B.1937
David Hockney (b.1937) initially established his reputation in the early 1960s when he was acclaimed as one of the leading Pop artists. Since then he has divided much of his time between England and America, experimenting in a variety of media including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography and stage set design.
David Hockney
1937
Born in Bradford, England
1953 - 1957
Bradford College of Art
1959 - 1962
Royal College of Art, London (awarded the gold medal for painting)
1963 - 1967
Taught at the University of Iowa, Iowa City; University of Colorado, Boulder; in Los Angeles; at Berkeley
1967
Won first prize at the John Moores exhibition
1969
Visiting Professor at the Kunsthochschule Hamburg
1970
Retrospective show at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London
1997
Companion of Honour Award, London
2003
Lorenzo de Medici Lifetime Career Award, Florence
2004
The Rosa d'Oro Award, Sicily
Solo Exhibitions
2006
David Hockney: Portraits, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston & Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
David Hockney: Graphics and Drawings, The Andipa Gallery, London
2000
David Hockney - A Print Retrospective, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1999
Recent Etchings, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1997
Flowers, Faces and Spaces, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1996
David Hockney: Retrospective, LA County Museum of Art, Manchester City Art Gallery, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan , Royal Academy of Art, London
1988
David Hockney: A Retrospective, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and The Tate Gallery, London
1983
Hockney Paints the Stage, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (touring elsewhere in N. America, Mexico and London, where it is shown at the Hayward Gallery in 1985)
1983
David Hockney, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1983
David Hockney, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1980 - 1981
David Hockney, Knoedler/Kasmin Gallery, London
1978
David Hockney: Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink, begins its extensive three-year tour of USA and Canada
1976
David Hockney, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 - 1975
David Hockney: Retrospective, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
1970
David Hockney: Retrospective, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (to Hanover, Rotterdam and Belgrade)
1968
David Hockney, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
David Hockney, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kasmin Gallery, London; Palais de Beaux-Arts, Paris
1964
David Hockney, first solo exhibition at the Alan Gallery, New York
1963
David Hockney, first solo exhibition at the Kasmin Gallery, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008
Face a face, Krethlow (former Kabinett Bern), Bern, Switzerland
2008
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
100 x Kunst, Galleri Profilen, Aarhus, Denmark
2000
Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London
1989
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil
1978
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1961
Young Contemporaries Exhibition
Selected Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Portrait Gallery, London
Tate Collection, LondonPublications
David Hockney: A Year in Yorkshire, Annely Juda Fine Art, 2006
Evans, G., Hockney's Pictures, Thames & Hudson, 2006
Hockney, D., Cameraworks, Alfred a Knopf, 1984
Hockney, D., David Hockney: My Early Years, Thames & Hudson, 1998
Hockney, D., David Hockney's Dog Days, Thames & Hudson, 2006
Hockney, D., David Hockney Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, 2006
Hockney, D., Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, Thames and Hudson, 2006
Hockney, D., That's the Way I See it, Thames & Hudson, 1999
Livingstone, M., David Hockney (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 1996
Melia, P. Luckhardt, U., David Hockney: Paintings, Prestel