Curriculum Vitae
Email: paulgopal-chowdhury@hotmail.co.uk
London, UK
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.
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Everything in the Garden - Art Space Gallery, London
2008 Down Deep - Art Space Gallery, London
2006 Habits of Eating, Sleeping and Anxiety - Art Space Gallery, London
2004 A Time of Demons - Art Space Gallery, London
2002 Paintings of Heaven and Hell - Art Space Gallery, London
1991 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
1988 Quay Arts Centre, Isle of Wight
1986 Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London
1984-85 Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge touring to Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham and Oldham Art Gallery
1981 Ian Birkstead Gallery
1980 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery Arts Centre, New Metropole, Folkston
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
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
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
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