Born 1970 in London, UK, lives and works in London, UK

Education
1997-99
MA Fine Art Photography, Royal College of Art, London

1990-93
BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Printing, London

Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2009
nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan

2008
Auditorium + recent photoworks; Ffotogallery Cardiff, UK
Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy

2007
Auditorium, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, UK (part of Triple Echo season)

2005
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK

2004
Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy

2003
nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
'Viva Roma'・A special commission of the British Council, Rome, Italy.
Centre pour l'image contemporain Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK

2002
Alberto Peola, Turin, Italy
RENN Art Gallery, Paris, France

2001
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK

1999
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2010
elles @ centrepompidou, Women artists in the collections of the National Modern Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2009
Time Warp, Explorer le temps: Künstler explorieren die Zeit, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (a cura di Felicity Lunn), France
elles@centrepompidou, Women artists in the collections of the National Modern Art Museum, Centre Pompidou, Paris Time Warp, Explorer le temps: Künstler explorieren die Zeit, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (a cura di Felicity Lunn)
East Wing, Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, London, UK

2008
New Photography in Britain, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
Night, Royal West of England Academy, Bath, UK

2007
Les Peintres de la Vie Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Fotografierte Landschaften, Museum der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig, Germany
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK
Mirror, Mirror, Jerwood Space, London, UK

2006
Responding to Rome, Estorick Collection, London, UK
Il Potere Delle Donne, Il Museo di Trento, Italy
Idetity III, nca | nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
La Donna Oggetto - Miti e Metamorfosi al Femminile 1900 - 2005, Castello Sforzesco, Vigevano, Italy
Contemporart, Piccolo Miglio in Castello, Biennale Internazionale de Fotografia di Brescia, Italy

2005
Autowerke, Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig, Germany

2004
Everything's Gone Green: Photography and the Garden, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, UK

2003
Order & Chaos , Fotomuseum Winterthur (cur. Urs Stahel), Winterthur, Switzerland
Identity, Nichido contemporary art, Tokyo, Japan
Flock, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK.

2002
Its only Words , London College of Printing, The London Institute, London, UK

2001
Where Are We?, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
A Night on Earth, (cur. R. Christofori) Kunsthalle Munster, Munster, 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 perl' Arte, Guarene, Italy
Evidence of Existence , The Bracknell Gallery, South Hill Park Arts Centre, UK Near and Elsewhere , The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Evidence of Existence , Kunstraum Siegert, Basel, Switzerland
The Garden of Eros , Institute Verreina, Barcelona, Spain
Group Show , Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Tendance , Abbaye Saint-Andre Centred' Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
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; University of Dundee, Scotland

1998
Remix , Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
The Road, Beauvais, France
New Contemporaries 98 , Tea Factory, Liverpool, UK; Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Critical Distance, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London, UK
Plastic Metropolis and Inventories, Shoreditch Biennial, London, UK Host , Tramway, Glasgow, UK
On the Bright Side of Life , Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany

1997
Little Boxes, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge, UK
Contemporary British Photography, NGBK, Berlin, Germany
Public Relations: New British Photography, Stadthaus, Ulm, Germany

1996
Silent/Still , (c.Peter Lewis), London Calling @ Arch 53, London, UK
Spatial Penetration, artists collaboration, Galatasaray, Berlin, Germany
Stadtluft, Architektenkammer, Berlin, Germany
Flag, Clink Street Wharf, London, UK
Euthanasia, Plummet, London, UK

1995
Stream , Plummet, London, UK

Reviews and Articles (selected)
2005
Darien Leader, Sophy Rickett, Portfolio, June M. Herbert, Sophy Rickett, Time Out, June

2004
Ines Rae, More Plant Matters, Source 39, Summer

2003
Sotiris Kyriacou, Preview, Contemporary, No. 52
Rob Tufnell, Rickett, Boiler, No. 2
Ma cosa stai facendo Maire-Claire, June
Photoshock, Arte, May
Laura Piccinini, Scuola Britannica su sfondo romano, Amica, May
Barry Schwabsky, Review, Artforum, May
Katie Kitamura, Review, Contemporary, no. 49
Marguerite Menz, Review, Kunst-Bulletin, March
Clare Manchester, Review, Art Monthly, March
The top ten, Vogue, February
Sophy Rickett, The Times, February 8
Review, The Art Newspaper, February
Elisabeth Chardon,Sophy Rickett dessine les paysages avecl' eclairage urbain, Le Temps, February20
En bref: Les Frasques de Motti et une jeune Anglaise, Le Courier, January 25
Francoise Jaunin, Lumieresd' ombre, 24heures, February 19
Schweizer Ausstellungen: Hinter dem Sichtbaren, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, February 8
Emmanuel Grandjean, Et Sophy Rickett travaille de nuit, Tribune de Geneve, January 24

