Susan Derges

1955 Born in London

2013 Professor, University of Plymouth
2010 Residency, Maudsley Hospital, London
2006-07 The Stille Room, Fyllingsdaten Nursing Home, Bergen
2004-05 Eden Project Education Centre – Solar Terrace, Cornwall
1998-2006 Research Fellow, University of Plymouth
1997-99 External Examiner BA Fine Art/ Photography, Middlesex University
1997 Visiting Lecturer/Guest Speaker, Mills College, Oakland, California
1993-98 Lecturer, Media Arts, University of Plymouth, Exeter
1992- Living and working in Dartmoor, Devon
1986-91 Living and working in London
1982-83 Post graduate research at Tsukuba University, Japan
1979 Boise travel Scholarship to Holland
1977-79 Slade School of Fine Art, London
1976-77 British Council DAAD scholarship to Berlin
1973-76 Chelsea School of Art and Design, London

Lives and works in Devon, UK

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2013
Danziger Gallery, New York

2012- 2013
Alder Brook, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

2010-2011
A Little Bit of Magic Realised, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2009
Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

2008
Johyun Gallery, Seoul and Busan
Susan Derges and Hildegard von Bingen, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2006
Purdy Hicks Gallery
Ingleby Gallery

2005
Photographs Without a Camera, Gallery 314, Bergen

2004
FotoFest 2004 – Water, Houston, Texas
Dark Waters, Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds
Recent Work, Galerie Nichido, Paris
Recent Work, Photo London

2003
New Work, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Transience of Nature, Nichido Contemporary Art, Tokyo Design Centre
Ingleby Gallery

2002
New Work, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Liquid Form, Ediciones Wu, Lima
The Streens, Trace Gallery, Weymouth, Dorset

2001
Natural Magic, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford
Kingswood, St Mary’s Church, Ashford, Kent

2000
Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston

1999
Woman Thinking River, James Danziger Gallery, New York
Woman Thinking River, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Recent Work, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art

1998
River Taw, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall
River Taw, Musée de l'Elyseé, Lausanne
River Taw, Spacex Gallery, Exeter

1997
River Taw, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
1995 Print Room, The Photographers' Gallery, London
James Danziger Gallery
Embodied, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

1994
The Observer and the Observed, James Danziger Gallery

1993
Between Sun and Earth, The Photographers' Gallery
Full Circle, Cairn Gallery, Stroud

1989 Gallery ON, Poznan
Tokyo Science Museum, Exploratorium, Tokyo (video)

1987
O² Art Museum, Tokyo (video)

1985
JVC VIC Centre, Tokyo (video)
Gallery Okazaki, Tokyo

1984
Art Space Niji, Kyoto

1980
Galerie im Zentrum, Berlin

1978
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

Selected Group Exhibitions

2013 small works, nca | nichido cotemporary art, Tokyo

2011-12
Infinite Balance, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego

2010-11
Shadowcatchers, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

2010
Dust in the Mirror, Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham

2009
Hitchhikers to the Galaxy, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon

2008
Water, Prix Pictet, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
On Time, East Wing 8, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
The History of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Night, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2007-08
Something that I’ll never really see: Contemporary Work from the V&A,
Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich;
Castle Museum, Nottingham

2007
Trace and Transience, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural
World, Exeter

2006-08
Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics, The Field Museum,
Chicago. Touring to COSI, Columbus, Ohio; Memphis Museum,
Tennessee; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

2006-07
Alchemy, Harewood House, Leeds; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Abbot
Hall Art Gallery, Kendal; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham

2006
Picturing Eden, George Eastman House, New York (touring)

2005-06
Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Southampton City Art
Gallery

2005
Appearance, Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds
Made in Britain, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam

2004
Lightfall, Brewhouse, Taunton
Photo Synthesis, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
From Here To Eternity, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2003
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery,
San Francisco
Recycling Lucifer's Fall, Houldsworth Gallery, London

2002
The Genius of Genetics Gregor Mendel, Abbey of St Thomas, Brno
Landscape and Photography, Ingleby Gallery
Now What is Photography, Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
Metamorphing, Science Museum, London

2001
Summer Exhibition, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
From The Dark Room, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
Sea Change, Spacex Gallery, Exeter

2000
Particle Accelerators: At the Intersection of Photography, Science &
Technology Photographic Resource Center, Boston
This is Not a Photograph, Pace University Choate Art Gallery, NY
(touring)
Summer 2000Unique Photographs, Paul Kasmin Gallery
New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire (with
Hideo Furuta)
Anti-Memory, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama

1999
Phenomena, Ansel Adams Centre for Photography, San Francisco
Ingleby Gallery (with Patricia Macdonald.)
20 Twenty, Fraenkel Gallery

1998
Woods and Water, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (with Andrew Smith)
River Taw (two person exhibition) Inverleith House, Royal Botanical
Gardens, Edinburgh
Dark Matter, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston; Turnpike Gallery,
Leigh (touring)
Dust Breeding, Fraenkel Gallery
Silver and Syrup, Victoria & Albert Museum

1997/98
About Painting, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1997
On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue
Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection, International
Centre of Photography, New York
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery

1996
Under the Sun, Fraenkel Gallery
Elective Affinities, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art
Light, Time, Focus, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

1995
Possibilities of Extention, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
Heaven’s Embroidered Cloths, National Museum of Film, Photography &
Television, Bradford
Content and Discontent in Today’s Photography, Ansel Adams Centre for
Photography

1994
Wellsprings, Bath Festival, Bath
Growth and Form, Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield
Umbra Penumbra Signals Festival of Women Photographers, Spacex
Gallery
Cameraless Photography, Yokohama Museum of Art (with Garry Fabian-Miller)

1992
Salama-Caro Gallery, London
New Inhabitants, Royal Albert Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter
New Acquisitions, Arts Council Collection, South Bank Centre, London

1991
Post Modern Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum

1989
Machine Dreams, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
AVE Festival of Audio Visual Arts, Arnhem
Phenomenart, Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka

1988
Presence 2, Gallery ON, Poznan

1985
High Technology Art, Seibu Department Store, Tokyo

1984
Art and Technology, Gekkoso Gallery and Seibu Department Store, Tokyo
Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

1978
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London

Awards

1982-83
Rotary Foundation Award, Japan

1984
JVC Award, Japan

1993
South West Arts Major Award

2010
Arts Council Award

Selected Collections

Arts Council of England
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford
Arnolfini Trust, Bristol
Dorset County Hospital
Eden Project, Cornwall
Wellcome Trust
Huis Marseille, Amsterdam
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saibu Gas Museum, Fukuoka
The Hara Art Museum, Tokyo