Curriculum Vitae
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Email: paulgopal-chowdhury@hotmail.co.uk
London, UK
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Paul Gopal-Chowdhury was born in India in 1949 and moved to London when he was ten. He studied at Camberwell School of Art, London 1967- 68 and the Slade School of Fine Art, London 1968-73. In 1973-74 he taught at Chelsea School of Art, London and won a Boise travelling scholarship and a French Government scholarship to paint landscapes in France. He was awarded The Gregory Fellowship, 1975-77, Leeds University; Artist in Residence at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and Kettle's Yard, 1983-84.
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Solo Exhibitions
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2013 Everything in the Garden - Art Space Gallery, London
2008 Down Deep - Art Space Gallery, London
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2006 Habits of Eating, Sleeping and Anxiety - Art Space Gallery, London
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2004 A Time of Demons - Art Space Gallery, London
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2002 Paintings of Heaven and Hell - Art Space Gallery, London
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1991 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
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1988 Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight
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1986 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
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1984-85 Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge touring to Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham and Oldham Art Gallery
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1981 Ian Birkstead Gallery
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1980 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery Arts Centre, New Metropole, Folkston
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2013 Flashback, Celebrating 25 Years - Art Space Gallery, London
2009 Anglo-Indian Express - Grosvenor/Vadehra Gallery, London
2009 Winter Journey - Art Space Gallery London
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2007 Winter Journey - Art Space Gallery, London
2005 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2004 Visions of London - Art Space Gallery, London
2003-04 The Divine Comedy - Art Space, London
2003 Different Landscapes - Art Space Gallery, London (with Ray Atkins, Miguel Barcelo, Rainer Fetting, Alex Katz and John Lessore)
2002 From the Figure - University Gallery Northumbria University
2001 Garden of Earthly Delights - Art Space Gallery, London
1997 British Figurative Art - Painting the Human Figure - Flower East Gallery, London
1996 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 19 - Walker Gallery, Liverpool
1995 Phyllis Kind Gallery - New York with Gladys Nisson, Barbara Rossi and Ray Yoshida
1994-95 Small is Beautiful - Part 12 - Flower East Gallery, London
1993 Beautiful Blooms - Lamont Gallery, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London - (Invited Artist)
1992 Heads - Lamont Gallery, London Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London - (Invited Artist) As I See Myself, Artist in their Works - Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery
1991 Modern Paintings - A Memorial Exhibition for Peter Fuller, Manchester City Art Gallery The Face - Prema Art Centre, Dursley, Gloucester
1988 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London - (Invited Artist) Guirey and Gopal-Chowdhury - Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London Benjamin Rhodes Gallery Opening Exhibition, London
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1983 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition XIII - Walker Gallery, Liverpool The Whitechapel Open Exhibition, London
1981 Tolly Cobbold Third National Exhibition and Tour Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award, 2nd Prize - National Portrait Gallery, London
1979 Hayward Annual - Hayward Gallery, London Drawings - The New Ashgate Gallery Surrey The Whitechapel Open Exhibition, London Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award - National Portrait Gallery, London Summer Show 3 - Serpentine Gallery, London
1978 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1975 Painters of Mystery, Reality and Illusion - Rochdale Art Gallery
1974 British Painting '74 - Hayward Gallery, London John Moores Exhibition. Liverpool Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1973 Royal Society of Oil Painters, London 1972 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
1971 The London Group
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Public Collections
Bolton Art Gallery
British Council
The Peace Palace, The Hague
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Gonville and Caius College
Cambridge De Beers Limited
The Cavendish Laboratory
Cambridge
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic
Contemporary Art Society
Chelmsford and Essex Museum
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
Coopers Deloitte
Amma Foundation, Mexico
European Parliament Collection, Brussels
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