Richard Deacon (born 1949) is a leading British sculptor, a large-scale survey of his work was exhibited at Tate Britain in early 2014. In 2015/16 a ten-year survey – On The Other Side – toured to museums in Switzerland, Azerbaijan and Germany. A collected edition of his writings, So, If, And, But was published in English and in German in 2014. In 2016 The Folkwang Musem in Essen, Germany mounted a full retrospective of his drawing and prints Richard Deacon Drawings and Prints 1968 – 2016 with a substantial accompanying catalogue.
In 2017 San Diego Museum of Fine Art showed What You See Is What You Get a survey of Deacon’s work drawn mainly from American collections. The same year there were solo exhibitions at the Middelheim Museum in Antwerp (Never Mind ), at the City Art Gallery in Prague (Free Assembly ) and at the Kunsthalle Vogelmann in Heilbronn (About Time). Deacon has made works for public places in Britain and across the world. He has recently installed commissions in Beijing and Tokyo and, in partnership with Mrdjan Bajić, completed a pedestrian bridge in Belgrade. Richard Deacon won the Turner Prize at Tate Gallery UK, in 1987, the Robert Jakobsen Prize, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany, in 1995 and the Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize in Heilbronn, Germany in 2017.