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Bill Jacklin RA, Ponte degli Ombrelli VI Born: 1 January 1943, London, UK
Elected ARA: 1 June 1989
Elected RA: 26 June 1991
Category of Membership: Painter
Bill Jacklin studied graphics at Walthamstow School of Art, London from 1960 to 1961 before working as a graphic designer at Studio Seven, London from 1961 to 1962. In 1962 he returned to Walthamstow to study painting and subsequently studied at the Royal College of Art, London from 1964 to 1967. Between 1967 and 1975, Jacklin taught at Chelsea School of Art, Hornsey and Royal Colleges of Art and at schools in Kent and Surrey.
Jacklin was awarded an Arts Council Bursary in 1975, the year that marked his first two solo exhibitions at the Upper Gallery and at Nigel Greenwood Inc., London. His work continued to be exhibited in solo shows throughout the 1970s and 1980s with Marlborough Fine Art, London and Marlborough Gallery, New York. He also participated in numerous group exhibitions internationally from the early 1970s. Jacklin has undertaken many commissions, notably from the Bank of England, the Ivy Restaurant, De Beers and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority for the North Terminal of Washington National Airport.
Bill Jacklin RA, Broadway Encounter III
Bill Jacklin moved to New York in 1985. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1991 and in 1993 was Official Artist-in-Residence for the British Council in Hong Kong. Jacklin lives and works in New York, USA.
Recent solo exhibitions
2013 Marlborough Fine Art, London
2012 Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames
Marlborough Gallery, New York
2011 Brook Gallery, Devon
2009 Marlborough, Monaco
2008 University of Northumbria Gallery, Newcastle
2007 Marlborough Fine Art, London
Marlborough Gallery, New York
2005 Marlborough Fine Art, London
2004 Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
Marlborough Fine Art, London
2003 Marlborough Gallery, New York
2002 Marlborough Gallery, New York
2000 Marlborough Fine Art, London
1998 Marlborough Gallery, New York
1997 Skovridder Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Marlborough Fine Art and Marlborough Graphics, London
1995-6 Marlborough Graphics, London
1995 Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1994/5 Marlborough Graphics, London
1994 University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
London Print Workshop
1992-3 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Travelled to Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1992 Marlborough Fine Art, London
1990 Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York
Public collections
Arkansas Arts Centre, Little Rock, USA
Arts Council of Great Britain
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia, USA
British Council, London
British Museum, London
Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA
City Art Gallery, Bradford
Contemporary Art Society, London
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Veranneman Foundation, Belgium
Government Art Collection
Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
Irish Art Council, Dublin
Isle of Man Arts Council
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers,
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, The Brian Montgomery Collection,
Budapest, Hungary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Portland Museum of Art
Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Tate Gallery, London
Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano, Switzerland
University of Alberta, Canada
University of Leicester
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
