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


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.


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



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