Bridget Riley
Since the beginning of her career, Bridget Riley (b. 1931) has constantly redefined the concept of abstraction and its possibilities for the painterly process. Aware of how individual and collective experiences taint one’s vision of the world, the artist creates works that free colour and form from their illustrative potential, enabling what she refers to as ‘pure sight’. Riley develops paintings through the accumulation and distribution of simple forms—vertical and horizontal stripes, squares, circles and ovals, triangles, rhomboids, and curves—coming together into complex arrangements fostering a sense of dynamism, and rhythm. Her paintings seem to flicker and pulsate. Riley’s profound observations of movement, light and colour have given rise to a complex and continuously evolving oeuvre that underlies a long-standing fascination for the physical process of perception.
‘[...] The surprise of the first encounter with one of her paintings is owing to an astonishment that an inanimate object has apparently come to life and – more than that – is in communion with the viewer. The viewer’s surprise is, we recognise, is a self-created surprise. Perception is the medium just as much as is the canvas and the paint – more so, in that a painting, the artist acknowledges, “only comes to life when looked at from a certain distance”. In a way, it doesn’t exist factually at all; only in the viewer’s perception.’
John Elderfield
Image: Pink and Three Others, 2009, oil on canvas, 172 x 340 cm.; 67 3/4 x 133 7/8 in.
Selected Works
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1931
Born in London, UK
1949–1952
Goldsmiths College of Art, London
1952–1955
Royal College of Art, London
1968
International Prize for Painting, XXXIV Bienniale, Venice
1972
awarded CBE
1981–1988
Trustee of National Gallery, London
1993
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Oxford University
1995
Honorary Doctor of Letters, Cambridge University
1999
Appointed Companion of Honor
2009
The Goslar Kaiser Ring
2012
Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen
Lives and works in London
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
Amgueddfa Cymru–National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Institute of Chicago
Arts Council Collection, London
The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte
Berardo Museum, Lisbon
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
British Council Collection, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Dia Art Foundation, New York
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre
Government Art Collection, London
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
Hepworth Wakefield
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Iwaki City Art Museum
Josef Albers Museum Quadrat, Bottrop
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Leeds City Art Gallery
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Manchester City Art Gallery
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama
Museums Sheffield
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Neues Museum, Nuremberg
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena
Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Kitasaku
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Southampton City Art Gallery
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Collection, London
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Lugano
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya
Toyama Prefectural Museum of Art and Design
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, travelled to:
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
(travelled from: Art Institute of Chicago) (catalogue)
2022
Bridget Riley Drawings: From the Artist’s Studio
Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
Looking and Seeing, Doing and Making
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Perceptual Abstraction
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven (digital catalogue)
One-on-One: Bridget Riley / Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
2021
Past into Present
David Zwirner, London (catalogue)
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
2020
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Studies: 1984–1997
David Zwirner, London
2019
The Corn Hall, Diss
Lines of Enquiry
Lyndsey Ingram, London
The Hayward Gallery, London
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2018
Painting Now
Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Paintings from the 1960’s to the Present
Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Sakura
Recent Paintings 2014–2017
David Zwirner Gallery, London
2017
Measure for Measure. New Disc Paintings
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Cosmos
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch (catalogue)
2016
Bridget Riley: The Curve Paintings 1961-2015
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
The Interactive Character of Color, 1970-2014
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Bridget Riley: Seven Paintings
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Bridget Riley: A Moment of Change
Graves Gallery, Sheffield
2015
David Zwirner, New York
Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat
The Courtauld Institute, London
The Curve Paintings 1961–2014
De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris (catalogue)
Prints 1962–2015
Sims Reed Gallery, London
2014
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
New Art Centre, Salisbury
The Stripe Paintings: 1961–2014
David Zwirner, London
2013
Die Streifenbilder / The Stripe Paintings 1961–2012
