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David Rickard, is a New Zealand artist based in London, UK. His original studies in architecture have had a lasting impact on his art practice, embedding queries of material and spatial perception deep into his work. Through research and experimentation his works attempt to understand how we arrived at our current perception of the physical world and how far our perception is from what we call reality. recent interviews 2023 / Interalia Magazine - Perception and Reality / interview with Richard Bright 2021 / Seisma Magazine - David Rickard: Art at the Thresholds, by Paul Carey Kent 2021 / OpenLab - Breaking Boundaries: A studio visit with David Rickard, by Kate Neave 2020 / Collaborative City - interview with Robert Such 2019 / Radio New Zealand - Standing Room Only with Lynn Freeman 2019 / ExibArt - Avanti & Indietro with Raffaele Gavarro
solo and duo exhibitions 2024 David Rickard / Mariateresa Sartori AETHER/ETERE, GMR, Venice, Italy 2023 Throwing Dice in the Dark, GMR2, Michela Rizzo, Mestre, Italy 2022 Landfall, CØPPERFIELD, London UK 2021 A circle called Zero, No Lugar, Quito, Ecuador 2020 Foreign Bodies, CØPPERFIELD, London UK 2019 Echoes from the Sound Barrier, Ashburton Art Gallery, NZ 2017 We are all Astronauts, Otto Zoo, Milan, Italy 2016 0, CØPPERFIELD, London, UK 2016 A bag of Atoms, Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland 2016 Myriad, with CORD, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection, UK 2015 Out of Sorts, CØPPERFIELD off-site, Rotterdam 2014 Joachim Coucke / David Rickard, What you know is not what you see Canal 05, Brussels, Belgium 2013 All Vertical Lines Intersect, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2013 Vanishing Point, Sumarria Lunn, London, UK 2013 David Rickard / David Tremlet, TRA, Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso, Italy 2012 Displacements, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2012 David Rickard / Tommy Stockel, LoBe Project Space, Berlin, Germany 2011 Testing the Limits, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK 2011 Time + Trace, Sumarria Lunn, London, UK 2010 Test Flights, The Economist Plaza, London, UK 2009 Mitosis, Michela Rizzo, Treviso, Italy 2008 Exhaust, 19-06-08, Goethe-Institut, Exhibition Road, London, UK 2008 Solid State, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2007 Dilate, Trolley Gallery, London, UK selected group exhibitions 2025 A Walk in the Park with James Christie, Christie's, Amsterdam, curated by Mulan Go 2024 Not What it Seems... (From the John Snijders Collection), Platform A, Middlesbrough 2024 FarFarOut, Way Out East, University of East London, curated by Samuel Zealey 2024 Hope - Who will turn the tide, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria 2024 Intension, CØPPERFIELD, London, UK 2024 Blue Background, Kunstdepot Göschenen, Switzerland 2024 Controlled Encounter / The Constriction of Open Space, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2024 Urban Mining, Pangaea Sculptors Centre, Coventry University, UK, curated by Lucy Tomlins 2023 Sistema Tempo, MoCA, Brescia, Italy 2023 SEISMIC / Art meets Science, GIANT Art Space, Bournemouth UK, curated by Paul Carey-Kent 2023 Open Air!, Climate Art, London 2023 Traces of a Cathode, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK, curated by Joe Cutts 2022 In the Air, Wellcome Collection, London, UK, curated by George Vasey & Emily Sargent 2022 (in)visible fields / space as energy, Michela Rizzo, Venice, curated by Elena Forin 2022 Alpensinfonie, Hans Erni Musuem, Lucerne, Switzerland, curated by Heinz Stahlhut 2021 Inaspettatamente (Unexpectedly), Cloud Seven, Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels 2021 Not Painting, CØPPERFIELD, London UK 2021 Brief Encounters 21, Lustwarande, Holland, curated by Chris Driessen & Steven Vandervelden 2021 PORÖS, LoBe, Berlin, Germany, curated by Sculptlobe 2021 Feuilleton, MACRO Rome and Spoleto Italy, curated by Jo Melvin 2021 