CONRAD ATKINSON IS REPRESENTED BY RONALD FELDMAN FINE ART
Since 1992 Professor of Art. University of California at Davis
currently (Winter quarter Jan to March 2002) Distinguished Visiting Professor/Artist in Residence Courtauld Institute, London University.
Conrad Atkinson
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| 1940 |
Born, Cleator Moor, West Cumbria, England |
Education
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| 1962-5 |
Royal Academy Schools, London RAS (Honors), Painting & Drawing |
| 1961-62 |
Liverpool College of Art, ATD (distinction) |
| 1957-61 |
Carlisle College of Art, NDD |
Solo Exhibitions
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| 2002 |
Andersonstown, Belfast (Forthcoming) |
| 2002 |
Courtauld Institute Gallery, London (Forthcoming) |
| 2002 |
Wolverhampton City Art Gallery (Forthcoming) |
| 2000 |
Abbot Hall Art Gallery UK. Ethical Viruses; twenty years (catalogue) |
| 2000 |
Intersection For the Arts. San Francisco Surplus: Cocktail Party |
| 1999 |
Liverpool City Museum (installation for First Liverpool Biennial) |
| 1999 |
Walker Art Gallery Liverpool Mining Arts (installation throughout the collection) |
| 1999 |
Survey Show. Mining Culture and New Works Bluecoats Gallery Liverpool England |
| 1998 |
"Mining the School" Installation at International School in Atlanta. |
| 1998 |
" Mining Culture in Technicolor " Atlanta College of Art Gallery and High Museum Atlanta. |
| 1997 |
Mining Culture West Cumbria College England |
| 1997 |
Ronald Feldman Fine Art New York |
| 1996 |
Euston Station (Underground Gallery) London England. (color publication) |
| 1996 |
Tullie House, Carlisle City Art Gallery and Museum Transient (full color catalogue with essays interview) |
| 1995 |
University Art Gallery and Museum Berkeley. Dorothy, Diego, Theodore and a horse of a different color. (color brochure with essays) |
| 1995 |
Paule Anglim Gallery San Francisco |
| 1994 |
Ruth Bloom Gallery Los Angeles. |
| 1993 |
Moscow ICA Newsflies |
| 1993 |
Mandeville Gallery San Diego. New Works. |
| 1993 |
Richard Nelson Gallery Davis Ca. New Works (color brochure with essays). |
| 1992 |
Bradford City Art Gallery 'Zones of Gold' |
| 1992 |
The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio, Halifax, England, For Emily: New Works Made at the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio, October 16-December 20.(full Color Catalogue) |
| 1990 |
Solo Gallery, New York, Good Sports: Tales of New York, September 13-October 13
Moscow Exhibition Hall at Avtozavodskaya with Andrej Monastyrskij, July 4. (curated by Joseph Bakshtein)
Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, England, February 7-March 10.
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| 1989 |
Special project for Art in America, "Front Page," Art in America 77, no. 6 (June, 1989)39,41.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Newspaper Works, April. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York. Front Pages, January 7-February 4. Interim Art, London.
Cleator Moor Town Council, Cumbria. The Miners' Monument, commission, installed January 1988.
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| 1987 |
Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh.
London Underground Posterworks, commissioned by Art Angel Trust, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Posterworks, commissioned by Project UK.
Billboards, London and Sheffield.
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| 1985 |
Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Mercer Union, Toronto.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Goldfish, November 23-December 28.
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| 1983-84 |
Touring Show Australia: Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Newcastle. |
| 1983 |
Power Gallery, Australia.
Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney.
|
| 1982 |
Frank Watters Gallery, Sydney.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Separate Pieces. April 24-June 5.
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| 1981 |
ICA, London, At the Heart of the Matter. |
| 1980 |
Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Three Pieces for Dublin.
Pentonville Gallery, London, Graphics.
Carlsle Museum and Art Gallery, and tour 1975-80, Conrad Atkinson: Selected Works About the North.
|
| 1979 |
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Material-Six Works, September 15-October 20. |
| 1977 |
Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Approaching Reality. |
| 1976 |
Art Net, London and Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, Northern Ireland 1968, Mayday. |
| 1975 |
FIVE BANNERS (Commissioned for the General and Municipal Workers Union (Carried onseveral marches throughout this year for the first time.) |
| 1975 |
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, A Shade of Green, an Orange Edge. |
| 1974 |
ICA, London, Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle, Work, Wages and Prices. |
| 1972 |
ICA, London, Strike at Brannans. |
Selected group exhibitions
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| 2001 |
National Gallery Lisbon "Live in your head" |
| 2001 |
The Lab San Francisco |
| 2001 |
In Print Ferens Gallery Hull (catalogue) |
| 2001 |
The Watercloset workshop Rohsska Museum Gothenberg. |
| 2000 |
The Watercloset Workshop Konstfak. University of Stockhom. |
| 2000 |
The Watercloset Workshop Gustavsburg Museum Sweden |
| 2000 |
Willow Pattern Show Bluetit Gallery Newcastle (Travelling UK) |
| 2000 |
"LIVE IN YOUR HEAD" Art 1965/1975 Whitechapel Art Gallery London |
| 1999 |
"The Plate show" Collins Gallery. Glasgow. Scotland. travelling until 2000 (catalogue) |
| 1999 |
"Degree Show" Leeds University Gallery England.(catalogue) |
| 1998 |
Works in Ceramic Kecskemet Hungary |
| 1998 |
Ceramic Works HOTP2 Budapest Hungary |
| 1998 |
Works on Paper RL Nelson Gallery |
| 1998 |
Elvis and Marilyn;Two Times Immortal (new Catalogue) Touring SE Asia. |
| 1998 |
Fantasy Football Art League. Walsall Museum and Art Gallery. England. |
| 1997 |
Pompidou Center Paris , France. 'Face a l'histoire'
Hot Off the Press Crafts Council Gallery London England |
| 1996 |
Ronald Feldman Gallery NY Withdrawing.
Duke University Fine Art Gallery Fractured Fairy Tales (catalogue with essays)
The X Art Foundation NY
Blast Art Benefit Carlisle City Art Gallery England.
'Hot off the press.'Touring until 97 (catalogue)
Peacock Gallery Aberdeen Scotland.
Ten Years Printmaking at Peacock Press.( color catalogue)
Art at UC Davis Shasta College Art Gallery. CA.
New Acquisitions II University Art Gallery and Museum Berkeley C.A. Elvis and Marilyn; Two times immortal. (opens San Jose Art Museum in Nov.)
Common Ground. British Council Gallery. Manchester. England. Conrad Atkinson.
BBC Film projected onto the side of the Baltic Exchange Building (Five storeys high) in Newcastle upon Tyne England to celebrate the YEAR OF THE VISUAL ARTS, UK.
Landscape Barbican Art Gallery London.
Abbott Hall Art Gallery Kendal. Drawings For the Miners Monument.
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| 1995 |
Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY. The Art of Justice Part II
Richard Nelson Gallery Artists Valentines
Tate Gallery London. Permanent collection
Parish Maps. Barbican Gallery London.
Elvis and Marilyn; Two times Immortal (touringin USA)
Works on Paper. Victoria and Albert Museum London England |
| 1994 |
Tate Gallery London. Print Show Permanent Collection Elvis and Marilyn; Two Times Immortal.
Boston ICA and touring until 1997 organised by Barrie Associatestravelling to: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte NC, Cleveland Museum oF Art,Cleveland OH, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville FL.portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Philbrook Academy, Tulsa, OK, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus OH, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI.
San Francisco Art Fair. Richard Nelson Gallery Permanent Collection.
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| 1992 |
Frankel Nathanson Gallery, Maplewood, NJ Prints, November 14-December 5. Gallery Artists Ronald Feldman Fine Art NY
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| 1990 |
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University, New Brunswick, NJ, Intaglio Printing In the 1980's, December 9-February 24, 1991. Projects UK & Glasgow District Council, Glasgow, The Flag Project, (organized by Force 10), September 19-December 19 (brochure). Moscow, U.S.S.R., Club of Avantguardists (curated by Joseph Bakshtein) (catalogue). Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, Art Faculty Exhibition, January 14-February 4.
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| 1988 |
The BP British International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, April 30-June 26 and to travel to seven venues ending late 1989. |
| 1987 |
Photographers Gallery, London.
Edinburgh University, Scotland.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Ecology Centre, London.
PPOW, New York.
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| 1986 |
White Columns, New York.
St. Martins School of Art Gallery.
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England.
Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, England.
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Artists and Social Commitment.
The Kitchen, New York, Arts and Leisure.
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| 1985 |
American Tour with Group Material.
John Nicols Gallery, New York, Prints.
Ecology Centre, London, Common Ground.
Makkom, Amsterdam.
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, Hand Signals.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London New Acquisitions.
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| 1984 |
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Landscapes.
