Born in 1937, Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
EDUCATION
1962
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
1959
Guildford College of Art, Guildford, United Kingdom
1957
Yeovil School of Art, Somerset, United Kingdom
HONORS
2017
Guggenheim Fellowship in Visual Art, New York, NY
2016
Honorary Fellowship, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024
Strange Lands, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Reinventor, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
Image in Revolt, curated by Helen Little, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
2022
Derek Boshier, City Museum of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia
2021
Icarus and K-Pop, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
2019
Night and Snow, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
It’s Only When the Tide Goes Out… Selected works and ephemera, 1976 – 2018, Mostyn, Wales, United Kingdom
2017
On The Road, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
On The Road, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
International Pop, The Walker, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Cogwheels Carved in Wood, curator Jonathan Griffin, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Derek Boshier: Journey / Israel Project, Installation. Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Derek Boshier All in a Day’s Work, Drawings Paintings and Films 1970-2014, Boyd Satellite Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Change, Tanya Leighton Gallery at Kurfurstenstrasse, Berlin, Germany
2013
Derek Boshier, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Derek Boshier: Survey of Work, “In Conversation with William” Gallery 360, North Eastern University, Boston, MA
Derek Boshier, Films, “In Conversation with Alex Kitnick” Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY
Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton, Derek Boshier New Paintings, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
Derek Boshier 1962, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Derek Boshier Drawings, Large drawings from the Iraq War Series 2004, Chelsea Arts Club, London, United Kingdom
Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton, Derek Boshier New Paintings. Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
2012
Iraq War Drawings 2004, Chelsea Arts Club, London, United Kingdom
Derek Boshier: David Bowie and the Clash, selection of work made for Bowie and the Clash, Pallant House Museum, Chichester, United Kingdom The Artist as Film Maker: Derek Boshier, British Film Institute Theatre, London, United Kingdom
In Profile, Huguenot Editions, London, United Kingdom
2011
Derek Boshier: Heroes and Villains, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Derek Boshier – In the 70’s, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010
Urban Vex, Royal Academy Schools Galleries, London, United Kingdom
2009
Extreme Makeover, Ammo Gallery New Orleans, LA
Derek Boshier New Paintings, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Extreme Makeover, Flowers Art Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1955-2007, Flowers East, London, United Kingdom
Magazine: New Paintings, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Derek Boshier Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
Extreme Makeover, 800 Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ
2006
Pop: Works on Paper from 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
Derek Boshier: All In A Days Work. New Paintings, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2005
99 Cent War (Iraq) : Installation and Paintings, Galerie Du Centre, Paris, France
99 Cent War (Iraq) : Installation and Paintings, The Florence Trust, London, United Kingdom
2004
Shelf Life: Derek Boshier Recent Paintings and Sculptures, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library La Jolla, CA
Derek Boshier: Extreme Makeover, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Derek Boshier: New Paintings -“Books” Keller & Greene, Los Angeles, CA
Derek Boshier Works on Paper: A Retrospective 1957–2003, Weber State University, Ogden, UT
2002
Derek Boshier Sports, F.G.Cozens, Dusseldorf, Germany
2001
Derek Boshier, Flowers, West. Los Angeles, CA
Derek Boshier, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France
2000
Derek Boshier New Work, Shakespeare Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
Cowboy Installation, Window Gallery, St. Martin’s College, Charing Cross Road, London, United Kingdom
1998
Journey/Israel Project, Installation, Holocaust Museum. Houston, TX
Derek Boshier, Paintings & Drawings 1982-85, Weil Gallery, Corpus Christi, TX
1997
Journey/Israel Project, Miskan Le Ormanut Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
1996
Derek Boshier, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom
Derek Boshier – Recent Works, Connaught Brown Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1995
Derek Boshier – The Texas Years, (work 1980–95), The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Three Giants, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1993
Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, 1992-93, Independant Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1991
Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1990
Derek Boshier: New Works, Fahey/Klein Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
1989
Derek Boshier – Large Paintings and Drawings 1983- 1988, Mexicarte Museum, Austin, TX
Derek Boshier, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1988
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987
Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Albert Totah Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1986
Totah-Stelling Gallery, New York, NY
1985
The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1984
New Drawings, Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
1983
Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings 1960-82, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
1982
Traveling exhibition New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Derek Boshier – The Texas Works, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
Paintings and Drawings 1981-82, Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX
1981
Derek Boshier – Texas Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Paintings, Drawings and Photographs: 1961-79, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lodz, Poland
Traveling exhibition- Palace of Culture. Warsaw, Poland
Drawings: 1980-81, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Drawings: 1980-81, Graham Gallery. Houston, TX
1979
Paintings and Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Drawings and Books for Artists, Felicity Samuels Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1978
Events, A I R Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1977
Places and Routes, Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Events and Routes, Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Events and Art Books, A I R Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1976
Places, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1975
Two – About Duality, Artnet, London, United Kingdom
Routes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1974
54 Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1973
Documentation and Work 1959-72, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1972
Derek Boshier Documentation and Work, Touring Exhibition in Great Britain through to 1973
1971
Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1970
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Zeichnungen – Lithographien, Galerie Bucholz, Munich, Germany
Galerie Varennes, Paris, France
1968
Robert Fraser Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1967
Derek Boshier, Galerie Bichofsberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1965
Robert Fraser Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels, Belgium
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
Let’s Talk About Text, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
I See Faces, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
Fantasy Pop, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom
2020
Summer Group Show, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
2019
Night and Snow/ Fragments: Contemporary Still Life, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band. Gazelli Art.House, London, United Kingdom
Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
2018
Terra, Gazelli Art House, Baku, Azerbaijan
Photography Exhibition, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
2016
Britain Invasion, Museum of Art History, Lancaster, CA
This Was Tomorrow: Pop Art in Great Britain, Kunstmuseum, Wolfburg, Germany
This is Today, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom
2015
Ry Rocklen & Derek Boshier, Condominium Pancake, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
2014
Cogwheels Carved in Wood: Derek Boshier, Gina Beavers, Jamian Juliano Villani, Sean Kennedy, Oliver Payne, Lucie Stahl, Curated by Jonathan Griffin. Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
David Bowie is influencing Your Behaviour, Victoria and Albert Museum. London, United Kingdom
Glam: The Performance of Style, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom and tour to Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Germany
Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Made in Space, Gavin Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Made in Space, Venus over Manhattan. New York, NY
2011
Art Work: United Kingdom Government Art Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010
Pop Cinema. Art and Film in USA and United Kingdom 1950-1970’s, International House, Philadelphia, PA
2008
No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967-87, The British Council and Arts Council Collection, United Kingdom
Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2007
Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Group Show, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beneath The Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Nothing Moments, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Pop Art, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, United Kingdom
2006
British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Culture, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Texas 100, El Paso Museum of Art, Texas, TX
As is When, 12th International Print & Drawing Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
Swinging London: The Collection of Mateusz Grabowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Swinging London: The Collection of Mateusz Grabowski, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
Abovo, Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Art and The Sixties, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tate Modern, London, UK
Portsmouth Museum of Art, United Kingdom
The Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Windsor Castle, England
United Kingdom Government Art Collection
Arts Council of The United Kingdom
The British Council Collection
The Guildhall Museum, City of London
The Tate Gallery of British Art, London, England
The British Museum, London, England
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
City of Sheffield Galleries
City of Portsmouth Art Gallery
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California
The Pacific Enterprise Collection, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Yale Centre of British Art, New Haven, CT
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
The Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, TX
Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi, TX
Neuberber Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
Peter Stuyvesant Collection, Holland
The Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel
The Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland
The National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw, Poland
The Calouse Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Berardo Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana, Cuba
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest
SELECTED CATALOGUES & ARTIST PUBLICATIONS
Derek Boshier: Rethink / Re-entry, 2016. Ed. Paul Gorman. London: Thames & Hudson.
When Britain Went Pop: British Pop Art, The Early Years, 2013. Essay by Robert Brown, “Conversation with Derek Boshier, July 2013.” London: Christie’s International Media Division.
How to Draw Water, 2007. Artist’s Book. Edition of 100.
United Kingdom Government Art Collection Catalogue, 2007. London: The Public Catalogue Foundation.
What?, 2001. Artist’s Book. Edition of 7.
Derek Boshier: The Texas Years, 1996. Essay by Guy Brett, “The Amorphous Us.” Contemporary Arts Museum Houston.
American Art Since 1900. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin.
Lives, 1978. Catalogue. Exhibition curated and introductory essay by Derek Boshier. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
John Yau, “An Artist’s Lifetime of Asking the Hard Questions,” Hyperallergic, April 9
2020
Jonathan Griffin, “The Breakfast Club,” LALA Magazine, April 27
2019
“The Derek Boshier Conversation,” Cellophaneland, November 12
Alexander Massouras, “Review: Derek Boshier,” Art Monthly Review, June 27
2017
Gwynedd Stuart, “Hockney Contemporary Derek Boshier Has Immortalized Old Friend David
Bowie (Again),” LA Weekly, May 12
Chris Richards, “David Bowie Remembered by his Admirers, Collaborators, and Friends”, The
Washington Post, April 21
2016
Kashmira Gander, “Why is the RCA the best art school in the world?”, The Independent, April 6
2015
Dr. Michael Petry, “Falling Leaves: A Fall Preview”, The Huffington Post, Oct 8
Paul Gorman, “Boshier & Bowie”, GQ Magazine, Dec 1
2014
Ana Teixeira Pinto, “Derek Boshier’s Change”, Art Agenda, April 10
2013
“Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits”, Art Daily, Dec 19
Robert Moeller, “A Pop Artist Who’s Never Conformed”, Hyperallergic, Oct 21
“Portrait of David Bowie as the Elephant Man By Derek Boshier To Be Exhibited For The First Time”, ArtWeek, Sept 26
“Unseen David Bowie Portrait Goes On Show at NPG”, Blouin ArtInfo, Sept 23
Doug Harvey, “Rediscovering Derek Boshier”, Modern Painters, Sept
James Nisbet, “Derek Boshier”, Artforum, May
2012
Paul Gorman, “Rebel Rebel”, Pallant House Gallery Catalogue, No. 27, June - Oct
2006
Renaud Faroux, Clash City Painter, Étapes Magazine, May
2003
Renaud Faroux, “Derek Boshier La Chute Des Idoles”, L’Oeil Magazine
2001
Sandro Bocola, The Art of Modernism 1870-2000 (Taschen)
1986
Holland Cotter, “Derek Boshier at Totah-Stelling”, Art in America, October
1985
Marco Livinstone, “Letter from Derek Boshier”, Art Monthly, October
Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill, “Derek Boshier, Texas Gallery”, Artforum, September