Catherine Yass

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

2019	Supreme Court, London
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

2021	Falling Away, Ambika P3, London
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

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