Adrian Berg RA

Born: 12 March 1929, London, UK
Elected RA: 29 June 1992
Category of Membership: Painter

Adrian Berg RA, The Botanic Garden Madeira

Adrian Berg first studied medicine, then English at Cambridge University from 1949 to 1952 and subsequently went on to do a higher diploma in Education at Trinity College, Dublin. After a short spell of teaching, he studied at St Martin’s, Chelsea School of Art and the Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1961. He returned to the Royal College as senior tutor from 1987 to 1988.

A retrospective of his work (1955 to 1980) was shown in Rochdale Art Gallery in 1980, followed by an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in 1986 which subsequently travelled to The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and to the Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Berg’s 70th birthday was marked by a solo exhibition in the Friends Room at the Royal Academy of Arts, which ran concurrently with a show at the Piccadilly Gallery, where Berg exhibits regularly.

Adrian Berg RA, The Alhambra, Granada, 19 March + 3 April

Berg was a Gold Medal winner in 1973 at the Florence Biennale, and a prize winner at the John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions in 1980 and 1982. He was elected a Royal Academician in 1992 and appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 1994. Berg was awarded The National Trust’s Foundation for Art Award in 1987. He was subsequently commissioned to paint water colours for the National Trust in 1995. His work is held in many collections, both public and corporate. Berg lives and works in East Sussex.

Recent solo exhibitions
1985-1999 Piccadilly Gallery, London (6 exhibitions)
1999 Royal Academy of Arts (Friends’ Room)
1994 Rye Art Gallery
1993 Concourse Gallery, Barbican, London (toured to: Victoria Gallery, Bath; City Art Gallery, Plymouth; Newport Museum and Art Gallery; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Royal Botanic Gallery, Edinburgh)
1992 Brighton Festival
The Gardner Centre
The University of Sussex
1978-83 Waddington Galleries, London (3 exhibitions)
1964-75 Arthur Tooth & Sons, London (5 exhibitions)

Public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Borough of Camden
Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery
City of Bradford
Contemporary Art Society of Wales
Contemporary Arts Society
Corporation of London
Dartington Hall
East Sussex County Council
Government Art Collection
Guildhall Art Gallery
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Leeds City Art Gallery
Leeds Education Authority
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Manchester City Art Gallery
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Northern Arts
Repton School
Richmond College, Surrey
Rochdale Art Gallery
The British Council
The British Museum
The European Parliament
The National Trust
The Royal College of Art
The Tate Gallery
The University of Liverpool Art Gallery
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Towner Art Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum