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Biography - Richard Smith

Born

1931 Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England

Education

1954 St. Alban’s School of Art, England
1954‑57 Royal College of Art Scholarship to Italy

Solo Exhibitions

1961 The Green Gallery, New York, NY
1962 The Artists Studio, London, England
1963 The Green Gallery, New York, NY
The Kasmin Gallery, London, England
1964 The Green Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Editions Alecto, Italy
Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
1967 Kasmin Gallery, London, England
1968 Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
1969 Kasmin Gallery, London, England
1970 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
1971 Kasmin Gallery, London, England
Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford, England
1973 Ruth S. Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Gallerie Schottenring, Vienna, Austria
Hayward Gallery, London, England
1974 The Garage, London, England
DM Gallery, London, England
O.K Harris, New York, NY
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
Gallerie Schottenring, Vienna, Austria
1975 Fundacion Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
Gimpel Fils, London, England
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Ashmolean Museum, Cambridge, England
Tate Gallery, London, England
1975‑76 Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1976 Gimpel Fils, London, England
Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan
Getler/Pall, New York, NY
Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
Galleria Vinciana, Milan, Italy
Galleria la Polena, Genoa, Italy
1977 Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
Galeria Modulo, Porto, Italy
DM Gallery, London, England
Galeria Arte/Contacto, Caracas, Venezuela
Galleria Le Piramide, Florence, Italy
Studio Arco d’Alibert, Rome, Italy
Galerie Orny, Munich, Germany
Gimpel and Hanover Galleries, Zurich, Switzerland
1978 Artline, The Hague, Netherlands
Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1980 Bernard Jacobson, London, England
1982 Kasmin and Knoedler Galleries, London, England
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York, NY (monoprints)
1984 Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
1987 “Recent Work,” Richard Feigen, Chicago, IL
1990 Knoedler Gallery, London
1992 Wassermann Galerie, Munich
1992/93/94 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1995 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Prints and Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London
1996 Prints and Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London
1996/97 Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery
1997 Prints and Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London
2000 Prints and Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London
2001 Jay Grimm Gallery, New York
Recent Paintings, Flowers East, London
Flowers Central, London
Guernsey College of Art
2003 Flowers West, Santa Monica

Group Exhibitions

1954 “Young Contemporaries,” RBA Galleries, London, England
1957 “New Trends in British Art,” Rome, Italy
“Place, a Collaboration,” ICA, London, England
1961 “2e Biennale de Paris,” Musee de l’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1962 “Contemporary Painting,” Yale University, New Haven, CT
“Kompas II,” STedelijk Museum, Eindhoven, Holland
1962‑63 “British Art Today,” San Francisco Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1963 “VII Tokyo Biennale,” Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Japan
“British Painting in the 60’s,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
“Dunn International,” Tate Gallery, London, England
1964 “Britische Malerei der Gegenwart,” Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Printing and Sculpture of a Decade,” Tate Gallery, London, England
“Nieuwe Realisten,” Gemeente Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
“The Shaped Canvas,” Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum des 20, Vienna, Austria
1965 “Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme,” Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“Biennale des Jeunes,” Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
1966 “The Other Tradition,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Aspects of British Art,” Auckland City Art Gallery, New Zealand
1967 “Color, Image and Form,” Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
“Jeunes Peintres Anglais,” Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rowan,” University of California at Irvine, CA
1968 “Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang,” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT
“Documenta 4,” Kassel, Germany
1969 “Artists from the Kasmin Collection,”Arts Council of Belfast, Northern Ireland
1970 “Contemporary British Art,” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
“British Painting and Sculpture,” National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1973 “La Peinture Anglais Aujourd’hui,” Musee d’Art de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1976 “For John Constable,” Tate Gallery, London, England
“Arte Inglese Oggi,” British Art Council in Milan, Italy
1977 “British Painting 1952‑77,” Royal Academy, London, England
“British Paintings of the 60’s,” Tate Gallery, London, England
1981 Sally Le Gallais Gallery, Jersey, England
“Prints by Six British Painters,” Tate Gallery, London, England
1982 “Recent Publications,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
1983 “Recent Publications,” Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 “Not So Plain Geometry,” Crown Point Press, NY
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Crown Point Press at Frito‑Lay,” Plano, TX
1992 “Ready, Steady, Go, Paintings from the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection”, Foyer Galleries, Royal Festival Hall, London
1992-93 “Pop Art”, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
1993 “The Sixties Art Scene in London”, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1994 “British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting”, Flowers East, London
“British Abstract Art Part III: Works On Paper”, Flowers East, London
1999 “Small is Beautiful, Part 1: Abstract”, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California
2001 “Flowers Seven”, Flowers Central, London British Abstract Painting, Flowers East, London
2002 “Flowers Ten”, Flowers Central, London Flowers Eleven, Flowers Central, London
2003 “Flowers Twelve”, Flowers Central, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2004 “Six from the Sixties”, Flowers East, London Flowers West at Keller & Greene
Los Angeles Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Abstract Composition, “Flowers Graphics, London Art from the ’60s - This was Tomorrow”, Tate, London
2005 “Angela Flowers Gallery 35th Anniversary Exhibition”, Flowers East, London
“Stroll On”- Aspects of British Art in the Sixties, MAMCO Geneva
“Gallery Artists”, Flowers East, London
“Small is Beautiful”, Flowers Central, London

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY