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Biography
BORN 1947 Christchurch, New Zealand
EDUCATION
| 1968-71 | Studied At Ilam School of Art |
| 1972-75 | Studied at Royal College of Art, London |
| Lives and works in London | |
ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS
| 2007 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland |
| 2003 | Estorick Collection, London Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense |
| 2002 | De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea Milton Keynes Gallery |
| 2001 | Brisbane City Art Gallery, Brisbane |
| 2000 | Galerie Windows, Brussels |
| 1999 | Auckland Art Gallery Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens |
| 1997 | Auckland Art Gallery Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | “Boyd Webb”, VIII Indian Triennale, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India; Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Calcutta, India; Ravishankar Raval Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India; Cymroza Art Gallery, Bombay, India; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston, United Kingdom; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Church Street, Brighton, United Kingdom; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Orchard Gallery, Derry, United Kingdom; Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1995 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY “Boyd Webb”, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium |
| 1993 | Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris “Boyd Webb”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva Enconstros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal |
| 1992 | Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Boyd Webb: Photographs 1988-89”, Johnson County Community College, Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS |
| 1991 | “Boyd Webb: 1973-1979”, OCO, Paris |
| 1990 | Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland Jean Bernier, Athens F.R.A.C. du Limousin, Chapelle Saint-Liberal, Brive, France Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. |
| 1989 | Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London Cornerhouse, Manchester Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galerie Bernd Kluser, Munich |
| 1988 | Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica |
| 1987-88 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (travelled to Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, West Germany; The Fruitmarket Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| 1987 | Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens Galeria Comicos, Lisbon |
| 1986 | Chapter Art Center, Cardiff, Wales Adelaide Festival, Adelaide (travelled to Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Center for the Arts, University of Tasmania; Power Gallery for Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia), Auckland Sue Crockford Gallery |
| 1985 | University of Northern Illinois, Chicago (travelled to University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Tennessee, Knoxville; University Art Museum, California St. University, Long Beach) Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1984 | Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London |
| 1983 | Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Galeri Crousel-Hussenot, Paris Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (travelled to Kunsthalle, Bern; Le Nouveau Musee, Villeurbanne, France; Leeds City Art Gallery, England; Musee Municipale, La Roche-sur-Yon, France.) |
| 1982 | Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, West Germany (travelled to Westfalischer Kunstverein, Munster, West Germany) John and Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens |
| 1981 | Galerie Loyse Oppenheim, Geneva Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand ( travelled to The National Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.) Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1980 | Galerie t’Vensler, Rotterdam Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany |
| 1979 | New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galerie Sonnabend, Paris |
| 1978 | Gray Art Gallery and Museum, Hartlepool, England Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf Jean and Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol & Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1977 | Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle, United Knigdom Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1976 | Robert Self Gallery, London |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 | Julie Saul Gallery, Armory Show, New York, NY |
| 2004 | “Bloom: Mutation, Toxicity and the Sublime,” Govett-Brewster Gallery, New Zealand |
| 2003 | “Crooked Light,” Royal West of England Academy, Bristol |
| 2002 | “True Fictions,” Touring Exhibition, Germany |
| 1999 | “Toi Toi Toi,” Museum Friedericianum, Kassel |
| 1996 | “Spellbound,” The Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1995 | “Blind Spot, DARE,” The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas “Wasser und Wein Die: Dinge des Lebens,” Kunsthalle Krems, Austria “Crossroads,” Herbert Read Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels; FRAC Basse Normandie, Caen. |
| 1994 | “A Positive View”, The Saatchi Gallery, London “A Changing World; Fifty Years of Sculpture from the British Council Collection”, The British Council, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Pushkin Museum, Moscow “Sculpture,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London “Humanism & Technology: The Human Figure in Industrial Society,” Seoul International Art Festival, Korea |
