Derek Boshier was one of the 1962 graduates of the College of Art, who established Pop Art as a movement. Together with his fellow students David Hockney, Allen Jones, Peter Phillips and Kitaj, he participated in the landmark Pop Art in Britain at the Young Contemporaries exhibition.
Boshier had his first one-man show, Image in Revolt, at the Grabowski Gallery, 1962, and has had several hundred international solo and mixed exhibitions since. In 1963 he represented Britain at the Paris Biennale. His participation in early Pop Art exhibitions established him as a central figure of the movement. In 1964 he was included in the Pop exhibition at Hague, Vienna and Berlin and in 1976 in Pop Art In England in Hamburg, Munich and New York.
Boshier taught at the Central College of Art and Design, London and at the Hornsey College of Art, London until 1973, and from 1975-79 he taught at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1980 Boshier joined the University of Houston, Texas, eventually becoming professor.
Boshier’s art has gone through various phases, touching on Pop and Op Art, hard-edge Abstraction and politically radical conceptual art.
Boshier was the recipient of the Honorary Fellowship of the RCA in 2016 as well as receiving the Guggenheim fellowship and NEA award for the arts. Notably too, he was an accomplished teacher and lecturer.
Public collections include
British Council, London
Tate Britain and Tate Modern, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
HRH The Queen, Windsor Castle
The National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
Government Art Collection, UK
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont
Texas Menil Collection, Houston
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth
Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut
One-man Exhibitions
2025 The Way Forward: Derek Boshier and the Sixties, Gazelli Art House, London
2024 Strange Lands, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2023 Derek Boshier: Image in Revolt, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2023 Derek Boshier: Reinventor, Gazelli Art House, London
2022 Derek Boshier: Occupations, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla
2022 Derek Boshier: Paintings and Drawings, Novi Sad City Museum, Serbia
2021 Derek Boshier: Alchemy Alchemy, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York
2021 Icarus and K-Pop, Gazelli Art House, London
2021 Headlines, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2019 Derek Boshier: Paintings, Drawings, and Film Selected Works 2004–2019, Redbud West Gallery, Houston
2019 Night and Snow, Gazelli Art House, London
2019 It’s Only When the Tide Goes Out... Selected works and ephemera, 1976–2018, Mostyn, Llandudno
2018 Drawings, Paintings, and 'Ghosts of Portsmouth', Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth
2018 Documentation and Works: 1959–1972, Portsmouth City Museum, Portsmouth
2018 Cascades Over the Decades: Prints from 1964–2014, Sims Reed Gallery, London
2017 On the Road, Gazelli Art House, London
2017 On the Road, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2015 Rethink / Re-entry, Flowers Gallery, London
2014 Derek Boshier: Journey / Israe, National Gallery, Los Angeles
2014 Derek Boshier All in a Day’s Work, Drawings Paintings and Films 1970-2014,Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans
2014 Change, TanyanLeighton Gallery at Kurfurstenstrasse, Berlin
2013 Derek Boshier, National Portrait Gallery, London
2013 Derek Boshier: Survey of Work and In Conversation with William, Gallery 360, Northeastern University, Boston
2013 Derek Boshier, Films and In Conversation with Alex Kitnick, Light Industry, New York
2013 Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton, Flowers Gallery, New York
2013 Derek Bosier 1962, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Derek Boshier Drawings, Large drawings from the Iraq War Series 2004, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2013 Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton, Galerie du Centre, Paris
2012 Derek Boshier, Iraq War Drawings 2004, Chelsea Arts Club, London
2012 Derek Boshier, New Paintings: Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton, Flowers Gallery, New York
2012 Derek Boshier: David Bowie and the Clash, selection of work made for Bowie and the Clash, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2012 The Artist as Film Maker: Derek Boshier, British Film Institute Theatre, London.
2012 In Profile, Huguenot Editions, London
2012 Derek Boshier: Works for David Bowie and the Clash, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2011 Derek Boshier: Heroes and Villans, Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio
2011 Artist in Residence, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio
2011 Derek Boshier - In the 70's, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco
2010 Urban Vex, Royal Academy Schools Galleries, London
2009 Extreme Makeover, Ammo Gallery New Orleans, Louisiana
2009 Derek Boshier New Paintings, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles.
2008 Extreme Makeover, Flowers Art Gallery, New York.
2007 Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1955-2007,Flowers East, London.
