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Born: 30 September 1939, Luton, Bedfordshire, UK
Elected ARA: 23 April 1971
Elected RA: 1 March 1977
Category of Membership: Painter
Anthony Green RA, The Path III
Green was educated at Highgate School, London, before studying at the Slade School of Art from 1956 to 1960. In 1960 he received a French Government scholarship to Paris where he lived for a year before returning to England to marry Mary Cozens-Walker. Green returned to the Slade to teach in 1964, and in 1967 received a Harkness Fellowship to the United States where he lived for two years in New Jersey and California.
Green’s first solo exhibition was held in 1962 at the Rowan Gallery, and has since had over 80 solo shows in many cities worldwide, including London, Tokyo, New York, Rotterdam, Chicago, Berlin, Brussels and Sidney. A retrospective of his work was held at the Royal Academy of Arts (1978) and in Japan (1987-88). Green’s work 'Resurrection', a pictorial sculpture for the Millennium, toured British cathedrals throughout the UK in 2000.
Green was elected an Associate Member of the Royal Academy in 1971 and, having won the Royal Academy Summer Exhibit of the Year in 1977, was elected a full Member the same year. In 1991 he became a Fellow of University College London and in 1996 was shortlisted for the Jerwood Painting Prize. Green is a Trustee of the Royal Academy and lives and works in Cambridgeshire.
Green’s work mainly chronicles his family and surroundings. He maintains that the pictures in his mind have no edges and do not therefore have to be contained within a rectangular form. Most of his work is painted on irregular-shaped supports and, more recently, on free-standing structures.
Read an interview with Anthony Green in RA Magazine Summer 2010
Recent solo exhibitions
2013 John Davies Gallery, Moreton-in-Marsh
2012 Rye Art Gallery, Rye, East Sussex
2011 Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow
Chenderit School, Banbury
Recent group exhibitions
2008 Richmond Hill Gallery, London
2006 Art Space Gallery, London
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Richmond Hill Gallery, Surrey
2005 John Davies Gallery, Stow-on-the-Wold
2004 Fine Art Society, London
1998 Flowers East, London
1997 Flowers East, London
1996 Jerwood Painting Prize, Central St Martin’s College, London
1995 Osaka Sculpture Triennale 1995, Japan
1994 National Portrait Gallery, London
1992 National Portrait Gallery, London
1991 Albermarle Gallery, London
Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo
1990 Glasgow's 'Great British Art' Exhibition
Public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Portrait Gallery, London
Setagaya Art Museum, Japan
Tate Gallery
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
