Richard Bevan
born 1980, Maesteg, Wales
Lives and works in London, UK
Richard gained his BA in Fine Art from Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff
(2002) and gained his MA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art,
London (2008). He was then an Associate Artist at LUX, London 2012-2013.
In 2003 he won the Young Artist Scholarship at the National Eisteddfod of
Wales Montgomeryshire, and 2016 won the Gold Medal in Fine Art at the
National Eisteddfod of Wales Monmouthshire. He has been awarded The Elephant Trust Award (2017), ACE Air Residency,
Printed Matter, New York (2016), Artist International Development Fund Award,
Arts Council England (2016).
Education
2012-2013
LUX Associate Artists Programme
2006-2008
Slade School of Fine Art (UCL)
MA Fine Art Media
1999-2002
University of Wales Institute Cardiff
BA (Hons.) Fine Art / Printmaking
(First Class)
1998-1999
Glamorgan Centre Design for Art and Design Technology
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design/Fine Art
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2023
It fades and fades and fades, ugh, ugh, ugh, HIDDE VAN SEGGELEN, Hamburg
TEFAF, Maastricht (with Hidde Van Seggelen)
2022
Like a Quest Book Launch Tenderbooks, London
Off Print, Tate Modern (with LCBA), London
ASP, Conway Hall, London
TEFAF, Maastricht
Tokyo Art Book Fair, with Utrecht, Tokyo
PAN Art Fair, Amsterdam
2021
Tokyo Art Book Fair, with Utrecht, Tokyo (online)
PAN Art Fair, Amsterdam
Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair, New York (online)
2020
ASP, ICA, London (Online)
HYPERTEXT, Open Eye Gallery, Manchester (Online)
Little Vehicle, Super Gallery, Nagoya
Tokyo Art Book Fair, with Utrecht, Tokyo (online)
The Gallery In The Expanded Field, blip blip blip, Moscow
2019
Solo show, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem
Typographic Singularity, RCA, London
ASP, ICA, London
2018
Maquettes, The Block, London
ASP IV, ICA, London
Typographic Singularity, RCA, London
Bound, Whitworth Art Gallery
2017
A Portrait of Beth Harmon for a Screen Play, Tender Books, London
MULTIPLEXING, LUX AAP, Cineworld, Glasgow
ASP III, ICA, London
New York Art Book Fair, New York
Tokyo Art Book Fair, Tokyo
Little Vehicle, Okura Park, Obu City, Japan
Chess Club, Closeup Film Centre, London
White Cubicle, London (as Setsuko)
2016
GERRY, IKEBANA, Studio Electricity, London
LIKE GOLDEN PETALS SCATTERING, Tenderbooks, London
Little Vehicle, The Botao Gallery, Nagoya
MAT, Nagoya
ASP II, ICA, London
Off Print, Tate Modern, London
An Interlude, lm6a Project Room, London
National Eisteddfod of Wales, Newport
Utrecht, Tokyo (as Setsuko)
2015
Analogue Recurring, London Short Film Festival, ICA, London
Business as Usual, Turf Projects, London (touring UK)
Analogue Recurring, Lo&Behold, London
100ft III, touring screening programme, Jerwood Space, Hastings (plus UK and US venues)
Bohemia Club, St Leonards-on-Sea
THE DREAM THAT KICKS, Cinemateket, Oslo
Independent Film Show, Herman Nitsch Museum, Napoli
Zoo, Tenderbooks, London
2014
MULTIPLEXING, LUX AAP, Peckhamplex, London
Thinking Things, CPG, London
Return Journey, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno
the tongue shapes words all too quickly, Chelsea Collage of Art and Design, London
Foam, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge and touring, 12” vinyl commission
Petite Planete, Claire De Rouen, London
Book&Room, ICA, London
100ft III, Latitude Festival, UK
2013
Setsuko Hara, Oriel Sycharth Wrexham
100ft II, Touring film program (London, New York, Athens)
Chess Club, O:4W/Chapter Cinema, Cardiff
2012
Forth & Back, Florence Loewy, Paris
One Hundred Foot, Latitude Festival, Suffolk (touring)
Forth & Back, Limoncello/Furnished Space, London
Islets of Langerhans, Hosted in Athens, Athens
16mm Film Screening, MK Gallery Milton Keynes
Young British Art II, dienstgebäude, Zürich
Finger, Hidde Van Segglen Gallery, London
2011
¿AreWeNotDrawnOnwardToNewEra?, g39, Cardiff
Portmanteau, Halle 14, Leizpig
Young British Art, Limoncello, London
The Last Days of the Empire, g39, Cardiff
The Difference Between The Name Of Something And What It Does, Cell Project, London
There must be happy endings (2008), Coexist, Southend
PP, Limoncello, London
2010
Liste, with Tanya Leighton (Berlin), Basel
Collaborators 2, R O O M, London
Henji,San He Museum, Hangzhou (China)
Future Everything, Contents May Vary, Manchester
For the Sake of the Image, Jerwood Space, London
‘A’ is not equal to ‘A’, Quare, London
2009
Zoo Art Fair, ROOM, London
Giatrakou 28, ‘The Neutrality of this Section is Disputed’, Giatrakou 28, Athens
Setting the Scene, Gallery Bafa Foto, Geneva
The Collaborators, R O O M, London
g39, Cardiff
with Ian Whittlesea, Furnished Space, London
2008
Illuminations, Interval, Manchester
TRACE, Stolzestrasse 11, Frankfurt, Germany
ROOM, London
Publications
Available from Tenderbooks (London), Printed Matter (New York), Utrecht (Tokyo), Propaganda (Seoul),
After8 (Paris), Strange Goods (Auckland).
Setsuko Hara, Published by The Block, London, 2012
A Zoo for Chris Marker, 2015
Richard Gere Leaves me Breathless, 2016
Richard Gere Leaves me Breathless (Japanese edition), 2016
Berbatov, 2017
Art School, Published by UCA, London, 2017
La Genèse, 2019 (fourth coming)
Roland Barthes on Roland Barthes, Published by Setsuko London, 2020
Setsuko Hara (2nd edition), Published by Setsuko London, 2020
Like A Quest, Published by Setsuko London, 2022
La Genèse, Published by Setsuko London, 2023
Untitled (Futami), Published by Setsuko London, 2023