2007 Magazine: New Paintings, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco
2007 Derek Boshier Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie du Centre, Paris
2007 Extreme Makeover, 800 Gallery, Monmouth University, New Jersey
2006 Pop: Works on Paper from 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London
2006 Derek Boshier: All in a Day’s Work. New Paintings, Moody Gallery, Houston
2006 Derek Boshier: New Paintings, Paris Art Fair (FIAC) Grand Palais, Paris
2006 Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London
2005 99 Cent War (Iraq) : Installation and Paintings, Galeirie Du Centre, Paris
2005 99 Cent War (Iraq) : Installation, The Florence Trust, London
2004 Shelf Life: Derek Boshier Recent Paintings and Sculptures, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2004 Derek Boshier: Extreme Makeover, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco
2003 Derek Boshier: New Paintings -"Books", Keller & Greene, Los Angeles
2003 Derek Boshier Works on Paper: A Retrospective 1957–2003, Weber State University, Ogden
2003 Derek Boshier/Peter Saul/Bernard Rancillac, Gallerie du Centre, Paris
2002 Derek Boshier Sports, F.G.Cozens, Dusseldorf
2001 Derek Boshier, Flowers West, Los Angeles
2001 Derek Boshier, Galerie du Centre. Paris
2000 Derek Boshier New Work, Shakespeare Fine Art. London
2000 Cowboy Installation, Window Gallery, St. Martin’s College, London
1998 Journey/Israel Project Installation, Holocaust Museum, Houston
1998 Derek Boshier. Paintings & Drawings 1982-85, Weil Gallery Center for the Arts, Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Texas
1997 Journey/Israel Project, Miskan Le Ormanut Museum of Art, Ein Harod
1996 Derek Boshier, Cornerhouse, Manchester
1996 Derek Boshier - Recent Works, Connaught Brown Gallery, London
1995 Derek Boshier - The Texas Years, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1995 Three Giants, Texas Gallery, Houston
1993 Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, 1992-93, Independent Gallery, London
1991 Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego
1991 Texas Gallery, Houston
1990 Derek Boshier: New Works, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
1989 Derek Boshier - Large Paintings and Drawings 1983- 1988,
Mexicarte Museum, Austin
1989 Derek Boshier, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans
1989 Texas Gallery, Houston
1988 Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles
1987 Edward Totah Gallery, London
1987 Albert Totah Gallery, New York
1987 Texas Gallery, Houston
1986 Totah-Stelling Gallery, New York
1985 The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
1985 Edward Totah Gallery, London
1984 New Drawings, Marconi Gallery, Milan
1983 Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings 1960-82, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool
1982 Traveling exhibition, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1982 Derek Boshier - The Texas Works, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1982 Paintings and Drawings 1981-82, Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston
1981 Derek Boshier - Texas Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1981 Paintings, Drawings and Photographs: 1961-79, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lodz
1981 Traveling exhibition, Palace of Culture, Warsaw
1981 Drawings: 1980-81, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1981 Drawings: 1980-81, Graham Gallery, Houston
1979 Paintings and Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1979 Drawings and Books for Artists, Felicity Samuels Gallery, London
1978 Events, A I R Gallery. London
1977 Places and Routes, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff
1977 Events and Routes, Peterloo Gallery, Manchester=
1977 Events and Art Books, A I R Gallery, London
1976 Places, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1975 Two - About Duality, Artnet, London
1975 Routes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1974 54 Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1973 Documentation and Work 1959-72,Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1972 Derek Boshier Documentation and Work, Touring Exhibition in Great Britain through to 1973.
1971 Hayward Gallery, London
1970 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1970 Zeichnungen - Lithographien, Galerie Bucholz, Munich,
1970 Galerie Varennes, Paris, France.
1968 Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1967 Derek Boshier, Galerie Bichofsberger, Zurich
1965 Robert Fraser Gallery, London
1965 Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
2021 Let’s Talk About Text, Gazelli Art House, London
2021 I See Faces, Gazelli Art House, London
2021 Fantasy Pop, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
2020 Summer Group Show, Gazelli Art House, London
2019 Night and Snow/ Fragments: Contemporary Still Life, Gazelli Art House, London
Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band. Gazelli Art House, London
Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University
2018/19 Terra, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
2018 Photography Exhibition, Gazelli Art House, London
2016/17 Britain Invasion, Museum of Art History, Lancaster, California
2016/17 This Was Tomorrow: Pop Art in Great Britain, Kunstmuseum, Wolfburg
2016 This is Today, Gazelli Art House, London
2015 Ry Rocklen & Derek Boshier, Condominium Pancake, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels
2014 Cogwheels Carved in Wood: Derek Boshier, Gina Beavers, Jamian Juliano Villani, Sean
Kennedy, Oliver Payne, Lucie Stahl, Curated by Jonathan Griffin, Night Gallery, Los
Angeles
2013 David Bowie is influencing Your Behaviour, Victoria and Albert Museum. London
2013 Glam: The Performance of Style, Tate Gallery, Liverpool and tour to Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
2013 Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 Made in Space, Gavin Brown Gallery, New York
2013 Made in Space, Venus over Manhattan. New York
2011 At Work: UK Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2010 Pop Cinema. Art and Film in USA and UK 1950-1970’s, International House, Philadelphia
2008 No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967-87, The British Council and Arts Council Collection, UK
2008 Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw
2007 Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London
2007 Group Show, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2007 Nothing Moments, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
2007 Pop Art, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
2006 British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao
2006 Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Culture, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena
2006 Texas 100, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas
2006 As is When, 12th International Print & Drawing Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2006 Swinging London: The Collection of Mateusz Grabowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
2006 Swinging London: The Collection of Mateusz Grabowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
2006 Abovo, Design Center, Los Angeles,
2004 Art and The Sixties, Tate Britain, London