Richard Deacon's sculptures are characterised by a controlled, abstract structure that is combined with an imaginative and unexpected use of materials. At the forefront of British sculpture since the 1980s, he has developed a distinctive vocabulary that includes everyday materials such as laminated wood, linoleum, leather, concrete and limestone. There is a striking tension between the resolute abstraction of his works and the organic implications of their shapes, which often evoke forms from molecular biology. Whether executed on a domestic or monumental scale, his sculptures explore the interactions between surface and space, interior and exterior, mass and lightness, motion and calm.
In contrast to the specificity of Deacon's approach to material and substance, there is an ambiguity central to his works: 'The form is clear but there's also a desire for a potential plasticity or fluidity which remains latent. In a sense I have been trying to attach sculpture to perception or to experience rather than attaching it to the world.' Transformation is a constant motif, as a way of visualising the insubstantial and shifting forces – including 'clouds, swirls of water, shapes in the fire, vomit, pebbles, smoke' – that shape our perception of the physical world. The artist describes himself as a 'fabricator' and traces of the material's treatment often remain visible, such as glue seeping from between layers of wood, highlighting the construction processes behind the finished sculptures.
Born in 1949 in Bangor, Wales, Deacon lives and works in London. He studied at the Somerset College of Art in Taunton, followed by the St Martin's School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, graduating in 1977. His first solo exhibition was held the following year at The Gallery in Brixton, London. This was followed by shows at the Riverside Studios (1984), Tate Gallery (1985) and Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (1998) and at Tate Gallery in Liverpool (1999). His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (2003); Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2007); Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg and Sprengel Museum, Hanover (2010); CAC Málaga (2012); and Tate Britain, London (2014). Between 2015–16, a major retrospective was shown at the Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan; and Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany. The first comprehensive survey of his drawings was shown at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany in 2016, followed by his first major museum survey in the USA at the San Diego Museum of Art in 2017. His teaching activities include professorships at the Chelsea School of Art, the London Institute and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. Among other honours, he was awarded the Turner Prize in 1987, made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by France in 1997, and became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1999.
2023
Tread, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2020
Richard Deacon: Like You Know – Ceramic Works, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
2019
Richard Deacon: House & Garden, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2018
Fondation Studies, Cabinet des dessins Jean Bonna, Paris, France
Richard Deacon: New Sculpture, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2017
Richard Deacon. Weather, MOMA Machynlleth, Powys, UK
Richard Deacon, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
Richard Deacon. Some Time, Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
Richard Deacon: What You See Is What You Get, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, USA
Richard Deacon: Thirty pieces, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2016
On the Other Side, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Out of Line: Drawings 1968 - 2016, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Under the Weather, SkulpturenHalle, Thomas Schütte Stiftung, Neuss, Germany
Flat Earth, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
2015
On The Other Side, Kunstmuseum Wintherthur, Switzerland
On The Other Side, Heydar Aliyev Center, Baku, Azerbaijan
This is Where Ideas Come From, Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK
2014
Richard Deacon, Tate Britain, London, UK
Form and Colour?, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Alphabet, Sculptures & Dessins, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
I Remember, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2013
Richard Deacon: Beware of the Dog, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
Let's Call It Something Else, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2012
Beware of the Dog, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Richard Deacon, CAC Málaga | Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Association, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2011
Dead Leg, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA
North Tree and Rock, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
2010
Twist and Shout, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
How Much Does Your Mind Weigh?, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Inside, New Art Centre and Sculpture Park, Salisbury, UK
The Missing Part, Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France; Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2009
Siamese Connection, Galerie Distrito 4, Madrid, Spain
Kalemegdan Bridge Collaboration (with Mrdjan Bajic), Skupstina Grada, Belgrade and Galerija ULUS, Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Richard Deacon: Add & Subtract, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2008
Richard Deacon, TR3, Ljubljana, Slovenia
North, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Border Traffic, Nouvelles Saisons de l'Art Vivant, Fondation Maeght, St. Paul, France
