Born in 1945 in St Austell, Cornwall
Lives and works in Bovingdon, Hertfordshire, UK

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2020 – Gallery Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2016 – David Tremlett: Textile Projects, Galleria Antonio Verolino, Rome, Italy
2016 – New Work on Paper and a Wall Drawing, Holger Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2015 – Form & Rhythm, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2014 – New Wall Drawings, Basel, Switzerland
2014 – Pat Steir and David Tremlett, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2013-2014 – David Tremlett: 3 Drawing Rooms, Ikon Gallery, Brimingham, UK
2013 – Light from Matter/Matter from Light: Tremlett/Verjux, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
2013 – Overbeck-Gesselschaft, Lubeck, Germany
2013 – 3 Drawing Rooms, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2012 – David Tremlett, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, USA
2011 – Works on Paper and New Pastel/Graphite Drawing to the Wall, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy
2011 – Place on Paper, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France
2011 – David Tremlett Drawing for Free Thinking, Tate Britain, London, UK
2010 – Drawing Rooms, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2010 – Place and Material, MAMAC, Nice, France
2010 – Space Change, Forte di Bard, Aosta, Italy
2010 – John Nixon and David Tremlett: Selected Works, GODDARD de FIDDES, Perth, Australia
2010 – Drawing Ideas, Gallerie Dorrie Priess, Hamburg, Germany
2009 – Drawn, Rubbed, Smeared, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy
2009 – Across the Walls, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 – Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
2009 – Works on Paper and the Wall, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland
2008 – In Space, Gering & López Gallery, New York, USA
2007 – Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
2007 – Back to the Drawing Board, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
2006 – Retrospettiva, Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
2006 – New Wall Drawing, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland
2005 – Pastel Drawings, Visconti Fine Art Kolizej, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2004 – Drawing, Gallery Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva, Switzerland
2004 – Alan Charlton, David Tremlett: Equal Opposites, Marcus Richter Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2004 – Printed Matter, New York, USA
2004 – My Books – Your Books, Cappella di Santa Maria di Carcerati, Bologna, Italy
2003 – Drawings in Lugano, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland
2002 – Crawford Art Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland
2002 – A New Wall Drawing, Massimo Valsecchi, Milan, Italy
2002 – But Where is Bari?, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
2001 – Paper and Walls, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy
2001 – Vert Comme Les Epinards Sur Ton Plat, Chateau De Fraisse, Nouic, France
2001 – David Tremlett: If Walls Could Talk, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy
2001 – Drawings Concerning the Church in Crosne, Paris, Galerie St. Séverin, Paris, France
2000 – Gallery Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva, Switzerland
1997 – Rooms of Drawings, Castello Falletti (Barolo Castle), Italy
1995 – Juan Miro Foundation, Mallorca, Spain
1995 – Gemeentmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
1995 – Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1994 – Opere Su Carta/Walldrawing, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy
1994 – Murs, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France
1994 – Galerie de L’ancien College, Châtellerault, France
1994 – The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy
1993 – Wall Drawings, Galerie Lubie, Amiens, France
1993 – Wall Drawing and Drawings on Paper, Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Orleans, France
1993 – Rainy Day Gallery, Cornwall, UK
1993 – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (P.A.C.), Milan, Italy
1992 – Modulo Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
1992 – A Quiet Madness, Kestner Gesellshcaft, Hanover, Germany
1991 – The Spirit of St. Savin, Abbey Saint Savin, Saint Savin, France
1991 – Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
1990 – Les Maitres de Formes Contemporains, Brussels, Belgium
1990 – Musee Saint Priest, Lyon, France
1990 – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1989 – Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1986 – Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland
1986 – Musem Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium
1986 – Wall Drawing, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK
1985 – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1985 – Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
1983 – No Title (Slide/Tape Show), Raum fur Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
1983 – Senza Titolo (Slide/Tape Show), Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
1979 – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1979 – One Work – One Book, Librarie Post Scriptum, Brussels, Belgium
1979 – Zomba Road, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
1978 – 2 Wall Drawings (building exterior), Zomba Road, Zomba, Malawi, Africa
1975 – Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
1974 – Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1969 – 4 Sculptures, Grabowski Gallery, London, UK