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
2012
12th Rubens Prize Awarded by the City of Siegen
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
Works 1960–1966
Karsten Schubert, London / Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, London (catalogue)
2011
Paintings And Studies 1979–1981 & 2011
Karsten Schubert, London (catalogue)
Paintings and Related Work: 1983–2010
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Colour, Stripes, Planes and Curves
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (catalogue)
Bridget Riley - Grafische Werke
Galerie Nicole Schlégl, Zurich
2010
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work
The National Gallery, London (catalogue)
Flashback: Bridget Riley
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery;
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery;
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool;
Southampton Art Gallery
2009
Timothy Taylor Gallery/Karsten Schubert, London
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar
Circles Colour Structure: Studies 1970/71
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2008
Circles Colour Structure: Studies 1970/71
Karsten Schubert, London (catalogue)
Two Paintings, 1986 & 1988
Karsten Schubert, London
Rétrospective
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (catalogue)
2007
Recent Paintings and Gouaches
Pace Wildenstein, New York (catalogue)
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Paintings and works on paper
Robert Sandelson, London
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
2006
New Paintings and Gouaches
Timothy Taylor Gallery/Karsten Schubert, London
Prints 1962–2005
University of Exeter
Narborough Hall, Norfolk
Marlborough Fine Arts, London
2005
Print Retrospective 1981–2005
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
New Art Centre. Sculpture Park and Gallery, Salisbury
Paintings and Studies, 1963–2005
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills
Bilder und Zeichnungen 1959–2005
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
A Print Retrospective 1962–2003
British Council Touring Exhibition: Museum Sztuki, Lodz;
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (catalogue)
2004
A Print Retrospective 1962–2003
British Council Touring Exhibition:
Rotermann Salt Storage, Tallinn;
Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius;
East-Slovakian Gallery, Kosice; Moravian Gallery, Brno (catalogue)
Bilder und Gouachen 1981–2004
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Recent Paintings
PaceWildenstein, New York (catalogue)
Gouaches and Prints
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Paintings and Drawings 1961–2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney;
City Gallery Wellington (catalogue)
2003
Black and White Works on Paper
Karsten Schubert, London
Retrospective
Tate Britain, London (catalogue)
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (catalogue)
Marlborough Fine Art, London
2002
Complete Prints 1962–2001
National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery, London:
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow;
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal;
Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Rugby;
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea;
Firstsite, Colchester (catalogue)
Recent Paintings and Gouaches
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart
New Work
Museum Haus Esters and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld (catalogue)
2001
Complete Prints 1962–2001
National Touring Exhibition from the Hayward Gallery, London: Ferens Gallery, Kingston upon Hill (catalogue)
2000
Reconnaissance
Dia Center for the Arts, New York (catalogue)
Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper
PaceWildenstein, New York (catalogue)
New Paintings and Gouaches
Waddington Galleries, London (catalogue)
1999
Ausgewählte Bilder / Selected Paintings 1961–1999
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf (catalogue)
Paintings from the 1960s and 1970s
Serpentine Gallery, London (catalogue)
1998
Works 1961-1998
Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (catalogue)
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart
1997
Paintings, Gouaches and Prints 1981–1986
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
1996
Museum für moderne Kunst des Landkreises Cuxhaven, Otterndorf
Paintings and Gouaches 1980–1995
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Gouaches 1980–1995
British School, Rome
Recent Paintings and Gouaches
Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London (catalogue)
1995
Gouaches 1980–1995
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Recent Works: Paintings and Gouaches 1981–1995
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Recent Paintings and Gouaches
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Colour and Nature (with Patrick Heron)
Castle Museum, Norwich
1994
Six Paintings 1963–1993 from the Collection
Tate Gallery, London
1993
Colour Studies
Karsten Schubert, London
1992
Paintings 1982–1992
Kunsthalle Nürnberg;
Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop;
Hayward Gallery, London;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (catalogue)
Paintings
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Works on Paper 1982–1992
Karsten Schubert (catalogue)
1990
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1989
Works on Paper
Mayor Rowan Gallery, London
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
1988
Galerie Teufel, Cologne
1987
New Work
Mayor Rowan Gallery, London
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
Galerie Konstructiv Tendens, Stockholm
