Ian DAVENPORT
Born in 1966 in Kent, England.
Lives and works in London, Great-Britain.
Education
1984-85
Northwich College of Art and Design, Cheshire, Great-Britain.
1985-88
Goldsmiths' College of Art, London (B.A. Fine Art), Great-Britain.
1991
Nominated for Turner Prize
1999
Prizewinner John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21
2000
Prizewinner Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy.
One Person Exhibition
2009
Puddle Paintings : Waddington Galleries, London, Great-Britain.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA.
2008
Ian Davenport Poured Lines, Waddington Galleries, London, Great-Britain.
2006
Poured Lines: Southwark Street by Ian Davenport, Tate Modern, London, Great-Britain.
Ovals Arches Lines, Alan Cristea gallery, London, Great-Britain.
2005
Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2004
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain.
2003
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (catalogue), Scotland.
2001
Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
Slewe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Box Associati, Torino, Italy.
2000
Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain.
Project space, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain.
1999
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Great Britain
Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium.
1998
Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
1997
Galerie Limmer, Köln, Germany.
Galleria Moncada, Rome, Italy.
1996
Statements, Waddington Galleries, Art 27'96, Basel, Switzerland.
Ridinghouse Editions, London, Great Britain.
Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain.
1994
Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA.
1993
Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain.
1992
Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany.
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany.
Galerie Limmer, Freiburg, Germany.
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA.
1990
Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain.
Group Exhibitions
2010
Abstraction and Structure, Bernard Knaus Fine Art, Berlin, Germany. May 6 - July 31
Abstract Vision Now, Art+Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia. April 15 - May 30
2009
Artissima, Galerie Xippas, Turino, Italy
2008-09
Weight Watchers, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
2008
MAXImin, Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain.
Ian Davenport & The Simpsons, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburg, Scotland.
2007
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London, Great-Britain.
ART Futures, Bloomberg Space, London, Great-Britain.
2006
Alan Cistea Gallery, London, Great-Britain.
Passion for Paint, National Gallery, London, Great-Britain (travelling: Bristol City Museum et Art Gallery, Bristol; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Great-Britain).
You’ll Never Know : Drawing and Random interference, Hayward Gallery, London, Great-Britain.
Tourning Exhibition : Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston ; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea ; The Lowry, Salford ; New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie Mouse Museum and Art Gallery.
Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
How to Change the World, 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, Great-Britain.
2005
Ian Davenport, Kaoru Tsunoda, Rachmaninoff's, London, Great Britain.
Minimalism and After IV, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany.
Painting : London, Gallery Holly Snapp, Venice, Italy.
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2004
Other Times: British Contemporary Art, City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
Painting as Process: Re-evaluating Painting, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapour, China.
2003
Exodus, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Great Britain.
Blanc de blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France.
Days Like These : Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Britian London, Great Britain.
2002
In the Freud Museum, Freud Museum, London, Great Britain.
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Gallery Poject Space, London, Great Britain (sponsored by Pizza Express).
Super-Abstr-Action 2 , Galerie No Code, Bologna, Italy
Inheriting Matisse: The Decorative Contour in Contemporary Art, Rocket Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Peintures - contrainte ou recette, Galerie du Cloître, Rennes, France (organised by L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Rennes).
Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Abstraction , Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
John Moores 22, The Walker, Liverpool, Great Britain (part of the Liverpool Biennal 2002).
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London, Great Britain.
Berlin/London/Minimal, Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany.
New Commissions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, Great Britain.
2001
Camberwell Artsweek 2001, Camberwell Leisure Centre, London, Great Britain.
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London, Great Britain.
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London, Great Britain, touring to Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Great Britain.
Complementary Studies : recent Abstract Painting, Harris Museum, Preston, Great Britain.
2000
Surface, An Tuireann, Isle of Skye, Scotland.
Fact and Value, Charlottenburg, Denmark.
Profiles of Young European Painting, Premio del Golfo, La Spezia, Italy.
1999
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, Great Britain; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
A Line in Painting, Gallery Fine, London, Great Britain.
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 21 exhibition of contemporary painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain.
Now Showing II, Houldsworth Fine Art, London, Great Britain.
21 years of Spacex, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Great Britain.
1998
Elegant Austerity, Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain.
Up to 2000, Southampton City Art Gallery, Great Britain.
Roberto Caracciolo, Ian Davenport, Galleria Moncada, Rome, Italy.
1997
Treasure Island, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ian Davenport, Michael Craig-Martin, Zebedee Jones, Michael Landy and Fiona Rae, Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain.
Finish, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, Great Britain.
1996-98
About Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich; Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain.
1996-97
Ace! Arts Council Collection new purchases, South Bank Centre exhibition: touring to : Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Oldham Art Gallery; Hayward Gallery, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ulster; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Great Britain.
1996
Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velázquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d'Arte Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
50 Jahre Kunst- und Museumsverein Wuppertal, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal-Barmen, Germany
British Abstract Art Part 3: Works on Paper, Flowers East, London, Great Britain
1995-96
Real Art - A New Modernism: British Reflexive Painters in the 1990s, Southampton City Art Gallery; touring to Stedelijk Museum, Aalst, Belgium; Leeds City Art Gallery
1995
From Here, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert, London, Great Britain
30 Years of Northern Young Contemporaries, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Great Britain
1994
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain
British Abstract Art Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London, Great Britain
Summer 94, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
British Painting 1988-1994: a selection from stock, Richard Salmon Ltd, London, Great Britain
1992
The Vertical Flatbed Picture Plane - En Valise, Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
L'Attico, Fabio Sargentini, Rome, Italy
Gifts to the Nation: Contemporary Art Society Purchases, Camden Arts Centre, London, Great Britain
1991-92
Confrontaciones: Arte ultimo britanico y espanol, Instituto de la Juventud, Madrid, Spain (in collaboration with the British Council)
1991
British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain
Metropolis Internationale Kunstausstellung, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin
Broken English, Serpentine Gallery, London, Great Britain
Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
Abstraction, Waddington Galleries, London, Great Britain
Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
New Displays, Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin, Germany
1990-91
Carnet de Voyages - 1, Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Public Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
Contemporary Art Society, Great Britain
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
FNAC (Fonds national d'art contemporain), Paris-La Défense, France
Government Art Collection, Great Britain
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Great Britain
Southampton City Art Gallery, Great Britain
Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain
Unilever, London, Great Britain
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Weltkunst Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Commissions
1997
Banque Paribas, London (site-specific installation)