DAVID HOCKNEY
Artist Bio
Born in Bradford, England in 1937
1953 - 1957 Bradford College of Art
1959 - 1962 Royal College of Art, London (awarded the gold medal for painting)
1963 - 1967 Taught at the University of Iowa, Iowa City; University of Colorado, Boulder; in Los Angeles; at Berkeley
1967 Won first prize at the John Moores exhibition
1969 Visiting Professor at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg
1970 Retrospective show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London
1997 Companion of Honour Award, London
2003 Lorenzo de Medici Lifetime Career Award, Florence
2004 The Rosa d'Oro Award, Sicily
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2006
David Hockney 'Portraits', The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2006
David Hockney 'Portraits', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
2000
National Gallery exhibition 'Encounters: New Art from Old' Sept 14 - 17, London
2000
'David Hockney - A Print Retrospective' Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1999
'Recent Etchings' Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1997
New still-life paintings and self portraits from largest London Private Gallery exhibition 'Flowers, Faces and Spaces' at Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1996
Opens his drawing retrospective at the LA County Museum of Art, Manchester City Art Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1995 - 1996
Retrospective of drawings, Royal Academy of Art, London
1995
Opens his travelling drawing retrospective in Hamburg in the summer (travels to Royal Academy, London and the Los Angeles County Museum, California)
1989
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
1988
'David Hockney: A Retrospective' Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and The Tate Gallery, London
1983
'Hockney Paints the Stage' Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (touring elsewhere in N. America, Mexico and London, where it is shown at the Hayward Galleryin 1985)
1983
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 - 1981
Knoedler/Kasmin Gallery, London
1978
L.A. Louver Galler, Venice, California
1978
'Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink' begins its extensive tree-year tour of USA and Canada
1976
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 - 1975
Retrospective exhibition held at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
1970
Travelling retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (to Hanover, Rotterdam and Belgrade)
1968
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kasmin Gallery, London; Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris
1964
First solo exhibition in New York at the Alan Gallery
1963
First solo exhibition at the Kasmin Gallery, London
1961
Young Contemporaries Exhibition
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