Howard Hodgkin

Over the last 20 years Howard Hodgkin has become one of Britain’s most celebrated painters and one of the art world’s truly international figures. Hodgkin, born in 1932, has described himself as a painter of “representational pictures of emotional situations” though his very personal way of picture making mixes memory and mood to an essentially abstract end. He has held solo exhibitions at many of the world’s greatest museums and galleries and his work is included in major public and private collections all over the world. His major survey Paintings 1975-1995 toured the globe, beginning at the Metropolitan Museum in New York; touring to Fort Worth, Dusseldorf and London. In 2006 he had a major retrospective at Tate, London, which travelled from the Irish Museum of Modern Art and then on to the Reina Sofia, in Madrid. In 1984 he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale and in 1985 he was awarded the Turner Prize. Hodgkin was knighted in 1992. He is represented worldwide by the Gagosian gallery, but has shown with the Ingleby gallery since it was founded in 1998.