Curriculum Vitae

Education

1997-1999
1990-1993

MA Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art, London
BA (hons) Photography, London College of Printing, London 

Individual Exhibitions

2003

Saint Gervais- Centre pour L’image Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
emily Tsingou gallery, London, UK

2002

Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy

2001

Renn, Paris, France
emilyTsingou gallery, London, UK
DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK

1999

emilyTsingou gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2003

Birds, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK

2002

It’s only words, Mirror, London College of Printing Gallery, London

2001

No World Without You, The Herzliya Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Mayday Mayday (cur.: Marc-Olivier Wahler), Swiss
Institute- Contemporary Art, New York, USA
We are not ourselves, Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK *
Where Are We?, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Night on Earth Städtische Ausstellungshalle am Hawerkamp, Münster, Germany
The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations, (cur.: Kate Bush),
Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain *

1999

Common People: British Art from Phenomenon to Reality, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Guarene, Italy *
Near and Elsewhere, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
The Garden of Eros, Institute Verreina, Barcelona, Spain *
Decoy; New British Photographic Art, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Word Enough to Take A Life, Word Enough to Save A Life, London, UK
Mayday, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland
River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London; touring
to University of Dundee, Scotland *

1998

Remix, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France *
New Contemporaries 98, Tea Factory, Liverpool, UK touring to Camden
Arts Centre, London touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK *
Critical Distance, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
Host, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

1997

 Little Boxes, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Contemporary British Photography, NGBK, Berlin, Germany *
Public Relations: New British Photography, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany *

1996

Stadtluft, Architektenkammer, Berlin, Germany
Flag, Clink Street Wharf, London, UK
Euthanasia, Plummet, London, UK

1995

Stream, Plummet, London, UK

* Exhibition Catalogue published

Selected Reviews and Articles

2002

Stefano Ricci, Sophy Rickett, Review, Tema Celeste, March - June
Olga Gambari, Sophy Rickett, Review, Arte e Critica, April - Sept
Piu che la luce spicca ill buio, La Stampa, 22 March
Oral History of British Photography, interview with Martin Barnes, The
British Library, London

2001

Roy Exley, Sophy Rickett, Review, emily Tsingou Gallery Flash Art
Jul-Sep
Izi Glover, Sophy Rickett, Review DCA, Frieze, July
Rob Tufnell, Sophy Rickett, Yellow Tree, Portfolio, June
Sophy Rickett, Review, The Independent on Sunday, 1 April
Neil Cameron, Telling Tales in the Dark, The Scotsman, 13 February

2000 

Chris Townsend, Sophy Rickett, Hotshoe, March/April 

1999

Julia Thrift, Sophy Rickett, Time Out, December 15
Dave Beech, Review, Art Monthly, December
Polly Staple, Pick of the Galleries, The Independent on Sunday, 21 Nov
Paul Okaine, Near and Elsewhere-Review, Circa, issue 89, Autumn

1998

New Contemporaries-Review, The Times, July 18
New Contemporaries-Review, The Guardian, July 7
Martin Herbert, Critical Distance, Time Out, July 8
Simon Morrissey, Amnesia, Contemporary Visual Arts, April

1997

Interview and work featured in Creative Camera, April

1996 

No Young Brits at Flag, Flash Art, Vol. XXIX, No.188
Val Williams, Stream, Creative Camera, February
Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Contemporary Flaneuses, Mute Winter issue

1995

Tania Guha, Stream, Time Out, December 18

Awards and Commissions

2002-3

Arts Council of England/ Helen Chadwick Fellowship,
The British School at Rome, Roma, Italy / The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, UK

2002

Artist in residence, St Johns College, Oxford University, UK

2001

London Arts Award

2000

Fellowship at DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Artist in residence, Grizedale Sculpture Park, UK
The Woo Charitable Foundation Prize

1999

BMW Financial Services Millennium Commission
in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK