R B Kitaj
b.1932
A RASH ACT, 1975, Lithograph, 20 3/8” X 28 3/4”,
Signed and numbered V/VIII AP.
BIOGRAPHY
1932 R. B. Kitaj is born as Ronald Brooks in Cleveland, Ohio
1950 - 1951 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
1951 - 1954 Studies at the Academy of Fine Art, Vienna
1956 - 1958 U.S. Army of Occupation, AFCE HQ (Armed Forces Central Europe)
1957 - 1959 Ruskin School of Drawing, University of Oxford, where he attended lectures by Edgar Wind and Douglas Cooper
1959 - 1961 Royal College of Art, London
1959 - 1961 Forms lasting friendship with David Hockney
1962 - 1965 Settles in London and teaches at Camberwell and the Slade
1970 - 1971 Teaches at UCLA. Meets Sandra Fisher
1982 Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1982 Honorary Doctorate, University of London
1985 Elected to the Royal Academy
1989 Published First Diasporist Manifesto, translated into German and Hungarian
1991 Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art, London
1994 Major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London.
1995 Wins the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale
1995 Honorary Doctorate, California College of Arts, Oakland
1996 Chevalier in Order of Arts and Letters, Paris
1996 Commissioned portrait of President Bill Clinton for University College, Oxford
1996 Honorary Doctorate, Durham University
1997 Wollaston Award to the best painting in the Summer exhibition, Royal Academy, London
1999 Exhibition at the National Gallery, London: Kitaj In The Aura of Cézanne And Other Masters
1999 Honorary Doctorate, Spertus College, Chicago
2001 Begins to write his Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 - 2008 Paintings and Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, December 12, 2007 - January 12, 2008
2007 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, June 6 – September 21
2006 Summer Group Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, June 22 – September 5
2005 Modern Masters, Marlborough Fine Art, London, March 9 – 24.
2005 R.B. Kitaj: How To Reach 72 In A Jewish Art, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, March 1 – April (solo)
2004 Kitaj: Retrato de un Hispanista, Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain, 31 May-1 August (solo)
2003 R. B. Kitaj: Los Angeles Pictures 1998-2003, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California, USA, 21 May-5 July (solo)
2002 R. B. Kitaj: A Survey of his Printmaking 1964-2001, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, England, 14 February-6 April (solo)
2001 - 2002 Kitaj: In the Aura of Cézanne and Other Masters, National Gallery, London, England, 7 November-10 February (solo)
2000 Paintings; Marlborough Gallery, New York, April 26 – May 20; traveling to Marlborough Monte-Carlo, Monaco,
2000 R.B. Kitaj: How To Reach 67 in Jewish Art, Galeria Marlborough, Madrid, Spain, 12 September-14 (solo)
1999 Portrait of a City: Seven Figurative Painters from London, 12 January-27 February, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1998 Pop Art Spirits: Masterpieces from the Ludwig Collection, 15 August - 5 October, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; 24 October -
23 November, Himeji Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
1998 R.B. Kitaj: An American in Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway, 10 January-22 March; travelled to Reina Sofia
Museum, Madrid, Spain, 7 April-9 June; Jüdisches Museum de Stadt wien, Wien, Austria, 25 June-30 August; Sprengel
Museum, Hannover, Germany,13 September-22 November (solo)
1997 Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, June-17 August, 1997
1996 From London, 16 February-17 April, Fundación Caixa de Catalunya, Barcelona
1996 Sandra Two, FIAC, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris, France, 2-7 October (solo)
1993 Obra Reciente, Arikha, Auerbach, Kitaj, Marlborough Madrid, September-October, 1993
1985 R.B. Kitaj, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England, November December (solo)
1980 Kitaj: Pastels and Drawings, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England, 8 October 7 November (solo)