Richard T. Walker - Curriculum Vitae
Education
MA Fine Art - Goldsmiths College (2003 - 2005)
Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art - Goldsmiths College (2002 - 2003)
MA Fine Art – Staffordshire University (2001- 2002) - completed one of two years
BA Fine Art - Bath Spa University College (1996 - 1999)
Competitions and Awards
Irvine Fellowship, Montalvo Arts Center, California, USA , 2011
Finalist for SECA award, SFMOMA, San Francisco, 2010
Artadia Awardee, Nov 2009
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California - 2007 Fellowship
AHRB Scholarship 2002/3
"If there were a second prize to award, it would surely have gone to Richard T. Walker’s successive inconceivable events” - Videonale 2007 International Video-Art Award, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany.
Teaching
Visiting lecturer, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Denmark
Current, Lecturer, MFA Graduate Studio Practice, California College of the Arts
2005 - 2007 Part-Time Lecturer MA and BA Fine Art, Staffordshire University
Residencies
Montalvo Arts Center, California, USA, 2011
Djerassi, California, USA 2010
Headlands Center For the Arts, California, Residency, 2010
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA, 2009
Headlands Center for The Arts, California. Affiliate Artist, 2007 – 2009.
Hangar, Barcelona. Studio Residency, August 2006,
Solo Shows and Performances
2011
a nice view, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark
the speed and eagerness of meaning, Spike Island, Bristol, UK
Big Picture (performance), K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles
2010
Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN
attempting to define the parameters of wanting, part of Transplanted, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, USA
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles (see review in the LA times here)
Angels Barcelona, Barcelona
2008
i want to want you like i wanted to want you, David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA
sometimes I like you more than othertimes, Iceberger Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
every note that I play gets me two chords closer to you (performance) Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
I‘ll be lost when I find you, Galeria Dels Angels, Barcelona
Pixapins, (screening and music performance) PhotoEspana 06 , Plaza Santa Ana , Madrid
Selected Group Shows, Screenings and Performances
2011
Stand Opposite of the Chorus, Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg, Sweden
Super 8, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Bay Area Now 6, Yerba Buena Centre For the Arts
Big Picture, K21, Dusseldorf, Germany
Between US and the Horizon, Galerie Florent Tosin, Berlin, Germany
The Art of Pop Video, Museum für Angewandte Kunst (Museum of Applied Art), Cologne, Germany.
Embodying, Atlanta Contemporary Art Centre, Atlanta
2010
Video, Specta Gallery, Copenhagen
Remote Viewing, Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona
Mediators, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Above and Beyond, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Public Image, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland
2009
Video Performance: Models of Self-Reflection, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenossische Kunst Münster, Germany.
Night Tide, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco (screening)
Heavy Influence, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland
À corps & à textes, La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris, France
All Man Made in cooperation with n.b.k. Video-Forum, the Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin (screening)
Trying to cope with things that aren’t human (part 1), David Cunningham Projects, San Francisco, CA, Airspace, Stoke-on-Trent, UK, and Cell Project Spece, London.
