Born 1983 in Cardiff, Wales
Lives and works in Berlin and London

Selected Solo Shows

• 2024 —Preis der Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
• —Half-Life, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
• —Workers in Song, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
• —Workers in Song, with Billy Bultheel, Mudam, Luxembourg
• 2023 —Workers in Song, with Billy Bultheel, WIELS, Brussels
• —Workers in Song, with Billy Bultheel, Batalha, Porto
• 2022 —Internal Litter, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• 2021 —When We Were Monsters, Haus Mödrath, Räume für Kunst, Kerpen
• —Living in the Radiant Cold, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (live performance with Horst Ademeit and Sarah Davachi)
• —Internal Litter, EMPAC, New York
• 2020 —Alms for the Birds, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin
• —When We Were Monsters, Mumok, Vienna, Austria (screening with Steve Reinke)
• —Abyss Film, screening with Leslie Thornton, Tate Modern, London
• 2019 —Migratory Motor Complex, Collective, Edinburgh
• —Speed II, with Leslie Thornton, Kunsthall Malmö, Malmö, Sweden
• 2018 —Crossing, with Leslie Thornton, Secession, Vienna, Austria
• —Speed, with Leslie Thornton, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany
• —Migratory Motor Complex, Chapter Art Center, Cardiff, UK
• 2017 —Music for the Gift, Wales in Venice, Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
• —Abyss Film, with Leslie Thornton, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
• 2016 —CROSSING, Rodeo, London, UK
• —Radio At Night, Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
• —Requests And Antisongs, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
• —Crumb Mahogany, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
• 2015 —James Richards, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
• —Rum Sodomy And The Lash (group exhibition curated by Ed Atkins and James Richards), EDEN EDEN, Berlin, Germany
• —To Replace a Minute’s Silence with a Minute’s Applause, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
• 2014 —Raking Light, Cabinet, London, UK
• —Mercy Mercy Mercy (Curated By James Richards), DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
• —Of Disturbance, Magician Space, Beijing, China
• —Alms For The Birds (Curated By James Richards), Cabinet, London, UK
• 2013 —The Screens, Rodeo, Istanbul, Turkey
• —If Not Always Permanently, Memorably (Curated By James Richards), Spike Island, Bristol, UK
• 2012 —James Richards, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
• 2011 —Not Blacking Out, just Turning The Lights Off, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK
• —James Richards, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
• —An Echo Button ’performance installation with Ed Atkins and Haroon Mirza’, Performa 11, New York, USA
• 2010 —DISAMBIGUATION collaboration with Steve Reinke, Trinity Square Video, Toronto, Canada
• —Art Now with Clunie Reid, Tate Britain, London, UK
• —Infermental, collaboration with Dan Kidner and George Clark, Focal Point gallery, Sounthend-on-Sea, UK
• 2009 —Resolution, Swallow Street, London, UK
• —Call and Bluff, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
• 2008 —Naught To Sixty, ICA, London, UK

Selected Group Shows

• 2024 —Play it as it Lays, Charim Galerie, Vienna (curated by Kristian Vistrup Madsen)
• —L’opera al nero (curated by Marta Papini, Leonardo Pietropaolo, Giulia Cenci), Centro Civico e Culturale di Rittana, Rittana, Cuneo, Italy
• —Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty, Fondation d'Entreprise Pernod Ricard
• 2023 —‘signals…here and there’ Screenings, Para.Site, Hong Kong
• —Bruno Pelassy, in Dialogue, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin
• —Prologue to the 15th Baltic Triennial: Remain in Zero, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
• —Universal Metabolism, Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk Berlin (with Steve Reinke)
• —Tolia Astakhishvili, The First Finger (chapter II), Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
• —The First Finger, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
• —World Classroom: Contemporary Art through School Subjects, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• —signals…瞬息: signals…storms and patterns, Para.Site, Hong Kong
• 2022 —It Might Be A Mirage, West, Hague
• —Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time, The Jim Thompson Art Center, Bangkok
• —Songs of Cockaigne, anorak, Berlin
• —Out of Space, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
• —LCMF 2022 (Sad and Ruined), Contemporary Music Festival, London
• —Penumbra, Fondazione In Between Art Film, Venice
• —La Fabrique du Nous #1: Des voix traversées, Institut D’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes
• —Archiv-Salon 1: Queer Pleasure & Pain (screening/symposium), Schwules Museum, Berlin
• 2021 —The Holding Environment, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
• 2020 —The Botanical Mind, Camden Art Centre, London
• —Sets and Scenarios: A Day in 3 Acts, Nottingham Contemporary, Notthingham
• 2019 —Time, Forward!, V-A-C Foundation, Venice, Italy
• 2018 —Biennial of Moving Images 2018, The Centre of d'Art Contemporain Genève
• —Platforms: Collection and Commissions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• —Die Stelle des Schnitts (Renée Green, Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, James Richards, Cosey Fanni Tutti), Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg
• —Pause: AA Bronon's Garten der Lüste, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
• —Sixty Years, Tate Britain, London
• —21,39, curated by Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Jeddah Arts, Saudi Arabia
• —Mapping the Invisible: Yebisu International Festival for Arts and Alternative Visions, Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo
• —The Explorers, Part One: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye and James Richards, curated by Iwona Blazwic, V-A-C Foundation, Venice
• —Lodgers, Haus Mödrath - Räume für Kunst, Kerpen
• 2017/18 —Generation Loss. Ten Years of the Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
• 2017 —The Mausoleum of Lovers, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• —Be Happy We Do Not Forget You, Sammlung Zander, Germany
• —Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Modern Art, New York
• —Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender and Identity, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
• —Odarodle - An imaginary their story of naturepeoples, 1535-2017, Schwules Museum*Berlin, Germany
• —Generation Loss. Ten Years of the Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
• —Jaguars and Electric Eels, Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
• 2016 —Less Than Zero, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, USA
• —Aftermeiter, Haus Mödrath, Cologne
• —Walks, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY
• 2015 —British Art Show 8, Touring Exhibition, UK
• 2015 —Saltwater: A Theory Of Thought forms, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
• —Walks, Andrew Kreps, New York
• —James Richards / Moyra Davey - works in dialogue with Derek Jarman Online Exhibition, Walker Arts Center film Commissions USA
• —Safe Home, Manchester, UK
• —Ars Viva Prize 2014/15, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
• —Ars Viva Prize 2014/15, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
• —Biennale of Moving Images 2015, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia
• 2014 —Turner Prize 2014, Tate Britain, London
• —Burning Down The House, 10th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea
• —Ars Viva 2014/2015, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
• —Cut to Swipe, MoMA, New York
• —Biennial of Moving Images 2014, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
• —Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual (selected by Pati Hertling), White Columns, New York
• —It happens without you, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow
• 2013 —Meanwhile ... Suddenly and Then, 12th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
• —The Image Thought, Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris
• —Otherwise Unexplained Fires, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
• —The Encyclopaedic Palace, 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
• —The Long Leash, The Ister, Brussels
• —Frozen lakes, Artists Space, New York
• —Its Over There, Simone Subal Gallery, New York
• —Speculations on Anonymous materials, Kunstall Friedricianum, Kassel, Germany
• 2012 —All That Shines Ain’t No Gold, Rodeo, Istanbul
• —The Imaginary Museum, Kunstverein Munich, Munich
• —The Voice Is A Language, Screening, Tate Modern, London
• —Chase of Grace, Maria Stenfors Gallery, London
• 2011 —Circulate, FOAM, Amsterdam
• —Subjective Projections, Bielfelder Kunstverein, Wielle
• —Coming After, The Power Plant, Toronto
• —Case Histories, Alex Zachary Gallery, New York
• 2010 —Fifteen, curated by Louise Hutchinson and George Henry Longley, S1 Artspace, Sheffield
• —What is Not / New Works UK, LUX, Outpost Norwich; ARTPROJX, New York at the SVA Theatre in association with The Armory Show and Volta, New York
• —Cold War for Love. Recent British Video, curated by Ian White, 52nd Zinebi Short Film and Documentary Festival, Bilbao
• —The Voice Is A Language, curated by Isla Leaver-Yap, Tramway, Glasgow
• —Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves, Form Content, London
• —Psychic geography, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead
• 2009 —The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, The New Museum, New York
• —A Song For Those In Search Of What They Came With, Bellwether Gallery, New York
• —Film As A Subversive Art, LUX Project at Zoo Art Fair, London
• —Disturbing History, curated by Hanne Mugaas and Lauren Cornell, Light Industry, New York
• 2008 —Against Nature, Vegas Gallery, London
• —Light reading, No.w.here Lab, London
• 2007 —Invisible Mend, Lounge Gallery/LUX, London
• 2006 —Incidents, Matthew Bown Gallery, London
• —Paradise, Tactile Bosch Studios, Cardiff
• —New Semantics, Whitechapel Gallery, London

Selected film programming

• 2013 —Stedelijk | Film - James Richards, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• —Infermental No.4, Light Industry, New York
• 2012 —Surface Tension, Serpentine Memory Marathon, London
• —Works From The Experimental T.V Center Archives. Selected by James Richards and Steven Cairns, ICA, London
• 2010 —About Time, works by Steve Reich, Charlemagne Palestine, Gunvar Nelson and Jim Shaw, Park Nights, Serpentine Galleries, London
• —The NDP Exchange Programme, Migrating Forms Festival, Anthology Film Archive, New York
• 2009 —Photography Is Easy. Selected videos of Leslie Thornton’, Form Content, London; Tramway, Glasgow
• —Mouth Room, Light Industry, New York
• 2007 —Devotion, LUX, London and Basso, Berlin

Curatorial projects

• 2024 —Novel Pleasure, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (with Fatima Hellberg)
• 2018 —Libidinal Motion/Diary of an Innocent, Delmes&Zander, Cologne
• —Ache, Cabinet, London
• —A Slight Ache (curated by James Richards), Chapter Art Center, Cardiff
• 2015 —Rum, Sodomy and the Lash (with Ed Atkins), Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Eden Eden, Berlin
• 2014 —Mercy Mercy Mercy, Video Programme, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
• —Alms For The Birds, Cabinet, London
• 2013 —If Not Always Permanently, Memorably, Spike Island, Bristol
• —stedelijkIfilm: James Richards, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• —Infermental No.4’, Introduction, Light Industry, New York
• 2010 —Park Nights: James Richards' About Time, Serpentine Pavilion, London
• —Infermental, with Dan Kidner and George Clark, Focal Point Gallery, Southend On Sea

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