Anthony Whishaw RA

Born: 22 May 1930, London, UK
Elected ARA: 22 May 1980
Elected RA: 7 December 1989
Category of Membership: Painter

Anthony Whishaw studied at Chelsea School of Art from 1948 to 1952 and the Royal College of Art, London from 1952 to 1955. During these years he gained an Art Travelling Scholarship, Royal College of Art Drawing Prize, an Abbey Minor Scholarship and a Spanish Government Scholarship.

Anthony Whishaw RA, Silent Interior 2001/2005 Whishaw’s first solo exhibition was held at the Libreria Abril, Madrid in 1956 and he subsequently showed regularly at Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, throughout the 1960s. Whishaw went on to have numerous solo exhibitions throughout the UK, including the ICA, London (1971), the Oxford Gallery, Oxford (1978) and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (1982) (which toured to Ferens Art Gallery, Hull and Bede Gallery, Jarrow). He also exhibited in many key group exhibitions from 1952, and has participated regularly in the Whitechapel Open Exhibition, the Hayward Annual, and the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition.

Whishaw has many awards to his name, among which are the Perth International Drawing Biennale Prize (1973), South East Arts Association Painting Prize (1975), Arts Council of Great Britain Award (1978), Greater London Council Painting Prize (1981), Abbey Premier Scholarship (1982), John Moores Minor Painting Prize (1982), Lorne Scholarship (1982-3), Joint winner Hunting Group National Art Competition (1986), and Korn Ferry Carre Oban International Picture of the Year in 1996. He was elected a Member of the London Group in 1979, a Royal Academician in 1989 and a Member of the Royal West of England Academy in 1992. Whishaw lives and works in London.

Recent solo exhibitions
2007 Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
2002 Art First, London
2000-01 St Anne’s College, Oxford University
2000 Royal Academy of Arts (Friends’ Room), London
Stephen Lacey Gallery, London
1999 Art First, London
1997 Art First, London
1995 Newport and Bolton Museums
Art Space, London
1994 Art Space, London
The Barbican Centre, touring to Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr; Huddersfield Art Gallery; RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin; Hatton Art Gallery, Newcastle; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1993 Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1992 Art Space Gallery, London
1991 Blason Gallery, London
1989 Galerie in Faust, Hamburg
Galerie in Faust, Shanghai, China
1987-88 Royal Academy Diploma Galleries (toured to Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Mead Gallery, Arts Centre of Warwick; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Space, Exeter)

Public collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
Bolton Art Gallery
Chantrey Bequest
Christchurch, Kensington
City Art Galleries, Sheffield
Coventry Art Gallery
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Government Art Collection
Huddersfield Musuem & Art Gallery
Leicester City Art Gallery
Museo de Arte Moderno, Murcia
Museo de Bahia, Brazil
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
National Gallery of Wales
Power Art Gallery, Sydney
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Seattle Museum of Art, USA
Tate Gallery, London
Western Australia Gallery