Howard Hodgkin was a British abstract painter and printmaker. Born in

Hammersmith, London, in 1932, he studied art at the Camberwell

School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, graduating in 1954. His

first solo exhibition was held in 1962 at Arthur Tooth & Sons. During

his lifetime, his work was exhibited in New York, London, Oxford,

Madrid, Hong Kong, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Zurich, Oslo,

Washington DC, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.

In addition to his work as a painter and printmaker, Hodgkin also

produced work for the stage as both a set and costume designer. In the

early 1980s, he collaborated with the Rambert Dance Company's

Resident Choreographer, Richard Alston, for the ballet Night Music

(1981), for which Hodgkin developed both the set and costume design.

Later that same decade, he would collaborate again with Alston for the

production of Pulcinella (1987). In the late 1990s and early 2000s,

Hodgkin worked with the Mark Morris Dance Company where he

designed and created the sets for Rhymes with Silver (1997), Kolam

(2002) and Mozart Dances (2006).

During his lifetime, Hodgkin received numerous honors and awards. He

represented the UK at the Venice Biennale in 1984 and was awarded the

prestigious Turner Prize in 1985, the Shakespeare Prize in Hamburg in

1997, and was the first recipient of the Swarovski Whitechapel Gallery

Art Icon award in 2014. In the early 1990s, he was invited by the

renown Indian architect, Charles Correa, to design a mural for the

British Council of India’s headquarters in New Delhi. Hodgkin was also

appointed CBE in 1977, knighted in 1992 and, in 2003, was made a

Companion of Honour.

His work is held in museum collections globally including the Art

Gallery of South Australia, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the Art

Gallery of Ontario, the Buffalo AKG, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the

De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums,

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

Manchester City Art Galleries, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina

Sofía, the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Punjab University,

National Gallery of Australia, the National Gallery of Victoria, the

National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, the Philadelphia Museum of

Art, the Rhode island school of Design Museum of art, the Saint Louis

Art Museum, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Scottish National

Gallery of Modern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Walker

Art Center, and the University of Kentucky Art Museum, among others.