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| United Kingdom | 25 |
| USA | 9 |
| Switzerland | 4 |
| Austria | 4 |
Biography: 
1947 Born in Isleworth, London (UK)
lives and works in London and Norfolk, England
Like his friends and close colleagues Richard Long and Hamish Fulton, Ackling belongs to the generation of artists who graduated from St Martins School of Art in the 1960's with a sense of the importance of taking art out of the studio and into the everyday world. Sculpture, they decided, could be anything that they wanted it to be: be that a walk though the Cairngorms, a bicycle ride through France, or in Ackling's case, a small piece of found wood marked by the sun.
For the past 35 years, Ackling has made all of his work by the same extraordinary method: focusing sunlight through a hand held magnifying glass to 'draw' onto pieces of discarded wood or scraps of card which he rescues from the edges of our everyday lives. It is an intense and meditative process; each mark, like a tiny sun, measuring the existence of a ray of light on its passage to earth from a source many millions of miles away.
These burnt traces are etched in lines and grids, each tiny mark building towards a delicate pattern. The resulting works have a weight and strength and sombre stillness which belies their often small scale and everyday origins. They have the power to transform the environment that they inhabit: making quiet interventions that subtly alter the space around them. Through this ritualistic, almost meditative practice Ackling's work quietly presents to the viewer a new way of seeing the world – urging a renewed awareness of the small, the silent, the marginal, the overlooked.
Roger Ackling has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, North America and Japan and his work is held in many important collections including the Tate, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Arts Council, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum.
Work in public collections:
British Council
Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneve
Century American Corporation, Chicago
Cheltenham City Art Gallery
Contemporary Arts Society, London
First National Bank of Chicago
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Picardie
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Champagne
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Normandie
Furkart, Furkapasshohe
Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art
John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, Chicago
Kreissparkasse Reutlingen
Kunstmuseum, Zurich
Ministere de la Culture de la Region Bretagne
Musee d'Arles, Cloitres de St. Trophine
Museo Cantonale d'Arte (Panza di Biumo collection), Lugano
Musée de Grenoble
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Southampton City Art Gallery
Tate Gallery
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum
University of East Anglia, Norwich
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Vienna National Film Library
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Public exhibitions 55
Solo shows 20
2008
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| Roger Ackling: Sun Days - Annely Juda Fine Art, London (England) |
2007
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| Roger Ackling - Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm |
2006
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| Roger Ackling - Sundays - Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel |
2004
2003
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| Roger Ackling - Things of August - Annely Juda Fine Art, London (England) |
2002
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| Roger Ackling - Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart |
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| Roger Ackling - Galería Elvira González, Madrid |
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| Roger Ackling - Von Lintel Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
2000
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| Roger Ackling - Von Lintel Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Roger Ackling - Sculptures récentes - Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil, Paris |
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| Roger Ackling - Black Sun - Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
1993
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| Roger Ackling: Sculpture - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1984
1981
1979
1977
Group shows 35
2009
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| Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| cycle rolywholyover, septième et dernier épisode - JEFFMUTE - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
2008
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| nice little things - kunstGarten, Graz |
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| Conversations - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| El circulo - Galería Elvira González, Madrid |
2007
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| Alchemy - Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (England) |
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| Alchemy - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England) |
2006
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| Alchemy - Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (England) |
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| Roger Ackling / Richard Long: 1 + 1 = 2 - Von Lintel Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Summertime - Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel |
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| Parallel Visions II - Outsider and Insider Art Today - Galerie St. Etienne, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Geometrisk Abstraktion XXIV - Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm |
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| Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art - SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) |
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| Raised Awareness - Curated by Bill Woodrow - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| controlled - Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk (England) |
2004
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| Roger Ackling - Hanns Schimansky - Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin |
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| Geometric Abstraction XXIV - Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm |
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| OUROBOROS THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES - CCA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Scotland) |
2003
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| Roger Ackling (UK) - Jonathan Stollar (UK) - Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel |
2002
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| On generalrelease - The Gallery at Norwich University , Norwich (England) |
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| Peinture et photographie - Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil, Paris |
2000
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| Nature & Urbanisme II - Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil, Paris |
1999
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| Nature/Process - University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA |
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| Primary Source - University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA |
1997
1993
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| Artists Choice / Works from the Collection - SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England) |
1984
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| At the Serpentine: Graeme Murray Gallery - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
1981
1979
1978
1977
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Australia
| | Annandale Galleries, Annandale, NSW
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Austria
France
| | Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin
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Netherlands
| | Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam
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Spain
| | Galería Elvira González, Madrid
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Sweden
| | Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
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Switzerland
| | Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel
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United Kingdom
| | Annely Juda Fine Art, London (England)
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USA
| | Von Lintel Gallery, New York City, NY
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Public collections 11
Australia
| | Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW
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France
| | FRAC - Bretagne, Châteaugiron
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| | FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
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| | FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen
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Iceland
Switzerland
| | Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
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| | Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano
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United Kingdom
| | Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
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