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RICHARD LEAROYD

1966 Born Nelson, Lancashire, England
1990 Graduates from the Glasgow School of Art in Fine Art Photography
1991 Artist-in-residence at the Scottish Ballet
1994 Teaches photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art through 1999
2000 Moves to London; works as a commercial photographer
2003 Begins camera obscura work
2010 Gives lecture on his work at the International Center of Photography, New York
Lives and works in London, England

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1992 Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Union Gallery, London, England
2009 *McKee Gallery, NY
2011 *Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
*McKee Gallery
2013 *McKee Gallery
Fraenkel Gallery

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
*Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, curated by Vince Aletti, Kristen Lubben, Christopher Phillips, and Carol Squiers, October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010
2010 Object Lesson: Curated by Vince Aletti, New York Photo Festival, May 12–16
2011 The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 20, 2010–November 6, 2011
2012 *Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, The National Gallery, London, October 31, 2012–January 20, 2013. Travelled to: Seducidospor el Arte, Obra Social “la Caixa” Caixa Forum, Barcelona, Spain, February 21–May 19, 2013; Obra Social “la Caixa” Caixa Forum, Madrid, Spain, June 19–September 15, 2013
*About Face, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, May 15, 2012–April 30, 2013
2014 Negativeless, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, September 14–October 24, 2014
*catalogue

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Scottish Arts Council
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wilson Centre for Photography, London
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

SELECTED ARTICLES AND PUBLICATIONS

Richard Learoyd Twenty-Two Photographs: 2005–07, essays by Martin Barnes and Christopher Bucklow, London 2008
Richard Learoyd Unique Photographs: 2007–09, McKee Gallery, with interview by Christopher Bucklow, London 2009
Kathy Ryan, “Photo Finish | The Year’s Best Books,” The New York Times Style Magazine online,
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/photofinish-the-years-best-books/, December 30, 2009
Vince Aletti, “Best of 2009,” Artforum, December 2009, illustrated in color, page 87
Peggy Roalf, “Richard Learoyd at McKee Gallery,” DART-Design Arts Daily Newsletter, http://www.aiap.com/dart/index.php?s=102709+learoyd, November 17, 2009
Portfolio Magazine: Contemporary Photography in Britain, 50th Edition, 2009, illustrated in color, pages 62-63
“Richard Learoyd,” Short List, The New Yorker, October 5, 2009
Roberta Smith, “Fashion Beyond A Simple Statement,” The New York Times, October 9, 2009, page C27
“Richard Learoyd,” Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, October 12, 2009
Ken Johnson, “Richard Learoyd,” Art in Review, The New York Times, October 23, 2009, illustrated in color, page C29
Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, exhibition catalogue, published by Steidl, Germany, 2009, illustrated in color, pages 108-111
Gastronomica, The Journal of Food and Culture, Winter 2010, Volume 10, Number 1, illustrated in color in insert, page 9
Peggy Roalf, “Flesh and Bone, Unique Photographs by Richard Learoyd,” Aperture, Summer 2010, Issue 199, illustrated in color, pages 44-49
Jonno Rattman, “Camera (Not So) Obscura,” ISO Magazine, Fall 2010, Issue 4, illustrated in color, pages 10-11
Joanna Lowry, “Richard Learoyd: The Other Side of the Mirror,” Portfolio Magazine: Contemporary Photography in Britain, Number 52, 2010, illustrated in color, pages 44-51
Portraits and Figures Richard Learoyd, McKee Gallery, with essay by Mark Alice Durant, London 2011
Caroline Smith, “Uncomfortably Close: Richard Learoyd’s Presences,” Time Magazine Online—Time: Lightbox, http://lightbox.time.com/2011/04/27/uncomfortablyclose-richard-learoyds-presences, April 27, 2011

Larissa Archer, “Presences: Richard Learoyd,” artpractical.com, http://www.artpractical.com/shotgun_review/presences/, May 2011
Michael Howerton, “The Inviting Distance of Learoyd’s Portraits,” The San Francisco Examiner: sfexaminer.com, http://www.sfexaminer.com/entertainment/2011/05/inviting-distance-learoyd-s-portraits, May 25, 2011
Kenneth Baker, “Learoyd’s photos look alive,” Arts and Entertainment, San Francisco Chronicle,
June 18, 2011
“Richard Learoyd,” Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, October 24, 2011
“Richard Learoyd: Portraits and Figures @ McKee,” DLK Collection, http://dlkcollection.blogspot.com/2011/10/richard-learoyd-portraits-and-figures.html, October 18, 2011
Don Burmeister, “The End of an Era: Richard Learoyd Portraits and Figures,” The New York Photo Review, http://www.nyphotoreview.com/NYPR_REVS/ NYPR_REV1804.html, Volume 2, Issue 37, October 18–24, 2011
Trent Morse, “Richard Learoyd,” ARTnews, December 2011
Hope Kingsley, Seduced by Art, with interview by Christopher Riopelle, National Gallery Company, London, distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven, 2012
Richard Learoyd, Still / Life, McKee Gallery with essay by Charles Moffett, New York 2013
Peggy Roalf, “Richard Learoyd at McKee Gallery,” DART-Design Arts Daily Newsletter, http://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/6466/richard-learoyd-at-mckee-gallery.html, May 8, 2013
“Richard Learoyd,” Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, June 3, 2013
Loring Knoblauch, “Richard Learoyd: Still/Life @ McKee Gallery, June 3, 2013 http://collectordaily.com/richard-learoyd-stilllife-mckee/
Esther Teichman, “Inside the Camera’s belly,” Exit, Issue 51, published by Proyectos Utópicos, S.L., December 2013
Domenica Paige, “The Visible and the Veiled,” Conveyor Magazine, Number 6, 2014
Francis Hodgson, “’Negativeless’ photography at the Michael Hoppen Gallery,” Financial Times, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/b31de032-401e-11e4-936b-00144feabdc0.html, September 26, 2014
Julia Friedman, “Photography Without Negatives,” Hyperallergic, http://hyperallergic.com/160003/photography-without-negatives/, November 3, 2014