Peter Blake Biography 1932 1977 Born: Dartford, Kent, United Kingdom Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London Lives and works in London 1978 Waddington Graphics, London EDUCATION 1979 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames, United Kingdom 1946–1949 Gravesend Technical College and School of Art, Kent 1980 Galleria Documenta, Turin, Italy 1949–1951 Gravesend School of Art, Kent 1983 Tate Gallery, London; Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, 1953–1956 Germany Royal College of Art, London 1984 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris TEACHING 1986–1987 1964–1976 Watermans Art Centre, Brentford, United Kingdom Royal College of Art, London Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, United Kingdom 1988 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo 1962 1990 Portal Gallery, London Waddington Galleries, London Wetterling Gallery, Gothenburg 1965 Robert Fraser Gallery, London 1992 Govinda Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1969 Leslie Waddington Prints, London 1995 Robert Fraser Gallery, London Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris City Art Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom 1996–1997 1970 Now We Are 64: Peter Blake at The National Gallery, Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, United Kingdom The National Gallery, London; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester 1972 Waddington Galleries, London 1999 A Cabinet of Curiosities from the Collections of 1973–1974 Peter Blake, Morley Gallery, London Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunstverein Hamburg; Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem; Palais des Beaux-Arts, 2000–2001 Brussels Peter Blake: About Collage, Tate Liverpool, United Kingdom, April 7, 2000–March 4, 2001 2001–2009 2011 Peter Blake: Alphabet, United Kingdom Peter Blake: World Tour, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, April 14–June 18 2002 Peter Blake: A Museum for Myself, Holburne Museum, Sir Peter Blake / And Now We Are 70, Paul Morris Bath, United Kingdom, May 14–September 4 Gallery, New York, November 16–December 21 2012 2003 Blake’s Artists and Other Collages, Wetterling Gallery, Artiscope, Brussels Stockholm, February 10–March 24 Peter Blake: Commercial Art, The London Institute Peter Blake and Pop Music, Pallant House Gallery, Gallery, London Chichester, United Kingdom, June 23–October 7 Peter Blake: Sculpture, The London Institute Gallery, Peter Blake: Rock, Paper, Scissors, Waddington Custot London Galleries, London, November 21–December 15 2005 2013 Peter Blake: 1–10 (Collages, Constructions, Drawings Peter Blake: Four Decades, Chelsea Futurespace, & Sculpture) & The Marcel Duchamp Paintings, London, May 15–July 28 Waddington Galleries, London, October 19– November 12 2013–2014 Llareggub: Peter Blake illustrates Dylan Thomas’s 2006 Under Milk Wood, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, With a Little Help, Spring Fine Art, Design and Antiques November 23, 2013–March 16, 2014 Fair, London, March 1–5 Peter Blake: 1975–2005, Bjorn Wetterling Gallery, 2015 Stockholm, March 9–April 13 Peter Blake: Portraits and People, Waddington Custot Peter Blake: New Prints and Sculpture, Harley Gallery, Galleries, London, November 24–January 30 Welbeck, United Kingdom, October 28–December 24 2016 Peter Blake’s Grand Tour, The Harley Gallery, Worksop, 2007–2008 United Kingdom, March 20–May 6 Peter Blake: A Retrospective, Tate Liverpool, United Peter Blake: Alphabets, Letters and Numbers, De La Kingdom, June 29–September 23, 2007; Museo Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, United Kingdom, de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain, March 3–June 22, August 13–November 27 2008 Sir Peter Blake, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, United Kingdom, September 10–October 29 2008 Sir Peter Blake – Once Upon a Time, Wetterling Gallery, Galerie Thomas Levy, Hamburg, Germany Stockholm, August 25–October 1 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, October 14–November 2009 26 Peter Blake’s Polaroids, Opus Art, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, June 20–August 1 2017 Be Magnificent: Walthamstow School of Art 1957- 1967, 2009–2010 William Morris Gallery, London, June 9–September Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, October 24, 2009– 10 January 5, 2010 2018 2010 The Alphabet Suites, Bohun Gallery, Henley-on- Homage 10 × 5: Blake’s Artists, Waddington Galleries, Thames, United Kingdom March 5–April 14 London, November 17–December 23 A Life in Drawings and Watercolours, Waddington Custot, London, July 5–September 8 2019 1962 Pick of the Pops, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, British Painting Today and Yesterday, Arthur Tooth and Wolverhampton, United Kingdom February 2– Sons, London September 1 Towards Art?, Royal College of Art, London Peter Blake: The Artist’s Studio, Garth Greenan Gallery, New Realists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York New York, April 11–May 18 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, May 5–August 26 2021 Peter Blake: Time Traveller, Waddington Custot, London, 1962–1963 June 18–August 13 British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts; Santa