| Catherine Yass is contactable through asprey jacques 020 7287 7675 | |
| Born 1963 Lives and works in London. |
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| Education | |
| 1988-90 | Goldsmiths College, London (MA degree) |
| 1986-87 | Boise travelling scholarship |
| 1984-85 | Hochschule der Kunst, Berlin |
| 1982-86 | Slade School of Art (BA degree) |
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Solo Exhibitions |
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| 2002 | asprey jacques, London |
| Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood, Victoria & Albert Museum, London | |
| 2001 | 'Star', British Council exhibition touring to Jaipur, Mumbai, Chennai and Calcutta |
| Jerwood Gallery, London | |
| 2000 | New Art Gallery, Walsall |
| 'Synagogue', (Art in Sacred Spaces), The Congregation of Jacob, London | |
| i 8 Gallery, Reykjavik | |
| 1999 | British Council Exhibition Space, Prague |
| 'Baths' at The Pool, Central Club Hotel, London | |
| Project Space, Galerie Wang, Oslo | |
| 1998 | UGaleria dels Angels, Barcelona |
| 'Baths', Sabine Schmidt, Cologne | |
| 'Invisible City', Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 1997 | 'Graves', Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1996 | 'Stall', Laure Genillard Gallery, London |
| 'Steel', Ffoto Gallery, Cardiff, Wales | |
| 'Stage', Cell Space, Barbican Centre, London | |
| 1995 | 'Spectators', Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth |
| 1994 | 'Chair', Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford |
| 'Guy's Cliffe', Herber Percy Gallery, Warwickshire | |
| 1992 | Laure Genillard Gallery, London |
| 1991 | The Tavistock Centre for Psychotherapy, London |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2002 |
Glass Box Project: Catherine Yass, ARTLAB 16 at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medecine |
| Wetterling Gallery, Sweden | |
| SHINE, St. Pancras Chambers, London (forthcoming) | |
| 2001 |
'Multiplication: Artistsí Multiples, Artists Multiplied', touring exhibition organised by The British Council commencing at the National Museum of Art, Bucharest;Muzeul de Arta, Brazov; Muzeul Brukenthal, Sibu (Romania) |
| 'Double Agent. Catherine Yass', Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford | |
| 'Read Only Memory', Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre | |
| 'No World Without You. Reflections of Identity in New British Art', Herzliya Museum, Tel Aviv | |
| 'The gallery: UNCOVERED', University of Essex | |
| 10th Indian Triennale, Dehli | |
| 2000 | Eat, Fuck, Die, Platform, London |
| Light x 8, The Jewish Museum, New York | |
| Explorations of the Environment: Landscape Redefined, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami | |
| 1999 | National Gallery of Art, Tirana |
| 'This Other World of Ours', curated by Francesca Piovano, Gianmarco del Re Art Media Centre "TV Gallery" Moscow | |
| 'Officina Europa', Bologna, curated by Renato Barilli (forthcoming) Glen Dimplex Award, Dublin | |
| 'Prime', Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland | |
| 1998 | 'Performing Buildings', Tate Gallery, Bankside, London |
| 'Modern British Art', Tate Gallery, Liverpool | |
| 'New Art From Britain', Kunstraum, Innsbruck (Austria) | |
| 'Screen', Anne Faggionato Gallery, London | |
| 'London Screen', Edicions T Galleria d'Art, Barcelona | |
| 1997 | 'Dimensions Variable: Works from the British Council Collection', (European touring exhibition) |
| 'Light', Richard Salmon Gallery, London | |
| 'Citibank Photography Prize', RCA, London | |
| 'False Impressions', British School, Rome | |
| 'Six Unrelated Projects', The Tannery, London | |
| 'Urban Legends', Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany Green on Red Gallery, Dublin | |
| 'Pictura Britannica', Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Australia | |
| 'Private Face/Urban Space', The Gasworks, Athens | |
| 1996 | 'Inner London', Delfina Gallery, London |
| 'ACE Arts Council New Purchases', Hayward Gallery touring throughout U.K. | |
| 'Private View', Bowes Museum, Darlington zburg | |
| 'Manifesta 1', Rotterdam Holland | |
| 'Inside Bankside', South London Gallery, London | |
| 'Join the Dots', Galerie 5020, Salzburg | |
| 1995 | 'Institute of Cultural Anxiety', ICA, London |
| 'British Art Show', Manchester (various sites around the city) | |
| 'Gang Warfare', Independent Art Space, London | |
| 'Care and Control Rear Window', Hackney Hospital, London | |
| 'Melange d'Aout', Laure Genillard Gallery, London | |
| 'Whistling Women', Royal Festival Hall, London | |
| 'Open House', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge | |
| 1994 | 'Whitechapel Open', Whitechapel Gallery, London n |
| 'Miniatures', The Agency, London | |
| Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt | |
| 1993 | 'Inner Side', Architectural Association, London |
| 'Vox Pop', Laure Genillard Gallery, London | |
| 1992 | 'Discretion', Canary Wharf, London |
| 'Brit Art', Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland | |
| 'Exhibit A', Serpentine Gallery, London | |
| 1991 | 'Sign of the Times', Camerawork, London |
| 'Brit Art 1', Galerie Senger, Zurich | |
| 'The Clove Building', Butler's Wharf, London | |
| 1990 | 'Countdown', Chisenhale Gallery, London |
| 'Post-Morality', Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge | |
| 1989 | 'Suppose It's True After All?', Crypt Gallery, London |
| 1985 | Ackerstrasse Gallery, Berlin |
| 1984 | 'New Contemporaries', ICA, London |
| Commissions & Awards | |
| 2000 | SciçArt, The Wellcome Trust, London |
| 1999 | Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
| Public Collections | |
| Arts Council of England | |
| Biblioteca Albertina, Leipzig | |
| The British Council Collection, London | |
| Delfina Entrecanales, London | |
| Dundee City Council, Dundee | |
| Government Art Collection, London | |
| The Jewish Museum, New York | |
| Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle | |
| National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff | |
| New Art Gallery, Wallsall | |
| Public Art Development Trust, London | |
| Royal Mail, London | |
| Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa | |
| Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh | |
| Tate, London | |
| Bibliography | |
| 2002 | Helen Sumptror, Big Issue |
| 2001 | Jean Wainwright, Catherine Yass. Seeing Stars, Portfolio, vol 34, December |
| Catherine Yass, ZOO, December, pp. 208-209 | |
| Andrew Mead, Seeking synergy, Architects Journal, November | |
| Oxford artists study science, Blueprint, November | |
| Justin Mullins, Inspired by science, Oxford Today, Trinity Issue, vol 13 | |
| Tim Radford, A meeting of minds, The Guardian, October 11 | |
| Gary Burd, Art school. Science and art collide, The Biochemist, October, vol 23 | |
| Jean Wainwright, High (Art) Light, PLUK, Summer | |
| Jessica Lack, Light source, tate magazine, Spring | |
| Chiara Zampetti; Catherine Yass Jerwood Gallery London, Tema Celeste, March April, no. 84 | |
| Claire Bishop, Playing tricks with time, Evening Standard, 7 February | |
| Richard Cork; The only way is up... maybe, The Times, 7 February | |
| Mark Currah; Time Out, 31 January 7 February | |
| Eyestorm gallery round up, www.eyestorm.com, 25 January | |
| Eastend & South London, The Art Magazine Wolgan Misool, January | |
| Richard Cork, Best London Exhibitions The Times, 20 January | |
| Lara Grieve, Layers of Light, www.bbc.co.uk/artzone/artsfocus, 17 January | |
| Fiona Morrow, Metro, ART Catherine Yass, Wednesday, 17 January | |
| Paul Clark, Going Out, Evening Standard, 16 January | |
| Helen Sumpter, Galleries Choice, Hot Tickets, 12 18 January | |
| Space, The Guardian, 11 January | |
| 2000 | John Voos, The Independent, Wednesday 13 December (illus) |
| Michael Walter, The Guardian, Wednesday 13 December (illus) | |
| Nigel Reynolds, Tates traditional Christmas tree is bolt from the blue, Daily Telegraph, Wednesday 13 December (illus) | |
| Nupur Mahajan, British photographer to capture Bollywood, Bombay Times, The Times of India, 16 November | |
| Abhljit Majumder, Shooting Stars, empty theatres with the flash gun, The Sunday Times of India, 12 November | |
| The Camera can be inhuman and controlling, The Free Press Journal, Mumbai, 12 November | |
| Celia Lyttleton, Now Tracey can be seen in church, Evening Standard, 31 May | |
| Jonathon Jones, Let there be light..., The Guardian, 30 May | |
| Julia Weiner, Judaism in Focus, Jewish Chronicle, 26 May | |
| Gilda Williams, Konfrontace, The Czech Centre London, Time Out, no.1549 | |
| Mark Godfrey, A View From Above, The Jewish Quarterly, Spring, no. 177 | |
| Fókus, Iceland, 7 13 April | |
| Frída Björk Ingvarsdóttir, Lesbók Morgunbladsins, 8 April | |
| Karel Císar, Modré Svetto / Blue Light, Umelec, Contemporary Art and Culture | |
| Charles Darwent, Window-shopping, New Statesman, 13 March, pp. 4346 | |
| 1999 | Markéta Uhlirova, V odhadu se lepsím, Detail, August |
| Jason Oddy, Focus on a double life, The Independent, 30 July | |
| Interview with Catherine Yass, Detail, August | |
| Mark Gisbourne, From Domestic Bliss to Dereliction Chic, Contemporary Visual Arts, (illus.), issue 24, pp. 3035 | |
| Cherry Smyth, Glen Dimplex Award, Art Monthly, July / August, no. 228 | |
| Ciaran Carty, Glen Dimplex Awards 99, The Sunday Tribune, 18 July | |
| Edward Power, Oh, so smart is modern art..., The Irish Times, 17 July | |
| Aidan Dunne, Glen Dimplex Award, The Irish Times, 15 July | |
| Good conversation is an art in itself, The Evening Herald, 15 July | |
| Aidan Dunne, Make-their-minds-up time, The Irish Times, 14 July | |
| Aidan Dunne, Glen Dimplex Award, The Irish Times, 7 January | |
| Prime, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Contemporary Visual Arts, (illus.),issue 22, p. 88 | |
| Richard Ingleby, The realisation of dreams, Tate Magazine, Spring, issue 17 | |
| Brave Art for Scotland, Blueprint, March | |
| Sarah Kent, Catherine Yass: The Pool, Time Out, 17 February, #1487 | |
| Jonathan Jones, Unmoving Pictures, Observer, 14 February | |
| Simon Grant, Exhibitions: Catherine Yass, Guardian Guide, 30 January | |
| HotShoe International, March / April, issue no.101, pp.1418 (cover illus. | |
| James Hall, Catherine Yass, Central Club Hotel, The Independent, 6 February | |
| 1998 | Roy Exley, Sites of Absence, Contemporary Visual Arts, issue 20, pp. 6268 |
| Ryuko Tsushin, (illus.), October, no. 423 | |
| Whats New, Brutus, Autumn, vol. 11 | |
| News, Frau, 13 October, no. 174 | |
| Whats New Art & Design, (illus.), Elle Deco, October, no. 38 | |
| Barrieren im Bad, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 11 / 12 July, no. 158 | |
| Trend: Junge Leute stehen auf Kunst, Seite Express, 18 June | |
| 1997 | Robin Muir, Photo finish, Vogue, January |
| Ian Gale, Deep, dark vision of mortality, Scotland on Sunday, 9 March | |
| Duncan Macmillan, Exits to eternity, The Scotsman, 10 March | |
| Dan Glaister, Labour vows to support artistic talent, The Guardian, 4 February | |
| Ralph Hughes, catherine yass, Galleries, March | |
| Melissa Feldmann, Six Projects, Art Monthly, April, no. 205 | |
| Katja Blomberg, Die Wuerde des Lichtschalters, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 17 June, no. 137, p. 39 | |
| Parveen Adams & David Ward, The Light and the Blue, Portfolio, June | |
| Angela Levine, Adamis Puzzles, The Jerusalem Post, October | |
| 1996 | James Hall, The British Art Show 4, Artforum, March |
| Sarah Kent, Inner London, Time Out, 13 20 March, no. 1334 | |
| Tania Guha, Catherine Yass, Time Out, 10 17 July | |
| Tania Guha, Corridors, Portfolio (Catalogue of Contemporary Photography in Britain), no. 21 | |
| Libby Anson, Luscious, Flayed and Brutal, Make, August / September Martin | |
| Herbert, Catherine Yass, Dazed & Confused, November, no. 25 | |
| Edward Platt, Faces for 96, Big Issue, 4 10 November, no. 206 | |
| David Bate, Korridorer av Catherine Yass, Hyperfoto, no. 2, p. 47 | |
| 1995 | Adrian Searle, Tense? Nervous? It might be art, The Independent, 3 January |
| Jane Richards, Tunnel Visions, The Independent, 12 January | |
| Mark Currah, Catherine Yass, Craig Wood & Alessandra Rossi, 152c Brick Lane, Time Out, 12 19 April | |
| Adrian Searle, Faces to watch in the art world: Catherine Yass, The Independent, 4 July | |
| Richard Cork, At Home with the Modern, The Times | |
| Martin Maloney, Catherine Yass, Flash Art, October, no. 184 James Hall, Through the minds eye, The Guardian, 4 July | |
| Adrian Dannatt, They buy it, but do they get it?, The Independent , 14 November | |
| Waldemar Januszczak, Absent Trends, The Sunday Times, 19 November | |
| John Stathatos, Away from the Pack?: British Art Show 4, Untitled, Winter | |
| Robert Garnett, The British Art Show 4, Art Monthly, December / January | |
| Martin Maloney, Glitz and Thrift, Blueprint, December, no. 123 | |
| Nick Hallam, Springfield Hospital Corridors, Art & Design, no. 44 | |
| Dean Hawkes, The juxtaposition of life, art and setting, The Architects Journal, 30 March, p. 30 | |
| 1994 | Simon Grant, Ready for my close up, Art Review, December / January |
| Richard Dorment, East End masters of projection, Daily Telegraph, 25 May | |
| 1993 | Michael Archer, Catherine Yass, Artforum, January |
| Althea Greenan, Risky Business, Womans Art, January / February, no. 50 | |
| 1992 | Caryn Faure Walker, Discretion, Time Out, 8-15 April |
| William Feaver, Maid Eternal (Discretion), The Observer, 17 May | |
| James Hall, Art is the loser in a photo-finish, The Guardian, 13 May | |
| William Feaver, Art (Exhibit A), The Observer, 17 May | |
| Sarah Kent, Photo copies | |
| C (Exhibit A), Time Out, 20-27 May | |
| Michael Archer, Anomie, Art Monthly | |
| Greg Hilty, On the Brink, Frieze, June-August, issue 5 | |
| David Lillington, Catherine Yass, Time Out, 4-11 November | |
| 1991 | John Russell Taylor, Conceivably, Theyre Masterpieces, The Times, 16 April |
| David Lillington, Ace of Arts, Time Out, 17-24 April | |
| Andrew Renton, A New Internationalism, Frieze, pilot issue | |
| Mary Anne Francis, London Summer Round-up, Art Monthly, September | |
| Ruth Barter, England in Review, Arts Magazine, November, vol. 66, no. 3 | |
| 1990 | Andrew Graham-Dixon Join the Professionals, The Independent, February |
| Publications | |
| 2001 |
Double Agent, pamphlet published by the University of Oxford; edited by Paul Bonaventura, text by Janna Levin |
| Multiplication, exhibition catalogue edited by The British Council, London; essay by Stephen Bury | |
| 2001 |
Catherine Yass. Star, published by The British Council for the 10th Indian Biennale; text by Vikram Chandra |
| 2000 | Catherine Yass, published by asprey jacques, London; texts by Greg Hilty and Parveen Adams |
| Looking at the Overlooked, published by i8 Gallery, Reykjavik; text by Caryn Faure Walker | |