1986
South Western Art Galleries Association in Scotland exhibition, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
Jeffrey Hoffeld Gallery, New York
1985
An Australian Context
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (catalogue)
1984
Working with Colour: Recent Paintings and Studies by Bridget Riley
Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition, D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham (catalogue)
Galerie Reckermann, Cologne (catalogue)
Project for the Royal Liverpool Hospital
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
1983
Paintings and Drawings 1981–1983
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1982
Gouaches
Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1981
Recent Paintings and Gouaches
Rowan Gallery and Warwick Arts Trust, London
1980
Silksceen Prints 1965–1978
Preston Hall Museum, Stockton-On-Tees (catalogue)
Artline, The Hague
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Works 1959–1978
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (catalogue)
1979
Drawings
Australian Galleries, Melbourne;
Bonython Gallery, Adelaide
Works 1959–1978
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth;
Centrepoint Gallery Space, Sydney;
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York (catalogue)
1978
Works 1959–1978
Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas;
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (catalogue)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1977
Minami Gallery, Tokyo
1976
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Rowan Gallery, London
1975
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Galerie Beyeler, Basel (catalogue)
1973
Paintings and Drawings 1961–1973
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield;
D.L.I. Museum and Arts Centre, Durham;
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh;
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham;
Museum and Art Gallery, Letchworth;
City Art Gallery/Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1972
Drawings
Rowan Gallery, London
Kunstverein Göttingen
1971
Drawings
Rowan Gallery, London
Paintings and Drawings 1951–1971
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin;
Hayward Gallery, London;
National Gallery, Prague (catalogue)
1970
Paintings and Drawings 1951–1971
Kunstverein Hannover (catalogue)
1969
Drawings
Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford;
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol;
Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham (catalogue)
Rowan Gallery, London
Schilderijen en tekeningen (with Phillip King)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1968
British Pavilion (with Philip King)
34th Biennale, Venice;
Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum;
Museum Boijmans Van Beuninigen, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1967
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1966
Drawings
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Preparatory Drawings and Studies
Robert Fraser Gallery, London
Drawings
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1965
Feigen-Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1963
Gallery One, London (catalogue)
1962
Gallery One, London (catalogue)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
No Feeling Is Final. The Skopje Solidarity Collection
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Off Kilter, On Point Art of the 1960 from the Collections at Colorado State University
Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum, Michigan
2022
For Keeps: Selected Parkett Editions 1984–2017
David Zwirner, New York
2021
KONKRET! Hommage an Ulrich Schumacher. Die Sammlung des Josef Alberts Museum Quadrat Bottrop
Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen
Light: Works from Tate's Collection
Museum of Art Pudong, Shanghai (catalogue)
NOTHINGTOSEENESS – Void/White/Silence
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Oil: Beauty and Horror In The Petrol Age
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Living with art: Picasso to Celmins
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin;
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster, travelled from:
F. E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Banbridge;
British Museum, London (catalogue)
Women Artists in the Kunsthalle Bern – An Archival Investigation
Kunsthalle Bern
Women in Abstraction
Centre Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life
The Hepworth Wakefield
2020
OneHundred Works
Tony Wuethrich Galerie, Basel
Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art in the Global Context
Phoenix Art Museum
Summer show
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Living with art: Picasso to Celmins
British Museum, London, ttravelled to:
F. E. McWilliam Gallery and Studio, Banbridge
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin;
Danum Gallery, Library and Museum, Doncaster (catalogue)
2019
Sammlung Lambrecht-Schadeberg/Rubenspreisträger der Stadt Siegen
Im Fokus: Farbereignisse
Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
The Interaction of Colour
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
Interaction of color and form. Josef Albers im Dialog mit Werken von Larry Bell, Ólafur Elíasson und Bridget Riley
UAA Ungers Archive for Architectural Research, Cologne
On Paper
Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Devon
The Lie of the Land
MK Gallery, Milton Keynes
Vertigo. Op Art and a History of Deception 1520–1970
mumok, Vienna;
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Playing with Masterpieces: from Henri Matisse to Marina Abramovic
