KELLY RICHARDSON: NEWS

Touring Survey Exhibition Launching in 2012
A survey exhibition of Kelly Richardson's work will launch next summer at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (UK) alongside the world premiere of a major new video installation commissioned by The Pixel Palace (details below). The exhibition will then tour to the Grundy Art Gallery (UK), Towner (UK), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (USA) and the Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver (Canada). Further details to follow as the tour develops.

Edel Assanti
"Immortal Nature"
January 25 - March 3, 2012
London, England

Curated by artist Gordon Cheung, "Immortal Nature" presents an exhibition conceptually split across three floors of the gallery space: the underworld, earth and the afterlife, including work by Gordon Cheung, Laurence Edwards, Robin Friend, Alex Hoda, Nicolai Howlat, Hew Locke, Rui Matsunaga, Richard Mosse, Kelly Richardson and Piers Secunda.

Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains
"Visions Fugitives"
February 11 - April 15, 2012
Tourcoing, France

As part of the European event Dessiner - tracer, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains presents an exhibition of “animated” artworks, in the broadest sense of the term. While demonstrating the technical evolution in this area and the variety of formats, the exhibition will mainly focus on fleeting visions, examined through the works of artists such as Kelly Richardson, Tabaimo, Jan Kopp, Clint Enns, Robert Breer, William Kentridge, Laurent Pernot, etc.

Pixel Palace
"Mariner 9 "
August - October, 2012
Newcastle, UK

Coinciding with a 10 year survey exhibition of Kelly Richardson's work at the NGCA, the Pixel Palace will present a solo presentation of "Mariner 9", a newly commissioned triple-channel video installation featuring a future, abandoned Martian landscape. Numerous events will take place simultaneously including a film festival programmed by Richardson highlighting genres which have informed her practice. Further details will follow.

Grundy Art Gallery
"Kelly Richardson: LEGION"
October 13, 2012 - January 5, 2013
Blackpool, UK

Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. Selected works from the exhibition will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.

Towner
"Kelly Richardson: LEGION"
January 19 - March 31, 2013
Eastbourne, UK

Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. Selected works from the exhibition will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery
"Kelly Richardson: LEGION"
January 25 - April 14, 2013
Buffalo, New York, USA

Curated by Holly Hughes, the Albright-Knox will present an extensive survey exhibition of Kelly Richardson's work, featuring numerous videos produced throughout the last 15 years, the largest presentation in the international tour originating from the NGCA, UK.

Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver
"Kelly Richardson: LEGION"
Late 2013 - Early 2014
Vancouver, Canada

Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. Selected works from the exhibition will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.

During my recent residency at the Pixel Palace (Tyneside Cinema), a short film was commissioned about the work being developed. The completion date for 'Mariner 9' is set for the summer, 2012 when it will premiere in the north east of England, coinciding with a touring, survey exhibition launching at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, England.

The short film Kelly Richardson: 11 for 2011 was produced by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art for Turning Point North East as part of their 11 for 2011 programme of films featuring emerging and established contemporary artists in the north east gaining national and international recognition.

zingmagazine, Interview with Devon Dikeou, September 2, 2011

In the aftermath of a week with both a hurricane and an earthquake on the East Coast of US, and year in which, Japan has been devastated by an earthquake, a tsunami, and its Nuclear aftermath, and with a year of the most devastating oil spill in history, Kelly Richardson’s work has the relevancy and chilly methodology to wreak havoc on the otherwise still perceptions of her subject matter. She embraces a 19th century axiom—“The Apocalyptic Sublime”, with the precision that George Lucas first explored in his “THX 1138” or the clever tautology of Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner”. Her work captures fear, anxiety, resolution, beauty, mystery, omnipotence, awe, and desolation people feel in the presence of the unknown both in nature and in life. I had the pleasure of sharing a residency with Kelly Richardson at Artpace in San Antonio, curated by Heather Pesanti, and was initiated into the weird and luxurious sensation her video installations evoke. And now I have begun to look at the world through some different viewfinders, and like with all good art, wine, hallucinogens, or sex—after experiencing it—the world seems a little different, a little more fragile, and yet, a little more epic. What follows is our emailed Q&A, or “Come on Irene [Sic]”.
Full interview

The Erudition makes its American debut at Young Projects, Los Angeles in "The Savage Transparence", a group exhibition devoted to conceptual and minimal practices by seven of today's most celebrated video and film artists including Kelly Richardson, David Gatten, Daniel von Sturmer, Ignas Krunglevicius, Jan Peter Hammer, Edith Dekyndt and Adad Hannah. While differing in conceptual strategies, all of the work shares an interest in conceptual and minimal practices, where there is a tangible relationship to the medium and its subject matter and an interest in pushing it further into the realm of the sculptural. There is also a shared interest in brevity, where the slightest gesture, a frozen moment, or simply words can deliver an extraordinary experience.

For a full press release please visit youngprojectsgallery.com.

Albright-Knox
"Videosphere: A New Generation"
July 1 - October 9, 2011
curated by Holly E. Hughes
Buffalo, New York

Videosphere: A New Generation is the first-ever exhibition of time-based media art culled exclusively from the Gallery’s Collection. Featuring an exceptional selection of artists—including Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Blake, Phil Collins, Brody Condon, James Drake, Isaac Julien, Bruce Nauman, João Onofre, Kelly Richardson, and Peter Sarkisian—this exhibition brings to light both emerging artists and pioneers in the field. Many of these works have entered the Gallery’s Collection since 2004, including a recent shared purchase of Bruce Nauman’s seminal work Green Horses, 1988, with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. En masse, the complexity of the works presented in this exhibition refer to social, political, psychological, and environmental themes and create compelling narratives that can only be realized through this varied, yet distinct, medium.

For futher information please visit Albright-Knox

CaixaForum
"The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image"
May 18 - September 4, 2011
curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordan for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Barcelona, Spain

CaixaForum Barcelona intensifies its cultural offerings for the 2010-2011 season by presenting the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's exhibition entitled "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" which offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which “the cinematic” has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film and video and the appropriation of cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media have been growing since the early 1960s. In the realm of popular culture, the influence of this technology and its vocabulary have grown to the point where the boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are at the least blurred and at most indecipherable.

Artists include Warhol, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler, Kelly Richardson, among others. Catalogue available via: Amazon | Barnes and Noble

Artpace
'Leviathan'
March 24 - May 22, 2011
San Antonio, Texas

Invited by Albright-Knox curator Heather Pesanti, Kelly Richardson was the international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas from January - March, 2011 where she was commissioned to produce a major new triple-channel video installation entitled Leviathan.

Leviathan presents a panoramic view of a foreboding swamp populated with windswept Cypress trees covered in Spanish moss; a landscape which appears as though it could be from another time. Eerie enough on its own, the nearly monocramatic setting is punctuated by the contrast of a strange yellow, undulating light eminating from the water. Is this an undiscovered or mutated bioluminant life-form of some description or perhaps the result of something altogether more disturbing?

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2011

Two of Kelly Richardson's videos were included once again in the Sundance Film Festival. Exiles of the Shattered Star and Twilight Avenger were selected to represent 5 years of New Frontiers, an exhibition which explores the latest in cinematic innovation and transmedia storytelling. Both works were originally included in New Frontiers 2009; this year, they were featured in An Artist at the Table, a special event which kicked-off the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.

