1966        Born in Kent, UK

1984-85    Northwich College of Art and Design, Cheshire, UK

1985-88    B.A Fine Art, Goldsmith’s College of Art, London

1991        Nominated for the Turner Prize

1999        Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21

2002        First Prize, Prospects, Essor Project Space, London

 

Lives and works in London

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2014        Colourfall, Waddington Custot Galleries, London

2013        Colorfall, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2012        Ian Davenport, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland

              Between the Lines, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore

              Ian Davenport: Reflex, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome

2011        Ian Davenport, Waddington Custot Galleries, London

              Ian Davenport, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki

              PRISMATIC, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

2010        Ian Davenport, AllerArt, Bludenz, Austria

              Ian Davenport, Works, Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam

              Galerie Xippas, Paris

2009        New prints and monoprints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

              Ian Davenport, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

              Puddle Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London

2008        Ian Davenport & The Simpsons, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

              Waddington Galleries, London

              Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2007        Waddington Galleries, London

2006        Ovals Arches Lines, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

2005        Galerie Xippas, Paris

              Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam

2004        Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2003        Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

              Waddington Galleries, London

2001        The Box Associati, Turin, Italy

              Galerie Xippas, Paris

              Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam

2000        Waddington Galleries, London

              Project Space, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

1999        Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK

              Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

1998        Galerie Xippas, Paris

              Galerie Limmer, Cologne, Germany

              Galleria Moncada, Cologne, Germany

1996        Waddington Galleries, Art 27’96, Basel, Switzerland

              Ridinghouse Editions, London

              Waddington Galleries, London

1994        Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA

1993        Waddington Galleries, London

1992        Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany

              Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin

              Galerie Limmer, Freiburg, Germany

              Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

1990        Waddington Galleries, London

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2013        Hidden In Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Collection, Plymouth City Museum and Gallery,

              Plymouth, UK

              Once upon a time and a very good time it was…, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

              Touching Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

              Linear Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

2012        Sweethearts: Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth, London

              The Materiality of Paint, FAS Contemporary, London

              Means Without Ends, Pippy Houldsworth, London

2011        Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

              Lineage: Prints by Michael Craig – Martin, Ian Davenport and Julian Opie,

              Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, UK

              UK & US Contemporary Artists, Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid, Spain

2010        ART – curated by Michael Craig-Martin, Haas and Fuchs, Berlin

              Save Us, Macclesfield Visual Arts Festival, Cheshire, UK

              Layers: John Moores Prize Paintings in Korea, Seongnam Art Centre, Seongnam, Korea

              Abstraction and Structure, Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Berlin

              Abstract Vision Now, Art+Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

              Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

              John Moores Paintings Prize, Walker Art Centre, Liverpool, UK

              Fast Forward, Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo

2009        Artissima, Galerie Xippas, Turin, Italy

2008        Drawing Breath, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, UK

              Blitzkrieg Bop, Man & Eve, London

              MAXImin, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain

2007        Jerwood Drawing Prize 2007, Jerwood Space, London (touring to Pittville Gallery, Cheltenham;

              Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK; BayArt, Cardiff, UK;

              University of Newcastle, Newastle upon Tyne, UK)

              Art Futures, Bloomberg Space, London

              Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London, (touring to Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK

              UK, and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

              You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference, Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition: Harris

              Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, UK; The Lowry, Salford, UK;

              New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Cumbria, UK

2006        Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

              How to Change the World, 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London

2005        Ian Davenport & Kaoru Tsunoda, Rachmaninoff’s, London

              Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art, Southampton City Art

              Gallery, Southampton, UK

              Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2004        John Moores 23, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2003        Days Like These: Tate Triennial of Contemporary Art, Tate Britain, London

              Blanc de Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris

              Exodus: between promise and fulfilment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

              Circular, The Rocket Gallery, London

              Prints Published by the Alan Cristea Gallery, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

              On, Galerie Xippas, Athens

2002        In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London

              Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Project Space, London

              Super-Abstr-Action 2, Galerie No Code, Bologna, Italy

              Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London

              Peintures-contrainte ou recette, Galerie du Cloitre, Rennes, France

              Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam

              Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

              John Moores 22, The Walker, Liverpool, UK (part of the Liverpool Biennial 2002)

              Jerwood Drawing Prize, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham UK (touring ex.)

