Richard Clements is an artist who studies phenomenology, the occult, structures of consciousness, and linguistic philosophy. Currently he is an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts, teaching in Sculpture. He earned his Master’s in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in 2007. His work has been supported by the Canada Council of the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. His research interests include the history of games, Harry Houdini, Arthurian myth, and Brancusi.
Education
2007
Masters Degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London, England
2005
Bachelor of Fine Arts: Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, Canada
Selected Exhibitions
2018
Richard Clements, Atlas House, Suffolk, U.K
2017
A Third Thing, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver, Canada
2016
Selected Work, CSA Space, Vancouver, Canada
2014
The Origin of Language, Riss(e) Gallery, Milan, Italy
2013
Day Treads On Night, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada
2010
Colour: Day Through Night, Fold Gallery, London, U.K
2009
Richard Clements, Room Arte, Milan, Italy
2008
New Work, Tenderpixel Gallery, London, U.K
2008
Richard Clements, Brown Space, Milan, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
What in the actual fuck? I can't believe I said that! I'm going home.
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2020
Richard Clements, Drive-By, Window Gallery, Los Angeles
2019
UNSEEN, Fold Gallery, London, U.K
2017
Atlas House, Sluice Biennial, London, U.K
2013
Dialogos, CACT Gallery, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Magic 8 Ball, Fold Gallery, London, U.K
2011
Matter, APT Gallery, London, U.K
Archaeology & Nostalgia, Organizzato da O’artoteca, Milan, Italy
Floating & Waterlogged Objects, Fold Gallery, London, U.K
2010
The Absence of Everything, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Alex Robbins and Richard Clements, MOT Gallery, London, U.K
2009
Run No.1, Room Arte, Milan, Italy
Part One, Nordisk Kunst Plattform, Brusand, Norway
2008
Terra Firma, Fold Gallery, London, U.K
Selected Biography
2013
“Richard Clements’ Day Treadeth on Night”, Espace: sculpture, Winter ed., Montreal, Canada
2011
“Bad Infinity”, Dan Coombs, AbstractCritical, October, London, U.K
“Floating & Waterlogged Objects”, Gabriel Coxhead, TimeOut Magazine, March London, U.K
2009
“Richard Clements: New Work”, Robin Peck, Sculpture, November, New York, U.S.A
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Untitled (woodpile), 2008, wenge, brass, 61'' x 28'' x 11''
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Untitled (woodpile) [detail], 2008, wenge, brass, 61'' x 28'' x 11''
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Untitled, 2008, denisyuk hologram of petrified wood, blackened steel, 3''x4''x5''
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Skidway 6, 2015, plaster, wood, glass, 12" x 24" x 5"
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Ars Lineandi with Coins (Spiral Prayer), 2018, glass, paint, wood, metal, 33.7cm x 37.5cm x 5.6cm
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Landscape (Benham’s Disc), 2019, hydrostone, 21cm x 3cm
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Trough, 2010, plywood, steel, two glass sheets, 240 cm x 120 cm x 31 cm
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The Judge, 2012, sand cast aluminium, 25cm x 17cm x 1cm (each)
