Biography
| 1951 | Born in Portsmouth |
| 1970-74 | DFA, Slade School of Fine Art, London |
| 1974-75 | MA, Chelsea School of Arts, London |
| 1976-83 | Visiting lecturer Brighton, Slade and Wimbledon Schools of Art |
| 1978 | John Moores Painting Prize XI |
| 1980 | John Moores Painting Prize XII |
| 1983 | Printmakers Award, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation |
| 1984 | Designs, Ballet Imperial, Royal Opera House, London |
| 1987-88 | Guest, Artists-in-Berlin Programme, DAAD |
| 1990-95 | Trustee, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1992-97 | Wagner, four painting private commission |
| 1995-96 | The Parables, Jerusalem Trust commission, Liverpool Cathedral |
| 1996-03 | Trustee, National Gallery, London |
| 1996 | Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London: RA (Francis) George Steiner, commission, National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 2000-02 | Professor of Drawing, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2000-05 | Trustee, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London |
| 2003-14 2003-16 |
Chairman of the Academic Board, Royal Drawing School, London Trustee, Royal Drawing School, London |
| 2005 | Union (Horse with Two Discs), sculpture installation, Museum of London
Turner Medal Watercolour Prize, Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2006 | 2007 Britannia bullion coin commission, Royal Mint |
| 2007 | Reminder, British Art Medal Society commission
Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, 250th anniversary 50 pence commission, Royal Mint |
| 2008 | Shortlisted, Ebbsfleet Landmark commission |
| 2010 | Honorary Fellowship, University of the Arts, London |
| 2011-19 | President, Royal Academy of Arts, London: PRA |
| 2011 | Honorary Member, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh: HRSA Honorary Member, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin: HRHA |
| 2011-12 | Wing Column: Monument to Victor Hugo, commission, St Helier, Jersey |
| 2012-19 | Trustee, National Portrait Gallery, London Patron, Turner’s House Trust, London Patron, Gainsborough’s House, Suffolk Patron, Professionals Aid Guild, London President, Artists' General Benevolent Institution, London |
| 2012 |
Fellow, Zoological Society of London
Royal Mint commission Olympic 5oz Gold Coin Honorary Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, London |
| 2013 |
City Wing sculpture installation, Threadneedle Walk, London Honorary Member, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists: HRBSA |
| 2015 | Member, Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, London: RI Prince George's birthday sovereign coin commission, Royal Mint |
| 2016 | Honorary Member, Royal Watercolour Society, London: HRWS |
| 2017 | Honorary Member, Royal Society of Painter Etchers, London: HRE Vice President, Turner Society, London |
| 2019 | Honorary Member, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol: HRWA |
| 2020 | Emeritus Trustee, Royal Drawing School, London
IP Project Board, National Portrait Gallery, London |
| 2022 | Knighthood, New Year Honours List |
| 2023 | The Seasons, four painting commission for Ladbroke Hall, London |
| 2024 | Honorary Fellowship, Royal Society of Sculptors, London: FRSS Lives and works in Somerset |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Phases of the Moon, Lisson Gallery, Beijing Unenclosed, Academicians' Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2023 | Swan Ritual, albertz benda, New York |
| 2022 |
Making Light, albertz benda, Los Angeles Momentarium, Lisson Gallery, London |
| 2021 |
A Sense of Sight, Abstract Work 1974-2020, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2020 | Figure and Play, albertz benda, New York |
| 2019 | Diptychs, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai |
| 2018 | Composer, Southampton City Art Gallery New Painting, Lisson Gallery, London Dualities, Wolfson College, Cambridge |
| 2017 | Now Turn the Page, Arndt, Berlin Composer, albertz benda, New York Composer, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach FL |
| 2016 | New Paintings, Arndt, Singapore |
| 2015 | Colour, Colnaghi, London |
| 2014 | New Paintings, Friedman Benda, New York |
| 2011 |
Five Symbolic Images: Bronze and Plaster Sculptures by Christopher Le Brun, One Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London Watercolours, Abbott & Holder, London Recent Work, Galleri J. Aasen, Aalesund, Norway |
| 2010 |
Twenty Drawings, Abbott & Holder, London The Distance: New Painting and Sculpture, New Art Centre, Wiltshire Christopher Le Brun, Thomas Deans Gallery, Atlanta |
| 2009 | Landscapes, Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin |
| 2008 | Christopher Le Brun, The New Art Gallery, Walsall Fifty Etchings 2005, Fitzwilliam Museum |
| 2005 | Lichfield Cathedral - invited artist Lichfield Arts Festival 50 Etchings 2005, Paragon Press, Frieze Art Fair London Drawings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin |
| 2004 | The Given: Paintings and Watercolours 2000-2004, Marlborough Chelsea, New York |
| 2003-04 | Venice Pictures, Galleria Sottoportego, Venice Venice Pictures, Marlborough Graphics, London |
| 2003 | The Motif is Painting Itself, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent |
| 2002 | Galleri Christian Dam, Copenhagen |
