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Richard Wright, No Title, 2020 Watercolor on paper, 30 ¾ × 30 ¾ inches (78 × 78 cm)© Richard Wright. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Richard Wright, No Title, 2020

Watercolor on paper, 30 ¾ × 30 ¾ inches (78 × 78 cm)
© Richard Wright. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Richard Wright, No Title, 2019 Silver leaf on ceiling and wallInstallation view, Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, March 5–May 10, 2019© Richard Wright. Photo: Rob McKeever

Richard Wright, No Title, 2019

Silver leaf on ceiling and wall
Installation view, Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, March 5–May 10, 2019
© Richard Wright. Photo: Rob McKeever

Richard Wright, No Title, 2019 Watercolor on paper, 26 ⅝ × 23 ¾ inches (67.5 × 60.4 cm)© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, No Title, 2019

Watercolor on paper, 26 ⅝ × 23 ¾ inches (67.5 × 60.4 cm)
© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, No Title, 2018 ​Gold leaf on ceilingPermanent installation, Tottenham Court Road station (Elizabeth Line), London© Richard Wright. Photo: GG Archard​

Richard Wright, No Title, 2018

​Gold leaf on ceiling
Permanent installation, Tottenham Court Road station (Elizabeth Line), London
© Richard Wright. Photo: GG Archard​

Richard Wright, No Title, 2015 Leaded handmade glass, 181 ⅛ × 68 ½ inches (460 × 174 cm)© Richard Wright. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio

Richard Wright, No Title, 2015

Leaded handmade glass, 181 ⅛ × 68 ½ inches (460 × 174 cm)
© Richard Wright. Photo: Matteo D’Eletto, M3 Studio

Richard Wright, No title, 2013 Watercolor on ceiling, Dimensions variable

Richard Wright, No title, 2013

Watercolor on ceiling, Dimensions variable

Richard Wright, No title, 2013 Watercolor on ceiling, Dimensions variable

Richard Wright, No title, 2013

Watercolor on ceiling, Dimensions variable

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2014 Handmade leaded glass Installation at The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2014

Handmade leaded glass Installation at The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2014 Handmade leaded glass Installation at The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2014

Handmade leaded glass Installation at The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2013 Handmade glass Permanent installation at Tate Britain, London

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2013

Handmade glass Permanent installation at Tate Britain, London

Richard Wright, No title, 2013 Acrylic on wall, Dimensions variable. Permanent installation at Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamPhoto by Vincent Mentzel

Richard Wright, No title, 2013

Acrylic on wall, Dimensions variable. Permanent installation at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Photo by Vincent Mentzel

Richard Wright, No title, 2013 Acrylic on wall, Dimensions variable. Permanent installation at Rijksmuseum, AmsterdamPhoto by Vincent Mentzel

Richard Wright, No title, 2013

Acrylic on wall, Dimensions variable. Permanent installation at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Photo by Vincent Mentzel

Installation view, Richard Wright, Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2013 Artwork © Richard Wright

Installation view, Richard Wright, Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, 2013

Artwork © Richard Wright

Installation view, Richard Wright, Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, April 18–September 30, 2013 Artwork © Richard Wright

Installation view, Richard Wright, Theseus Temple, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, April 18–September 30, 2013

Artwork © Richard Wright

Richard Wright, No title, 2013 Ink on paper, 22 ⅞ × 19 ⅝ inches (58 × 42 cm)

Richard Wright, No title, 2013

Ink on paper, 22 ⅞ × 19 ⅝ inches (58 × 42 cm)

Installation view, Richard Wright: Works on Paper, part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 2012 Artwork © Richard Wright. Photo: Ruth Clark

Installation view, Richard Wright: Works on Paper, part of Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 2012

Artwork © Richard Wright. Photo: Ruth Clark

Richard Wright, The Stairwell Project, 2010 Acrylic on wall, dimensions variablePermanent commission, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, The Stairwell Project, 2010

Acrylic on wall, dimensions variable
Permanent commission, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, No title, 2009 Installation at Turner Prize 2009, Tate Britain, London

Richard Wright, No title, 2009

Installation at Turner Prize 2009, Tate Britain, London

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2007 Gouache on wall Installation at Jardins Public, Edinburgh International Festival, UK. Commissioned by the Common Guild, Edinburgh, photo by Ruth Clark

RICHARD WRIGHT No title, 2007

Gouache on wall Installation at Jardins Public, Edinburgh International Festival, UK. Commissioned by the Common Guild, Edinburgh, photo by Ruth Clark

Richard Wright, No title, 2007 Installation at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK

Richard Wright, No title, 2007

Installation at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK

RICHARD WRIGHT Untitled, 2002 Gouache on wall Installation at Tate Britain, London

RICHARD WRIGHT Untitled, 2002

Gouache on wall Installation at Tate Britain, London

Richard Wright, No Title, 2002 (detail) Gouache on wall, dimensions variableInstallation view, Tate Britain, London© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, No Title, 2002 (detail)

Gouache on wall, dimensions variable
Installation view, Tate Britain, London
© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, Untitled, 2000 Gouache on wall, 78 × 35 inches (198.1 × 88.9 cm)Installation view, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York© Richard Wright

Richard Wright, Untitled, 2000

Gouache on wall, 78 × 35 inches (198.1 × 88.9 cm)
Installation view, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York
© Richard Wright

About

Painting is an act that connects reality and consciousness. It is more than a collective codification of signs. It is a performance that awakens the delirium of vision.
—Richard Wright

Richard Wright is known for large-scale and site-specific—but often temporary—painted and applied metal-leaf installations and leaded window works that invest architectural spaces with new optical and associative complexity. Shifting between illusionism and abstraction, his projects alter the viewer’s perception of space. Incorporating graphic and ornamental elements, his work often alludes to Minimalism and Renaissance art as well as to commercial images. In his stylistically diverse works on paper, Wright employs ink drawing, gilding, printmaking, enamel, and watercolor painting techniques that Camden Art Centre director Martin Clark described as having an “allover quality that seemed to exceed the limits of the paper, a field of indeterminate shapes and matter: drifting, coalescing, accreting and dissipating, like the curl of vapour in an alchemist’s alembic.”

Wright was born in 1960 in London and moved to Scotland with his family when he was young; he now lives and works in Norfolk, England, and Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with a BA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1982 and an MA from Glasgow School of Art in 1995. Initially producing figurative painting, he became disillusioned with the methodology in the late 1980s and abandoned his art practice altogether for two years to train as a professional sign painter. While studying in Glasgow he destroyed all his work on canvas and began painting directly onto the walls of exhibition spaces, often focusing on corners and other marginal areas to emphasize the interaction of his imagery with its built environment.

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Fairs, Events & Announcements

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jadé Fadojutimi, © Jen Guidi, © Alexandria Smith, © Mehdi Ghadyanloo, © Rick Lowe Studio, © Jonas Wood. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Frieze Seoul 2023

September 7–9, 2023, booth C14
COEX, Seoul
www.frieze.com

Gagosian is pleased to participate in Frieze Seoul 2023 with a presentation of contemporary works by gallery artists, including Derrick Adams, Georg Baselitz, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Jadé Fadojutimi, Urs Fischer, Cy Gavin, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Nan Goldin, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Rick Lowe, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha, Alexandria Smith, Anna Weyant, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood, and Richard Wright, among others.

Coinciding with the fair is the arrival of Jiyoung Lee, who was recently appointed to lead the gallery’s operations in Korea. Lee joins Gagosian following nearly fifteen years based in Seoul working on behalf of both Korean and Western galleries. Her appointment builds on the gallery’s establishment of a business entity in Korea last year, and provides for expanded activities in the region.

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jadé Fadojutimi, © Jen Guidi, © Alexandria Smith, © Mehdi Ghadyanloo, © Rick Lowe Studio, © Jonas Wood. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Richard Wright (New York: Gagosian, 2023)

Talk and Book Signing

Richard Wright
Martin Clark

Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 7pm
Burlington Arcade, London

Join Gagosian for a conversation between Richard Wright and Martin Clark, director of Camden Art Centre, London, to coincide with the artist’s solo exhibition at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. They will discuss Wright’s latest body of work, recent commissions, and new monograph, which provides a comprehensive overview of his practice between 2010 and 2020. Published by Gagosian, the book documents projects made for well-known public spaces and private residences around the world, and includes essays by Wright, Clark, and social anthropologist Tim Ingold as well as an in-depth conversation between the artist and Will Bradley, director of Kunsthall Oslo. After the talk, Wright will sign copies of the book, which will be available for purchase.

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Richard Wright (New York: Gagosian, 2023)

Gagosian’s booth at West Bund Art & Design 2022. Artwork, left to right: © Adam McEwen, © Roe Ethridge, © Alex Israel, © Harmony Korine. Photo: JJYPHOTO

Art Fair

West Bund Art & Design 2022

November 11–13, 2022, booth A102
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
westbundshanghai.com

Gagosian is pleased to participate in the ninth edition of West Bund Art & Design. The gallery will present new works made for the fair by Georg Baselitz, Roe Ethridge, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Harmony Korine, Adam McEwen, Jim Shaw, Alexandria Smith, Spencer Sweeney, and Tatiana Trouvé, alongside works by Ashley Bickerton, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Richard Prince, Ugo Rondinone, Ed Ruscha, Richard Wright, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Gagosian’s booth at West Bund Art & Design 2022. Artwork, left to right: © Adam McEwen, © Roe Ethridge, © Alex Israel, © Harmony Korine. Photo: JJYPHOTO

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Museum Exhibitions

Douglas Gordon, Revue, 2018 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger

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Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line

March 13–May 6, 2018
Whitechapel Gallery, London
www.whitechapelgallery.org

Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth Line showcases nine internationally renowned artists and their plans to create major public artworks for London’s newest railway, the Elizabeth line. Each artist has been commissioned to create a work of art sympathetic to the locality, history, or function of one of the stations. The exhibition brings together sketches, maquettes, and prototypes to reveal the artists’ ideas transformed into deliverable public art. Work by Douglas Gordon and Richard Wright is included.

Douglas Gordon, Revue, 2018 © Studio lost but found/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, 2018. Photo: Balazs Studinger

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