Rupert Goldsworthy

British painter, visual artist, writer, curator and educator (b. 1962, Kent, England); lives and works in New York City. Rupert Goldsworthy has operated his artist-run gallery for eight years in Berlin and NYC and co-founded The New Banalists Orchestra with Mark Stewart in 2011. His art appeared at numerous prestigious museums and galleries, including Tate Modern, Whitney Museum Of American Art, Swiss Institute, White Columns, Whitworth Gallery, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and Paula Cooper Gallery. Goldsworthy has been teaching at New York University, Pratt Institute, and School of Visual Arts, NYC before his current academic position at the New School's Parsons School of Design. Rupert Goldsworthy spent his youth in Great Britain, graduating with honors from Staffordshire University in 1985 with his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He continued studying in the United States, earning a Master's in Studio Art from New York University in 1992. Goldsworthy had a Business Management diploma from Columbia University in 93 and returned to NYU for postgraduate research, receiving a Ph.D. in Art Education & Visual Culture in 2008. In 1995, he founded an artist-run Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, based in Berlin for two years and later in Chelsea, New York City (1998–2002); Goldsworthy relaunched it for a year in 2009–10. He organized dozens of exhibitions and events with numerous artists, filmmakers and musicians, such as Nayland Blake, David Bowie, Guy Debord, Douglas Gordon, Joanne Greenbaum, Richard Hell, Charles Atlas (2), Jane Kaplowitz, Karen Kilimnik, Bruce LaBruce, Lovett/Codagnone, Nate Lowman, McDermott & McGough, Christian Marclay, Jonathan Monk, Judy Nylon, Tony Oursler, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Robert Pruitt, Amy Sillman, Tabboo! and many others. Rupert Goldsworthy appeared in Angélique Bosio's 2011 documentary film The Advocate for Fagdom about Bruce LaBruce, which was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2011, Rupert Goldsworthy co-founded The New Banalists Orchestra with English vocalist, post-punk pioneer and The Pop Group's founding member Mark Stewart. The collective featured many acclaimed artists, such as poet John Sinclair (2), Martin Glover (a.k.a. Youth), David Tibet from Current 93, Penny Rimbaud and Eve Libertine, and recorded one album to date, Mammon.