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Born: 26 December 1932, London, UK
Category of Membership: Painter
Elected ARA: 19 May 1983
Elected RA: 26 June 1991
Ken Howard RA, Self-Portrait with Borsalino Ken Howard studied at Hornsey School of Art from 1949 to 1953. He then did his National Service with the Royal Marines before returning to study at the Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1958. He went on to win a British Council Scholarship to Florence from 1958 to 1959.
Howard’s first solo show was held at the Plymouth Art Centre in 1955. Subsequent exhibitions were held in 1966 and 1968 at the John Whibley Gallery. From then on he exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, particularly with the New Grafton Gallery from the early 1970s. He was given a retrospective in 1972 at the Plymouth City Art Gallery and in 1973 and 1979 was appointed by the Imperial War Museum as official artist in Northern Ireland. He also worked with the British Army in Germany, Cyprus, Oman, Hong Kong, Nepal, Norway, Canada, Belize and Brunei from 1973 to 1982.
Ken Howard RA, Rain Effect, London
Howard was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1962, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1966, the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1979, the Royal West of England Academy 1981, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1988, Royal Academician in 1991 and President of the New English Art Club in 1998. Among his numerous awards are First Prize in the Lord Mayor’s Art Award in 1966, a Prize Winner in the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool in 1978, first prize in the Hunting Group Awards and the Critics Prize at Sparkasse Karlsruhe in 1985. Ken Howard lives and works in London.
Read an interview with Ken Howard in RA Magazine Summer 2009
Recent solo exhibitions
2013 Richard Green, London
2011 Richard Green, London
2009 Richard Green, London
2007 Richard Green, London
2006 Martin's Gallery, Cheltenham
2005 Bankside Gallery, London
2000 Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
New Grafton Gallery
1998 Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg
1997 New Grafton Gallery
Bankside Gallery
1995 New Grafton Gallery
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford
1994 Ackermann and Johnson Gallery
1993 New Grafton Gallery
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford
Ackermann and Johnson Gallery
1992 Lowndes Lodge Gallery
Ackermann and Johnson Gallery
1991 Lowndes Lodge Gallery
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Burford
1990 New Grafton Gallery
Lowndes Lodge Gallery
Ackermann and Johnson
Public collections
Guildhall Art Gallery
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Imperial War Museum
National Army Museum
Plymouth City Art Centre
Sheffield Art Gallery
Southern Museum and Art Gallery
Ulster Museum
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
