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Bridget Riley (b.1931)
Samarra

Samarra by Bridget Riley (b.1931)

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Bridget Riley (b.1931)
Samarra

Signed, titled and dated on the reverse
Acrylic on Canvas
203.5 x 173 cms (80 x 68 inches)
1984

BRIDGET RILEY BIOGRAPHY:

1931 Born in London

1949-52 Goldsmiths' College, London

1952-55 Royal College of Art, London

1968 International Prize for Painting XXXIV Venice Biennale

1993 Honorary Doctorate, University of Oxford

1994 Honorary Doctorate,University of Cambridge



Selected one-person exhibitions

1962 Gallery One, London

1965 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York;
Feigen-Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles.

1966-67 Bridget Riley Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and touring USA.

1968 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York;
XXXIV Venice Biennale, British Pavilion (with Philip King);
touring to Städische Kunstgalerie, Bochum;
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam.

1970-71 Bridget Riley Paintings and Drawings 1951-71, Arts Council of Great Britain retrospective exhibition;
touring to Kunstverein Hannover;
KunsthalleBerne;
Städische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf;
Museo Civico, Turin;
HaywardGallery, London;
National Gallery Prague.

Bridget Riley. Paintings and Drawings. 1971-73 Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition,
touring to Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester;
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield;
D.L.I Museum and Arts Centre, Durham;
Scottish National Gallery, Birmingham;
Museum and Art Gallery, Letchworth;
City Art Gallery and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.

1975 (Paintings and gouaches) Galerie Beyeler, Basel;
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.

1978 ? Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.


1978-80 Bridget Riley: Works 1959-78, British Council retrospective exhibition;
touring to Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY;
Dallas Museum of FineArt;
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY;
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth;
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

1990 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York;
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo.

1992-93 Bridget Riley, Paintings 1982-1992, Kunsthalle Nürnberg;
Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat Bottrop;
Hayward Gallery, London;
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

1994 Bridget Riley: Six Paintings 1963-93 from the Collection, Tate Gallery,London.

1996 Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings and Gouaches, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London;
Bridget Riley: Paintings and Gouaches 1980-1995, Leeds City Art Gallery.

1998-99 Bridget Riley: Works 1961-1998, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal.

1999 Bridget Riley: Paintings from the 1960's and 1970's, Serpentine Gallery, London;

1999-2000 Bridget Riley: Selected paintings 1961- 1999, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf

2000-2001 Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance, Dia Center for the Arts, New York

2002 Bridget Riley: New Work, Museum Haus Esters and Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld

2003 Bridget Riley retrospective, TATE Britain, London



Selected group exhibitions

1963 One Year of British Art, Tooths Gallery, London.

1964 The New Generation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
Nouvelle Tendance, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris;
Ten Years, Gallery One, London;
Profile III, Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Städtisches Kunstmuseum,Bochum;
Marzotto Prize Exhibition, Italy and touring Europe;
Six Young Artists, Arts Council of Great Britain exhibition, touring the UK;
Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Young Artists Biennale, Tokyo.

1964-65 Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.

1965 The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and touring USA;
The Great Society: A Sampling of its Imagery, Art Forum Inc., Haverford, Pennsylvania;
A New York Collector Selects (Mrs. Burton Tremaine), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
1+1=3, Retinal Art, University of Texas, Austin;
Tel Aviv Museum,Israel;
4e Biennale Des Jeunes Artistes, Paris;
The English Eye, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery,
New York;
John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

1965-66 London, The New Scene, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis and touring USA;
Motion and Movement, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinatti.

1967 Recent British Painting from the collection of the Peter Stuyesvent Foundation, New York;
Tate Gallery, London.

1968 The New Generation: 1968 Interim, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
20th Century Art, Foundation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence;
British Artists: 6 Painters, 6 Sculptors, The Museum of Modem Art, NewYork, and touring USA.

1985 Hayward Annual: 25 Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art: The Sixties, The Seventies and the Eighties, The Hayward Gallery, London.

1987 British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London;
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.

1992 Ready Steady Go. Painting of the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, Royal Festival Hall, London, and touring UK;
Summer Group Show: Keith Coventry, Angus Fairhurst, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread and Alison Wilding, Karsten Schubert, London.

1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London;
Karsten Schubert at Aurel Scheibler: Keith Coventry, Michael Landy, Bridget Riley, Rachel Whiteread and Alison Wilding, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne.

1996 British Abstract Art III: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London Artists in Print, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin.

1997 A Quality of Light, Tate Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall

1998 White Noise, Kunsthalle, Berlin

1999 '45- '49, Kettles Yard gallery, University of Cambridge; toured to other venues in the UK

1999-2000 Sublime: The Darkness and the Light - works from the Arts Council Collection, John Hansard gallery, Southampton; toured to other venues in the UK

2000 Collection 2000, Tate Modern, London

2000 Blue, New Art Gallery, Walsall, West Midlands

Bridget Riley lives and works in London, Cornwall and France


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