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2015 – Mur/Murs Peinture, Dessin, Architechture, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France
2014 – L’Occhio Musicale, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy
2014 – Le Pas et Le Page, Musee Gassendi, DIgne-les-Bains, France
2014 – Mont Blanc, Val Ferret, Courmayeur, Italy
2013 – Lines a Brief History, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2013 – Parole, Parole, Parole, Museo Pecci Milan, Milan, Italy
2013 – La Ville Dessine, Beauvais Galerie Nationale de Tapisserie, Oise, France
2013 – Permanent collection/1, curated by Bruno Cora, CAMUSAC, Cassino, Italy
2013 – Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
2012 – Oeuvres sur Papier, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France
2012 – Immagine della Luce, Villa Clerici, Milan, Italy
2012 – Drop me a line, Laure Genillard Gallery, UK
2011 – Pour une Républiques des Rêves, CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch, France
2011 – Aftermath – curated by Laure Genillard, Chelsea Space, London, UK
2011 – Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London, UK
2010 – 30 Years Studio Dabbeni (1979-2009), Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland
2010 – Western China International Art Biennial, Yinchuan, China
2009 – Temps du Passage, Lycée Pierre Mendès France, Péronne, France
2009 – L’Art Dans les Chapelles, Chapelle Notre Dames des Fleurs, France
2005 – Landscape/Matter/Enviroment and Still Life, Tate Modern, London, UK
2005 – Visioni, Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, Italy
2004 – Work from the Lewitt Collection, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
2004 – Across the Border, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2003 – Un Cabinet de Dessins et d’Oevres sur Papier, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France
2003 – Incontri…..alla Collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2002 – Ruines et Monuments, Galeries des Lycees, Chantilly, France
2001 – Extra Art, CCAC, San Francisco, USA
2001 – Group Exhibition, Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 – Paysages, Espace Henri Matisse, Creil, France
2001 – La Sculpture au Pied du Mur, Salle de la SCOMAM, Laval, France
2000 – Abstracions Terrestres, Galerie du Faou dic, Lorient, France
1999 – Visible – In Visible, Centre d’Art Sacré Contemporain, Pontmain, France
1999 – de Corazón, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain
1998 – Au Fil du Trait, Carré d’Art, Nimes, France
1998 – Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia Galleria Comunale D’Arte Moderna di Spoleto, Italy
1997 – The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA
1997 – Hommages, Ancien Entrepôt Uniroyal, Brussels, Belgium
1997 – Mage art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Troyes, Troyes, France
1997 – Livres d’artistes: L’invention d’un genre, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, France
1996 – Les (dé)finitions de l’art, Chateau de Villeneuve – Fondation Emile, Vence, France
1993 – Videos by Artists, Gallery Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1993 – Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris, France
1993 – Moving into View, South Bank Centre, London, UK
1992 – Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1992 – Where? L’identite ailleurs que dans l’identification, Museum of Modern Art, St. Etienne, France
1992 – Group Exhibition, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
1992 – Wall Drawing, Yokohama Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan
1991 – Group Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1990 – Museum, Tochigi Museum, Hyogo Museum, Hiroshima Museum, Japan
1990 – Mentalitaten und Konstruktionen in Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Nachst St.Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1989 – Fenetres en Vue (Noise), Museum of Modern Art, Liege, Belgium
1989 – Territoires, Musee Saint-Denis, Rheims, France
1988 – Britannica – 30 Years of Sculpture, Musée d’Evreux, Evreux, France
1987 – Vessel, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1985 – When Attitudes Became Form, Le Nouveau Museum, Villeurbanne, France
1984 – Collectie Becht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1984 – When Attitudes Became Form, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
1981 – British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1979 – On Walk and Travels, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1973 – 11 Englische Zeichner, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
1972 – Documenta 5, Museum Fredericainum, Kassel, Germany
1969 – Young Cotemporaries, Picadilly Galleries, London, UK

PERMANENT WORKS

Chapel of Barolo (with Sol Lewitt) Piedmont, Italy
British Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Chapel of Santa Maria dei Carcerati, Bologna, Italy
British Council Building, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Villenauxe-la-Grande, France
Formigine castle, Modena, Italy

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of GB, UK
Art Gallery of N.S.W. Sydney, Australia
Baldessari Collection, Bari, Italy
Bank Brussel Lambert – Brussels, Belgium
Bank Brussel Lambert – Kortrijk, Belgium
Benesse Museum of Contemporary Art, Naoshima, Japan
Biliotheque National, Paris, France
Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
British Council, London, UK
The British Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
Carre d’Art, Nimes, France
Cartier Foundation, Paris, France
Dallas Museum of Modern Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
F.R.A.C. – Bretagne, F.R.A.C. Midi-Pyrénées, France
F.R.A.C. – Haute-Normandie, France
F.R.A.C. – Nord-Pas-de Calais, France
F.R.A.C.des Pays de la Loire, France
F.R.A.C. – Picardie, F.R.A.C. Champagne-Ardenne, France
Fonds national d,art contemporain (Arts Council of France), Paris, France
Fundação De Serralves, Oporto, Portugal
Granada Collection, London, UK
Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal
The International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Kroller Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
The Lewitt Collection at The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
MAMAC, Nice, France
M.U.K.H.A. Antwerp, Belgium
Musée d’Art Moderne, St. Etienne, France
Musée Des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris (Centre Georges Pompidou), France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Gent, Belgium
Museum of Le Havre, France
Museum of Modern Art, Brussels, Belgium
Museum St. Priest, Lyon, France
Museum of Rochechouart, France
Museum Sztuki, Poland
Museum of Toulon, France
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Panza Collection, Varase, Italy
Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, USA
Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Whitworth Museum, Manchester, UK

EDUCATION

1966 – Royal College of Arts, London, UK
1963-1966 – Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, UK
1962-1963 – Falmouth College of Art, Falmouth, UK