Robyn Denny

Robyn Denny born Abinger, Surrey 1930

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• 1951-54 St Martin's School of Art.
• 1954-57 Royal College of Art.
• 1958 first one-man exhibition Gallery One; Italian State Scholarship.
• 1957-59 taught part- time Hammersmith College of Art. Taught BAA part-time from 1959, travelling from London. Taught basic design; largely responsible for content of Visual Communications Course. Executed murals at Abbey Wood Primary School 1959 (there followed other commissions for public buildings.)
• 1960 Situation RBA Galleries.
• 1961-63 Art critic for Das Kunstwerk (Baden).
• 1962 one-man exhibitions Milan & Stuttgart.
• 1963-64 Art critic for Art International, since written for many publications.
• 1963 British Painting in the Sixties Whitechapel Art Gallery.
• 1965 one-man exhibition Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.
• 1965-72 taught Slade School of Art.
• 1966 Venice Biennale.
• 1967 Visiting Professor, Minneapolis School of Art.
• 1969 first of several one-man exhibitions Waddington Galleries.
• 1973 retrospective Tate Gallery (British Council European Tour). Frequent one-man exhibitions Europe and USA.
• 1984 began commission for London Transport, Embankment Station.
• 1988 Exhibition Road. Painters at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art.

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• 1953 - Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
• 1957 - The British School at Rome, Imperial Institute, London
• 1957 - New Trends in British Art, New York Art Foundation, Rome
• 1957 - Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
• 1957 - Metavisual, Tachiste, Abstract, Redfern Gallery, London
• 1957 - Critics Choice, (Neville Wallis) Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
• 1957 - Dimensions, O'Hana Gallery, London
• 1957 - Summer Exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
• 1958 - British Abstract Painting, Auckland City Art Gallery; touring to National Gallery of Art, Sydney
• 1958 - Gallery One, London
• 1958 - Gimpel Fils, London
• 1958 - London Group, RBA Galleries, London
• 1958 - Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London
• 1958 - Robyn Denny and Charles Carey, Gallery One, London
• 1958 - American Guggenheim Awards, Manchester City Art Gallery,;Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Brighton Art Gallery
• 1958 - Contemporary Art Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
• 1959 - London Group, RBA Galleries, London
• 1959 - British Paintings and Prints from Paris Biennale, AIA Gallery, London
• 1959 - Premio Lissone, Milan
• 1959 - Place, ICA, London
• 1960 - Situation, RBA Galleries, London
• 1961 - Molton Gallery, London
• 1961 - AIA - Directions/Connections, London
• 1961 - Art of Assemblage, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 1961 - New London Situation, New London Gallery
• 1961 - Six Young Painters, Arts Council Tour
• 1962 - Denny/Greninger/Olsen, Galerie Handschin, Basel
• 1962 - Nine Painters from England, Galleria Trastevere, Rome
• 1962 - Towards Art, Royal College of Art, London
• 1963 - Galerie Muller, Stuttgart
• 1963 - Towards Art, Arts Council, Touring Exhibition
• 1963 - 7 Junge Englische Malerei, Kunsthalle, Basle
• 1963 - Galerie Huber, Zurich
• 1963 - Ten Years, Gallery One, London
• 1963 - 7th International Biennale, Tokyo
• 1963 - British Painting in the 60's, Tate Gallery, London
• 1964 - Contemporary British Painting and Sculpture, Albright-Know Gallery, Buffalo
• 1964 - Documenta III, Kassel
• 1964 - Young British Painters, 1955-1960, Art Gallery of New South Wales
• 1964 - Kasmin Gallery, London
• 1965 - New Painting 1961-65, Arts Council Touring Exhibition
• 1965 - Paris Biennale, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
• 1965 - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
• 1965 - Focus on Drawing, Art Gallery of Toronto
• 1966 - Caro/Cohen/Denny/Smith, Kasmin Gallery, London
• 1966 - XXXIII Biennale, Venice
• 1966 - 5 Junge Englander, Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Biennale Venedig
• 1966 - International Print Biennale, Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art
• 1966 - Robyn Denny/ John Ernest, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
• 1967 - 1968 - John Moores Liverpool Exhibition VI, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
• 1967 - Jeunes Peintres Anglais, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
• 1967 - Four Young English Painters, Kunsthalle, Mannheim
• 1967 - Recent British Painting, Stuyvesant Foundation, Tate Gallery
• 1967 - Exposition Internationale de Gravures, Vancouver
• 1967 - 7th Exposition Internationale, Modern Galeria Llubljana
• 1967 - Kasmin Gallery, London
• 1967 - Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
