Phillip King CBE PPRA

 

Born in Tunis, Tunisia, 1934

Died in London, England, 2021

 

Education
Saint Martin’s School of Art, London, England 1957-58

Christ’s College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England 1954-57

 

Professorship

St Martin’s School of Art, London, England 1959-1980

Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany 1979–1980

Professor Emeritus, Royal College of Art, London, England 1980-1990

Professor of Sculpture, Royal Academy Schools, London, England, 1990-1999

 

President of the Royal Academy, London, England 1999-2004

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2022
Phillip King, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg

2018
Color Space Place, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York NY

 

2017

Phillip King: Colour on Fire & Ceramics 1995-2017, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England

Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

 

2015

Free to FrolicKistefos Museet, Jevnaker, Norway

 

2014

Phillip King, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England

Phillip King, Ranelagh Gardens, Royal Hospital Chelsea, London, England

Phillip King, Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London, England

 

2013

Phillip King, Le Consortium, Dijon, France


2012

Speerstra Foundation, Bursins, Switzerland


2011

Flowers Cork Street, London, England

 

2009

Canary Wharf, London, England


2008

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England


2007

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England


2006

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England


2003

Jesus College, Cambridge, England


2002

Place Gallery, Cavagnole, Italy


2001

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Garth Clark Gallery, New York NY


1998

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England


1997

Forte de Belvedere, Florence, Italy


1996

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England

 

1995

Galerie Waszkowiak/Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin, Germany


1994

Observer Studio Exhibition, London, England


1993

Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre, France
Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin, Germany
Le Prieure Saint Michel, Vimoutiers, France
La Filature, Nouvel Espace Culturel, Mulhouse, France


1992

Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Art Warehouse, London, England
MAAK Gallery, London, England

 

1990

Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England
Grob Gallery, London, England

 

1987

Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1983

Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

1981

Hayward Gallery, London, England

Fruit Market Gallery, London, England

 

1979

Rowan Gallery London, England

 

1977

Rowan Gallery London, England

 

1976

Oriel, Welsh Arts Council, Cardiff, Wales

 

1975

Mapping Art Gallery, Sheffield, England

Whitehaven Museum, Cumbria, England

Art Gallery & Museum, Aberdeen, Scotland

Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, England

Museum and Art gallery, Portsmouth, England

 

1973

Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

1972

Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

1970

Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

1968

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

British Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Stadt Galerie, Bochum, Germany

 

1966

Richard Feigen Gallery, New York NY

Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans LA

 

1964

Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2024

Journeys to the East: Revelations and Reverberations, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

Moon / King: the work and friendship of Phillip King and Jeremy Moon - 1956 to 1973, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England

 

2022

Summer ExhibitionRoyal Academy of Arts, London, England 

A Matter of Life and Death, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy 

 

2019
Sculpture at Wisley 2019, The Royal Horticultural Society, London, England

Objects of Wonder: British Sculpture 1950s-Present, from the Tate Collection, Palais Populaire, Berlin, Germany

 

2018

Duologue, Royal Society of Sculptors, London, England

Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

 

2017
Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England; travelled to: Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, England; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

Sculpture in the Sixties, Pangolin London, London, England

 

2016

Sculptures, Matters, Materials, Textures, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England

 

2015

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England

 

2014

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England

 

2008

New Generation Revisted, New Art Centre, Salisbury, England

 

2007

Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London, England

Blickachsen 6, Bad Homburg Kurpark, Germany

 

2006

How to Improve the World, 60 Years of British Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England

Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia

 

2005

Bernard Jacobsen gallery, London, England

Metamorphosis: British Arts of the Sixties, Andros, Greece

 

2004

Art in the Sixties: This was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London, England

Moore to Hirst: 60 Years of British Sculpture, National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest, Romania

 

2003

Bernard Jacobsen Gallery, London, England

 

2001

Field Day: Sculpture from Britain, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

 

2000

Bronze: Contemporary British Sculpture, Holland Park, London, England

The Concealed Space – British Sculpture, Turin, Italy

The Eye of the Storm, La Mandria, Turin, Italy

 

1999

Coloured Sculpture: Britain in the Sixties, Waddington Galleries, London, England

 

1996

Une Siècle de la Sculpture Anglaise, Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France

The Square, Städtische Museum, Heilbonn, Germany

Flowers East, London, England

 

1995

Flowers East, London, England

 

1994

Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin, Germany

 

1993

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

 

1992

The Spirit of Modernism, Austin/Desmond and Phipps, London, England

 

1991

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, England

Gardner Centre Sussex University, England

Sculpture and Sculptor’s Drawings, William Jackson Gallery, London, England

 

1990

Contemporary British Sculptors, Studies on Paper, Connaught Brown, London, England

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, England

 

1989

Exhibition de Sculpture Anglaise, Musée de Harve, Le Havre, France

 

1988

Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

 

1987

British Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy, London, England

Kerfield Symposium, Germany

 

1986

Contemporary British Sculpture, Rotunda Gallery, Honk Kong

 

