Ken Howard Biography
KEN HOWARD OBE RA
b. 1932 London
Biographical chronology
1932 Ken Howard born in London
1949-53 Studied at the Hornsey School of Art
1952 First exhibited at the Royal Academy
1953-55 National Service in the Royal Marines
1955-58 Studied at the Royal College of Art
1958-59 British Council Scholarship to Florence
1959 First exhibited at the New English Art Club
First exhibited at 147 New Bond Street
1962 Elected member of the New English Art Club
1966 Elected member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
First prize Lord Mayor’s Art Award
1969 First prize Arundel Art Centre
1973 Appointed official artist in Ireland by the Imperial War Museum
1978 Prize winner John Moores Exhibition
1979 Elected member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours
Prize winner John Laing Exhibition
1981 Elected member of the Royal West of England Academy
1982 First prize Hunting Group Awards
1983 Associate Member of the Royal Academy
Prize winner Royal West of England Academy
1985 Critics’ prize, Sparkasse Karlsruhe
1986 Prize winner New English Art Club Centenary Exhibition
1988 Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists
Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
1991 Member of the Royal Academy
1998 President of the New English Art Club
2001 Critics’ prize New English Art Club 2001
2004 Elected Royal Academy Professor of Perspective
2006 Elected fellow of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters
2007 Appointed Freeman of the City of London, Liveryman Painter Stainers
2008 Honorary Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art
2010 Awarded OBE for services to Art in the Queen’s Birthday Honours
2011 Publication of Light and Dark: The Autobiography of Ken Howard RA
Commissions include: The Drapers Company
The Haberdashers Company
States of Jersey
HQ British Army of the Rhine
United Nations Forces in Cyprus
The Stock Exchange, London
Lloyds of London
The Royal Hospital, Chelsea
Banque Paribas
Works by Ken Howard can be seen in the following public collections:
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Plymouth City Art Gallery
Sheffield Art Gallery
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Ulster Museum and Art Gallery
The Imperial War Museum, London
The National Army Museum, London
One Man Exhibitions
1955 Plymouth Art Centre
1966 John Whibley Gallery, London
1968 John Whibley Gallery, London
1971 New Grafton Gallery, London
1972 Plymouth Art Gallery – Retrospective Exhibition
1974 New Grafton Gallery, London
1976 New Grafton Gallery, London
1978 New Grafton Gallery, London
1979 New Metropole, Folkestone
Hong Kong Art Centre
St Helier Gallery
1980 St Helier Gallery
1981 New Grafton Gallery, London
1982 Nicosia
1983 Delhi 1983
1984 New Grafton Gallery, London
St Helier Gallery
1985 New Grafton Gallery, London
1986 Linton Court Gallery
1987 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
New Grafton Gallery, London
1989 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
1990 New Grafton Gallery, London
Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
1991 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
1992 Lowndes Lodge Gallery, London
1993 New Grafton Gallery, London
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
1995 New Grafton Gallery, London
Brian Sinfield Gallery, Gloucestershire
1997 New Grafton Gallery, London
1998 The Everard Read, Johannesburg
2000 New Grafton Gallery, London
The Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town
2002 Richard Green, London
2003 Richard Green, London
2004 Richard Green, London
2005 Richard Green, London
2006 Richard Green, London
2007 Richard Green, London
2009 Richard Green, London
2011 Richard Green, London
2012 Richard Green, London
2013 Richard Green, London
2014 Richard Green, London
2015 Richard Green, London
2016 Richard Green, London