| 2001 | Works on Paper, University Gallery, University of Northumbria, Newcastle Galerie J. Aasen, Aalesund, Norway Cloud Metaphor, Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Paintings, Sculpture, Prints, Marlborough Fine Art, London The Wagner Series 1994: Prints by Christopher Le Brun, Henry Cole Wing, V&A Museum, London |
| 2000 | Galleri Christian Dam, Oslo Fig-1: 50 Projects in 50 Weeks, London |
| 1999 | Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1998 | Recent Work, Marlborough Fine Art, London Ainscough Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1997 | The Art of Etching: Prints from the Courtauld Collection selected by Christopher Le Brun, London Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent |
| 1996 | Monotypes 1986-96, Marlborough Graphics, London |
| 1995 | Four Riders: States and Progress-Proofs, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art, Oslo Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow |
| 1994 | Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Marlborough Fine Art, London |
| 1992 | Christopher Le Brun, Art Center, Pasadena, California Muse Paintings, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California |
| 1991 | Fifty Etchings, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent |
| 1989 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
| 1988 | Daadgalerie, Berlin Sperone Westwater, New York Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne |
| 1987 | New Edition Prints and Monotypes by Christopher Le Brun, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
| 1986 | Sperone Westwater, New York Christopher Le Brun: Recent Drawings, Orkney Arts Society, Pier Arts Centre, Stromness |
| 1985 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Christopher Le Brun: Paintings 1984 - 1985, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Kunsthalle, Basel |
| 1983 | Christopher Le Brun, Sperone Westwater, New York |
| 1982 | Christopher Le Brun, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
| 1981 | Paintings, Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris |
| 1980 | Drawings, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 | Right Hand, Left Hand, Lyndsey Ingram, London New Acquisitions, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2023 |
New Acquisitions, Southampton City Art Gallery Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2022 |
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Endless Summer, albertz benda & Friedman Benda, Los Angeles. Liljevalchs 100 years, Jubilee 2021, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm. |
| 2021 |
Explorations in Paint, Collections Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Environmental Reflections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu Transcendence and Rén Jīan, Su Xinping and Christopher Le Brun, MOCAUP, Shenzhen Brie Ruais and Christopher Le Brun, McClain Gallery, Houston Group show, MG Space, Beijing |
| 2020-21 |
Jinan International Biennale, Shandong Art Museum, Shandong Selected works in London, Lisson Gallery, London Love, Life, Death and Desire, Yale Center for British Arts, New Haven |
| 2020 |
Intellective City, Design Society, Shenzhen Horizon, Lisson Gallery, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 20:20: Twenty Years of Collecting Contemporary Art, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall |
| 2019-20 | Brink: Caroline Lucas Curates the Towner Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne |
| 2019 |
Romantics, St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington Gallery 181, with albertz benda, 181 Fremont Street, San Francisco Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Drawing Biennial 2019, The Drawing Room, London |
| 2018 |
Under the Night Sky, albertz benda, New York L, Frac Íle-de-France, Bussy-Saint-Martin Selected Drawings from the Richard Schlee Collection of Drawings, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton Odyssey: A 35-Year Journey, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta Evolver, L. A. Louver, California The Great Spectacle, Royal Academy of Arts, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Multiple Thoughts, Royal Academy of Arts, London Print REbels, Bankside Gallery, London; Burton Art Gallery, Devon; The School of Art Museum and Galleries, Aberystwyth The Classical Now, King's College, London |
| 2017 |
Legacies: JMW Turner and Contemporary Art Practice, New Art Gallery Walsall Capture the Castle: British Artists and the Castle, from Turner to Le Brun, Southampton Art Gallery Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Seen on Impact, Robert Kuo, New York Drawing Biennial, The Drawing Room, London Contemporary Royal Academicians, Chapel Arts, Cheltenham Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London |
| 2016 |
Academicians IV, Glasgow Print Studio Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne Vital Signs, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Pisa Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Romantic Thread in British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery Drawings from the Royal Drawing School, Christie’s, New York |
| 2015 |
Twentieth Century Watercolours and Drawings, Abbott and Holder, London Segni di Londra, Fondazione Bottari Lattes, Monforte d’Alba, Italy Don’t Shoot the Painter, work from the UBS Art Collection, Villa Reale Galleria d’Arte, Milan Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London 5x5 Other Voices, Litvak Contemporary, Tel Aviv Vital Signs, Clifford Chance Gallery, London |
| 2014 |
