsea School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 2004 2001 2000 2001 1999 1998 1996 1995 1994 1993 GROUP
EXHIBITIONS
2008 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 COMISSIONS
2003 AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
1999 1998/89 1997 COLLECTIONS
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2007 Frith Street Gallery
Views from Shin-Fuji, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Views from Shin-Fuji works list
Skies, Galerie Paul Andriesse
Skies, Frith Street Gallery, London
Skies press release Images + work's list
Recent Places, Frith Street Gallery, London
Recent Places Images
Press release
Lawrence Markey, New York
Camden Arts Centre, London
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
Praeterita, (Tour) Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield,
Brantwood Coniston, The Ruskin Library Lancaster
Ruskin College, Oxford
Ideal World, Frith Street Gallery, London
Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
The British School at Rome, Rome
The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Chelsea College of Art & Design, London
Elsewhere, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Frith Street Gallery, London
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
F Stop Gallery, Bath
Frith Street Gallery, London
Interiors and Exteriors, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Ruination: Photographs of Rome, The University of Nottingham
To Here, Bloomberg Space, London
Responding to Rome 1995 - 2005, Estorick Collection, London
Cloud Images: From Constable to Richter, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Eccentric Spaces, Frith Street Gallery, London
Eccentric Spaces press release
Some Trees, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen
Expo Aichi, Japan
Britannia Works, curated by Katherina Gregos, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre & further venues, Athens
Still Life, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paulo, Brazil
Furniture by Ray & Charles Eames with photographs by John Riddy, My Modern, Amsterdam
To Find a Home,SeARCH, Amsterdam (with Bas Jan Ader, Rene Daniels, Dan Graham, Joachim Koester, Jan Koster, Edward Risch, Gregor Schnieder, Thomas Struth and others),
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London
Photo London, Photographer's Gallery, London
One Hundred Great Photographs: A collection by Bruce Bernard, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh
Cathedral and Camera, BALTIC (Dryden Goodwin, John Riddy, MarkZĀta Luskacova)
Still Life, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela: Buenos Aires/Rosario, Argentina: Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City
Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London
Still Life, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, British Council Touring Exhibition
Photography, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham
100 Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Episode, Mead Gallery, Coventry (curated by Yuko Shiraishi)
A Still Life, Victoria art Gallery, Bath
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery
In Ruins, The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath
My Modern Summer, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Le Corbusier, John Riddy, Lidwien van de Ven, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Summer Show, Frith Street Gallery, London
Jan Dibbets, John Riddy, Richard Ross, Milton Keynes Gallery
British Modernism from The Thirties, (photographs of selected 30's buildings)
Design Museum, London
Basel Art Fair, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Thinking Aloud, National Touring Exhibitions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge;
Cornerhouse, Manchester;
Camden Arts Centre, London
0 TO 60 IN 10 YEARS, Frith Street Gallery, London
John McLaughlin, John Riddy, Fred Sandback, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York
White Column Benefit, New York
Paved with Gold, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
New Work by Gallery Artists, Frith Street Gallery, London
Life;Live, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Coming of Age, White Columns, New York;
Jacob Javitz Centre, New York.
Houston Fotofest. Propositions, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Life;Live, ARC Musee d'Art Contemporain de la ville de Paris
Dusk, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Drawings and Photographs: Marlene Dumas, John Riddy, Judith Joy Ross, Anne-Marie
Schneider, James Welling, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Mothers and Daughters, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel
Room 101, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, with Rachel Whiteread
Photographic Glimpses at ARCO
Durham Cathedral
Rome Scholarship, Sargent Fellowship, British School at Rome
London Arts Board Artist's Award
Group Lhoist Collection, Belgium
Acme Studios, London
British Council Collection
The Bruce Bernard Photography Collection
Goldman Sachs International
Rubell Family Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
As well as private collections in Europe, the USA and Japan
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