Born in Kent, 1934. Lives and works in Kent.
EDUCATION
1979 –1981 Royal College of Art, London
1952 – 1956 Folkestone and Dover School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Rose Wylie: Clothes I Wore, Choi&Lager, Seoul, Korea (January 17 - February 18)
Rose Wylie: painting a noun…, David Zwirner, Hong Kong [catalogue] (January 9 – February 22)
Rose Wylie: Let it Settle, The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida [catalogue]
(January 28 – April 30)
Rose Wylie, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado [catalogue] (March 19 – July 5)
Rose Wylie, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland (August 30 – December 6)
2018 Rose Wylie, Tate Members Room, Tate Modern, London (opened March 27)
Rose Wylie: History Painting, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, England (March 28 – May 26)
[itinerary: Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange, Cornwall, England (June 9 – September 15)]
Rose Wylie: Lolita’s House, David Zwirner, London (April 20 – May 25)
Rose Wylie: Hullo, Hullo, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Málaga, Málaga, Spain
(May 4 – September 9)
Rose and Torey on Paper, The Journal Gallery, New York [two-person exhibition]
(May 31 – June 26)
Rose Wylie, Newlyn Art Gallery & the Exchange, Penzance, England
(June 9 – September 22)
2017 Rose Wylie: Cupid & Fur Coat, Choi&Lager, Cologne, Germany (March 10 – May 7)
Rose Wylie: Drawings, Christian Larsen, Stockholm (April 6 – May 13)
Rose Wylie: Use What You’ve Got, Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany (May 5 – June 23)
Rose Wylie: Yellow Sax, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy (May 31 – September 9)
Rose Wylie: The Curator is Present, Willas Contemporary, Oslo (August 24 – October 8)
Rose Wylie: Quack Quack, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London [catalogue]
(November 30, 2017 – February 11, 2018)
2016 Horse, Bird, Cat, David Zwirner, London Queens & Chocs, Space K, Seoul
Rose Wylie: Tilt the Horizontal into a Slant, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
Rose Wylie, Turner Contemporary, Margate
2015 Rose Wylie, VW (VeneKlasen / Werner), Berlin
Rose Wylie, NUNU Fine Art, Zhongzhen, Taipei
Pink Girls, Yellow Curls, Art Cologne Art Fair, Choi&Lager Gallery / Union Gallery Yellow
Desert Paintings, Union Gallery, London
Girl and Spiders, Thomas Erben, New York
Rose Wylie, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Rose Wylie, Volta NY Art Fair, New York, Union Gallery, London
2014 Pink Girls, Yellow Curls, Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg Pink Girls, Yellow Curls,
Paradis,Copenhagen
What means something, Vous Etez Ici, Amsterdam, Amsterdam
What means something, Choi&Lager Galerie, Cologne 2013 BP Spotlight: Rose Wylie,
Tate Britain, London
Rose Wylie - Works on Paper, Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin
Rose Wylie, Woof-Woof, Haugar Museum, Tonsberg, Norway, catalogue text by Jennifer
Higgie Tone, Lyngstad Nyaas, interview by Jeff McMillan
Henry, Thomas, Keith & Jack, Union Gallery, London
2012 Rose Wylie, Big Boys Sit in the Front, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings. , catalogue texts by Phoebe
Hoban / Katie Kitamura,
Rosemount, Regina Gallery, Moscow, catalogue texts by Jonathan Meese & Tom Morton
After Daphne, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia University of the Arts Gallery,
Philadelphia
2011 One Painting and Six Works on Paper. Vous Etes Ici, Amsterdam
Picture on the wall... Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin, catalogue intro by Katie Kitamura
2010 What with What, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, catalogue intro by Luke Gottelier Film
Notes, Union Gallery, London, catalogue intro by Martin Herbert,
Rose Wylie. & Video with Savannah Miller in association with NMWA Washington DC & Union
Gallery, London, at Twenty8Twelve, London
2008 Wear What You Like, Transition Gallery, London, text by Emma Dexter
2006 Rose Wylie, Paintings monograph Rose Wylie: Some Drawing 1985 – 2005, UNION, London
2004 Room Project, Twink & Ivy, Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, catalogue essay by
Roy Exley
Lined Paper Paintings, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London, catalogue essay by Jill Lloyd
opened by Sacha Craddock
1998 Red Legs & Other Paintings, Abbotsbury Studios, Abbotsbury, opened by Isobel Johnstone
1995 Likeness in the Unlikeness, Reed’s Wharf Gallery / Stephen Lacey, London, catalogue
essay by Mel Gooding
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 GLASSTRESS 2019, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice, Italy (May 9 November 24)
