CV
EDUCATION
1966
Born 8 July, Kent
1984-85
Northwich College of Art and Design, Cheshire
1985-88
Goldsmiths College of Art, London (B.A. Fine Art)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Colour Explosion, Haas & Gschwandtner, Salzburg
2020
Chromatic, Cristea Roberts, London
NEW WORK: Ian Davenport, Waddington Custot, online exhibition
Sequence, Kasmin Gallery, New York
2019
Synesthesia, Luca Tommasi, Milan
2018
New Works on Paper, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Horizons, Dallas Contemporary, Texas
Colourscapes, Waddington Custot, London
2017–18
Cascade, Custot Gallery, Dubai
2017
Melismatic, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2016
Cadence, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
Galleria Tega, Milan
Doubletake, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2015
Pace Prints, New York (prints)
Dan Galeria, São Paulo
Galerie Flore, Brussels
Melismatic, Galerie Xippas, Geneva
2013
Colorfall, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2012
Between the Lines, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich
Reflex, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2011
Pavillion des Artes et du Design, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, and Galerie Hopkins, Paris
Quick Slow Quick Quick Slow, Waddington Custot Galleries, London
Prismatic, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2010
allerArt Bludenz, Austria
Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
2009
Fabstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Puddle Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London
2008
Poured Lines, Waddington Galleries, London
Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea
Ian Davenport & The Simpsons, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2006
Ovals Arches Lines, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
2005
Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
Galerie Xippas, Paris
2004
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
2003
Waddington Galleries, London
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2001
The Box Associati, Turin
Galerie Xippas, Paris
Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
2000
Waddington Galleries, London
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
1999
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
1998
Galerie Xippas, Paris
1997
Galerie Limmer, Cologne
Galleria Moncada, Rome
1996
Statements, Waddington Galleries, Art 27 ’96, Basel
Ridinghouse Editions, London
Waddington Galleries, London
1994
Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1993
Waddington Galleries, London
1992
Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Galerie Limmer, Freiburg, Germany
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1990
Waddington Galleries, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Crazy, Chiostro Del Bramante, Rome
2021
Artists of the Gallery - Christmas Edition, Gallery Andres Thalmann, Zurich
British Abstraction, Gazelli Art House, London
Colourspace, Mucciaccia Gallery, Rome
2020
Momentum, Museum Voorlinden, Netherlands
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Ian Davenport and Peter Monaghan, Gormleys Fine Art, Dublin
Summer Exhibition, Cristea Roberts, London
Colour in Motion, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge
Best of British - Modern and Contemporary Masterpieces, Private and Public, Jersey
we are here!, Galerie Haas & Gschwandtner, Salzburg
2019
The Interaction of Colour, Cristea Roberts, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2018
Scorribanda, Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna, Rome
A misura d’uomo: Tribute to Leonardo, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Line, Form and Colour - Works from the Berardo Collection, Museu Coleçao Berardo, Lisbon
2017
Pearls, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
All Over, Galeries des Galeries, Galeries Lafayette, Paris
The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery Dubai
Colour Is, Waddington Custot, London
2016
Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Pool, The Studio Building, London
The World Meets Here, Custot Gallery Dubai
2015
Right Now!, Mission Gallery, Swansea
British Artists, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich
At First Light, Luca Tommasi: Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Black Paintings, Charlie Smith, London
Autumn Group Show, Waddington Custot.London
2014
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2013–14
Hidden in Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Collection, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
2013
Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Linear Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Once upon a time and what a very good time it was…, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2012
Means Without Ends, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Sweethearts, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
The Materiality of Paint, The Fine Art Society, London
Duchamp and Cage: 100 Years Later, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk
Route 66: Ian Davenport / Alberto Di Fabio, Luca Tommasi, Monza
2011–12
Editions & Acquisitions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
UK and US Contemporary Artists, Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid
2011
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam
Lineage, Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh
Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2010–11
John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010
Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2010
The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Pictures on Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig from the Daimler Art Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Ian Davenport, Mark Francis, Peter Halley and Dan Walsh: Abstract Vision Now, Art + Art Gallery, Moscow
Derek Jarman Building, University of Kent, Canterbury (prints)
Art – curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Haas and Fuchs, Berlin
