Anthony Whishaw

2020 'Anthony Whishaw RA: Works on Paper' written by Richard Davey, published by Beam Editions

2020 A series of solo exhibitions are held to mark Whishaw's 90th birthday, including at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Browse and Darby Gallery

2020 Art in Focus, 'Illusions and Horizons', St Mary's Hospital, London (& various London hospitals), The Imperial Health Charity Touring Exhibition

2020 'With Spain in Mind', The Royal Academy of Arts, London

2019 'Nicole Farhi And Friends', Kino-Teatr Gallery, Sussex

2019 'Nicole Farhi And Friends', Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire

2018 'Experiences of Nature', Canwood Gallery, Herefordshire

2017 'Winter Journey', Art Space Gallery, London

2016 'Anthony Whishaw' written by Richard Davey, published by the Royal Academy Publications

2016 ‘Woodland Encounters’, Art Space Gallery, London

2016 ‘Anthony Whishaw RA: Paintings from the Mid-1960s – 2015’, Browse & Darby, London

2015 ‘The Bright Field’, The Old Big School Gallery, Tonbridge School, Tonbridge

2015 ‘The Royal Academy at Wolfson College’, Cambridge

2014–15 ‘Arboretum’, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2014 ‘Four Contemporary Artists’, Osborne Samuel, London

2011 ‘Eight Large Paintings’ (two-person show with Peter Brook), The Gallery in Cork Street, London, and The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2011 ‘The RA’s Come to Richmond’, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2011 ‘Celebrating 25 Years of the Art Space Gallery’, Art Space Gallery, London

2011 ‘Revelations’, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2011 ‘The Invisible Line’, 12 Painters from The London Group, London

2010 A series of solo and group exhibitions are held to mark Whishaw’s 80th birthday, including at Kings Place Gallery; the Fine Art Society; and Acme Studios, Bethnal Green.

2010 ‘Anthony Whishaw RA at 80’, Acme Studios, London

2010 ‘Images on the Edge of Perception’, Kings Place Gallery, London

2010 ‘Dancers: Paintings From The Early 1960s’, The Fine Art Society, London

2010 ‘Images of St Paul’s in the 21st Century’, St Paul’s Cathedral, London

2010 ‘Near and Far’, The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2010 ‘The RA’s Come To Richmond’, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2010 30 years of Eigse Art, Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland

2009 ‘New Large Works’, Victor Pasmore Gallery, Harrow School

2009 ‘The ING The Discerning Eye Exhibition’, The Mall Galleries, London

2009 Open Exhibition 2009, The London Group, Menier Gallery, London

2008 Summer Show, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2008 Spring Show, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2007–08 Winter Show, The Richmond Hill Gallery, Richmond

2007 Bridge Art Fair, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London

2006 Interview with Brian Sewell on ‘Divine Art’, BBC Radio 4.

2005 Open Studio, ACME Studios, Bethnal Green, London

2005 ‘Works on Paper’, The Walk Gallery, London (with Peter Clossick)

2002 ‘Maverick Images: Shaped, Triptych and Rectangular’, Art First, London

2000 ‘Pueblo Landscapes’, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2000 'Re-Appearances - Illusion, allusion, memory and paradox', Mary Ogilvie Gallery, St Anne's College, Oxford

1999 Featured Artist at Eigse Carlow Arts Festival.

1999 ‘Some Small Works: Maverick Shaped and Chaotic’, Art First, London

1997 ‘Images of Ideas, with Memory in Mind’, Art First, London

1996 Korn Ferry Carre Oban International Picture of the Year.

1994 Featured on Channel 4 News, in a feature about his 1989 Galerie in Faust exhibition.

1994–95 ‘On Memory and Reflection’, The Barbican Centre, London, touring to Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; The Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; Huddersfield Art Gallery; R.H.A Gallagher Gallery, Dublin; Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Newport and Bolton Museums

1994 ‘Pueblo Landscapes’, Art Space Gallery, London

1993 ‘Works on Paper’, Art Space Gallery, London

1993 ‘Painting and Works on Paper 1986-1993’, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

1993 – present Royal West of England Academy Autumn Exhibition

1992 Elected to the Royal West of England Academy.

1992 ‘On the Edge of Representation’, Art Space Gallery, London

1991 'Recent Paintings 1986-1990)', Blason Gallery, London

1989 Galerie in Faust, Hamburg, and Galerie in Faust, Shanghai, China.

1989 Galerie in Faust, Hamburg, touring to Galerie in Faust, Shanghai, China

In 1989 Whishaw was elected to The London Group. In 1980 he was elected Associate of the Royal Academy, and in 1989 he became a Royal Academician. He was also elected as a member of the Royal West of England Academy in 1992.

1987–88 ‘Reflections After Las Meninas’ at the Royal Academy Diploma Galleries, London, touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Space, Exeter.

1987–8 ‘Reflections After Las Meninas’, Royal Academy of Arts, Diploma Gallery, London; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre; Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Exeter

1986 Joint winner Hunting Group National Art Competition.

1986 ‘Large Landscapes’, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1983 ‘Work on Paper’, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London

1982–83 ‘From Landscape’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, touring to Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, and Bede Gallery, Jarrow

1982 Open Studio, ACME Studios, Bethnal Green, London

1981 Begins working in an Acme studio in Bethnal Green. His routine involves driving to Bethnal Green and working there from 6 am until midday, before returning to Kensington, where he paints in the afternoon.

1981 Greater London Council Painting Prize. 1982 John Moores Minor Painting Prize.

1980 Elected a Royal Academician. He exhibits annually at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition.

1979 Elected to the London Group. His work is included in their exhibitions each year.

1979 New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham (with Martin Froy)

1960 Featured in the episode ‘Private View’ of BBC TV show Monitor, following four emerging artists.

1960 Roland Browse and Delbanco, London (also 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1968)

1957 Marries Jean Gibson and buys his studio-house in Kensington.

1956 His first solo exhibition is held in Spain, at Madrid’s Librería Abril.

1955–56 Receives an Abbey Minor Scholarship, an RCA Travelling Scholarship and a Spanish Government Scholarship, which he uses to travel to Spain with Jean Gibson. Here he visits the Prado and sees Goya’s Black Paintings for the first time. He lives in Spain for some of the next two years.

1953 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (with Cecil Collins and Willi Soukop)

1952–55 Studies at the Royal College of Art, London.

1951 Makes his first visit to Spain, spending a fortnight in Ibiza.

1948 Awarded Judd Scholarship from Tonbridge School.

1948–52 Studies at Chelsea School of Art, London.

1939 Returns from Brazil with his mother and attends Brunswick School in Sussex. The school is later evacuated to Cornwall during the Second World War.

1930 Anthony Popham Law Whishaw is born on 22 May in St Mary’s, Paddington, in London. The family later moves to Brazil, where Whishaw’s father works.