Barbara Museum of Art SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1963 1954 Drawings by Artists of Two Generations, Grabowsky Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Gallery, London Arts, London, May 1–August 15 British Painting in the Sixties, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1955 Dunn International Exhibition, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Paintings by Tutors and Students at the RCA, Exeter Fredericton, Canada; Tate Gallery, London The Observer Exhibition of Portraits of Children, RWS Troisième Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris Galleries, London Daily Express Young Artists’ Exhibition, New Burlington 1964 Galleries, London The New Image, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast 6 Young Painters, Blackburn Art Gallery, Blackburn, 1958 United Kingdom; Five Painters (with John Barnicoat, Peter Coviello, Kingston-upon-Hull; Eastbourne; Cambridge; Sheffield William Green and Richard Smith), Institute of (Arts Council exhibition) Contemporary Arts, London New painting 61–64, Arts Council of Great Britain, The Guggenheim Painting Award 1958: British Section, London Whitechapel Art Gallery, London British Painting from the Paris Biennale 1963, Royal College of Art, London 1960 Shakespeare Exhibition, 1954–1964, Stratford-upon- Theo Crosby: sculpture, Peter Blake: objects, John Avon Latham: libraries, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Summer Exhibition 1964, Robert Fraser Gallery, London London Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh Grass by Tony Gifford, Gold by Peter Blake, New Vision Centre, London 1965 Peter Blake, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Ivor Abrahams, Portal Peter Stuyvesant Foundation: a collection in the making, Gallery, London Whitechapel Art Gallery, London The Mysterious Sign, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Pop Art: Nouveau Idealisme, Palais des Beaux-Arts, London Brussels London: The New Scene, Walker Art Center, 1961 Minneapolis; The Washington Gallery of Modern Pauline Boty, Peter Blake, Christine Porter, Geoffrey Art, Washington, DC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Reeve, AIA Gallery, London Boston; Seattle Art Museum Pavilion; The Vancouver John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Art Gallery; The Art Gallery of Toronto; The National Liverpool, United Kingdom Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, May 1–August 15 1966 Contemporary British Art, National Museum of Modern European Drawings, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, Art, Tokyo New York British Painting and Sculpture 1960–1970, National Work in Progress, Robert Fraser Gallery, London Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Blake, Boshier, Caulfield, Hamilton, Paolozzi, Studio An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Screenprints Marconi, Milan by Peter Blake and Graham Ovenden based on the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, National College of Art, theme of Lewis Caroll’s Alice, Waddington Galleries, Dublin London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of 1967 Arts, London, May 2–July 26 British Drawings: The New Generation, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1970–1971 Work from 1956 to 1967 by Clive Barker, Peter Blake, New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Richard Hamilton, Jann Haworth and Le visage de l’homme dans l’art contemporain, Musée Rath, 1971 Geneva Works on Paper, Waddington Galleries, London Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Critic’s Choice, selected by Robert Melville, Arthur Brussels Tooth and Sons, London Englische Kunst, Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich 1967 Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, 1973 Pittsburgh 11 Englische Zeichner, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden- Convocation Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London Baden, Germany; Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany; Recent British Painting: Peter Stuyvesant Collection, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium Tate Gallery, London Earth Images, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Homage to Marilyn Monroe, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Edinburgh York Henry Moore to Gilbert and George: Modern British art from the Tate Gallery, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels 1967–1968 Three Painters: Peter Blake, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, 1974 Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, United Kingdom; Peter Blake (with works by Jann Haworth), Festival Arts Council Gallery, Cambridge, United Kingdom Gallery, Bath, United Kingdom Peter Blake’s Selection, Festival Gallery, Bath, United 1968 Kingdom Painting 1964–1967, Hayward Gallery, London (Arts British Painting ‘74, Hayward Gallery, London Council exhibition) Works on Paper, Waddington Galleries, London Britische Kunst heute, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany Three Blind Mice, de collecties: Visser, Peeters, Becht, 1975–1976 Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands European Painting in the 70s, Los Angeles County The Obsessive Image 1960–1968, Institute of