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SUSAN DERGES

 

Born 1955, London

1977-79 Postgraduate Studies, Slade School of Fine Art, London

1973-76 Studied Painting at Chelsea School of Art, London (BA Hons)

Lives and works on Dartmoor, UK

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton

2022 Danziger Gallery, Los Angeles

2021 Floating, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

2019 Mortal Moon, Queen's House, Greenwich, London

2018 Soul of the Underground, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

2016 Danziger Gallery, New York
2015 Under the Moon, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

        Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Danziger Gallery, New York
2012 Alder Brook, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2010 A Little Bit of Magic Realised, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (with Gary Fabian Miller)

2009 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2008 Johyun Gallery, Seoul and Busan
2006 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

         Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 Photographs Without a Camera, Gallery 314, Bergen

2004 FotoFest 2004 - Water, Houston

        Dark Waters, Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds

        Recent Work, Galerie Nichido, Paris
2003 New work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

         Transience of Nature, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Design Centre

2002 New Work, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London

          Liquid Form, Ediciones Wu, Lima

          The Streens, Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset
2001 Natural Magic, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

         Kingswood, St Mary's Church, Ashford, Kent
2000 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston
1999 Woman Thinking River, James Danziger Gallery, New York

        Woman Thinking River, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

         Recent Work, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London 1998 River Taw, Newlyn Art  Gallery, Newlyn

         River Taw, Musée de l'Elyseé, Lausanne
1997   River Taw, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London

1995  Print Room, The Photographers' Gallery, London

         Embodied, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1994 The Observer and the Observed, James Danziger Gallery, New York

1993 Between Sun and Earth, The Photographers' Gallery, London

1989 Gallery ON, Poznan
         Tokyo Science Museum, Exploratorium, Tokyo (video)

1987 O2 Art Museum, Tokyo (video) 1985 JVC VIC Centre, Tokyo (video) Gallery Okazaki, Tokyo

1984 Art Space Niji, Kyoto
1980 Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin 1978 Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS FROM 2010

2022    Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1915 - 2022” . Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

             Artful Craft, MAKE Southwest, Bovey Tracey

             Squaring the Circles of Confusion, Royal Photographic Society, Bristol

2021      The Expanded Landscape, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

             Landscape Portrait: Now and Then, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton 

2020-21 Shadows and Light, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

            Time Present - Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, Palais Populaire Berlin

2019-20 Sea Garden, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter
2019     Moonlight, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg
2018-19 Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection,

2016    Changing Circumstances; Looking at the Future of the Planet, Fotofest, Texas
2015    Beneath the Surface, Somerset House, London

           Watershed; Art, Play and the Politics of Water, Bexley Heritage Trust, Kent

2014    Shadows on the Wall: Cameraless Photography from 1851 toToday, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

           de Marseillaise/ Fifteen Years of Collecting, Huis Marseille, Netherlands

           Power of the Sea, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2011-12 Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
2010-11 Shadow Catchers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
2010    Dust in the Mirror, Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston

National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford Art

Institute of Chicago
Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Arts Council, London
Government Art Collection, London
Royal Museums Greenwich, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wellcome Trust, London
J P Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester

Los Angeles County Museum of Art 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art