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
2018
New acquisitions: Gozzoli to Kara Walker
The British Museum, London
Land, City & Sea: British Masters from the David Ross Collection
The Collection Museum, Lincoln
The World on Paper - Sammlung Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle - Museum Palais Populaire, Berlin
Op Art in Focus
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Giant Steps: Artists and the 1960s
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Hello World. Revising a Collection
Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Into the Light: Photography and Abstract Art
Tate Modern, London
The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection / Rubens Prize Winners of the City of Siegen. In Focus: Black and White
Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
Black & White. Painting from Dürer to Eliasson
Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf
geschenkt - genommen
Städtische Galerie, Schwenningen
David Zwirner: 25 Years
David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2017
Croydon School of Art
Museum of Croydon
On With The Show
Kunsthalle Nürnberg
Monochrome: Painting in Black and White
The National Gallery, London
Never Ending Stories
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
Lubaina Himid: Meticulous Observations and Naming the Money
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Going Public - The Kirkland Collection
Graves Gallery, Museum Sheffield
That '70s Show: Cool Art from the Collection
Columbia Museum of Art
Small Size
Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia (CAMeC), La Spezia
To Distribute and Multiply: The Feibes & Schmitt Gift
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls
Serial Formations. 1967/2017. Re-Staging of the first German exhibition of international tendencies in Minimalism
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart (catalogue)
31 Women
Breese Little, London
Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield;
Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Nottingham;
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2018)
Modern British and Contemporary Original Prints
Hayletts Gallery, Essex
Konkrete Anliegen. Sammlung Teufel
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
2016
Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to now
Poole Museum, Poole. Travels to Hull University Art Collection, Hull (2017) and Ulster Museum, Belfast (2017)
Eye Attack – Op Art 1950–70
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
2015
NO MAN´S LAND
Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Faux Amis
Simon Lee Gallery, London
Women Rule
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
Images Moving Out Onto Space
Tate St. Ives, Cornwall
Patterns of Abstraction: 7 Artists
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Eric Gadsby, Works 1966–76 & Bridget Riley, Works on Paper
Austin / Desmond Fine Art, London
Light Falls
Green on Red Gallery, Dublin
Van Goth to Rothko: Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville
The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes)
Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
2014
Konkret
Muzeum Milana Dobesa, Bratislava
Bielefeld Contemporary
Bielefelder Kunstverein
Cool Place. Sammlung Scharpff
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
IMMA Collection: Conversations
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Somewhat Abstract
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
Zu Gast (4). Conceptual Space – Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Markus Michalke
Kunstsaele, Berlin
Kiel leuchtet! Im Rausch der Farbe
Kunsthalle Kiel
Then and Now
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Forcefields
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Rot - Von farblichen Akzenten zur Monochramie
Galerie Koch, Hanover
2013
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin (catalogue)
Michael Graig-Martin, Langlands & Bell, Julian Opie, Bridget Riley
Galería Pilar Serra, Madrid
Hackordnung #5
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen/Rhein
Here We Go
Karsten Schubert, London
Auf Zeit. Wandbilder – Bildwände
Kunsthalle Bielefeld (catalogue)
Moving Norman Foster on Art
Carré d'Art, Nîmes (catalogue)
Dynamo. A century of light and movement in art from 1913 to 2013
Grand Palais, Paris
Artistic Relationships: Partners, Mentors, Lovers
Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte
Into the Void
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman
Mixed Exhibition
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
Vibrations
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
2012
Aspects of Modern British Art 2012
Austin/Desmond Fine Arts, London
Print Masters
Quest Gallery, Bath, Somerset
Modern British Art. A Gallery Selection
Austin/Desmond Fine Arts, London
circa 1963
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge
Ghosts in the Machine
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Der Raum der Linie
Museum Wiesbaden
Punkt.System - Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (catalogue)
Outside In
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
New Departures. Painting and Real Space
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
The Space Between
Karsten Schubert, London
My Generation: Art of the 60s and Early 70s
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Gebaute Bilder. Werke aus der Sammlung Hupertz
Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg
Roesler Hotel #21 - Buzz, curated by Vik Muniz
Galerie Nara Roesler, São Paulo
2011
Moderne: Selbstmord der Kunst?
Neue Galerie, Graz, (catalogue)
Die Kunst der Entschleunigung
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (catalogue)
Divided Heaven. 1945–1968. The Collection. Neue Nationalgalerie
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Musée national d'art moderne. Collections contemporaines (des années 1960 à nos jours)
Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Indiscipline of Painting. International abstraction from the 1960s to now
Tate St Ives, Cornwall, travelled to:
Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry
20/21 at Ceri Hand Gallery
Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
Der Raum der Linie
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Compass – Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Drawn from Life
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria
2010
Let Us Face the Future - British Art 1945–1968
Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
ganz konkret II
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
8th Gwangju Biennale – 10,000 Lives
Gwangju Biennale
Summer Show
Andipa Gallery, London
OPTICAL SHIFT. Illusion und Täuschung
b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur
Visions – Spectacular Art from the Ulster Museum
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Summer Special
Galerie Schlégl, Zurich
Group Exhibition
Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Colorscope: Abstract Painting 1960–1979
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
2009
konkret - Die Sammlunf Heinz + Anette Teufel
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart
Numbers, Color and Text: Works from the Collection
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham
Pattern Recognition
The City Gallery, Leicester
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Begegnung Bauhaus. Kurt Schmidt und Künstler der Avantgarde – von Kandinsky bis Vasarely
Kunstsammlung Gera - Orangerie
Here / Now
Mossgreen Gallery, Melbourne
"Alles"
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen
Notation. Form und Kalkül in den Künste
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM)
Enacting Abstraction
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2008
rep'e.t'tion
Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow
Geo/Metric: Prints and Drawings from the Collection
MoMa, New York
Karsten Schubert, London
2007
Collecting the Past, Present and Future
Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal (catalogue)
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson
Tate Gallery, St Ives (catalogue)
Die Neuen Tendenzen
Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren (catalogue)
RAUM. Orte der Kunst
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
OP ART
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (catalogue)
Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus (catalogue)
Cutting Edge: Geometry in Art 1910-1965
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Ausgerechnet... Mathematik und Konkrete Kunst
Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg
Op Art Revisited
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2006
A noir, e blanc, i rouge, u vert, o bleu
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg (catalogue)
Super Vision
ICA, Boston (catalogue)
Bewegung im Quadrat. Das Quadrat in Malerei, Kinetischer Kunst und Animation
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch
Eye on Europe
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
Die Neuen Tendenzen
Museum für Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt (catalogue)
FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe (catalogue)
How to Improve the World
Hayward Gallery, London (catalogue)
The Expanded Eye
Kunsthaus Zürich (catalogue)
Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 2
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
2005
STROLL ON!
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
Art Now
Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
Prague Biennale 2
Prague (catalogue)
L’ŒIL MOTEUR
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (catalogue)
Prolog
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
2004
Seeing is Believing
Tate Liverpool
Die Algorithmische Revolution
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe
Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow
Tate Britain, London; Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (catalogue)
Matisse to Freud: A Critic’s Choice
British Museum, London
2003
Einbildung. Steirischer Herbst
Kunsthaus Graz (catalogue)
Happiness. A Survival Guide for Art and Life
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Pittura/Painting: From Rauschenberg to Murakami 1964–2003
50th Biennale, Museo Correr, Venice
2002
Blast to Freeze
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2001
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitainism
4th International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe (catalogue)
2000
Hypermental – Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1955–2000
Kunsthaus Zürich (catalogue)
Blue
New Art Gallery, Walsall
Collection 2000
Tate Modern, London
1999
Sublime: The Darkness and the Light. Works from the Arts Council Collection
Arts Council Touring Exhibition, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (catalogue)
’45 – ’99
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1998
White Noise
Kunsthalle Bern
1997
A Quality of Light
Tate Gallery, St. Ives
Treasure Island
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigao, Lisbon
1995
Artist’s Choice: Elizabeth Murray. Modern Women
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Karo Dame
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Drawing the Line
Touring Exhibition, South Bank Centre, London
1992
New Realities 1945–1968
Tate Liverpool (catalogue)
1990
Künstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts
Museum Wiesbaden
1989
The Experience of Painting: Eight Modern Artists
South Bank Centre, London;
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield;
City Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
1988
The Presence of Painting: Aspects of British Abstraction 1957–1988
South Bank Centre, London;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield;
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Viewpoints
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Exhibition Road
Royal College of Art, London
1987
British Art in the 20th Century
Royal Academy, London; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
1986
42nd Bienniale, Venice
1984
Artists Design for Dance 1909–1984
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
A Different Climate
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1982
Aspects of British Art Today
Metropolitain Museum, Tokyo;
Prefectual Museum, Tochigi;
National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka;
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka;
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
1979
Peter Moores Liverpool Project 5: The Craft of Art
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
British Drawings since 1945
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1978
Recent British Art
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg
The Mechanised Image
Arts Council of Britain Touring Exhibition, City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth
1977
Documenta VI, Kassel
Biennale de Paris, une anthologie: 1959–1967
Paris
British Artists of the ’60s
Tate Gallery, London
Contemporary Drawing
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1976
Arte inglese oggi
Palazzo Reale, Milan
Art as a Thought Process
11th Biennale International d’Art, Palais de l’Europe, Menton
1975
From Britain ’75
Taidehalli, Helsinki
Contemporary British Drawings
12th Biennale, Sao Paulo
1974
Graveurs Anglais Contemporains
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva
British Painting ’74
Hayward Gallery, London
1973
Henry Moore to Gilbert and George: Modern British Art from the Tate Galler
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
La peinture anglaise aujourd’hui
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1972
8th International Print Biennial
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo;
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
1969
Black White
Smithonian Institution, Washington D.C.
Marks on Canvas
Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund;
Kunstverein Hannover
Contemporary Art: Dialogue between East and West
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1968
British Artists: 6 Painters, 6 Sculptors
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Documenta IV, Kassel
Graphics Exhibition
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Junge Generation Großbritannien
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Britische Kunst heute
Hamburger Kunstverein
The New Generation
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1967
Jeunes peintres anglais
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Recent British Painting from the Collection of Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Acquisitions of the Sixties
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Drawings Towards Painting 2
Arts Council, London
1966
Multiplicity
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1965
4th Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Paris
A New York Collector Selects
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Responsive Eye
The Museum of Modern Art, New York;
City Art Museum, St Louis;
Seattle Art Museum;
Pasadena Art Museum;
Baltimore Museum of Art
1964
Carnegie International
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade. 1954–1964
Tate Gallery, London
Nouvelle Tendance
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
The New Generation
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1963
John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1962
Towards Art?
Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition, Royal College of Art, London
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
Ridinghouse (Ed.): Bridget Riley: A Very Very Person. The Early Years, London, 2019
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu (Ed.): Bridget Riley: Cosmos, Christchurch, 2017
Ridinghouse / Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Eds.): Bridget Riley, London, 2016
Ridinghouse (Ed.): Bridget Riley: Learning from Seurat, London, 2015
Ridinghouse (Ed.): Bridget Riley: The Curve Paintings 1961–2014, London, 2015
David Zwirner (Ed.): Bridget Riley: The Stripe Paintings 1961–2014, London, 2014
Ridinghouse (Ed.): Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley. Essays and interviews since 1972, London, 2014
Ridinghouse (Ed.): Bridget Riley: Eight Studies 1969–1972, London, 2014
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Bridget Riley. The Stripe Paintings 1961–2012, Berlin, 2013
Karsten Schubert (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Complete Prints, London, 2012 (fourth revised edition, first edition 2001)
Gemeentemuseum (Ed.): Bridget Riley: Sikkens Prize 2012, Den Haag, 2012
Eva Schmidt (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Malerei/Painting 1980-2012, Munich, 2012
Ridinghouse / Karsten Schubert (Eds.): Bridget Riley. Works 1960–1966, London, 2012
Robert Kudielka (Ed.): Malen um zu sehen. Bridget Riley. Gesammelte Schriften 1965–2009, Munich, 2012
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Paintings and Related Work 1983–2010, Berlin, 2011
Karsten Schubert (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Paintings and Gouaches 1979–80 & 2011, London, 2011
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge / Ridinghouse: Bridget Riley. colour, stripes, planes and curves, London, 2011
Hayward Publishing (Ed.): Bridget Riley: Flashback, London, 2010
National Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Paintings and Related Work, London, 2010
Robert Kudielka (Ed.): The Eye's Mind: Bridget Riley. Collected Writings 1965–2009, London, 2009 (second revised edition, first edition 1999)
Mönchehaus Museum Goslar (Ed.): Bridget Riley, Goslar, 2009
Karsten Schubert (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Circles Colour Structure. Studies 1970–71, London, 2008
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Rétrospective, Paris, 2008
Galerie Max Hetzler / Galerie Aurel Scheibler (Eds.): Bridget Riley, Berlin, 2007
Timothy Taylor Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. New Paintings and Gouaches, London, 2006
Robert Kudielka on Bridget Riley. Essays and Interviews 1972–2003, London, 2005
Beat Wismer (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Bilder und Zeichnungen 1959–2005, Aarau, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney / City Gallery Wellington (Eds.): Bridget Riley. Paintings and Drawings 1961-2004, London, 2004
Frances Follin (Ed.): Embodied Visions – Bridget Riley, Op Art and the Sixties, London, 2004
PaceWildenstein (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Recent Paintings, New York, 2004
Robert Kudielka (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Dialogues on Art, London, 2003
Galerie Beyeler (Ed.): Bridget Riley, Basel, 2003
Tate Publishing: Bridget Riley, London, 2003
Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, (Ed.): Bridget Riley. New Work, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Ausgewählte Gemälde/Selected Paintings 1961–1999, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2000
Waddington Galleries: Bridget Riley. New Paintings and Gouaches 1981–1995, London, 2000
Dia Center for the Arts (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Reconnaissance, New York, 2000
PaceWildenstein (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper, New York, 2000
Serpentine Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Paintings from the 1960s and 70s, London, 1999
Abbott Art Hall Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley, Works 1961–1998, Kendal, 1998
Waddington Galleries / Karsten Schubert (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Recent Paintings and Gouaches 1981–1995, London, 1996
Norwich Castle Museum (Ed.): Colour and Nature. Patrick Heron and Bridget Riley, Norwich, 1995
Karsten Schubert Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Works on Paper 1980–1992, London, 1992
Hayward Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Paintings 1982–1992, London, 1992
Sidney Janis Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley, New York, 1990
Queensland Art Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. An Australian Context, Brisbane, 1985
Galerie Reckermann (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Ölbilder und Gouachen, Cologne, 1984