Assembramenti, Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy 2021 Mountain Scenarios, Museo Nazionale della Montagna, Turin curated by Andrea Lerda & Veronica Lisino 2021 RESET: Instructions to begin in a new present, TACA, Palma Mallorca, curated by Aina Pomar 2020 LUCHT, Museum Kranenburgh, Netherlands, curated by Colin Huizing 2020 Hazard Profile, CØPPERFIELD, London UK 2020 RE-INDEX, La Rete Projects Michela Rizzo, curated by Elena Forin 2020 Here Be Dragons, CØPPERFIELD, London UK, curated by Aina Pomar 2020 Assembramenti, Michela Rizzo, Venice 2019 Welcome Home! Elephant West, London, UK, curated by Rebecca Pelly-Fry 2019 Soglie e Confini, Michela Rizzo, Venice, curated by Elena Forin 2019 Trellis, UCL East, London UK, curated by Rosamond Murdoch & Sam Wilkinson 2019 ₡ U R R € ₦ ₡ ¥, NOME, Berlin, Germany, curated by Lucie Fontaine 2019 Light-footed light-fingered, Ryder Projects, London, UK 2018 Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny Venice, in collaboration with Hermitage State Museum, St Petersburg curated by Daniela Ferretti, Dimitri Ozerkov with Dario Dalla Lana 2018 The End is where we Begin From, Balzer Projects, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Pauline Doutreluingne 2018 Austrian Illuminations (performance), Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK, curated by S. J. Fowler 2017 AND A 123, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK, curated by Matthew Pendergast 2017 Het Zalig Nietsdoen, Kranenburgh Museum, Netherlands, curated by Eelco Van Der Lingen 2017 REPÈRES - État de l’art public au Luxembourg - LUCA, Luxembourg 2017 Moving Space, KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig, Germany 2017 Illuminations 1 (performance), Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK, curated by S. J. Fowler, 2016 Your face has no function for me, Division of Labour, London, UK 2016 Open Forest, The Jerwood Space, London, UK 2016 PAE, Belval, Luxembourg, curated by Delcroix Pinsky 2016 Not Really Really, The Frederic de Goldschmidt Collection, Brussels, Belgium 2015 The Dream of Modern Living? Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, UK 2015 Which one of these is the non-smoking lifeboat? Pangea Sculptor’s Centre, London, UK 2015 Flags, Serra di Giardini, Venice, Italy, curated by Elena Forin 2015 Do you have Barbaric Taste? Poppositions, Brussels, Belgium 2015 Weight for the Showing, Maddox Arts, London 2014 Act & Application, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE 2014 Here Today . . . The Old Sorting Office, London, UK curated by Artwise 2014 Alchemy, state of change, NEST, The Hague, Netherlands, curated by Will Lunn 2014 Obsessive Compulsive Order, CØPPERFIELD, London, UK 2013 Must-Have, Ligne Roset with Articurate, London, UK 2013 BLUMM Art Prize, Brussels, Belgium 2012 Zu Haus, LoBe Project Space, Berlin, Germany 2012 CALL, Luis Adelantado, Valencia, Spain 2012 Intersections, Science in Contemporary Art - Weizmann Institute, Tel Aviv, Israel 2012 The Dividing Line, The High House, Oxfordshire, UK 2012 Out of Control, NEST, The Hague, Netherlands 2011 The British Ceramics Biennial, Spode, Stoke-on-Trent, UK 2011 Round the Clock, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy 2011 Beyond Ourselves, The Royal Society of Science, London, UK 2011 The Wolfson Syndrome, Modern Language Experiment, London, UK 2010 HomeBase V, Berlin, Germany 2010 Exteriority, Sumarria Lunn, London U.K. 2010 Lines of Desire, Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Wales 2010 Tony Cragg, Lawrence Carroll, Giovanni Rizzoli, Luca Clabot, David Rickard Galleria Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy 2010 Transitions, Castelfranco, Italy - public works curated by Elena Forin 2010 Appetite for Destruction, NEST, The Hague, Netherlands 2010 Latitudini | Longitudini, Galleria Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy 2010 Romeu Goncalves / David Rickard, The Mews Project Space, London, U.K. 2009 Jamais Vu, Forman & Field, Stour Road, London, Hackney Wicked Art Festival 2008 Bombay