JOHN BELLANY CBE, RA, HRSA
AWARDS, COMMISSIONS AND PRIZES
1962 Andrew Grant Scholarship. Travel to Paris
1980 John Moores Prize Winner
1981 Major Arts Council Award
1987 Wollaston Award, Royal Academy, London
1991 Commissioned to paint Lord Renfrew and Sir Roy Calne by the National Portrait Gallery, London
1994 Awarded CBE by Her Majesty, The Queen
1996 Awarded Honorary Doctorate, University of Edinburgh
1998 Honorary Senior Fellow, Royal College of Art, London
2002 Awarded the Chevalier Medal, Florence
2004 Fishers in the Snow presented to the New Scottish Parliament
2005 Commissioned to paint British Commissioner of the European Union, Brussels
RETROSPECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
1986 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Serpetine Gallery, London
1988/89 Hamburger Kunsthalle and Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
1995 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
2002 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2006 Retrospective Exhibition John Bellany, Kunsthalle Jesuitenkirche, Germany
2007 Retrospective Exhibition John Bellany, Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1965 Dromidaris Gallery, Holland
1968 Edinburgh College of Art
1969 Winchester School of Art
1970, 71, 73, 74 Drian Gallery, London
1970 Hendricks Gallery, Dublin
1971 New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1972 Royal College of Art, London
1973 Triad Arts Centre, Bishop's Stortford, Royal College of Art
1975 Aberdeen City Art Gallery
1977, 80 Acme Gallery, London
1978 Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
1979 Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1980 Moira Kelly Fine Art, London
1981 Goldsmiths College of Art, London
1982, 84 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
1983 Paintings 1971-82, touring exhibition: Ikon Gallery; Birmingham; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Rochdale Art Gallery; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; Rosa Esman Gallery, New York; Christine Abrahams Gallery, Melbourne.
1984, 87 Roslyn Oxley Gallery, Sydney
1986 National Portrait Gallery, London
1987 Recent Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, London
1988, 90 Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
1989 John Bellany: A Renaissance, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
1989, 94, 2003 Beaux Arts Gallery, Bath
1990 Raab Gallery, Berlin
1991 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1992 A Long Night's Journey into Day: A 50th Birthday Tribute, Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum, Glasgow
1992, 93 Flowers East Gallery, London
1994 Recent Paintings, Flowers East at London Fields, London
1995 Recent Paintings, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
1996 Monoprints, Flowers East, London
1998-99 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2001 John Bellany, University of Northumbria
2002 60th Birthday Exhibition, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
2003 John Bellany, Piazza Angelio, Barga, Italy
2004 Open Eye Gallery (Edinburgh Festival Exhibition)
2005 East Lothian exhibitions to celebrate John Bellany’s Freedom of East Lothian award, National Gallery of China, Beijing, National Gallery Shanghai, China, ‘The John Bellany Odyssey’, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
1997, 98, 2000,
2001, 02, 04, 06, Beaux Arts, London
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2007 Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
Lemon Street Gallery, Cornwall
2000, 02, 04, 06, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1963 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition, hung on railings at Castle Terrace (with Alexander Moffat)
1965, 66, 67 Young Contemporaries, London
1965 Edinburgh Festival Exhibition on Mound steps (with Alexander Moffat)
1968 Twenty by Fifty-Seven, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1970 The Nude, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1971 Scottish Realism, Scottish Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1972 British Figurative Art, Nova London Gallery, Copenhagen
1973 London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1974 A Choice Selection, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh
1975 4 Scottish Realists, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1976 John Moores Exhibition 10, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1977 25 Years of British Painting, Royal Academy, London
1979 Tate '79, Tate Gallery, London
1980 John Moores Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Prize-winner)
1981 National Portrait Gallery, London
1982 The Subjective Eye, touring exhibition
1983 Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin
1985 British Painting, Manchester City Art Gallery; Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
1985-2005 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy
1986 Man and Animals, Arts Council exhibition, Nottingham Castle
1987 Represented Britain in Ljubljana Print Biennale, Yugoslavia;
1988 The Royal College of Art Print Portfolio Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
1989 Scottish Paintings since 1900, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Barbican Art Gallery, London
1990 Turning the Century, The New Scottish Painting, The Raab Gallery, London; Milan; Berlin;
USA
1992 New British Art, British Council Exhibition, Denmark
1993 Contemporary Trends in British Art, Hayward Gallery, London
1994 The Bigger Picture, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
1995 Contemporary British Art in Print: The Publications of The Paragon Press 1986-95, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
1996 The Power of Images, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
1997 Contemporary British Portraits, Scottish National Portrait Gallery
1998 Religious Images, National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1999 Scottish Artists, Solomon Gallery, Dublin
2000 A Celebration of Mary Queen of Scots, Bourne Fine Art, Edinburgh
2002 Pictures at an Exhibition, Moussorgsky Musical Exhibition, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2003 Contemporary Religious Art, St Paul’s Cathedral, London
2004 ‘The Enchanted Land: Puccini’s Landscape, Lights and Colours’, The Mitchell Library, Glasgow
2005 The Royal Academy in China, National Gallery of China, Beijing, Shanghai Gallery of Art, China
2007 Florence Biennale, Italy
Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions every year 1985-2007
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Arts Council of Great Britain
Belfast Polytechnic
British Council
British Museum, London
Chesser House, Edinburgh
Contemporary Art Society
Dundee Central Museum and Art Gallery
Edinburgh Corporation
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums
Government Art Collection
Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Isle of Man Arts Council Collection
J.F Kennedy Library, Boston
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
MacLaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Museum of Boca, Raton, Florida
Museum of London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Gdansk
National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw
National Library of Congress, Washington
National Portrait Gallery, London
New York Public Library
Perth Museum and Art Gallery
Royal College of Art, London
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Scottish Arts Council
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Sheffield City Art Gallery
Southampton City Art Gallery
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Tate Gallery, London
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
University of Western Australia, Perth
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Wolverhampton Municipal Art Gallery and Museum
Yale Centre of British Art
Zuider Zee Museum, Holland
