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Born: 12 October 1934, Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK
Died: 31 July 2011
Elected ARA: 18 May 1983
Elected RA: 26 June 1991
Category of Membership: Painter
John Hoyland studied at Sheffield School of Art from 1951 to 1956 and subsequently at the Royal Academy Schools from 1956 to 1960. He went on to teach at Hornsey College of Art from 1960 to 1962 and at Chelsea School of Art from 1962 to 1969 where he was also Principal Lecturer from 1965 to 1969. Subsequently, he taught at St Martin’s School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools from 1974 to 1977 and the Slade School of Fine Art from 1974 to 1989.
Prof John Hoyland RA, Love and grief 5.4.006 © the artist. Photography by FXP and John Riddy. Hoyland’s first solo show was held at the Marlborough New London Gallery, London in 1964. This was followed by a string of national and international solo exhibitions, including the Whitechapel Gallery, London (1967). He exhibited at the Waddington Galleries, London throughout the 1970s and 1980s. A retrospective of his work was held at the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1979 and again in 1999 in the Sackler Galleries of the Royal Academy. Hoyland’s work has also been included in numerous international group exhibitions from 1964, when his work was selected for the New Generation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. More recently he participated in group exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool and the Barbican Gallery, London in 1993, and at Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam and the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1994.
Hoyland received many awards throughout his career, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Purchase Award (1963) and a Peter Stuyvesant travel bursary (1964). He was also a Prize Winner at the John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition (1964) and later won First Prize (1982). He received an Arts Council purchase award (1979), joint first prize (with William Scott) in the Korn Ferry International (1986) and first prize of the Athena Art Award (1987). In 1998 he won the Wollaston Award for the most distinguished work in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
Hoyland developed strong links with America from the late 1960s. He was appointed Charles A Dana Professor of Fine Art at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York in 1972 and was artist in residence at the Studio School, New York in 1978 and at Melbourne University in 1979. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1991 and in 1999 was appointed Professor of Painting at the Royal Academy Schools. In 2001 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University.
Solo exhibitions:
2011 Beaux Arts, London
2009 Beaux Arts, London
2008 Beaux Arts, London
Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
Nevill Keating McIlroy, London
Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2007 Hillsborough Fine Art, Dublin
2001 Beaux Arts, London
1999 Royal Academy of Arts
1996 Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland
1995 Theo Waddington, London
1994 Annendale Gallery, Sydney, Australia
CCA Gallery, London
1992 Galerie Josine Bokhoven, Amsterdam, Holland
Graham Modern Gallery, New York
1991 Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, USA
1990 Austin / Desmond Fine Art, London
Waddington Galleries, London
Public collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Arts Council of Great Britain
Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki
Birmingham City Art Gallery
British Council, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
City Art Gallery, Manchester
Contemporary Art Society, London
Courtauld Institute, London
Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Los Angeles
Government Art Collection, London
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Leicestershire Education Authority
Maclaurin Collection, Rozelle, Ayr
Melbourne University Art Gallery
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I.
Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro
National Museum, Finland
Neuberger Collection, University of Purchase, New York
Perth Art Gallery, Australia
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, London
Phoenix Museum, Arizona
Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal College of Physicians, London
Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
Tate Gallery, London
Tehran Museum of Modern Art, Tehran
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Warwick University
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Contact details for further information
Email membershipoffice@royalacademy.org.uk