              Berlin/London/Minimal, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

              New Commisions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

2001        Complementary Studies: Recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK

              Camberwell ArtsWeek 2001, Eger Architects, London

              British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London

              Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London(touring to Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow,

              UK)

2000        Surface, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, UK

              Fact and Value, Charlottenburg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark

              Profiles of Young European Painting, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy

1999        Examining Pictures: exhibiting paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London(touring to Museum of             Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA, and Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA)

              A line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London

              John Moores Liverpool 21, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

              Now showing II, Houldsworth Fine Art, London

              21 Years of Spacex, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK

1998        Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London

              Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK

              Roberto Caracciola, Ian Davenport, Galleria Moncada, Rome

1997        Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

              Ian Davenport, Michael Craig Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and Fiona Rae, Waddington             Galleries, London

              Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK

1996        Neuvas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional

              Centro de Arte Reino Sofia, Madrid, Spain (touring to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, Museo d’Art

              Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain)

              50 Jahre Kunst – und Museumsverein Wupertal, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wupperthal-Barmen, Germany

              British Abstract Art Part 3 – Works on Paper, Flowers East, London

              Ace! Arts Council Collections new purchases (touring to Hatton Gallery, Harris Museum and Art

              Gallery, Oldham Art Gallery, Hayward Gallery, Ikon Gallery, Mappin Art Gallery, Angel Row Gallery,

              Ormeau Baths Gallery, Arnolfini Gallery, in the UK)

              About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990’s, Modern Art, Oxford, UK (touring to Fruitmarket             Gallery, Wolsey Art Gallery, Laing Art Gallery in the UK)

1995        From here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London

              30 Years of Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

             Real Art – A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK (touring to Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium, and Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK)

1994        Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London

              British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London

              Summer 94, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

              British Painting 1988-1994: a selection from stock, Richard Salmon Ltd, London

1992        The Vertical Flatbread Picture Plane – En Valise, Turner and Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA

              Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherland

              L’Attico, Fabio Sargentini, Rome

              Gifts to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society Purchases, Camden Arts Centre, London

              New Voices: recent paintings from the British Council Collection (touring to 21 venues across the world)

1991        British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, London

              Metropolis Internationale Kunstausstellung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin

              Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London

              Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

              Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London

              Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London

              New Displays, Tate Gallery, London

              Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin

              Confrontacines: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, Spain

1990        The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, UK (touring to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, and Hayward Gallery, London)

              Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York

              Carnet de Voyages – I, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France

1989        Current, Swansea Arts Workshop, Swansea, UK

              West Norwood I, West Norwood Railway Arches, London

1988        Freeze, Surrey Docks, London

              Ian Davenport, Gary Hume, Michael Landy, Karsten Schubert Gallery, London

1985        Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

 

 

Commissions

 

2013        Commissioned by Fabergé and Vista Jet to create a design for the tail of one of Vistajet’s flagship

              aircrafts, the bombardier Global 6000, in celebration of Spring and Easter, Switzerland

2012        Commissioned by Events for London, Mayor of London’s Office, the Greater London Authority to make an for the concourse in between the Millennium Bridge and Tate Modern for the duration of the Olympic Games in London

2006        Commissioned by Southwark Council and Land Securities to make a 50m painting, the western bridge wall on Southwark Street, London

2004        Commissioned by Contemporary Art Society to make a wall painting for Warwick University, Coventry, UK

 

 

Selected Public Collections

 

Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London

Birmingham City Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul

The British Council, UK

Contemporary Art Society, UK

DaimlerChrysler Collection, Stuttgart, Germany

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA

FNAC Fonds National d’art contemporain, France

The Government Art Collection (Department for Culture Media and Sport), UK

Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia, Italy

National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK

Nuffield College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK

Tate, London

Unilever, London

Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

Warwick University, Coventry, UK

Weltkunst Collection, Zurich, Switzerland