Chris Orr RA

Born: 8 April 1943, London, UK
Elected RA: 22 May 1995
Category of Membership: Engraver

Chris Orr studied at Ravensbourne College of Art from 1959 to 1963, Hornsey College of Art from 1963 to 1964 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1964 to 1967. He went on to teach part-time at Cardiff College of Art, Central St Martins, London and at the Royal College of Art, London. He has been Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art since 1998.

Chris Orr RA, Santiago or Bust! Chris Orr has had many solo shows in the UK, including the Serpentine Gallery, London (1971), the Whitechapel Gallery, London and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1976). International solo shows include Galleria Grafica, Tokyo, Japan, in 1980, Jay Street Gallery, New York, USA, in 1983 and Print Guild, Melbourne, Australia in 1987. He has exhibited regularly at the Jill George Gallery since 1978.

Orr was made a fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1985, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers in 1988 and a Royal Academician in 1995. He lives and works in Buckingham and London.

Read an interview with Chris Orr in RA Magazine Summer 2008

Recent solo exhibitions
2010 Galway Museum, Galway, Ireland
Jill George Gallery, London
2009 Daiwa Anglo - Japanese Foundation, London
2008 Brook Gallery Budleigh Salterton, Devon
2007 Hauser and Wirth, Zürich
2001 Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey, Guildford
Jill George Gallery
1999 Royal Academy of Arts (Friends Room)
Jill George Gallery
1998 Royal College of Art
1996 Jill George Gallery
1994 Jill George Gallery
1990-92 Many Mansions, a travelling circus of the works of Chris Orr - Royal Festival Hall and touring British Isles

Public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Welsh Arts Council
British Council
Royal Academy of Arts
Museum of London
Victoria & Albert Museum
Science Museum
The British Museum
Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
York Railway Museum
Government Art Collection
Tate Gallery

Publications
Many Mansions, Chris Orr and Michael Palin, 1990
The Small Titanic, Chris Orr and Kevin Whately
Pinko Productions, 1994
Happy Days, Chris Orr, 1999
Semi-Antics, Chris Orr and Jill George, 2001

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

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