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Biography |
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1910 |
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Born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands |
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1918 |
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Moved to England |
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1927 - 1928 |
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Winter in London, later attended Accademia Rosso in Florence |
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1928 - 1931 |
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Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London |
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1933 |
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Member of the London Group |
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1933 - 1936 |
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Leading Member of the Objective Abstraction Group |
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1943 - 1944 |
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Official War Artist |
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1944 |
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Elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of Arts, February 29 |
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1948 - 1957 |
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Professor of Painting at the Royal College of Art, London |
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1954 - 1957 |
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Elected Royal Academician, January 9 |
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1957 |
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Resigned from the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy of Arts; from then on spent much time in France, working in Paris and, from 1960, at the Domaine de St Estève, near Lambesc, Provence |
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1960s |
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Worked in France, Canada and New York; studio in New York, 1968-71 |
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1963 - 1968 |
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Joint editor with Anne Dunn, Sonia Orwell and John Ashbery of the quartely review Art and Literature |
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1979 |
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Re-elected to the Royal Academy, July 31 |
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1980 - 1984 |
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Visiting Professor Slade School of Fine Art, London |
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1986 |
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Elected Senior Royal Academician, October 1 |
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1979 - 1990 |
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Fellow of University College, London |
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1990 |
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Died November 6 |
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Exhibitions |
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2002 |
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London, Faggionato Fine Arts, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: Portraits' |
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1999 |
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London, Faggionato Fine Arts, 'Still Lifes from the Seventies' |
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1998 |
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New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: the Late Paintings' |
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1989 |
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Houston, Meredith Long Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan' |
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1989 |
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London, Karsten Schubert, 'Rodrigo Moynihan:Drawings 1934-1985' |
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1989 |
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Los Angeles, Michael Kohn Gallery, '300 Years of Still Life' |
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1987 - 1988 |
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New York, Sherry French Gallery, 'Frivolity and Morality: the Tradition of Vanitas in Contemporary Painting'; travelled to New Canaan, Connecticut, Silvermine Guild of Artists / Oceanville, New Jersey, The Noyes Museum / Knoxville, Tennessee, Knoxville Museum / Tucson, Arizona Museum of Art / Valparaiso, Indiana, Valparaiso University Museum of Art / Salt Lake City, University of Utah Museum of Art / Santa Clara, California, Triton Museum of Art / Saratoga Springs, New York, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College Gallery |
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1988 |
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London, David Grob Gallery, 'Recent Paintings by Rodrigo Moynihan' |
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1987 |
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Saratoga Springs, New York, Schick Art Gallery, 'Self-Portraits: the Message, the Material'; travelled to Hempstead, New York, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University |
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1987 |
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Houston, Meredith Long Gallery, 'American Still Life 1880 - 1987' |
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1987 |
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Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Rahr-West Art Museum, 'Still Life' |
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1985 - 1986 |
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New York, Studio of Drawing, 'Portraits 1986' |
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1986 |
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New York, Sherry French Gallery, 'Still Life: Life that is Still' |
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1986 |
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New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan' |
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1985 |
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Houston, Meredith Long Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan' |
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1985 |
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New York, One Penn Plaza, 'Contemporary American Still Life' |
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1985 |
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Washington, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 'Representation Abroad' |
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1984 |
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New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 'Summer Group Show' |
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1984 |
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London, Tate Gallery, 'The Hard-Won Image: Traditional Method and Subject in Recent British Art' |
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1984 |
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Paris, Galerie Claude Bernard, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: Peintures' |
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1983 |
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New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan' |
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1982 |
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London, Fisher Fine Art, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: Recent Paintings' |
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1982 |
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London, Michael Parkin Gallery, 'Muriel Belcher Memorial Exhibition' |
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1982 |
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London, 12 Duke Street, '20th Century Paintings' |
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1982 |
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New Orleans, Contemporary Art Centre, 'Still Life Interiors' |
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1981 |
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Cambridge, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, 'Poet’s Choice' |
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1980 |
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New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: Paintings' |
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1978 - 1979 |
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London, Royal Academy of Arts, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: A Retrospective Exhibition' travelled to Bradford, City Art Gallery and Museum / Sheffield, Mappin Art Gallery / Leicester, Leicestershire Museum and Art Gallery |
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1979 |
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London, Royal Academy of Art, 'Summer Exhibition' |
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1973 |
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London, Fischer Fine Art, 'Rodrigo Moynihan' |
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1970 |
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New York, John Bernard Myers Gallery |
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1968 |
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New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery |
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1967 |
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London, Hanover Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan Paintings' |
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1966 |
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New York, Egan Gallery |
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1963 |
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London, Hanover Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: Exhibition of Paintings' |
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1961 |
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London, Redfern Gallery |
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1958 |
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London, Redfern Gallery |
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1955 |
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London, Leicester Galleries, 'After the Conference (The Penguin Editors) and Other Recent Pictures' |
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1947 |
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London, Redfern Gallery |
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1944 |
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London, Redfern Gallery |
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1940 |
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London, Redfern Gallery, 'Rodrigo Moynihan: Exhibition of Paintings' |
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