Royal London (stairwell), 2013
| CATHERINE YASS | |
| Born 1963 in London, UK | |
| Lives and works in London, UK | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1988-90 | Goldsmiths College, London, MA Fine Art |
| 1986-87 | Boise travelling scholarship |
| 1984-85 | Hochschule der Künste, Berlin |
| 1982-86 | Slade School of Art, BA Fine Art |
| AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS | |
| 2013 | Rambert Dance Company, London, UK |
| 2013 | JCC, London, UK |
| 2003 | Merce Cunningham, Split Sides, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, touring worldwide |
| 2002 | Turner Prize Shortlist |
| 2001 | India Triennale |
| 1999 | Glen Dimplex, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
| 1997 | Citibank Photography Prize Shortlist |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2017 | Aeolian Piano, One night screening RIBA with the BBC, London |
| 2014 | Cadences: Flight, 2002 plus works curated from the Boijman's Collection, Milton Keynes Gallery |
| 2013 | Commission for permanent installation at Jewish Community Centre, London. |
| 2012 | Catherine Yass: Lighthouse, Galerie Lelong, New York |
| Catherine Yass: Lighthouse, Alison Jacques Gallery, London | |
| 2011 | Catherine Yass, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea |
| Descent, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC | |
| 2009 | The China Series, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands |
| Descent, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri | |
| Afloat, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid | |
| 2008 | High Wire, Glasgow International, CCA, Glasgow; German Gymnasium London; Laing Gallery, Newcastle |
| Lock, Alison Jacques Gallery, London | |
| 2006 | Lock, Galerie Lelong, New York |
| Wall: Descent: Flight, Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah | |
| 2005 | Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Gran Canaria |
| Herzliya Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv | |
| Art Basel, Unlimited, Basel Art Fair | |
| Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam | |
| 2004 | Alison Jacques Gallery, London |
| 2003 | Jerwood gallery, London |
| 2002 | Turner Prize, Tate Britain, London |
| Descent, aspreyjacques, London | |
| 2001 | Star, National Gallery of Modern Art, Jaipur House, New Delhi; National Gallery of Modern Art, CJ Hall, Mumbai; Birla, Calcutta; Lalit Kala, Chennai |
| Double Agent, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford | |
| Jerwood Gallery, London | |
| 2000 | New Art Gallery, Walsall |
| Synagogue, (Art in Sacred Spaces), The Congregation of Jacob, London | |
| Cell, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik | |
| 1999 | British Council Exhibition Space, Prague |
| Project Space, Galeri Wang, Oslo | |
| Baths, The Pool, Central Club Hotel, London | |
| 1998 | Galería dels Angels, Barcelona, Sabine Schmidt, Cologne |
| Invisible City, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo | |
| 1997 | Grave, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh |
| Stage, Cell Space, Barbican Centre, London | |
| 1996 | Stall, Laure Genillard, London |
| Steel, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, | |
| 1995 | Spectators, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth |
| 1994 | Chair, Viewpoint Photography Gallery, Salford |
| Guy's Cliffe, Herber Percy Gallery, Warwickshire | |
| 1992 | Laure Genillard, London |
| 1991 | The Tavistock Centre for Psychotherapy, London |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2019 | Architecture of London, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, UK |
| 2018 | Living with Buildings, Wellcome Collection, London, UK |
| Powerful Tides - 400 Years of Chatham and the Sea, The Historic Chatham Dockyard, Kent, UK | |
| 2017 | Descent, Togetherness: Notes on Outrage, South Kiosk, Cornwall, UK Dizziness Navigating the Unknown, CCA, Warsaw, Poland |
| Navigating the Unknown. Elastic Actions in a Dizzying World, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria | |
| Mission is 40, Mission Gallery, Swansea, United Kingdom | |
| Togetherness: Notes On Outrage, Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall, UK | |
| 2016 | Descent, Togetherness: Notes on Outrage, South Kiosk, London |
| High Wire, Precarious Balance, CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand (touring: China) | |
| 2015 | Lighthouse, 'Work, Rest, Play: British Photography from 1960s to Today', |
| OCT-Loft, Shenzhen, China. (touring: Mingsheng Arts Museum, Shanghai, K11 Foundation in Wuhan) Curated by The Photographers' Gallery | |
| High Wire, Dizziness - A Resource, Belgrade (screening) | |
| How to Construct a Time Machine, Milton Keynes Gallery | |
| 2014 | Lighthouse, Art in Romney Marsh |
| Wall, MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy | |
| Lock, It's All About The River, Tamar Project, Plymouth | |
| Lighthouse, Mumok, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna | |
| Urban Psychosis, The Holden Gallery, Manchester School of Art | |
| Museums at Night, Cardiff Museum | |
| Lighthouse, Ship to Shore, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK | |
| Wall, Cultural Cartographies, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, USA | |
| Descent, Tribute to an Avenue, Sculpture International Rotterdam, | |
| Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Walk on: From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff - 40 Years of Walking, Various | |
| locations in Plymouth, UK Lost in Landscape | |
| 2013 | Flight, Drone: The Automated Image. 13th Montreal Photo Biennale |
| Lighthouse, Fluid Motion, Museum of Fine Art, Boston | |
| High Wire, Walk-On, The Gymnasium, Berwick upon Tweed | |
| Government Art Collection, Revealed, Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland | |
| Fluid Motion, Lizbeth and George Krupp New Media Gallery: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| Summer Exposure, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York | |
| 2012 | Nuit Blanche, TIFF Space, Toronto, Canada, September |
| The World in London, Olympic commission, Victoria Park, The Photographers Gallery, London | |
| High Wire, Tate Britain | |
| Government Art Collection, Commissions: Now and Then, Whitechapel Gallery, London | |
| Government Art Collection, Lancaster House, London | |
| Desire Lines, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art , December | |
| Skyscraper: Art and Architecture Against Gravity. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago | |
| 2011 | Projections: Works from The Artangel Collection, The Manchester International Festival, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester |
| Editions and Acquisitions 2011, The Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England | |
| The Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, England | |
| Left Behind: Selected Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. | |
| Interventions in the Landscape, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York | |
| 2010 | P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C |
| 2009 | Passing Thoughts & Making Plans, group show curated by Catherine Yass, Jerwood Space, London, England |
| Learning Modern, The School at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois | |
| There Goes the Neighborhood, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio | |
| The Photographic Object, The Photographers' Gallery, London | |
| 2008 | Eastern Standard: Western Artists in China, Mass MoCA, North Adams, |
| Massachusetts | |
| Dateline Israel, The Jewish Museum of Maryland, Baltimore (MD) | |
| Turned on, Alan Cristea Gallery, London | |
| Parallax, Fieldgate Gallery, London | |
| 2007 | The Speed Art Museum: Highlights from the Collection, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville |
| Bare Life, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island | |
| Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London | |
| Video and Photography from the Western Bridge, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman,Washington | |
| Weather Report. Climate Change and Visual Arts, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de | |
| Gran Canaria, Spain | |
| Sleeping and Dreaming, Deutsches Hygene-Museum, Dresden, Germany, Wellcome Collection, London | |
| Urban Landscapes: Emancipation and Nostalgia, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence | |
| Dateline Israel: Recent Photography and Video, Jewish Museum, New York | |
| 2006 | MAN - Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Sarretto, Italy |
| Hyper Design, 6th Shanghai Biennale | |
| Seoul International Photography Festival 2006 | |
| In The Society of London Ladies, La Nuit Blanche, Miss China Beauty Room, Paris | |
| Dual Realities: The 4th Seoul International International Media Biennale | |
| Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London | |
| New Territories, Cultuurcentrum Brugge, Bruge, Belgium | |
| 2005 | Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg SPACE, London |
| Expo Nagoya, British Pavilion, Nagoya | |
| In Progress, Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno | |
| 7th Graz Biennial on Media and Architecture, Graz | |
| Thrust, 26th Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana | |
| Les Grande Spectacles, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg | |
| Switched On, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, England | |
| 2004 | WOW, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle |
| Interior View, Artists explore the language of architecture | |
| De Zonnehof, Centrum fur Moderne Kunst, Amersfoort, First Site, Colchester, | |
| Fri-Art, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg | |
| 2003 | Eastwing Collection 06, Courtauld Institute of Art, London |
| Up Close and Personal, Nottingham Castle, Drawing With Light International Photography Festival, Nottingham | |
| Some Things We Like..., aspreyjacques, London | |
| contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada | |
| Wetterling 25-ars jubileum, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm | |
| The City that never was. Fantastic architecture in Western art, touring exhibition, Centro de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, Barcelona; Museo De Bellas Artes De Bilbao, Bilbao | |
| 2002 | In Print: Contemporary British Art from the Paragon Press February 2002-February 2006, Art Pavillion 'Cvijeta Zuzoric, Belgrade, and touring |
| Cinema India: The Art of Bollywood, Victoria & Albert Museum, London The Ink Jetty, Neon Gallery, London | |
| Glass Box Project: Catherine Yass, ARTLAB 16 at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine | |
| Tate Modern Collection, Tate Modern, London | |
| Wetterling Gallery, Sweden | |
| 2001 | 10th Indian Triennale, Dehli, award winner: best art work |
| Multiplication: Artists' 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) | |
| 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 | |
| Nothing, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland | |
| Contemporary Arts Centre, Vilnius, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmo | |
| 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 | This Other World of Ours, TV Gallery, Art Media Centre, Moscow National Gallery of Art, Tirana |
| Officina Europa, Bologna, curated by Renato Barilli | |
| Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin | |
| Prime, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee | |
| Officina Europa, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna touring to Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola, Ex Fabbrica Arrigoni, Cesena and Palazzo dell'Arnego, Rimini | |
| 1998 | Performing Buildings, Tate, Bankside, London |
| Modern British Art, Tate, Liverpool | |
| Queen's Festival, Waterfront Concert Hall, Belfast | |
| New Art From Britain, Kunstraum, Innsbruck | |
| Screen, Anne Faggionato Gallery, London | |
| Feeringbury V111 - Cultivated, Feeringbury Manor and Firstsite, Colchester, curated by Stephen Hepworth and Richard Kirwan | |
| United in Death, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge, UK, curated by Susan Morris | |
| London Screen, Edicions T Gallería d'Art, Barcelona | |
| 1997 | Dimensions Variable: Works from the British Council Collection, London, (European touring exhibition) |
| Surroundings, Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv | |
| Light, Richard Salmon, London | |
| Citibank Photography Prize, Royal College of Art, London | |
| False Impressions, British School, Rome, curated by Alison Jacques | |
| Denys Lasdun Retrospective, Royal Academy of Arts, London | |
| Six Unrelated Projects, The Tannery, London | |
| Urban Legends, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden | |
| Green on Red Gallery, Dublin | |
| Pictura Britannica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
| Private Face / Urban Space, The Gasworks, Athens | |
| Date with an Artist, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland | |
| 1996 | Manifesta 1, Rotterdam |
| Inside Bankside, South London Gallery, London | |
| Inner London, Delfina, London | |
| ACE Arts Council New Purchases, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast | |
| Private View, Bowes Museum, Darlington | |
| Join the Dots, Galerie 5020, Salzburg | |
| Elektroniske understromme, Kunst & Video, Statens Museum for Kunst & Filmhuset, Kobenhavn | |
| 1995 | Institute of Cultural Anxiety, ICA, London |
| British Art Show 4, Cornerhouse, Manchester (tours Edinburgh and Cardiff, 1996) | |
| Gang Warfare, Independent Art Space, London | |
| Care and Control, Hackney Hospital, London | |
| Melange d'Aout, Laure Genillard, London | |
| Whistling Women, Royal Festival Hall, London | |
| Open House, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge | |
| 152c Brick Lane, London | |
| 1994 | Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| Miniatures, The Agency, London | |
| Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt | |
| Guys Cliff, Heber-Percy Gallery, Warwickshire, H | |
| 1993 | Inner Side, Architectural Associa----tion, London |
| Vox Pop, Laure Genillard, London | |
| 1992 | Exhibit A, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| Discretion, Canary Wharf, London | |
| Brit Art, Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus | |
| 1991 | Sign of the Times, Camerawork, London |
| Brit Art 1, Galeri Senger, Zürich | |
| The Clove Building, Butler's Wharf, London | |
| 1990 | Countdown, Chisenhale Gallery, London |
| Swimming Underwater, Imagination, London | |
| Post-Morality, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge | |
| 1989 | Suppose It's True After All?, Crypt Gallery, London |
| 1985 | Galerie Ackerstrasse, Berlin |
| 1984 | New Contemporaries, ICA, London |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| Arts Council of England, UK | |
| Biblioteca Albertina, Leipzig, Germany | |
| The British Council Collection, London, UK | |
| The British Museum Collection, London, UK | |
| Delfina Entrecanales, London, UK | |
| Deutsche Bank Collection, UK | |
| Dundee City Council, Dundee, Scotland | |
| Government Art Collection, London, UK | |
| Jewish Community Centre, London, UK | |
| The Jewish Museum, New York, NY | |
| Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK | |
| The Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, WA | |
| MoMA, NY | |
| The National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection, Washington DC | |
| National Museum and Galleries of Wales, Cardiff, UK | |
| New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK | |
| The Phillips Collection, Washington DC | |
| Public Art Development Trust, London, UK | |
| Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia | |
| Royal Pump Rooms, Royal Leamington Spa, UK | |
| Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland | |
| Tate Collection, London, UK | |
| AWARDS | |
| 2002 | - 2005 Arts and Humanities Research Board, Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design |
| 2002 | Wellcome Trust Award, London |
| Turner Prize Short-List, London | |
| 2001 | 10th India Triennale Award, New Delhi |
| 2000 | Sci-Art, The Wellcome Trust, London |
| Year of the Artist Award, The Arts Council of England | |
| 1999 | Glen Dimplex Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
| PROGRAMME CURATOR | |
| 2004 | In a Short Space of Time and a Short Time of Space |
| The Photographers' Gallery | |
| 2005 | Still Moving and Moving Still, The Photographers' Gallery |
| 2006 | The Other Side of Silence, The Photographers' Gallery |
| PROJECTS | |
| 2016-2017 | Artist in residence, Royal London Hospital Archive |
| BOARD MEMBERSHIPS | |
| 1998-2005 | The Photographers' Gallery, London |
| PANELS | |
| 2012 | Paul Hamlyn Awards for Visual Arts Nominator |
| 2004 | Paul Hamlyn Awards for Visual Arts Nominator |
| 2003 | Jerwood Photography Prize |
| 2001 | Citibank Photography Prize |
| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
| 2012 | - present MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London |
| 2002 | - 2005 AHRB Grant, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London |
| 1994 | - 1996 MA Photography, Derby University |
| 1992 | - 2002 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London |
| 1991 | - 1994 Tower Hamlets College, London |