Catherine yass biography
Catherine Yass
Catherine Yass was born in London, England, in 1963. After receiving a BA at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1986, she studied at Goldsmiths College from 1988 - 90, graduating with a Masters degree in Fine Arts.
Yass is best known for her distinctive photographic and film based work. Typically she manipulates her subject matter by overlaying the negative and the positive from photographs she has taken and then realises the resultant images as lightboxes, prints and films.
In 2017 RIBA held a screening of the artist's film, Aeolian Piano, with the BBC. Recent solo exhibitions include Milton Keynes Gallery (2014); Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2012) a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2011); The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C. (2011); Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands (2009) and St Louis Art Museum, Missouri (2009).
Yass was selected to represent Britain at the Indian Triennale at the Museum of Modern Art in Delhi in 2001. She was short-listed for the Turner Prize in 2002 and, in 2005, she took up a British Council Residency in China. Yass has completed major commissions for The Jewish Community Centre, London (2013); Rambert Dance Company, London (2013) and Merce Cunningham, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2003).
Her work can be found in a number of public collections including the Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Biblioteca Albertina, Leipzig; National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection, Washington D.C.; The Jewish Museum, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York and Queensland Art Gallery, Australia.
Yass currently teaches MA Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives and works in London.
Catherine Yass (b. London, UK, 1963) trained at the Slade School of Art, London; the Hochschüle der Kunst, Berlin; and Goldsmiths College, London.
Solo exhibitions:
2023:
Flood Barrier, Valence House, London; Eastbury Manor House, London; screenings at ICA, London and Turner Contemporary, Margate, and De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
2021:
Falling Away, Ambika P3, London.
2017:
Aeolian Piano, RIBA, London.
2014:
Cadences, Flight: 2002, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes.
2011:
Lighthouse, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea.
2012:
Lighthouse, Galerie LeLong, NY.
Lighthouse, Alison Jacques Gallery, London.
Flight, The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C.
2009:
The China Series, Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands
Descent, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO
Group exhibitions:
2022:
High Wire: London International Short Film Festival
Last Stand: Living with Buildings Film Festival, Coventry
Multiple Cut Out, Dan Galeria Interior
2021:
Documents from the Borders of Conflict, James Hockey Gallery, UCA.
Light, Tate touring exhibition starting at Museum of Art Pudong, continuing to Seoul, Melbourne, Auckland, Tokyo, Osaka.
2019:
Architecture of London, Guildhall Art Gallery.
2018:
Living with Buildings, Wellcome Collection, London.
Powerful Tides - 400 Years of Chatham and the Sea, The Historic Chatham Dockyard, Kent, UK.
And Breathe, Manchester Art Gallery.
2017:
Dizziness Navigating the Unknown, CCA, Warsaw, Poland.
Navigating the Unknown. Elastic Actions in a Dizzying World, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria.
Mission is 40, Mission Gallery, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Togetherness: Notes On Outrage, Kestle Barton Gallery, Cornwall, England.
2016:
Descent, Togetherness: Notes on Outrage, South Kiosk, London.
Precarious Balance, CoCA, Christchurch, New Zealand (touring: China).
2015:
Work, Rest, Play: British Photography from 1960’s to English artist Catherine Yass London, England Catherine Yass (born 1963) is an English artist known for her wall-mounted lightboxes. Catherine Yass was born in 1963 in London. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, and Goldsmiths College. In 2002, Yass was nominated for the Turner Prize. She teaches photography at the Royal College of Art, London. She lives in London. Yass is noted for her films and brightly coloured photographs. Many of her works are mounted on light boxes. Yass has also worked with video. Descent (2002) is one film and two light boxes. In 2000, Yass designed the Christmas tree for Tate Britain, and in the same year along with Richard Wentworth she designed the public square around The New Art Gallery Walsall. Yass has had solo exhibitions including Lighthouse at Alison Jacques Gallery, London (2012); a mid-career retrospective at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea (2011);Flight, The Phillips Collections, Washington D.C.;The China Series, Stedelijk-Hertogenbosch Museum, The Netherlands (2009);Descent, St Louis Art Museum, St Louis, MO (2009). Yass participated in the 13th Montreal Photo Biennale (2013). Her work is in the collections of the Jewish Museum, New York, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and the Tate Britain. it is also in the National Museum of Women in the Arts collection. In July 2014 Yass was refused permission to drop a piano from the 27-story Balfron Tower in Poplar, London as part of a "c .Catherine Yass
Born 1963 (age 61–62) Nationality British Education Slade School of Fine Art, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Goldsmiths College Known for Photography Movement Young British Artists Biography
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