David Hockney, RA (British b. 1937)
David Hockney studied at the Bradford College of Art (1953-57). He had already acquired a national reputation by the time he left the Royal College of Art with the gold medal for his year in 1962. From his first one-man show in 1963 at the Kasmin Gallery, London, Hockney has gone on to become the most widely acclaimed British artist born in this century.
Hockney discovered Southern California in 1963, he realised that he was uniquely suited to capture pictorially the idyllic vision of carefree existence that Americans associated with that place and time. Although Hockney moved back to England in 1967, his paintings dating the late 1960s and 1970s continued to reveal and define a way of life that is distinctly American.
Since 1974 Hockney has designed sets and costumes for a number of opera productions including Glyndebourne and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Although he has long distanced himself from Pop Art, preferring to cite Picasso as his greatest inspiration, he has continued to pursue a line of investigation particularly associated with the movement. Since 1979 he has again made Los Angeles his main home.
Hockney has been the subject of countless solo exhibitions worldwide including a major touring retrospective held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, London in 1988. During 1997-1998 a major retrospective of his photo works was shown at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin.
Public collections include
Art Institute of Chicago
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa
Centre Pompidou - Musée National dArt Moderne, Paris
National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Kyoto
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2009, David Hockney: Paintings 2006-2009, The Pace Gallery New York City, NY; David Hockney, Artco, Leeds; David Hockney, Nur Natur, SchwHall; Classic Graphics, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA; Drawing in a Printing Machine, Louver Gallery, Venice, USA
2008, David Hockney: Looking at Woldgate Woods, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
2007, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh; David Hockney - Myself and my Heroes, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Homage to Picasso: Hockney's Blue Guitar, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; David Hockney, Artco, Leeds; David Hockney - Fotografías, Galería Arnés + R, Madrid; David Hockney: Words & Pictures Four Print Portfolios 1961-1977 - Galería Arnés + R, Madrid; David Hockney - Words & Pictures, Slovak National Gallery / Slovenská Národná Galéria, Bratislava; The East Yorkshire Landscape - David Hockney, Louver Gallery, Venice, USA
2006, David Hockney, Andipa Gallery, London; David Hockney - A Year in Yorkshire, Annely Juda Fine Art; Sitting Still: Portraits & Still Life, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles; David Hockney - Portraits, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; David Hockney Portraits, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2005, The guest work - Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao; David Hockney - photographs (1970-75) - Paul Petro Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON; David Hockney - Hand Eye Heart - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2004, Cavafy and Blue Guitar Suites - David Hockney, North Dakota Museum of Art; David Hockney: an intimate eye , Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago; David Hockney - An Intimate Eye, Richard Gray Gallery, New York
2003, David Hockney - prints from 1960-1980, Marlborough London, London; David Hockney, Galerie Lelong, Paris; David Hockney - Painting on Paper, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2002, David Hockney - Cavafy's World: Hidden Things, University of Michigan Museum of Art; DAVID HOCKNEY: Stage Works, Richard Gray Gallery, New York
2001, David Hockney - Exciting times are ahead, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; David Hockney Retrospective photoworks, WAaltonen Museum, Turku
2000, David Hockney - Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
Bibliography
David HOCKNEY, Hockney's Pictures, Thames & Hudson, 2006
David HOCKNEY, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2001
Paul MELIA, Ulrich LUCKHARDT, David Hockney: Paintings, Prestel
David HOCKNEY, David Hockney's Dog Days, Thames & Hudson, 2006
Marco LIVINGSTONE, David Hockney (World of Art), Thames & Hudson, 1981
Marco LIVINGSTONE, Christoph BECKER, David Hockney, Swiridoff Verlag, 2009