Bridget Riley
born London, England, 1931
Riley taught children for two years before joining the Loughborough School of Art, where she initiated a basic design course in 1959. She then taught at Hornsey School of Art, and from 1962 at Croydon School of Art. She worked for the J. Walter Thompson Group advertising agency from 1960, but gave up teaching and advertising agency work in 1963-4.
She has had numerous solo exhibitions in the U.K. and U.S. and received a variety of awards.
source: Tate Modern, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bridget-riley-1845
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