• 1968 - Ornamentale Tendenzen, Schloss Wolfsburg
• 1968 - Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh International, Pittsburgh
• 1968 - A Collector's Exhibition, Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
• 1968 - Purchases, The Contemporary Art Society
• 1968 - Works on Paper, Waddington Gallery, London
• 1968 - Ceri Richards/Robyn Denny, Arnolfini Art Centre, Bristol
• 1968 - Arte Moltiplicate, Galleria Milano
• 1968 - Suites, Recent Prints, Jewish Museum, New York
• 1968 - Prospect 68, Dusseldorf
• 1969 - Exhibition of Alecto Colour Boxes, Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York
• 1969 - Contemporary British Paintings, South African Tour
• 1969 - Kasmin Artists, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
• 1969 - New Editions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
• 1969 - Contemporary British Painting, Art Centre, Delaward
• 1969 - Kasmin Gallery, London
• 1969 - Waddington Gallery, London
• 1969 - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
• 1970 - Kasmin Gallery, London
• 1970 - Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
• 1970 - Arts Council Touring Exhibition
• 1970 - Kelpra Prints, Hayward Gallery, London
• 1970 - Contemporary British Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• 1970 - British Painting and Sculpture 1960-70, National Gallery, Washington DC
• 1971 - Galerie Mikro, Berlin
• 1971 - Galerie Muller, Cologne
• 1971 - Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
• 1972 - Galerie Ziegler, Geneva
• 1972 - Alecto International, Studio La Citta, Verona
• 1973 - Studio la Citta, Verona
• 1973 - Galerie T, Amsterdam
• 1974 - Galerie Schottinring, Vienna
• 1974 - Galerie Jacomo-Sontiveri, Paris
• 1974 - Marlborough Gallery, Rome
• 1974 - Galleria L'Approdo, Turin
• 1974 - Galleria Rondanini, Rome
• 1974 - Santiveri Gallery, Paris
• 1975 - Galleria La Polena, Genova
• 1975 - Jacques Damase Gallery, Brussels
• 1975 - Neue Galerie, Linz
• 1975 - Galerie Modulo, Porto
• 1975 - La Pitture Inglese Oggi, Ciak Gallery, Rome
• 1976 - For John Constable, Tate Gallery, London
• 1976 - Galleria Morone, Milan
• 1977 - Waddington and Tooth Galleries, London
• 1977 - Annual Show, Hayward Gallery, London
• 1977 - Jubilee Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
• 1978 - Festival Gallery, Bath
• 1979 - Bernard Jacobson Ltd, London
• 1979 - The Museum of Drawers, Kunstmuseum, Bern
• 1979 - The Deck of Cards, J.P.L. Fine Arts, London
• 1979 - 20 C. British Art, Middlesborough Art Gallery
• 1980 - Gallery Artists, Bernard Jacobson Ltd., London
• 1980 - Kelpra Studio - The Rose and Chris Prater Exhibition, Tate Gallery London
• 1980 - Aronson Gallery, Atlanta
• 1981 - Jacobson/Hochman Gallery, New York
• 1981 - Salty Le Gallais Gallery, Jersey, Channel Islands
• 1981 - Group IV, Waddington Galleries, London
• 1981 - Recent Drawing, Jacobson Hochman Gallery, New York
• 1982 - Drawing - New Directions, Summit Art Gallery, Summit, USA
• 1982 - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles
• 1983 - The Granada Collection, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
• 1983 - The London Suite (Prints), Icon Art Gallery, Birmingham
• 1984 - Home and Abroad, Arts Council Exhibition
• 1984 - The Serpentine Gallery, London
• 1984 - Art Within Reach, Icon Gallery, Brimingham
• 1985 - Twenty Five Years, Annely Juda, London
• 1985 - Fine Arts Gallery, U.C. Irvine, California
• 1988 - Painting at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art Gallery, London
• 1988 - Corsham - A Celebration, Michael Parkin Gallery, London
• 1991 - The Presence of Painting, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; touring to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
• 1991 - Not Pop, What the others were doing. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
• 1992 - The New Patrons, Twentieth Century Art from Corporate Collections, Christie's London
• 1992 - Three Artists Three Decades, Robyn Denny, John Hoyland, Gwyther Irwin, Redfer, London
• 1992 - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
• 2004 - Hirschl Contemporary Art, London
• 2005 - Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line & Interval in British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery

Select Artwork

• Stencil Painting A - 1957
• Go five - 1957
• Treen 3 - 1958
• Out-Line 1 - 1962
• Haze - 1970
• A View - 1972
• Dreams - 1972, Screenprint
• Light of the World Suite A - 1970, Screenprint
• Graffiti 1 - 1975-1976, Oil on canvas

Quotes

Publications

• The Art of Robyn Denny - by David Alan Mellor, Black Dog (July 1, 2000)

Quick Facts

• Robyn Denny is one of a legendary group who transformed British art in the late 1950s
• During the 1960s he developed a range of work which explores both space and modes of perception.

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