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, Content. (catalogue)
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Social Spaces.
National Gallery, Canberra, Australian Prints.
Camden Arts Centre, London, 1984.
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| 1983 |
Art Institute, Chicago, IL
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, 1984, January 26-March 12. (catalogue)
Camden Arts Centre, London, Quarries.
Pentonville Gallery, London, New Beginnings.
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| 1982 |
Artists Against Apartheid, London.
Serpentine Gallery, London, Contemporary Art Society Purchase Exhibition.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, War Games, February 27-April 17.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, The Atomic Salon, in collaboration with The Village Voice, June 9-July 2.
The Tate Gallery, London, The Art Record, published by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.
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| 1981 |
Acme Gallery, London, Artists Against Nuclear War.
Tate Gallery, London, Landscapes. |
| 1980 |
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Photography into Print.
Cockpit Gallery, London, Bringing it Home.
Hirshhorn Museum and Art Gallery, Washington, DC, Directions.4.
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Messages.
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| 1979 |
Liverpool, The Craft of Art, November 3-February 3.
Musee d'Art Modeme, Paris, Un Certain Art Anglais.
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| 1978 |
Art Net, London, Radical Attitudes Towards The Gallery.
Serpentine Gallery, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Art for Whom?
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast, Art for Society.
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| 1975 |
Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, Biennale de Paris. |
| 1974 |
Royal College of Art, London, Solidarity with Chile. |
| 1973 |
Tooths Gallery, London, Critic's Choice. |
| 1971 |
Alexandra Palace, London, Arts Council of Great Britain, Arts Spectrum. |
| 1970 |
Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, Garbage Strike. |
| 1968 |
Royal Academy London, Royal Academy Bicentenary. |
| 1967 |
Manchester City Art Gallery,Two Painters. |
| 1965 |
City Art Gallery, Middlesborough, Northern Young Artists. |
| 1963-65 |
RBA Gallery, London, Young Contemporaries. |
| 1962 |
London Group Mall Galleries London. |
| 1962 |
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. London. |
Writings by the Artist
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Catalogue Essay IN PRINT. Unique reproduction.
Catalogue Essay: Twenty Years Ethical Viruses.
Graduate Catalogue for UC Davis (essays about Graduates).1999
"Challenging the status quo " Catalogue Essay (color Illus.) 1996 The Year Of The Visual Arts England
"Desires of Permanence: Dreams of Transience." Wave/Another Country: Irish Exile and Dispossession. Ireland: Huddersfield Art Gallery, 1991.
"State of the Art: the Art of the State." Published as handcolored pamphlet by Working Press, London.
"The Art of the State, the state of the art." LIP MAGAZINE (AUS)and Block Magazine London).
"1984 in the Light of Guernica." Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, 1984.
"The only man who ever brought work to Cleator Moor was Adolph Hitler," Radio Times (October 1981).
"Passive Action/Active Passion," Artforum (September 1980).
"John Lennon," Art Monthly (April 1980).
"Shamrocks" in "Truth: the first casualty: the British Media and Northern Ireland." Campaign for Free Speech on Ireland, 1979.
"Polemic," Art Monthly, 1978.
"Art and Idealogy," Audio Arts, 1977.
"Capitalist Realism or Socialism in One Person," Skira Annual, 1977.
"Newcastle Writings," May 1977.
"Lost Horizons," Art and Artists (January 1973).
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Writings about the Artist
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| 2003 |
Forthcoming monograph "CONRAD ATKINSON 1965 to 2002" Pub Lund Humphries/Ashgate Press (possibly Univ of California press also) essays by Stephanie Brown/Lucy Lippard/Richard Cork/edit.John Walker.
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| 2002 |
Impressions of the Twentieth Century Fine Art prints from the Vand A collection |
| 2001 |
Keramik (Germany) Stephanie Brown |
| 2000 |
Nacka Varmdo Posten (Stockholm) |
| 2000 |
Westmoreland Gazette Conrad Atkinson; Ethical Viruses. |
| 2000 |
Guardian Guide. Conrad Atkinson at Abott Hall. |
| 2000 |
The North Guide Interview with Conrad atkinson |
| 2000 |
New Art Examiner Conrad Atkinson by Mark Van Proyen |
| 2000 |
SCULPTURE magazine October. Conrad Atkinson at Intersection Berin Golonu |
| 2000 |
A new dawn? Photographs of Northern Ireland 1975 by Conrad Atkinson. British Council News September. |
| 2000 |
CONRAD ATKINSON Catalogue (essays by Robert Woof and Hannah Neale, Robert Woof and Edward King. |
| 2000 |
Vision. pub. abott Hall art gallery |
| 2000 |
Conrad Atkinson at Intersection For The Arts. Artweek June 2 |
| 2000 |
City Search Bay area Editorial profile by Harry Roche |
| 2000 |
Artpapers Review by Amy Berk |
| 2000 |
Bay Area Guardian "Secondhand Thoughts" by Sara Coleman |
| 2000 |
TRADE SECRETS : Young British artists talk about the business . Cynthia Rose. Thames and Hudson. |
| 2000 |
Exploding the celebrity myth: Conrad Atkinson. Vaughan Allen in The Big Issue. Jan. Great Britain. |
| 2000 |
Catalogue (quoted and text) Whitechapel Exhibition "LIVE IN YOUR HEAD" "Art 1965- 75" |
| 1999 |
World Sculpture Magazine. Conrad Atkinson at Refusalon Susan Marquez |
| 1999 |
Degree Show Cataogue. Laura Baxter. |
| 1999 |
Artists Newsletter "Interview with Suzanne Lacey and Dean of Chicago Art Institute. |
| 1999 |
Excitement and challenge ahead for Abbott Hall "Coup For Abbott Hall Gallery; Conrad Atkinson Show for the Millenium" West Cumberland Gazette. |
| 1998 |
Sculpture magazine . . . From the political to the popular...An Interview with Conrad Atkinson. |
| 1998 |
Artweek . 'A Conversation with Conrad Atkinson.' Penelope Shackelford |
| 1998 |
Mine is yours; Conrad Atkinson at ACA. Cathy Byrd. in Creative Loafing. Atlanta. |
| 1998 |
Mining Culture in Technicolor. Interview with Conrad Atkinson by Chrisopher Scoates; Conrad Atkinson; Not Art But Bombs (Atlanta Catalogue) Essay by Cynthia Rose |
| 1997 |
Art in America Conrad Atkinson. Mining Culture. |
| 1997 |
New Umbrella for the Arts Phil Cram West Cumberland News |
| 1997 |
Conrad Atkinson Phil Cram West Cumberland News |
| 1997 |
Mining Culture Peter Davies (pamphlet for show "Mining Culture. |
| 1997 |
Conrad Atkinson Northern Ireland. Marc Bourmand Pompidou Center Catalogue Face a L'Histoire |
| 1997 |
Face a L'Histoire Adrian Rifkin ARTFORUM April 1997 |
| 1997 |
Conrad Atkinson and the politics of art. Davis Enterprise |
| 1996 |
Conrad Atkinson Transient. Cumbria Life Magazine.
Cumbrias Greatest Living Artist News and Star.
Conrad Atkinsons Art Cumberland News.
TRANSIENT, full colour catalogue with essays by Dr Nima Poovaya Smith senior curator Bradford City Art Gallery; Dr Susan Lambert senior curator prints and drawings and painting at the Victoria and Albert Museum London; reprint of essay by Dr Rinder curator of contemporary art at University Museum and Art Gallery Berkeley; interview with Peter Davies and introduction by Terry Bennet Curator Tullie House Museum.
Conrad Atkinson. The Year Of The Visual Arts Artists Newsletter
Conrad Atkinson Cover Image and Interview Multicultural Education
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| 1996 |
Essays on Atkinson in full color brochure by Dr LawrenceRinder;Penelope Shackelford and Dr Geri Di Paoli; essay by Atkinson on Immigration.
Artists Rights,Conrad Atkinson. Artists Newsletter.
Atkinsons installation. San Francisco Chronicle Kenneth Baker
The Wizard of Oz. Bay Area Guardian.
Atkinsons tactical Art. Interview and commissioned image ART PAPERS.
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| 1993 |
Conrad Atkinson Sacramento Bee
Art and Social Issues New York Times Michael Kimmelman
Conrad Atkinson New Works San Diego Union Tribune
Conrad Atkinson Three reviews in three Russian Newspapers (untranslated)
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| 1992 |
Public Art Proposals. Yokohama, Japan: NICAF Yokohama 1992, p.160. |
| 1991 |
New Observations 82 (February 15-March 14): cover illustration.
Tupitsyn, Margarita & Victor, Contemporanea 24 (January 1991): 106-7.
Kuspit, Donald. "Tart Wit, Wise Humour," Artforum XXIX, No.5 (January 1991): 93-100.
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| 1990 |
Bray, Matthew. "Strokes from a Polemical Paintbrush," The European, July 14, 1990.
"Conrad Atkinson," Print Collector's Newsletter XXI, No.1 (March/April 1990).
Dhombres, Dominique, "Les Faceties d'un Detourneur," Le Monde, March 4, 1990.
Kovalev, Andrei, "Conceptualists of the World, Unite!," Moscow News Weekly, No. 31, 1990, p.15.
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| 1989 |
Cooper, Emmanuel, "Conrad Atkinson," Time Out, No. 993 (August 30-September 6, 1989): 33.
Heartney, Eleanor, "Conrad Atkinson at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts," Art in America 77, No. 6 (June 1989): 165-66.
Loughery, John, "Conrad Atkinson," The New Art Examiner (April, 1989).
Morgan, Robert, Arts Magazine (April 1989).
"Conrad Atkinson's Front Pages," Sunstorm (February/March, 1989).
Hess, Elizabeth, "Art Critic Says No to Supreme Court Decision," The Village Voice XXXIII, No. 6, February 7, 1989, p. 85.
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| 1988 |
Cregan, David, "In the Throes of Culture," Weekend Guardian, December 3-4, 1988.
Currah, Mark, "Conrad Atkinson," Time Out, 1988.
"Hand in the Hand," Whitehaven News, June 1988.
Kinnes, Sally, "Making Political Marks," The Scotsman, 1988.
McNay, Michael, "The Art of Information," The Guardian, November 19, 1988, features full page reproduction of Daily Consumernica.
"Prints & Photographs Published," Print Collector's Newsletter (July-August 1988).
Summers, Beth, "Phew What a Scorcher!" i-D The Good, 1988.
Wombell, Paul, "A World's Waste," "In Opposition," Ten. 8, No. 26.
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| 1987 |
"Around London," Daily News, March 6, 1987.
Baln, Alice, "Read All About It," The List, May 19-June 11, 1987.
"Arts Review," The New Statesman, May 28, 1987, p.30.
Bennett, Oliver, "Art in the City: The Big Bang," Performance (March/April 1987).
"Conrad Atkinson," Direction, March 1987.
Ellis, Mundy, "Cultural pretensions mocked on Tube," Creative Review, March 1987.
Henry, Clare. "Opening Eyes to those bent on destruction," Glasgow Herald, May 22, 1987.
Hillard, Elizabeth. "The Artangel Trust," Arts Review, March 27, 1987.
Januszczak, Waldemar. The Guardian, May 29, 1987.
Jaques, Richard. "Unlikely but likeable bedfellows," The Scotsman, May 25, 1987.
Henry Clare "Raising Politics to a Fine Art," The Scotsman, February 18, 1987.
Kuspit, Donald, "Conrad Atkinson: Critical Practice 'In Person'," ALBA (Summer 1987).
Lottman, Joachim, "Documenta-Eindrucke vor der Eroffnung," Wolkenkratzer Art Journal (Summer 1987).
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| 1987 |
MacLeod, Donald. "Building a Future for Art," The Scotsman, February 18, 1987.
Sands, Sarah. "Hitting the Headlines," Evening Standard, March 17, 1987.
Whetstone, David. "Art Can Be Fun Too," The Journal, July 24, 1987.
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| 1986 |
Cameron, Dan. "Report from the Front," Arts Magazine (Summer 1986): 86-93.
Cooper, Emmanuel, "The Enemy Within," Art & Artists (July 1986).
Garson, George. "Moving In-with art," Evening News, December 1986.
Handy, Ellen. Arts Magazine (February 1986).
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| 1985 |
Checkland, Sarah Jane. "Portrait of the artist as a resident exile," The London Times, December 27, 1985.
Print Collector's Newsletter XVU, No. 5 (November-December 1985).
Raynor, Vivien. The New York Times, December 20, 1985.
Thorson, Alice. "Hirshhorn's Content Swamps Issues," New Art Examiner (February 1985).
Townsend-Gault, Charlotte. "Conrad Atkinson," Parachute (March-April-May 1985).
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| 1984 |
Kearns, Jerry and Lucy Lippard. "Artists Working with Unions Union Made," Upfront (Winter 1983-84).
Raynor, Vivien. "'Protest Art' at the Thorpe Intermedia," The New York Times, February 19, 1984.
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| 1983 |
Metz, Holly. "Conrad Atkinson," Sanity Magazine (February-March 1982).
