Born 25th September 1970, Cradley Heath, West Midlands.
selected biography
1997
Won the Citigroup Photography Prize (now known as the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize)
1998
Billingham's film Fishtank, produced by Artangel and filmmaker Adam Curtis, is broadcast on BBC2
2001
Shortlisted for the Turner Prize
Glen Dimplex Artist Award Shortlist, IMMA, Dublin
2002
Sargant Fellowship, British School in Rome
2003
Commissioned by arts organisation, The Public to take photographs of the Black Country
ArtSway Residency, New Forest, Hampshire
Virtually Real, Artist's commission, Half Tone Press, Norfolk
Wonders of the Black Country, Jubilee Arts, West Midlands
Prince of Wales Bursary for the Arts, Athens
2004
Artist in Residence, VIVID, Birmingham
2012
Appointed Professor in the Creative Industries, Middlesex University
Artist in Residence Programme, National Art School, Sydney
education
Bournville College of Art
1991- 1994- Billingham graduated from the University of Sunderland with a degree in Painting
Billingham now lectures in Fine Art Photography at the University of Gloucestershire
selected exhibitions
2017
Richard Billingham: Order Out of Chaos, Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester
Collaboration #6, Landscape 2001 - 2016, Spazio 22, Milan, Italy
2015
Panorama, Anthony Reynolds Gallery In Residence At Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2012
In the Blink of an Eye: Media and Movement, Science + Media Museum, Bradford
2010
Recent Photographs, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2007-2008
Zoo, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2005
Black Country, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2003
New Picture, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2000
Richard Billingham, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1994
Who's Looking at the Family?, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1996
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
New Photography 12, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1997
Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, The Royal Academy of Art, London
1999
British School in Rome, Rome
2000
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2001
Venice Biennale
Give and Take, Serpentine Gallery, London
I am a Camera, Saatchi Gallery, London
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate, London
Emotional Ties, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2002
Intimacy, The Lowry, Salford
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
Location, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
2003
New Pictures, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
A Bigger Splash: British Art from Tate 1960 - 2003, PavilhLucas Nogueira Garcez, SPaulo
2004
The House In The Middle, Photoworks, Brighton
2005
Black Country, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Radical and Modest, Ben Uri Gallery, London
Picture of Britain, Tate Britain, London
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Paris
2006
Zoo, Compton Verney Art Gallery, Warwickshire
Responding to Rome, Estorick Collection London
Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool
2007
Constable Country, Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich
People, Places, Animals, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
7th International Photo Triennial, Esslingen
2009
Black Country, The Public, West Bromwich
Undeniably Me: 1309 Faces, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2010
The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London
British Photography from the '70s and '80s, Krakow Photomonth 2010 Festival, Krakow,
Face History, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2011
Ray's a Laugh/ New Work, Guernsey Photography Festival
Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
The Witching Hour: Darkness and the Architectural Uncanny, PM Gallery & House, London
2012
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present, National Gallery, London
Photo Espana, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, Spain
Observers: British Photography and the British Scene (From the 1920s to Now),
Galeria de Arte do Sesi, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2015
Panorama, Anthony Reynolds Gallery in residence at Annely Juda Fine Art, London Panoramic, Towner Museum and Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Ray, Glynn Vivian Offsite Exhibition at Ragged School, Swansea
Embodied, Nikolaj Kunsthall, Denmark
Album de Família, Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain, Hayward Gallery , London
2016
40 Years Part 2: Gender. Race. Identity, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
The Human Document, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK
An Ideal for Living, Photographing class, culture and identity in Modern Britain, Beetles + Huxley, London
2017
Landscape 2001 - 2016, Anthony Reynolds Gallery collaboration #6, Spazio 22, Milan, Italy Order out of Chaos, Art Exchange, Colchester, UK
collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum, New York
Victorian and Albert Museum, London
Tate, London