- Paul Huxley
Paul Huxley (born
12 May 1938 ,London ), is a British painter.He attended Harrow School of Art from 1951 to 1956, and the
Royal Academy Schools from 1956 to 1960.His first solo exhibition was in 1963 at the Rowan Gallery, London, where he continued to exhibit regularly for two decades. Huxley has taken part in group exhibitions since 1959, when he exhibited in ‘Young Contemporaries’, London. In 1964 he participated in ‘The New Generation’ exhibition at the
Whitechapel Art Gallery withPatrick Caulfield ,David Hockney ,John Hoyland andBridget Riley . More recently he has been part of group exhibitions at the Barbican (1993), the Gulbenkian Centre for Modern Art, Lisbon (1997), and Kettle’s Yard,Cambridge andLeicester City Art Gallery (both 1999).In 1964 Huxley travelled to the
United States as first prize in the Stuyvesant Travel Awards. In 1965 he won a prize at the Paris Biennale and then aHarkness Fellowship which let him return to the U.S., where he lived inNew York for two years. He won the Linbury Trust Award in 1977, first prize in the Eastern Arts Exhibition in 1983 and a National Art Collections award for Outstanding Serice to the Arts in 1995.He taught at the
Royal College of Art from 1976, and was Professor of Painting there from 1986 until 1998, when he becameProfessor Emeritus . He has worked as avisiting lecturer atGlasgow School of Art [http://www.gsa.ac.uk/gsa.cfm?pid=4&nid=0&sid=0&criteria=&version=accessible] .He was commissioned to make 22 ceramic mural designs for
King's Cross railway station in 1984, and has also produced work for theRambert Dance Company (1991) andPallant House Gallery ,Chichester (2001).Huxley was a member of the advisory panels for the
Arts Council of Great Britain and theSerpentine Gallery . From 1975 to 1982 he was a Trustee of theTate Gallery , and also served as chairman of its Exhibitions Committee. He was elected to theRoyal Academy in 1987 and has been its Treasurer since 2000.olo exhibitions
*2003 Rhodes + Mann, London
*2001 Rhodes + Mann, London
*2001 Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
*1999 New Art Centre, Roche Court,Salisbury
*1998 Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
*1994 Gardner Art Centre,Sussex University
*1992 Gillian Jason Gallery, London
*1991 Galerie zur alten deutschen Schule,Thun , Switzerlandee also
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* [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1331&page=1 Huxley at the Tate]
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