1985

Sculpture, Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Joasas, France

25 Years: Three Decades of Contemporary Art, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

1984

Five Sculptors, Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England

Festival Sculpture, International Garden Festival, Liverpool, England

 

1983

Sculptures by Six Artists, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

 

1982

British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Part 2, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

Aspects of British Art Today, British Council touring exhibition: Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tochigi Prefectural Museum; National Museum of Modern Art Osaka; Fukuoka Art Museum; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo

Milestones in Modern British Sculpture, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England

 

1981

Summer Exhibition, Guildford House Gallery, Guildford, England

Artists in Camden, Kenwood House, London, England

 

1980

British Art 1940-80, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, England

Growing Up With Art, Leicestershire Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

 

1979

Group Exhibition Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England

Six Large Sculptures in the Museum Gardens, Portsmouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth, England

The British Art Show, Sheffield, , England; travelled to: Newcastle, England; Bristol, England

Fine Art Treasures Exhibition, Somerset House, London, England

 

1977

Silver Jubilee Exhibitions of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park London, England

Drawings and Related Material, Redfern Gallery, London, England

Bienniale de Paris, une Anthologie: 1959-67, Paris, France

British Artists of the 60s, Tate Gallery, London, England

Gallery Artists, Rowan Gallery, London, England

Modern British Sculpture, DLI Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, England

The First Sculpture Park in the Royal Parks, Regents Park, London, England

 

1976

Contemporary British Art, Galleries of the Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland OH

Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

Faculty Exhibition, Chelsea School of Art, London, England

 

1975

CAS Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London, England

The Condition of Sculpture, Hayward gallery London, England

British Exhibition, Art 6 ’75, Basel, Schweizer Mustermesse, Basel, Switzerland

 

1973

Magic and Strong Medicine, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England

From Henry Moore to Gilbert and George – Modern British Art from the Tate Gallery, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

 

1972

British Sculpture ’72, Royal Academy, London, England

 

1971

Summer Season, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands

British Painting and Sculpture 1960-70, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

McAlpine Gift Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, England

 

1970

Some Recent Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery, England

British Sculpture Out of the Sixties, ICA, London, England

La sculpture dans la Cité, Reims, France

Contemporary British Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

 

1969

Arts ’69, Art Museum Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland

Contemporary Art – Dialogue Between East and West, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

The Constructive Heritage, Sonja Henie and Niels Onstad Foundation, Blommenholm, Norway

Tenth Biennale for Sculpture, Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium

Post 1945 Art, CALA Arts Centre Cambridge, England

Socha Piestanskych Parkov 1969, Czechoslovakia,

International Sculptors, Osaka, Japan

 

1968

Leicestershire Educational Authority Collection, Part I

Interim Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany

Young British Generation, Academie der Küunste, Berlin, Germany

 

1967

Arts for the City, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA

Monuments, Tombstones and Trophies, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York NY

Pittsburgh International, Carnigie Institute, Pittsburgh PA

Fifth Guggenheim International Exhibition, New York NY

A Tribute to Robert Fraser, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England

London Group Exhibition, Rowan Gallery, London, England

 

1966

Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York NY

Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy

Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy

British Sculpture, Galerie Freidrich Dahlem, Munich, Germany

Sculpture in the Open Air, Battersea, London, England

Sonsbeek ’49, Arnhem, Netherland

Chromatic Sculptures, Arts Council Touring Exhibition

New Shapes of Colour, Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam

Kunstverein Stuttgart & Kunsthalle Bern, Germany

Young British Sculptors, Kunsthalle Bern, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam & Kunstverein Düsseldorf

 

1965

English Eye, Marlborough-Gerson, New York NY

The New Generation, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

London: The New Scene, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

 

1964

New Realists, The Hague and Düsseldorf, Germany

Documenta III, Kassel, Germany

 

1963

Third International Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Paris, France

 

1961

British Sculpture, Jewish Museum, New York NY

British Sculpture, Museum and Bilbao, Spain

 

 

Public collections 

 

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England

Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford, England

British Council, London, England

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

City of Rotterdam Collection, Rotherdam, Netherlands

Contemporary Arts Society, London, England

Cultural Centre, Adelaide, Australia

Felton Bequest, Melbourne, Australia

Government Art Collection, London, England

Galleria d'Arte Moderno, Turin, Italy

Government Art Collection, London, England

Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan

Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway

Leeds Museum & Galleries (City Art Gallery), Leeds, England

Leisure Centre, Osaka, Japan

Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles CA

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

Middleheim Open Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Osaka City Public Art Collection, Japan

Public Sculpture of Leicestershire, Countesthorpe College, Leicester, England

Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyama, Japan

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

State University of New York College, Purchase, New York NY

Stuyvesant Foundation, New York NY

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX

Tate Collection, London, England

Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Tokyo University Art Collection, Tokyo, Japan

Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland 

Venet Foundation Collection, Le Muy (Var), France

Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven CT 

Photo: Ana Escobar
Photo: Ana Escobar