| 1993 | “C’est pas la fin du monde”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Caen, France |
| 1992 | “Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art”, Hayward Gallery, London; Kunsthalle, Vienna |
| 1991 | “Blind Navigator – The Heritage of Surrealism”, Project Contemporary Art, Norway “Andreas Gursky, Fischli & Weiss, Boyd Webb”, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris “New Spaces of Photography”, Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw, Poland |
| 1990 | “Eighth Sydney Biennale”, Sydney “To Be or Not to Be”, Centre D’Art Contemporain Santa Monica, Barcelona “Je est un Autre”, Galeria Comicos, Lisbon “Van der Natur in der Kunst”, Vienna Festival “U.K. – U.S.S.R.”, The Showroom, (travelled to Kiev, Moscow) “British Art now, Japan 1990-91”, (travelled to: Setgaya Museum, Tokyo; Fukuoka Art Museum; Nagoya City Museum; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art; Hyogo Prefectural Museum; Hiroshima City Museum |
| 1989 | “The Globe”, Impressions, York “Constructed Realities”, Kunstverein, Munich “Seven Artists’ 89, INFAS, Tokyo “Through the Looking Glass”, Barbican Art Center, London “Artists Using Photography”, BASF with the British Council; Ludwigshafen; (travelled to Tate Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1988 | “Inside Outside”, Nottingham Castle , Nottingham “True Stories and Photofictions XIII”, Posternate Gallery, Hull “Britische Sicht! Fotographie aus England”, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich “Matter of Facts: Contemporary British Photography”, Le Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne; (travelled to Le Musee de Nantes and Le Centre de Photographie de Metz “Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980’s”, British Council, Belgium Object and Image: Aspects of British Art of the 1980’s”, Stoke-on-Trent |
| 1987 | “About Sculpture” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London “Blow Up” Zeitgeschichte Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; (travelled to Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Kunstverein Hamburg; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Kunstmuseum, Luzern; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn “Contemporary British Photography (British Council touring exhibition) Belgium, Luxembourg and Italy “Mysterious Coincidences”, London and Long Beach |
| 1986 | “Sculpture: 9 Artists from England” Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark “The Real Big Picture” Queens Museum, New York Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice “Collection Souvenir”, Le Nouveau Musee, Villerbaune “Prospect 86”, Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt Contrariwise: Surrealism and Britain 1930-1986, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swanson (travelled to Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno “Signs of the Real”, White Columns, New York “True Stories and Photofictions”, Photogallery, Cardiff “Sculpture into Photography”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 1985 | “L’Indifferent”, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton “Biennale”, Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris “The Irresistible Object: Still Life 1600 – 1985”, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds “Atelier Polaroid”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris “Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985”, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1984 | “Histoires des Sculptures”, Chateau des Ducs d’Epernon, Cadillac, Gironde “Anxious Interiors” Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA “The British Art Show”, (Arts Council Touring Exhibition) City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southampton Art Gallery |
| 1983 | “Works on Paper”, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London “The Sculpture Show”, Hayward Gallery, London “Images Fabriquees”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| 1982 | “Fourth Biennale”, Sydney, Australia “Staged Photo Events”, Lijnbaan Centrum, Rotterdam “Documenta”, Kassel |
| 1981 | “Fabricated to be Photographed”, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; P.S.1, Long Island City, New York “New Works of Contemporary Art and Music”, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh “New Directions”, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York “The New Color”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York “Art and the Sea”, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (travelled to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Stoke City Art Gallery, Stoke; DLI Museum and Arts Centre, Durham; Cartwright Hall, Bradford Sonnabend Gallery, New York Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London Galerie Chantel Crousel, Paris “Erweiterte Fotografie”, Neue Secession, Vienna “Das Portrait in der Fotographie”, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn |
| 1980 | “Artist and Camera”, (Arts Council touring exhibition) Sunderland Art Center, Sunderland Bluecoat Gallery; Open Eye Gallery and School of Architecture, Liverpool; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno; Southampton Art Gallery and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; lnstitute of Contemporary Arts, London; “About 70 Photographs”, (Arts Council touring exhibition) “Photography and the Medium”, (British Council Touring Exhibition travelled to Norway, Poland, Yugoslavia, The Netherlands, Denmark and Spain) Sonnabend Gallery, New York Lisson Gallery, London “Photographic Contrivances”, University of California at Santa Barbara |