Assembly, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, USA
On The Rocks - Shared Sculpture by Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
It's A Small World, Richard Deacon - Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
New Bases 2.0, Galerie ColletPark, Paris, France
Dead Leg - Richard Deacon - in association with Matthew Perry, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA; Portland Museum of Art, Portland OR; The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2007
Richard Deacon: Personals, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
How Much Does Your Mind weigh, Thomas Schulte Gallery, Berlin
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
Richard Deacon, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2006
Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Richard Deacon New Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, London, UK
Richard Deacon: Beyond the Clouds, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, USA
2005
Richard Deacon: Out of Order, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
The Size of It, Museo Artium, Vitoria, Spain
Finland and ARP Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Germany
Richard Deacon, Infinity x 2, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Richard Deacon, Range, Lisson Gallery London, UK
Masters of the Universe: Screen Version, presented by Public Art Fund, Doris C. Freedman Plaza, Central Park, New York, USA
Infinity x 2, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2004
Richard Deacon: Beyond the Clouds, Art 35 Basel, Switzerland
Lead Astray: New Shared Sculptures by Bill Woodrow & Richard Deacon, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury; Palacio Nacional de Quelez, Lisbon; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK; City Museum & Art Gallery, Plymouth, UK; Musee du Chateau, Dieppe, France
Richard Deacon, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Richard Deacon, Slippery When Wet, Distrito4 gallery, Barbara de Braganza, Madrid, Spain
2003
AC: Richard Deacon Made in Cologne, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Richard Deacon, Passage de la mer rouge, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
UW84DC, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Richard Deacon, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
New Bases, Galerie de / di / bY, Paris, France
From Tomorrow, Galerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Richard Deacon, Glynn Vivien Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
Richard Deacon: Continent, Galerie Arlogos, Paris, France
2001
Richard Deacon: Sculpture, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Image & Idol-Medieval Sculpture, co-curated with Philip Lindley, installation and bases by Richard Deacon, Tate Britain, London, UK
Richard Deacon, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY, USA
Between the Two of Us, collaborative exhibiton with Henk Visch, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
2000
Contemporary art at the Millenium Dome, London, UK
Umhh, Fig 1, London, UK
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1999
New World Order, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
No Stone Unturned, Kunstkeller, Liestal, Germany
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1998
Galerie Arlogos (with Tony Grand), Paris, France
SCAI The Bathouse, Tokyo, Japan
1997
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Serpentine: Inside Out, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
Richard Deacon, Show and Tell, Musee Departemental de Rochechouart, Haute-Vienne, France
1996
Richard Deacon, Esculturas 1984-95, organised by the British Council, MACCSI, Caracas, Venezuela; Wilfredo Lam Arts Centre, Havana, Cuba; Museo de Arte Moderna, Bogota, Colombia; Museo Nacional des Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile; Tamayo Museum, Mexico
1995
L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
ATLAS: This is not a story, Customs House Trust Exhibition, South Shields, Tyne & Wear, UK
Drawing, Prints and Sculpture, La Filature, Nouvel Espace Culturel, Mullhouse, France
Them and Us, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1994
Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon, Sabine Watchers Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1993
What could make me feel this way, The British School at Rome, Italy
Kiss and Tell, South Bank National Touring Exhibition
1992
Foursome, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Three Recent Works, The Economist Building Plaza, London, UK
Art for Other People, Musée d'art moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
The Interior is Always More Difficult, Ecole Regionale d'Art de Dunkerque, Dunkerque, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Richard Deacon works on paper and sculpture, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany
This is not a story, Museum der Stadt Waiblingen, Waiblingen, Germany
Galerie Arlogos, Nantes, France
Only the Lonely and other Shared Sculptures, (Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon), Chisenhale Gallery, London; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Skulpturen 1987-1993, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Two new sculptures for the Orangerie, Orangerie, Herrenhauser Garten, Hanover, Germany
Richard Deacon and European Silver Tea and Coffeepots, Feuerle, Köln, Germany
1991
Drawings 1974-91, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Museum Haus Lange und Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1990
Richard Deacon. Nye Arbeider/New Works, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Sculpture, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galleria Locus Solus, Genova, Italy
