1951 Studies in Paris and at St Martins School of Art

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1 ROBYN DENNY 1930 Born in Abinger, Surry, UK on October 3 rd 1951 Studies in Paris and at St Martins School of Art 1954 Completes 2 years at the Royal Navy on National Service before attending the Royal College of Art 1957 Graduates and is awarded an Italian Government Scholarship. Begins to teach painting part-time at Hammersmith School of Art 1958 First one-man show at Gallery One, London 1959 Teaches at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham 1960 Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase Award 1961 Art critic for Das Kunstwerk, Baden 1963 Art critic for Art international, Lugano 1965 Begins teaching at the Slade School of Art 1966 Appointed Member of Art Panel, Arts Council of Great Britain. Exhibits at the Venice Biennale in the British Pavilion alongside artists, Anthony Caro, Richard Smith, Harold Cohen and Bernard Cohen in exhibition entitled 'Five Young British Artists' 1967 Visiting Professor at the Minneapolis School of Art 1968 Prizewinner, 10th International Print Exhibition, Lugano 1969 Prizewinner, 8th International Print Exhibition, Ljubljana 1973 Retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London 1978 Prizewinner, John Moores Liverpool 1969 Denny organised an exhibition for the Arts Council on the American artist Charles Biederman Begins commission for London Transport, Embankment Station. Lives and works in London

2 SOLO SHOWS 1958 Gallery One, London Gimpel Fils, London 1961 Molton Gallery, London 1962 Galleria Scacchi Gracco, Milan 1963 Galerie Muller, Stuttgart 1964 Kasmin, London 1966 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1967 Kasmin Gallery, London Robert Elkon Gallery, London 1968 Renee Ziegler, Zurich Forum Stadtpart, Graz 1969 Kasmin Gallery, London Waddington Gallery, London Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1970 Gallery Muller, Stuttgart and Cologne Kasmin Gallery, London Robert Elkon Gallery, New York 1971 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1972 Galerie Ziegler, Geneva 1973 Tate Gallery (retrospective exhibition) Wurttenbergischer Kunstverein (retrospective exhibition) Stuttgart Stadtisches Museum (retrospective exhibition) Leverkusen Studio la Citta, Verona Galerie T, Amsterdam 1974 Marlborough Gallery, Rome Galleria del Cavallino, Venice Galleria LʼApprodo, Turin Galleria Ronanini, Rome Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg

3 Galerie Wellman, Dusseldorf Santiveri Gallery, Paris Galerie Jacomo-Sontiveri, Paris 1975 Galleria La Polenta, Genova Jacques Damase Gallery, Brussels Neue Galerie, Linz Galerie Modulo, Porto 1976 Galleria Morone, Milan 1977 Waddington and Tooth Art Gallery, Bath 1978 Festival Gallery, Bath 1979 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London and New York 1980 Aronson Gallery, Atlanta 1981 Jacobson/Hochman Gallery 1982 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles 1985 Fine Arts Gallery U. C. Irvine, California 1992 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 2001 Hirschl Contemporary Art, London 2002 Hirschl Contemporary Art, London 2004 Hirschl Contemporary Art, London 2007 Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 2008 Portland Gallery, London Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London GROUP SHOWS 1953 Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London

4 1954 Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London 1956 Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London 1957 Metavisual, Tachiste, Abstract, Redfern Gallery; touring to Musée des Beaux-Arts, liege, The British School at Rome, Imperial Institute, London New Trends in British Art, New York Art Foundation, Rome Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London Critics Choice Neville Wallis, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London Dimensions, OʼHana Gallery, London Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London 1958 British Painting, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC British Abstract Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery; touring to National Gallery of Art, Sydney British Painting, Neiman Marcus, Dallas London Group, RBA Galleries, London, A1A25, RBA Galleries, London Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London American Guggenheim Awards, Manchester City Art Gallery; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Brighton Art Gallery Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo 1959 John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool London Group, RBA Galleries, London British Paintings and Prints from Paris Biennale, AIA Gallery, London Prèmiere Biennale, Musée dʼart Moderne de la Ville de Paris Premio Lissone, Milan Place, ICA, London 1960 Danad Design, Portal Gallery, London Situation, RBA Galleries, London 1961 AIA Directions/Connections, London Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York New London Situation, New London Gallery Neue Marlerie in England, Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen Six Young Painters, Arts Council touring exhibition 1962 Situation, Arts Council touring exhibition, to Cambridge, Aberdeen, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Bradford, Kettering and Liverpool Denny / Grenginger / Olsen, Galerie Handschin, Basel Nine Painters from England, Galleria Trastevere, Rome

