Rowena Dring

 

works

paintings / stitched fabric

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photographs

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1970
born in Wellingborough
1989–1990
College of Higher Education, Bedford
1990–1993
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1996–1998
Goldsmiths College, University of London

lives and works in Amsterdam



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exhibitions

 
selected solo exhibitions

2009
Falls the Shadow, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (Cat.)
2008
Western Lands, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam
Skyline – Landscape and Memory, rahncontemporary, Zurich
2006
A Place Apart, QED Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
Künstlerverein Malkasten, Duesseldorf
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2004
Landschaften, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster
2003
Sies + Höke, Duesseldorf
2002
Clearing, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2001
Sies + Höke, Duesseldorf
Gran Turismo, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, Hoxton House, London

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selected group exhibitions

2011
2nd Triennial of Contemporary Art (ITCA), National Gallery, Prague (Cat.)
2010
There Was a World Once, Märkisches Museum, Witten (Cat.)
Optical Shift – Illusion und Täuschung, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur (Cat.)
2009
C.D.R.D.E.E.J.G.M.S., rahncontemporary, Zurich
Privat – Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (Cat.)
2008
Between Time and Space, Nunnery Gallery, London (Cat.)
End Game – British Contemporary Art From the Chaney Family
Collection, Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH), Houston TX
Garten Eden – Der Garten in der Kunst seit 1900, Kunsthalle Emden (Cat.)
2007
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (Cat.)
Idilio, DA 2 Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca (Cat.)
Landescapism, Islip Art Museum, Long Island
The Artificial Kingdom, The Horticultural Society, New York
Traditional Skills, New Thinking. Knitting and Stitching for the
21st Century, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
2006
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss, Phoenix Kulturstiftung /
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg (Cat.)
Landschaftsparaphrasen, Museum Baden, Solingen
2005
Colours and Trips, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz / Museum der Stadt Ratingen (Cat.)
Landscape Confection, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH / Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX / Orange County
Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Landschaftsparaphrasen, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten
Hanging by a Thread, The Moore Space, Miami FL
New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
2004
Landschaftsparaphrasen, Städtische Galerie Gladbeck
Kingdom, Market Gallery, Glasgow
The Sublime is (Still) Now, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
2003
Hands up, Baby, Hands up!, Oldenburger Kunstverein
2002
Textile Innovation in Jerwood Applied Arts Prize 2002, Crafts Council Gallery, London / Ettrick Riverside, Selkirk
2000
Art Textiles 2, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk
Paintings, Sies + Höke, Duesseldorf
1999
Call me I am home, Cable Factory, Helsinki
The Bible of Networking, P-house, Tokyo
mode of art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Duesseldorf (Cat.)
1998
Post Neo Amateurism, UNIT, Chisendale, London
London, The British Council Window Gallery, Prague
1996
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Double Density, Project X, Belgrade



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exhibitions rahncontemporary Zurich

 

2009
C.D.R.D.E.E.J.G.M.S. (group show)
6.11.2009 – 16.1.2010

 
 

2008
Skyline. Landscape and Memory (solo show)
29.8. – 25.10.2008



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catalogues

 

katalog
Between Time and Space
Exhib. Cat. Nunnery Gallery London, 2008.
ISBN 3-93343-23-9

15 SF*


katalog
Colours and Trips
Exhib. Cat. Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis Bregenz / Museum der Stadt Ratingen, published by Revolver, Frankfurt on the Main 2005.
ISBN 3-86588-052-5

26 SF*


katalog
Falls the Shadow
Exhib. Cat. Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, published by Kerber, Bielefeld / Leipzig 2009.
ISBN 978-3-86678-222-8

46 SF*


katalog
Idylle – Traum und Trugschluss
Exhib. Cat. Phoenix Kulturstiftung / Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg / DA 2 Domus Artium, Salamanca / Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, published by Hatje-Cantz, Ostfildern 2006.
ISBN 978-3-7757-1943-8

56 SF*


katalog
Privat. Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart
Exhib. Cat. Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, 2009.
ISBN 978-3-89202-073-8

38 SF*


* Preise exkl. Porto und Verpackung, inkl. MWST /
All prices excl. postal and shipping fees, incl. VAT

 

 

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news

 
OPTICAL SHIFT – ILLUSION UND TÄUSCHUNG (group show)
b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum Montabaur
Im Stadtwald 2, D-56410 Montabaur
www.b-05.org

Opening: June 27, 2010 at 12 noon
June 28 – October 17, 2010

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THERE WAS A WORLD ONCE (group show)
Märkisches Museum Witten
Husemannstr. 12, D-58452 Witten
www.stadtwitten.de

Opening: November 2010

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2ND TRIENNIAL PRAGUE (ITCA) (group show)
National Gallery Prague (Veletržní palác)
Dukelských hrdinu 47, Praha 7, CZ-17000 Praha
www.ngprague.cz/en

Opening: 2011

 
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press
selected reviews

 
Art, January 2007
Ute Thon, Zurück zur Natur
www.art-magazin.de

Circa Art Magazine, Autumn 2008
Aoife Rosenmeyer, Rowena Dring
www.recirca.com

Kunst-Bulletin, November 2004
Münster: Rowena Dring in der Ausstellungshalle für zeitgenössische Kunst
www.kunstbulletin.ch

Kunstforum International, 2009, vol. 197
Ann-Kathrin Günzel, Privat
www.kunstforum.de

The New York Times, March 11, 2007
Benjamin Genocchio, New World Ordering
www.nytimes.com

 
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