Philip King

Born in Tunisia in 1934, came to England in 1945.

After Philip King completed a degree in modern languages at Cambridge University, he went on to study sculpture at St Martin’s College as a pupil of Anthony Caro, where he began making clay and plaster sculpture of a Brutalist-Surrealist type. From 1958 to 1959 he worked as an assistant to Henry Moore.

Phillip King was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1967 to 1969. He has taught at St Martins School of Art, the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin and at the Royal College of Art, London where he was made Professor Emeritus in 1990. He went on to be elected Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1990, a post which he held until his election as President of the Royal Academy in 1999.

His first solo show was in 1964 at the Rowan Gallery, where he has since continued to exhibit and in 1968 he represented Britain with Bridget Riley at the Venice Biennale. He established a major reputation in both group and solo shows nationally and internationally using a variety of materials from fibreglass and metal through to wood and slate. He has had several retrospective exhibitions, including one at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1968) and at the Hayward Gallery (1981). More recently retrospectives of his work have been held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997, and most significantly at Forte de Belvedere, Florence in 1997 as only the second English sculptor to be given this honour, the first being Henry Moore.

Philip King RA

Born in Sydney in 1975

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

2007 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

2006 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

2003 Jesus College, Cambridge

2002 Place Gallery, Cavagnole, Italy

2001 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London Garth Clark Gallery, New York

1998 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

1997 Forte de Belvedere, Florence

1996 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield

1995 Galerie Waszkowiak/Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin

1994 Observer Studio Exhibition, London

1993 Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin Le Prieure Saint Michel, Vimoutiers La Filature, Nouvel Espace Culturel, Mulhouse

1992 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim** Art Warehouse, London MAAK Gallery, London

1990 Mayor Rowan Gallery, London

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Arts Council of Great Britain

Bradford City Art Gallery, UK

British Council, London, UK

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

City of Rotterdam, Netherlands

Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK

Cultural Centre, Adelaide, Australia

Felton Bequest, Melbourne, Australia

Galleria d’Arte Moderno, Turin Government Art Collection, London, UK

Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan

Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan

Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands

Leeds Museum & Galleries (City Art Gallery), UK

Leicestershire Education Authority, UK

Leisure Centre, Osaka, Japan

Los Angeles County Museum, USA

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

Middleheim Open Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Osaka City Public Art Collection, Japan

Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyama, Japan

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK

State University of New York College, Purchase, New York, USA

Stuyvesant Foundation, New York, USA

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Tel Aviv Museum, Israel

Tokyo University Art Collection, Japan

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Yale Centre for British Art, USA

EDUCATION

1954-57 Studied modern languages at Cambridge University

1957-58 Studied sculpture at St Martin’s School of Art

1959 Assistant to Henry Moore, where he gained experience working on a larger scale

AWARDS / ACHIEVEMENTS

1988 Elected a Royal Academician

1990 Elected Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools

1999 Elected as President of the Royal Academy in 1999

EMPLOYMENT

1958-59 Teacher at St Martin’s School of Art

1967-69 Trustee of the Tate Gallery

1959-80 Lecturer at St Martins School of Art

1979-80 Professor of Sculpture at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin

1988 Elected a Royal Academician

1980-90 Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London

1990 Made Professor Emeritus at the Royal College of Art

1990 Elected Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London

1999 Elected as President of the Royal Academy in 1999