Arts Council of Great Britain (Ed.): Working with Colour. Recent Paintings and Studies by Bridget Riley, London, 1984
Arts Council of Great Britain (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Silkscreen Prints 1965-1978, London, 1980
The British Council (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Works 1959–1978, London, 1978
Galerie Beyeler (Ed.): Bridget Riley, Basel, 1975
Sidney Janis Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley, New York, 1975
Hayward Gallery: Bridget Riley. Paintings and Drawings 1951–71, London, 1971
Kunstverein Hannover (Ed.): Bridget Riley, Hanover, 1970
Maurice de Sausmarez (Ed.): Bridget Riley, London, 1970
Bear Lane Gallery (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Working Drawings, Oxford, 1969
The British Council (Ed.): Bridget Riley. The 34th Venice Biennale, London, 1968
The Museum of Modern Art (Ed.): Bridget Riley. Drawings, New York, 1966
Gallery One (Ed.): Bridget Riley, London, 1963
Gallery One (Ed.): Bridget Riley, London, 1962
Others
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Ed.): eye attack. op art and kinetic art 1950-1970, Humlebæk, 2016
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): Then and Now, Berlin, 2014
Galerie Max Hetzler (Ed.): REMEMBER EVERYTHING : 40 Years Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, 2014
Hans Werner Holzwarth (Ed.): Sammlung im Wandel. Die Sammlung Rudolf und Ute Scharpff, Berlin, 2014
Kunsthalle Bielefeld (Ed.): Auf Zeit. Wandbilder - Bildwände, Cologne, 2013
Carré d'Art (Ed.): Moving Norman Foster on Art, London, 2013
Wilhelm Hack Museum (Ed.): Punkt. System - Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel, Heidelberg, 2012
Akademie der Künste (Ed.): New Departures. Painting and Real Space, Berlin, 2012
Neue Galerie (Ed.): Moderne. Selbstmord der Kunst, Graz, 2011
Kunstmuseum Wolfburg (Ed.): Die Kunst der Entschleunigung. Bewegung und Ruhe in der Kunst von Caspar David Friedrich bis Ai Weiwei, Ostfildern, 2011
Abbott Hall Art Gallery (Ed.): Collecting the Past, Present and Future, Kendal, 2007
Tate Publishing: If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, London, 2007
Leopold Hoesch Museum (Ed.): Die Neuen Tendenzen, Düren, 2007
Akademie der Künste (Ed.): RAUM. Orte der Kunst, Nuremberg, 2007
Schirn Kunsthalle (Ed.): Op Art, Cologne, 2007
Columbus Museum of Art (Ed.): Optic Nerve. Perceptual Art of the 1960s, London, 2007
Annegret Laabs, Uwe Gellner (Eds.): Farben: A noir, E blanc, I rouge, U vert, O bleu ..., Bielefeld, 2007
Videos
Publications
Bridget Riley: Paintings 1984–2020
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris | London / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2020
With an essay by Éric de Chassey and biographical notes by Robert Kudielka
Out of stock
Bridget Riley
Exhibition Poster
2020
€ 20.00
Bridget Riley: Measure for Measure. New Disc Paintings
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2018
With an essay by Éric de Chassey
€ 35.00
Bridget Riley
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris / Holzwarth Publications, Berlin 2015
With a text by Éric de Chassey
THEN AND NOW
Anthony Caro, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley, Edmund de Waal, Rebecca Warren
Galerie Max Hetzler Berlin | Paris 2014
With a text by Jurriaan Benschop
€ 15.00
REMEMBER EVERYTHING
Darren Almond, Glenn Brown, André Butzer, Rineke Dijkstra, Günther Förg, Mona Hatoum, Jeff Koons, Vera Lutter, Marepe, Beatriz Milhazes, Ernesto Neto, Frank Nitsche, Albert Oehlen, Yves Oppenheim, Richard Phillips, Michael Raedecker, Bridget Riley, Thomas Struth, Rebecca Warren, Christopher Wool, Toby Ziegler
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2014
With texts by Julie Sylvester and Jean-Marie Gallais
Edited by Jean-Marie Gallais
€ 45.00
Bridget Riley: Die Streifenbilder / The Stripe Paintings 1961–2012
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, Berlin and London 2013
With texts by John Elderfield, Paul Moorhouse and Robert Kudielka
€ 35.00
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Related Work 1983–2010
Galerie Max Hetzler / Holzwarth Publications / Ridinghouse, 2011
With texts by Bridget Riley, Robert Kudielka and a conversation between Bridget Riley and Lynne Cooke
Bridget Riley
Galerie Max Hetzler / Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin 2007
With a text by Robert Kudielka
Selected Press
New York Times March 2022
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung September 2020
art No.4/2020
Artsy November 2019
BLAU International Winter 2019 / 2020, No. 1
The Guardian October 2019
Süddeutsche Zeitung 2019
WELT July 2019
The Telegraph June 2019
Artlyst November 2018
The Japan Times June 2018
The Guardian September 2015
Berliner Zeitung June 2013
Süddeutsche Zeitung August 2012
Flash Art July 2011
Die Zeit March 2011
The Wall Street Journal November 2010