Birmingham and Beyond, RBSA, Birmingham Beyond Limits: Sculpture at Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, Bakewell Reception, Rupture and Return: The Model and the Life Room, Tate Britain, London (film) Kips Bay Showhouse, New York, USA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Baratto, Christopher Le Brun and Enzo Cucchi, Galleria Bonomo, Rome Editions Moon Rainbow, Casa Della Letteratura, Rome I Cheer a Dead Man's Sweetheart, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea |
| 2013 |
Gifted: From the Royal Academy to The Queen, The Queens Gallery, Buckingham Palace One of a Kind, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Pavilion of Art and Design, London with Friedman Benda Gallery, New York Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Das Ultimative Bild, Raab Galerie, Berlin |
| 2012 |
Encounter The Royal Academy in the Middle East, Katara Cultural Village, Doha RA Now, exhibition and auction Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy, London Encounter The Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts Lasalle, Singapore The Queen’s Artists, John Madejski Fine Rooms, Royal Academy, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Francis Bacon to Paula Rego: Great Artists, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Kendal The Mechanical Hand - 25 Years of Printmaking at Paupers Press, Kings Place Gallery, London + University Gallery, Newcastle |
| 2011 |
Sculpture, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Fine Form: The Horse in Art, Summerfield Gallery University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery Elements of Nature - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Brevard Art Museum, Florida Atelier Michael Woolworth, Sous pression, a Chatellerault, Ecole d'Arts Plastiques, Centre d'art Contemporain Chatellerault Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2010 |
Modernist Realism: The School of London from Andrews to O’Donoghue, James Hyman Gallery, London Gallery and Invited Artists, Annual Summer Exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin Henry Moore etchings and bronze sculptures by Christopher Le Brun, Bircham Gallery, Norfolk Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Scultura Internazionale A Racconigi 2010 - Presente ed esperienza del passato, International Sculpture Biennale, Italy Layers: John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show, Seongnam Art Centre, Korea Inspired by Soane Artworks by Contemporary artists, architects & Designers, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London |
2009 |
Artist’s Proof, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin touring to Wexford, Bristol, Bray, Belfast, Monaghan to 2010 7th British International Mini Print Exhibition, invited artist, Printmakers Council Gallery, London touring until 2010 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Rauminszenierungen, Schlosspark Wendlinghausen, Dörentrup Past, Present, Future #2, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Watercolour in Britain: Travelling with Watercolour, Norwich Castle Museum, touring to Millennium Gallery Sheffield, Laing Gallery Newcastle and Tate Britain in 2011 |
| 2008 |
Hugh Stoneman: The Printmaker’s Studio, Tate St Ives, Cornwall Exacting Standards a tribute to Hugh Stonman, master printer 1947-2005, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, Cornwall On Time, Courtauld Institute East Wing Collection 8, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London Brilliant, Northern Print, Newcastle upon Tyne Buren, Deacon, Le Brun, Wallinger, Whiteread, Ebbsfleet Landmark Proposals, Bluewater, Kent Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Four Painters, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980’s, Tate Modern, London Fresh Out of the Box: Recent Acquisitions, The New Art Gallery, Walsall Winter Journey, Art Space Gallery, Michael Richardson Contemporary Art, London |
| 2007 |
Venice: City of Dreams? Sotheby's London Sweet Powder, Prints from Atelier Michael Woolworth, Grande Galeries -Aitre Saint-Maclou, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts Rouen Modern Art Now: From Hockney to Hepworth to Hirst, touring to four National Trust houses and the Aldeburgh Festival: Nunnington Hall, Stowe School, Aldeburgh Festival, Erddig, and Petworth House Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Group Show, (Ayres, Frost, Le Brun, Virtue) The Drawing Schools Gallery, Eton College Land, Sea and in the Air, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London |
2006 | Morandi’s Legacy: Influences on British Art, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal touring to the Estorick Collection, London Cross Reference, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Anthropography III, Frissiras Museum, Athens Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria Gardens of Earthly Delight, Flowers Graphics, London Spotlight - Works on Paper by Twentieth Century and Contemporary Artists, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta Drawing from Turner, Tate Britain, London |
| 2005 |
Contemporary Voices, Museum of Modern Art, New York The Spirit of Landscape in British Printmaking, V&A, London Drawings, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin Gardens of Earthly Delight, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin and Irish tour and to Flowers Graphics, London International Artists, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2004 | Wiedergefundene Malerei, Paintings by Christopher Le Brun, Gerd van Dulmen, Markus Lupertz, Odd Nerdrum, Thomas Schindler, Raab Galerie,