5 1963 Towards Art, Arts Council touring exhibition 7 Junge Englische Malerei, Kunsthalle, Basle Galerie Huber, Zurich Ten Years, Gallery One, London H ʻ63ʼ Hamilton Galleries, London 7 th International Biennale, Tokyo British painting in the 60ʼs, Tate Gallery, London Absolute Farbe, Avant Garde 63, Museum Trier 1964 Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo Britische Malerei der Gernerwart, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Documenta III, Kassel La Peau de lʼours Kunsthalle, Basel Young British Painters, , Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 1965 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition V, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool New Painting , Arts Council Touring Exhibition London: The New Scene, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, touring to Canada Paris Biennale, Musée dʼart Moderne de la Ville de Paris Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Focus on Drawing, Art Gallery of Toronto Art Vivant, Foundation Maeght, Paris 1966 Caro/Cohen/Denny/Smith, Kasmin Gallery, London British Pavilion XXXIII Biennale, Venice 5 Junge Englander, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Biennale Venedig International Print Biennale, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art Robyn Denny/John Ernest, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1967 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition VI, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Galerie Alice Pauli, Lausanne Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Galerie Feigel, Basel Vormen van de Kleur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Recent British Painting, Stuyvesant Foundation, Tate Gallery Exposition Internationale de Gravures, Vancouver Forem de Frabe, Kunstverein, Stuttgart; touring to Kunsthalle, Berne Four British Painters, Two British Potters, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam 7 th Exposition Internationale, Modern Galeria Llubljana

6 1968 Mostra Mercato dʼart Contemporanea, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence Ornamentale Tendenzen, Berlin; Leverkusen; Schloss Wolfsburg Peintres Europeens dʼaujourdʼhui, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and USA tour Art Vivant, Fondation Maeght, Paris Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh A Collectorʼs Exhibition, Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada Purchases, The Contemporary Art Society, London Works on Paper, Waddington Gallery, London Ceri Richards / Robyn Denny, Arnolfini Art Centre, Bristol Arte Moltiplicate, Galleria Milano Suites, Recent Prints, Jewish Museum, New York Junge Generation, Großbrittanien, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Prospect 68, Düsseldorf 1969 Robyn Denny / Jim Dine / David Hockney / R.B.Kitaj New Prints, Arts Council Touring Exhibition Contemporary British Paintings, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, South Africa Kasmin Artists, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast New Editions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 12 Britische Artisten, Kunstlerhaus Galerie, Vienna Contemporary British Painting, Art Centre, Delaware 1970 Large Paintings, Arts Council Touring Exhibition Galerie Muller, Stuttgart & Cologne Kelpra Prints, Hayward Gallery, London Contemporary British Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo British Painting and Sculpture , National Gallery, Washington DC Exhibition of Alecto Colour Boxes, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York 1971 Galerie Mikro, Berlin Galerie Muller, Cologne Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1972 Galerie Ziegler, Geneva Alecto International, Studio La Citta, Verona 1973 La Peinture Anglaise Aujourdʼhui, British Council, Paris 1974 Musée dʼart et dʼhistoire, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva Galerie Schottinring, Vienna

