BIOGRAPHY

Dryden Goodwin's practice incorporates drawing, often in combination with photography and live-action video; he creates gallery installations, films, projects in public space, etchings, works on-line and soundtracks. Goodwin's work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, The Photographers' Gallery, London, The National Portrait Gallery, London, the Venice Biennale and the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden. His work in collections includes The Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Tate Collection, The National Portrait Gallery, London, The Arts Council Collection, UK and The Science Museum, London. Festival screenings of his first feature-length film 'Unseen: The Lives of Looking', have included, 24th Edition of Camerimage, International Film Festival, 2016, Bydgoszcz, Poland, nominated in the International Documentary Feature competition for Cinematography; CPH:DOX 2015, Copenhagen, nominated in the Dox:Award, the Documentary Feature competition; The International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2016.

Solo exhibitions and projects include: 'Breathe:2022' produced by Invisible Dust, commissioned for Lewisham - London Borough of Culture, is a multi-part, multi-site public artwork combining over 1,000 drawings from May-Dec 2022 appearing as large-scale still and moving digital and printed posters, shown close to the heavily polluted South Circular Road in Lewisham, on Euston Road, and across London and parts of the UK, culminated in a large projected animation on Lewisham old town hall; 'Held' & 'Sensed', multi-part installation commissioned for the central atrium of the new Grafton Building, University College London Hospital (UCLH) 2021; 'Alongside', solo exhibition, QUAD, Derby 2020; 'Those Who Seek My Help', permanent commission for New Karolinska Hospital Stockholm, Sweden, 2019; 'Un-Earth' OCAT, Xian Museum, China, 2018; 'Seeing Hand', commissioned through Launch Pad, Shanghai, China, 2017. 'Unseen: The Lives of Looking', Queen's House, Royal Museum's Greenwich, London, accompanied by an exhibition of drawings and artifacts featured in the film, 2015; 'Skill', MIMA, Middlesbrough, 2015; 'Poised', Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, 2014; 'Wander' a permanent installation of 100 steel etching plates, Cambridge, 2014; 'Breathe', produced by Invisible Dust, animating over 1,300 pencil drawings, projected at night, opposite the Houses of Parliament, 2012; 'Linear' commissioned by Art on the Underground, 60 pencil portraits and 60 short films, displayed as posters, on digital screens, and at exhibition sites, across the London Underground and online 2010-2012. 'Coax', Raum mit Licht, Vienna & Fotoforum West, Innsbruck, Austria, 2011; 'Cast', at the Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2009 and the Photographers' Gallery, London, 2008.

Group exhibitions include: 'In The Air', Wellcome Collection 2022; Art + Psychiatric Intensive Care, a Hospital Rooms group exhibition, Burlington Street Gallery, 2021; Commissioned installation for Hospital Rooms at Titian Ward, mental health unit, 2020; 'WORK' touring exhibition shown at QUAD, Derby /Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Thrapston /Junction Arts, Chesterfield and Vivid Projects, Birmingham, 2019; Beyond Boundaries, Somerset House, 2019; 'CLOSE: Drawn Portraits', Drawing Room, London, 2018; 'Hooked', Science Gallery, King's College London, 2018; 'Typojanchi', International Typography Biennale Seoul, South Korea, 2017; 'Air: Visualising the Invisible in British Art 1768-2017', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, 2017; 'I want!, I want!' - Art and Technology selection from the Arts Council Collection, Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham Museums, 2017; 'Pose', Galerie Springmann, Berlin, Germany; 'Stories in the Dark', The Whitstable Biennale 2016; 'Work, Rest and Play: British Photography from the 1960s until Today', curated by The Photographers' Gallery, London, touring China, 2015-2016; 'Poster Art 150: London Underground's Greatest Designs', London Transport Museum, 2013; 'Everything Flows', De La Warr Pavilion, 2012; 'The World in London', curated by the Photographers' Gallery, 2012; 'Exquisite Forest', Tate Modern and Google, 2012; 'Poetry of Motion', National Portrait Gallery, London, 2012; 'Images of the Mind', Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic, 2011; 'Grand National', Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Norway, 2010; 'London Calling: Who Gets to Run the World', Total Museum, Seoul 2009 also Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing, 2009. Goodwin is a Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London.