Richards, Margaret. "Radical Challenging," Tribune, December 1981.
Rose, Cynthia. "Conrad Atkinson," The New Musical Express (December 1981).
Walker, John. "Art in the Age of Mass Media," 1983.
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| 1981 |
Brett, Guy. "At the Heart of the Matter," City Limits, 27 November 1981.
Petzal, Monica. "Conrad Atkinson," Time Out (November 1981).
Hughes, Robert. "Quirks, Clamors and Variety," Time (March 2, 1981): 84-85.
Januszek, Waldemar. "Conrad Atkinson: The Art of the Matter," The Guardian, 1981.
Rickey, Carrie. "Curatorial Conceptions," Artforum, 1981.
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| 1980 |
Cardozo, Judith. "Conrad Atkinson," Artforum, 1980.
Lucie Smith, Edward. Art in the 70's, London, 1980.
Richards, Margaret. "Atkinson's Political Themes," Tribune, 4 July 1980.
"Writing on the Wall," The Irish Times (March 1980).
Rickey, Carrie. "One stings the other doesn't," The Village Voice, October 1, 1979.
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| 1979 |
Brighton, Andrew. "Lives and the pusillanimous quango," Art Monthly (May 1979).
Herbert, Hugh. "Print out," The Guardian, March 1979.
Pilger, John. "Not in front of the children," New Statesman (March 1979).
Wallach, Allan. "Conrad Atkinson: The Dilemma of Political Art," Arts Magazine 54 (December 1979).
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| 1976 |
Cork, Richard. "Conrad Atkinson Interview," Studio International 191 (March-April 1976).
Richard Cork "Ulster, the Bitter Picture," Evening Standard, 6 May 1976.
Hewitt, John. "UK Reviews: Conrad Atkinson," Studio International 189-90 (July 1975).
Tisdall, Caroline. "Troubles Shared. The Guardian, May 1976.
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| 1974 |
Braden, Sue. "Alienation and the ICA," Time Out (April 1974).
Campbell, Bob. "A Struggling Artist," Morning Star, 16 April 1974.
Cork, Richard. "Assault by the Facts of Life," Evening Standard, 25 April 1974.
Oille, Jennifer. "Art ... Working," Art and Artists, 9 July 1974.
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| 1974 |
Richards, Margaret. "Picturing the System," Tribune, April 1974.
Tisdall, Caroline. "The Art of Work," The Guardian, 23 April 1974.
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| 1972 |
Dewhurst, Keith. "Conrad Atkinson and Richard Hamilton," The Guardian 7 June 1972.
Dickson, David. "Art Politic," Art and Artists, 7 September 1972.
Flynn, Laurie. "Tribute to a Strike," Socialist Worker, 3 June 1972.
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Books and Catalogues
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| 1999 |
Art and Outrage John Walker |
| 1999 |
The Degree Show Various. |
| 1998 |
Mining Culture in Technicolor; Conrad Atkinson.Catalogue full color with Essays |
| 1998 |
The Newspaper in Art. New media Ventures. Washington. |
| 1997 |
British Council Collection 1984-1994 |
| 1996 |
96 CUMBRIA |
| 1996 |
Fractured Fairy Tales. Durham, NC: Duke University Museum of Art. |
| 1996 |
TRANSIENT Full colour Catalogue with essays. |
| 1995 |
Elvis and Marilyn; 2 times Immortal. New York. NY: Rizzoli |
| 1995 |
Dorothy, Diego, Theodore and a horse of a different color. essays and color brochure. |
| 1995 |
ARTNOW Phaidon press. Edward Lucie-Smith |
| 1995 |
Mapping the terrain. Bay Press ed. Suzanne Lacey |
| 1994 |
Prints from SOLO Impression, Inc. Wooster, OH: The College of Wooster Art Museum. |
| 1992 |
Public Art proposals, Yokohama, Japan: NICAF, Yokohama. |
| 1992 |
Artists handbooks/Art in Public ed. Susan Jones, Artic Producers. Pub. |
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ALSO:
Conrad Atkinson: Everywhere Oblique. Essays by Donald Kuspit and Dan Cameron. Edinburgh: Talbot Rice Gallery.
Conrad Atkinson: Picturing the System. Essays by Lucy Lippard, Sandy Nairne, Caroline Tisdall and Timothy Rollins, London: Pluto Press and the ICA.
Dictionary of Twentieth Century British Painters. Frances Spalding.
For Emily. Essays by Miranda McClintic and Nima Poovaya-Smith, Halifax,
England: The Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Studio, 1992.
Second Nature Ed Richard Mabey Pub. Cape Contemporary Artists. St James Press
Exhibitions and Events. Bradford City Art Galleries and Museums, Cover Illustration, April/May/June 1988
The Artist as Photographer, Marina Vaizey.
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Film / Television / Radio
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| 2000 |
Radio Cumbria |
| 2000 |
BBC North |
| 2000 |
Border TV Interview Look North |
| 2000 |
Four Northern Museums. Granada TV England |
| 1999 |
BBC Shortlist public poll for Millenium Viewers Poll |
| 1998 |
News Border TV "Resistance to change" |
| 1997 |
News Border TV "Conrad Atkinson and Landmines" |
| 1996 |
Lookaround Border TV
BBC News (interview in installation)
Independant TV production for Channel Four and Border TV EUSTON PROJECT (60mins. four artists)
Year of the Visual Arts BBC
Cultural Policies in the Nineties. PBS and UC Washington presenter, co producer and host of panel discussion with John Frohnmayer ex head NEA;Elizabeth Hess Village Voice; Kathy Vargas Director San Antonio Arts Center; Marthe Bayles Wall Street journal.
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| 1992 |
'CONRAD ATKINSON' VIDEO ARCHIVE Henry Moore Sculpture Trust Leeds City Art Gallery. |
| 1990 |
Appeared on "01 for London" Channel 4. |
| 1980 |
"Conrad Atkinson: Art Worker," Produced by John Mapplebeck, BBC. |
| 1981-82 |
"Conrad Atkinson," produced by Peter West, BBC. |
Advising
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| 1990 |
Advisor to Lord Palumbo Group (British Govt) on celebrations for the Year 2000. |
| 1994 |
Advisor to the City and Mayor of Sacramento (General Services Administration) on New Federal Court Building |
| 1994 |
Advised on new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Cleveland. Ohio). |
| 1995 |
Sacramento Arts Commission |
| 1995 |
California Arts Council Projects Panel. |
| 1992-97 |
Advisor Ennerdale Films Palm Springs |
| 1998 |
Adviser North Eastern University Art Faculty |
| 1999 |
Artsvision Working Group UC Davis. |
Selected Conferences (since 1993)
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| 2000 |
The New York art Scene in the 60's and70's RL Nelson Gallery |
| 2000 |
Intersection for the Arts San Francisco. Art and Social Function |
| 1997 |
Capp Street Artists Rights |
| 1997 |
Governors Conference on The Globalisation of the Arts, Cultural engagement and economics. San Francisco |
| 1996 |
Art and the managed Landscape. England. |
| 1995 |
'Littoral' Keynote Adress Salford University England. |
| 1995 |
Participant/organiser Pacific Bridges UC Berkeley/UC Davis |
| 1994 |
Elvis and Marilyn George Washington University. Keynote Panel. |
| 1994 |
Radioactive Picturesque Humanities Institute Univ. of California |
| 1994 |
College Art Association NY Art and Social Context |
| 1994 |
California College of Arts and Crafts. (faculty retreat) Art Education in the 21st Century. |
| 1993 |
West Coast Feminist Practice in the 1970's Roxy Theatre San Francisco. |
| 1993 |
Photography Center New York. Artists Talk About Art. |
Selected Panels
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| 1998 |
California Culture Net Committee |
| 1998 |
Trustee ARTS FOR LABOUR (Advises British Govt. yearly on Arts policy) |
| 1997 |
General Services Administration Panel. |
| 1997 |
Advisor California Arts Council |
| 1997 |
Member Advisory Committee for California Culture Net |
| 1997 |
Visiting Professor University of East London. England (Honorary/advisory position) |
| 1997 |
Visiting Professor Manchester Metropolitan University. England |
| 1996 |
Patron Carlisle Artists Studios and Art Gallery |
| 1995-96 |
Board Member 'We do the Work' Labor Unions Media Organisation. SF. USA |
| 1990-96 |
Panel Member AXIS (artists database) Leeds University, England |
| 1990 |
Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, Lecture Series |
| 1988-89 |
Arts Council of Great Britain: Art and Projects Panels |
| 1988-90 |
Percentage for Art: National Steering Group |
| 1982-86 |
Greater London Council: Visual Arts Advisor |
| 1985 |
South Bank Committee |
| 1981-83 |
Greater London Arts Association: Visual Arts Panel, Chairperson |
| 1976-77 |
Labour Working Party on Arts Policy |
| 1975-76 |
Northern Arts Association: Visual Arts Panel |
| 1974 |
Artists' Union, Chairperson |
| 1972 |
Founder member Project 84 |
| 1972 |
British Society for Social Responsibility in Science: National Committee Member |
| 1971-72 |
