Biography

1941 Born in Lichfield
1961-66 Attended Birmingham College of Art
1966-69 Attended Royal College of Art, London
1969 Awarded Silver Medal, Royal College of Art
1970 Joined Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1978 John Moore's XI Prize Winner
1979 Joined Fischer Fine Art Gallery, London
1988 Elected Fellow of Royal Society of Painters and Etchers (RE)
1992 Joined Redfern Gallery, London; elected Royal Academician
1996 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; appointed Professor of Painting, University of Brighton
1998-2004 Keeper of the Royal Academy of Arts
1999 Appointed Professor of Painting, Loughborough University
2014 Artist in Residence, Nan Yang Academy, Singapore

Selected solo exhibitions

1971-76 Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1973 Victoria and Albert Museum (and travelling exhibition)
1976 Brunel University
Park Square Gallery, Leeds
Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Oxford Gallery, Oxford
1977 Eastern Arts, The Minories, Colchester Tour
AIR Gallery, London, 'Prints and Paintings on Paper'
1979/84 Fischer Fine Art, London
1980 Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle
1981 Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
Bury St Edmunds Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, 'Print Show'
1983/92 Drumcroon Gallery, Wigan Education Art Centre
1987 Anderson O'Day Gallery, London
1988 The Parnham Trust, Dorset
Tate Gallery, London (archive display of work for Lloyds print)
1989 Royal Institute of British Architects Galleries, London, 'Painting Beyond Architecture: an Independent Observation'
1991 Fischer Fine Art, London, 'Brendan Neiland - Recent Paintings'
1992 Gardner Centre, Brighton
Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
Stafford Art Gallery, Stafford
1993 Redfern Gallery, London
Reading College of Arts and Technology, Reading
1994 University of Brighton
1994-5 Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'A Display of Prints and Working Materials, 1974-1995'
1995 Lamont Gallery, London, 'Highlights; New Screenprints'
1996 Pallant House, Chichester, 'Cityscapes and Landscapes'
1997 Redfern Gallery, London
Friends Room, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1998 Brunel University
Keele University
Loughborough University (also 2001)
2006 Galerie Belvédère, Singapore, 'The Art of Reflection'
Turlej Foundation, Krakow, Poland, 'Brendan Neiland - A New Perspective'
Redfern Gallery, London, 'Brendan Neiland - Recent Paintings and a Selection of Prints'
Museum and Art Galleries, Sharjah, UAE, 'Brendan Neiland - A Retrospective'
2008 Intercontinental Hotel, London, 'An Exhibition of Prints by Brendan Neiland'
John Bloxham Gallery, London, 'Neiland's Choice'
Redfern Gallery, London, 'Brendan Neiland - Night and Day'
2011 Redfern Gallery, London, 'A Seventieth Birthday Exhibition'
2012 The Cut, London, 'Neiland at the Cut'
2014 Galerie Belvédère, Singapore, 'Prints and Works on Paper'
2015 Galerie Belvédère, Singapore, 'Neiland in Singapore'

Selected group exhibitions

1969 London, 'New Contemporaries'
ICA Galleries, London, 'Young and Fantastic'
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'Big Pictures for Public Places'
1970 Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford
Open Painting Exhibition, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1971 Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, 'Big Pictures for Public Places'
1972 Camden Arts Centre, London, 'Photography into Art'
Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford
1973 Galleria la Citta, Verona, Italy, 'Immagini Come Strumente di Realta'
1974 Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford
Brooklyn Museum, New York (and tour), 'Contemporary British Prints'
1975 Helsinki, FInland, 'From Britain 75'
1976 Bradford Print Biennale, Bradford
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 'British Realists'
Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
1977 Camden Arts Centre, London, 'Doors'
Contemporary Art Society, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'Works on Paper'
Santiago, Chile, 'Exposicion Internacional de la Plastica'
John Moores XI, Walker Art Gallery, London
1979 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (and tour), 'Tony Cobbold Eastern Arts Second National Exhibition'
National Theatre, London, 'Painters at Work'
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'Summer Exhibition' (also 1980-97)
1981 iCA Galleries, London, 'Arts into Print'
2nd Biennale of Graphical Art, Baden Baden, Germany
1982 7th British Print Biennale, Bradford
Gallery Knoef, Holland
1983 Louis K Meisel Gallery, New York, 'Eight British Realists'
International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Municipal Museum, Madrid, 'Pintura Britannica'
1984 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 'Images et Imaginaries d'Architecture'
1985 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 'Summer in the City'
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'Visual Aid for Band Aid'
1986 9th International Print Biennale, Cartwright Hall, Bradford City Art Gallery, Bradford
1987 3rd International Biennial Print Exhibition: 1987 ROC Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
1988 Victoria and Albert Museum, London (and UK/USA tour), 'Artists in National Parks'
Royal College of Arts, London, '150th Anniversary Painting Exhibition'
London Group, RCA Gallery, London
1989 Moscow, 'Printmaking from Britain'
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'The President's Choice'
1990 Mall Galleries, London, 'Discerning Eye Exhibition' (also 1991)
1992 Redfern Gallery, London, 'Summer Exhibition'
Barbican Centre, London, 'The Celebrated City: Treasures from the Collection of the Corporation of London'
1994 Redfern Gallery, London, 'Summer Show'
Redpath Gallery, Vancouver, 'Three British Artists'
1995 Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 'Thirty Years of Northern Young Contemporaries'
1996/7 Royal Academy of Arts, London, 'Royal Academicians in Dubrovnik'
1997 Dubrovnik City Art Gallery, Dubrovnik, 'Royal Academicians'
Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, 'The Print Show'

Selected collections

Arts Council Collection, London
British Council Collection, London
Birmingham Museums Trust
Bradford Museums & Galleries
Bolton Museum & Art Gallery
University of Brighton
Brighton Museums
Glasgow Museums
Government Art Collection, London
Hampshire County Council
The Ingram Collection of Modern British & Contemporary Art
Leeds Museums & Galleries
mima
Museum of London
Museums Sheffield
De Montfort University, Leicester
Royal College of Art, London
Southampton City Art Gallery
Tate
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
University of Sheffield
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
The Whitworth, University of Manchester

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