B.1951
Tony Bevan is widely acclaimed as one of the leading figurative painters at work today, following in the footsteps of School of London artists such as Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon in their reinvention of form. His focus on the vulnerability of the human body and frequent use of his own body in his painting also allies him to artists such as Georg Baselitz, Philip Guston and Arnulf Rainer.
In recent years he has also worked on abstracted architectural subjects such as corridors, rafters and stacked furniture which often possess a disturbing, uncomfortable presence.
James Hyman Fine Art holds an inventory of paintings by Tony Bevan from the 1980s onwards. Please contact the gallery for available works.
Tony Bevan
1951
Born
1968-71
Bradford School of Art .
1971-74
Goldsmiths' College, London.
1974-76
Slade School of Fine Art, London.
Lives and works in London
Selected solo exhibitions
2008
Tony Bevan: New Paintings, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
2007
Tony Bevan: Recent Paintings, LA Louver, Venice, California, USA
Tony Bevan: Monotypes, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2006
Tony Bevan: Table Top Paintings, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris, France
Bevan: Paintings and Works on Paper 1982-2005, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Tony Bevan: Paintings 1987-2005, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, UK
Tony Bevan, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
2005
Tony Bevan: Paintings 1994-2005, Michel Soskine Inc, Madrid, Spain
Tony Bevan: A Retrospective, IVAM (Institut Valencia d'Art Modern), Valencia, Spain
2004
Tony Bevan, Liverpool Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Tony Bevan, Niagara Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Bevan - Drawings, Albion Gallery, London
2003
Tony Bevan - Recent Work, Galerie Vidal-Saint Phalle, Paris, France
Tony Bevan, Works on Paper, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tony Bevan: Paintings 2000-2003, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, LondonBevan: Works from Depford, Paintings and Drawings 1982-2002, Abbott Hall Art Gallery, Cumbria, UK
Tony Bevan, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
Tony Bevan: Recent Paintings, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
2002
Tony Bevan: Works on Paper, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London.
Tony Bevan, Robert Miller Gallery, New York.
Tony Bevan : The Complete Prints Etchings, drypoints, linocuts and woodcuts 1969-2002, James Hyman Fine Art, London
2000
Tony Bevan, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London
1999
Tony Bevan, Paintings and Drawings, L.A. Louver, Inc., Los Angeles.
Tony Bevan, Paintings and Drawings, Abbot Hall Gallery, Cumbria, UK.
Tony Bevan, Neue Bilder, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
1998
Tony Bevan, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London.
Tony Bevan: Drawings and Paintings on Paper, Matt's Gallery, London
1997
Tony Bevan Paintings of the 80s & 90s, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen Cottbus, Germany.
1996
Tony Bevan Neue Bilder, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
Bevan, Theo Waddington Fine Art, London
Tony Bevan, Matt's Gallery, London
1995
Tony Bevan Kopf Bilder, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich,
Bevan Recent Paintings, L.A. Louver, Inc., Los Angeles,
1993
Tony Bevan: New Paintings and Prints, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
Bevan: Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London.
Meeting and Related Works, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Louver Gallery, New York.
1992
The Meeting and Other Recent Paintings, L.A. Louver, Inc., Los Angeles.
1991
Tony Bevan, Louver Gallery, New York.
Bevan, Galerie Ekle Zink, Baden-Baden, Germany.
1990
Tony Bevan Neue Bilder, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
Tony Bevan, Kunstverein Lingen, Germany.
1989
Tony Bevan, Paintings, L.A. Louver, Inc., Los Angeles.
1988
Tony Bevan, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.
Bevan, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
Tony Bevan: Neue Bilder, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
1987-88
Tony Bevan - Painting 1980-87, ICA, London; Orchard, Derry; Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; Cartwright Hall, Bradford.
1986
Tony Bevan, Matt's Gallery, London.
Tony Bevan: Neue Bilder, Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany
1984
Tony Bevan, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, Wales
Tony Bevan, Bilder' Galerie Wittenbrink, Regensburg, Germany
1983
Tony Bevan, Portraits and Emblems, Galeria Akumultory 2 Poznan, Poland
1981
Tony Bevan, Matt's Gallery, London
1976
Robert Self Gallery, London
Caius College Gallery, Cambridge
Selected group exhibitions
2008
Violence and Sensation. Francis Bacon and the Remaking of Appearence, James Hyman Gallery, London
2007
Then and Now. Works on Paper by Tony Bevan, Glenys Johnson and Hughie O'Donoghue, James Hyman Gallery, London
2006
Building Sites - Auerbach, Bevan, Chamberlain, Johnson, James Hyman Gallery, London
Portraits, James Hyman Gallery, London
2004
Multiple Selves: Philip Akkerman, Tony Bevan, Dryden Goodwin, Peter Harris, James Hyman Gallery, London
2003
From Life: Andrews, Auerbach, Bevan, Bomberg, Coldstream, Kossoff, Sickert, Uglow, James Hyman Gallery, London
1985
The Honest Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London.
Emblems, Riverside Studios, London.
Selected Collections
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, UK
Arts Council, London, UK
Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlung, Munich, Germany
Birmingham Museum of Art . Birmingham, UK
British Council, London UK
British Museum, London, UK
Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
Greater London Arts Association, London, UK
Institute Valencia d' Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
John Creasey Collection, Salisbury, UK
Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Modern Art Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California, USA
Royal Academy Collection, London
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon, UK
Tate Gallery, London
Theo Wormland Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Toledo Museum, Ohio, USA
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK
Würth Museum, La Rioja, Spain
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut, USA
Publications
Tony Bevan: Paintings 1980-87 (exh. cat., essay M. Cullingworth, London, ICA, 1987)
Meeting: Tony Bevan (exh. cat., essay P. Wollen, London, Whitechapel A.G., 1993)
Bevan (exh. cat., essay M. Livingstone, London, Michael Hue-Williams F.A., 1998)
Bevan Paintings and Drawings (exh. cat., essay R. Cork, London, Michael Hue-Williams F.A., 2000)