Art/Science Working Party, King's College, London |
Awards
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| 2002 |
Nominated to the Eureka Fellowship list. |
| 2001 |
Shortlist Henry Moore Rome Fellow (withdrawn) |
| 2000 |
Artist in Residence Villeroy and Bosh; Stockholm |
| 1999 |
Faculty research grant University of California at Davis. |
| 1999 |
Shortlisted for UC Davis Public Service Lifetime Award |
| 1998 |
Artist in Residence International Ceramic Studio Kecskemet Hungary. |
| 1998 |
Travel research grant University of California at Davis |
| 1998 |
Guest of Honor Carlisle College of Art Graduation Ceremony. England. |
| 1997-8 |
Appointed Official Artist of the US LANDMINES CAMPAIGN |
| 1997 |
Shortlist/maquette commission city centre gateway Stoke on Trent |
| 1997 |
Shortlist for Lord Leighton House installation Project |
| 1997 |
Invited Visiting Professor University of East London. England. (Honorary) |
| 1990 |
Shortlisted Artist(of six), public sculpture, Union Square, New York, NY |
| 1989-90 |
Visiting Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 1989 |
Leverhulme Senior Award |
| 1987 |
Artist in Residence, Edinburgh University |
| 1985 |
Artist in Residence, London Borough of Lewisham |
| 1975-76 |
Fellowship: Northern Arts Association, Newcastle |
| 1972 |
Churchill Fellowship for Fine Arts |
| 1968 |
Associate Design Fellow. Manchester School of Art and Design |
| 1967 |
Granada Fellowship in Fine Arts, Manchester |
| 1965 |
Prize - printmaking: Royal Academy Schools Abby Minor Travelling Scholarship Leverhulme Award Northern Young Artists, Middlesbrough, Second prize
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| 1964 |
David Murray Scholarship, painting |
ALSO:
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| 1987 |
Curated: Public Art/Art Public 1951-87 (Art in Public Places) Goldsmiths College Gallery; London. |
| 2001 |
Curating on line exhibition "DISEASE" for Axis Artists Database |
| 2002 |
Curating JACK SEABURY and his students at Castlegate Gallery England and Jack Seabury Drawings 1950 to 1980 at Carlisle College of Art england. |
Selected Teaching / lectures:
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Distinguished Visiting Professor Courtauld Institute University of London. (2002)
Manchester Metropolitan University
Royal College Of Art. London.
Victoria College of The Arts Melbourne
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Canada.
School of Visual Arts New York.
Dundee University. Scotland.
University of Western Australia, Perth.
Slade School of Fine Art. University College London.
Dartington Hall. England.
St Martins School of Art London, England
Sydney College of The Arts. Australia.
Edinburgh University School of Fine Art. Scotland.
Manchester College of Art. England.
Banff Arts Center Canada.
Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburg. PA.
University of Queensland. Brisbane.
College of Art Hobart, Tasmania.
Pratt Institute. New York.
School of Visual Arts New York.
Cooper Union New York
CCAC Oakland. CA.
Mason Gross School of Art. Rutgers University New Jersey.
University of East London
Woodruff Arts Center Atlanta
Leeds Metropolitan University
Barings Bank City of London
Carlisle College of Art
Konstfak. University of Stockholm
Abbot hall Art Gallery and Museum Kendal. England
Goldsmiths College London
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Work in Public and Private Collections in many countries including:
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The Tate Gallery London
The Victoria and Albert Museum
The British Museum
Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
Australian National Gallery
Pushkin Museum Moscow
Museum of Modern Art New York
R.L.Nelson Gallery Ca.
Contemporary Art Society
British Council Collection
Carlisle City Art Gallery and Museum
Museum of Modern Art NY
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Sheffield City Art Gallery
Power Gallery Sydney University
Wolverhampton City Art Gallery
Abbots Hall Gallery Kendal England
Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh
Aberdeen Art Gallery
University Museum and Gallery Berkeley CA.
Bradford City Art Gallery England
General and Municipal Workers Union UK
Wakefield City Art Gallery
National Ceramic Centre Aberystwyth. Wales
Middlesborough City Art gallery
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Leeds Armory Museum
Minneapolis/St Pauls University.
Collection of Queen Noor
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