Born London 1922

1940-41
Northampton School of Art

1941-46
Royal Air Force

1946-50
Goldsmiths' College School of Art, University of London

1962-83
Teaching at Goldsmiths' College School of Art

1965
Elected Member of London Group

1968
Arts Council Award to visit USA

1975
Arts Council Major Award

1983
BBC2 television film A Feeling to Paint: Four Artists and their Materials, directed by Anne James Gulbenkian Award for Printmaking

1990
BBC Radio 3, Third Ear interview with Joan Bakewell

1993
Design for Diversions Dance Company

1994
BBC2 television Off the Wall: The Byker Show

1998
Elected RA
First performance of Holyrood a composition by Barry Guy, based on a work by Irvin


Selected Solo Shows

2006
Urban Journey, Gimpel Fils, London
New Works, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin

2005-2006
New Editions and Monoprints, Advanced Graphics, London

2004-2005
Midsummer, Gimpel Fils, London

2003
Paintings and Prints, Storey Gallery, Lancaster
Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin

2002
Four Score, Gimpel Fils, London
Malerei, Galerie Stuhler, Berlin

2001
Paintings & Prints 1991-2001, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen

2000
Prints & Paintings 1980-2000, Advanced Graphics, London

1999
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Orion Gallery, Brussels

1998
Abbaye Saint-Andr�, Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac
Dean Clough Gallery, Halifax
Works on paper - touring German museums
Gimpel Fils, London, celebrating the launch of 'Albert Irvin - Life to Painting�, monograph, pub.Lund Humphries, London.

1997
Galerie St�hler, Berlin
Galerie Wassermann, Berlin

1996/7
Gimpel Fils, London

1996
Millfield School, Somerset
Oriel Theatre, Clwyd

1995
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

1994
Powell Moya Partnership, London
Gimpel Fils, London
Wasserman Galerie, Munich
Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Woodlands Art Gallery

1993
Campo Vlaamse Kaai, Antwerp
Bodilly Gallery, Cambridge
Flowers Graphics - Prints
Design for Diversions Dance Company

1992
Galeria Punto, Valencia
Chelmsford Cathedral Festival
Oxford Gallery
Galerie Klaus Lupke, Frankfurt
Gimpel Fils, London
Wolf At The Door, Penzance

1991
Playhouse Gallery, Harlow
Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University
Flowers East, London - Prints

1990
Serpentine Gallery, London
Gimpel Fils, London
Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Oriel and Chapter Galleries, Cardiff
Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Gallery Monochrome, Brussels

1989
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp

1988
Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York

1987
Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp

1986
Gimpel Fils, London
Hendriks Gallery, Dublin

1985
Coventry Gallery, Sydney
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny
Arcade Gallery, Harrogate

1984
Gimpel Fils, London
Demarcation, Edinburgh Festival
Jersey Arts Council Gallery

1983
Third Eye Centre Gallery, Glasgow
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1982
Gimpel Fils, London
Goldsmiths College Gallery, London

1981
Manchester Polytechnic Gallery

1980
Acme Gallery, London
Bede Gallery, Jarrow

1978
Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery

1976
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Galerie Klaus L�pke, Frankfurt

1975
Deutsche Oper, Berlin

1974
St�dtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen
Galerie 2, Stuttgart

1973
New Art Centre, London

1972
Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, and regularly during the 1970s Galerie Klaus L�pke, Frankfurt

1971
New Art Centre, London

1969
Exe Gallery, Exeter

1966
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

1964
Edinburgh University

1963
New Art Centre, London

1961
New Art Centre, London

1960
57 Gallery, Edinburgh


Selected Group Shows

2008
The Colour Show, Hilton Young Fine Art, Penzance
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2007
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

2006
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Summer Exhibition, Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall
Realites Nouvelles, Paris
Painting by Other Means: Non-figurative works from the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Wales

2005
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1979, Bloomberg SPACE, London
The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London

