Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
2015
2013
- R.B. Kitaj ,L.A. Louver Galleries ,Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
- R. B. Kitaj: The Retrospective ,Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
- R.B. Kitaj: Works on Paper ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- R. B. Kitaj: Don鈥檛 Listen to the Fools ,Buffalo AKG Art Museum ,Buffalo, New York, USA
- R. B. Kitaj: Personal Library ,The Jewish Museum New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- R.B. Kitaj: Obsessions ,Pallant House Gallery ,Chichester, UK
2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
- Through the Seasons ,Henie Onstad Art Center ,Høvikodden, Norway
- British Art: Convergences ,Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian (CAM) ,Lisbon, Portugal
- Auras: Portraits of Women by British Artists ,Lévy Gorvy Dayan, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- From Observation to Abstraction: The Body in Art ,Royal Academy of Arts ,Mayfair, London, UK
- The Future is Today: Prints and the University of Warwick, 1965 to now ,Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre ,Coventry, UK
2024
- View from the Studio ,L.A. Louver Galleries ,Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Seeing from the Block: Observing the Justice System through the Collection of the Nasher Museum ,Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University ,Durham, North Carolina, USA
- London: An Artistic Crossroads ,Sotheby's London ,London, UK
- US: From there to here - Britain's Gain ,Ben Uri Gallery & Museum ,St. John's Wood, London, UK
- Group Exhibition ,L.A. Louver Galleries ,Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
2023
- Red ,L.A. Louver Galleries ,Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Before Tomorrow. Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years ,Astrup Fearnley Museet ,Oslo, Norway
- A Celebration of Portraiture: Twentieth-Century Britain ,Piano Nobile London ,Notting Hill, London, UK
- Zerreißprobe: Pop-Collagen Von Warhol Bis Polke ,Wilhelm Hack Museum ,Ludwigshafen Am Rhein, Germany
- Drawn to Paper ,Piano Nobile London ,Notting Hill, London, UK
- Modern British Art ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
2022
- Public Figure: Painting, Drawing And Photography ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- In Translation: Prints Across Media ,Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center ,Poughkeepsie, New York, USA
- Modern British Art 2022 ,James Hyman Gallery, 50 Maddox St ,London, UK
- Figuration ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Txt Me ,Gallery Neptune & Brown ,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
2021
- The Great Graphic Boom. Pop art on paper ,Kunsthalle zu Kiel ,Kiel, Germany
- Ikuspuntuak: Gorputzak I-VIII ,Bilbao Fine Arts Museum ,Bilbao, Spain
- No Mask is Wholly a Mask ,L.A. Louver Galleries ,Venice, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Body Image ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Masterpieces of Twentieth Century British Art ,James Hyman Gallery, 50 Maddox St ,London, UK
2020
- Arte Moltiplicata: Grafiche, Multipli, Libri D鈥檃rtisa ,Gió Marconi ,Milan, Italy
- ONLINE: Music Maestro Please... ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Tales From The Colony Rooms: Art And Bohemia ,Dellasposa ,London, UK
- Self Portraits from the Ben Uri Collection ,Ben Uri Gallery & Museum ,St. John's Wood, London, UK
- Works from the 1980s. Conceptual Photography ,Marlborough, New York ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2019
- Good Sports ,The Public Trust ,Dallas Main Street District, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Keith Mayerson: Friends And Family ,Peter Mendenhall Gallery ,Pasadena, California, USA
- Land Matters ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Exercises in Style, by Novel ,A plus A Gallery ,Venice, Italy
- Kabbalah: The Art of Jewish Mysticism ,Jewish Historical Museum, JHM ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018
- Winter Exhibition ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Modern & Contemporary Art at Albemarle Street ,Waterhouse & Dodd, London (Albemarle Str) ,London, UK
- The Art of the Lithograph ,Jewish Museum of Florida, FIU ,Miami Beach, Florida, USA
