PETER HOWSON
1958 Born, London
1975-77 Glasgow School of Art
1979-81 Glasgow School of Art
1985 Artist in Residence, University of St Andrews
Part-time Tutor, Glasgow School of Art
1993 Appointed Official British War Artist for Bosnia
1995 Lord Provost’s Medal, Glasgow
1996 Awarded Doctor of Letters Honoras Causa, University of Strathclyde
SCHOLARSHIPS AND PRIZES
1979 Hospitalfield Scholarship
1986 Prize winner Scottish Drawing Competition, Paisley Art Galleries
Arthur Andersen & Co. Purchase Prize, Mayfest, Glasgow
Edwin Morgan Artists’ Prize, Glasgow League
1988 Henry Moore Foundation Prize
1992 Eastward Publication Prize, RGI, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Nomination for Lord Provost Prize at RGI, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
European Young Artists Prize, Sophia, Belgrade
1998 Lord Provost’s Prize 1998, Glasgow
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1983 Wall Murals, Feltham Community Association, London
1985 New Paintings and Drawings, Mayfest, Glasgow Print Studio
New Paintings, Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St Andrews
1987 Washington Gallery, Glasgow
Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1988 New Works on Paper, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Small Works on Paper, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Small Paintings and Works on Paper, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
The Twilight Zone, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough; Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight
1989 Saracen Heads, Flowers Graphics, London
Paintings and Drawings, Flowers East, London
New Prints, Flowers Graphics, London
Drawings, Tegnerforbundet, Norway
1990 Drawings and Small Paintings, Agarte, Rome
Mayfest Exhibition, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Los Angeles International Art Exposition
1991 New Prints, Flowers Graphics, London
New Paintings, Lannon Cole Gallery, Chicago
The Blind Leading the Blind, Flowers East, London
Recent Paintings ans Drawings, The Maclaurin Gallery, Ayrshire
1992 Galerie Estiarte, Madrid
1993 The Common Man, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Peter Howson: A Retrospective, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Peter Howson: The Lowland Heroes and other drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1994 Peter Howson: Bosnia, Imperial War Museum London, and Flowers East, London
Bosnian Harvest, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
1996 The Rake’s Progress and Other Paintings, Flowers East, London
Drawings Tegnerforbundet, The Drawing and Art Association of Norway, Oslo
Cabinet Paintings, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Peter Howson, Drumcoon Arts Centre, Wigan
1997 Peter Howson New Work, Flowers East, London
Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham
1998 Art Institute of Southern California
World Cup: Football Paintings, Gallery M, London
Peter Howson, Flowers West, Los Angeles
Football Paintings, Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
New Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Flowers East, London
1999 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Sex, War, and Religion, Flowers East, London
2000 Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Royal Glasgow Insitute, Glasgow
2001 Peter Howson, Flowers West, Los Angeles
2002 Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr
Flowers Central, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981 Naked Nude, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh
1982 Pictures of Ourselves, Scottish Arts Council Travelling Gallery
1983 Three Scottish Artists, Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayrshire
Grease and Water: The Art & Technique of Lithography, Printmaker’s Workshop, Edinburgh
1984 Winning Hearts and Minds, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1985 Scottish Drawing Exhibition, Paisley Art Gallery
Networking, O’Kane Gallery, Houston, Texas
New Image Glasgow, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Air Gallery, London
(touring exhibition)
Unique and Original, Glasgow Print Studio (touring exhibition)
The Smith Biennal, The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling
Five Scottish Artists, Leinster Fine Art, London
1986 New Art from Scotland, Warwick Arts Trust, London
New Work (with Stephen Barclay), Paton Gallery, London
The Barras, Mayfest exhibition, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
The Eye of the Storm: Scottish Artists and the Nuclear Arms Debate,
The Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling (touring exhibition)
Scottish Art Today: Artists at Work 1986, Edinburgh International Festival Exhibition, Edinburgh College of Art
1987 Scottish Contemporary Paintings, Tuberville Smith, London
Critical Realism, Nottingham Castle Museum (touring exhibition)
The Vigorous Imagination, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
The Festival Folio, Edinburgh Print Workshop
The Scottish Print Open
Passage West, Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork
Small is Beautiful Part 5: Landscapes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1988 Eighty European Painters, touring Europe 1988-89
Contemporary Portraits, Flowers East, London
Figure II: Naked, Aberystwyth Arts Centre (touring exhibition)
The New British Painting, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati & USA tour, 1988-90
Small is Beautiful Part 6, Flowers East, London
1989 Big Paintings, Flowers East, London
Confrontation: Three British Painters, Joy Emery Gallery, Michigan
Picturing People, Figurative Painting from Britain 1945-89, touring Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Singapore
4th International Young Artists Competition, Sofia, Bulgaria
1989/90 Angela Flowers Gallery 1970-1990, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London
1990 Flowers at Moos: Amanda Faulkner, Peter Howson, Lucy Jones, John Keane, John Kirby, Jonathan Waller, Gallery Moos, New York
21 Years of Contemporary Art, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
Mixed Scottish Exhibition, Beaux Arts, Bath
Edinburgh Salutes Glasgow, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Old Museum of Transport, Glasgow
Three Generations of Scottish Painters, Beaux Arts, Bath
John Bellany, Peter Howson, Jock McFadyen, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
UK British Culture Festival, Scottish Contemporary Art Exhibition, Keio Department Store, Tokyo (touring exhibition)
Small is Beautiful Part 8: The Figure, Flowers East, London
1991 Angela Flowers Gallery 1991, Flowers East, London
The Boat Show, Smiths Galleries, London
Inaugural Exhibition, Lannon Cole Gallery, Chicago
Human, Suburban Fine Arts Center, Illinois
1992 Artist’s Choice, Flowers East, London
Portrait of the Artist’s Mother done from Memory, Flowers East, London
Small is Beautiful, Part 10: Animals, Flowers East, London
Figure in the City (touring exhibition), Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
Mia Joosten Gallery, Amsterdam
The New Civic Theatre Gallery, Maastricht, Y’art and P utrecht, BP Gallery, Brussels
Innocence and Experience (touring exhibition)
Manchester City Art Gallery, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1993 Castle Museum, Nottingham
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Scottish Painters, Flowers East and Flowers East at London Fields, London
1994 New Work, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Inner Visions, Flowers East, London
1995 Message from Bosnia: Peter Howson and Iain McColl, The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock and touring
The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Flowers at Koplin, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
Small is Beautiful Part XIII: Food and Drink, Flowers East, London
1996 Robert Burns Exhibition, Compass Gallery, Glasgow and Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries
Naked, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Wheels on Fire, Cars in Art, 1950-1996, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Realism, Kunstelersondebund of Deutschlande, Berlin
Four British Painters, John McEnroe Gallery, New York
Angela Flowers Gallery (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork
Four British Painters, Mendenhall Gallery, California
Masks, Prince of Wales Trust Auction, London
Small is Beautiful, Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East, London
1997 Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Art et Guerre, Galerie Piltzer, Paris
After the War was Over, Angela Flowers (Ireland) Inc., Co.Cork
Art from Scotland, Forbes Magazine Galleries New York arranged by the Leith Gallery, Edinburgh
The Body Politic, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Small is Beautiful Part XV: Death, Flowers East, London
The Print Show, Flowers Graphics, London
1998 The Lord Provost’s Prize 1998, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (First Prizewinner)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Self Portrait, Six Chapel Row Gallery, Bath
Angela Flowers Gallery at Riverside Studios, London
Contemporary British Landscape, Flowers East, London
Scotland's Art, Edinburgh City Art Centre.
2000 30th Anniversary Exhibition Flowers East, London
Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London
Wild Tigers of Bandhavgarh, The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
Labour Intensive: Howson and Herman, The City Gallery, Leicester
Flowers Two, Flowers Central, London
2001 12 British Figurative Painters, Flowers West, Los Angeles
Small is Beautiful Part XIX: Still Life, Flowers East, London
2002 Flowers Eight, Flowers Central, London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Bankfield Museum, Halifax
British Broadcasting Corporation
British Council
British Museum, London
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
Christie’s Corporate Collection
City Art Centre, Edinburgh
City Art Gallery, Southampton
Contemporary Art Society
Dundee Art Gallery
Eigsee Festival Collection
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Glasgow Museums (Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove)
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall
Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon
Hunterian Museum, Glasgow
Imperial War Museum, London
Isle of Man Arts Council
Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Museums
Library of Congress, Washington DC
Lloyds TSB Group plc, London
The Maclaurin Trust, Ayr
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ministry of Defence, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo
New York Library
Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery
Paisley Art Gallery
Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University, Washington
People’s Place Museum
Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University, Lancaster
Robert Fleming Merchant Bank, London
Royal Bank of Scotland
Scottish Amicable
Scottish Development Agency
The Arts Council of Great Britain
The Scottish Arts Council
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Scottish Television (STV)
Tate Gallery, London
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
University of Salt Lake City
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
TELEVISION
1986 BBC2 Seven Ages of Man, Interview with Ronald Eyre
1987 Channel 4, The Vigorous Imagination
1988 BBC1 The Great Picture Chase, Pat Nevin and Robbie Coltrane
Channel 4 Box Office
1989 O1 for London, ZDF (Germany) ITV
1990 NB: Boxing, STV
Channel 4, Los Angeles Art Fair
1991 BBC2 Arena The Human Face
STV Talking Pictures, Peter Howson and Vivienne Hamilton
1993 BBC2 Forty Minutes: Peter Howson, War Artist for Bosnia
Channel 4 News Special, Peter Howson in Bosnia
STV News Special Peter Howson in Bosnia
BBC Scotland Peter Howson in Bosnia
1994 BBC2 The Bigger Picture
1995 Channel 4 Inside Art (animated film for children’s tv)
1996 Scottish Television, Local Heroes