Richard Smith — Biography



1931 Born in Letchworth, Hertfordshire

 

 1948-50    Luton School of Art
1954-57    Royal College of Art, London
1978    Moved to New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS


1995/96/97/2000    Prints and Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London
1995    Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1992/93/94    Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
           Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1992    Wassermann Galerie, Munich
1990    Knoedler Gallery, London
1987    Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1984    Knoedler Gallery, London
1980    Knoedler Gallery, London
1979    The Museum of Art at Washington State, Pullman, Washington
1975    Tetrospective: Seven Exhibitions 1961-75, Tate Gallery, London
1973    Hayward Gallery, London
           Galerie Schottenring, Vienna
1972    Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1970    35th Venice Biennale, British Pavillion, Venice
1968    Jewish Museum, New York
1966    Whitechapel Gallery, London
1962    ICA, London
1961    Green Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS    

1999    Small is Beautiful, Part 1: Abstract, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
1994    British Abstract Art Part III: Works On Paper, Flowers East, London    
1964-65    Neue Realisten & Pop Art, Akademie de Kunste, Berlin
1965-66    London: The New Scene, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis and touring US and Canada
1966    Aspects of British Art, Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand & touring New Zealand and Australia
           Caro, Cohen, Denny, Smith, Kasmin Gallery, London
1968    Musée des arts decoratifs, Paris
1970    Contemporary British Art, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1974    British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery, London
1985    Pop Art 1955-70, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia and touring
1986    Forty Years of Modern Art, 1945-1985, Tate Gallery, London
1987    British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Art, London
           Pop Art, Royal Academy of Art, London and touring to Cologne and Madrid
1992    Ready, Steady, Go, Paintings from the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, Foyer Galleries, Royal Festival Hall, London
1992-93    Pop Art, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1993    The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1994    British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London
1962-63        British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art & touring
1957    British Painting of the Sixties, Whitechapel Gallery, London
1954    Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London

Public Collections

Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth    
Arts Coucil of Great Britain
British Council Collection
The British Museum, London
Centro de Arte Moderna, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Government Art Collection, London
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Metrpolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Contemorary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Philadephia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney
Staaliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
The Tate Gallery, London
Ulster Museum, Belfast
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool