Vita Rowena Dring

Biography


1970

born in Wellingborough (UK)


1989-1990

Bedford College of Higher Education (UK)
Diploma in Foundation Art&Design


1990-1993

Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (UK)
BA (Hons) Fine Art, painting


1996-1998

Goldsmith College, University London (UK)
MA in Fine Art


1999

Visiting tutor Guildhall, London (UK)
Visiting tutor Canterbury School of Fine Art (UK)


2002

Visiting lecturer Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (UK)


2003

Visiting tutor Goldsmith College, London (UK)


2004

Visiting tutor Goldsmith College, London (UK)


2005

Visiting tutor Ohio State University, Ohio (USA)


2009

Visiting tutor Institute of Technology Sligo (IR)


Lives and works in Amsterdam.

Solo exhibitions (selection)


2015

Home Lands, Lehr Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin (GER)


2011

There She Goes, My Beatiful World, rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)


2009

Joshua Tree and Other Stories, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (IR)
Falls the Shadows, Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (GER)


2008

Skyline: landscape&memory, rahncontemporary, Zurich (GER)
Western Lands, TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)


2006

A Place Apart, QED Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)


2005

Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf (GER)
Elisabeth Dee Gallery, NewYork (USA)


2004

Landschaften, Ausstellungshalle Zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster (GER)


2003

Sies+Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (GER)


2002

Clearing, Elisabeth Dee Gallery, New York (USA)


2001

Sies+Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (GER)
Gran Tourismo, Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, Hoxton House, London (UK)

Group exhibitions (selection)


2014

30 years of TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
Bucolic Turmoil, TORCH Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
ACCOMPLICES II & III, touring show, TETEM and Kunstenlab Deventer (NL)


2013

Impressions photo d’Ateliers d’Art de France, Paris (F)
Collective diary, Hal Project, Seoul, Korea (KR)
ACCOMPLICES, Ostreale, Dresden (GER)


2012

Lost in Space, rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)


2011

There Was a World Once, Märkisches Museum, Witten (GER)
Cheongu International Craft Biennale (KR)


2010

Optical Shift – Illusion und Täuschung, b-05 Kunst- und Kulturzentrum, Montabaur (GER)
Bar Woteva, Lisi Hämmerle Gallery, Bregenz (AUT)
Making Nature, Rubicon Gallery (IR)
The Garden that You Planted, Vital Arts Gallery
Spaces, Barts Hospital and Royal London, Whitechapel, London (UK)


2009

C.D.R.D.E.F.J.G.M.S., rahncontemporary, Zurich (CH)
Redefining Landscape, Stephane Simoens Contemporary Fine Art, Knokke (B)
privat-Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart, von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal (GER)


2008

End Game – British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Famliy Collection,
The museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (USA)
Between Time and Space, The Nunnery, London (UK)


2007

Garden Eden – the garden in art since 1900, Kunsthalle Emden(GER)
The Night of the New Bohemians, Villa du Radet, Paris (F)
Landescapism, Islip Art Museum, Long Island (USA)
The Artificial Kingdom, The Horticultural Society of New York, New York (USA)
Traditional Skills, New Thinking: Knitting and Stitching for the 21 Century,
Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, England (UK)


2006

Idylle, Phoenix Halle Hamburg, DA2 Domus Atrium 2002, Salamanca (ES)
Galerie der Stadt Remscheid (GER)


2005

Landschafts-Paraphrasen, Galerie Münstlerland, Emsdetten (GER)
Hanging by a Thread, The Moore Space, Miami (USA)
New Tapestries, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York (USA)
Landscaoe Confection, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (USA),
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas (USA),
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Kalifornien (USA)
Group Show, Elisabeth Dee Gallery, New York (USA)


2004

The West Wing, Barts and The London Breast Care Center, London (UK)
Landschafts-Paraphrasen, Städtische Galerie im Rathauspark, Gladbeck (GER)
Kingdom, Market Gallery, Glasgow (UK)
The Sublime is (Still) Now, Elisabeth Dee Gallery, New York (USA)


2003

Hands Up, Baby Hands Up, 160 Jahre Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg (GER)
Color+Trips, Galerie Jacky Strenz, Berlin (GER)
Colors and Trips, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland;
Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Ratingen (GER)


2002

Textile Innovation in Jerwood Apllied Arts Prize 2002, Crafts Council Gallery, London (UK)


2000

hard candy Berlin, Galerie Wieland, Berlin (GER)
Art Textiles 2, Bury St. Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk (UK)
Include Me Out, Unit 6 Provost Street, London (UK)
paintings, Sies+Höke Galerie, Düsseldorf (GER)
hard candy, Granta, London (UK)


1999

Rooms for All!, The Jersey Galleries, Twickenham (England)
Call me I am home, Cable Factory, Helsinki (FI)
Vistas, Wigmore Fine Art, London (UK)
Chainstore, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London (UK)
The Bible of Networking, P-House, Tokyo (JP)
Marks&Spencer Michael House Exhibition, London (UK)
Mode of Art, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (GER)


1998

One Night Pub, UNIT, Copperfield Road, London (UK)
Whitechapel Open @ Canary Wharf, London (UK)
Beautiful South, Whitechapel Open @ Canary Wharf, London (UK)
The Bible of Networking, Sali Gia Gallery, London (UK)
Post Neo Amateurism, UNIT, Chisenhale, London (UK)
London, The British Council Window Gallery, Prag (CZ)
Cluster Bumb, Morrisoon Judd, London (UK)


1997

Under World, The Australia Council Studio, London (UK)
Cut, Biennial Party of the faculty of Architecture, TUDelft


1996

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
Double Density, Project X, Belgrad (SRB)


1995

Anti Slogans, Chairn Gallery, Nailsworth, Gloss (UK)
Bliend Field, Coventry Gallery, London (UK)
Fire Pendulum, Zamosc, Polen (PL)

Works in public and private collections (selection)

Chase Bank (USA)
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/Main (GER)
CAP Collection (IR)
The Chaney Family Collection, Houston, Texas (USA)
Bartrs and the London NHS Trust, London (UK)
Southampton City Art Gallery (UK)
Sammlung Olbricht, Essen (GER)
Sammlung Lobeck, Wuppertal (GER)