Save Us, Macclesfield Visual Arts Festival
John Moores Prize Paintings in Korea, Seongnam Art Centre, Korea
Abstraction and Structure, with paintings by Ian Davenport, Katharina Grosse, Joanne Greenbaum, Frank Nitsche, Albrecht Schnider, Esther Stocker, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt
Paintings in Hospitals: Colouring in the Clinical, Menier Gallery, London
Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
Summer Exhibition, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Process/Abstraction, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
CREAM (Damien Hirst & Contemporaries), KIASMA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
FAST FORWARD British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Espaço David Ford – Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Pinheiros, Brazil
2009
Contemporary Prints: Including Lichtenstein,
Davenport, Opie, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Northern Print Biennale, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne (prints)
Setting the Pattern, Koraalberg Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Ian Davenport Michael Craig-Martin Julian Opie: Múltiple, Galeria Estiarte, Madrid
2008
Blitzkrieg Bop, Man&Eve Gallery, London
20 at The Hospital Club, The Hospital Club Gallery, London
Weight Watchers, Galerie Xippas, Paris
New Gallery Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
New Contemporary Art Displays, Tate Britain, London
Cover Versions, Ermenegildo Zegna, Milan (organized by Wallpaper magazine)
2007
Painting in the Noughties, Regional Cultural Arts Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London
Turner Prize A Retrospective 1984–2006, Tate Britain, London
New Space New Work, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
Between the Lines, Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea (prints)
A Summer Selection, Crane Kalman Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006–2008
Drawing Breath, The Jerwood Drawing Prize – Special Exhibition, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2006–2007
You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference (Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition), Harris
Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Lowry, Salford; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
2006
Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London, Bristol’s City Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Artists + Alchemists, Sherborne House, Sherborne, Dorset
Compilation 2, Rocket Gallery, London
How to Improve the World: British Art 1946–2006, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Concrete Matters, Nieuwe Vide Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Abstract Painting and the University of Warwick Art Collection, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Warwick
Monochromed, The Fine Art Society, London
Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
“The hardest thing to draw is a kiss.” Wimbledon School of Art, London (curated by David Austen)
Compilation 3, Rocket Gallery, London
2005
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler
Contemporary, Berlin
Painting : London, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice
Ian Davenport, Kaoru Tsunoda, Rachmaninoff’s, London
Elements of Abstraction, Southampton City Art Gallery
2004
Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
Other Times: Contemporary British Art, City Gallery, Prague (in association with the British Council)
Post Impact, Xippas Gallery, Athens
John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
2003
Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britain, London
Blanc en Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris
Exodus: between promise and fulfilment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Circular, Rocket Gallery, London
Prints Published by the Alan Cristea Gallery, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
On, Xippas Gallery, Athens
2002
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Project Space, London (sponsored by Pizza Express)
Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galerie No Code, Bologna
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London
Peintures – contrainte ou recette, Galerie du Cloître, Rennes (organised by L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes)
Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
John Moores 22, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002)
Jerwood Drawing Prize, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham; touring to other UK venues including Jerwood Space, London
Berlin/London/Minimal, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin
New Commissions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Colour – A Life of Its Own, Mücsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
2001
Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London; touring to Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
UBS Warburg Exhibition, UBS Warburg at Planit Arches, London
2000
Surface, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland
Fact & Value, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Profiles of Young European Painting, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy
1999
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A Line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London
John Moores Liverpool 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Now Showing II, Houldsworth Fine Art, London
21 Years of Spacex, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1998
Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London
Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery
Roberto Caracciolo, Ian Davenport, Galleria Moncada, Rome
1997
Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and Fiona Rae, Waddington Galleries, London
Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
1996–98
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1996–97
Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1996
Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
