Olivier Richon

1956: Born in Lausanne, Switzerland

1997: Director of the Department of Photography, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

2006: Professor of Photography, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom; Lives and works in London, United Kingdom

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)

2019: Allegories, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany

2018: Still, Galerie Albrecht, Berlin, Germany; Aka Yagara, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2016: Images littéraires, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland

2013: Acedia, Ibid Projects, London, United Kingdom

2009: Anima(l), Ibid Projects, London, United Kingdom

2008: Anima(l), Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Real Allegories - Stilleben und Tiere, Galerie Bildkultur, Stuttgart, Germany

2006: Nepente, Art Gallery, Milan, Italy; The Spirit is a Bone, Ibid Projects, London, United Kingdom

2004: Fotografia Trilogia, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy

2000: Allegories, Galerie de l’aquarium, Valenciennes, France

EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES (Sélection)

2021: Modell Animal, Kunsthaus Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany; Nourrir le corps nourrit l’esprit, Abbaye Saint-André – Centre d’art contemporain, Meymac, France

2018: 3654 Days after, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France; Revolt and Revolution, Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, United Kingdom; Here We Are, Burberry, Paris, France

2017: Here We Are, Burberry, Hong Kong, China; Here We Are, Burberry, Old Sessions House, London, United Kingdom; Sequenza Sismica, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy; 10 years old, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy

2015: Vers le neutre, Centre d'art et photographie de Lectoure, France; Contemporary Photography from North-West Europe, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Modena, Italy

2014: Ware & Wissen, or the stories you would not tell a stranger, Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

2012: Another London, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

2010: Le Bestiaire Imaginaire, l’animal dans la photographie de 1850 à nos jours, Palais Lumière, Evian, France; Teaching Photography, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2009: 365 Days, Bendana | Pinel Art Contemporain, Paris, France

2008: Exhibition Road, Handel Street Projects, London, United Kingdom

2007: Generations, Galerie les Filles du Calvaire, Brusselles, Belgium

2006: Zoo, La Centrale électrique, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium

2005: Das Fotografierte Tier, Musée Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2004: The Goat, Medievalmodern, London, United Kingdom

2003: Ein Blicke in Privat Sammlungen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

2002: Sans commune mesure - image et texte dans l’art actuel, LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Lille, France; Seeing Things, Canon Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom; Love, Labour and Loss, Tullic House and Art Gallery, Carlisle, United Kingdom; Cinema India, Contemporary Space, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

2001: L’œuvre Démultipliée, LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Lille, France; M Family, Musée Migros, Zurich, Switzerland; Players, Insidespace at Selfridges, Londron, United Kingdom

2000: Eat, fuck, die, Platform, London, United Kingdom

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND RESIDENCES

2017: Education Award, The Royal Photographic Society Education Award, London, United Kingdom

2016: Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan

1993: Leopold Godowsky Colour Photography Award, Boston, United States

1991: Camera Austria Award for Contemporary Photography, Austria

1986: Kiefer Hablitzel Scholarship, Switzerland

1985: Greater London Arts, United Kingdom

1984: Kiefer Hablitzel Scholarship, Switzerland

1983: Greater London Arts, United Kingdom

1980: Arts Council of Great Britain Photographic Bursary, United Kingdom

PUBLICATIONS (Selection)

2011: Le bestiaire imaginaire, text by Antoine De Baecque, Palais de Lumière, Évian, France (exh.cat.)

2010: Mirada interior : centenario de "Parque Florido" sede de la Fundación Lázaro Galdiano, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Madrid, Spain (exh.cat.)

2006: Olivier Richon, Real Allegories, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany

2004: Lucy Soutter, Still Life and Allegory, Portfolio 39, United Kingdom

1995: Olivier Richon, After D.L., Camera Austria, Graz, Austria

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Musée national d'Art moderne (MNAM) - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom

Arts Council of Great Britain, United Kingdom

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, France

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire, France

Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Bretagne, France

Institut d’art Contemporain, (Collection of FRAC Rhône–Alpes), Villeurbanne, France

Cabinet d’arts graphiques, Geneva, Switzerland

Musée de L’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland

Brooklyn Museum, New York, United States

National Gallery of New South Wales, Australia

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

DG Bank, Germany

Kunstring Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France