Berlin Presence, St. Paul’s Cathedral, London Bestiae Animatae (Bezielde Dieren), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London A Particular View, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, exhibited in Florence and Siena |
| 2003 |
Escuela de Londres, Marlborough Madrid and Centro Cultural Caja de Granada; Puerta Real, Granada Representing the World, Frisseras Museum, Athens MCA Unpacked II, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney Hope Sufferance - Contemporary British Art in Print, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin Christopher Le Brun, Bill Jacklin, Prints, North House Gallery, Manningtree Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Sterling Stuff - Sculpture in Silver, Royal Academy, London |
| 2002 | Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2001 |
Art Works. British and German Contemporary Works from the Collection 1960-2000, Deutsche Bank, London 20th Century British Art, James Hyman Fine Art, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London New Commissions, New Art Centre Sculpture Park, Roche Court, Wiltshire |
| 2000 |
Modern art despite Modernism, Museum of Modern Art New York Recent Portrait Commissions, National Portrait Gallery, London Encounters: New Art from Old, The National Gallery, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London The Landscape Revisited, (Le Brun, Hodgkin, Bartlett) The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Le Brun, Campbell, Oulton, Davies, Raab Galerie, Berlin Anatomy of Melancholy, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Bronze: an exhibition of contemporary sculpture, Holland Park, London Painting and Patronage, Faisaliah Building, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Deutsche Bank, London Assig, Kirkeby, Le Brun, Plensa, Tal-Coat, Galerie Vidal Saint-Phalle, Paris Painting, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent, Belgium New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Wiltshire |
| 1999 | Into the Light: Photographic Printing Out of the Darkroom The Octagon Galleries, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath Contemporary British Landscape, Flowers East, London Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Light of the World, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh ’45-99 A Personal View of British Painting and Sculpture, selected by Bryan Robertson Kettles Yard Cambridge, travelling to: City Art Gallery, Leicester |
| 1998 | Isn’t it too early for the eighties yet?, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Malmö, Sweden |
| 1997 |
Christopher Le Brun, Ludwig Vandevelde: Recent Work, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 1996 |
Christopher Le Brun, Piero Pizzi Cannella, Jaume Plensa, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris The East Wing Collection of Contemporary Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London A Century of European Prints, Marlborough Graphics, London Recent Publications, Marlborough Graphics, London |
| 1995 |
Dialogue with De Kooning, Royal College of Art, London An American Passion, The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D. Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting , McLellan Galleries, Glasgow and to Royal College of Art, London Impressions of Nature, Museum of Modern Art, New York Art Works: The Paine Webber Collection of Contemporary Masters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, tour to Detroit, Boston, Minneapolis, San Diego and Miami Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven; McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1994 | Accrochage, Marlborough Fine Art, London Extremes Meet, Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent Le Brun, Campbell, Oulton, Marlborough Gallery Inc, New York |
| 1993 | Mixed Exhibition, February, Marlborough Fine Art, London De Chirico et ses Conséquences Post-Métaphysiques, Artcurial, Paris Modern Graphic Art in Britain, British Museum, London Painters as Printmakers, Art Space Gallery, London Drawing on these Shores, Harris Museum, Preston and touring UK Contemporary Prints, Recent Gifts to the Collection, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Des Dessins, Centre Scolaire et Sportif des Deux Thielles le Landeron; Kunstsammlung Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (selected by Martin Disler) |
| 1991 | Melankoli: Nordisk Romantisk Malerie, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus |
| 1990 | The Reconsecration of Abstraction, Thaddeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg The Art of Drawing, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council exhibition in Japan; travelled to Setegaya Museum Fukuoka Museum, Nagoya, City Art Museum, Tochiga Museum of Fine Arts, Hyogo Museum of Modern Art and Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 1989 | The School of London, Works on paper, Odette Gilbert Gallery, London Singular Visions, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick; Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London The Forces of Nature, Manchester City Art Gallery; Harris Museum and Art Gallery Preston |
