Allen Jones RA

Born: 1 September 1937, Southampton, UK
Elected ARA: 7 May 1981
Elected RA: 20 November 1986
Category of Membership: Printmaker

Allen Jones RA, Banquet Allen Jones studied at Hornsey College of Art from 1955 to 1959 and the Royal College of Art from 1959 to 1960. Between 1961 and 1983 he taught at Croydon College of Art, Chelsea School of Art, University of South Florida, Hochschule für Bildenden Kunst, Hamburg, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine and Hochschule der Kunste, Berlin. Jones was appointed a Trustee of the British Museum from 1990 to 1999.

From the early 1960s his international reputation was established as a painter, printmaker and sculptor. Over the past 40 years his work has been exhibited around the world in both solo and group exhibitions. There have been three major retrospectives of his work. The first at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, travelling to the Serpentine Gallery, London and to four venues in Germany. The second at the ICA, London, which travelled to the Fruit Market, Edinburgh and Arnolfini, Bristol, and the third at the Barbican, London, which was subsequently toured worldwide by the British Council.

Allen Jones RA, Standing Room Only (from Sheet Music)

Jones’s designs for stage and television include Oh Calcutta! for Kenneth Tynan, Manner wir kommen (West Deutsche Rundfunk), Understanding Opera (LWT), Satie/Cinema (Baallet Rambert) and Signed in Red (Royal Ballet, London). Jones lives and works in London and Oxfordshire.

Recent solo exhibitions
2012 Völklinger Hütte, Center for European Art and Industrial Culture, Saarbrücken
2011 Wetterling Gallery, Gothenberg
2010 Marlborough Fine Art, London
2009 Gallerie Patrice Trigano, Paris
Levy Gallery, Hamburg
2007 Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2003 Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
1999 Academy, Helsinki
Ars Nova Museum of Contemporary Art, Turku, Finland
As Vaal Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Galerie Steinrötter, Münster
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna
Summerstage sculpture exhibition, City of Vienna
1998 Centro Cultural, São Paulo
Galeria Athos Bulcao, Brasília
Galerie Hilger, Vienna
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador
Museu Metropolitano de Arte, Curitiba
Palàcio das Artes, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Trussardi, Marino Alla Scala, Milan
1997 Czech Museum of Modern Art, Prague
Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Nicosia Municipal Art Gallery, Cyprus
1996 Galeria Civica, Modena
Galeria Pro Arte, Freiburg
Galerie Hilger, Vienna
Hauger Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
Kunsthalle, Darmstadt
1995 Barbican Art Gallery, London
Bomann Museum, Celle, Germany
Galerie Levy, Hamburg and Madrid
Gio Marconi, Milan
1993 Galerie Hete Hünermann, Düsseldorf
Galerie Levy at ARCO, Madrid
Galerij Mourmans, Knokke
Waddington Galleries, London
1992 Galerie Levy, Hamburg
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
(touring in Wales and England)
1991 Galerij Cotthem, Ostend
Galerie Wentzel, Cologne Art Fair

Public collections
Arts Council
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
British Council
City Art Gallery, Birmingham
Contemporary Art Society
Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-on-Hull
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Portrait Gallery, London
Southampton Art Gallery
Sunderland Art Gallery
Tate Gallery
Victoria & Albert Museum
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
York City Art Gallery
Boymans van Beuningen Museum,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
Chicago Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
Frederick R Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington DC, USA
Konstmuseets Vanner, Gothenburg, Sweden
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Landesmuseum für Kunst und
Kulturgeschichte Münster, Germany
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Museum Aachen, Germany
Museum Bochum, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
Museum of 20th Century Art, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Nagoake Museum, Japan
Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria
Oregon State University, USA
Pasadena Art Museum, USA
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art,
University of Sydney, Australia
Regional Museum, Olinda, Brazil
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Vancouver Art Museum, Canada
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, USA
Yale Center for British Art,
New Haven, USA

Sculptural commissions
Yuzi Paradise Sculpture Park, Guilin, China
Liverpool Garden Festival;
Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles
Cotton’s Atrium, London
London Heathrow Terminal 4
London Docklands Development Board
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London
Swire Properties
Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
Goodwood Sculpture Park, Sussex
Chatsworth, Derbyshire
GlaxoSmithKline World HQ, London

Awards
1963 Prix des Jeunes Artistes, Paris Biennale
1973 Design & Art Direction Award for the Pirelli Calendar
1988 Art and Work Award for his sculpture at
Cotton’s Atrium, London
2000 Design & Art Direction Award for
Millennium postage stamp design

Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk

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