Sculptor, printmaker

Biography

1924 Born in Edinburgh

1943 Studied at the Edinburgh College of Art.

1944 Studied at the Slade School of Art in London

1947-50 Worked in Paris.

1949-55 Taught design textile at the Central School of Art

1950-54 Worked on several architectural projects, including a fountain for the Festival of Britain in 1951 and one for a park in Hamburg in 1953

1955-58 Taught sculpture at St. Martin's School of Art

1960 Appointed visiting professor to advise on sculpture and basic design at Hamburg Hochscule, where he taught until 1962

1968-99 Lectures in Ceramics at the Royal College of Art, London

Bibliography

1971 Eduardo PaolozziTate Gallery, London

1976 Eduardo Paolozzi, Sculpture, Drawings, Collages and Graphics, Arts Council, London

1986 Eduardo Paolozzi Underground, Royal Academy of Art/Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London

2000 Robin Spencer, Paolozzi: Writings and Interviews, London, Oxford University Press

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1948 Mayor Gallery, London

1949 Mayor Gallery, London

1958 Hanover Gallery, London

1960 Betty Parson's Gallery, NY

Manchester City Art Gallery

1963 Waddington Gallery, London

1964 Recent Sculpture at the Robert Fraser Gallery, London

Eduardo Paolozzi Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

1965 University of Newcastle Upon Tyne

1966 Pace Gallery, New York

Robert Fraser Gallery, London.

1967 Hanover Gallery, London

Kroller-Muller Museum, Holland

Pace Gallery, New York

1969 Stadische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf

Galerie Mikro, Berlin

1970 Pollock Gallery, Toronto

1971 Tate Gallery, London

1996 Two rooms in the Tate Gallery, London, devoted to new Acquisitions of Paolozzi works

1997 Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London

1999 New public space in Edinburgh, The Dean Gallery, is devoted to the largest single display of Paolozzi's work

Selected Group Exhibitions

1947-50 Showed work at Galerie Maeght with the group Les Mains Eboulie

1952 Participated in the 26th Venice Biennale

1957 Participated in 4th Sao Paolo Biennial: Ten Young British Sculptors

1959 New Images of Man at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1960 National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

1961 Musee Rodin, Paris

1996 Hayward Gallery, London, Spellbound

Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, Institute of Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Texas, Museum opf Art, Baltimore, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, National Gallery of Edinburgh, Scotland, Museo D'Arte Moderna, Rome, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Holland, Stedelijk Musem, Amsterdam, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Awards

1953 Received the British Critics Prize.

1956 Received Noma and William Copley Foundation Award

1960 Received David E. Bright Foundation Award for the best sculptor under 45

1967 Received Guggenheim Purchase Award and the Carnegie Institute Sculpture Prize