NEWS
Touring Survey Exhibition Launching in 2012 A survey exhibition of Kelly Richardson's work will launch next summer at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (UK) alongside the world premiere of a major new video installation commissioned by The Pixel Palace (details below). The exhibition will then tour to the Grundy Art Gallery (UK), Towner (UK), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (USA) and the Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver (Canada). Further details to follow as the tour develops.
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
The Rooms "New Romantics" January 14 - May 27, 2012 Newfoundland, Canada Two centuries ago, romantic art reacted to the sweeping changes brought on by science, new technologies and industrialization, questioning our ability to harness and control our environment. Showcasing recent work by Canadian artists Philippa Jones, Anthony Redpath and Kelly Richardson, New Romantics presents photography, immersive video and interactive digital installations that again explore our ever-changing relationship between our natural and man-made worlds.
Edel Assanti "Immortal Nature" January 25 - March 3, 2012 London, England Curated by artist Gordon Cheung, "Immortal Nature" presents an exhibition conceptually split across three floors of the gallery space: the underworld, earth and the afterlife, including work by Gordon Cheung, Laurence Edwards, Robin Friend, Alex Hoda, Nicolai Howlat, Hew Locke, Rui Matsunaga, Richard Mosse, Kelly Richardson and Piers Secunda.
Le Fresnoy-Studio national des arts contemporains "Visions Fugitives" February 11 - April 15, 2012 Tourcoing, France As part of the European event Dessiner - tracer, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains presents an exhibition of “animated” artworks, in the broadest sense of the term. While demonstrating the technical evolution in this area and the variety of formats, the exhibition will mainly focus on fleeting visions, examined through the works of artists such as Kelly Richardson, Tabaimo, Jan Kopp, Clint Enns, Robert Breer, William Kentridge, Laurent Pernot, etc.
Kulturhuset Museum "Remote Viewing" March 9 - May 20, 2012 Stockholm, Sweden Curated by Paul Young (Young Projects Los Angeles) and Estelle af Malmborg (Kulturhuset), 'Remote Viewing' is a group exhibition of video artworks by established artists such as Gary Hill, Markus Schinwald, Eve Sussman, Fabien Giraud & Raphael Siboni, Maja Bajevic, Wood & Harrison, Antoni Muntadas, Marco Brambilla, Guy Ben-Ner, Kelly Richardson, among others. Further details to follow.
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art "Kelly Richardson: LEGION" June 5 - September 29, 2012 Sunderland, UK Curated by Alistair Robinson, Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. The exhibition will coincide with the premiere of a major new triple-channel video installation commissioned by the Pixel Palace at Tyneside Cinema and will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.
Pixel Palace "Mariner 9 " August - October, 2012 Newcastle, UK Coinciding with a 10 year survey exhibition of Kelly Richardson's work at the NGCA, the Pixel Palace will present a solo presentation of "Mariner 9", a newly commissioned triple-channel video installation featuring a future, abandoned Martian landscape. Numerous events will take place simultaneously including a film festival programmed by Richardson highlighting genres which have informed her practice. Further details will follow.
Grundy Art Gallery "Kelly Richardson: LEGION" October 13, 2012 - January 5, 2013 Blackpool, UK Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. Selected works from the exhibition will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.
Towner "Kelly Richardson: LEGION" January 19 - March 31, 2013 Eastbourne, UK Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. Selected works from the exhibition will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery "Kelly Richardson: LEGION" January 25 - April 14, 2013 Buffalo, New York, USA Curated by Holly Hughes, the Albright-Knox will present an extensive survey exhibition of Kelly Richardson's work, featuring numerous videos produced throughout the last 15 years, the largest presentation in the international tour originating from the NGCA, UK.
UWAG 'title tbc" September - October, 2013 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Curated by Ivan Jurakic, the UWAG will present a solo exhibition of new work by Kelly Richardson. Further information to follow.
Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver "Kelly Richardson: LEGION" Late 2013 - Early 2014 Vancouver, Canada Kelly Richardson's first survey exhibition will launch at the NGCA in the summer, 2012, featuring numerous works produced throughout the last 10 years. Selected works from the exhibition will then tour to partnering venues including the Grundy Art Gallery, Towner, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery Vancouver.
RECENT INTERVIEWS

During my recent residency at the Pixel Palace (Tyneside Cinema), a short film was commissioned about the work being developed. The completion date for 'Mariner 9' is set for the summer, 2012 when it will premiere in the north east of England, coinciding with a touring, survey exhibition launching at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, England.

The short film Kelly Richardson: 11 for 2011 was produced by BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art for Turning Point North East as part of their 11 for 2011 programme of films featuring emerging and established contemporary artists in the north east gaining national and international recognition.
zingmagazine, Interview with Devon Dikeou, September 2, 2011 In the aftermath of a week with both a hurricane and an earthquake on the East Coast of US, and year in which, Japan has been devastated by an earthquake, a tsunami, and its Nuclear aftermath, and with a year of the most devastating oil spill in history, Kelly Richardson’s work has the relevancy and chilly methodology to wreak havoc on the otherwise still perceptions of her subject matter. She embraces a 19th century axiom—“The Apocalyptic Sublime”, with the precision that George Lucas first explored in his “THX 1138” or the clever tautology of Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner”. Her work captures fear, anxiety, resolution, beauty, mystery, omnipotence, awe, and desolation people feel in the presence of the unknown both in nature and in life. I had the pleasure of sharing a residency with Kelly Richardson at Artpace in San Antonio, curated by Heather Pesanti, and was initiated into the weird and luxurious sensation her video installations evoke. And now I have begun to look at the world through some different viewfinders, and like with all good art, wine, hallucinogens, or sex—after experiencing it—the world seems a little different, a little more fragile, and yet, a little more epic. What follows is our emailed Q&A, or “Come on Irene [Sic]”. Full interview

SELECTED RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Young Projects "The Savage Transparence" September 22 - November 14, 2011 curated by Paul Young Los Angeles, California, USA The Erudition makes its American debut at Young Projects, Los Angeles in "The Savage Transparence", a group exhibition devoted to conceptual and minimal practices by seven of today's most celebrated video and film artists including Kelly Richardson, David Gatten, Daniel von Sturmer, Ignas Krunglevicius, Jan Peter Hammer, Edith Dekyndt and Adad Hannah. While differing in conceptual strategies, all of the work shares an interest in conceptual and minimal practices, where there is a tangible relationship to the medium and its subject matter and an interest in pushing it further into the realm of the sculptural. There is also a shared interest in brevity, where the slightest gesture, a frozen moment, or simply words can deliver an extraordinary experience. For a full press release please visit youngprojectsgallery.com.

Albright-Knox "Videosphere: A New Generation" July 1 - October 9, 2011 curated by Holly E. Hughes Buffalo, New York Videosphere: A New Generation is the first-ever exhibition of time-based media art culled exclusively from the Gallery’s Collection. Featuring an exceptional selection of artists—including Cory Arcangel, Jeremy Blake, Phil Collins, Brody Condon, James Drake, Isaac Julien, Bruce Nauman, João Onofre, Kelly Richardson, and Peter Sarkisian—this exhibition brings to light both emerging artists and pioneers in the field. Many of these works have entered the Gallery’s Collection since 2004, including a recent shared purchase of Bruce Nauman’s seminal work Green Horses, 1988, with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. En masse, the complexity of the works presented in this exhibition refer to social, political, psychological, and environmental themes and create compelling narratives that can only be realized through this varied, yet distinct, medium. For futher information please visit Albright-Knox

Nuit Blanche "Future Forward" October 1, 2011 curated by Farah Yusuf, OCAD, Toronto, Canada As part of Nuit Blanche, OCAD University presents Future Forward which will include Kelly Richardson's triple-channel video installation The Erudition (2010). The installations in this group exhibition reclaim an imaginative realm once researved for fantasy as they negotiate technology's integration into the fabric of society. These sci-fi and cinematic propositions of an imagined future investigate the permeable boundaries between nature and technology, myth and tool, history and potential.
CaixaForum "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" May 18 - September 4, 2011 curated by Kerry Brougher and Kelly Gordan for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Barcelona, Spain CaixaForum Barcelona intensifies its cultural offerings for the 2010-2011 season by presenting the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden's exhibition entitled "The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image" which offers an in-depth exploration of contemporary moving-image art, examining the ways in which “the cinematic” has blurred cultural distinctions between reality and illusion. Cinema was the unrivaled art form of the twentieth century; in the art world, the use of film and video and the appropriation of cinematic language and devices for works in a range of media have been growing since the early 1960s. In the realm of popular culture, the influence of this technology and its vocabulary have grown to the point where the boundaries between “real life” and make-believe are at the least blurred and at most indecipherable. Artists include Warhol, Rodney Graham, Tony Oursler, Kelly Richardson, among others. Catalogue available via: Amazon \| Barnes and Noble

Artpace 'Leviathan' March 24 - May 22, 2011 San Antonio, Texas Invited by Albright-Knox curator Heather Pesanti, Kelly Richardson was the international artist in residence at Artpace, San Antonio, Texas from January - March, 2011 where she was commissioned to produce a major new triple-channel video installation entitled Leviathan. Leviathan presents a panoramic view of a foreboding swamp populated with windswept Cypress trees covered in Spanish moss; a landscape which appears as though it could be from another time. Eerie enough on its own, the nearly monocramatic setting is punctuated by the contrast of a strange yellow, undulating light eminating from the water. Is this an undiscovered or mutated bioluminant life-form of some description or perhaps the result of something altogether more disturbing?

Art Gallery of Nova Scotia "The Last Frontier" December 3, 2010 - April 26, 2011 Curated by Sarah Fillmore Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Kelly Richardson's new video installation The Erudition kicks of the Canada-wide tour in The Last Frontier at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Human beings share an increasingly precarious co-existence with their natural surroundings. Once regarded as a permanent paradise, the "natural" world has become an elusive last refuge of the wild. The Last Frontier examines the tension between nature, culture, technology and the built environment. The Last Frontier features works by several renowned artists: Canadians Vikky Alexander, David Askevold, Iain Baxter&, Mark Bovey, Edward Burtynsky, Erik Edson, Holly King, Sylvie Readman, Kelly Richardson, and Tom Sherman, American Alan Sonfist, as well as France-based Isabelle Dehay and duo Scenoscosme. For further information: The Last Frontier

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2011 Two of Kelly Richardson's videos were included once again in the Sundance Film Festival. Exiles of the Shattered Star and Twilight Avenger were selected to represent 5 years of New Frontiers, an exhibition which explores the latest in cinematic innovation and transmedia storytelling. Both works were originally included in New Frontiers 2009; this year, they were featured in An Artist at the Table, a special event which kicked-off the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.