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
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
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
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
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; 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 fulfillment, 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
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
(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, Netherlands
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
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