1963 Born in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK
Lives and works in Dallas, Texas, USA
Education
1982–1983 Watford College of Art and Design Foundation Course, UK
1983–1986 Goldsmith's College, London, BA (Hons.) Fine Art, UK
Public Collections
Arts Council, London, UK
British Council, London, UK
Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
The Rowan Collection, Northern Ireland
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
SFMoMA, San Francisco, California, USA
Southampton Museum and Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Exhibitions
2011
Queer State(s), Visual Arts Center, curated by Noah Simblist, The University of Texas at Austin, Dallas, USA
2010
ART, curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin
Size Does Matter, curated by Shaquille O’Neal, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA
2009
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Collection Display co-curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Tim Etchells, Mike Figgis and Wayne Hemingway & Son, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Richard Patterson: Goss Michael Foundation, Dallas, USA (solo)
2008
Richard Patterson: New Work, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (solo)
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, curated by Lisa Dennison, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (cat.)
Freeze 20, The Hospital Club, London, UK
2007
Attention to Detail, curated by Chuck Close, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA (cat.)
Nexus Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas, USA
2006
Ambush, Road Agent, Dallas, Texas, USA
2005
Richard Patterson: Paintings from Dallas, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK (cat.) (solo)
2004
She's Come Undone, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, USA
Pixels: Painting and Photography in the Digital Age, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (cat.)
Inaugural Exhibition, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2002
Richard Patterson, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Rowan Collection: Contemporary British & Irish Art, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, UK (cat.)
Arte Contemoporanio Internacional, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico, USA
2001
Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky, Gallery, New York, USA
My Reality—Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (2002); Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa,Florida; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
(2003); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; The Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama, USA (2004)
Casino 2001, curated by Jeanne Greenberg-Rohaytn, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele
Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium
2000
Concentration 35: Richard Patterson, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA (cat.) (solo)
1999
Richard Patterson, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Negotiating Small Truths, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
Mode of Art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.)
1998
Head First: Portraits from the Arts Council Collection, The City Gallery, Leicester; City Art Gallery, Southampton; Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, UK (cat.)
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Art Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA (cat.)
1997
Richard Patterson, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK (cat.) (solo)
False Impressions, The British School at Rome, Rome, Italy (cat.)
Package Holiday: New British Art in the Ophiuchius Collection, The Hydra Workshop, Hydra, Greece
Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain, MoCA, Sydney, Australia touring to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, and City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand (cat.)
Sensation: Young British Artists from The Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK; Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
About Vision: New British Paintings in the 1990s, MoMA, Oxford; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1997); Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK (1997-98) (cat.)
1996
ACE!: Arts Council Collection of New Purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham; Hayward Gallery,
London; Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Answered Prayers, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Portrait of the Artist, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Sammlung Volkmann Zeigt: Faustrecht Der Freiheit, Kunstsammlung Gera and Neues Museum, Weserburg, Berlin, Germany
1995
Richard Patterson: Motocrosser, Project Space, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1988
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK (cat.)