ARTISTS PROFILE | SCULPTURE | PRINTS | DRAWINGS | COLLECTIONS | EXHIBITIONS | CATALOGUES | TEXTS | PRINT & ONLINE   Born 1948 near Henley, Oxfordshire, UK Lives and works in London and Hampshire Education 1967-68 Winchester School of Art, Winchester 1968-71 St. Martin's School of Art, London 1971-72 Chelsea School of Art, London     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 2003-2011 Governor of the University of the Arts London 2003-2008 Chair of the Roche Court Educational Trust, New Art Centre, Salisbury 2011-     Selected individual exhibitions   SHARED SCULPTURES: BILL WOODROW & RICHARD DEACON 2021 Holtermann Fine Art, London   BILL WOODROW RICHARD DEACON WE THOUGHT ABOUT IT A LOT AND OTHER SHARED DRAWINGS 2021 Ikon , Birmingham   BILL WOODROW - NEW SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS 2018 Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium   SPACE INVADER 2017 MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina , Canada   FATA MORGANA, CROCKER LAND AND THE ODD SUPERIOR MIRAGE 2017 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London   LOST 2016 New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire   WHEREVER I LAY MY HAT - SCULPTURES AND DRAWINGS 2015 Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Knokke, Belgium   ON THE ROCKS. AGAIN, shared sculptures, a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon 2014 New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire   BILL WOODROW RA 2013 Royal Academy of Arts Burlington Gardens, London   REVELATOR 2012 Lullin + Ferrari, Zürich, Switzerland   BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURES 1981-1988 2011 Waddington Custot Galleries, London   LEAD ASTRAY, shared sculptures, a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon 2008 Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney   ON THE ROCKS, shared sculptures, a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon 2008 Bloomberg SPACE London, London   OSCILLATOR 2008 Waddington Galleries, London   LEAD ASTRAY, shared sculptures, a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon 2007 Château Musée, Dieppe, France   BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE 2006 Waddington Galleries, London   LEAD ASTRAY, shared sculptures, a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon 2006 Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth 2005 Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield 2004 New Art Centre Sculpture Park and Gallery, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire 2004 Palacio Nacional de Queluz, Oporto, 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 a collaboration between Bill Woodrow and Richard Deacon 1994 Sabine Wachters Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium 1993 Chisenhale Gallery, London 1993 Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth   BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE 1991 XXI Bienal de Sâo 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: POSITIVE EARTH NEGATIVE EARTH 1987 Kunstverein, Munich, Germany   BILL WOODROW: SCULPTURE 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     Selected group exhibitions   ESCALA: ESCULTURA 1945-2000 2023 Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain   WITH US IN THE NATURE 2019 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands   OBJECTS OF WONDER: BRITISH SCULPTURE FROM THE TATE COLLECTION 1950s - PRESENT 2019 PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, Germany   OBJECT LOVE 2018 Museum de Hedendaagse Kunst de Domijnen , Sittard, Netherlands   FOLKESTONE TRIENNIAL 2017 [Images © Manuel Vason] 2017/18 Folkestone   PROFILI DEL MONDO, BIENNALE DISEGNO RIMINI 2016 Rimini, Italy   THE NOING UV IT 2015 Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway   MAKING IT: SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN 1977-1986 2015 Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield   SCULPTURAL FORMS 2014 Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester   KEYWORDS: ART CULTURE & SOCIETY IN 1980’S BRITAIN 2014 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool   POST POP: EAST MEETS WEST 2014 Saatchi Gallery, London   KM/H - UTOPIES AUTOMOBILES ET FERROVIAIRES (1913-2013) 2013 Tour 46 et Musée du château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Belfort et Montbéliard, France   A ONE DAY WALK 2013 Kröller-Müller Musem, Otterlo, Netherlands   SUR LA ROUTE... 2013 Le Garage - Moteur d’Art Contemporain, Brive, France   BP WALK THROUGH BRITISH ART 2013 Tate Britain, London   FOURTH PLINTH: CONTEMPORARY MONUMENT 2012 ICA, London   ONCE REMOVED: SCULPTURE’S CHANGING FRAME OF REFERENCE 2012 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA   MODERN BRITISH SCULPTURE 2011 Royal Academy, London   SAVAGE MESSIAH 2011 Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane, London   CAMULODUNUM 2011 firstsite, Colchester   UNITED ENEMIES: THE PROBLEM OF SCULPTURE IN BRITAIN IN THE 1960’S AND 1970’S 2011 Henry Moore Institute, Leeds   DAS FUNDAMENT DER KUNST 2010 Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany   WHAT HAPPENS IF...? 2010 Storey Gallery, Lancaster   BP BRITISH ART DISPLAYS 1960-2000 2010 Tate Britain, London   GLI ANNI 80 2009 Arengario e Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza, Italy   EARTH: ART OF A CHANGING WORLD 2009 Royal Academy of Arts, London   IM BLICK DES SAMMLERS 2009 Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany   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 1988 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA 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   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 1981 I.C.A., London     using this site | web design | site map | contact | search |    all text and images © Bill Woodrow 2023