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DEREK BOSHIER
Born 1937, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
1962 Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
HONORS
2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual Art, New York, NY 2016 Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2021 Headlines, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) 2019 Night and Snow, Gazelli Art House, London, UK (solo) 2018 Cascades Over the Decades: Prints from 1964–2014, Sims Reed Gallery, London, UK (solo) Drawings, Paintings, and “Ghosts of Portsmouth,” Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth, UK (solo) 2017 Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom (solo) On The Road, curated by Jamie Kenyon, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) 2016 This Was Tomorrow – Pop Art in Great Britain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945-1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany British Invasion, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, CA 2015 Ry Rocklen & Derek Boshier, Condominium Pancake, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium International Pop, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 2014 Cogwheels Carved in Wood, curator Jonathan Grifn, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Change, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (solo) Journey/Israel Project, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) All in a Day’s Work, boyd | satellite, New Orleans, LA (solo) 2013 Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo) Glam: The Performance of Style, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Made in Space, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY Made in Space, Venus over Manhattan, New York, NY Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton: Derek Boshier New Paintings, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Derek Boshier,1962, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) David Bowie is influencing your behavior, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Derek Boshier Drawings, Chelsea Arts Club, London, United Kingdom (solo) Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton: Derek Boshier New Paintings, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France (solo) 2012 In Profile, Huguenot Editions, London, United Kingdom
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Derek Boshier: Works for David Bowie and the Clash, Pallant House, Chichester, United Kingdom (solo) 2011 Derek Boshier - In the 70's, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo) 2010 Urban Vex, Etchings and Drawings, Royal Academy School Galleries, London, United Kingdom 2009 Extreme Makeover: Collages & Drawings, Ammo Gallery, New Orleans, LA Derek Boshier New Paintings, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA (solo) 2008 Extreme Makeover, Flowers, New York, NY 2007 Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1955-2007, Flowers East, London, United Kingdom (solo) Magazine: New Paintings, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Derek Boshier: Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France (solo) Extreme Makeover, 800 Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ 2006 Pop: Works on Paper from 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom Derek Boshier: All in A Day’s Work, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX (solo) Derek Boshier: New Paintings, FIAC - Grand Palais, Paris, France Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom (solo) 2005 99 Cent War (Iraq): Installation and Paintings, Galerie Du Centre, Paris, France (solo) 99 Cent War (Iraq): Installation, The Florence Trust, London, United Kingdom (solo) 2004 Shelf Life: Derek Boshier Recent Paintings and Sculptures, The Athanaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA (solo) Derek Boshier: "Extreme Makeover", Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo) 2003 Derek Boshier: New Paintings -"Books", Keller & Greene, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Derek Boshier Works on Paper: A Retrospective 1957–2003, Weber State University, Ogden, UT (solo) 2002 Derek Boshier Sports, F.G. Cozens, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo) 2001 Derek Boshier, Flowers, West, Los Angeles, CA (solo) Derek Boshier, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France (solo) 2000 Derek Boshier New Work, Shakespeare Fine Art, London, United Kingdom (solo) Cowboy Installation, Window Gallery, St. Martin’s College, London, United Kingdom 1990s Journey/Israel Project Installation, Holocaust Museum, Houston, TX (solo) Derek Boshier. Paintings & Drawings 1982-85. Weil Gallery at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX (solo, catalogue) Journey/Israel Project, Miskan Le Ormanut Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel (solo) Derek Boshier, Cornerhouse. Manchester, United Kingdom (solo) Derek Boshier - Recent Works, Connaught Brown Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo) Derek Boshier - The Texas Years, (work 1980–95), The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo, catalogue) Three Giants, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, 1992-93, Independant Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo) Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Derek Boshier: New Works, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) 1980s Derek Boshier: Large Paintings and Drawings,1983-1988, Mexicarte Museum, Austin, TX (solo) Derek Boshier, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA (solo) Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Edward Totah Gallery, London, England
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Albert Totah Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) Texas Gallery, Houston, TX Totah-Stelling Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Edward Totah Gallery, London, England New Drawings, Marconi Gallery, Milan, IT Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings 1960-82, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool, England Traveling exhibition, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (catalogue) Derek Boshier - The Texas Works, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England Paintings and Drawings 1981-82, Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX Derek Boshier - Texas Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX Paintings, Drawings and Photographs: 1961-79, Museum of Contemporarty Arts, Lodz, Poland Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue) Drawings: 1980-81, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England Drawings: 1980-81, Graham Gallery, Houston, TX 1970s Paintings and Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England Drawings and Books for Artists, Felicity Samuels Gallery, London, England Events, A I R Gallery, London, England (catalogue) Places and Routes, Oriel Gallery, Cardif, Wales (catalogues) Events and Routes, Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, England Events and Art Books, A I R Gallery, London, England Places, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England Two - About Duality, Artnet, London, England Routes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England 54 Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, England Documentation and Work 1959-72, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England (catalogue) Derek Boshier Documentation and Work, Touring Exhibition in Great Britain through to 1973, Hayward Gallery and Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England Zeichnungen – Lithographien, Galerie Bucholz, Munich, Germany Galerie Varennes, Paris, France 1960s Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England Derek Boshier, Galerie Bichofsberger, Zurich, Switzerland Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels, Belgium
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Tate Modern, London, UK Portsmouth Museum of Art, United Kingdom The Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Windsor Castle, England United Kingdom Government Art Collection Arts Council of The United Kingdom The British Council Collection The Guildhall Museum, City of London The Tate Gallery of British Art, London, England The British Museum, London, England
2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 nightgallery.ca
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester City of Shefeld Galleries City of Portsmouth Art Gallery The Brooklyn Museum, New York The Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Palm Springs Desert Museum, California The Pacific Enterprise Collection, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Yale Centre of British Art, New Haven, CT The High Museum, Atlanta, GA The Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX The Menil Collection, Houston, TX The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi, TX Neuberber Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY Centre Pompidou, Paris, France The National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Holland The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel The Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland The National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw, Poland The Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
SELECTED CATALOGUES & ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry, 2016. Ed. Paul Gorman. London: Thames & Hudson. When Britain Went Pop: British Pop Art, The Early Years, 2013. Essay by Robert Brown, “Conversation with Derek Boshier, July 2013.” London: Christie’s International Media Division. How to Draw Water, 2007. Artist’s Book. Edition of 100. United Kingdom Government Art Collection Catalogue, 2007. London: The Public Catalogue Foundation. What?, 2001. Artist’s Book. Edition of 7. Derek Boshier: The Texas Years, 1996. Essay by Guy Brett, “The Amorphous Us.” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
2276 E. 16th Street, Los Angeles, California 90021 nightgallery.ca
American Art Since 1900. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin. Lives, 1978. Catalogue. Exhibition curated and introductory essay by Derek Boshier. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Jonathan Grifn, “The Breakfast Club,” LALA Magazine, April 27 2019 “The Derek Boshier Conversation,” Cellophaneland, November 12 Alexander Massouras, “Review: Derek Boshier,” Art Monthly Review, June 27 2017 Gwynedd Stuart, “Hockney Contemporary Derek Boshier Has Immortalized Old Friend David Bowie (Again),” LA Weekly, May 12 Chris Richards, “David Bowie Remembered by his Admirers, Collaborators, and Friends”, The Washington Post, April 21 2016 Kashmira Gander, “Why is the RCA the best art school in the world?”, The Independent, April 6 2015 Dr. Michael Petry, “Falling Leaves: A Fall Preview”, The Hufngton Post, Oct 8 Paul Gorman, “Boshier & Bowie”, GQ Magazine, Dec 1 2014 Ana Teixeira Pinto, “Derek Boshier’s Change”, Art Agenda, April 10 2013 “Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits”, Art Daily, Dec 19 Robert Moeller, “A Pop Artist Who’s Never Conformed”, Hyperallergic, Oct 21 “Portrait of David Bowie as the Elephant Man By Derek Boshier To Be Exhibited For The First Time”, ArtWeek, Sept 26 “Unseen David Bowie Portrait Goes On Show at NPG”, Blouin ArtInfo, Sept 23 Doug Harvey, “Rediscovering Derek Boshier”, Modern Painters, Sept James Nisbet, “Derek Boshier”, Artforum, May 2012 Paul Gorman, “Rebel Rebel”, Pallant House Gallery Catalogue, No. 27, June - Oct 2006 Renaud Faroux, Clash City Painter, Étapes Magazine, May 2003 Renaud Faroux, “Derek Boshier La Chute Des Idoles”, L’Oeil Magazine 2001 Sandro Bocola, The Art of Modernism 1870-2000 (Taschen) 1986 Holland Cotter, “Derek Boshier at Totah-Stelling”, Art in America, October 1985 Marco Livinstone, “Letter from Derek Boshier”, Art Monthly, October Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill, “Derek Boshier, Texas Gallery”, Artforum, September