Sapphire 2008, Superstudio Piu, via Tortona 27, Milan, Italy 2008 Show Room, Galleria Michela Rizzo Contemporary Art, Palazzo Palumbo Fossati, Venice, Italy 2005 Long Live Romance II, Galleria Pack, Foro Buonaparte 60, Milan, Italy 2005 Long Live Romance II, Lipanjepuntin, Via di Montoro 10, Rome, Italy 2005 The Jerwood Sculpture Prize, The Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London, UK education 93 - 98 Bachelor of Architecture 1st hons, Auckland School of Architecture, New Zealand 99 - 01 Brera Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Milan, Italy 02 - 03 Masters of Fine Art (associate), Central Saint Martins College, London, U.K. public commissions 2023 Synthesis (heavy-chain), Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, UCL London 2022 Absence Echoed, Uren Hub, Imperial College, London 2021 Signals, Damac Tower, London, UK 2019 Beyond Sight Within Grasp (Red, Yellow and Blue), UCL Trellis, London, UK 2019 Timelapse, Kielder Art & Architecture, UK 2016 Yield, Fonds Belval, Luxembourg 2016 Myriad, Snape Maltings Sculpture Collection, UK grants/residencies 2025 Stiftung Kunstdepot, Switzerland (residency upcoming) 2025 L4F / Ars Electronica, (residency) 2025 Immersive Arts, Explore (grant) 2023 Horizon 2020, EU (grant) 2022 Seisma Magazine, Astrophysics (grant) 2020 Arts Council England (grant) 2019 Trellis, UCL, London (residency) 2019 Stiftung Kunstdepot, Switzerland (residency) 2016 Public Art Experience, Luxembourg (residency) 2015 Pangaea Sculptors Centre, UK (residency) 2012 LoBe Berlin (residency) 2009 The European Ceramic Work Centre (residency) 2009 Arts Council England (grant) collections include Casa Museo Belvedere (Italy) Concordia Collection (Netherlands) S. Davíðsdóttir (UK) Fredrick De Goldschmidt Collection (Belgium) Fonds Belval Luxembourg (Luxembourg) Imperial College London (UK) Kielder Art & Architecture Collection (UK) Manchester City Art Gallery (UK) De Nederlandsche Bank Art Collection (Netherlands) Prudential Collection (UK) University College London (UK) Wellcome Collection (UK) Private collections in UK, Europe, USA and NZ talks/teaching 2023-25 Hasselt University, Belgium, Phd Mentor 2023 Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin (guest lectures and three-day workshop) 2022 White City Sculpture Challenge, Imperial College, Judge 2020 LFA 2020, ‘The Power of Public Art’, with KPF and Lacuna 2020 UCL public talk ‘Art in the Public Realm’ with Sam Wilkinson 2019 Northern School of Art (visiting lecturer) 2018 IKKG, Koblenz, Germany (master’s mentor) 2017 Illuminations 1: Austrian Cultural Forum, London (talk/performance) 2017 Border Sessions, The Hague, Netherlands (artist talk) 2016 Jerwood Space, London, UK (talk and panel discussion) 2015 Merano Arte/Kunst, Italy (talk and discussion with Valerio Dehò) 2015 IKKG, Koblenz, Germany (5 lectures and week-long workshop) 2015 Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata, Italy (2 lectures and two-day workshop) 2014 How did you do that? Pangea Sculpture Centre, London (artist talk) 2014 Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam (guest critic) 2014 Wimbledon College of Art (sculpture degree show guest critic) 2013 TRA, Treviso Ricerca Arte, Treviso, Italy, (artist talk/interview with Elena Forin) 2011 The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London, UK, (interview with Michele Robecchi) 2011 Crunch Festival, Hay on Wye, Wales (artist talk) 2010 Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata, Italy (guest lectures) selected press 2024.09 Expoarte, ‘Rickard e Satori / La presenza dell'assente’ by Francesco Fabris 2024.08 Exhibart, ‘La presenza dell'assente’ by Zaira Carrer 2023.05 Art Monthly UK, ‘Traces of a Cathode’ by Bob Dickinson 2022.10 Hyperallergic, ‘The Politics of the Air We Breathe' by Anna Souter 2022.06 ‘I’m very conscious of art-washing but we have to bloody do something’: the show tackling air pollution. The Guardian, UK by Patrick Barkham. 