PATRICK CAULFIELD

Patrick Caulfield is celebrated as one of Britain's greatest Pop artists. A student at the Royal College of Art he is associated with contemporaries such as Derek Boshier, David Hockney, Allen Jones and R.B.Kitaj.

Using flat unmodulated colour contained by clear outlines, Caulfield's work depicts the objects and places, often interiors, that were close to him.

Patrick Caulfield


1936
Born in London

1956-60
Chelsea School of Art, London

1960-63
Royal College of Art, London

1963 - 1971                  
Taught at Chelsea School of Art, London         
                
1983                  
Commissioned to design the London Life mural for The London Life Association's new headquarter in Bristol         
                
1984                  
Commissioned to design the sets and costumes for Michael Corder's new ballet 'Party Game' for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden         
                
1986                  
Selected The Artists's Eye at the National Gallery, London         
                
1991                  
Commissioned to design the carpet for the atrium of the British Council offices, Manchester         
                
1994                  
Commissioned to design giant mosaic, 'Flowers, Lily Pad, Pictures and Labels', for the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff         
                
1995                  
Commissioned to design sets and costumes for 'Rhapsoldy' for the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, England. Awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize         
                
1996                  
Awarded C.B.E.         
                
Performance of 'Rhapsody' at Opera National de Paris         
                
1996                  
Awarded London Institute Honorary Fellowship         

Lives and works in London


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2007
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London

2004
Patrick Caulfield, The Gallery at Manor Place, West Sussex, UK

2002                  
Patrick Caulfield: Paintings and Drawings 1985-2002, Waddington Galleries, London

2001
Patrick Caulfield, Pallant House, Chichester, UK

Patrick Caulfield, Galerie Papillon-Fiat, Paris, France

1999                  
Patrick Caulfield, Alan Cristea Gallery, London

Patrick Caulfield Retrospective, Hayward Gallery, London; Touring to Musee National d'Historie et d'Art, Luxembourg; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Yale Center for the British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

1998                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England
                
1997                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England

1996                  
Patrick Caulfield, Claudine Papillon, Paris, France

1994                  
Patrick Caulfield, Bodilly Galleries, Cambridge, England

1993                  
Patrick Caulfield, Galerie Claudine Papillon, Paris, France        

1992 - 1993                  
Patrick Caulfield, Serpentine Gallery, London, England                 
        
1991 - 1992                  
Patrick Caulfield, Kilburn Tricycle Gallery, London, England

1989 - 1990                  
Patrick Caulfield, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (continuation of 1987 British Council print retrospective): Touring to Guimares, North Portugal; Serrales Foundation, Oporto
                
1990                  
Patrick Caulfield, Music Theatre Gallery, London, England

1989                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London: Touring to Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (solo)         
                
1988                  
Patrick Caulfield, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough (print retrospective) solo         

1985 - 1987                  
Patrick Caulfield, National Museum of Fine Art, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (British Council print retrospective): Touring to Federal University Espirito Santo, Vitoria, Brazil; University of Campinas, Brazil; Museum of Sao Paulo; Palacio das Artes, Belos Horizonte, Brazil; Sociedade Brasileira Cultura Inglesa, Londrina; Cultural Foundation of Curitba, Brazil; Cultural Foundation of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil; Institute of Arts of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Artes Plasticas y Visuales, montevideo, Uraguay; Instituto Cultural de Las Condes, santiago, Chile; Sala Vina, Vina del Mar, Chile; Museo de Bellas Artes, Concepcion, Chile (solo)         

1985                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England                 
1983                  
Patrick Caulfield: Print Retrospective, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
                
1982                  
Patrick Caulfield: Retrospective, Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1981                  
Patrick Caulfield: Paintings 1963-81, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (retrospective): Touring to Tate Gallery, London         
                        
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London
                
1980                  
Patrick Caulfield, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne, Australia         
                
1980                  
Patrick Caulfield, Gardner Centre for the Arts, University of Sussex, Brighton (Welsh Arts Council print exhibition): Touring to Midland Group, Nottingham; Oriel, Cardiff         

1979                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England         
                
1978                  
Patrick Caulfield, Tate Gallery, London, England
                
1977                  
Patrick Caulfield, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, California (print retrospective): Touring to Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona         
                
1976                  
Patrick Caulfield: recent paintings and prints, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol        
                
1975                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England         
                
Patrick Caulfield, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Ireland         
                
Patrick Caulfield, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool         

1974                  
Patrick Caulfield, O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York         
                
1973                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England         
                
1972                  
Patrick Caulfield, Sweeney Reed Galleries, Victoria, Australia

1971                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England        
                
Patrick Caulfield, D.M. Gallery, London, England        
                
1969                  
Patrick Caulfield, Waddington Galleries, London, England

1968         
Patrick Caulfield, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York         
                
1967                  
Patrick Caulfield, Robert Fraser Gallery, London         
                
Patrick Caulfield, Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy        

1966                  
Patrick Caulfield, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York        
                
1965                  
Patrick Caulfield, Robert Fraser Gallery, London        
                

Selected Group Exhibitions


2004
Pop Art UK: British Pop Art 1956-1972, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Palazzina dei Giardini (Galleria Civica di Modena), Modena, Italy

Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London; touring to Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2002-2003
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany: touring to Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

Saved! 100 Years of the National Art Collections Fund, Hayward Gallery, London

2002
United Kingdom United States, Waddington Galleries, London

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2001
The Whitechapel Centenary Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

Pop Art US/UK Connections 1956-1966, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA

Les Annee Pop 1956-1968, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Verbal Inter Visual: Linking Worlds of Art and Poetry, Lethaby Galleries, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London

My Generation/Fluid, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK

Drawing Distinctions: Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolours from the British Council Collection, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
                
2000                  
Encounters, National Gallery, London

Blue: Borrowed and Bew, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
                
1998 - 1999                  
Thinking Aloud, curated by Richard Wentworth, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge: touring to Cornerhouse, Manchester, Camden Arts Centre, London

POP-TASTIC, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK                
        
1999                  
Signature Pieces, Alan Cristea Gallery, London        
                
1997                  
Within These Walls, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England         
                
1995                  
Paintings from the 60s and 70s: Peter Blake, Patrick Caulfield and Howard Hodgkin, Waddington, England         
                
Jerwood Painting Prize Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh: touring to the Royal Academy of Arts, London, England         
                
1994                  
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London, England         
                
1993                  
The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England         
                
1991-92
Pop Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London: Touring to Museum Ludwig at Kunsthalle Koln; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain         
                
1992                  
Ready, Steady, Go: Painting of the Sixties from the Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London, England: Touring Britain         

1991                  
British Art from 1930, Waddington Galleries, London, England         
                
1991                  
Works for the Stage, Music Theatre Gallery, London, England
                
1990 - 1991         
For a Wider World: Sixty Works in the British Council Collection, The British Council, Ukrainian National Museum, Kiev, Ukraine
                
1988 - 1989                  
100 Years of Art in Britain, Leeds City Art Gallery         
                
1988                  
Exhibition Road, 150th Anniversary Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London         
                
1987                  
British Art in the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England         
                
Pop Art USA-UK: American and British artists of the 60s in the 80s, Odakyu Grand Gallery, Tokyo: touring to Daimaru Museum, Osaka; Funabashi Seibu Museum of Art, Funabashi; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama         
                
The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England         
                
2D/3D - Art and Craft Made and Designed for the Twentieth Century, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Touring to Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland         
                
1986                  
Forty Years of Modern Art 1945-85, Tate Gallery, London, England         
                
The Artist's Eye, National Gallery, London, England         
                
Little and Large, Waddington Galleries, London, England         
                
1985                  
18 Bienal de Sao Paolo, Brazil organised by the British Council (with Stuart Brisley, John Davies and Paula Rego)         
                
1985                  
The Irresistible Object: Still Life 1600-1985, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds        
                                
1982                  
Aspects of British Art Today, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan: Touring to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Fukuoka Art Museum; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan         
                                  
1980
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, England         
                 
Kelpra Studio: The Rose and Chris Prater Gift, Tate Gallery, London, England         
                
1979                  
Understanding Prints, Waddington Graphics, London, England         
                
1975                  
Body and Soul: Peter Moores Liverpool Project 3, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England         
                
1974                  
British Painting 74, Hayward Gallery, London, England         
                
1972                  
Caulfield, Hodgkin, Moon, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France         
        
Fourteen BIG Prints, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England         
                
1969                  
Pop Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England         
                
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 7, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England         
                
House Exhibition, Waddington Galleries, London, England         
                
1968                  
The Obseeive Image, ICA, London, England         
                
Painting 1964-67, Hayward Gallery, England         
                
1967                  
Drawing Towards Painting 2, Arts Council Gallery, London, England: Touring to Stoke-on-Trent; Northampton; Oldham; Cardiff, St Ives' Reading; Liverpool; Bradford; Norwich; Scarborough; Glasgow         
                
9 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil         
                
5 Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris         
                
1st Edinburgh Open 100 Exhibition, Edinburgh         
                
Recent British Painting, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection, Tate Gallery, London, England         
                
1965                  
4 Biennale, Salon de la Jeune Peinture - Musee d'Art Moderne, Paris, France: awarded Prix des         
                
1964                  
The New Generation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England         
                
1963                  
Young Contemporaries, R.B.A. Galleries, London, England         
                
1962                  
Young Contemporaries, R.B.A. Galleries, London, England         
                
1961                  
Young Contemporaries, R.B.A. Galleries, London, England


Selected Collections


Harry N Abrams Collections, New York
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Birmingham City Art Gallery
British Council, London and Manchester
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Castle Museum, Norwich
Dallas Museum, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Department of the Environment, London
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Manchester City Art Gallery
Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, Luxembourg
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal - The Berardo Collection
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Tate Gallery, London
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Japan
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester


Selected Publications


Caulfield, P., Patrick Caulfield Prints 1964-81 (Waddington Galleries, 1981)

Gooding, M., Patrick Caulfield: The Complete Prints 1964-1999 (Alan Cristea Gallery, 1999)

Livingstone, M., Patrick Caulfield: Paintings (Lund Humphries, 2007)

Papadakis, A., Patrick Caulfield: Paintings 1963-1992 (Art & Design) (Wiley Academy, 1992)