Work	Biography	Publications
		1959 Born in Northampton, United Kingdom 1979-80 Foundation Course, Coventry Polytechnic 1980-83 BA Painting, Chelsea School of Art 1983-84 MA Painting, Chelsea School of Art Solo Exhibitions 1993 Interiors and Exteriors, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1994 F Stop Gallery, Bath 1994 Frith Street Gallery, London 1995 Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth 1996 Frith Street Gallery, London 1998 Elsewhere, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 1998 Chelsea College of Art and Design, London 1999 Photographs of Rome, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York 1999 Interior, Window, Light, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1999 The British School at Rome, Rome 2000 Camden Arts Centre, London 2000 De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea 2000 Praeterita, tour commencing at the Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield, traveling to The Ruskin Library, Lancaster John Riddy, Frith Street Gallery, London 2001 Praeterita, The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford Praeterita-Dilecta, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York 2004 Frith Street Gallery, London Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 2006 Victoria and Albert Museum, London 2009 Frith Street Gallery, London Group Exhibitions 1986 5 Directions, The Showroom, London 1994 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art GalleryLondon 1994 Mothers and Daughters, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1994 Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel 1995 Dusk, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1995 Drawings and Photographs - Dumas, Ross, Riddy, Schneider, Welling, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 1996 Life / Live ARC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris 1996 Life / Live ARC, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon 1997 Propositions, The Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth 1998 White Columns Benefit, New York 1998 Paved With Gold, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 1998 New Work by Gallery Artists, Frith Street Gallery, London 1999 British Modernism from the Thirties, Design Museum, London 1999 Basel Art Fair, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam 1999 Thinking Aloud, National Touring Exhibitions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester; Camden Arts Centre, London 1999 John McLaughlin, John Riddy, Fred Sandback, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York 1999 0 to 60 In 10 Years, Frith Street Gallery, London 2000 Richard Ross, Jan, John Riddy, Milton Keynes Gallery, U.K. 2002 Summer Exhibition, Frith Street Gallery, London My Modern Summer, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam Still Life, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile, British Council Touring Exhibition Photography, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham 100 Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard, Victoria and Albert Museum, London Episode, Mead Gallery, Coventry 2003 Furniture by Ray & Charles Eames with photographs by John Riddy, My Modern, Amsterdam To Find a Home, SeARCH, Amsterdam Summer Exhibition, 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 Still LifeBiblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Columbia (Traveling Exhibit) 2004 Britannia Works, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens (Traveling Exhbit) Still Life, Rio de Janeiro/Sao Paolo, Brazil 2005 Cloud Images: From Constable to Richter, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau Some Trees Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Expo Aichi, Japapn 2006 To Here, Bloomberg Space, London Responding to Rome: 1995 - 2005, Estorick Collection, London 2008 Of People and Places, University of Massachusets Ruination, Djanogly Gallery,Nottingham Utopia, Bloomberg Space, London Awards 1997 London Arts Board Artist's Award 1998-99 Rome Scholarship, Sargeant Fellowship, British School at Rome Selected Bibliography John Riddy - Rome, published by Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, on the occasion of the exhibition 'Photographs of Rome' at Lawrence Markey Gallery September 14-October 23, 1999. ISBN 1883597021 John Riddy, Elsewhere, published by Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, Frith Street Gallery, London and Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, folding illustrated publication, June 1999 Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition British Modernism from the Thirties at the Design Museum, London 1999. Catalogue published to accompany the exhibition Thinking Aloud, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Cornerhouse, Manchester, Camden Arts Centre, London 1999. Paved With Gold, published by Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, 1998. The British School at Rome, 1998–1999 Selected Reviews and Articles 1994 Blueprint Magazine, September Issue 1994 Michael Watt, "John Riddy's Photographs", F Stop Gallery 1996 Martin Caiger-Smith, "Interview", Creative Camera, February-March, 1996 1996 David Brittain, "Review", Creative Camera, December–January Issue 1996 Sue Hubbard, "John Riddy - Frith Street", Time Out, December 4–11 1997 Blind Spot, Issue 9 1998 Fiona Rattray, "Surveying the City", Blueprint Magazine, June Issue 1998 Erik Hagoort, "Couleur Locale", de Volkskrant, pg.14 1998 Andrew Mead, "An Artist's Eye on the Built World", Architect's Journal, May 28, 1998 1998 Laura Moffat, "Review", Art Monthly, September 1998 1999 David Ryan, "Modernity Illuminated", Modern Painters, Winter 1999, pp. 66-67 1999 Ian Hunt, "Thinking Aloud", Art Monthly, February 1999, pp. 223-224 1999 Jonathan Glancey, "Modern Values", The Guardian, G2, 25 January 1999 >   top