(1954 - )
Liz Rideal lives and works in London and is currently Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. She received a BA in Fine Arts and English Literature from Exeter University in 1976. Working in photography, film and installation, she has exhibited her work extensively around the world since the early 1980s, including solo shows at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the John Cabot University, Rome; and the Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, among others. Rideal’s commissioned works include Hawthorn Hall of Mirrors 454308E-205690N, at Churchill Hospital, Oxford (2008) and Verdure, a tapestry commission for Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh (2007). Her work is represented in numerous international public and private collections including Tate, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; Arts Council Collection, London; Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; and Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.
