Susan Derges

SUSAN DERGES
1955 Born London
1973-76 Chelsea School of Art, London (BA Hons) Painting
1976-77 British Council/DAAD Scholarship to Berlin
1977-79 Postgraduate studies, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1981-85 Living and working in Japan
1986-91 Living and working in London
1992- Living and working in Dartmoor, Devon
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2008 Prix Pictet, Shortlisted Artist
2006-07 The Stille Room, Fyllingsdaten Nursing Home, Bergen, Norway
2004-05 Eden Project Education Centre/Solar Terrace
1998 Dorchester Hospital
1993 South West Arts Major Award
1984 JVC Award, Japan
1982-83 Postgraduate Research Tsukuba University, Japan
1981-82 Rotary Foundation Award, Japan
1979 Boise Travel Scholarship to Holland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
2008 Johyun Gallery, Seoul and Busan
Susan Derges and Hildegard von Bingen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Purdy Hicks Gallery
Ingleby Gallery
2005 Photographs without a Camera, Gallery 314, Bergen
2004 FotoFest 2004 - Water, Houston, Texas
Dark Waters, The Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds
Recent Work, Galerie Nichido, Paris
Recent Work, Photo London
2003 New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Transience of Nature, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Design Centre
Ingleby Gallery Edinburgh
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
1998 River Taw, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
River Taw, Musee D'Elysee, Lausanne
River Taw, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1997 River Taw, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
1995 Print Room, The Photographers' Gallery, London
James Danziger Gallery
Embodied, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1994 The Observer and the Observed, James Danziger Gallery
1993 Between Sun and Earth, The Photographers' Gallery
Full Circle, Cairn Gallery, Stroud
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
2008 Water, Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
A History of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Something That I'll Never Really See: Contemporary Photography from
the V&A, Nottingham Castle Museum
On Time, The East Wing Collection VIII, The Courtauld Institute of Art,
London
2007 Trace and Transience, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural
World, Exeter
Nightscapes and Graphites (with Christopher Cook), Eyestorm Gallery,
Exeter
Something That I'll Never Really See: Contemporary Work from the V&A,
Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
2006-8 Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York and touring
2006-7 Alchemy, A Purdy Hicks Gallery touring exhibition - Harewood House,
Leeds; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Abbot Hall Gallery, Kendal;
Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham.
Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Southampton City Art
Gallery
2005 Made in Britain, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
2004 Lightfall, Brewhouse, Taunton
Photo Synthesis, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
From Here To Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery,
San Francisco
Recycling Lucifer's Fall, Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002 The Genius of Genetics Gregor Mendel, Abbey of St Thomas
Landscape and Photography, Ingleby Gallery
Now What is Photography, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Metamorphing, Science Museum, London
2001 Summer Exhibition, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Sea Change, Spacex Gallery. Exeter
2000 Particle Accelerators: At the Intersection of Photography, Science &
Technology Photographic Resource Center, Boston
This is Not a Photograph, Pace University Choate Art Gallery (touring)
Summer 2000 Unique Photographs, Paul Kasmin Gallery
New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire (with
Hideo Furuta)
Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art
1999 Phenomena, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco
Ingleby Gallery (with Patricia Macdonald.)
20 Twenty, Fraenkel Gallery
1998 Woods and Water, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (with Andrew Smith)
River Taw (two person exhibition) Inverleith House, Royal Botanical
Gardens, Edinburgh.
Dark Matter, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Turnpike Gallery,
Leigh (touring)
Dust Breeding, Fraenkel Gallery
Silver and Syrup, Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
1997/98 About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1997 On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue
Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection, International
Centre of Photography, New York
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery
1996 Under the Sun, Fraenkel Gallery
Elective Affinities, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
Light, Time, Focus, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
1995 Possibilities of Extention, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Heaven's Embroidered Cloths, National Museum of Film, Photography &
Television, Bradford
Content and Discontent in Today's Photography, Ansel Adams Centre for
Photography
1994 Wellsprings, Bath Festival, Bath
Growth and Form, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
Umbra Penumbra Signals Festival of Women Photographers, Spacex
Gallery
1994 Cameraless Photography, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama
1992 Salama-Caro Gallery, London
New Inhabitants, Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery
New Acquisitions, Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, London
1991 Post Modern Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum
1989 Machine Dreams, The Photographers' Gallery, London
AVE Festival of Audio Visual Arts, Arnhem
Phenomenart, Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
1988 Presence 2, Gallery ON Poznan
1985 High Technology Art, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
1984 Art and Technology, Gekkoso Gallery and Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
1978 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arnolfini Trust, Bristol
Arts Council of England
The Art Institute of Chicago
Dorset County Hospital
The Hara Art Museum, Tokyo
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wellcome Trust
British Airways
Citibank Private Bank Collection, London
Conoco Ltd, London
Deutsche Bank
Fidelity Investments
Hess Collection Napa, Bern, London
Man Group plc, London
NatWest Group, London
Texaco plc, London