1911-1975
Educated at the Slade (1929-31 and 1935-36), where he was awarded the Orpen Prize and the Slade Scholarship which was not taken up. He spent some time in Paris in the 1930s where he attended the Academie Ranson, where Roger Bissiere taught. His first one man exhibition was held at the Bloomsbury Gallery in 1936. He fought in World War II, taking part in the Dieppe Raid and was taken prisoner of war. He executed his first abstract in 1950 and in 1965 he moved to St Ives. In 1968 he was appointed C.B.E. He won first prize at the John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool in 1963 and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 1964.
Solo shows
2011
Roger Hilton - A Centenary Celebration - Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn (England)
2009
Roger Hilton: Late works and the Night Letters - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
2008
Roger Hilton - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
2006
Roger Hilton - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
Roger Hilton - The Late Gouaches - Jonathan Clark & Co, London (England)
Group shows
2010
Let Us Face the Future - British Art 1945-1968 - FundaciJoan Mir, Barcelona
There is No Limit to the Line - McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON Don't Look Back in Anger - Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London (England)
2009
John Moores Prizewinners 1957 - 2006 exhibition - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England)
Naomi Weaver - Flowers Galleries - Kingsland Road, London (England)
2008
Spaghetti a la aaart - a.antonopoulou.art, Athens
Songs of Love and hate - Ancient & Modern, London (England)
2007
A Selection of British, European and American Paintings and Sculpture - Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England)
Aspects of Modern British Art and recent ceramics by Jason Wason - Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
Spotlight on St Ives: From the Arts Council Collection - University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
Spotlight on St Ives - Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham Spa, Gloucestershire (England)
2006
60th Anniversary Show - Gimpel Fils, London (England)
2005
Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art - SCAG - Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
Fifty Years of British Landscape Painting - James Hyman Fine Art, London (England)
Only Make-Believe: Ways of Playing - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England)
Nine Abstract Artists - Osborne Samuel, London (England)
2004
Artists of the St Ives School, The essential image - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
Twentieth Century British Art - In association with Scolar Fine Art - Osborne Samuel, London (England)
2003
Pier Arts Centre Collection - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
2000
Drawing Distinctions - Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolours of the British Artists - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
1999
Linhas de Sombra - Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdig- FundaCalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1998
An Investment BankCorporate Collection - Early Modern Paintings from the Collection of ING Barings - University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
1997
A Ilha Do Tesouro/Treasure Island - Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdig- FundaCalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
1982
Small Works V: Fifth Anniversary Exhibition - University Gallery and Baring Wing - Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne
1959
documenta 2 - Documenta, Kassel
Selected public collections
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London