| 1988 | Artists in National Parks, V&A Museum, London and tour The British Picture, L.A. Louver, Venice, California The Romantic Tradition, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; El Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid Collaborations in Monotype, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara; Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Cleveland Museum of Art Les Années 80: A la surface de la Peinture, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac R.O.S.C. ‘88, The Guinness Hop Store, Dublin An Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R.Weisman Art Foundation, Bridge Centre for Contemporary Art, El Paso & tour The New British Painting, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati travelled to Chicago and North Carolina |
| 1987-88 | Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art & tour |
| 1987 | The Golden Thread, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980’s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, travelling to: Mucsarnok, Budapest; National Gallery, Prague and Zacheta, Warsaw Paintings & Monotypes, (Le Brun, Oulton, Walker), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art London/Berlin, Ingrid Raab Gallery, London Malerei in Europa II, Karl Pfefferle Gallery, Munich Introducing With Pleasure: Selections from the Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, touring to: Brighton, Plymouth, Rochester, Stockport & Durham (selected by Kate Adie) Art Brittiskt 1980-tal , Liljevalchs Art Museum, Stockholm Britannia - Paintings and Sculptures from the 1980’s, Sara Hildén Museum, Tampere, Finland Cries and Whispers - New Works from the British Council Collection, touring Australia and New Zealand Land: Sea: Air, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury College of Art and Design; Djangoly Gallery, Nottingham University Viewpoint - British Art of the 1980’s, The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels Prints, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York Myth and Mystery, Maloney Gallery, Santa Monica Prints from the Collection, Tate Gallery, London |
| 1986 | Forty Years of Modern Art, Tate Gallery, London Second Sight - Biennale IV, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Matière Première, CAC Corbeil, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Calais and Galerie Municipale d’Art Contemporain Saint-Priest Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London Tradition and Innovation, Harmony Hill Arts Centre, Lisburn, Northern Ireland Twelve British Artists, Künstlerhaus, Vienna American/European Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California Forty Works on Paper, Ingrid Raab Gallery, London |
| 1985 | Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The British Show, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, touring to - Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne; New Zealand National Gallery, Wellington Nouvelle Paris Biennale, Paris Romanticism and Primitivism in Art, Lowenadler Gallery, New York Modern Landscape, Sunderland Arts Centre |
| 1984 |
Horses in 20th Century Art, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London Phase II, Stadmuseum, Graz One City a Patron, Southampton City Art Gallery; touring to Glasgow, Dundee, Perth, Ayr and Edinburgh Il Riso del Universo, San Giovanni Valdarno, Florence Arte allo Specchio, Venice Biennale An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York Sperone Westwater, New York Currents, I.C.A., Boston Eine misslungene Ausstellung, Galerie Tanit, Munich (selected by Gerhard Merz) Dessins, Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris The Image as Catalyst, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Artists Design for Dance, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
| 1983 | The Granada Collection - Recent British Paintings and Drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |
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Tema Celeste, Museo Civico d’Arte Contemporanea, Gibellina, Sicily La Forma e L’Informe, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna New Art, Tate Gallery, London |
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| 1982-83 | Myth, Bonlow Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Vision in Disbelief, Sydney Biennale |
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Mythe, Drame, Tragédie, Musée d’Art Moderne, Sainte-Étienne Aperto ‘82, Venice Biennale Zeitgeist, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| 1981-82 | Thirteen British Artists - An Exhibition about painting, Neue Galerie- Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; touring to - Kunstverein Mannheim; Kunstverein Braunschweig; Bündner Kunstverein, Switzerland |
| 1981 | Enciclopedia, Galleria Civica, Modena Fragments against Ruins, Arts Council Exhibition, Midland Group Exhibition and tour XIII Festival international de la Peinture 1981, Cagnes-sur-Mer |
| 1980-81 | John Moores Exhibition XII, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (prize winner) |
| 1980 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Nuova Immagine, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan |
| 1979 | Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Summer Show III, Serpentine Gallery, London The Craft of Art: Peter Moores Exhibition VI, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 1978 | John Moores Exhibition XI, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (prize winner) |
| 1977 | London Group, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 1975 | London Group, Camden Arts Centre, London |