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Susan Derges
Born 1955 in London
Lives and works in Devon, U. K.

EDUCATION
1973-76
Chelsea School of Art and Design, London.

1976-77
British Council DAAD scholarship to Berlin.

1977-79
Slade School of Fine Art, London.

1979
Boise travel Scholarship to Holland

1982-83
Post graduate research at Tsukuba University, Japan

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2009
Susan Derges, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK
nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo,Japan

2008
FT/Prix Pictet Nominations, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2006
Recent work, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Recent work, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, UK

2005
Fotografi Uten Kamera, GALLERI 314, (HORDLAND INTERNATIONAL ART GALLERY) Bergen, Norway

2004
Dark Waters,@ THE TERRACE GALLERY HAREWOOD HOUSE, Leeds
Water,@ FOTO FEST 2004, Houston
NICHIDO GALLERY, Paris
PHOTO LONDON

2003
New Work, PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York
Transience of Nature, NICHIDO CONTEMPORARY ART, Tokyo Design Center, Tokyo
AObserved: Photographs,@ GALLERY KAYAFAS, Boston.
INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh, Scotland

2002
Natural Magic,@ MICHAEL HUE-WILLIAMS FINE ART, London
The Streens@ TRACE GALLERY, Dorset, England
Liquid Form@ EDICIONES WU, Lima, Peru
2001
Natural Magic,@ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD - MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND SCIENCE, Oxford
Kingswood,@ ST. MARY@S CHURCH, Ashford, Kent

2000
Liquid Form,@HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY, Boston

1999
" Woman Thinking River," JAMES DANZIGER GALLERY, New York.
" Woman Thinking River," FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco.
MICHAEL HUE-WILLIAMS FINE ART, London.
Recent Work, MICHAEL HUE-WILLIAMS FINE ART, London

1998
" River Taw," NEWLYN ART GALLERY, Newlyn, Cornwall.
" River Taw," MUSEE d'ELYSEE, Lausanne, Switzerland.
" Recent Work," GALLERY MOCCA, Gottenberg, Sweden.
" River Taw," SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter.

1997
" River Taw," MICHAEL HUE-WILLIAMS FINE ART, London.

1995
THE PRINT ROOM, THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, London.
James Danzigner Gallery, New York
" Embodied," ARNOLFINI GALLERY, Bristol

1994
" The Observer and the Observed," JAMES DANZIGER GALLERY, New York.

1993
" Between Sun and Earth," THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, London.
" Full Circle," THE CAIRN GALLERY, Stroud.

1991
THE CONCOURSE GALLERY, Byam Shaw School of Art, London.

1989
GALLERY ON, Poznan, Poland.
TOKYO SCIENCE MUSEUM, EXPLORATORIUM, Tokyo (video).
Studio 2000, SEIBU DEPARTMENT STORE, Tokyo.

1987
'O' ART MUSEUM, Tokyo (video).

1985
JVC VIC CENTER, Tokyo.
GALLERY OKAZAKI, Tokyo.

1984
ART SPACE, Niji, Kyoto.

1980
GALERIE IM ZENTRUM, Berlin.

1978
KUNTERHAUS BETHANIEN, Berlin.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, New York, USA
Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics, The Field Museum, Chicago, USA
Alchemy, Harwood House, Leeds and Abott Hall, Yorkshire, UK

2005
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront Leeds, UK
Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery Bath and Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
Contemporary British Photography, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2004
From Here To Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Photo Synthesis, ROYAL ALBERT MEMORIAL MUSEUM, Exeter, UK
Lightfall, Brewhouse, Taunton, UK

2003
The Camera-less Image,@ PHOTO-EYE, Santa Fe, NM.
New to View: Recent Acquisitions in Photography,@ THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, USA
The Disembodied Spirit,@ BOWDOIN COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART, Brunswick, ME.
Recycling Lucifer=s Fall,@ HOULDSWORTH, London, UK
Prima Facie,@ NINA FREUDENHEIM GALLERY, Buffalo, NY, USA
Synthetic Lightening: Complex Simulations of Nature,@ CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY AT WOODSTOCK, Woodstock, NY.

2002
Metamorphing,@ SCIENCE MUSEUM, London.
Now What is Photography,@ GANA ART GALLERY, Seoul, Korea.
Landscape and Photography,@ INGLEBY ART GALLERY, Edinburgh.
The Genius of Genetics, Gregor Mendel, Abbey of St Thomas, Brno.

2001
Summer 2001,@ PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
This is not a Photograph,@ traveling exhibition through 2002
Sea Change,@ SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter.
From the Dark Room,@ MICHAEL HUE-WILLIAMS FINE ART, London.

2000
" Susan Derges/ Christopher Bucklow Recent Work," VAKNIN SCHWARTZ, Atlanta.
" Unique Photographs," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York.
" Now! Modern Photography from the Permanent Collection," THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York.
" Fluid Flow," JAMES GRAHAM & SONS, New York.
AAnti-Memory,@ YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Japan.
Two Person Exhibition with Hideo Furuta, NEW ART CENTRE SCULPTURE PARK AND
GALLERY, Roche Court, Wilshire.
Particle Accelerators: At the Intersection of Photography, Science and Technology,@ PHOTOGRAPHIC RECOURCE CENTER, Boston.
This is Not a Photograph, Pace University Choate Art Gallery.

1999
" Phenomena," ANSEL ADAMS CENTER, San Francisco.
INGLEBY GALLERY, Edinburgh.
20 Twenty, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.

1998
" Woods and Water," KETTLES YARD, Cambridge.
" River Taw," INVERLIETH HOUSE, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh.
" Dark Matter," HARRIS MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, Preston,
TURNPIKE GALLERY, Leigh.
" Dust Breeding," FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco.
" About Painting," ROBERT MILLER GALLERY, New York.
Silver and Syrup, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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 CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY, New York.
" Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures XI," FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco.
About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York.

1996
" Under the Sun," FRAENKEL GALLERY, San Francisco.
" Elective Affinities," MICHAEL HUE-WILLIAMS FINE ART, London.
" Light, Time, Focus," THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, Chicago.

1995
" Possibilities of Extention," ASPECT GALLERY, Portsmouth.
" Heaven's Embroidered Cloths," NATIONAL MUSEUM OF FILM, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TELEVISION, Bradford.
" Content and Discontent in Today's Photography," ANSEL ADAMS CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY, San Francisco.

1994
" Wellsprings," THE BATH FESTIVAL, Bath.
" Growth and Form," THE RUSKIN GALLERY, Sheffield.
" Umbra Penumbra, Signals Festival of Women Photographers," SPACEX GALLERY, Exeter.
" Cameraless Photography," YOKOHAMA MUSEUM OF ART, Yokohama.

1992
SALAMA-CARO GALLERY, London.
" New Inhabitants," ROYAL ALBERT MUSEUM OF ART GALLERY, Exeter.
" New Acquisitions," THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION, The South Bank Center, London.

1991
" Post Modern Prints," VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM, London.

1989
" Machine Dreams," THE PHOTOGRAPHERS GALLERY, London.
" AVE Festival of Audio and Visual Arts," Arnhem, Holland.
" Phenomenart," SAIBU GAS MUSEUM, Fakuoka, Japan.

1988
" Presence 2," GALLERY ON, Poznan, Poland.

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.

1983
" Union des Femmes Peintres," LUXEMBOURG MUSEUM, Paris.

1981
" The House Construction Show," HOUSE GALLERY, London.
" Art into Architecture," SWISS COTTAGE LIBRARY, London.

1978
" The Hayward Annual," HAYWARD GALLERY, London.

TEACHING POSITIONS

1993-98
Lecturer, Media Arts, Plymouth University, Exeter

1997
Visiting Lecturer/ Guest Speaker at Mills College, Oakland, California

1997-99
Eternal Examiner- BA Fine Arts: Photography at Middlesex University

AWARDS

1982-83
Rotary Foundation Award, Japan

1984
JVC Award, Japan

1993
South West Arts Major Award