Richard Wentworth (British)

Richard Wentworth was born in Samoa in 1947. He now lives and works in London. In the 1960s he attended the Hornsey College of Art and worked as an assistant to Henry Moore. He taught art at Goldsmith's College, University of London for more than ten years and was appointed by the prestigious German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD) to work in Berlin from 1993 to 1994. In 2002, the artist was made Master of the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. Richard Wentworth has become one of the most influential British sculptors of the last decades. His works have been shown in institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitechapel Art Gallery, the Hayward Gallery, London; the Israel Museum, Jerusalem; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; and the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. In 2005, a major retrospective at the Tate Liverpool showed his work of the last thirty years.