GIRL MEETS GIRL - Katherine Bernhardt, Katherine Bradford, Caroline Wells Chandler,
Rose Wylie, CHOI&LAGER, Cologne
2018 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (June 12 – August 19)
2017 Drawing Island, The Journal Gallery, New York (February 16 – March 26)
A New Subjectivity: Figurative Paintings after 2000, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York
(February 24 – April 12) [itinerary: Fine Arts Center, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville,
Arkansas (August 16 – September 22); Reece Museum, East Tennessee State University,
Johnson City, Tennessee (October 16 – December 15)]
Figure.Out: Charlie Billingham, Dale Lewis and Rose Wylie, Union Gallery, London
31 Women, Breese Little, London (June 2 – July 31)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (June 13 – August 20)
Collateral Drawing 5, Beaston Projects, Folkestone, England (September 2 – November 5)
Artist First | paper only | The Exhibition, Francis Boeske Projects, Amsterdam, Holland
(September 10 – November 4)
and per and Part XV: Louise Bourgeois & Rose Wylie, Ingleby Gallery,
Edinburgh (September 20 – 30)
and per se and Part XVI: Rose Wylie & Frank Walter, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
(October 11 – 21)
2016 The Conformist, Belmacz Gallery, London (February 23 – April 16)
Imagine, Brand New Gallery, Milan (March 2 – April
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London (April 8 - 15)
Paper in Practice, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles (April 9 – May 7)
Aviary, Transition Gallery, London (April 23 – May 21)
FOUND, Foundling Museum, London [curated by Cornelia Parker] (May 27 – September 4)
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London (June 13 – August 21)
Mixed Signals, Christian Larsen Gallery, Stockholm [curated by Shane Bradford]
(August 25 – October 7)
Towards Night, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne (September 24, 2016 – January 22, 2017)
Beyond the Cartoon, Cartoons in Contemporary Art, Artuner, New York
(September 15 – October 29)
Morten Viskum - Self Portraits, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
(October 1 – December 30)
2015 Contemporary Drawings From Britain, Museum of Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, China Frieze
Art Fair: London. Michael Werner Gallery
Venice Biennale, Vita Vitale, Azerbaijan Pavilion , curated by Art Wise
One Day Something Happened: Paintings of People; Selection from the Arts Council
curated by Jennifer Higgie, catalogue, with an invited text by Rose Wylie
GIN3, 6Gins, Liverpool
Boy Meets Girl: Zachary Armstrong & Rose Wylie, GYNP Artspace, Berlin
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015, London
Painting 1, 2, 3-Katherine Bernhardt, Rebecca Morris,Rose Wylie,Kate MacGarry,London
Chantal Joffe
Beside the Seaside, Jerwood Gallery, London (co-curated by Rose Wylie) Demolition Derby,
curated by Kes Richardson, Fold Gallery
Wet With Wet, curated by Matthew Burrows, The Observer Building, Hastings
The Drawing Room, London
Rose Wylie, Tom Anholt, Billy Childish and Ryan Mosley: The Islanders, Gallery
Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
2014 Collages by Modern British and Contemporary Artists,Wilson Stephens & Jones,
London John Moores
Painting Prize 2014, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
All A Tremulous Heart Requires, ZieherSmith, New York
Old tin cutlery before the invention of the fork, Breese Little, London
Opening Show, NuNu Fine Art, Taipei
Art Everywhere, UK
Save Yourself!, Hannah Barry Gallery, London Show-Off, LeandaKateLouise, London
2013 Characters: Portraits and People from the Arts Council Collection, The Holburne Museum,
Roper Gallery, Bath
2Q13 Women Artists- Women Collectors curated by Marcelle Joseph and Lydia Cowpertwait,
Lloyds Club, London
2012 Recent British Painting,Group Show curated by Tom Morton,Grimm Gallery, Amsterdam
The Armory Show, NYC, Regina Gallery, London/Moscow
Frieze Art Fair. NYC. Regina Gallery, London/Moscow
Rose Wylie, Jonathan Meese, Peter Strauss, Ritter / Zamet Gallery, London
2011 Miami Art Fair. Regina Gallery, London/Moscow Solo – Basle Art Fair. Union Gallery, London
15 Years Thomas Erben Gallery. Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Drawing 2011 The Drawing Room, London
Evan Holloway Rose Wylie. 2 person exhibition, The Approach, London
2010 NMWA Museum, Washington DC Women to Watch Final UK shortlist of 5
selected by Sarah Elson & Sheena Wagstaff
2010 NADA Art Fair, Miami. Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
In Dreams. (work on paper) Timothy Taylor Gallery, London Animated Matter.