| 1979 | “Europa ’79”, Stuttgart “With a Ceratin Smile” |
| 1977 | “Time, Words and the Camera”, Kunstlerhaus, Graz (travelled to Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck; Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; Museum Bochum, Bochum. |
| 1976 | “Pan Pacific Biennale”, Auckland, New Zealand |
| 1975 | Robert Self Gallery, London |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 1997 | Auckland: Auckland Art Gallery. Boyd Webb (Essay, ‘Unruly Truths’ by Jenny Harper. ‘True Griffins’ by Lynne Cooke. Motives for Metaphor’ by Ian Christie). |
| 1994 | London: British Council. Boyd Webb (Introduction by Andrea Rose; essay, ‘A degree of unease’ by Greg Hilty). |
| 1992 | Thorsen, Alice. “Variety makes for a lively season.” The Kansas City Star, Sun. Sept. 13, pp. K-1+K-10 Thorson, Alice. “Stunning photos show environmental concern.” The Kansas City Star, Sun. Oct. 18, p. J-4 |
| 1990 | Paul, Frederic. “Un Object secondaire-Un Object desole/The Secondary Object-A Desolate Object,” F.R.A.C. Limousin, (cat.) |
| 1989 | Taylor, Brandon. “Boyd Webb,” Artnews, 150 years of Pbotography, Mar. Hagen, Charles. “Photography as Art: Truth of Illusion,” Popular Photography, Mar. pgs. 41-47 Heartney, Eleanor. “Boyd Webb,” Artnews, Dec. Hagen, Charles. “Boyd Webb,” Artforum, Dec. Decter, Joshua. “Boyd Webb,” Arts Magazine, Dec., pg. 98 Taylor, Brandon. “B.W.: Forms and Nature,” BASF and British Council, (cat.) |
| 1988 | “Boyd Webb”, Building Design, Mar. 18 Wilson, William. “Two MOCA Shows of Breezy Enterainment,” L.A.Times, April 10 Johnstone, Mark. “Theaters of the Mind,” Artweek, May 28 Reynolds, Patrick. “Beyond the Black Cloth: Boyd Webb at the Whitechapel.” Art New Zealand, May |
| 1987 | “Inanimations,” project for Artforum, April Gleadell, Colin. “A Taste of Webb’s Wonders,” The Sunday Times, May 3 Januszcak, Waldemar. “A View to a Death,” The Guardian, May 14 “Critics Forum”, William Feaver, Marilyn Butler, Christopher Cook, Anthony Thwaite, BBC Radio 3, May 16 Feaver, William. “Toaster from Outer Space,” The Observer, May 17 Sewell, Brian. “Turning things upside down,” The London Evening Standard, May 21 Morgan, Stuart. “Boyd Webb at Whitechapel,” VOGUE, May Stathanos, John. Artscribe, Oct. Golding, Mel. “Boyd Webb at Whitechapel.” Flash Art, October Feaver, William. “Boyd Webb.” Artnews, November |
| 1986 | Sturtevant, Alfred. “Boyd Webb at Sonnabend, Arts Magazine, January Ellis, Stephen. “Boyd Webb at Sonnabend,” Art in America, Jan. Morgan, Stuart. “Paper Moon,” Parkett, No. 9 Cork, Richard. “Boyd Webb,” (cat.) Adelaide Festival of Arts Morgan, Stuart. “Boyd Webb,” Prospet 86, Frankfurter Kunstverein |
| 1985 | Kinmouth, Patrick. “Neo-Logic of Boyd Webb,” VOGUE, Feb. Boonstra, Rommert. “Fotograaf Boyd webb en de Werkelijkheid van de Schijn,” Avenue, July Levin, Kim. “Boyd Webb Art Talk,” Village Voice, Oct. 22 Cooke, Lynne. “Boyd Webb,” Nouvelle Biennale de Paris (cat.) Electa, Moniteur, Paris Paltzer, Rolf. “Tauschung um der Wahrheit Willen,” Art das Kunstmagazin, No. 11, Nov. |
| 1984 | Morgan, Stuart. “Boyd Webb,” Beaux Arts Magazine, May. Walker, Ian. “Boyd Webb, Creative Camera, Dec. Morgan, Stuart. “Boyd Webb, Interviewed,” Creative Camera, Dec. Beaumont, M.R. “Review of William Coldstream and Boyd Webb at Anthony D’Offay.” Art Review, July 6 Morgan, Stuart. “Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb,” Artforum, Nov. |
| 1983 | Blistene, Bernard. “Losing Your Bearings”, (cat.) Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindoven van der Kaap, Gerald, “Boyd Webb,” Artforum, Nov. |
| 1982 | Schwarz, Michael. Boyd Webb (Catalogue), Badischer Kunstverein, Karslruhe Roberts, John. “A Twist in the Tail: Boyd Webb and the Directorial Tradition,” catalogue insert, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe Theil, H. “Boyd Webb Photoskulpturen.” Kunstforum International, June |
| 1981 | Hamish, Keith. “Boyd Webb: Photographic Works 1976 – 1981” Auckland City Art Gallery, (catalogue) “Boyd Webb: New Work at Anthony D’Offay.” Connoisseur, May |
| 1980 | Stockebrand, Marianna. “Boyd Webb-Norbert Wolf” (catalogue) Museum Hans Lange, Krefeld |
| 1978 | Morgan, Stuart. Tableaux (catalogue) Robert Self Gallery, London Serota, Nicholas. “Contrary Illuminations Boyd Webb” (catalogue) Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
FILMS
| 1984 | Scenes and Songs from Boyd Webb: Directed by Philip Haas, colour, 20 minutes, 16 mm: Arts Council of Great Britain |
| 1996 | Love Story | Colour 7 minutes | Hayward Gallery/BFI |
| 2002 | Horse & Dog | Colour 10 minutes FVU / Estoric Collection |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Chase Manhattan Bank, London
Leeds City Art Galleries, Leeds
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris
F.R.A.C. Aquitaine
F.R.A.C. Rhone-Alpes
F.R.A.C. Limousin
Museums Boymans – Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington
Tate Gallery, London
Musee de la Roche-sur-Yon
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
Contemporary Arts Society
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Southhampton Art Gallery, Southhampton
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Auckland City Art Gallery
Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal
Salford Museum and Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Williams College Museum of Art
Atantis Museum, Tenerife
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Kunsthalle, Zurich
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon