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Phillip King RA
Phillip King was born in Tunisia in 1934, arrived in England in 1945, and studied modern languages at Cambridge University from 1954 to 1957. He began to make sculpture during his time at university and from 1957 to 1958 studied sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, where Anthony Caro was teaching. King taught at St Martin's for a year before working as an assistant to Henry Moore, where he gained experience working on a larger scale.
In 1964 King had his first of many solo exhibitions at the Rowan Gallery. He also had several solo shows in America in the 1960s. He established a major reputation in both group and solo shows in Britain and overseas using a variety of materials from fibreglass and metal through to wood and slate. He has had several retrospective exhibitions, including one at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1968) and at the Hayward Gallery (1981). He was commissioned to create work for Expo ’70 in Tokyo. Further retrospectives of his work were held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997, and at Forte de Belvedere, Florence in 1997. King was only the second English sculptor to be given this honour, the first being Henry Moore.
Phillip King was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1967 to 1969. He taught at St Martins School of Art from 1959 until 1980, and was Professor of Sculpture at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1979-80). He was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London from 1980 to 1990, and was made Professor Emeritus at the College in 1990. He went on to be elected Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1990, a post which he held until his election as President of the Royal Academy in 1999.
Recent solo exhibitions
2008 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2007 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2006 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2003 Jesus College, Cambridge 2002 Place Gallery, Cavagnole, Italy
2001 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Garth Clark Gallery, New York
1998 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London 1997 Forte de Belvedere, Florence
1996 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 1995 Galerie Waszkowiak/Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin
1994 Observer Studio Exhibition, London
1993 Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin Le Prieure Saint Michel, Vimoutiers La Filature, Nouvel Espace Culturel, Mulhouse
1992 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim** Art Warehouse, London MAAK Gallery, London
1990 Mayor Rowan Gallery, London Grob Gallery, London Public collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Arts Council of Great Britain Bradford City Art Gallery, UK British Council, London, UK Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal City of Rotterdam, Netherlands Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK Cultural Centre, Adelaide, Australia Felton Bequest, Melbourne, Australia Galleria d’Arte Moderno, Turin Government Art Collection, London, UK Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands Leeds Museum & Galleries (City Art Gallery), UK Leicestershire Education Authority, UK Leisure Centre, Osaka, Japan Los Angeles County Museum, USA Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Middleheim Open Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan Osaka City Public Art Collection, Japan Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyama, Japan Rijksmuseum, Netherlands Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK State University of New York College, Purchase, New York, USA Stuyvesant Foundation, New York, USA Tate Gallery, London, UK Tel Aviv Museum, Israel Tokyo University Art Collection, Japan Ulster Museum, Belfast Yale Centre for British Art, USA
