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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi    (British, 1924-2005)

 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi - Great Ormand St (Sculptures) h: 17 x w: 9 x d: 9 in / h: 43.2 x w: 22.9 x d: 22.9 cm
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Great Ormand St
 
 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi - Newton Figure (Sculptures) h: 61 x w: 50.8 cm / h: 24 x w: 20 in
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
Newton Figure 1989
 
 

Biography
1924 Born Leith, Scotland
1943 Edinburgh College of Art
1944 - 1947 Slade School of Art, London
1947 - 1950 Taught textile design at Central School of Art, London
1953 British Critics Prize
1955 - 1958 Taught sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art, London
1960 David E Bright Foundation award for best sculptor under 45, given at 30th Venice Biennale
1961 Watson F Blair prize by jury of 64th Annual American Exhibition in Chicago
1960 - 1962 Visiting professor on sculpture and basic design at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
1967 Purchase prize at International Sculpture Exhibition at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
1967 First prize for Sculpture at Carnegie International Exhibition for Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Pittsburgh
1968 Visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley
1968 Lecturer in Ceramics at Royal College of Art, London
1974 Berlin, guest of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm
1977 Professor in Ceramics at Fachhochschule, Cologne

Exhibitions
2007 Physiognomy, Flowers Central, London
2007 Moonstrip Empire News Portfolio, Flowers Central
2006 Collage & Construction, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
2005 Heads, Flowers Graphics, London
2005 Sculpture from the 1960s, Flowers Central, London
2005 Projects: 1975 – 2000, Flowers East, London
2004 Bunk!, Flowers Central, London
2004 Works on Paper and Collage, Flowers, New York
2004 Paolozzi at 80, Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2004 Bunk!, Flowers Central, London
2004 Works on Paper and Collage, Flowers, New York
2004 Paolozzi at 80, Dean Gallery, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
2000 Artificial Horizons and Eccentric Ladders, Flowers East Gallery, London
1988 Paolozzi Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London
1986 Eduardo Paolozzi Underground, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1984 Eduardo Paolozzi: Private Vision – Public Art, The Architectural Organization, London
1979 The Development of an Idea, Glasgow League of Artists, Glasgow, Scotland and touring to Crawford Centre, University of St Andrews, Scotland; Talbot Rice Arts Centre, University of Edinburgh
1975 Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition, London
1973 Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and touring
1971 Tate Gallery, London (Retrospective)
1968 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1960 30th Venice Biennale; retrospective in British Pavilion, then touring to Belgrade, Paris, Bochum, Brussels, Oslo, Denmark, Amsterdam, Baden-Baden and Tübingen
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