Stephen Farthing lives and works in New York, USA. His work is in around 30 major public collections around the world including the Ashmolean, Oxford and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions throughout his career.

Dateline:

• 1969-73: Studies at St Martin’s School of Art, London

• 1973-76: Takes his Masters Degree in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London. Receives an Abbey Major Scholarship

• 1976: Goes to The British School at Rome for a year. John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

• 1977: Solo exhibition at the Royal College of Art Gallery, London

• 1977-79: Lecturer in Painting at Canterbury College of Art

• 1980: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

• 1980-85: Tutor in Painting at the Royal College of Art, London

• 1982: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

• 1985-87: Head of Painting at West Surrey College of Art and Design

• 1987: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

• 1987-89: Head of Department of Fine Art at West Surrey College of Art and Design

• 1989: Represents Britain at the Sao Paulo Biennale. Artist in Residence at the Hayward Gallery, London

• 1990: Solo exhibitions at Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; National Museum of Art, Montevideo, Uruguay; The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester; Sloane Racotta Gallery, Mexico City; Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey; Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City; City Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay

• 1990-2000: Ruskin Master at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Professorial Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford

• 1991: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

• 1993: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

  Solo exhibitions at Spacex, Exeter; Reading Unversity Gallery, Reading; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

• 1994: Solo exhibitions at British Council, Kyoto, Japan; Brantwood House, Cumbria; The Cut Gallery, London; Coram Gallery, London

• 1995: Solo exhibition at The Cut Gallery, London

• 1996: Solo exhibitions at A.T. Kearney, London and the Anne Berthoud Gallery, London

• 1997: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

• 1998: Elected RA. Solo exhibition at The Cut Gallery, London

• 1999: John Moores Liverpool Exhibitions Prize Winner

  Solo exhibitions at St Paul’s School, London; De Monfort University Gallery, Leicester; Mary Ogilvy Gallery, St Anne’s College, Oxford

• 2000: Executive Director of The New York Academy of Art, Manhattan. Made Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Solo exhibitions at Lewis Elton Gallery, University of Surrey, UK and Otemae Centre for the Arts, Otemae University, Kansai, Japan

• 2003: Solo exhibition at Amagenesett Applied Arts, New York

• 2006: Solo exhibition at Chelsea Futurespace, London

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