DAVID AUSTEN
1960 Born in Harlow, Essex
1982-85 Royal College of Art, London
1978-81 Maidstone College of Art
   
Individual Exhibitions
2007 Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
2006 David Austen, Ingleby Gallery, Edimburgh.
2005 Froth on the Daydream, Wimbledon School of Art, London
2004 Darkland, Peer, London
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
2003 Hard Times, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2001 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Objects and Images from the Edge of the World, Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion,
Ipswich (cat., ill.)
Annandale Gallery, Sydney
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 Happy City, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1999 Galerie Marianne Hollenbach, Stuttgart
1998 Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Inverleith House, Edinburgh
1997 Galerie Marianne Hollenbach, Stuttgart
Mead Gallery, Warwick (cat., ill.)
Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
1994 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1993 Cirrus, Los Angeles
1992 Cornerhouse, Manchester
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1991 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 Frith Street Gallery, London
1989 Cirrus, Los Angeles
Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham (cat., ill.)
1988 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (cat, ill.)
Arnolfini, Bristol
1987 Serpentine Gallery, London
1986 Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London (cat., Barry Barker, ill.)
   
Group Exhibitions
2005 Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edimburgh.
The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss, The Gallery, Wimbledon (curated by David Austen)
Miradas y Conceptos, MEIAC, Badajoz
In Focus, Emma Hill Fine Art, The Eagle Gallery, London
Who’s Afraid of Red Yellow and Blue, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Remarkable, Andrew Mummery Gallery, London
2004 10 Years, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
John Moores 23 exhibition, The Walker, Liverpool
Painting, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
See it … Read it, Art with words from the Arts Council collection, Draiocht, Dublin
Chromophiles, Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen
2003 Drawn 2B Alive, Hales Gallery, London
Exodus: Between Promise and Fulfilment, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
(curated by David Austen, cat., ill.)
Independence, South London Gallery, London
The Lost Collection of an Invisible Man, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
2002 Artaid, Bloomberg, London
3 x 2, The Nunnery, London
Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (cat.)
2000 Yellow, Galerie Kempfer, Munich
Blue, The New Museum at Walsall, Walsall
Y2K, Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Cyprus
1999 John Moores Exihbition 21, Liverpool
Commission for British Embassy, Cairo
1998 Source/Chanzo, National Museum, Dar es Salaam
Book, Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham
1997 Slewe Galerie, Amsterdam
A Cloudburst of Material Possessions, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
Antechamber, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Marks and Traces, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1996 Absolute Vision: New British Painting in the 1990s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and tour
In passing..., The Tannery, London
Take it From Here, Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery.
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1995 Made in L.A, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
Cirrus, Los Angeles
The Contemporary Art Society Collection, Buttler Gallery, Kilkenny
1994 Enitharmon Press, Gilmour Gallery, London
1993 Painters' Prints, Cirrus, Los Angeles
Singer Friedlander Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London
Spit in the Ocean, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Moving into View, Recent British Painting, Royal Festival Hall, London
Strictly Painting, Cubitt Street Gallery, London
WaterCOLOUR, Curwen Gallery, London
1992 Centre, Edinburgh; Barbican Centre, London (cat., ill.)
Twelve Stars, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast; City Arts
New Voices: Recent Painting For The British Council
Collection, Centre de Conference Albert Borshette, Brussels (cat., ill.)
Poiesis, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1991 Whitechapel Open co-selector, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
New Editions, Cirrus, Los Angeles
1990 Broadgate Art Project, London
British Art, Zellweger, Basel
The Theory and Practice of the Small Painting, curated by Tony Godfrey, Anderson O'Day Gallery,
London
David Beitzel, New York
Poiesis, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh
Ciento, Barcelona
Mind the Gap, Espace Culturel Graslin, Nantes (cat., ill.)
1988 Atlas 3, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Vanitas, Norwich School of Art, Norwich (cat., ill.)
Object and Image: Aspects of British Art in the 1980s,
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
1987 On a Plate, Farnham College of Art and Serpentine Gallery, London (cat., ill.)
Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London
1986 New Art, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Canvass: New British Painting, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, and the Exhibition Gallery,
Milton Keynes
Works on Paper, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Between Identity and Politics: A New Art, Gimpel Fils,
London and tour; Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York (cat., ill.)
1985 Riverside Open, Riverside Studios, London
New Art 2, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Young Masters, Solomon Gallery, London (cat.,, ill.)
Royal College of Art Degree Show (cat., ill.)
   
Publications
2005 David Austen , ‘Froth on the Daydream’, Broken Glass, 2005
2004 David Austen and Rupert Thomson , ‘Stood Up’, Peer 2004
2001 ‘David Austen – Objects and Images from the Edge of the World’, Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich, 2001
1997 ‘David Austen’, edited by Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, Coventry, 1997
1992 ‘Tempest of Stars’, selected poems by Jean Cocteau, translated by Jeremy Reed with drawings by David Austen. Enitharmon Press, London 1992
Signed limited edition of 75 including one individual etching
1990 ‘David Austen’, Frith Street Gallery, London, 1990 Signed limited edition of 100
1989 ‘David Austen’, edited by Marco Livingstone, Art Random monograph, Kyoto Shoin, 1989
   
Bibliography
2005 David Austen , 'David Austen on Alberto Giacometti's "Hour of the Traces" (1930)', Tate etc, issue 4
2004 Morgan Falconer, ‘David Austen’, Modern Painters, Summer (ill.)
Morgan Falconer, ‘Stuff of Substance’, What’s on in London, 3-10 March (ill.)
2003 Jane Evans, ‘Exodus’, a-n magazine, September (ill.)
Joanna Pitman, ‘Bible Lessons’, The Times, 22 July (ill.)
Sue Hubbard, ‘The sands of time’, The Independent, 22 July (ill.)
Andrew Mead, ‘Double Vision’, The Architects’ Journal, 17 July (ill.)
Ruth Hedges, The List, 3-17 July (ill.)
Jessica Lack, The Guardian, 23 June
Robert Clark, ‘Exodus’, The Guardian Guide, 21-27 June (ill.)
Peter Chapman, The Independent, 14 June (ill.)
Craig Burnett, ‘Austen in the Desert’, Previews, Modern Painters, Summer (ill.)
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Amber Cowan, ‘David Austen – Ingleby Gallery’, The Times, June 7-13 (ill.)
‘David Austen’, Scotland on Sunday, 8 June (ill.)
Helen Pickles, Financial Times, 10/11 May (ill.)
  2001 Artist commission, Modern Painters, Winter (ill.)
Helen Clarke, ‘The Show asks: Only connect’, East Anglian Daily Times, 11 June (ill.)
Giles Sutherland, ‘Around the Galleries: Edinburgh’, Times, Wed, 14 February
2000 Sean Dodson, ‘Artists who paint by digits’, The Guardian, 30 November (ill.)
Izi Glover, ‘David Austen’, Time Out, 12-19 April (ill.)
Jorn Ebner, ‘Tiefer Griff in die Familienkiste’, Frankfurter Allgemeiner Zeitung, 8 April
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1999 Glyn Hughes, The Cyprus Weekly, 17-23 December
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1998 John McEwen, ‘Light in a corner of the bar’, The Sunday Telegraph, 31 May
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1997 Juan Cruz, ‘Antechamber’, Art Monthly, p.31-32, No 206, May (ill.)
Joëlle Rondi, ‘About Vision’, Art Press, January, p.64-65 (ill.)
Kate Kellaway, ‘Once, twice, 74 times a lady’, Observer Review, 13 April
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1996 William Feaver, ‘Crooked Style’, The Observer, 17 November
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1995 Paul Bonaventura, ‘A Dream without Sound’ interview, Modern Painters, September
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1993 David Lillington, 'Strictly Painting', Time Out, 10-17 March
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1991 James Hall, ‘James Hall examines some new interpretations of Minimalism in the light of several current shows’, The Independent, 2 April
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Jody Zellen, ArtScene, March
Kristine McKenna, The Los Angeles Times, February, (ill.)
1990 The Guardian, September, (ill.)
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Sue Hubbard, 'David Austen, Frith Street Gallery' Galleries, June (ill.)
1989 Marco Livingstone (ed.), 'David Austen’, pp 23, 40 full colour illustrations, Kyoto Shoin International Co Ltd
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1988 Sarah Kent, Time Out, 16-23 November (ill.)
Sarah Kent, 'Studies the Atlas', Time Out, Aug 24-31 (ill.)
Alice Lumsden, 'Artbreak', Vogue, July (ill.)
Sarah Howell, 'Hung for Less', World of Interiors, June, (ill.)
1987 Brian Sewell, 'The Fine Art of Investing', Sunday Express Magazine, 29 November (ill.)
Sarah Kent, 'Drawings and Sculpture', Time Out, 5-12 August (ill.)
Sarah Kent, ‘On a Plate’, Time Out, 8-15 April
Barry Barker, Flash Art, February - March (ill.)
Margaret Garlake, Art Monthly, January (ill.)
1986 Mark Currah, City Limits, 20-27 November (ill.)
Margaret Garlake, 'Preview', Art Monthly, November
Sarah Kent, 'Works on Paper', Time Out, 6-12 March
Mark Currah, 'Between Identity and Politics, a New Art', City Limits, 7-13 February
Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 'Between Identity and Politics: A New Art (Part 1),
Arts Review, 31 January, vol. XXXVIII, no. 2
Mog Johnstone, 'Riverside Studios: Open Exhibition', Artline, vol. 3, no. 1 (ill.)
R. Costa, 'London', Juliet, December - January 1986, no. 23
1985 Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, 'New Art I and II at Anthony Reynolds', Artscribe International,
December 1985 - January 1986, no. 55
Sarah Kent, Time Out, 22-28 August 1985
William Feaver, 'On Paula Rego', The Observer, 8 September
Waldemar Januszczak, 'New Art', The Guardian, 27 August
Nigel Pollitt, 'New Art II', City Limits, 30 August-5 September (ill.)
   
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