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PAULA REGO
1935 — Born in Lisbon, Portugal
The artist lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education
1952-56 — Studied at The Slade School of Art, London, United Kingdom
Solo Exhibitions
2019-20 — Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom; travelling to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2019 — Giving Fear a Face, CEART: Centro de Arte Tomas y Valiente, Madrid, Spain
2018-19 — The Cruel Stories of Paula Rego, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France
2018 — Paula Rego From Mind to Hand: Drawings and Works on Paper 1980-2001, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom Folktales and Fairy Tales, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
2017-18 — There and Back Again, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
2017 — Depression Pictures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom Paula Rego: Secrets and Stories, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal Paula Rego: Family Sayings, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona, Spain Paula Rego and Adriana Varejão, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel Carpintaria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The Boy who Loved the Sea and Other Stories, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, United Kingdom Paula Rego: The Sketchbooks, Pallant House, Chichester, United Kingdom
2016 — Paula Rego Old Meets New, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal Marlborough
Dancing Ostriches, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom Paula Rego Paintings and Etchings from the 1980s, Frieze Masters, United Kingdom
2015 — Cousin Bazilio and Other Stories, Marlborough Galería, Madrid, Spain The Poacher, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
2014 — Paula Rego, Fábulas Reales (Real Stories), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Gas Natural Fenosa (Museum of Contemporary Art, Natural Gas Fenosa), La Coru a, Spain The Last King of Portugal, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2013 — Dame with the Goat’s Foot and Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2012 — Paula Rego Retrospective, The Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Balzac and other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2011 — Oratorio, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
2010-2011 — Paula Rego Retrospective Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico; travelled to Pinacoteca de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2010 — Oratorio, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2009 — Paula Rego, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
2008 — Human Cargo, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States Paula Rego Retrospective de l’oeuvre graphique (Paula Rego: Graphic Works Retrospective), Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Nimes, France
2007-08 — Paula Rego: Retrospective Exhibition, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; travelled to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., United States
2007 — Paula Rego, Graven Images, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom Paula Rego: O Vinho, A series of Eight Lithographs, Marlborough Fine Art, London; travelled to Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
2006 — Paula Rego, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom Marlborough
2005-06 — Paula Rego: Printmaker, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom: travelled to Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom; University Gallery, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom; Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
2004-05 — Paula Rego, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal Paula Rego, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2003 — Pendle Witches, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Linden Mill, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom Jane Eyre and Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States
2002 — Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes e Outras Gravuras (Nursery Rhymes and Other Prints), Parque das Nacoes, (Park of The Nations) Lisbon, Portugal
2001-2002 — Paula Rego: Celestina’s House, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom; travelled to the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
2000 — Pendle Witches, Children’s Crusade and Drawings, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom
1999 — The Children's Crusade, A Suite of 12 Etchings, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom Paula Rego; O Crime do Padre Amaro (Paula Rego; The Crime of Father Amaro), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Open Secrets: Drawings and Etchings by Paula Rego, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, United States; travelled to Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, France Nursery Rhymes, White Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom
1998 — Paula Rego: The Sins of Father Amaro, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, United Kingdom Paula Rego: Pendle Witches and Peter Pan, Midland Art Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom Paula Rego: Pra Lá et Pra Cá, Galerie III, Lisbon, Portugal
1997 — Paula Rego, Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom; travelled to Fundação das Descobertas, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
1996 — Pendle Witches, Marlborough Graphics, London, United Kingdom
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1995 — Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia; Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1994 — Paula Rego: Dog Women, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
1992-93 — Paula Rego: Peter Pan & Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
1991-92 — Tales from the National Gallery, The National Gallery, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; United Kingdom; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
1991 — Nursery Rhymes, British Council travelling exhibition in Europe
1988 — Retrospective Exhibition, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; travelled to Casa de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal; Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1987 — Selected Work 1981-1986, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales and UK tour Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1985 — The Art Place, New York, New York, United States
1984 — South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell Midland Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1983 — Arnolfini, Bristol, United Kingdom Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1982 — Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1981 — AIR Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1978 — Galeria III, Lisbon, Portugal
1977 — M dulo Centro Difusor da Arte, Oporto, Portugal Marlborough
1975 — M dulo Centro Difusor da Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
1974 — Galeria da Emenda, Lisbon, Portugal
1972 — Galeria Alvarez, Porto, Portugal
1971 — Galeria São Mamede, Lisbon, Portugal