Moderna Galerija, Mala Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1989
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Richard Deacon. 10 sculptures 1987/89, Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
New Sculpture, Plymouth Art Centre, Plymouth, UK
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1988
Richard Deacon. Prints and Drawings, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
3 Sculptures, Ecole des Beaux Arts de Mâcon, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Sculpture in the Garden, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Richard Deacon. Distance no Object, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1987
Richard Deacon. Recent Sculpture 1985-1987, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland; Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
For Those Who Have Eyes. Richard Deacon Sculptures 1980-86, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; Turner House, National Museum of Wales; Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno; Warwick Art Centre, Warwick; City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent, UK
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1986
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Sculpture for exterior & interior, Interim Art, London, UK
Galerie Arlogos, Nantes, France
1985
Contemporary Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Five Recent Sculptures, Gallery of New Art, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
Le Centre International du Verre, Aix-en-Provence, France
Sculptors' Drawings, Margarete Roeder Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Blind, Deaf and Dumb. An Installation in Collaboration with Richard Rogers and John Tchalenko, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1984
Riverside Studios, London, UK
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
Richard Deacon. Sculpture 1980-1984, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Nouveau Musée, Lyon/Villeurbanne, France
1983
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland
1981
Sheffield City Polytechnic Gallery, Sheffield, UK
1980
Spring Programme, The Gallery, Brixton, London, UK
1978
Studio Exhibition, The Gallery, Brixton, London, UK
1976
Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
1975
Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK
2023
L’autre musée, the treasures of a major contemporary art collection, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Home Game: 15 Years of the Sculpture Park, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
Chryséléphantine, Fondation Hermès, La Verrière, Brussels, Belgium
2021
London Calling. British Art Today. From David Hockney to Idris Khan, Fundación Bancaja, Valencia, Spain
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
2019
Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture from the Tate Collection 1950s–Present, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany
2018
Sui Jianguo and Richard Deacon, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee Downtown, Wisconsin, WI, USA
2017
Richard Deacon, LaM Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
2016
3 Hommes dans un bateau, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Utopias/Heterotopia, Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China
Material Language: New Work in Clay, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK
Don't Start, Ocean Studios, Plymouth, UK
Found, Foundling Hospital, London, UK
2015
Making it: Sculpture in Britain 1977-1986, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, UK
Qwaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, Bruton, UK
Sculpture in Focus from The Würth Collection, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
Show & Tell: Prints from the Krefeld Collection, Museen Haus Lange and Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
From Hockney to Holbein, The Würth Collection in Berlin, Museum Würth and Berliner Festspiele/Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977-1986, Mead Art Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
Making It: Sculpture in Britain: 1977-1986, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK
2014
Abstract Drawing, The Drawing Room, London, UK
The Language of Human Consciousness, Athr Gallery, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art, Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green, Much Hadhal, UK
2013
Blickachsen 9: 2013 edition of biennial Blickachsen exhibition of international sculpture, Stiftung Blickachsen, Presented in 9 cities in France and Germany
From Gesture to Language: Trans-Forming Practices of Art Expression, Rockbund Art Museum, Huangpu, Shanghai, China
THOUGHT, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
The Sculptors: Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, 1945 to the present day, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K20, Düsseldorf, Germany
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 - 1979, Southhampton City Gallery, Southhampton, UK
La Qualité de l'Ombre: 3 x 3 Künstler Europas, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Here We Go: A Changing Group Show, Karsten Schubert, London, UK
2012
Dreidimensional!, Zeitgenössische Bildhauerei im Kurpark, Kurpark Bad Mergentheim, Germany
Unspecified Urban Site, RH Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Große Kunstaustellung NRW Düsseldorf, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
News from Nowhere, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Encounter: The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, Singapore
In Situ: Patrimoine et Art Contemporain, Abbaye de Gellone, Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, France
2011
Drawing 2011, The Drawing Room, London, UK
Architecture Dessins Utopies, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
The Third Dimension, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten, Germany
Mit Feuer und Flamme - Keramik in der Gegenwartskunst, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden - Rot, Germany
Photography. Richard Deacon, Frederick Hammersley, Sean Scully, Juan Uslé, LA Louver, Venice, CA, USA
75/65 The Collector, the Company and its Collection, Museo Würth La Rioja, Agoncillo, La Rioja, Spain
Backbone: A Selection of Modern British Sculpture, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
2010
Brave New World, MUDAM, Luxembourg
3 X 3, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
Brave New World, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, K21 Standehaus, Dusseldorf, Germany
From Floor To Sky Ambika P3, University of Westminster, UK
The Gathering, Arts Council of England Longside Gallery, YSP, Wakefield, UK
The Future Demands Your Participation Contemporary Art From The British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
'En mai, fais ce qu'il te plait!', Musée Bourdelle, Paris
Sea Fever : From Turner to Today, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
Global Contemporary Artists for Artists Sotheby's Auction to benefit Rijksakademie Artists Endowment Fund, Sothebys, Amsterdam
Untitled- MUHKA Collection at the Mawazine Festival Galerie Bab Rouah and Musee des Oudayas, Rabat, Morocco
Super Farmers' Market, Handel Street Projects, Sicilian Avenue, London, UK
Sensoralites Excentriques, Musee Departemental d'Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France
DLA Piper Series : This Is Sculpture : The Sculpture of Language co-curated by Carol Ann Duffy, Tate Liverpool, UK
klasse deacon raum fur vollendete tatsachen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Calder to Warhol - Introducing the Fisher Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sphères 2010, Galeria Continua, Boissy-le-Châtel, France
2009
Heavy Metal - On the Inexplicable Lightness of a Material Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Im Blick des Sammlers - Neurwerbungen der Sammlung Wurth von Kirchner und Schlemmer bis Kiefer, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany
'Tracking Traces - Oikeilla Jaljilla' Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
'Lisson Presents 3', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
'This Is Sculpture' DLA Piper Series, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
'Boule To Braid', curated by Richard Wentworth, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
'upside down / inside out' Kettle's Yard. Cambridge, UK
'Art Now: Beating the Bounds' Tate Britain, London, UK
2008
Beyond Measure, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
History In The Making: A Retrospective Of The Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hugh Stoneman, Master Printer, Tate St. Ives, UK
Biennale Internationale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Vallauris, invited artist, Musee National de Picasso "Le guerre et la paix", Vallauris, France
Clair-obscur/Chiaroscuro, Le Château de la Bâtie d'Urfé, France
Invention[s], Oeuvres de la collection du Frac Bretagne, Centre International d'Art Contemporain, Pont-Aven, France
FIAC 2008, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris
Academia, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts, Paris
Sculptors Drawings: Moore to Gormley, Department of Prints & Drawings, British Museum, London, UK
Farmers Market, Handel Street Projects at First Floor, 72 Wigmore Street, London, UK
Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Belgium
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
MUHKA, Antwerp
Middelheim Sculpture Park, Antwerp
China
Cosco Corporation, Beijing
Denmark
Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk
Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Copenhagen
France
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FRAC), PuteauxFonds régional d'art contemporain (FRAC), Rhone-Alps
Fonds régional d'art contemporain (FRAC), Picardie
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
Le Nouveau Musée, Lyon
Musée d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq
Finland
Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki
Germany
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld
Sprengel Museum, Hanover
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen , Dusseldorf
Israel
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Italy
Fondazione Prada, Milan
Japan
Tochigi Prefectural Museum, Tochigi
Tokyo Forum, Tokyo
Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima
Setegaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Netherlands
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Bonnefantemuseum, Maastricht
New Zealand
Auckland City Museum and Art Gallery
Norway
Museet for Samtidskunst, OsloKunsternes Hus, OsloAstrump-Fearnley Museum, Oslo
Portugal
Berardo Museum, Lisbon
Sintra Museum, Sintra
South Korea
Samsung Museum, Seoul
Spain
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Barcelona
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
Weltkunst Foundation, Zurich
Kunstmuseum, Basel
Turkey
Istanbul Modern, Istanbul
UK
Tate, London
The British Council
Arts Council of Great Britain
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
University of Warwick, Coventry, Warwickshire
Manchester City Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester
Southampton City Museum and Art Gallery, Southampton
USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New YorkCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Akron Museum and Art Gallery, Akron, Ohio
1998
Elected RA
1996
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
1995
Roert Jakobsen Prize, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
1987
Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London
1976
Sir Allen Lane Penguin Book Prize, RCA