7 1975 Peinture Anglaise Contemporaine, Museé de Grenoble La Pittura Inglese Oggi, Ciak Gallery, Rome 1976 For John Constable, Tate Gallery, London Peintres et Sculpteurs Brittaniques, Centre Culturel de la Ville de Toulouse, Toulouse 1977 Annual Show, Hayward Gallery, London Jubilee Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 1979 The Museum of Drawers, Kunstmuseum, Bern The Deck of Cards, J.P.L Fine Arts, London 20c. British Art, Middlesborough Art Gallery 1980 Gallery Artists, Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London Kelpra Studio The Rose and Chris Prater Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London 1981 Salty Le Gallais Gallery, Jersey Group IV, Waddington Galleries, London Recent Drawings, Jacobson/Hochman Gallery, New York 1982 Drawing New Directions, Summit Art Gallery, Summit, USA 1983 The Granada Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester The London Suite, Ikon Art Gallery, Birmingham 1984 Home and Abroad, Arts Council Exhibition, The Serpentine Gallery, London Art Within Reach, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1985 Twenty Five Years, Annely Judda, London 1988 Painting at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art Gallery, London Corsham A Celebration, Michael Parkin Gallery, London The Presence of Painting, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1991 The Presence of Painting, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Not Pop: What the Other Were Doing, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

8 1992 The New Patrons, Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections, Christieʼs London Ready Steady Go: Painting from the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, The South Bank Centre, London Three Artists, Three Decades: Robyn Denny, John Hoyland, Gwyther Irwin, Redfern Gallery, London 1993 The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Centre, London 1995 Out of Order, Independent Art Space, London Really Out of Order, Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2002 Transition: The London Art Scene in the Fifties, Barbican Art Gallery, London 2003 Blast to Frieze: British Art in the 20 th Century, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg & Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse Editions Alecto: A Fury for Artistsʼ Prints, touring exhibition 2004 This Was Tomorrow: Art and the 60ʼs, Tate Britain, London 2005 Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line & Interval in British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery Metamorphosis: British Art of the Sixties, British Council and Gulbenkian Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros Minimalism & After IV: Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin Decade 55/56: Abstract & Constructed, JHW Fine Art & Tadema Gallery COLLECTIONS Tate Gallery, London Victoria and Albert Musuem, London The British Council, London Contemporary Art Society, London Government Art Collection, London Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art National Museum of Wales Museum of Modern Art, New York Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach Museum of Art at the University of Chicago Museum of Modern Art, New York Arts Council of England, London

9 Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Ulster Museum, Belfast Chicago Art Institute Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo National Gallery of Australia, Syndney Department of the Environment, London Cecil Higgins Art Gallery, Bedford Arnolfini Collections Trust, Council for National Academic Awards, Bristol University of Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee Ferens Art Gallery, Hull City Art Gallery, Norwich City Art Gallery, Sheffield City Art Gallery, Southampton The Pier Art Centre, Stromness Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Amsterdam Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven Phillips Collection, Washington DC Alexandria Museum, Louisiana University of Virginia University of Syracuse University of Northern Iowa Minnesota State University Schroder Bank, New York Chase Manhattan Bank, New York Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles First Bank of Chicago, Chicago PUBLIC COMMISSIONS 1985 London Transport vitreous enamel panels on all platforms and intersections at Embankment Station 1982 IBM Large enamel screen in main entrance of lobby of corporate headquarters, London 1975 Church of Our Lady of Lourdes, London altar reredos Commissioning architects Clive Broad and Partners 1974 St Thomas Hospital, London a series of six large enamel panels for the main entrance lobby. Commissioning architects Y.R.M.

10 1973 Wills Tobacco banners, hangings and murals for corporate headquarters, Bristol. Commissioning architects Skidmore, Owens & Merril and Y.R.M 1968 Paramount giant acoustic murals for the Paramount Cinema, Piccadilly, London. Commissioning architects Verity & Beverley Portuguese Airways mural for headquarters building, London. Commissioning architects - Verity & Beverley Austin Reed Ltd., London mural for flagship store. Commissioning architects Westwood Sons and Partners 1958 Abbey Wood School, London exterior mosaic mural. Commissioning architects Greater London Council AWARDS 1957 Awarded Italian Government Scholarship 1960 Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase Award 1966 Appointed Member of Art Panel, Arts Council of Great Britain th International Print exhibition, Ljubljana, Prizewinner th International Print exhibition, Lugano, Prizewinner