Oliver Bevan

Born/Né Peterborough UK 1941
Royal College of Art  1960-1964

Principal solo exhibitions /  Expositions Personnelles
1965/7/9 Grabowski Gallery, London
1974                       Galerie Palette, Zurich
                               London Arts Gallery (New Bond St, London)
1978                       Electric Gallery, Toronto
                               London Arts Gallery, Detroit
1981                       Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1983                       Oliver Bevan  Rochdale Art Galley
1984                       Inner City Paintings  Odette Gilbert Gallery, Cork St, London
1986                       City:Two Views  Oliver Bevan and Ron Bowen  Barbican Arts Centre London
1991                       Paintings of London and Tuscany  Gallery 10, London
1993                       Westway  Barbican Arts Centre London
1997                       Urban Mirror  Royal National Theatre, London
1998                       The Playground Paintings  BBC White City, London
                               A Moving Experience  The Oxford Gallery
2000                       The Next Generation  Bank Street Gallery,  Sevenoaks, UK
                               Cityscapes  Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
2002                       Play  Royal National Theatre, London
2003                       Oliver Bevan  Galerie la Geste, Uzès, France
                               The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle UK
2005                       Soleil sur la place  Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier,  Montpellier, France
2006                       Sur l’eau  Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier,  Montpellier
                               New Paintings  Light Gallery,  London
2007                       Fontaines  Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier
                               Oliver Bevan Galerie Dautcourt  Brussels
2008                       Réalisme Urbain Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris
                               Oliver Bevan Galerie Ducastel  Avignon, France

Group exhibitions/ Expositions collectives
1967                       Ornamentale Tendenzen  Haus am Waldsee Berlin-Zehlendorf, touring in West Germany               
1970                       Play Orbit  I.C.A. Gallery, London.
1975/6    International Art Fairs  Basel, Cologne, Dusseldorf
1982/3    Images for Today  Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield          
1984                       London International Art Fair,  Olympia Whitechapel Open, London
1985                       Patrons of the New Art Selection  Warwick ArtsTrust, London
1984-6    Contemporary Art Society  Smiths Galleries London.  Monoprints (Monotypes)  Flowers East Gallery
1990                       The Subjective City  Cleveland Gallery, and Barbican Arts Centre, London
1991/2    Art Fairs at BDC Islington and Art London 91 Olympia
1992                       Contemporary Colourists  Gallery 10, London and Flying ColoursGallery, Edinburgh
1993                       Artists' London  Museum of London
1993/4    Witnesses & Dreamers Tullie House, Carlisle and the Museum of London
1996                       The Motor Show Herbert Art Gallery Coventry           
1997                       Art 97 London with Montpelier Sandelson
                               The Motor Show  Montpelier Sandelson, London
1998                       Twin Images  Fine Art Society, London
1999 -2007             Affordable Art Fair, London (annually in October
2000                       Hunting Art Prizes  Royal College of Art, London
                               The Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London
2004                       Galerie Bellecour, Lyon
2006-                      Galerie Ducastel  Avignon
                               Galerie Samagra  Paris
2007                       Stone Plate Grease Water international contemporary lithography Museum of Modern Art for Wales, Aberystwyth, Bankside Gallery. London
2008                       Galerie Betti Toulouse
                               Galerie de l’Ancien Courrier. Montpellier, France

Prizes and awards / Prixs et Bourses
1983                       Images for Today- Commendation and Purchase / Achat
1986                       Exhibition Awards: North West Arts and Barbican Arts Centre London
1992                       Department of Transport National Art Competition - Prize and purchase (achat)
                               ABSA sponsorship award (BSIS) for Westway exhibition

Commandes / Comissions
1970-72 Paintings as book jackets, for Fontana Modern Masters (couvertures de livres)
1990                       Apron: Four Paintings for B.A.A London Airport, Gatwick
1999                       Painting for Art on the Undergound

Articles : Magazines et jornaux /Newspapers
Norbert Lynton  The Guardian  August 1965
Guy Brett  The Times   August 1965
John Dunbar  The Scotsman  August 1965
Georgina Oliver  Connoisseur  1974
Lynne Bell  Arts  Canada  March 1978
Clare Rendell  Art Monthly  October 1983
William Packer  Financial Times October 1984
David Lee  Arts Review  July 1986
Nicholas Usherwood  Galleries  March 1991
Jose Manser  - The Gatwick Commission Designers Journal  July 1991
Nicholas Usherwood  Feature, The Artist December 1991
Will Self  The Westway  Evening Standard Magazine May 1993          
Alexabdra Bourre Pratique des Arts July 2007

Articles : livres / books
Educating for Art by Rod Taylor published by  Longmans  1986
London In Paint: oil paintings in the Museum of London Collection by Mireille Galinou and John Hayes, 1999                        
Modern Paintings in the Guildhall Art Gallery collection 2000

Articles in exhibitions catalogues
Professor Sir Ernst Gombrich for exhibition at  J.P. Lehmans 1974
Mary Rose Beaumont for Rochdale Art Gallery 1983 and Odette Gilbert Gallery 1984
William Packer for Gallery 10  1991
Giles Auty for Westway Barbican)  1993
Mireille Galinou for Urban Mirror at the Royal National Theatre London 1997
Nicholas Usherwood for Play at the Royal National Theatre London 2002           Sophie Bastide-Foltz catalogue Sur l’eau 2006
Alexandra Bourre catalogue Oliver Bevan 2007

Broadcasts / Emissions
Kaleidoscope interview re Subjective City by Natalie Wheam, BBC Radio 4 June 1991
London News Direct  May 1997 re Urban Mirror
Countdown to the Millenium interview with Piers Plowright BBC Radio 4July 1998 re Urban Mirror and The City
The Learning Zone BBC2 TV 1998

Public Collections/ Musées et collections publiques
The Museum of London,
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
The Contemporary Art Society, UK
The City of London, (Guildhall Art Gallery)
York City Art Gallery,
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Government Art Collection, UK
St Peter’s College, Oxford
John Hopkins University, Baltimore USA,
Saskatchewan Arts Board, Canada
Hertfordshire County Council,
Bedfordshire County Council,
The Department of Transport, UK
The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham