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Born 1948 near Henley, Oxfordshire, UK
Lives and works in London
Education
| 1967-68 | Winchester School of Art, Winchester |
| 1968-71 | St. Martin's School of Art, London |
| 1971-72 | Chelsea School of Art, London |
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Honorary and Foreign Distinctions
Represented Britain at the Biennales of Sydney 1982, Paris 1982, 1985, Sâo Paulo 1983, 1991
Finalist Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, 1986
Winner Anne Gerber Award, Seattle Museum of Art, USA, 1988
Trustee of the Tate Galleries 1996-2001
Elected to the Royal Academy of Arts 2002
Trustee of the Imperial War Museum 2003-
Governor of the University of the Arts London 2003-
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Selected individual exhibitions
| | | LEAD ASTRAY, shared sculptures with Richard Deacon | | 2008 | Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney | | | 2007 | Château Musée, Dieppe, France | | | | BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE | | 2006 | Waddington Galleries, London | | | | LEAD ASTRAY, shared sculptures with Richard Deacon | | 2006 | Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth | | | 2005 | Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield | | | 2004 | New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury | | | 2004 | Palacio Nacional de Queluz, Lisbon, Portugal | | | | THE BEEKEEPER | | 2002 | Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea | | | 2001 | South London Gallery, London | | | 2001 | Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield | | | | REGARDLESS OF HISTORY | | 2000 | Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London | | | | MONOGRAPHIC ROOM | | 2000 | Tate Modern, London | | | | SITTING ON HISTORY | | 1998 | British Library, London | | | | ABOUT THIS AXIS, DRAWINGS 1990-1995 | | 1997 | Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland | | | | SCULPTURES 1981-1997 | | 1997 | Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia | | | | FOOLS' GOLD | | 1996 | Duveen Galleries, Tate Gallery, London | | | 1996 | Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany | | | | ABOUT THIS AXIS, DRAWINGS 1990-1995 | | 1996 | Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast | | | 1995 | Camden Arts Centre, London | | | 1995 | Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston | | | | ’ONLY THE LONELY’ AND OTHER SHARED SCULPTURES with Richard Deacon | | 1994 | Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels, Belgium | | | 1993 | Chisenhale Gallery, London | | | 1993 | Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth | | | | BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE | | 1991 | XXI Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil | | | | EYE OF THE NEEDLE | | 1989 | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France | | | 1989 | Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France | | | | POINT OF ENTRY | | 1989 | Imperial War Museum, London | | | | BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE | | 1987 | Kunstverein, Munich, Germany | | | 1986 | Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh | | | | SHIP OF FOOLS’, DISCOVERY OF TIME | | 1986 | Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, USA | | | | BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE | | 1985 | Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland | | | | NATURAL PRODUCE, AN ARMED RESPONSE | | 1985 | Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, USA | | | | BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE | | 1983 | Museum of Modern Art, Oxford | | | 1972 | Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | |
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Selected group exhibitions
| | | DOMESTIC INCIDENTS | | 2006 | Tate Modern, London | | | | ELDORADO | | 2006 | MUDAM, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | | | | RAISED AWARENESS | | 2005 | Tate Modern, London | | | | IN PRINT: PRINTS FROM THE PARAGON PRESS | | 2005 | National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | | | | TURNING POINTS: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH SCULPTURE | | 2004 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran | | | | BLAST TO FREEZE: BRITISH ART IN THE 20th CENTURY | | 2003 | Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France | | | 2002 | Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany | | | | FIELD DAY, SCULPTURE FROM BRITAIN | | 2001 | Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | | | | NATURAL HISTORY | | 2001 | Yongsan Family Park, Seoul, Korea | | | | FORJAR EL ESPACIO | | 1999 | Ivam Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain | | | 1999 | Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, France | | | 1998 | Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain | | | | SEXTA BIENAL DE LA HABANA | | 1997 | Havana, Cuba | | | | UN SIECLE DE SCULPTURE ANGLAISE | | 1996 | Jeu de Paume, Paris, France | | | | FROM PICASSO TO WOODROW: RECENTLY ACQUIRED PRINTS AND PORTFOLIOS | | 1995 | Tate Gallery, London | | | | ARTE AMAZONAS | | 1994 | Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany | | | 1993 | Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany | | | 1993 | Technische Sammlungen, Dresden, Germany | | | 1992 | Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janiero, Brazil | | | 1992 | Museu de Arte, Brasilia, Brazil | | | | METROPOLIS | | 1991 | Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany | | | | BRITISH SCULPTURE SINCE 1965 | | 1987 | Museum of Contemporary Art/Peace Museum, Chicago, USA | | | 1987 | Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA | | | 1987 | Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, USA | | | 1987 | Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA | | | 1987 | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA | | | | DOCUMENTA 8 | | 1987 | Kassel, Germany | | | | AN INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF RECENT PAINTING AND SCULPTURE | | 1984 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA | | | | OBJECTS & SCULPTURE | | 1981 | Arnolfini, Bristol/I.C.A., London, | |
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