(1970 - )
Richard Billingham was born in Birmingham and studied Fine Art at the University of Sunderland (1991–94). He is widely known for his series of frank and poignant photographs of his parents and brother taken from 1990, that culminated in the publication of the book Ray’s a Laugh and inclusion in the Sensation exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1996–97. Billingham was awarded the first Citibank Private Photograph Prize in 1997 and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2001. He has exhibited his work widely across Europe and America and undertaken artists’ residencies in Pakistan, Ethiopia, Ireland, Greece and Italy. In 2016, Billingham embarked on a collaboration with Channel 4 on a TV drama based on the lives of his parents, Ray and Liz.
