KIDNER, MICHAEL (British, b. 1917)

Studied History and Anthropology at Cambridge University, 1936-9, after which he attended Ohio State University reading Landscape Architecture during 1940-1.
After five years in Canadian Army he enrolled at the Goldsmiths’ College, taking up painting full-time in 1953.
Whilst living in Paris between 1953-5, he studied at the Atelier of Andre Lhote.
Kidner held a number of teaching posts, notably in Pitlochry 1947-50, at Leicester Polytechnic 1963-4 and at the Bath Academy of Art, 1964-84.
He was an artist in residence at Sussex University in 1967 and at the American University, Washington DC in 1968.
His prizes include a Gulbenkian Purchase Award and a second prize at the John Moores Exhibition, both in 1965, and Major Prize at the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Exhibition.
His first solo exhibition was held at Hilda’s College, Oxford in 1959.


Selected exhibitions include:
1963,1965, 1967 John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
1965         The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967 Recent British Paintings, Tate Gallery, London
1972        Systems Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1973        Systems II Polytechnic of Central London 1973.
1974         British Painting ‘74’, Hayward, London
1984         Retrospective Exhibition 1959-84, Serpentine Gallery, London


Public collections include:
Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tate, London