1918 Born St Ives, Cornwall, February
1936-37 Penzance School of Art
1940-45 Royal Air Force
1949 Founder member of Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall.
1957 – 60 Ran art school, St Peter’s Loft at St Ives with Terry Frost and William Redgrave
1961 Elected Chairman of the Newlyn Society of Artists, Cornwall and was elected a Bard of the Gareth Kernow
1964 Taunton, as a result of injuries he received in a gliding accident
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
2013-2014 Peter Lanyon, The Mural Studies, Gimpel Fils, London
2010-2011 Peter Lanyon, Tate St Ives
2009 Peter Lanyon, Gimpel Fils, Londo
2003 Peter Lanyon, Gimpel Fils, London
1993 Peter Lanyon: air, land & sea, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Mead Gallery, Coventry
1992 Peter Lanyon: air, land & sea, Camden Arts Centre, London
1978 Peter Lanyon: paintings, drawings and constructions, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester: subsequently shown at Kettle’s Yard, Cambbridge; Art Gallery and Museum Kelvingrove, Glasgow; Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives; Royal West of England Academy of Arts, Bristol
1971 Exeter University
1970 Peter Lanyon: Drawings, gouaches and paintings, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1969 Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
1968
Retrospective, Arts Council exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London: subsequently shown at Plymouth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Birmingham, Liverpool and Newlyn Gouaches and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London
1964
Catherine Viviano, New York
Gimpel and Hanover Galerie, Zurich
1963
Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio
Catherine Viviano, New York
Three Contemporary Painters (with Henry Mundy and Ceri Richards), Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge: subsequently shown at King’s Lynn, Glasgow, Nottingham and Cheltenham
1962
Catherine Viviano, New York
Sail Loft Gallery, St Ives
Gimpel Fils, London
1961
VI Sao Paulo Biennale
1960
Gimpel Fils, London
1959
Catherine Viviano, New York
1958
Recent paintings, gouache and constructions by Peter Lanyon, Gimpel Fils, London
1957
Catherine Viviano, New York
1955 City Art Gallery, Plymouth: subsequently shown at the Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham
1954
Gimpel Fils, London
1952
Gimpel Fils, London
1951
Downing’s Bookshop, St Ives
1949
Lefevre Gallery, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 FOUR GIANTS OF BRITISH MODERNISM, Beaux Arts, London
2013 10 Abstract Painters, Beaux Arts, London
2012-2013 Inshore Fishing: Peter Lanyon and contemporary artists, Rokeby, London
2012 Pavillion of Art and Design London
London Art Fair St Ives the Middle Generation, Beaux Arts, London
2011
20th Century British Art, Osborne Samuel, London
Prints from the Collection of Master Lithographer Stanley Jones, Osborne Samuel, London
2006-2007
Spotlight on St Ives, touring exhibition: Southbank Centre London, Museum and Art Gallery, Denbigh, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster, Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham, Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough 2004
St Ives, Beaux Arts, London
The Challenge of Post War Painting, James Hyman, London
1984-1985
Drawings by Peter Lanyon and Photographs by Andrew Lanyon, British Council Exhibition touring Ireland, Portugal and Spain, Cornwall:
1968 Gouaches and Drawings, Gimpel Fils, London
1963
Three Contemporary Painters (with Henry Mundy and Ceri Richards), Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge: subsequently shown at King’s Lynn, Glasgow, Nottingham and Cheltenham