(work on paper) Thomas
Erben Gallery, New York Bart Wells Boutique. 235 Brompton Road, London
2009 Turner Contemporary Open(selectors:Martin Clark;Laura Ford;Sarah Martin&Hilde Teerlinck)
Transition, London, 3 person exhibition with Philip Allen & Jake Clark (curator)
Drawing 2009. (Nomnated by Cornelia Parker) The Drawing Room, London
2008 Swans Reflecting Elephants, Kate MacGarry, London (3 person)
2007 EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich –selectors: Matthew Higgs and Marc Camille
Chaimowicz, text by Lynda Morris
Multiple Discipline, UNION, London, monograph Rose Wylie: Some More Drawing,
text by Lynda Morris
Painted Ladies (curated by Eleanor Moreton), The Surgery, London
Central Line An exhibition of selected drawings (curated by Deanna Pethebridge)
Pittshanger Manor Museum, Ealing
2006 The Lowry, One love The Football Art Prize (selectors inc. Sacha Craddock, Mark Wallinger,
James Lingwood)
2004 EAST International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (selectors, Neo Rauch & Gerd Harry Lybke),
catalogue essay on Rose Wylie by Pablo Lafuente
2003 Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Gallery, London & touring Oriel Mostyn Gallery,
Llandudno Mostyn 13
2002 PizzaExpress Prospects, essor gallery project space, London
Reverse Engineering, curated by Jeff McMillan, Pearl, London
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, As it Seems, (curated by Roy Oxlade & Paul McKee)
2000 ...not enough British Art, VELAN, Turin Give and Take, Jerwood Gallery, London
1997 The Jerwood Painting Prize, Lethaby Galleries, Central St.Martin’s College, London
1996 Seattle Art Fair
1994 EAST, Norwich Gallery, Norwich (selectors, Rudi Fuch & Jan Dibbets)
1992 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1991 John Moores Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1990 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
1988 Odette Gilbert Gallery London, Women & Water (curated by Alice Jackson)
1982 Hayward Annual: British Drawing, Hayward Gallery, London
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2015 Charles Wollaston Award
2014 John Moores Painting Prize
2011 Paul Hamlyn Prize for Visual Arts
2009 Threadneedle Prize, Shortlisted
2004 EAST international Print Commission
2003 Jerwood Drawing Prize
1999 The Dupree Award, Royal Academy
1997 Jerwood Painting Prize, Shortlisted
1998 Paul Hamlyn Award, Nominated
1993 Interiors, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, Joint First Prize
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Tate Britain
British Council
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
National Museum of Woman in the Arts, Washington DC Jerwood Foundation
Arts Council of England, London
Deal, Dallas
Norwich Gallery, Norwich
Arario Museum, Seoul
Railtrack, London
Royal College of Art, London, Print Collection University College, Oxford, JCR Contemporary Art
Society, London
York City Art Gallery, York
Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg
Hammer Collection, Los Angeles
New Hall Collection, Cambridge
Depart Foundation, Los Angeles Zabludowicz Collection, London
Space K, Seoul
David Roberts Foundation, London
Monsoon Collection, London