Richard Wentworth

Richard Wentworth studied at Royal College of Art. The recorded working language is English. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Places of work recorded in the authority are London. Employment is recorded with Royal College of Art. Work by Richard Wentworth is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery, Tate and Tate Modern. Distinctions recorded are Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

• Name — Richard Wentworth • Field — Sculpture, Photography • Training — Hornsey College of Art and Royal College of Art • Movement — New British Sculpture • Website — http: www.lissongallery.com/artists/richard-wentworth Richard Wentworth (born 1947) is a British artist, curator and teacher.

Wentworth was born in Samoa—then a province of New Zealand—in 1947. He studied art at Hornsey College of Art in North London from 1965, then at the Royal College of Art, where he was a contemporary of Zoë Wanamaker and Tony Scott. Between 1971 and 1987, Wentworth taught at Goldsmiths College, and his influence is claimed in the work of the Young British Artists. From 2002 to 2010, Wentworth was 'Master of Drawing' at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, and from 2009 to 2011, he was the head of the Sculpture department at The Royal College of Art, London. In August 2014, Wentworth was one of 200 public figures who signed a letter to The Guardian opposing Scottish independence in the run-up to September's referendum on that issue.

Wentworth has lived for a number of years in the Kings Cross area of London. In 2002, he realised the Artangel project An Area of Outstanding Unnatural Beauty, in which he took over a plumbing supply shop in the area for three months, converting it into a base for visitors to explore and engage with the area. In 1996, his Marking the Parish Boundaries along the River Tees in County Durham was the first public art project funded by the National Lottery. Major solo presentations include upcoming major exhibition of new works at Far Far Gallery, UK (September 2026),Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris, France (2017), Bold Tendencies, Peckham, London, UK (2015), Black Maria with Gruppe, Kings Cross, London, UK (2013), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2010), 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2009), TATE, Liverpool, UK (2005), Artangel, London, UK (2002), Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany (1998), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1994), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (1993).

In July 2009, he curated the Lisson Gallery's Summer show, oule to Braid, featuring a large number of works from his personal collection and that of Lisson director Nicholas Logsdail. In 2000, together with Fischli & Weiss and Gabriel Orozco, he worked in "Aprendiendo menos" (Learning Less), curated by Patricia Martín and presented in Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City. Three different perspectives through photography, where the artists are a means to portray street findings within the urban landscape, its surroundings and its objects. In 1998 - 99, he curated Thinking Aloud, a national Touring exhibition organised by the Hayward Gallery at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge and Camden Arts Centre, London, that explored the creative process and the profligate nature of mass production and consumerism.