RICHARD DEACON: RECENT CERAMICS

Born in Bangor, Wales, in 1949, Richard Deacon has emerged as one of Britain’s most celebrated sculptors. In his sculptural work, Deacon uses a wide range of materials. His structures emerge from a keen interest in the characteristics of the material itself, allowing him to play with the ways in which it can be shaped and how it relates to human association and sensory experience.
Richard Deacon was the recipient of the 1987 Turner Prize and was made Commander of the British Empire in 1996. In 1997, he was awarded the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture in France, and in 1998 was elected a Royal Academician in London. The Akademie der Künste in Berlin elected him a member in 2010. He has held professorships at the Ecole Normale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and other institutions. Alongside numerous solo exhibitions in museums in Europe, the US and Asia, he has participated in many of the most significant survey exhibitions, including the Carnegie International, documenta, and Skulptur Projekte Münster. Recent solo exhibitions include the San Diego Museum of Art (2017), Prague City Gallery (2017), Middelheimmuseum (2017), Langen Foundation and Skulpturenhalle Thomas Schütte in Neuss (2016), Museum Folkwang (2016), Kunstmuseum Winterthur (2015), Tate Britain (2014), the University of New Mexico Art Museum (2011), and Sprengel Museum (2011). His works can be found in leading collections including the Tate, Centre George Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofía, Kunstmuseum Basel, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stedelijk Museum, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Kröller-Müller Museum, MCA in Chicago, MoMA, SFMOMA, Walker Art Gallery, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Richard Deacon lives and works in London.

Photo Ken Adlard