1965 — SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 — All Too Human: Bacon Freud and a Century of Painting, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary Post-Pop, Outside the Commonplace, Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal Macau Biennial, Macau Museum of Art, Macau, China
2017-18 — Bacon, Freud and the School of London, Museo Picasso, Malaga, Spain; travelled to ARoS, Aarhus, Denmark
2015 — Mujeres artistas de los siglos XX y XXI (Deafness and Soul, in Body and Mind, Women Artists from the XX and XXI Century), Kubo Kutxa Foundation, San Sebastian, Spain She Came to Stay, Rook and Raven Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 — 1961: Ordem e Caos (Order and Chaos), Paula Rego, Victor Willing, Eduardo Batarda and Bartolomeu dos Santos, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal Meeting Point: Rembrandt and Paula Rego, Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Paula Rego / Honoré Daumier: Scandal Gossip and Other Stories, House of Illustration, London, United Kingdom
2013 — Ahmed Alsoudani, Philip Guston and Paula Rego, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, United States A Opera Segundo Paula Rego, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal Paula Rego - Honoré Daumier, Scandal Gossip and other Stories, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal
2012 — Paula Rego and Adriana Molder, Casa das Historias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal Marlborough
2011 — My Choice: Selected Works by Paula Rego from the British Council Collection, Casa das Hist rias Paula Rego, Cascais, Portugal Nothing in the World but Youth, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom
2010 — Mat Collishaw, Tracey Emin & Paula Rego: At the Foundling, The Foundling Museum, London, United Kingdom
2009 — Enchanted Worlds: Art and Fairy Stories & Mermaid Tales, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, United Kingdom The Artist’s Studio, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom Decadence, the Rake’s Progress, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
2008 — La feminidad en el arte (Femininity in Art), Sala Bancaja, San Miguel, Spain Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk-Art Museum, New York, United States
2006 — The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London, United Kingdom; travelled to to Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, United Kingdom Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom
2005 — Only Make Believe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, United Kingdom O Nome Que No Peito Escrito Tinhas (Paula Rego, Julião Sarmento, Vasco Ara jo, João Pedro Vale and Adriana Molder), Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal,
2004 — Five Painters from Portuguese Modernity (1911-1965), Amadeo de Souza-Cardosa, Almada Negreiros, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Joaquin Rodrigo & Paula Rego, La Pedrera, Fundaçao Caixa de Catalan, Barcelona, Spain; travelled to the Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil BODY. From Munch to Melgaard, Kistefos Museum, Norway
2003 — The Enduring Image, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom La Fête (The Party), Le Bellevue, Biarritz, France; travelled to Museo Valenciano de la Illustraci n y la Modernidad, Valencia Escuela de Londres (School of London), Marlborough Madrid, Spain; travelled to Centro Cultural Caja de Granada, Puerta Real, Granada, Spain
2002 — Coming of Age – Works from the Tate Collection, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, United Kingdom Metamorphing, The Science Museum, London, United Kingdom Heavenly Creatures – Paula Rego and Ron Mueck, The British School at Rome, Italy
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2000-2001 — British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, United Kingdom The School of London and their Friends: The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
2000 — Elogio de lo Visible, (Praise for the Visible), International Figuration Exhibition, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain; travelled to Centro Cultural Las Claras, Murcia, Spain; Centro Cultural Casa del Cordon, Burgos, Spain; Cultural Rioja, Logroňo, Spain Carnivalesque, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Brighton Museum, United Kingdom; Nottingham Castle Museum, United Kingdom Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1999 — Portrait of a City: Seven Figurative Painters from London, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States Figuration, Blickle Stiftung Bruchsal, Kraichtal, Germany; travelled to Rupertinum Museum, Salzburg, France; Bolzano Museum, Italy
1998-99 — The School of London: From Bacon to Bevan, Musée Maillol, Paris, France; travelled to Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Kunst Haus, Vienna, Austria
1996 — David Hockney: Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm; Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes, University Museum, Long Beach, California, United States Spellbound: Art and Film, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1995 — Peep, Brighton Museum, Brighton, United Kingdom New Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1994-95 — An American Passion: The Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, United Kingdom; travelled to The Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
1994 — Unbound - Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom Waves of Influence (Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan Graphics), Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, United States Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom John Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
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1993-94 — Writing on the Wall: Women Writers on Women Artists, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Norwich Castle Museum, United Kingdom and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom
1992-93 — Innocence and Experience, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom Life into Paint: British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Isreal
1992 — Myth, Dream and Fable, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom
1991-92 — From Bacon to Now: The Outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy The Primacy of Drawing: An Artist's View, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom; Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Stoke-on-Tent Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
1991 — Modern Painters: A Memorial Exhibition for Peter Fuller, City Art Galleries, Manchester, United Kingdom
1990-91 — British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council Travelling Exhibition, Japan The Great British Art Exhibition, Glasgow, United Kingdom
1990 — Now for the Future, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom; travelled to Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
1989-90 — Picturing People: Figurative Art in Britain 1945 - 1989, British Council Travelling Exhibition: National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Hong Kong Museum of Art, China; National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
1989 — Ines de Castro, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
1988 — Works on Paper by Contemporary Artists, Marlborough Fine Art, London, United Kingdom Cries and Whispers, British Council Travelling exhibition, Australia Objects and Image, Aspects of British Art in the 1980's, Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery, United Kingdom
1987 — Art Contemporáneo Portugués, Madrid, Spain Current Affairs-British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom; travelled to Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia Marlborough
70 - 80: Arte Portuguesa, Brazil, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alberto da Lacerdo: O Mundo de un poeta, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Obras de uma Colecçao Particular (Artworks from a Private Collection), Casa de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
1986 — A primeira década (The First Decade), M dulo-Centro Difusor da Arte, Lisbon, Portugal Le XXéme au Portugal, Centre Albert Borchette, Brussels, Belgium AICA-PHILAE, SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal Love Sacred and Profane, Plymouth, United Kingdom The Human Zoo, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, United Kingdom
1985 — The British Art Show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom Diálogo sobre arte contemporanea, Centro de Arte Moderna, Lisbon, Portugal; travelled to Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Bienale de Paris, France Animals, Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom Exposição Diálogo, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal Bienal de São Paulo (represented Britain), Brazil Passion and Power, La Mama and Gracie Mansion, New York, New York, United States
1984 — 1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom Os Novos Primitivos (The New Primitives), Cooperative Arvore, Porto, Portugal
1983 — Third Biennale of Graphic Arts, Baden, Germany Eight in the Eighties, New York, New York, United States Marathon 83, New York, New York, United States
1982 — Three Women, Edward Totah Gallery, United Kingdom Pintura portuguesa contemporánea (Contemporary Portuguese Painting), Museu Luis de Cam es, Macau, China Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1981 — Artists in Camden, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom Ante-visão do Centro de Arte Moderna (The Vision of Modern Art), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal The Subjective Eye, Midland Group, Nottingham, United Kingdom
1979 — Femina, UNESCO, Paris, France
1978 — Portuguese Art since 1910, Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom Exposição individual (Solo Exhibition), Galeria III, Lisbon, Portugal Marlborough
1977 — Artistas Portugueses en Madrid: Pintura e Escultura Contemporánea (Portuguese Artists in Madrid: Contemporary Painting and Sculpture), Madrid, Spain
1976 — Arte Portugués Contemporánea (Contemporary Portuguese Artists), Galerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy Art Portugais Contemporain (Contemporary Portuguese Artists), Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, France Exposiçao de Arte Moderna Portuguesa, SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal
1975 — XIII Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil Figuraçao Hoje (Figurative Painting Today), Lisbon, Portugal
1974 — Expo AICA, SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal
1973 — Pintura portuguesa de hoje-abstractos e Neo-figurativos (Portuguese Painting of Today – Abstract and Neo-Figuratives), Lisbon, Portugal; travelled to Salamanca, Spain; Barcelona, Spain 26 Artistas de Hoje (26 Artists Today), Lisbon, Portugal Exposição de Artistas Modernas Portugueses (Exhibition of Modern Artists from Portugal), Galleria Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal
1970 — Novos Sintomas na pintura portuguesa (New Trends in Portuguese Painting), Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon, Portugal
1969 — Represented Portugal in the XI Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil Gravure Portugaise Contemporaine (Contemporary Portuguese Engraving), Paris, France
1967 — Bienal de Tokyo, Novas Iconologias, Lisbon, Portugal Art Portugais: Peinture et sculpture de Naturalisme à nos jours (Portuguese Art: Painting and Sculpture of the Present Day), travelled to Brussels, Belgium
1965 — Six Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, United Kingdom
1961 — Segunda Exposição de Artes Plásticas, Fundação Calouste Goulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1955 — Young Contemporaries, London, United Kingdom
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Selected Awards/Residencies
2016 — Elected Senior Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, United Kingdom
2010 — Created a Dame of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours Winner of The Mapfre Foundation Drawing Prize, Madrid, Spain
2005 — Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Oxford University, United Kingdom
2004 — Grã Cruz da Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada presented by the President of Portugal
1999 — Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
1990 — Appointed the First National Gallery Associate Artist, National Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Selected Commissions
2009 — Painted a portrait of Sir David Hare for the National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2005 — Created a set of Jane Eyre Stamps for the Royal Mail, United Kingdom
Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogs
2008 — John McEwen, Paula Rego: Behind the Scenes (London: Phaidon, 2008)
2007 — Robert Hughes and Marco Livingstone, Paula Rego, Retrospective Exhibition, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, exh.cat. (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2007)
2006 — John McEwen, Paula Rego, 3rd edition (London: Phaidon, 2006)
2002 — Fiona Bradley, Paula Rego (London: Tate Publishing, 2002)
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1998 — Ruth Rosengarten with text by Victor Willing, Paula Rego, Retrospective Exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, exh.cat. (London: Serpentine Gallery, 1998) Elizabeth Cayzer, Changing Perceptions: Milestones in Twentieth-Century British Portraiture (Brighton: Alpha Press, 1998), pp. 87 - 91
1997 — Fiona Bradley, Judith Collins and Ruth Rosengarten, Paula Rego, Retrospective Exhibition, Tate Liverpool, exh.cat. (London: Tate Publishing, 1997)
1996 — Pendle Witches, Etchings by Paula Rego (London: Enitharmon Press, 1996)
1991 — Germaine Greer and Colin Wiggins, Paula Rego: Tales from The National Gallery, The National Gallery, exh.cat. (London: National Gallery Publications, 1991)
1994 — Marina Warner, Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes (London: Thames and Hudson and The Folio Society, 1994)
Public Collections
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, United Kingdom Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London, United Kingdom Bristol City Art Gallery, United Kingdom British Council Collection, United Kingdom British Museum, London, United Kingdom National Gallery, London, United Kingdom National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom Portuguese Embassy, London, United Kingdom Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom