Born 1937 in Southampton, GB
Education
1959-1960
Royal College of Art, London, GB
1955-1959
Hornsey College of Art, London, GB
Awards and honours
2007
Awarded Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Southampton Solent University
2000-ongoing
Emeritus Trustee, British Museum
1990-1999
Trustee, British Museum
1986
Elected R.A.
Has taught lithography, painting and drawing at Croydon College of Art (1961-3); Chelsea School of Art (1964); Department of Painting, University of South Florida (1968-9); Hochschule für Bildenden Kunst, Hamburg (1968-70); University of Los Angeles, Irvine (1973); UCLA (1977); Banff Centre School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada (1977); Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1982-3).
Solo Exhibitions
2020
'Allen Jones', Almine Rech, Paris, France
'Alen Jones', Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
2018
‘Post-Pop, Outside the Commonplace: Pop detours in Portugal and England, 1965-1975’ , Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
‘Allen Jones: Maitresse’, Galleria 10pera, via San Biagio die Librai no 121, Napoli, Italy
‘Bystander’, Marlborough Contemporary, New York
2017
‘Allen Jones: Thrill Me. Prints from 1959-2007’, Sims Reed, London
‘80 Not Out’, Galerie Wetterling, Stockholm
‘Maitresse’, Galerie Hilger, Vienna
‘Hyperrealistic Sculptures 2017-2018’, Institut fur Kulturaustausch, (touring) National Gallery of Australia/Kunsthal Rotterdam/ARKEn Copenhagen
2016
‘Maitresse’, Michael Werner Gallery, London
‘Allen Jones: A Retrospective’, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
‘Maitresse’ Galerie Levy, Hamburg
2015
Art in the Park, Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Colour Matters’, Marlborough Fine Art, London (sculpture)
‘Allen Jones’, Galerie Gmurzynska, St Moritz, Switzerland
2013-14
Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, London (Drawings)
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, retrospective (to 2015)
2013
‘Kaleidoscope’, Pages Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria
2012-13
‘Off The Wall’, Kunsthalle Tűbingen, Tűbingen; UNESCO World Heritage Site, Vőlklinger Hűtte, Saarbrűcken, State Art Collection, Chemnitz, Germany
2011
‘In Stages’, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden
2010
‘Playbill, paintings, prints’, Marlborough Fine Art, London
‘Aphrodite on the Catwalk’, paintings and sculpture, Lorenzelli Arte, Milan
2009
‘Figures Waiting’, sculptures, Ludlow Castle, Shropshire
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
Lorenzelli Arte S.A.S., Milan
2008
‘Showtime’, paintings, sculptures, Marlborough Fine Art
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
2007-08
Dedicated room of watercolours, paintings and drawings, Tate Britain, London GB
Dedicated room of watercolours , Royal Academy of Arts, London, GB
2007
Lithographs, silkscreen prints, woodcut lithographs, paintings and watercolours, Alan Cristea Gallery
2003
Alan Cristea Gallery, London, GB
2002
Kunsthalle, Villa Kobe, Halle/Saal, Germany
Palazzo dei Sette, Orvieto, Italy
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
NORD/LB Galerie, Hannover, Germany
Dedicated room at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, GB
2001
Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
2000
Kunsthaus, Köln, Germany
Kunsthaus, Hannover, Germany
1999
Galerie Steinötter, Münster, Germany
Galerie Levy, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Levy, Madrid, Spain
Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Ars Nova Museum, Turku, Finland
Tula, Helsinki, Finland
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
Skulpturen-Garten der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
1998
Marino alla Scala Art Center, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan, Italy
Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France
Palàcio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Galeria Athos Bulcao, Brasília
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador
Centro Cultural, São Paulo
1997
Galerie Levy, Hamburg, Germany
Czech Museum of Modern Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Nicosla Municipal Art Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
Thomas Gibson Fine Art, watercolours, London, GB
1996
Galerie Hilger, Wien, Austria
Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
Hauger Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tonsberg, Norway
Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg, Germany
1995
Galerie Levy, Hamburg, Germany
Boomans Museum, Celle, Germany
Galerie Hete Hunermann, Dusseldorf
Barbican Art Gallery: print retrospective, London, GB
Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy
Dean Clough, Halifax, GB
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, GB
1993
Waddington Galleries, London, GB
Galerie Mourmans, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Hette Hünemann, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992-93
Swansea: travelling to Oriel 31, Powys, Wrexham Library Arts
Centre, Middlesborough Art Gallery, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, GB
1992
Galerie Wentzel, Köln, Germany
Galerie Levy, Madrid, Spain
Frank Pages Art Gallery, Baden-Baden, Germany
Galeria Punto, ARCO and Valencia
1991
Galerie Cotthem, Ostende, Belgium
1989
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France
Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1988
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York NY, USA
Waddington Galleries, London, GB
Waddington Graphics, London, GB
1987
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
Galerie Here Hünermann, Düsseldorf, Germany
1986
Galerie Jacob, Basel, Switzerland
1985
Galerie Parice Trigano, Paris, France
Waddington Galleries, London, GB
Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Zack-Shauster Gallery, Boca-Raton FL, USA
1983
Waddington Galleries, London, GB
Galleria d’Arte Forni, Bologna, Italy
Thordén Wetterling Galleries, Gothenburg, Sweden
Galerie Kammer, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Yerba, Murcia, Spain
1981
Galerie Engström, Stockholm, Sweden
Galleria Cavallino, Venice, Italy
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
1980
Waddington Galleries, London, GB
1979
Serpentine Gallery: retrospective 1959-78, London, GB
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: retrospective 1959-78, subsequently at Serpentine, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, GB
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
Deweer Art Gallery, Zwevegem-Otegem, Belgium
Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany
1978
Retrospective of drawings and watercolours, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, GB
Retrospective of drawings and watercolours, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, GB
Waddington Galleries, Montreal, Canada
Waddington Galleries, Toronto, Canada
1977
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
Nova Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA
1976
Waddington Galleries, London, GB
Galerie Wentzel, Hamburg, Germany
Pander Kunstcentrum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
1975
Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, GB
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB
Arnolfini, Bristol, GB
Galerie Ariadne, Wien, Austria
Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria
1974
Seibu, Tokyo, Japan
Neitetsu, Nagoya, Japan
1973
Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
Hogarth Galleries, Sidney, Australia
Galerie von Loeper, Hamburg, Germany
1972
Marlborough Fine Art, London, GB
Studio d’Arte Condotti 85, Rome, Italy
Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Grundwald Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles CA, USA
Multi-Art, Antwerp, Belgium
1971
Marlborough Graphics, London, GB
Galleria Il Fauno, Turin, Italy
Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln, Germany
Galerie Fonk, Gent, Belgium
1970
Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, GB
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln, Germany
Studio d’Arte Condotti 85, Rome, Italy
Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1969
Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
Galerie Werigstatt, Bremen, Germany
1968
Editions Alecto (graphics), London, GB
Galerie Mikro, Berlin, Germany
1967
Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, GB
Hamilton Gallery, London, GB
Galerie Der Spiegel, Köln, Germany
Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany
1966
Galerie Bischofsberger, Zürich, Switzerland
Southampton University: graphics, Southampton, GB
1965
Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago IL, USA
Feigen/Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York NY, USA
1964
Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, GB
Editions Alecto (graphics), London, GB
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York NY, USA
1963
Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, GB
Group Exhibitions
2022
'Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today’, The Design Museum, London, UK
‘Christian Louboutin, L’Exhibition[niste], Chapitre II’, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
2021
'Pictures and promises', Vancouver Artgallery, Vancouver, Canada
2020
‘Summer’, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
'Painting Someone’, Almine Rech, Shangai, China
2018
‘Flashes of the Future’, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
‘British Pop Art-Meisterwerke Massenhaft aus der Sammlung Heinz Beck’, Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany
2017
‘Carved Cast Constructed, British Sculpture 1951-1991’, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2016-17
‘This Was Tomorrow’, Kunst Museum Wolfsburg, Germany
2015
‘Fighting History’, Tate Britian
2014-15
‘Pop Europe!’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
‘Pop to Popism’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2014
‘The Artist’s Eye’, LWL-Museum fur Kunst und Kultur, Munster
‘Ludwig Goes Pop’, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
‘The Wish List’, London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum
‘Pop Art Myth’, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
2013
‘British Pop – The Founding Years’, Christie’s, London
‘Beyond Limits’, Sotheby’s sculpture exhibition, sited at Chatsworth, Derbyshire
‘Pop Culture’, MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, USA
‘The Sixties in the Guggenheim Collections: from informal to Pop’, Guggenheim Foundation and the City of Vercelli
2012-13
Pop Art Design, Vitra Museum, Weil am Rhein Germany, Louisiana Museum, Denmark, Barbican, London
Pop Art, Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2012
‘American Pop Art’, Contemporary Art Space, Salzburg
‘Glam! The Art of Excess’, Tate Liverpool
‘The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things’, Liverpool, Nottingham and De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea
‘British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age’, Victoria & Albert Museum
60’s Design, Mőbelmuseum, Vienna
2011
‘Art in the Park’, Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Milan anni 60’, Rome, Fondazione Roma Museo, Milan, Palazzo Reale
2010
‘Crash’, Gagosian Gallery, London
‘Art in the Park’, Baur au Lac, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition’, Palazzo Racconigi, Piedmont, Italy
2009-10
‘Art Nouveau Revival’, Musee d’Orsay, Paris
2009
‘DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture’, Tate Liverpool
‘WinterWaterColorLand’, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2008
‘This is Pop – 1956-1968’, Rome
Triptych, Grand Theatre, Angers
2007-08
‘True Romance‘, Kunsthalle, Vienna, and on to Kiel and Munich
2007
‘As is When: A Boom in British Printmaking 1961-1972’, British Council Touring Exhibition from 2003 – 2007, visiting Germany, Estonia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Romania, Italy, Portugal, Lithuania, Poland and Taiwan
Pop Art Is...,Gagosian Gallery, London
Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London
2006
Drawings from Turner, Tate Britain, Artists of Fame and Promise
2005-06
British Pop Art Exhibition (Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao
2005
‘Visual Wit’, The Royal Academy of Arts, 2005 and Shandy Hall, Coxwold, The ‘Human Figure in British Art from Moore to Gormley’, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
‘Dutch Pop Art & The Sixties‘, Cobra Museum, Netherlands
‘Small is Beautiful’, Flowers Central
‘Royal Academicians in China‘, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, and Newby Hall Sculpture Park
Bohun Gallery
2004-05
‘The Uncanny’, Tate Liverpool and Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
2004
'Mike Kelley - The Uncanny’, Tate, Liverpool
‘Pop Art UK – 1956-1972’, Galleria Civica, Modena
‘Art and the 60’s, This Was Tomorrow’, Tate Gallery, London
2003
‘Phantom der Lust’, Neue Galerie und Stadtmuseum, Graz
‘Editions Alecto - A Fury for Prints’, The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, and Bankside Art Gallery, London
‘Blast to Freeze’, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, and Les Abattoirs, Toulouse,
2002-03
‘... from little acorns ... Early works by Academicians’, The Royal Academy of Arts
‘Ideal Women! Van Gerrit Rietveld tot Dutch Design’, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
2002
‘Thinking Big: Concepts for 21st century British Sculpture’, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
‘About Face: Get Your Head Around Sculpture’, Croydon Clocktower
‘Transition’, The London Art Scene in the Fifties, Barbican Art Galleries, London
‘Out of Line’, drawings from the Arts Council Collection, London
‘Den Haag Sculptuur 2002’, Europa in Beeld, The Hague
2001
'Les années Pop’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
‘Pop Art’, US/UK , Menil Foundation, Houston
1999
‘Europe/USA’, MoMA, New York
1997
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
Treasure Island Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
‘The Pop ‘60s’, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
1996-97
‘Les Sixties’, Musée d’Histoire Contemporaine, Paris
1996
‘The Berardo Collection’, Sintra, Portugal
‘Brancusi to Beuys – The Ted Power Collection’, Tate Britain, UK
1995-96
‘Fémininmasculin’, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1994
‘The Portrait Now‘, National Portrait Gallery
1993
‘The Sixties Art Scene, London Barbican Art Gallery
1991
‘Pop Art‘, Royal Academy, travelling to Cologne, Madrid, Montreal
Sculpture Commissions
2007
Chatsworth House Trust, Derbyshire
2005-06
Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Parks, Guilin and Shanghai, China
2004-05
The Red Mansion Foundation, London
Estouteville, Virginia, private collection
2002-03
Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
2001
Glaxo SmithKline World Headquarters, London
Ennismore Gardens, London, private collection
2002
Beamsley, Yorkshire, private collection
2000
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
Woolton House, Berkshire, private collection
1998
Sculpture at Goodwood
1997
Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
1994
London Docklands
1993
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
1990
Heathrow Terminal 4
1989
Milton Keynes Development Corporation
1987
Cottons Atrium, London Bridge City
1984-85
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
1984
International Garden Festival, Liverpool
Stage Commissions
1995-96
Signed in Red (Royal Ballet,
1987
Eric Satie’s Cinema (Ballet Rambert,
1970
Männer wir Kommen (TV: WDR)
O Calcutta
Public Collections
Ars Nova Museum of Contemporary Art, Turku, Finland
Arts Council of Great Britain
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Birmingham City Art Gallery
Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam
British Council
British Museum, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Chicago Museum of Art
City Art Gallery, Birmingham
Design Museum, London
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-on-Hull
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Frederick R Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Konstmuseets Vanner, Gothenburg
Kunsthalle, Bielefeld
Kunsthalle Hamburg
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
Landesmuseum fűr Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Műnster
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Museum Aachen
Museum Bochum
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of 20th Century Art, Vienna
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Nagoaka Museum, Japan
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Portrait Gallery, London
Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz
Oregon State University
Pasadena Art Museum
Peter Stuyvesant Collection
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Regional Museum, Olinda Province, Brazil
Southampton Art Gallery
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Sunderland Art Gallery, Sunderland
Tate, London
University of Sydney, Australia
Vancouver Art Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Vitra Design Museum Weil am Rhein
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Parks, Shanghai and Guilin