2004
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
174th RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Tracing the Land, Gimpel Fils, London

2003
The London Group, Peter Clossick at The Gallery in Cork Street
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Cabinet Paintings, Compass Gallery, Glasgow

2001/2
Square Root, Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London

2001
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
Selection from Collection of Royal Bank of Scotland, City Art Gallery, Edinburgh
Works in Paper, Galerie stuhler, Berlin
Zen and the Art of Cities, Rivington Gallery, London
Create Quarters, Museum of London
RWA, Bristol
RHA, Dublin
The London Group', Wlak Gallery, London

2000
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
Local Colour, Bury St. Edmunds Gallery
City Art Gallery, London
Summer Prospects, Orion Gallery, Ostend
5 British Painters, Flowers West, Los Angeles
Galerie Stuhler, Berlin
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
The Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London
Advanced Graphics at Original Print Gallery, Dublin

1999
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Kunst Schmuck Kunst, Galerie Stuhler, Berlin
Compas Gallery, Glasgow
21, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Small is Beautiful, Flowers West, Los Angeles
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

1998
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
25 Years of the Visual Arts, Bulter Gallery, Kilkenny
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London

1997
The Subjects of Art, Nat West Group Art Collection

1996
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London

1995
Cabinet Art, Jason and Rhodes, London
10 Years in Galerie Im Griechenbeisl, Vienna
British Abstract Painting, Atkinson, Millfield, Somerset

1994
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
Painters and Prints, Curwen Gallery, London
Castlefield 10th Anniversary, Castlefield Gallery and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Contemporary Prints, Flowers Graphics
British Abstract Painting, Flowers East, London
Critics Choice, Clare Henry, NS Gallery, Glasgow
12 Contemporary British Printmakers, Karelian Republic Art Museum, Russia

1993
CCA Galleries, London
Flowers East Gallery, London
Egyptian International Print Triennale
The Byker Art Show, Newcastle

1992
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Invited artist), 1993, 1994 and 1995
Whitechapel Open (Invited artist)

1991-3
Courtauld Institute Loan Collection

1991
Bradford Print Biennale at Royal College of Art, London
Gimpel Fils - Bath Festival (with Alan Davie)
Downeen Collection, Co. Cork, Ireland
Guinness Hop Store, Dublin - European large format print-making
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, Centenary Exhibition (Selector)
Peter Stuyvesant Collection
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1990
Great British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

1989
International Print Biennale, Ljubljana
The Experience of Painting, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, touring

1988
Beattie, Hoyland, Irvin, Sunderland
Presence of Painting, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, touring Carine Campo Gallery, Antwerp
European Biennale Graphic Art, Baden-Baden

1987
Royal Academy (prizewinner), and in 1988, 1989 [prizewinner], 1990 and
1991

1986
Bradford Print Biennale (prizewinner) and in 1990

1985
Home and Abroad, Serpentine Gallery

1984
ROSC '84, Dublin

1983
Contemporary British Painters, Madrid

1982
Hayward Annual

1980
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
John Moores Liverpool, and in 1982 (prizewinner) 1987, 1989 and 1991, 1995

1979
British Art Show touring

1977
British Painting 1952-77, Royal Academy, London
Whitechapel Open, and regularly since

1975
From Britain '75, Helsinki

1974
British Painting '74, Hayward Gallery

1971
SPACE, Muncipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
London Now in Berlin, Messehalle, Berlin

1951
London Group and regularly since



Public Collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arts Council of Great Britain
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Blackburn Art Gallery
British Council
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Manchester City Art Gallery
Mappin Gallery, Sheffield
Neue Gallerie der Stadt Linz, Austria
New England Regional Art Gallery, NSW, Australia
Pensecola Museum, Florida
Schindler Collection, Zurich
St�dtische Kunstsammlungen, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Stoke City Art Gallery
Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wolverhampton Art Gallery

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