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Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy

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  • British, b. 1956 Lives and works in Dumfriesshire, Scotland Knowing where things come from, taking responsibility for what I use...
    Photo: John Halpern

    British, b. 1956

    Lives and works in Dumfriesshire, Scotland

    Knowing where things come from, taking responsibility for what I use is important, accepting that I will change a place but making sure as much as possible that the change is symapthetic to the place, recognizing as much as possible that as a person, I am part of the land. I am on this earth, and by being here, by being alive, I do affect the land. All of us do. In my work, I hope I celebrate life.

    Over the past 40 years, Andy Goldsworthy has gained a significant reputation for both his ephemeral works and his permanent installations that draw out the inherent character of the places where they are sited. 
     
    The artist works with natural materials, such as leaves, sand, ice, and stone that often originate from the local site, to address notions of materiality, process, and temporality. Time in Goldsworthy’s practice is often understood in terms of “the bodily experience, the motion of the body through space over time,” as captured in his ephemeral works and recent videos. In his site-specific commissions and landscape projects, “Goldsworthy is quite explicit about the idea that [they] are completed by people walking to, and creating connecting pathways among, them.” San Francisco is home to five such projects: Spire (2008), Wood Line (2010-11), Tree Fall (2013) and Earth Wall (2014) at The Presidio, and Drawn Stone (2005) at the de Young Museum. 
     
    Other site-specific works and commissions include Hanging Stones, Rosedale, North Yorkshire, UK; Stone Sea Passage, Mona - Museum of New and Old Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, Australia; Walking Wall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Storm King Wall, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY; Garden of Remembrance, Jewish Heritage Museum, New York, NY; and Roof, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. Goldsworthy has exhibited in major museums such as the Aspen Institute, CO; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK. His works are collected by private and public institutions worldwide, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Fukuyama Museum of Art, Japan; Tate Museum of Art, London, UK; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. 
     
    Goldsworthy has been the subject of several substantial monographic publications, as well as two critically acclaimed feature-length documentaries: Rivers and Tides (2002) and Leaning into the Wind (2017). 
     
    Artist CV (PDF)
  • ARTIST DIGEST | ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

    ARTIST DIGEST | ANDY GOLDSWORTHY

    Discover the work of Andy Goldsworthy in Haines Gallery's Artist Digest, a carefully curated mix of content that invites you to explore his practice in depth.
     
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  • Works
    • Andy Goldsworthy Chestnut Stalk Screen. Crushed charcoal from one of three fires. Whitchurch, Napa, San Francisco. Thrown in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 12 January 2022, 2022 5 Unique Archival Inkjet Prints Frame, each: 17.5 x 25.5 inches
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Chestnut Stalk Screen. Crushed charcoal from one of three fires. Whitchurch, Napa, San Francisco. Thrown in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 12 January 2022, 2022
      5 Unique Archival Inkjet Prints
      Frame, each: 17.5 x 25.5 inches
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    • Andy Goldsworthy 24 February 2022, 2022 Single-channel digital video (color, sound) Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes (looped)
      Andy Goldsworthy
      24 February 2022, 2022
      Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
      Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes (looped)
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    • Andy Goldsworthy Red river stone. Crushed into dust. Thrown. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 30 May 2016, 2016 9 Unique Archival Inkjet Prints Frame, each: 18 x 27 inches Overall, as shown: 62 x 84 inches
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Red river stone. Crushed into dust. Thrown. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 30 May 2016, 2016
      9 Unique Archival Inkjet Prints
      Frame, each: 18 x 27 inches
      Overall, as shown: 62 x 84 inches
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    • Andy Goldsworthy Hand hit site dust, Presidio Spire, October 2008 6 Unique Ilfochrome prints Frame, each: 22 x 21 inches
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Hand hit site dust, Presidio Spire, October 2008
      6 Unique Ilfochrome prints
      Frame, each: 22 x 21 inches
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    • Andy Goldsworthy Ice. Lifted from nearby pond. Placed on top of fence posts. Early morning. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 30 January 2017, 2017 Unique Archival Inkjet Print 36.5 x 25 inches, framed
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Ice. Lifted from nearby pond. Placed on top of fence posts. Early morning. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 30 January 2017, 2017
      Unique Archival Inkjet Print
      36.5 x 25 inches, framed
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    • Andy Goldsworthy Red river rock. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 19 August 2016, 2016 Single-channel digital video (color, sound) 9 minutes (looped)
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Red river rock. Dumfriesshire, Scotland. 19 August 2016, 2016
      Single-channel digital video (color, sound)
      9 minutes (looped)
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    • Andy Goldsworthy Spire, 2022 Debossed watercolor paper with charcoal collected from Presidio Spire 31 x 17 inches
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Spire, 2022
      Debossed watercolor paper with charcoal collected from Presidio Spire
      31 x 17 inches
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    • Andy Goldsworthy Spire, 2022 Debossed watercolor paper with red earth 31 x 17 inches
      Andy Goldsworthy
      Spire, 2022
      Debossed watercolor paper with red earth
      31 x 17 inches
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  • Exhibitions
    • Andy Goldsworthy: Firehouse

      Andy Goldsworthy: Firehouse

      March 12 - May 28, 2022
      Haines is thrilled to present Firehouse , a solo exhibition by Andy Goldsworthy inaugurating the gallery’s new location at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture (FMCAC), on view from...
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    • Chromotherapy

      Chromotherapy

      July 8 - September 5, 2021
      Haines Gallery is pleased to announce our reopening to the public with Chromotherapy , a group exhibition celebrating the transfor-mative powers of color. Opening on Thursday, July 8, our first...
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    • Andy Goldsworthy: Drawing Water Standing Still

      Andy Goldsworthy: Drawing Water Standing Still

      June 1 - September 2, 2017
      Haines Gallery proudly presents Drawing Water Standing Still , a solo exhibition of recent videos and photographs by acclaimed British artist Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956, lives and works in Dumfriesshire,...
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    • Poetics of Construction

      Poetics of Construction

      January 18 - February 23, 2013
      Our intervention with the world is invariably shaped by the composed form. Even in the seemingly limitless digital society with which we are obliged to interact, our negotiations with physical...
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  • News
    • Andy Goldsworthy Solo Exhibition, Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland July 26 - November 2, 2025
      News

      Andy Goldsworthy
      Solo Exhibition

      Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years
      Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
      July 26 - November 2, 2025
      In July 2025, the National Galleries Scotland will open a major retrospective by Scotland-based UK land artist Andy Goldsworthy . Taking over the upper and lower galleries of the Royal...
    • Andy Goldsworthy Permanent Installation, Stone Sea Passage, 2024 MONA - Museum of New and Old Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, Australia
      News

      Andy Goldsworthy
      Permanent Installation

      Stone Sea Passage, 2024
      MONA - Museum of New and Old Art, Berriedale, Tasmania, Australia
      Andy Goldsworthy has installed Stone Sea Passage (2024), a site-specific installation for Mona - Museum of New and Old Art near Hobart, Tasmania. This permanent work is constructed of local...
    • Andy Goldsworthy Permanent Installation, Road Line, 2023 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
      News

      Andy Goldsworthy
      Permanent Installation

      Road Line, 2023
      College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
      Andy Goldsworthy’s site-specific, permanent project, Road Line , at College of the Atlantic marks the first permanent artwork by the internationally renowned British artist in the State of Maine. Comprised...
  • Press
  • Carl Little, "Andy Goldsworthy's "Road Line": An Interview," Art New England, April 21, 2025

    James Reginato, "Andy Goldsworthy is just about ready to reveal his ‘most important’ work," Financial Times, April 26, 2024

    Megan Gray, "A New Sculpture Winds Through College of the Atlantic," Portland Press Herald, September 2, 2023

    Max Blue, "A sculptor's work caught fire in the Presidio—and the art kept burning," San Francisco Examiner, March 23, 2022

    Jessica Zack, "Andy Goldsworthy channels destruction and rebirth at the relocated Haines Gallery," San Francisco Chronicle, March 11, 2022

    Julie Baumgardner, "How Doug Aitken, Andy Goldsworthy, and Other Artists Turned a Former Retreat for San Francisco Elites Into a Stark Reminder of Climate Chainge," Artnet News, November 26, 2021

    Sam Whiting, "Provocative eco-art exhibition in S.F. forces confrontations with climate change," San Francisco Chronicle, November 11, 2021

    Marley Marius, "Set Against the Crashing Waves of the Pacific, a New Art Exhibition Takes On the Climate Crisis," Vogue, November 5, 2021

    Steve Rubenstein, "Presidio's 100-foot Goldsworthy gets a new welcome, burns and all," San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2021

    Louis Bury, "Red Flags Are Flying at Rockefeller Center," Hyperallergic, September 12, 2020

    Susan Delson, "Gardens That Bring Sculpture Into Nature," The Wall Street Journal, July 10, 2020

    Murray Whyte, "At the deCordova, unearthing a connection with the 'beautiful and frightening' flow of water," The Boston Globe, November 14, 2019

    Emily Bobrow, "Artist Andy Goldsworthy Tries to Capture a Sense of Time," The Wall Street Journal, November 1, 2019

    Max Gardiner, "This Wall Was Made for Walking," The New York Times, October 23, 2019

    David D'Arcy, "Andy Goldsworthy revisits his relationship with nature in new documentary," The Art Newspaper, March 12, 2018

    Ben Kenigsberg, "Review: In 'Leaning Into the Wind — Andy Goldsworthy,' An Artist Grapples (Again) With Time," The New York Times, March 8, 2018

    Kenneth Turan, "An artist is revisited in Leaning Into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy," Los Angeles Times, March 8, 2018

    Andrew Motion, "The Pencil of Nature," The New York Review of Books, February 8, 2018

    Jonathan Curiel, "Why Andy Goldsworthy Needs to Be in a Tree," SF Weekly, June 9, 2017

    Jonathan Curiel, "Andy Goldsworthy Hates Relaxing in Nature," SF Weekly, June 1, 2017

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