| Synagogue, pamphlet to accompany Synagogue, (Art in Sacred Spaces), London, 21 May - 11 June; texts by Mark Godfrey and Juliet Steyn | |
| Cell, published by i8 Gallery, Reykjavik; text by Caryn Faure Walker | |
| 1999 |
Prime, published by Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee; text by Andrew NairneOfficina Europa, published by Mazzotta, Milan; text by Renato Barilli |
| The Glen Dimplex Artists Award 1999, published by Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; texts by Brenda Mc Parland and Sarah Glennie | |
| 1998 | Primavera fotografica, published by Cultura Arts Plastiques, Barcelona; text by Gabriela Salgado |
| New Art From Britain, published by the Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria; text by Richard Cork | |
| Catherine Yass: Invisible City, pamphlet to accompany the exhibition at Mizuma Art Gallery, Toyko, 4 September 17 October; text by Yumi Umemura | |
| Feeringbury VIII Cultivated, published by Firstsite in association with Curtain Road Arts, Colchester; texts by Stephen Hepworth, Katherine Wood and Sonia Coode-Adams | |
| United in Death, published by Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge, UK | |
| Officina Europa, published by Gabriele Mazzotta, Milan; texts by Renato Barilli | |
| 1997 |
Private Face Urban Space, published by Hellenic Art Galleries Association, Crete; texts by Katerina Gregos and Henry Meyric Hughes |
| The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize, published by the Citibank, London; texts by Paul Wombell, Tessa Traeger and Richard Cork | |
| Urbane Legenden, published by the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; texts by Margrit Brehm, Birgit Moeckel, and Jochen Poetter | |
| False Impressions, published by the British School at Rome; text by Alison Jacques | |
| Strange Days British Contemporary Photography, published by Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan; text by Gilda Williams | |
| Documentary Notes, published by the Public Art Development Trust, London; text by Tania Guha | |
| Surroundings, published by the Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv; text byFrancis MacKee | |
| Urban Space Private Face, published by the Hellenic Art Galleries Association; texts by Katerina Gregos and Henry Meyric Hughes | |
| Pictura Britannica Art from Britain, published by the Museum of Contemporary Art,Sydney; texts by Bernice Murphy, Patricia Bickers, Stephen Snoddy, John A. Walker, Tony Bennett, Kobena Mercer, David Barrett, Nikos Papastergiadis and Patrick J. Boylan | |
| Dimensions Variable, Works from the British Council Collection, published by theBritish Council, London | |
| 1996 |
Catherine Yass: Portraits, published by the Aspex Visual Arts Trust in collaborcation with the Laure Genillard, London and the University of Portsmouth; texts byLisa Moran, Valerie Swates, Marc Pimlott and Olivier RichonManifesta 1, published by various sponsors, Rotterdam |
| 1995 | Open House, published by Kettles Yard, Cambridge; introductory text byMichael Harris |
| The Photographic Image, published by Art & Design; text by Nick Hallam | |
| The British Art Show 4, published by the South Bank Centre (National TouringExhibitions), London | |
| 1992 | Discretion, London: Canary Wharf, published by Arts & Events, texts byDavid Batchelor and Mary Anne Francis |
| Brit Art, published by Kunsthaus Glarus; texts by Paolo Bianchi and Christopher Bledowski | |
| Exhibit A, published by the Serpentine Gallery, London; text by Liam Gillick | |
| 1990 | Swimming Underwater, published by Imagination; texts by Dick Hebdige and Nicholas De Ville |
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