Richard Long
Snake, 2020
Richard Long was born in 1945 in Bristol, England, where he currently lives and works. He studied at the West of England College of Art and St. Martin’s School of Art, London. With his seminal walking work in 1967, Long has radically redefined the boundaries of sculpture – using nature as both subject and medium – over the course of his fifty-year career. Since his first solo exhibition in 1968, he has had retrospectives at The Guggenheim, New York (1986); Hayward Gallery, London (1991); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2007); and Tate Britain, London (2009). Solo museum shows include Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (1993), Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo (1996); Museu Serralves, Portugal (2001); Tate St. Ives, Cornwall (2002); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006); Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain de Nice (2008); “ARTIST ROOMS” organized by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, which traveled to The Hepworth Wakefield in England, among other venues (2012-20); Arnolfini, Bristol (2015); Houghton Hall, Norfolk (2017); De Pont Museum, The Netherlands (2019); Museum Leuven, Belgium (2021-22); and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT (2022-23). In 2023, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam presented “Richard Long: In the Rijksmuseum Gardens,” marking the tenth anniversary of the museum’s annual outdoor exhibition series. Long created the work Box Hill Road River for the cycling road race in Surrey as part of the 2012 Olympics. Long was awarded the Turner Prize in 1989, the Praemium Imperiale Art Award from Japan in 2009 and the Whitechapel Art Icon Award in 2015. The artist had his first solo show at Sperone Westwater in 1976, where he exhibits regularly (1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2011, 2015 and 2020).
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Richard Long
Untitled, 2015
red clay on Douglas Fir plywood
48 x 48 x 2 inches (122 x 122 x 5 cm)
SW 15175
Richard Long
Untitled, 2004
River Avon mud on Douglas Fir plywood
96 x 48 inches (243,8 x 121,9 cm)
SW 04355
Richard Long
Untitled, 2004
River Avon mud on Douglas Fir plywood
48 x 96 inches (121,9 x 243,8 cm)
SW 04371
Richard Long
Red Earth Circle, 1989/2021
Installation View, Diriyah Biennale: Feeling the Stones
JAX district, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, 2021
Richard Long
Bowery Slate, 2011
Cornish slate
4 x 110 x 246 inches (10,2 x 279 x 625 cm) approximately
SW 11145
Hall Collection
Richard Long
Half Moon, 2015
red slate
21 1/2 x 196 7/8 x 98 1/2 inches (54,5 x 500 x 250 cm)
SW 15180
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY
Richard Long
Santa Cruz Circle, 1997
slate from North Wales
132 inches (335,3 cm) diameter
SW 97261
Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Richard Long
Two Rivers Waterline, 2010
black and white photograph, text
44 1/2 x 33 1/4 inches (113 x 84,5 cm) frame
SW 11098
Richard Long
Rockfall Stones, 2012
gelatin silver print, text
44 1/4 x 33 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (112 x 85 x x 4 cm) frame
SW 14113
Private Collection
Richard Long
County Cork, Ireland, 1967
black and white photograph
30 x 40 inches (76,2 x 101,6 cm)
30 5/8 x 40 7/8 inches (77,8 x 103,8 cm) frame
SW 09139
Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Richard Long
Aconcagua Circle, 2012
color giclee print, text
28 3/8 x 38 x 1 1/2 inches (72 x 96,5 x 4 cm) frame
SW 15173
Private Collection
Richard Long
Following a Trail of Footprints, 2005
chromogenic print, unique
2 panels; 42 x 54 inches (106,7 x 137,2 cm) each
SW 05675
Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Richard Long
Donner Pass Circle, 2005
chromogenic print, unique
54 x 42 inches (137,2 x 106,7 cm)
SW 05672
Private Collection
Richard Long
Ring of Flint, 1996
English Flint from Norfolk
diameter 20 feet; radii 6 feet and 10 feet
SW 96203
Collection of The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Richard Long
Untitled, 2004
River Avon mud and black gesso on Douglas Fir plywood
48 x 48 inches (121,9 x 121,9 cm)
SW 04366
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Signs/Words
Sperone Westwater, Lugano
24 May – 13 July 2013
Untitled (Giotto's O)
Sperone Westwater, Lugano
30 November 2012 – 15 February 2013
Summer Exhibition
Sperone Westwater, New York
8 July – 5 September 2008
Summer Exhibition
Bertozzi & Casoni, Lucio Fontana, Charles LeDray, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman, Evan Penny, Richard Tuttle, and Not Vital
Sperone Westwater, New York
12 June – 31 August 2007
Summer Exhibition
Sperone Westwater, New York
7 July – 9 September 2006
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
20 September – 8 November 1997
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
26 March – 23 April 1994
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
19 October – 16 November 1991
Richard Long
New Work
Sperone Westwater, New York
18 March – 14 April 1989
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
6 – 16 September 1986
Group Show, Drawings
Auerbach, Beuys, Freud, Long, Rainer, Richter, Twombly
Sperone Westwater, New York
7 June – 31 July 1986
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
5 May – 2 June 1984
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
25 September – 23 October 1982
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
10 January – 7 February 1981
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
26 April – 17 May 1980
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
30 September – 28 October 1978
Richard Long
Sperone Westwater, New York
4 December 1976 – 8 January 1977
