This conversation offers a rare opportunity to engage with Wright’s rigorous painting practice, exploring the evolving material and conceptual conditions of abstraction, process, and image-making, as well as its relationship with architectural environments.
Richard Wright (b. 1960, London) lives and works in Glasgow and Norfolk. Wright has exhibited internationally since 1994 and was awarded the Turner prize in 2009. He has produced several major commissions including those at: Tottenham Court Road Station, London (2022); Queen’s House, Greenwich (2016); Tate Britain, London (2013); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2013); and Scottish National Ga lery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2010). Selected solo exhibitions include: Kunshistorisches Museum, Thesus Temple, Vienna (2013); Works on Paper, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow (2012); 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (2008); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego (2007); Centre d’Art Contemporain, Le Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan (2005); DCA, Dundee (2004); and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (2001). Selected group exhibitions include: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (2014); Kunst und Philosophie, NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2011); Draw A Straight Line and Follow It, Tate Modern, London (2008); Intelligence, Tate Britain, London (2000); Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002); My Head is on Fire but my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Museum, Copenhagen; and Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis (2001).
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