Sir Howard Hodgkin, Those...Plants, 1980

Sir Howard Hodgkin CBE was an English abstract painter and printmaker. Born in 1932 in London, Hodgkin was educated at the Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and later at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham. His paintings are generally small in scale, consciously conceived within the tradition of European easel painting. Hodgkin always endeavoured to craft the picture as an object, and from 1970 he worked not on canvas but on more robust wooden supports, such as drawing boards and door frames. His paintings are characterised by their bright colours and semi-abstract bold forms.

In 1984, Hodgkin represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, in 1985 he won the Turner Prize, and in 1992 he was knighted. His work has been exhibited worldwide, including retrospectives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and more recently at the Tate Gallery in London, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, and the Reina Sofia in Madrid. His work can be found in the collections of most major museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York; Tate in London; the Met; the British Museum in London; and the Carnegie Institute in Pennsylvania.

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Education

1948-50 Camberwell School of Art, London

1950-54 Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, Wiltshire

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1962 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London

1964 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London

1967 16 Recent Paintings, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London

1971 Gallerie Muller, Cologne, Germany

1975 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Dartington Hall, Devon

1976 Waddington Galleries, London

Forty-five Paintings, 1949-1975, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1984 Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York

1986 Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York

1988 Waddington Galleries, London

Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York

1990 Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes; Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Michael Werner's Gallery, Cologne, Germany

Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York

1992 Seven Small Pictures, The British School, Rome, Italy

1993 Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London

Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York

1997 Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich, Switzerland

1998 Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York

Haas & Fuchs Gallery, Berlin, Germany

1999 Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London

2001 Alan Cristea Gallery, London

Philadelphia Collects Howard Hodgkin, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2002 Large Paintings 1984-2002, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

2004 Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany

2005 Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland

2006 Howard Hodgkin Retrospective exhibition, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, tours to Tate Britain, London and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid Barbican Art Gallery, London Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal Victoria Art Gallery, Bath Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast Winchester Discovery Centre Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Manchester PM Gallery, Ealing, London

2007 Paintings 1992-2007, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

2010 Howard Hodgkin: Time and Place, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford; De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Howard Hodgkin: The Prints from the Collection 1987 - 2002, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

2012 Howard Hodgkin: Prints and Process, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

2013 Howard Hodgkin: Views, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, New York

2015 Made in Mumbai, CSMVS, Mumbai, India

Inspired by India: The Paintings by Howard Hodgkin, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Ontario

Howard Hodgkin: Arriving, New Art Centre, Salisbury

2017 Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends, National Portrait Gallery, London

Howard Hodgkin: Painting in India, The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK

Howard Hodgkin: India on Paper, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK

2022 Howard Hodgkin: Recollection, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

1962 Two Young figurative Artists, ICA, London

1964 London: the New Scene, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1972 Patrick Caulfield, Howard Hodgkin, Michael Moon, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France

1980 The Moon hangs in 'The Hayward Annual...Selected by John Hoyland', Hayward Gallery, London

1981 Knoedler's Gallery, New York, New York

A New Spirit in Painting, The Royal Academy, London

1982 Knoedler's Gallery, New York, New York

1984 XLI Venice Biennale 'Four Rooms', Arts Council of Great Britain, touring exhibition

1985 Prints 1977-1983, Tate Gallery, London

1986 Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London

1995-6 Paintings 1975-1995, Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth; the Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf and the Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield and Howard Hodgkin: Paintings from the 60s and 70s, Waddington Galleries, London

2000 Encounters, The National Gallery, London

2001 Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

2002 The Royal Academy, London

2008 Howard Hodgkin & Edgar Degas, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

2013 It's New / It's Now, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales

2014 Impressions: The Fine Art of Original Prints, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, New York

2016 People on Paper, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal

2017 Painting a Century, New Art Centre, Salisbury

Print Project Space: Gilliam Ayres, Antony Gormley, Howard Hodgkin and more, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London

2019 Some of the artists I have worked for, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK