The Paragon Press

Bill Woodrow

(British, b. 1948)

Bill Woodrow

The Beekeeper, 2000

Biography

Timeline
Exhibitions

Timeline

1948: Born near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, UK
1967 - 1968: Winchester School of Art, Winchester
1968 - 1971: St. Martin's School of Art, London
1971 - 1972: Chelsea School of Art, London
1988: Anne Gerber Award, Seattle Museum of Art, USA
: Lives and works in London

Exhibitions

2012: Revelator, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Alice in Wonderland, MART, Rovereto, Italy; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
: Postmodernismo: Stile e Sovversione 1970-1990, MART, Rovereto, Italy
2011 - 2012: Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool
: Camulodunum, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
: Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990, Victoria & Albert Museum London
2011: United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 60’s and 70’s, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
: Sculptures 1981–1988, Waddington Custot Galleries, London (solo)
: Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London
: The Future Demand your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Bottega Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
: What Happens if...?, Storey Gallery, Lancaster
: From Floor to Sky, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London
: British Council Collection: Fall Out: War and Conflict, Whitechapel Gallery, London
: Le Meilleur des Mondes, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
: Das Fundament der Kunst, Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, Bremen, Germany
2010: Forms of Reason, Lullin + Ferrari, with Mamiko Otsubo and Isabel Nolan
: Sculpture after 1960, Tate Britain, London
: Passports: In viaggio con l’arte, Padiglione d’Arte contremporanea, Milan, Italy
: Art in Public Places, Henry Moore Institute/Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, England
: British Council Collection: The Third Dimension, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2009: Selected Sculpture and Drawings, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium (solo)
: Im Blick des Sammlers, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
: DLA Piper Series: This is Scuplture, Tate Liverpool
: Birdland, Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, England
2008: Sculptures and Drawings, Lullin + Ferrari, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
: Oscillator, New Sculpture and Painting, Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
: On the Rocks, shared sculptures with Richard Deacon, Bloomberg SPACE, London
: Punk. No one is Innocent, Kunsthalle Vienna
: British Sculptors’ Drawings: Moore to Gormley, British Museum, London
: Alice, son miroir et ses merveilles, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
: St Martin’s Sculpture Department 1966-71, Tate Britain, London
2007: Part 2: Drawings from the nineties, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Knokke
: Part 1: New drawings, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Knokke
: Lead Astray, shared sculptures with Richard Deacon, Château Musée, Dieppe, France
: Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London
: Drawing from Turner, Tate Britain, London
: Domestic Incidents, Tate Modern, London
: Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
2006: Eldorado, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2005: Lead Astray, shared sculptures with Richard Deacon, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield
: Raised Awareness, Tate Modern, London
: In Print: Prints from the Paragon Press, National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2004: Turning Points: 20th Century British Sculpture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
2003: Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France
2002: Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
: The Beekeeper, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (solo)
: Natural History, Yongsan Family Park, Seoul, Korea (permanent)
: Field Day, Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2001: The Beekeeper, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (solo)
2000: Regardless of History, Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London (solo)
: Monographic Room, Tate Modern, London (solo)
1999: Forjar el Espacio, Ivam Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
: Forjar el Espacio, Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France
1998: Toxic Drawings, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Brussels Stalingradlaan
: Forjar el Espacio, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
: About this Axis, Drawings 1990-1995, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland (solo)
: Sculptures 1981-1997, Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (solo)
: In awe of the pawmbroker, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Brussels Stalingradlaan
: Sculptures, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Brussels Bosquet
1997: Sexta Bienal de la Habana, Havana, Cuba
1996: Un Siècle de Sculpture Anglaise, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
1995: From Picasso to Woodrow: Recently Acquired Prints and Portfolios, Tate Gallery, London
1994: Arte Amazonas, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
: Drawings, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Brussels Stalingradlaan
1993: Arte Amazonas, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin; Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany
: ’Only the Lonely’ and other Shared Sculptures with Richard Deacon, Chisenhale Gallery, London (solo)
1992: The little Saints - small bronzes and watercolors on paper, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Knokke
: Sculptures, Sabine Wachters Fine Arts Brussels Bosquet
1991: Sculpture, XXI Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (solo)
1989: Point of Entry, Imperial War Museum, London (solo)
: Eye of the Needle, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France (solo)
1988: Christmas Tree, Tate Gallery, London (solo)
: Sculpture, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA (solo)
1987: Sculpture, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Ship of Fools’, Discovery of Time, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA (permanent) (solo)
: Currents, I.C.A., Boston, MA, USA (solo)
1985: culpture, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1972: Sculpture, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)