return to artnet.com
 search artnet
The White House Gallery Home Artists Exhibitions Inventory Gallery Info

Howard Hodgkin    (British, 1932)

 Howard Hodgkin - Gossip (Prints)
Howard Hodgkin
Gossip
 
 Howard Hodgkin - In a Public Garden (Prints) h: 24 x w: 28 cm / h: 9.4 x w: 11 in
Howard Hodgkin
In a Public Garden 1997-1998
 
 

Biography
1932 Born 6 August, London, England
1940 - 1943 Lived in the United States
1949 - 1950 Studied at the Camberwell School of Art, London
1950 - 1954 Studied at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham (under Clifford Ellis)
1955 Married Julia Lane, two sons
1954 - 1956 Taught at Charterhouse School, Surrey
1956 - 1966 Taught at Bath Academy, Corsham
1966 - 1972 Taught at Chelsea School of Art, London
1970 - 1976 Trustee of the Tate Gallery, London
1976/80 Awarded Second Prize at the John Moores exhibition
1976 - 1977 Artist-in-residence at Brasenose College, Oxford
1977 Appointed CBE (Commander of the British Empire)
1978 - 1985 Appointed Trustee of the National Gallery, London
1985 Awarded 1985 Turner Prize
1985 Winner of the Turner Prize
1988 Appointed Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford
1989 Appointed to The Committee, National Art Collections Fund
1992 Awarded Knighthood
1999 Appointed Honarary Fellow of the London Institute
2000 Appointed Honarary Doctorate of Letters, Oxford University
Howard Hodgkin is a British printmaker and painter, born in London. He studied at the Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art. He began exhibiting seriously at the age of 30. Hodgkin works in generally a small scale, often painting in a gestural style with flat colors. He often refers to memories and private experiences, but deliberately avoids the illustrational. Though his works are small and appear spontaneous, they are the result of a constant process of over-painting, sometimes extending over many years.

Hodgkin has also produced many prints, with a preference for screen-printing and lithography in his earlier works of the 60's and 70's. However, for his more recent work, Hodgkin has favored etchings and aquatint, as these provide a greater emphasis on texture. To further create a layering effect in his prints, Hodgkin sometimes hand-colors the image after printing.

In 1985, Hodgkin won the Turner Prize and took part in the Venice Biennale. He taught for some years at the Charterhouse School, then the Bath Academy of Art, and finally the Chelsea School of Art. He continues to exhibit frequently. The Tate Gallery in London has an impressive collection of his work.

Currently lives in London

Exhibitions
2007 Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbia
2006 Tate Britain, London
2005 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2005 Kunst Köln, white8, Villach
2003 Galerie Dagmar Aichholzer, Villach
2003 Print Retrospective, Alan Cristea Gallery, London - coincide with launch of Thames & Hudson print catalogue raisonné
2002 Pace Editions, New York
2002 Galerie Lutz & Thalmann Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2002 'The Galleries Show - Contemporary Art in London' Royal Academy, London
2001 Alan Cristea Gallery, London (graphics)
2001 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London (graphics)
2000 Anthony d'Offay, London
2000 'Encounters' National Gallery, London
1998 'Signature Pieces' Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1996 Hayward Gallery London
1995 - 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1995 - 1996 Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth
1995 Alan Cristea Gallery, London (graphics)
1995 Smith Andersen Gallery, California (graphics, curated by Carleen Keating)
1994 'Here and Now' Serpentine Gallery, London
1993 - 1994 M. Knoedler and Co. Inc, New York
1993 Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1993 'The Sixties Art Scene in London', Barbican Art Gallery, London
1992 'British Figurative Painting', Israel Museum
1991 Karsten Schubert, London (graphics)
1991 Brooke Alexan der Editions, New York
1991 Waddington Galleries, London (graphics)
1990 - 1991 Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
1990 - 1991 British Council exhibition toured to: Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes; Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
1990 - 1991 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1990 Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
1990 Reynolds/Minor Gallery, Richmond, Virginia; Ganz Gallery, Cambridge; Lumley-Cazalet, London (graphics)
1989 - 1990 British Council exhibition toured to: Spain, Morocco and Greece (graphics)
1989 The Joanne Chappell Gallery, San Francisco (graphics)
1989 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington D.C. (graphics)
1989 Gallery Ikeda-Bijutsu, Japan (graphics)
1988 Waddington Galleries, London
1988 M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York
1987 Waddington Galleries, London (graphics)
1987 'British Art in the 20th Century', Royal Academy, London
1986 'The Window in Twentieth-Century Art', Neuberger Museum, New York
1986 'Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-1985', Tate Gallery, London
1986 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1985 LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (graphics)
1985 Tate Gallery, London (graphics)
1985 'Made in India', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985 Whitechapel Art Gallery London
1984 - 1985 Phillips Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery and British Council exhibition toured to: British Pavilion; Venice Biennale; The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut; Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1984 M. Knoedler and Co. Inc., New York
1984 'An International Survey of Recent Paintings & Sculpture', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984 Venice Biennale
1983 Hayward Gallery London
1982 Bernard Jacobson, London (graphics)
1982 Tate Gallery, London
1982 'Aspects of British Art Today', Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, touring to Tochigi Perfectural Museum of Fine Art, Utsunomiya National Museum of Art, Osaka Fukuoka Art Museum Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
1981 - 1982 University of Queensland Art Museum and British Council exhibition toured throughout Australia (graphics)
1981 M. Knoedler and Co. Inc., New York
1981 Bernard Jacobson, Los Angeles (graphics)
1981 'A New Spirit in Painting', Royal Academy, London
1980 Bernard Jacobson, New York (graphics)
1979 'The Artist's Eye', National Gallery, London
1977 - 1979 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford exhibition toured throughout England (graphics)
1978 Riverside Studios, London (graphics); British Council exhibition toured to India, Malaysia and Colombia (graphics)
1977 'Hayward Annual', Hayward Gallery, London
1977 'British Artist of the Sixties from the collections of the Tate Gallery', Tate Gallery, London
1976 Arts Council exhibition toured to Museum of Modern Art; Oxford Serpentine Gallery, London; Turpike Gallery, Leigh Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1976 Waddington/Kasmin Galleries, London
1976 Tate Gallery, London (graphics)
1976 Museum of Modern Art Oxford
1975 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (graphics)
1974 'Tokyo Biennale - First International Biennale Exhibition of Figurative Paintings in Toyko', Shibuya Tokyo Department Store, touring to Hanshin Department Store, Osaka, Japan
1973 'Henry Moore to Gilbert and Geroge - Modern British Art from the Tate Gallery' Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1972 Waddington Galleries, London (graphics)
1971 Galerie Muller, Cologne
1970 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1970 'Contemporary British Art' The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, in collaboration with the British Council
1969 Kasmin Gallery, London
1967 Arthur Tooth and Sons, London
1967 'Paris, Biennale' Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1966 Serpentine Gallery London
1965 'Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme' Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1964 Arthur Tooth & Sons London
1963 'British Printing in the Sixties' Tate Gallery and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (organized by Contemporary Art Society)
©2007 artnet - The art world online. All rights reserved. artnet is a registered trademark of artnet Worldwide Corporation, New York, NY.