Derek Boshier Biography

1937 1975 Born: Portsmouth, United Kingdom Derek Boshier: Work 1971–74, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, May 3–31 Lives and works in Los Angeles, California Routes, Angela Flowers Gallery,

1976 EDUCATION Places, Angela Flowers Gallery,London 1959–1962 , London 1977 Events and Art Books, A I R Gallery, London Events and Routes, Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS United Kingdom; Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, United 1965 Kingdom, November 10–December 3 Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels, Belgium Robert Fraser Gallery, London 1978 Events, A I R Gallery, London, United Kingdom 1967 Derek Boshier, Galerie Bichofberger, Zurich, 1979 Switzerland, November 11–December 7 Drawings and Books for Artists, Felicity Samuels Gallery, London 1968 Paintings and Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London Robert Fraser Gallery, London 1981 1970 Drawings: 1980–81, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, Galerie Varennes, Paris July 1–25 Zeichnungen – Lithographien, Galerie Bucholz, Munich, Drawings: 1980–81, Graham Gallery, Houston, October Germany 310–December 12 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Paintings, Drawings and Photographs: 1961–79, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lodz, Poland 1971 Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, September 23– , London November 8

1972–1973 1981–1982 Derek Boshier: Documentation and Work 1959–1972, Derek Boshier – Texas Works, Contemporary Arts Portsmouth City Museum and Gallery, United Museum, Houston; December 13, 1981–February 14, Kingdom, July 1972; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; 1982 Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Richard Demarco 1982 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Arnolfini Gallery, Paintings and Drawings 1981–82, Robin Cronin Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom; Whitechapel Art Gallery, Houston, July–August London, September 26–October 21, 1973 1982–1983 1974 Derek Boshier – The Texas Works, The Institute of 54 Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery. London, January Contemporary Art, London; November 24, 1982– 30–February 16 January 2, 1983 1983 1996–1997 Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings 1960–82, Blue Coat Derek Boshier, Cornerhouse. Manchester, United Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, March 9–April 2 Kingdom, November 16, 1996–January 4, 1997 New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, April 16– May 7 1997–1998 Journey/Israel Project, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein 1984 Harod, Israel, March 1997; Holocaust Museum, New Drawings, Marconi Gallery, Milan Houston, June 25–September 19

1985 1998–1999 Edward Totah Gallery, London Derek Boshier. Paintings & Drawings, Weil Gallery at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, December 8, 1986 1998–January 27, 1999 Totah-Stelling Gallery, New York, May 2000 1987 Derek Boshier New Work, Shakespeare Fine Art, Texas Gallery, Houston, January 9–31 London, March 31–May 16 Albert Totah Gallery, New York, October 31 Edward Totah Gallery, London 2001 Derek Boshier, Galerie du Centre, Paris, March 1988 Derek Boshier, Flowers West, Los Angeles, May 5–June 9 Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, March 3–April 9 2002 1989 Derek Boshier Sports, F.G. Cozens, Dusseldorf, Texas Gallery, Houston Germany Derek Boshier, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, January 14–February 28 2003 Derek Boshier: Large Paintings and Drawings, 1983– Derek Boshier Works on Paper: A Retrospective 1957– 1988, Mexicarte Museum, Austin, Texas, March 3–30 2003, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, August 25–October 25 1990 Derek Boshier: New Paintings – “Books”, Keller & Derek Boshier: New Works, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Greene, Los Angeles, September 5–October 11 Angeles, January 19–February 24 2004 1991 Shelf Life: Derek Boshier Recent Paintings and Texas Gallery, Houston, March 15–April 25 Sculptures, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla, California, June 25–July 31 University of California, San Diego, September 28– Derek Boshier: “Extreme Makeover”, Steven Wolf Fine October 27 Arts, San Francisco

1993 2005 Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, Independent Gallery, 99 Cent War (Iraq): Installation and Paintings, Galerie London Du Centre, Paris, October 13–November 19; The Florence Trust, London 1995–1996 Derek Boshier – The Texas Years (Work 1980–95), The 2006 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; December 9, Derek Boshier: All in A Day’s Work, Moody Gallery, 1995–January 28, 1996 Houston, February 11–March 11 Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1962, Whitford Fine Art, 1996 London, March 10–31 Derek Boshier – Recent Works, Connaught Brown Derek Boshier: New Paintings, FIAC – Grand Palais, Gallery, London, March 22–April 20 Paris, October 26–30 2007 Cascades Over the Decades: Prints from 1964–2014, Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1955–2007, Flowers Sims Reed Gallery, London, November 12– East, London, May 4–June 2 December 10 Derek Boshier: Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie du Centre, Paris 2019 Derek Boshier: Paintings, Drawings, and Film Selected 2008 Works 2004–2019, Redbud West Gallery, Houston, Derek Boshier, Robin Cronin, Houston, April 2–May 8 April 6–30 Derek Boshier: Extreme Makeover, Flowers , New York, Night and Snow, Gazelli Art House, London, October 4– May 9–June 14 November 10 Derek Boshier New Paintings, Las Cienegas Projects, It’s Only When the Tide Goes Out… Selected works and Los Angeles, November 14–December 12 ephemera, 1976 – 2018, MOSTYN, Wales, United Kingdom, March 16–June 30 2011 Derek Boshier – In the 70’s, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San 2021 Francisco, April 8–May 7 Derek Boshier: Alchemy Alchemy, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, March 25–May 22 2012 Icarus and K Pop, Gazelli Art House, London, October Derek Boshier: Works for and , 7–November 13 Pallant House, Chichester, United Kingdom, June 23–October 7 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1985 2013 The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Derek Boshier, 1962, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, January 26–March 9 1990 Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton: Derek Boshier Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, May New Paintings, Flowers Gallery, New York, March 1– 19–July 15 April 6; Galerie du Centre, Paris, March 9–April 19 Derek Boshier Drawings, Chelsea Arts Club, London, 1995 March 4–April 3 Three Giants, Texas Gallery, Houston

2013–2014 2000 Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits, National Portrait Cowboy Installation, Window Gallery, St. Martin’s Gallery, London, September 27, 2013–May 5, 2014 College, London

2014 2004 Change, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, March 2– Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Britain, April 12 London, June 30–September 26 All in a Day’s Work, boyd | satellite, New Orleans, April 4–29 2005–2006 Journey/Israel Project, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain, April 6–12 October 17, 2005–Feburary 12, 2006

2017 2006 On The Road, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, May Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Culture, Centro 13–June 17; Gazelli Art House, London, October 6– Arte Contemporanea, Siena, May 26–September 24 November 18 Texas 100, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas As Is When, 12th International Print and Drawing 2018 Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Drawings, Paintings, and “Ghosts of Portsmouth,” September 22–November 13 Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, September 7–October 13 2007 2013–2014 , Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, Glam: The Performance of Style, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, March 31–August 4 United Kingdom, February 8–May 12; Schirn Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, June 14–September April 27–June 16 22; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, October 19, Swinging London, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, May 2013–February 2, 2014 15–September 2 Nothing Moments, Steven Turner Contemporary, Los 2014 Angeles, October 13–November 10 Cogwheels Carved in Wood, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Magazine: New Paintings, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San April 19–May 4 Francisco, October 4–November 14 2015 2007–2008 International Pop, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Extreme Makeover, 800 Gallery, Monmouth University, Minnesota, April 11–August 29 New Jersey, February 15–March 23; Flowers, New Ry Rocklen & Derek Boshier: Condominium Pancake, York, May 9–June 14 Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium, April Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 24–May 30 October 11, 2007–January 20, 2008 2016 2008 Pop Art Heroes: Pop, Pin-ups & Politics, Whitford Fine No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967– Art, London, May 27–July 1 87, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, March 15–April 27; Tullie House, Carlisle, United 2016–2017 Kingdom, May 10–July 13; The Exchange, Penzance, Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945– United Kingdom, September 12–November 1 1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; October 14, Pop Art: Now and Then, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, 2016–March 26, 2017 Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, February 16– This Was Tomorrow – Pop Art in Great Britain, August 30 Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; October 30, 2016–February 19, 2017 2009 British Invasion, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Extreme Makeover: & Drawings, Ammo Gallery, California; November 19, 2016–January 22, 2017 New Orleans 2019 2010 Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum Urban Vex, Etchings and Drawings, Royal Academy of Art, Utah State University, Logan, January 17– School Galleries, London July 31

2012 2021 In Profile, Huguenot Editions, London, February 27 Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, May 21–July 5 2013 Let’s Talk About Text, Gazelli Art House, London, June Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, March 16– 10–July 3 April 15 David Bowie is influencing your behavior, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 23–August 11 Made in Space, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, July 11–August 10 Made in Space, Venus over Manhattan, New York, July 11–August 10 SELECTED COLLECTIONS Los Angeles County Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art, New York Portsmouth Museum of Art, United Kingdom United Kingdom Government Art Collection Arts Council of the United Kingdom British Council Collection Guildhall Museum, London Tate Gallery of British Art, London British Museum, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom City of Sheffield Galleries, United Kingdom City of Portsmouth Art Gallery, United Kingdom Brooklyn Museum Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Palm Springs Art Museum, California Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Yale Centre of British Art, New Haven High Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii New Orleans Museum of Art Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin Dallas Museum of Art Menil Collection, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston El Paso Museum of Art, Texas San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia Peter Stuyvesant Collection, the Netherlands Mishkin Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon Berardo Museum, Lisbon Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana Selected Bibliography

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES Band. London: Gazelli Art House, 2018. Bach, Peter. Derek Boshier: Paintings 1985–86. New Gorman, Paul, ed. Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry. York: Totah Stelling Art, 1986. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. Beil, Ralf and Ruhkamp, Uta. This Was Tomorrow: Keller and Greene. Derek Boshier. Los Angeles: Keller Pop Art in Great Britain. Cologne: Kunstmuseum and Greene, 2003. Wolfsburg, 2016. Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery. Derek Boshier: Works Blanton Museum of Art. American Art Since 1900. on Paper: A Retrospective 1955–2003. Ogden, UT: Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Weber State University, 2003. Austin, 2006. Pierini, Marco. Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Bluecoat Gallery. Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings Culture. Siena: Centro Arte Contemporanea, 2006. 1960–1982. Liverpool: Bluecoat Gallery, 1983. Shakespeare Fine Art. Derek Boshier: New Work. Bocola, Sandro. Timelines – The Art of Modernism: London: Shakespeare Fine Art, 2000. 1870–2000. Cologne: Taschen, 2001. Walker, John A. Art & Outrage: Provocation, Controversy Brett, Guy. Carnival of Perception: Selected Writings on and the Visual Arts. London: Pluto Press, 1999. Art. London: Institute of International Visual Arts, Whitford Fine Art. Derek Boshier: Pop, Works on Paper 2004. from 1962. London: Whitford Fine Art, 2006. Brooks, Rosetta. Derek Boshier: Paintings 1987. New Whitworth Art Gallery. Derek Boshier: Work 1971–74. York: Albert Totah Gallery, 1987. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1975. Colburn, Bolton T., ed. Collecting on the Edge. Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2017.. PERIODICALS Connaught Brown. Derek Boshier: Recent Works. Cotter, Holland. “Derek Boshier at Totah-Stelling.” Art in London: Connaught Brown, 1996. America, October 1986. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Derek Boshier: Crow, Thomas. “The Absconded Subject of Pop.” RES: The Texas Years. Houston: Contemporary Arts Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 55/56 (2009): Museum, Houston, 1996. 5–20. Coulter-Smith, Graham and Owen, Maurice. Art in the Bloom, Suzanne and Hill, Ed. “Derek Boshier, Texas Age of Terrorism. London: Paul Holberton, 2005. Gallery.” Artforum, September 1985. Fermon, An Jo, ed. Pop Art Heroes Britain. London: Bradley, Chrissie. “Derek Boshier at Steven Wolf Fine Whitford Fine Art, 2016. Arts.” Artweek 39, no. 1 (2008): 15. Finch, Christopher. Derek Boshier: Works on Paper “The Derek Boshier Conversation.” Cellophaneland, 1955–2007. London: Flowers, 2007. November 12, 2019. Flowers. Derek Boshier: Extreme Makeover. New York: “Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits.” Art Daily, Flowers, 2008. December 19, 2013. Flowers. Derek Boshier: New Paintings/Chemical Faroux, Renaud. “Clash City Painter.” Étapes, May 2006. Culture Series. London: Flowers, 2008. Faroux, Renaud. “Derek Boshier, La Chute Des Idoles.” Galerie du Centre. Derek Boshier. Paris: Galerie du L’Oeil, 2003. Centre, 1993. Gander, Kashmira. “Why is the RCA the Best Art School Galerie du Centre. Derek Boshier. Paris: Galerie du In The World?” Independent, April 6, 2016. Centre, 2001. Gorman, Paul. “Boshier & Bowie.” GQ, December 1, Gazelli Art House. Derek Boshier: Night and Snow. 2015. London: Gazelli Art House, 2019. Griffin, Jonathan. “The Breakfast Club.”LALA , Spring Gazelli Art House. Derek Boshier: On the Road. London: 2020. Gazelli Art House, 2017. Harvey, Doug. “Rediscovering Derek Boshier.” Modern Gazelli Art House. Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Painters 25, no. 8 (2013): 86–89. Livinstone, Marco. “Letter from Derek Boshier.” Art Monthly, no. 90 (1985): 3–4. “London Roundup: Derek Boshier at the I.C.A.” Art Monthly, no. 63 (1983): 13–14. Massouras, Alexander. “Review: Derek Boshier.” Art Monthly, no. 427 (2019): 29–30. Minioudaki, Kalliopi. “Pop’s Ladies and Bad Girls: Axell, , and Rosalyn Drexler.” Oxford Art Journal 30, no. 3 (2007): 404–430. Moeller, Robert. “A Pop Artist Who’s Never Conformed.” Hyperallergic, October 21, 2013. Nisbet, James. “Derek Boshier.” Artforum, May 2013. Petry, Michael. “Falling Leaves: A Fall Preview.” Huffington Post, October 8, 2015. “Portrait of David Bowie as the Elephant Man by Derek Boshier To Be Exhibited For the First Time.” ArtWeek, September 26, 2013. Richards, Chris. “David Bowie Remembered by His Admirers, Collaborators, and Friends.” Washington Post, April 21, 2017. Rozzo, Mark. “Special B.” Air Mail, March 27, 2021. Stuart, Gwynedd. “Hockney Contemporary Derek Boshier Has Immortalized Old Friend David Bowie (Again).” LA Weekly, May 12, 2017. Teixeira Pinto, Ana. “Derek Boshier’s Change.” Art Agenda, April 10, 2014. “Unseen David Bowie Portrait Goes On Show at NPG.” Blouin ArtInfo, September 23, 2013. Yau, John. “An Artist’s Lifetime of Asking the Hard Questions.” Hyperallergic, April 9, 2021.