2022.05 Pollution and Politics Permeate; Evening Standard, Ben Luke 2021.06 Breaking Boundaries: A studio visit with David Rickard, OpenLab FM, by Kate Neave 2021.06 El arte supera la distancia pandemica; El Comercio, Ecuador, by Fernando Criollo 2021.05 David Rickard: Art at the Thresholds, Seisma Magazine by Paul Carey-Kent 2020.10 VolksKrant, Netherlands, Overal en nergens, by Sarah Van Binsbergen 2020.09 Avrotros TV, LUHCT in Museum Kranenburgh, presented by Suzanne Swarts 2020.04 Art New Zealand, ‘Echoes from the Sound Barrier’ by Jasmine Gallagher 2019.12 ArtBeat, ‘David Rickard – Exploring the gaps between perception and reality’ by Warren Feeney 2019.11 Radio New Zealand, Standing Room Only, interview with Lynn Freeman 2019.10 BBC Designed, ‘Is this what future homes will look like?’ by Eddie Mullan 2019.09 New York Times, ‘It’s the Art Form of the Moment . . .’ by Scott Reyburn 2019.09 Elephant Magazine 40, David Rickard ‘Small acts of Carefulness’ Interview with Emily Steer 2019.09 T24, Turkey ‘Brüksel, İstanbul ve Londra’da canlı performans furyası’ by Selin Tamtekin 2019.09 La Libre, Brussels ‘La performance en objet de collection’ by C. Lorent 2019.04 Texture Magazine, ₡ U R R € ₦ ₡ ¥, Juli Cordray 2019.02 NEO2, ‘Arte público no tan público en The Ryder’, by A. Le Genissel 2019.01 Exibart, ‘Avanti & Indietro’ an interview with Raffaele Gavarro 2018.05 The Whitewalls ‘The museum and gallery shows you’ve got to see in Basel’ Katy Donoghue 2017.10 Thisistomorrow, ‘AND A 123’ Castlefield Gallery, by Eli Regan 2017.06 Stilstaan bij stilstaan, ‘Het Zalig Nietsdoen’, Musuem Kranenburgh by Mark Minnema 2017.03 Fruit of the Forest, interview with Federica Tattoli 2017.03 Exhibart, ‘We are all Astronauts’, by Francesca Pasini 2017.02 Artribune, Con l'occhio dell'astronauta, by Ginevra Bria 2016.11 Art Dependence, ‘When forests are open for ideas’, by Aina Pomar 2016.06 Luxembourger Wort, ‘Die 1-Prozent-Kunst’, by Thierry Hick 2016.06 Rheinpfalz, 'Kunst aus der Giesserei’, by Julia Helwig 2015.10 AJ, ‘Rickard and Di Chello win £50k Snape Maltings contest’, by Merlin Fulcher 2015.06 il manifesto, ‘La storia non è istantanea’ by Stefano Velotti 2014.12 Blouin Art Info, ‘Highlights from UNTITLED Art Fair Miami 2014’ by Regina Mogilevskava 2014.04 Artlyst, ‘Obsessive Compulsive Order’, Paul Carter Robinson 2013.09 Drome Magazine, ‘All Vertical Lines Intersect’ by Deborah Rossetto 2013.05 ArtonAir.org ‘Venice 2013’, Hosted by Fedra Boscaro , Federica Patti 2013.05 Tremors Magazine, Interview with David Rickard, by Digby Warde Aldam 2013.05 World Sculpture News, Winter 2013, Testing Phenomena 2012.12 AP/100 Von Hundert, ‘Klebebandkreuze und Dielenspaltstoppel’ by Julia Gwendolyn Schneider 2012.02 Kunstbeeld, pages 56-63, David Rickard, Solo Focus, by Manon Braat 2012.02 Artribune, Umani Sistemi by Tommaso Zanini 2012.02 Il Gazzettino, Arte e grandi circuiti di comunicazione by Enzo Di Martino 2011.11 Art Slant, David Rickard - London Watchlist 2011.07 Art Slant, ‘Time + Trace’ by Laura Bushell 2011.07 The Times, Eureka Magazine, ‘Artists revel in the questions and leave answers to the scientists’ by Gia Milinovich 2011.06 Frame Magazine, ‘Time + Trace’ by Lydia Parafianowicz 2011.06 Fad Magazine, David Rickard Time + Trace by Mark Westwall 2010.07 La Arena, Italy, David Rickard: Exhaust, una performance lunga un girono a Castelfranco 2010.07 La Reppublica, Italy, ‘Quel NeoZealandese e una mass di palloni gonfiati’ 2010.05 Saatchi Online, London Highlights, Paul Carey-Kent 2010.04 Flash Art, (N.282), Latitudini/Longitundini, Eugenia Delfini 2010.03 Saatchi Online, London Highlights, Paul Carey-Kent 2009.11 The Londonist, ‘Test Flights at the Economist Plaza’ Rachel Borchard 2009.04 Correra della Sera, Rome Art Fair 2009 2008.06 Juliet Art Magazine, Solid State, Martin Cavallarin 2005.04 Metro, Art Review, ‘Jerwood Sculpture Prize’ Fisun Guner 2005.04 The Independent, ‘Sculptures with big ideas get chance to fulfil their dream’ Louise Jury 2005.03 The Times T2, ‘It’s all about context for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize’ John Russell Taylor |