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3/14/06 - FROM THE WEBSITE: http://www.nielsengallery.com/db/Walker/bio.html BIOGRAPHY 1939 Born, November 12, Birmingham, England 1993 Currently lives in upstate New York and southeastern Massachusetts EDUCATION 1961 - 63 Studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris France 1956 - 60 Studied at the Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, England TEACHING 1993 - now Professor of Painting, Visual Arts Division of School for the Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA 1989 Visiting Professor, Yale University, Graduate School of Art, New Haven, CT 1986 Living and working in upstate New York 1982 - 86 Appointed Dean, School of Art, Victoria College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia 1980 Artist-in-Residence, Prahran Technical College, Melbourne, Australia 1977 - 78 Artist-in-Residence, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, England 1975 Visiting Artist, Columbia University, New York, NY 1975 - 77 Visiting Professor, Yale University Graduate School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT 1974 - 75 Professor of Painting and Drawing, Cooper Union, New York, NY Professor of Painting and Drawing, Studio School, New York, NY 1972 - 78 Painting tutor, Royal College of Art, London, England 1969 - 71 Resided in New York, under the Harkness Fellowship to the United States 1964 - 70 Painter and graphic artist, London, England 1962 - 69 Taught, Stourbridge College of Art Taught, Birmingham College of Art Taught, St. Martin's School of Art Taught, Royal College of Art SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS, 1990-PRESENT 2001 "Maine Landscapes," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA "New Paintings and Works on Paper," Knoedler & Company, New York, NY 2000 "Prints from the 'Passing Bells" series and Other Works," Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy, Milton, MA 1999 "A Theater of Recollection," Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT "Passing Bells," Knoedler & Company, New York, NY "Passing Bells," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA, A series of 27 etchings from themes surrounding World War I. 1998 "A Theater of Recollection" Knoedler & Company, New York, NY 1997 "John Walker: Feeling, Form, Beauty," Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI "John Walker: Recent Work," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA "A Theater of Recollection: Paintings and Prints by John Walker," Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA. Traveled to Knoedler & Company, New York, NY; Lee Scarfone Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa, FL; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (catalog) 1996 "John Walker: The Serenade and Studio Paintings," Carling Dalenson, Stockholm Sweden (catalog) "Paintings by John Walker," Eli Marsh Gallery, Fayerweather Hall, Amherst College, Amherst, MA "John Walker: Painting/Jay Wholley: Sculpture," Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1995 "John Walker New Paintings," Knoedler & Company, New York, NY 1994 "John Walker Small Paintings and Recent Works on Paper," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA 1993 "John Walker: Recent Paintings," Nielsen Gallery, Boston, MA "John Walker : New Work," Knoedler & Company, New York, NY "John Walker: Recent Drawings," Victoria Monroe Fine Art, New York, NY 1992 "John Walker: Small Paintings from the Alba and Oceania Series," Anthony Ralph Gallery, New York, NY "John Walker: Painting, Drawing," The Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI "John Walker: Prints," Rex Irwin Gallery, Sidney, Australia 1991 John Walker: New Paintings," Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY "John Walker," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA "John Walker: Paintings and Drawings," The Arts Club of Chicago, IL 1990 "John Walker: New paintings," M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY "John Walker: Prints 1989-1990," Waddington Graphics, London, England (catalog) HONORS AND AWARDS 1981 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY 1976 First Prize: John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, England 1974 Second Prize: John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, England First Prize: Bradford International Print Biennale, Yorkshire, England 1970-72 Harkness Fellowship, New York, NY 1969 Theodoren Award, New York, NY (Catalogue: text by Dore Aston) 1967-69 Purchase Award, Arts Council of Great Britain, London Gregory Fellowship in Painting, University of Leeds, England 1965 Third Prize: John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, England (Open Section) 1960 Drawing Prize, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England Edwin Abbey Travel Scholarship First Prize: National Young Artists Drawing Competition PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Art Council of Great Britain, London, England Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia British Museum, London, England British Council, London, England Camden Library, London, England Carnegie Library, London, England Chemical Bank, New York, NY Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL Cleveland Museum of Art (Collection of Ana & Eric Baer),Cleveland, OH Durham University, Durham, England Exxon Corporation, New York, NY Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Gelco Collection, MN Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC H.F. Johnson Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England Leeds University Art Collection, Leeds, England Leicestershire Education Authority, Leicestershire, England McCrory Corporation, New York, NY Merrill Lynch, New York, NY The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Middlesborough City Arts Gallery, England The Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Neuberger Museum, New York State University, Purchase, NY Paine Weber Group, Inc., New York, NY The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO The Tate Gallery., London, England Trevelyn College, Durham University (Dining Hall Commission), NC Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1990-PRESENT MacMillan, Kyle "John Walker's Imagery Both Personal, Universal: Paintings, Prints Capture Memories of Great War," Sunday World-Herald (Nebraska), August 23, 1998. Goodman, Jonathan "John Walker at Knoedler" Art In America, July 1998. Unger, Miles "John Walker: New paintings and Prints," Art New England, April/May 1995. Ben Lifson "John Walker Knoedler & Company" Artforum, May 1993.