2002
Stefano Ricci, Review, Tema Celeste, March - June
Olga Gambari, Review, Arte e Critica, April - September
Piu che la luce spicaa il buio, La Stampa, March 22

2001
Izi Glover, Sophy Rickett, DCA Review, Frieze, July
Oral History of British Photography, interview with Martin Barnes, The British Library, November
Roy Exley, Review, Flash Art, July- September
Rob Tufnell, Sophy Rickett, Yellow Tree, Portfolio, June
Sophy Rickett, Review, The Independent on Sunday, April 1
Urban Nights, The Guardian Guide, March 24
Annette Rubery, Urban Nights, Metro Life-Evening Standard, March
Giles Sutherland, Around the Galleries, Dundee, The Times, February 22
Neil Cameron, Telling Tales in the Dark, The Scotsman, February 13

2000
Chris Townsend, Sophy Rickett, Hotshoe, March/April

1999
Julia Thrift, Sophy Rickett, Time Out, December
Niru Ratnam, Talent Front, Scene, December
Dave Beech, Review, Art Monthly, December
Polly Staple, Pick of the Galleries, The Independent on Sunday, November 21
Stuart Shave, i-Do: Night Vision, i-D, December
Dealers Gazette, The Art Newspaper, No. 97, November
What's On, The Guardian/Space, The Guardian, November 4
Near and Elsewhere-Review, Circa, issue 89, Autumn
Kieron Corliss, Review, Pill, issue 4, Made in London, July-August
Photography, Zoo, October

1998
Arielle Pelenc & Simon Morrissey, Remix (exh.cat)
New Contemporaries (exh.cat)
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
Val Williams, Zeitgenossische Britische Fotorafie, catalogue
Thomas Seelig, Public Relations catalogue
Surface, Booth Cibborn Editions
Mark Currah, Flag, Time Out, May 29
Interview and work featured in Creative Camera, April

1996
No Young Brits at Flag, Flash Art, Vol. XXIX, No.188
Dieter Wulf, Kunst im Rohbau, Wochenreport (Berlin)
Val Williams, Stream, Creative Camera, February
Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Contemporary Flaneures, Mute, Winter
1995
Tania Guha, Stream, Time Out, December 18th

Publications and Catalogues
2005
Sophy Rickett (Monograph), Steidl / Photoworks

2004 ed. Klanten, R./Ehmann, S./Meyer, B. Wonderland, Die Gestalten Verlag

2003
ed. Urs Stahel, Order & Chaos, Fotomuseum Winterthur/Christoph Merian Verlag

2001
Kate Bush, The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations, Communidad de Madrid, Spain
ed. by Graham Gussin and Ele Carpenter, Nothing, August and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, UK
Photographs, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London

1999
F.Bonami, Common People: Arte Inglese tra Fenomeno e Realta, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudenco perl' Arte, Italy
Jardin de Eros, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Spain

1998
New Contemporaries 98, New Contemporaries Ltd, UK
Remix, Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France
On the Bright side of Life, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany

1997
Public Relations-New British Photography, Cantz, Germany

Awards and Commissions
2002
Arts Council Helen Chadwick Fellowship, Ruskin School, Oxford, UK
Fellowship British School in Rome, Italy

2000
Fellowship at DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
Artist in residence, Grizedale Sculpture Park, Grizedale, UK
The Woo Charitable Foundation Prize, UK

1999
BMW Financial Services Millennium Commission in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Public Collections

Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig, Germany
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Guarene, Italy
FSA, London, UK
Goldman Sachs, London, UK
McManus Galleries, Dundee, UK
Merril Lynch, London, UK
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
Texas Pacific Group Collection, UK
Tower Place Development, London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Windsor GmbH, Germany
Worcester City Art Gallery, Worcester, UK