Cristea Roberts Gallery Artist Biography

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Ian Davenport (b. 1966)

Ian Davenport is one of the leading British abstract artists of 2011 Ian Davenport, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland his generation. He graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art Ian Davenport; Quick Slow Quick Quick Slow, in 1988 and as one of the generation of Young British Artists Waddington Custot Galleries, London, UK he participated in the seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze. In 1991 PRISMATIC, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize and has since exhibited 2010 Ian Davenport, AllerArt, Bludenz, Austria extensively across the world. In 1999 he was a prize winner in the The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary John Moores Exhibition. Davenport has undertaken several large Art from the British Council Collection, Minsheng Art scale site-specific murals, including the 50m long mural under the Museum, Shanghai, China bridge on Southwark Street, London. In 2016 he collaborated with 2009 New Prints and Monoprints, Alan Cristea Gallery, Dior to produce a limited edition Lady Dior Bag and in 2017 he London, UK created ‘Wide Acres of Time,’ a commision for Swatch Watches. Ian Davenport, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Davenport lives and works in London. 2008 Poured Lines, Waddington Galleries, London, UK 2007 Theo Contemporary, Seoul, Korea SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2006 Southwark Bridge Commission, London, UK Ovals, Arches, Lines, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK 2020 Ian Davenport: Chromatic, Cristea Roberts Gallery, How to Improve the World, Hayward, London, UK London, UK Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London, UK Synaesthesia, Lucca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea, 2005 Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands Milan, Italy René Xippas Gallery, Paris, France 2019 The Interaction of Colour, Cristea Roberts Gallery, 2003 Days Like These, Tate Triennale, London, UK London, UK 2002 Inheriting Matisse, Rocket Gallery, London, UK 2018 Horizons, Dallas Contemporary, Texas, USA 2000 Fact and Value, Charlottenburg, Denmark Colourscapes, Waddington Custot, London, UK 1999 Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Gallery and New Works on Paper, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, MOCA Chicago, USA Netherlands 1997 Ace !, South Bank Centre, London and touring, UK Cascade, Custot Gallery, Dubai, UAE 1996 Real Art – A New Modernism, Stedelijk Museum 2017 Melismatic, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK Amsterdam, Netherlands Giardini Colourfall, Swatch pavilion at The Venice 1994 Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK Biennale, Venice, Italy 1990 The British Art Show, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 2016 5 Years at Heddon Street, Pippy Holdsworth, London, 1988 Freeze, Surrey Docks, London, UK UK 1985 Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Doubletake, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Manchester, UK Tega, Milan, Italy Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS UK Cadence, Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland CH Weltkunst Collection, Zurich 2015 Pace Prints, New York, USA DE Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil FR FNAC Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London, UK IT Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia Right Now!, Mission Gallery, Swansea, UK UK Arts Council Collection, London 2014 Colourfall, Waddington Custot Galleries, London, UK The British Council, London Editions & Acquisitions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, Contemporary Art Society, London UK National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales Hidden in Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Southampton City Art Gallery Collection, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Tate, London Plymouth, UK Unilever, London 2013 Colorfall, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA Grosvenor Museum, Cheshire Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK USA Dallas Museum of Art, Texas 2012 Route 66: Ian Davenport/Alberto DiFabio, Luca Tommasi, Monza, Italy Between the Lines, Art Plural Gallery Ltd, Singapore Ian Davenport, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Switzerland Ian Davenport: Reflex, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporana, Rome, Italy