Denzil Forrester

Lives and works in Cornwall, England

Education

1981-1983
MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, England

1976-1979
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Central School of Art, London, England

1975-1976
Foundation, Central School of Art, London, England

Solo Exhibitions/Projects (selected)

2021
Coventry Biennial: Hyper-Possible, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, England (catalogue) 

2020–2021
Itchin & Scratchin, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England; travelling to Spike Island, Bristol, England (touring)

2020
Denzil Forrester in Rome, 30 Old Burlington Street, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2019
Brixton Blue, TFL Commission, Brixton Underground Station, London, England
A Survey, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

2018
From Trench Town to Porthtowan, Jackson Foundation, St Just, England

2016                  
White Columns, New York                 
Tramps, London, England                  

2002                 
Two Decades of Painting, The Edward Wilmot Blyden Project, 4 Victoria Street, Bristol, England

1996
Memory and Images, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough, England

1995       
Farewell to Shadowland, 198 Gallery, London, England             

1990-1994      
Dub Transition, Harris Museum & Gallery, Preston, England; travelled to Laing art Gallery, Newcastle, England; Smith Art Gallery, Stirling, England; Boundary Gallery, London, England; The Angel Row, Nottingham, England; and Lancaster Gallery, Coventry, England

1987                   
Limelight Club, New York, USA

1986
Drawing Exhibition, Commonwealth Institute, London, England

1983
Pagan Echoes, Riverside Studios, London, England


Group Exhibitions (selected)

2021–2022
Coventry Biennial: Hyper-Possible, Coventry & Warwickshire, England 
Life Between Islands: Caribbean–British Art 50s – Now, Tate Britain, London, England (catalogue)

2021
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, London, England

2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue) 
Everything is Personal, Tramps, New York, USA
Frieze LIVE, curated by Victor Wang, 9 Cork Street, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

2019
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, England
Artists | Steal From, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, England

2017
Sputterances, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Tate Britain, London, England

2008
Quad, The Gallery in Cork Street, London, England

2007
Artists Doing It for Themselves, Burlington Arcade, London, England

2006
Artists Doing It for Themselves, Thurloe Road, London, England

2005
Artists Doing It for Themselves, Farringdon, London, England

2001
Fresh Art, Business Design Centre, London, England

2000
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
The Painting & Drawing Department, Morley Gallery, London, England
The Selectors, Madeleine Pearson Gallery, London, England

1997
Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966-1996, Caribbean Cultural Center, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA
Foundations of Fame, The London Institute, London, England

1996-1997
Imagined Communities, Oldham Gallery, Oldham, England, travelled to John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, England; Firstsite, Colchester, England; Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, England; Royal Festival Hall, London, England; and Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland.

1995
Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
The London Art Group, Barbican Art Gallery, London, England

1990
Rome Scholars 1980-90, Royal College of Art, London, England

1989
Caribbean Expressions in Britain, Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, England

1988
New Figurative Painters, The Orangery, London, England
Figuring Out the 80s, Laing Gallery, Newcastle, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Painters at the Royal College of Art, 150th Anniversary Show, Royal College of Art, London, England

1987
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

1986
From Two Worlds, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

1985
Six Artists in Action, Madeleine Pearson Gallery, London, England
Rome Scholars Final Show, Academia Britannica, Rome, Italy
Bisonte Gallery, Florence, Italy
Wolfson College Gallery, Oxford, England

1984
Open Show. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
Five Artists in Action, Madeleine Pearson Gallery, London, England
Ten Artists, Accademia Britannica, Rome, Italy

1983-1984
Germinations, Trilateral Art Exhibition travels to London, Edinburgh, Kassel and Lille.

1983
Black on Black, Creation for Liberation, London, England
Six Artists in Action, Madeleine Pearson Gallery, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Post Graduate Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, England

1982
Drawings and Prints, Madeleine Pearson Gallery, London, England
Four Man Show, Sadler's Wells Gallery, London, England
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England

1981
Six Man Show, Madeleine Pearson Gallery, London, England

1979
Basement Art Group, CYC Gallery, London, England
Graduate Exhibition, Central School of Art, London, England

1977
Basement Art Group, CYC Gallery, London, England

Publications

2021
The Anomie Review of Contemporary British Painting 2’, Matt Price, Anomie Publishing, 
Life Between Islands: Caribbean–British Art 50s – Now, Tate Britain, London, England

2019
Get Up, Stand Up Now: Generations of Black Creative Pioneers, Somerset House, London, England, p. 81
Denzil Forrester, foreword by Peter Doig, essays by Sam Thorne and Eddie Chambers
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England

Public Collections

Tate, London, England 
Arts Council Collection, UK
Government Art Collection, UK
Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, England
Morley College, London, England

Awards

2021
South Bank Sky Arts Award, UK
Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE)

2019
Morley Fellowship, Morley College, London, England

2000
The Scottish Gallery Diana King Prize, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

1987
Korn Ferry International Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

1986-1988
Harkness Fellowship

1983-1985
Scholarship, British School of Rome