50 Jahre Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London
1995–96
Real Art – A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery; touring to Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium; Leeds City Art Gallery
1995
From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London
30 Years of Northern Young Contemporaries,
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1994
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London
Summer 94, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
British Painting 1988–1994: a selection from stock, Richard Salmon Ltd, London
1992–97
New Voices: recent paintings from the British Council collection, British Council exhibition: touring to Centre de Conferences Albert Borschette, Brussels; EEC Presidency Exhibition, Brussels; Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg; Istanbul Greater City Municipality Taksim Art Gallery; Ankara State Fine Arts Gallery; Izfas Gallery, Izmir, Turkey; Santa Monica Contemporary Art Centre, Barcelona; Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain; Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid; Veronicas: Sala de Exposiciones, Murcia, Spain; Pescaderia Vieja: Sala de Arte, Jerez, Spain; Kulturhistorisches Museum, Magdeburg, Germany; National Theatre Galleries, Bucharest, Romania; Art Halls of the Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Athens, Athens; Cultural Centre for the National Bank of Greece, Thessaloniki; The Russian Museum, St Petersburg; Kremlin Museum, Nizhnii Novgorod, Russia; Mirbachov Palace, Bratislava, Slovakia; Cultural Centre for the National Bank, Thessaloniki, Greece; The House of the Black Madonna, Czech Museum of Fine Arts, Prague; Museum of Modern Art, Skopje, Macedonia
1992
The Vertical Flatbed Picture Plane – En Valise, Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
L’Attico, Fabio Sargentini, Rome
Gifts to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society
Purchases, Camden Arts Centre, London
1991–92
Confrontaciones: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid (in collaboration with the British Council)
1991
British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, London
Metropolis Internationale Kunstausstellung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London
Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London
New Displays, Tate Gallery, London
Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
1990–91
Carnet de Voyages - 1, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
1990
The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; touring to Leeds City Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London
Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York
1989
Current, Swansea Arts Workshop (Old Seamen’s Chapel), Swansea
West Norwood 1, West Norwood Railway Arches
(7, 8, 9), London
1988
Freeze, Surrey Docks, London
Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London
1985
Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
COMMISSIONS
2019
Creates digital art window display, covering 36 screens on the facade of Flannels department store, Oxford St, London
Collaborates with Dior to design artworks and a monumental three-storey staircase commission for their flagship store in Toronto, Canada
2017
Designed limited edition watch, Wide Acres of Time, in collaboration with Swiss watchmaker Swatch
Unveils Giardini Colourfall, a 48 metre masterpiece on display at The Swatch Pavilion for the duration of the 57th Venice Biennale.
2016
Commissioned by Jelmoli to cover the façade of leading Swiss department store with a large piece of public pop-up art during renovations, 11 February–May, Zurich, Switzerland
Commissioned by South London Gallery to create a series of hand-painted artist plates, with the porcelain manufacturer Meissen
Collaborates with Dior to design a Dior bag and matching accessories; launched at Art Basel Miami beach in November
2014
First major outdoor commission in South East Asia,Colourcade: HANA 2014, HANA Building, Singapore
A comprehensive monograph of the artist’s work is commissioned by Thames & Hudson, with texts by Martin Filler, Michael Bracewell and Damien Hirst
2007
Commissioned by The New York Times to create an American Flag based on an environmentally friendly theme, to be reproduced in their issue published on 15 April
Poured Lines: QUBE Building, Tottenham Court Road, London (commissioned by Derwent London)
2006
Poured Lines: Southwark Street, Southwark Western Bridge, London (commissioned by Southwark Council and Land Securities)
Commissioned by Wallpaper magazine to create a limited-edition cover for their September issue as part of their 10th-anniversary series
2004
Everything, Maths and Science Building, University of Warwick, commissioned by the university through its involvement in the Contemporary Art Society’s lottery-funded special collections project
1997
Banque Paribas, London (site-specific installation)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Berardo Collection Museum, Lisbon
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul
British Council
British Museum, London
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Contemporary Art Society
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
FNAC Fonds National d’art contemporain
The Government Art Collection (Department for Culture Media and Sport)
Grosvenor Museum, Cheshire
Jerwood Space, London
Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Nuffield College, Oxford University
Paintings in Hospitals
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, United States
Southampton City Art Gallery
Tate, London
Unilever, London
University of Kent, Canterbury
Museum Voorlinden, Netherlands
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
PRIZES
2010
Between April and May, completes an artists in residence programme at The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut, USA
2002
Awarded first prize Prospects (sponsored by Pizza Express), Essor Project Space, London
2000
Prizewinner Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy
1999
Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21
1991
Nominated for Turner Prize