- Darkness into Light: The Emotional Power of Art ,Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery ,Sheffield, UK
- Bacon, Freud and The painting of the school of London ,Hungarian National Gallery ,Budapest, Hungary
- Journeys With: The Waste Land ,Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre ,Coventry, UK
- Journeys With 鈥楾he Waste Land鈥� ,The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum ,Coventry, UK
- Speech Acts: Reflection-Imagination-Repetition ,Manchester Art Gallery ,Manchester, UK
- Directors鈥� Cut ,The John Curtin Gallery ,Bentley, Australia
- Group Exhibition ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life ,Tate Britain ,Millbank, London, UK
- All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- POP! Art in a Changing Britain ,Pallant House Gallery ,Chichester, UK
- London Painters ,Ordovas, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- A History of Drawing ,The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts London ,London, UK
2017
- Two Decades: British Printmaking in the 1960s and 1970s ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Online Exhibition: Works by R.B. Kitaj, Victor Pasmore and Joe Tilson ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- London Painters ,Ordovas, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Bacon, Freud, and the London painters ,ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum ,Århus, Denmark
- Degas: a passion for perfection ,Fitzwilliam Museum ,Cambridge, UK
- Bacon, Freud and the School of London ,Museo Picasso Málaga ,Malaga, Spain
2016
- This Was Tomorrow: Pop Art in Great Britain ,Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg ,Wolfsburg, Germany
- The Departed ,Frissiras Museum ,Athens, Greece
- London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach, and Kitaj ,Getty Center ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- The Making of a Fugitive ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Colectiva: Arikha - Auerbach - Kitaj - Uglow ,Galería Marlborough, Barcelona ,Barcelona, Spain
2015
- The World is Made of Stories ,Astrup Fearnley Museet ,Oslo, Norway
- The Playroom: Prints by A. Jones, RB Kitaj, J. Tilson 鈥� Online Exhibition ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Aspects of Modern British Art 2015 ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Read Image, See Text ,Cranbrook Art Museum ,Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
- Summer Exhibition 2015 ,Marlborough, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- From the Archives: Art and Technology at LACMA, 1967鈥�1971 ,LACMA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ,Park La Brea, Los Angeles, California, USA
- On Show ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
2014
- The Still Open Case of Irving Petlin ,Kent Fine Art ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle ,PMCA, Pasadena Museum of California Art ,Pasadena, California, USA
- The Drawing Room ,Magasin III Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
- An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle ,Grey Art Museum ,New York, USA
2013
- Aspects of Modern British Art: Paintings | Graphics | Sculpture ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Summer Group Exhibition ,Marlborough, New York (Uptown) ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Ego Yo Yo Mío Mío ,Galería Marlborough, Barcelona ,Barcelona, Spain
- R.B Kitaj: Prints ,Rabley Gallery ,Marlborough, UK
- The Ingram Collection: The Colourful Lives of Artists ,The Lightbox ,Surrey, UK
- "Painting I - Eclectic affinities" ,Frissiras Museum ,Athens, Greece
2011
2009
Artist's alternative names: Ron B. Kitaj, Ronald B. Kitaj, Ronald Brooks Kitaj
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Leon Kossoff
British, 1926 - 2019
John McCracken
American, 1934 - 2011
Patrick Procktor
British, 1936 - 2003
Euan Uglow
British, 1932 - 2000
Roger Hilton
British, 1911 - 1975
Robert Morris
American, 1931 - 2018
Carroll Dunham
American, 1949
Fred Sandback
American, 1943 - 2003
Richard Lindner
German, 1901 - 1978
John Hoyland
British, 1934 - 2011
Anthony Caro
British, 1924 - 2013
Gavin Turk
British, 1967
Michael Ayrton
British, 1921 - 1975
John Minton
British, 1917 - 1957
Prunella Clough
British, 1919 - 1999
Wyndham Lewis
British, 1882 - 1957
Bryan Wynter
British, 1915 - 1975
Allen Jones
British, 1937