Bob Law
Born in Brentford, Middlesex, 1934
Died in Penzance, Cornwall, 2004
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Bob Law, Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2020
Bob Law: Ideas, Energies, Transmutations, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, England
2016
Bob Law, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
2015
Bob Law: Field Works 1959-1999, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
2013
Bob Law, Frieze Masters: Spotlight, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, England
2012
Bob Law: Colour, Karsten Schubert/Richard Saltoun, London, England
Bob Law: Castle XXXIX 1976, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles CA
2010
Bob Law, Solo presentation at Artissima 17, Thomas Dane Gallery, Turin, Italy
2009
Bob Law: A Retrospective, Thomas Dane & Karsten Schubert/Richard Saltoun, London, England
2001
Bob Law: Early Drawings, Karsten Schubert, London, England
1999
Bob Law: Drawings, Sculpture and Paintings, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall and Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England
Bob Law New Work, Marlene Eleini, London, England
1996
Bob Law, Marlene Eleini, London, England
1992
Bob Law: Lead Poems, Bronze Crosses on Wheels, Black Painting,The Platform Gallery, Folkestone, Kent, England
1990
Bob Law, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York NY
1989
Bob Law: Drawings 1959 – 1966, Karsten Schubert, London, England
Bob Law: Sculpture and Works on Paper, Clinton Tweedie, Lennox Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1988
Bob Law: recent works, Karsten Schubert, London, England
1982
Bob Law: Sculpture, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1980
Bob Law: New Works, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1979
Bob Law, Gillespie-De Laage, Paris, France
1978
Bob Law, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
1977
Bob Law: ‘Mirror Series’ I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, and other new paintings, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Bob Law: 5 Paintings Rolf Preisig, Basel, Switzerland
1975
Robert Law, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1974
Bob Law: 10 Black Paintings 1965-70, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
1971
Bob Law: Paintings, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1970
Robert Law, Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Bob Law, Onnasch Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1967
Robert Law, Grabowski Gallery, London, England
1963
Robert Law Paintings & Drawings: 1960-63, Christchurch College, J.C.R. Gallery, Oxford, England
Group Exhibitions
2024
Finding Aid, Goldsmiths CCA, London, England
2022
Red, Green and Yellow, Flat Time House, London, England
2021
Modern Conversations, Tate St Ives, England
2017
Assorted Paper, The Sunday Painter, London, England
2016
To the End of the World or to the Edge of the Paper, Parts Project, The Hague, The Netherlands
2015
Artists and Poets, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Secession, Vienna
2014
Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, England
2013
A House of Leaves, The David Roberts Art Foundation (DRAF), London, England
2011
The Indiscipline of Painting, International Abstraction from the 1960s to now. Tate, St. Ives and Mead Gallery, Cornwall, England
2006
How to Improve the World: 60 Years of British Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2003
Arts Council Collection: Acquisitions 1989-2002, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Formal Situations: Abstraction in Britain 1960-1970, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2002
Blast to Freeze: British Art in the 20th Century, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001
Out of Line: Drawings from the Arts Council Collection; York, Swansea, Sheffield, Llandudno, Stoke-on-Trent, Middlesbrough, Wingfield Eye, England
Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965 – 75, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
Whitechapel Centenary, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
Panza Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York NY
1999
As Dark as Light – Three different displays of paintings and drawings by Bob Law from the London collection, Tate Gallery, St Ives, England
Small Sculptures and Early Drawings by Bob Law, Richard Salmon Gallery, London, England
Jerwood Painting Prize 1999, Exhibition of the Seven Shortlisted Artists, Jerwood Space Gallery, London, England
1996
From Figure to Object, A Century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Frith Street Gallery; Jerwood Space Gallery and Karsten Schubert, London, England
1991
The LeWitt Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT
Galerie Luc Queyrel, Paris, France
1990
Shipley Art Gallery, Ipswich, England
1989
A Spiritual Dimension; Peterborough Art Gallery; Herbert Gallery, Coventry; Worcester City Museum; Winchester Gallery, England
Modern British Water Colour Show, Grob Gallery, London, England
Hanne Darboven, Gary Hume, Bob Law, Julian Lethbridge, Karsten Schubert, London, England
1988
The Presence of Painting, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England
Le Couleur Seule, l’Experience du Monochrome, Musee St Pierre Contemporain, Lyon, France
Changing Group Exhibition, Karsten Schubert, London, England
The Presence of Painting: aspects of British Abstraction 1957-88, Southbank Centre, London, England
1987
The Experience of Landscape, Arts Council of Great Britain; Derby; Huddersfield; York; Wolverhampton; Exeter; Worcester; Barnsley; Stoke; London; Walsall; Newtown; Ayr; Stirling; Wakefield, England
Britannica: Trent Ans de Sculpture; Musee des Beaux Arts, The Hague, Netherlands; Musee Evreux & The Architecture School of Normandie, Rouen, France; Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium and Central Region d’Art Contemporain, Toulouse, France
British Art in the Twentieth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
Painting and Poetry, The Landscape of Experience, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England
Englische Kunst im 20 Jahrhundert, Staats Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Vessel, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1986
Falls the Shadow: Recent British and European Art, Hayward Gallery, London, England
Changing Group Exhibition, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1985
The British Art Show II, Australia and New Zealand; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; National Art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; National Gallery, Wellington, Australia
St Ives 1939-64: Twenty Five Years of Painting, Sculpture and Pottery, Tate Gallery, London, England
1984
The British Art Show II; Birmingham, Edinburgh, Sheffield, Southampton, England
Rosc 84, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
1983
Drawing in Air: An Exhibition of Sculptors Drawings 1882 – 1982; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; Ceolfrith Arts Gallery, Sunderland, England; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales
1982
Aspects of British Art Today, Japan; Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan; National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan; Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
British sculpture in the 20th century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1981
Continuing Through the Summer, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Schwarz (Black Exhibition), Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
British Sculpture since 1900, (Part II, 1950 – 1980), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1980
35 Ans de L’Apiaw, Museum Ville de Liege, Liege, Belgium
British Art 1940-1980, The Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, England
John Moores’ Liverpool Exhibition 12, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
1979
Art Actuel en Belgique et en Grande-Bretagne, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Tate 79 Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London, England
Through the Summer, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Malerei Schwarz, Malerei Weiss, Kunstlerhaus, Hamburg, Germany
Artists Books, Galerie Ldia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
The Native Land: an inaugural exhibition of artists' work from 1699-1979 which celebrates the landscape of North Wales, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
Recent Arts Council Awards and Purchases, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Summer Show, Galerie Gillespie-de Laage, Paris, France
Artist’s Books, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland
1978
Avant-Garde Russe, Avant-Garde Minimalismte, Galerie Gillespie-Laage, Paris, France
Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London, England
20 Century Drawings, Chelsea School of Art, London, England
1977
Roger Ackling, Art & Language, Alan Charlton, Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg, John Hilliard, Peter Joseph, Bob Law, Richard Long, Tim Mapston, Stephen Willats, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, England
British artists of the Sixties: from the collections of the Tate Gallery, Tate Gallery, London, England
British Painting 1952-77, Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
1976
Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
1974
Baer, Charlton, Law, Mangold, Ryman: Paintings, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Painting Exhibition, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1973
7 aus London, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
The Critic Stripped Bare By His Artists, Even, Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, England
1972
Seven Exhibitions: Keith Arnatt, Michael Craig-Martin, Bob Law, Joseph Beuys, Hamish Fulton, Bruce McLean, David Tremlett, Tate Gallery, London, England
Small Paintings and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain (touring exhibition), England
Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
1971
Wall Show, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Art Spectrum London, Alexandra Palace, London, England
Film Show, Situation, London, England
Modern Paintings from Oxford College Collections, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
1970
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England
Paperworks, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
John Moores’ Liverpool Exhibition 9, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England
1968
Open Hundred, Arts Council of Great Britain, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1962
Situation, Arts Council of Great Britain (touring exhibition), England
John Epstein, Robert Law, Grabowski Gallery, London, England
1961
New London Situation: British Abstract Art, Malborough New London Gallery, London, England
6 painters, 2 sculptors : Anthony Benjamin, Peter Blake, Oliver Bradbury, Peter Hobbs, John Hoskin, Robert Law, Brian Wall, Brian Young, Rawinksy Gallery, London, England
1960
Situation: an exhibition of British abstract painting, R.B.A. Galleries, London, England
Peter Hobbs, Robert Law: Work by 2 British Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Public collections
Arts Council, London, England
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
British Council, London, England
Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New College, Oxford, England
Peterborough Museum and Art gallery, Southampton, England
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate, England
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
The Panza Collection,Varese, Italy