JOHN MONKS / CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1954 Manchester.
Studied at Liverpool College of Art and the Royal College of Art (1980).
Lives and works in London.
Selected Solo exhibitions
1981 Hull College of Art
1985 Paton Gallery, London
1989 Evidence, Cleveland & Bluecoat Galleries
1990 Paton Gallery, London
1991 New Work, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
1992 Paton Gallery, London
1993 Manchester City Art Galleries
1994 Paton Gallery, London
1995 Beaux Arts, London
1996 Beaux Arts, London
1998 Beaux Arts, London
1999 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
2002 Long & Ryle, London
2003 Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
2004 Long & Ryle, London
2005 Twenty Four Hours, Long & Ryle, London
2006 Crossings, Peter Findlay Gallery, New York.
2006 Spanning the River, The Guildhall, London
2007 Artificial Light, Long & Ryle, London
2008 Two Decades, Long & Ryle, London
2008 Domain, Long & Ryle, London
2009 Recent Works, Clare Hall College, Cambridge, UK
2009 Group Show, Peter Findlay Gallery, New York
2010 Recent Works, Long & Ryle, London
2013 Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK
(Guest Lecturer Barber Institute)
2013 Day In Day Out, Long and Ryle, London
2013 10 Gresham Street, Long and Ryle in collaboration with VJB Arts, London
2017 Mirror Image, Long and Ryle, London
2018 60 Threadneedle Street, Long and Ryle in collaboration with VJB Arts, London
2019 The Studio, Long and Ryle, London
2022. LANGUAGE Long and Ryle Gallery. With an essay introduction by Ronnie Wood, musician.
2023. Galerie Adrienne Desbiolles, Zurich, Switzerland.
Overseas Visits
1987 British Council sponsored artist, Strumica University, Yugoslavia
1990 Invited Artist in Residence, British Institute, Madrid, Spain
1990 Guest Lecturer at the Queen’s Museum, New York
1992 Guest lecture tour of USA:
- Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven‚ Connecticut
- Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee
- Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
1995 Guest lecturer, Tate Britain, London
2001 Guest Lecturer at The School, The Art Institute of Chicago
Public Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Calouste-Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Arts Council of Great Britain
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Contemporary Arts Society, London
British Institute, Madrid
Santa Barbara Museum, California
Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough, UK
Bangor University, Bangor, North Wales
Additional Information
2018 Invited by the British Council to discuss the Gallen-
Kallela exhibition at the National Gallery, London
2018 Chosen by the Department of Education, UK
as an artist for study for GCSE art
A monograph on the artist with an introduction by
Jasper Sharp was published in 2008 by the Penchant Press.
2023 Sotheby's Desidera Auction, Palais Oppenheim, Cologne , Germany.
2024 JEWELS, Wildt'sches Haus, Petersplatz, Basel, Switzerland