Donald Gladstone Rodney
Curriculum Vitae
Born 18 May 1961 Birmingham, England
Died 4 March 1998 London, England
Education and Training
1990-93
Arts Council Traineeship in Exhibition Programming
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1985-87
Postgraduate Diploma in Multi-Media Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London
1981-85
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Trent Polytechnic Nottingham
(Art History Thesis: 'Black Independent Film as part of the Black Art Movement')
1980-81
Art Foundation, Bournville School of Art, Birmingham
Solo Exhibitions
1997
9 Nights in Eldorado, South London Gallery, London
1991
Cataract, Camerawork, London
1990
Critical, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
1989
Crisis, Chisenhale Gallery, London, touring to Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1986
The Atrocity Exhibition & Other Empire Stories, The Black-Art Gallery, London
1985
The First White Christmas & Other Empire Stories, Saltley Print & Media, Birmingham
Group Exhibitions
2000
Give and Take, Works Presented to Museums by the Contemporary Arts Society, Harris Museum, Preston and Jerwood Gallery, London
The British Art Show 5, touring to venues in Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham
1999
Here to Stay, Arts Council touring exhibition
1998
Inside Out, East London Gallery, University of East London, London
1996
Body Visual, Barbican Centre, London
The Visible and the Invisible, Representing the Body in Contemporary Art and Society, The Wellcome Trust, London
1995
Care and Control, Hackney Hospital, London
1994
Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1992
Trophies of Empire, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Mis(sed) Representations, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
1991
Shocks to the System, South Bank touring exhibition
Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Centre Gallery, New York touring to Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Madison Art Center, Madison; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
Breaths: Art, Health and Empowerment, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
1990
TSWA Four Cities Project, Mount Edgcumbe Park, Plymouth
Let the Canvas Come to Lite with Dark Faces, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
Black Markets, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Body, Arnolfini, Bristol
1989
Searchlight, Visibility/Surveillance/Regard, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
The Suitcase Show, Film and Video Umbrella touring exhibition
1987
The Devil's Feast, Chelsea School of Art, London
True Colours, Greenwich, London
The Image Employed, Cornerhouse, Manchester
Piper & Rodney, Prema Arts Centre, Gloucestershire
Piper & Rodney - Adventures Close to Home, Pentonville Gallery, London
Depicting History: for Today, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, touring to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, and Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
1986
Unrecorded Truths, The Elbow Room, London
Young, Black and Here, The People's Gallery, London
State of the Art: Ideas and Images in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1985
Heroes and Heroines, The Black-Art Gallery, London
1984
An Exhibition of Radical Black Art, The Blk Art Group, Battersea Arts Centre, London
An Exhibition of Radical Black Art, The Blk Art Group, Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, Birmingham
1983
The Pan-African Connection, An Exhibition of Radical Black Art, The Africa Centre, London
The Pan-African Connection, An Exhibition of Work by Young Black Artists, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
The Pan-African Connection, An Exhibition of Work by Young Black Artists, The Midland Group, Nottingham
1982
The Pan-African Connection, An Exhibition by Young Black Artists, Good Ideals, 35 King Street, Bristol
Eddie Chambers, Keith Piper and Donald Rodney, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
The First National Black Convention, Open Exhibition of Black Art, The Gallery, Faculty of Art and Design, The Polytechnic, Wolverhampton
Curated Projects
1992
White Noise, Artists Working with Sound, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Residencies
1990
Bishop Challoner School, Wapping, London
1988
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1987
Katherine Lady Berkeley's School, Wooton-under-Edge
Publications
2000
Autoicon, internet project, http://www.iniva.org/autoicon/DR
The British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, London, exhibition catalogue
1999
Annotations 5, Selected writings by Eddie Chambers, inIVA
1998
Here to Stay, Arts Council Purchases of the 1990s, exhibition catalogue
1997
Transforming the Crown, Caribbean Cultural Center, New York, exhibition catalogue
9 Night in Eldorado, South London Gallery, London, exhibition catalogue
1996
Body Visual, Arts Catalyst Publications, exhibition catalogue
The Invisible and The Visible, Representing the Body in Contemporary Art and Society, Wellcome Trust, London, exhibition brochure
1994
Trophies of the Empire, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol, and Hull Time-Based Arts, exhibition catalogue
Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, exhibition brochure
1991
Shocks to the System, South Bank Centre, London, exhibition catalogue
Interrogating Identity, Grey Art Gallery, New York, exhibition ca2talogue
Breaths: Art, Health and Empowerment, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, exhibition catalogue
1990
TSWA Four Cities Project, New Works of Different Places, exhibition catalogue
Let the Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, exhibition catalogue
Black Markets, Cornerhouse, Manchester, exhibition catalogue
Critical, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, exhibition catalogue
1989
Searchlight, Visibility/Surveillance/Regard, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, exhibition catalogue
The Suitcase Show, Film and Video Umbrella touring exhibition, exhibition catalogue
1987
State of the Art: Ideas and Images of the 1980s, Chatto and Windus in collaboration with Channel Four
The Image Employed, Cornerhouse, Manchester, exhibition catalogue
The Devils Feast, Chelsea School of Art, London, exhibition catalogue
Depicting History: for Today, Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, exhibition catalogue
1983
The Pan-African Connection, An Exhibition of Work by Young Black Artists, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, exhibition catalogue
The Pan-African Connection, An Exhibition of Work by Young Black Artists, The Midland Group, Nottingham, exhibition catalogue
Reviews
2001
Robert Clark, Homes for the Soul, The Guardina, 29 January
1998
Eddie Chambers, His Catechism, The Art of Donald Rodney, Third Text, Autumn issue
1997
Cedric Porter, In Sickness and in Health, South London Press, 26 September
Sarah Kent, Paint It black, Time Out, 17-24 September
Kesewa Hennessy, Sweet as Sculpture, The Voice, 1 September
1996
inIVA Breaths Life into Body Art, Flash Art, November/December
Sarah Kent, The Visible and the Invisible, Time Out, 9-16 October
Eddie Chambers, Three Songs on Pain, Light and Time, Art Monthly, No. 200, October
Sarah Kent, Time Out, 15-22 May
Lena Corner, A Body of Work, The Big Issue, No. 179, 29 April-5 May
1995
Sacha Craddock, Hands on therapy for users, The Times, 25 July
Sarah Kent, Care and Control, Time Out, 19-26 July
Sue Hubbard, Creative Disturbances, New Statesman & Society, 14 July
1994
Simon Grant, Truth, Dare, Double Dare, liveart Magazine, No. 2, 4 July-4 September
Robert Clark, Truth, Dare, Double Dare, The Guardian, 27 June
1993
Trophies of the Empire, Weekly Journal, 7 January
1992
Eddie Chambers, Trophies of the Empire, Art Monthly, December/January
Mike Gartside, Trophies of the Empire, Venue Magazine, 18 December
Robert Clark, White Noise, The Guardian-Manchester early edition 4 September
Janice T. Paine, 'Identity' art exhibit examines cultural diversity, Milwaukee Sentinel, 1 May
Y. S. Monakhov, Interrogating Identity, The Daily Cardinal, 16 April
1991
Miles Unger, Interrogating Identity, Art New England, December/January
Tad Simons, Colour Decoding, Twin Cities Reader, 18 December
Jeff Dell, Walker show asks 'who are we?', The Oracle, Hamline University, 6 December
Interrogating Identity, City Pages, 20 November
Toni Guglielmo, Artists examine identities of MFA, Tutts Daily, Massachusetts, 20 September
Ann Schecter, Exhibit of black artists questions society’s labels, Sunday Sun, 15 September
Minority Viewpoints, The Boston Herald, 16 August
Christine Termin, Interrogating Identity: The View form the 'Outside'', Boston Globe, 13 August
Roberta Smith, Interrogating Identity, The New York Times, 17 May
Michael Archer, Invisible Yearnings, Artscribe, January/February
Noemi Smolik, Four Cities Project, Kunstforum International, January/February
1990
Nayaba Aghedo, 'I want to be John Barnes …', City Life, November
John Furse, TSWA Four Cities Project, Art Montly, No. 140, October
Sacha Craddock, The short life of the big gesture, The Guardian, 10 October
John Furse, Uncover … Discover: New Art in Plymouth, Arts Review, 9 October
James Hall, Why it’s definitely not all right on the site, The Sunday Correspondent, 23 September
Andrew Graham-Dixon, Acts of public decency, The Independent, 25 September
Louisa Buck, Moving the goalpost, New Statesman & Society, 21 September
Bloodless Art Coup, Sunday Independent, 9 September
Blood Ban for Artists, Western Morning News, Plymouth Region, 9 September
Sculpture takes shape, Evening Herald, 28 August
Sue Hubbard, Let the Canvas Come to Life with Dark Faces, Time Out, 8-15 August
Emmanuel Cooper, Body, 20/20 August
1989
Michael Archer, Searchlight, Art Montly, No. 128, July/August
Looking into a novel form of X-ray art, Daily News, 31 May
Maureen Corish, Surveillance, the Ikon theme, Sutton Coldfield Observer, 26 May
Adeloa Solanke, Crisis, Art Monthly, No. 124, March
Amando Sebastyen, Different Diasporas, New Statesman & Society, February
Tricia Reid, Explosive Crisis at Chisenhale, Caribbean Times (incorporating African Times), 17-23 February
Mark Currah, Donald Rodney: Chisenhale, City Limits, No. 384, 9-16 February
Emmanuel Cooper, On Black Art, Time Out, 1-8 February
1987
Mark Currah, Adventures Close to Home, City Limits, 3-10 September
Sarah Kent, Donald Rodney and Keith Piper, Time Out, 2-9 September
Arthur Berman, Walk-in Riot Requiem, TNT, Issue 208
Sarah Kent, Adventures Close to Home, Time Out, 26 August-2 September
Brian Hatton, Artscribe, August
Allan Guy, Racist shock in the country, Evening Post, 3 July
Eddie Chambers, Problematic Space, Race Today, June/July
Amada Sebestyen, The Mannerist Marketplace, New Socialist, March
1986
The Atrocity Exhibition, City Limits, 31 July-7 August
Eddie Chambers, Liberator armed with paintbrush, 7 Days, 26 July
Media
1997
Donald Rodney in conversation with Carrol Chapman, BBC Radio Warwickshire and the West Midlands
1996
Three Songs on Pain, Time and Light, Black Audio Film Collective and Arts Council of England
1992
Trophies of the Empire, The Late Show, BBC2
Trophies of the Empire, Kaleidoscope, Radio 4
1990
Flame of the Soul, CEDDO/Channel Four
1987
State of the Art: Ideas and Images of the 1980s, Channel Four
1984
The Blk Art Group, Ebony, BBC2
Awards
1997
Digital Arts & Disabled People Scheme, Arts Council of England
1996
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Sculpture & Installation
Collections
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
The National Galleries of Wales, Cardiff
Tate Gallery, London
South London Gallery, London
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
Obituaries
Eddie Chambers, Art Monthly, April 1998
Ryszard Gagola, Artist’s Newsletter, April 1998
The Voice, 16 March 1998
Southwark Local, 20 March 1998
Gilane Tawadros, The Guardian, 11 March 1998
Niru Ratnam, Third Text, Spring 1998
Eddie George, The Electronic Telegraph, Spring 1998