2008
Intervened Nature, Espacio Iniciarte, Seville, Spain (screening)
Focus the star please!, part of Verbergen, Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland (screening)
Terminus, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Residency Projects, Kala Art Institute, Berekely, USA
Beton Brut, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf
Mythology of Every Day Matters , Bilton Center For Contemporary Art, Red Deer, AB, Canada
Romantic Damage, De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California
2007
As It Screams Just Please Love Me, FormContent, London
Beyond The Country, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Optic Nerve 9, Museum of Contemporay Art, Miami, USA (screening)
Aisa-Europe Meditations, IF Museum Inner Spaces, Proznan, Ploand
Mirador 2007, Madrid, Spain
From safety to where, Tentoonstelling Courtisane, Gent, Belgium;
To be continued…what makes video different, Annita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt
Reformation, Spitifields Church, London, UK;
Zuviel TV, Torstrasse 137, Berlin, Germany; (screening)
Video Art From London, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan;
Videonale 11, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany;
Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion Witte de With screening, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Pathe Cinema, Rotterdam, Holland; (screening)
Why We Left The Village and Came Back,, Old Market Hall, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, UK;
2006
Spool 2, Consortium, Amsterdam, Holland;
Cold Cold Heart, Summerset House, in association with The White Space gallery and Tank TV, london. UK;
37 Seconds - Programme 15, Big Screen Liverpool, In association with FACT and The Liverpool Biennial; (screening)
Where They Shall Dance, FACT, Liverpool; (screening)
Summer Show, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
Don Quijote, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland;
The compendium 2 – Modern Pastorals, part of Evolution 06, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; (screening)
Collapse – An Impakt Event, Utrecht, Holland;
Disconnect, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; (screening)
2005
Peculiar Encounters, Ec Artspace, London;
Seleccio – Loop 05, Galleria Dels Angels, Barcelona ;
Treescapes, En Linea, Barcelona;
All personal, VTO Gallery, London;
Transart 05 festival, Bolzano, Italy;
Rip it Up and Start Again, Villa delle Rose - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna;
Make a good thing last, Three Colts Gallery, London;
Video Mix, La Casa Encendida, Madrid; (screening)
First Sight – inconcepibile e reale Villa Serena, Bologna; (screening)
Time Pop 2005, by Artprojx, Prince Charles Cinema, London; (screening)
Art Karlsruhe, part of a video art program curated by Anita Beckers Gallery, Frankfurt;
Places I’ve Been, curated by Hans Op De Beeck, Consortium, Amsterdam;
2004
Lo Real Capturado, Centre de Cultura Contemporania Barcelona; (screening)
Off Loop, in association with Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona All That Useless Beauty and Out There, co-curated with Thomas Keogh and Lucia Farinati
Beating About The Bush, South London Gallery; (screening)
All That Useless Beauty co-curated with Thomas Keogh, Whitechapel Project Space, London
Collaboration with the music group Gavouna, for A Night with The Earlies‘ ICA London; (screening)
Notes From The Underground Vol. 2, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada;
Time Pop , Prince Charles Cinema, London; (screening)
Lood Di-Loo Loop Di-La, Diorama Gallery, London; (screening)
2003
SPARK International 2, Mix Tape, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
Publications that I have contributed to:
Trying to cope with things that aren’t human (part 1), commission for exhibition publication, 2008
Edited and commissioned by Ian Brown
The Mock, Issue 0, accompanying The Mythology of Everyday Matters at Bilton Centre for Contemporary Art, AB, Canada, 2008, Edited by Francesco Pedraglio
Changing Roles Artists’ Personal Views and Wishes, published by Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2008, Edited by Renske Janessen
Guestroom, 2004
Publications
Art in America, Richard T Walker at Christopher Grimes Gallery, Leah Ollman, July/August 2011
Los Angeles Times, Richard T Walker at Christopher Grimes Gallery, Leah Ollman 02/05/2010
Art Monthly (UK), Trying to cope with things that aren’t human, Martin Herbert. June 2009
artslant.com/sf, After Nature, Repurposing the Human Condition, Petra Royale Bibeau, February 16th 2008
www.shotgun-review.com, Trying to cope with things that aren’t human (part 1), Toyna Warner 02/16/2008,
Flash Art, Don Quijote, 07-10/2006
El Muno (Spain), review of solo show I'll be lost when I find you, Elena Cuesta, 09/23/2006
Lapiz (Spain), review of solo show I'll be lost when I find you, Pol Capdevila,11/2006
Exit Express (Spain), review of solo show I'll be lost when I find you, Frederic Montornes, 11/2006
La Vanguardia (Spain), review of solo show I'll be lost when I find you, Noelia Herandez, 10/2006
Tema Celeste (Italian Edition), Rip it Up and Start Again, Marinella Paderni, 11/2005
Art Review (UK), “25“, Charlotte Edwards, 07/2005
Flash Art (Italian edition), Rip it Up and Start Again, 08-09/2005
