James Richards

Kurzvita

Richards’s expanded practice examines themes of obsession, desire, and technology through archival research, found footage, and extensive collaboration. Addressing the relentless flow of imagery in the twenty-first century, Richards’s work carves out a space where personal politics and digital materiality meet.

Richards’s recent solo exhibitions include Our Friends in the Audience, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2024); Workers in Song (with Billy Bultheel) at MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024) and at Wiels, Brussels (2023); Internal Litter at Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin (2022); When We Were Monsters at Haus Mödrath–Räume für Kunst, Kerpen (2021-2022); Alms for the Birds at Castello Di Rivoli, Torino (2020); SPEED 1 and SPEED 2 with Leslie Thornton at Malmö Konsthall and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2019). Richards was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2014. In 2017, he represented Wales at the 57th Venice Biennale and was awarded the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024.