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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


studio

+44(0)78 1804 6981
david(at)david-rickard.net


Studio 14G, The Triangle
129-131 Mare Street
London E8 3RH
, UK


represented by:

CØPPERFIELD (UK)

Galleria Michela Rizzo (Italy)


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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

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