Richard Billingham: Landscapes: 2001-2003 (Hardcover)

Trained as a fine artist, Richard Billingham took up photography whilst an art student as a way to inspire his paintings. In 1996, his book "Ray's a Laugh" brought him to the attention of the photography and art worlds. The photographs focused on Ray, Billingham's alcoholic father, and trod a delicate path between voyeurism, social commentary, and intense self-exposure. Over recent years, Billingham has photographed increasingly within the landscape and this new book brings together this work for the first time. The images are contemplative and thoughtful and reflect his primary concern for the 'making' of an image. Billingham first exhibited in 1995 at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, who still represent him. His work has received significant international acclaim - in 1997 he won the Citibank Photography Prize and his work was one of the talking points of 'Sensation', the exhibition of Contemporary British Art from the Saatchi Collection. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2001.

RICHARD BILLINGHAM Born 1970, Cradley Heath, West Midlands. 2004 Artist in Residence, VIVID, Birmingham 2003 ArtSway Residency, New Forest, Hampshire Virtually Real, Artist's commission, Half Tone Press, Norfolk Wonders of the Black Country, Jubilee Arts, West Midlands Prince of Wales Bursary for the Arts, Athens 2002 Sargant Fellowship, British School in Rome 2001 Turner Prize Shortlist, Tate Gallery, London Glen Dimplex Artist Award Shortlist, IMMA, Dublin Artists work programme at IMMA, Dublin 1997 The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 1995 Felix H. Man Memorial Prize 1991-94 BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of Sunderland Solo Exhibitions 2007 Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansae Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton 2006 Black Country, The New Art Gallery, Walsall 2005 Black Country, La Fabrica, Madrid Black Country, Galleria Marabini, Bologna Black Country, Galway Arts Festival, Galway Black Country, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 2004 SintLukas, Brussels New Forest, ArtSway Galleries, Hampshire 2003 New Pictures, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Trafo - House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest 2002 Fishtank, Temple Bar, Dublin 2000 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (cat.) touring to Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen; Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic; Hasselblad Centre, Goteberg, Sweden; Kunsthalle Willhelmshaven, Germany 1999 British School at Rome, Rome Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels Galerie Monica Reitz, Frankfurt am Main 1998 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1997 Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris Regen Projects, Los Angeles Luhring Augustine, New York 1996 Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh National Museum of Film and Photography, Bradford Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Group Exhibitions 2006 The Photographer's Contract, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Museum Mrsbroich, Leverkusen Beso de Culebra - Kiss of the Snaky, Garash Gallery, Mexco City Check-in Europe - Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, EPO, Munchen Inheritance, Olympus, The Music Rooms, London Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tatel Liverpool (cat.) Responding to Rome, Estorick Collection London 2005 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris. Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds (cat.) Liminal Britain, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton Lismore Castle, County Waterford, Ireland (cat.) Bidibibodibiboo, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino Miradas y Conceptos, MEIAC, Badajoz New Forest, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice Radical and Modest, Ben Uri Gallery, London The Dream of Myself, the Dream of the World, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Wintherthur Picture of Britain, Tate Britain, London Critics Choice, FACT, Liverpool The House In The Middle, The Impressions Gallery of Photography, York The House In The Middle, Tower Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne Shoot The Family, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Contemporanea, Fondacion Juan March, Madrid Generation X: Junge Kunst aus der Sammlung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg 2004 Playstation, Hygiene-Museum, Dresden Sometime, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Pillish: Harsch Realities and Gorgeous Destinations, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver The House In The Middle, Photoworks, Brighton Cold Play - set 1 from the collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Reed Exhibitions - Paris Photo, Paris Hors-d'oeuvre: Ordre et desordres de la nourriture, capc Musee d'art conteporain de Bordeaux Tape 291, 291 Gallery, London Social Strategies, Schick Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY Stranger than Fiction, City Art Gallery, Leeds (Arts Council touring exhibitions) (cat.) 2003 Love over Gold, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow La creazione ansiosa , Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona (cat.) Picture of You, Galeria Estrany de la Mota, Barcelona A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960 - 2003, Pavilhao Lucas Nogueira Garcez, Sao Paulo (cat.) Richard Billingham, House of Contemporary Arts, Trafo Gallery, Budapest A Period Eye, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism, University of California, Santa Barbara and tour The Family, The Gallery, Windsor, Florida (cat.) Home Sweet Home, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus (cat.) The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, Stazione Leopolda, Florence (cat.) 2002 Comer o no Comer, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca (cat.) Yuko Shiraishi: Episode, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre Location: UK, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London Lifesize - International Photography Festival, National Gallery of Art, Rome Family, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut (cat.) In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London Private Affairs, Kunst Haus, Dresden (cat.) The Saatchi Gift, National Touring Exhibitions, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Intimacy, The Lowry, Salford TABU - Mavericks und heisse Eisen, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (cat.) 2001 Heart of Glass, mirror - London College of Printing, London Turner Prize exhibition, Tate Britain, London (cat.) The Dark, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Emotional Ties, Tate Gallery, Liverpool Milano Europa, Milan The Glen Dimplex Artists Award Exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (cat.) Valencia Biennale, Valencia (cat.) 49th Venice Biennale, Venice (cat.) New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens Give & Take, Serpentine Gallery, London I Am a Camera, Saatchi Gallery, London (cat.) 2000 Tate Modern Members room, London Cities/Faces, centre regional de Cherbourg-Octeville Scene de la vie conjugale, Villa Arson, Nice Bleibe - ein Projekt von 'art in dialog' (Jorg & Karen van der Berg, Universitat Witten/Herdecke), Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Body Beautiful, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris warningSHOTS, Royal Armouries, Leeds The Sleep of Reason, Norwich Gallery and tour (cat.) Through the Looking Glass: Artists investigating family life, University of Essex (cat.) 2000 Quotidiana, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (cat.) 1999 Close-Ups, Contemporary Art and Carl Th. Dreyer, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen (cat.) Centre for the Arts, Montreal (cat., le mois de la photo a montreal 1999) Interior Britannia: Richard Billingham/Anna Fox, Saidye Bronfman Officina Europa, Villa delle Rose, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna and tour (cat.) Endzeit, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich Common People, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene (cat.) La Casa, Il Corpo, Il Cuore, 20er Haus, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (cat.) Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London International Neurotic Realism: Bern Now!, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern Janviers en Bourgogne: Xn, L'Espace des Arts, Chalon-sur-Saone 1998 Mois de la Photographie, galerie Agnes b., Paris Family, Inverleith House, Edinburgh Remix, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes Malos Habitos, Galerie Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (cat.) Sensation: Young British Artist from the Saatchi Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fur Gegenwart, Berlin (cat.) Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich Life is a Bitch, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (cat.) Edinburgh Film and Television Festival, Edinburgh U.K.Maximum Diversity, Benger Areal, Bregenz 7de Zomer van de Fotografie, Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp Not Strictly Private, Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld Le Printemps de Cahors, Cahors (cat.) Women, Galerie Klemens Gasser und Tanja Grunert, Cologne Close Echoes, Public Body and Artificial Space, City Gallery, Prague; Kunsthalle, Krems (cat.) Wounds. Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (cat.) Head First, City Art Gallery, Leicester and tour 1997 Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern Private Face-Urban Space, Gasworks, Athens; L. Kanakakis Municipal Gallery of Rethymnon, Crete (cat.) Strange Days, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan (cat.) Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, The Royal Academy, London (cat.) Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Te Papa, New Zealand (cat.) Home Sweet Home, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg: Engel: Engel, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (cat.) Observaties/Observations, Recent acquisitions, PTT Museum, The Hague (cat.) Vis-a-vi(e)s, Galerie Art et Essai, Universite Rennes 2, Rennes (cat.) The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, Royal College of Art, London (cat.) Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London SIAFO, Seoul 1996 Full House, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg Blick von innen, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt-am-Main Photos Leurres, Mois de la Photo, Galerie de Jour Agnes B, Paris (cat.) New Photography 12, Museum of Modern Art, New York Life/Live, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fundacao das Descobertas, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa (cat.) Galerie du Jour Agnes B, Paris 'Radical Images' Museum of Contemporary Art, Szombathely, Hungary 'Radical Images', Second Austrian Triennal on Photography, Graz Herkunft? Fotomuseum Winterthur (cat.) Passage a l'acte, Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London 1995 Night and Day, Anthony Reynolds Gallery 1994 Who's Looking at the Family? Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.)