Richard Dyer

Richard Dyer is Editor-in-Chief of Third Text, and a Contributing Editor to Ambit literary magazine. He is a widely published art critic, reviewer, poet, fiction writer and practicing artist. His critical writing has appeared in Third Text, Contemporary, Frieze, Flash Art, Art Review, Art Press (London Correspondent), The Independent, The Guardian, The Evening Standard, Time Out, Citizen K (London Correspondent), and many other publications and catalogues. His latest publication is a monograph on the UK-based artist Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (Anomie Publishing, 2016); a chapter in Magne Furuholmen: Alpha Beta (Forlaget Press, Oslo, 2013); a chapter in Identities/Identiteetit, ‘On the Construction of an Artistic Identity through Diverse Practice’, (Royal Academy Publications, 2012); Ben Turnbull: Truth Justice and the American Way (The Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, 2012); The Descent of Man: Wolfe von Lenkiewicz (All Visual Arts, 2009); Clement Page: Screen Memories: Picturing Lost Time in the Watercolours of Clement Page (Kuckei + Kuckei, Berlin, 2009); Art on Demand: Custom Colours and Materials: Sébastien de Ganay, Abstract Works Catalogue, 2008–2009 (onestar press, 2009); Controfacciata: Solid Water, Liquid Stone, on the work of German photographer Matthias Schaller, (Ben Brown Gallery, London, 2008); Keith Coventry: Deconstructing the Modernist Utopia (Haunch of Venison, Zurich, 2008); the major monograph Making the (In)visible in the Work of Mark Francis, (Lund Humphries, 2008); Painting: The Essential Verb, (Jerwood Foundation, Contemporary Painters Prize, 2008). Previous publications include Transitive Transduction: Breaking the Integument in the work of Tony Bevan (Ben Brown Gallery, 2006); Dan Hays: Impressions of Colorado (Southampton City Art Gallery, 2006); Zineb Sedira: Saphir (Photographer’s Gallery, 2006); and the first monograph on the British feminist performance and video artist Tina Kean, Electronic Shadows: The Art of Tina Kean, (Black Dog, 2004). He has conducted interviews with Gilbert and George, Nicholas Serota, Euan Uglow, Gregory Crewdson, Sara Lucas, Andres Serrano, Issac Julian, Yinka Shonibare, Fred Wilson, Raqib Shaw and Georgina Starr among other leading contemporary artists. He gave the opening keynote speech ‘Breeching the Integument between Making, Looking and Writing’ at the 45th AICA Congress at the University of Zurich in July 2012.