DANNY ROLPH
BIOGRAPHY
Born London 1967
Lives and works in London
Education
1991 - 93 Royal College of Art, MA Painting
1988 - 91 Winchester School of Art, BA (Hons) Fine Art
Selected awards
2022 Rothko Art Residency, Daugavpils, Latvia
2011 Sovereign European Art Prize (nominated)
2009 Visiting Professor in Fine Art, Bucks New University
2009 Visiting Fellow, University of Southampton
2007 Hamlyn Award (nominated)
2001 London Arts: Visual Arts Award
1998 Rome Scholar, British School at Rome
1994 - 96 Delfina Trust Award
1992 John Minton Travel Award
Solo exhibitions
2024 'Le Stagnoni', 532 gallery, New York, USA
'Tercet', Espacio del Convent de Santa Domingo, Pollensa, Mallorca
'Marenostrum', Kaplan Projects, Palma, Mallorca
2023 '31 days', Common Room Projects, Welwyn North, Herts
2022 'More tomorrow than today', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston USA
2021 'Hudson River", 532 Gallery, New York, USA
2019 'The Orchard', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston USA
'Jerriais', CCA galleries, Jersey, UK
2018 'WCW', 532 Gallery, New York, USA
2017 'Encounters', CCA Gallery, Jersey, UK
2016 'Painted on the Sky', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'East Central', CNB Gallery, London
2015 'Recollection', 532 Gallery, New York, USA
2014 'Paradiso', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2013 Atelier, ESAD, Valence, France
2012 'Duke of Burgundy', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'Kissing balloons in the jungle', Poppy Sebire Gallery, London
2011 'Ten minutes from now', Eden Rock Gallery, St.Barts, Caribbean
2010 'Multiverse', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'Brasilia', Koraalberg Gallery , Antwerp, Belgium
'Automatic Shoes', Poppy Sebire Gallery, London
'VOLTA 6', New York, USA
2009 'Simultaneous Dreams', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Accelerator', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2008 'Jackson', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
2007 'Happenstance' AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Singularity' Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2006 'There is no such thing as pure', Hales Gallery, London
'Hinterland', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2005 'Obstraction', AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Rutherford', Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall
2002 'Locations', Chapter, Cardiff
2001 'Famous Italians', Hales Gallery, London
1999 'YK', Mark, Oxo Tower, London
1996 'FOCUS', Paton Gallery, London
1995 Cultural Instructions, London
Group exhibitions
2024 'Drawing Room 2024', Drawing Room, London
2023 'Small things, big ideas', White Conduit Projects, London
2022 'Good on paper', 532 gallery, New York, USA
'Drawing Room 2022', Drawing Room, London
2021 'Prologue', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2020 'Where we are', Mercers Hall, London
2019 'Vision X', Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
'Drawing Room 2019', Drawing Room, London
2018 'X Years After 2', 532 Gallery, New York, USA
2017 'X Years After', 532 Gallery, New York, USA
'Purifications', Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
'Luftschlosser', Schloss Lekow, Poland
'Summer Show 2017', Royal Academy of Art, London
'AbstractXed #1', Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
'Last Picture Show', 532 Gallery, New York, USA
'Drawing Room 2017', Drawing Room, London
2016 'Hoarder Control', Marion deCanniere, Antwerp, Belgium
'Winter Salon', 532 Gallery, New York, USA
'After Degas- Inspirations and Sources', The Place Downstairs,
11 Canonbury Place
2015 'Piercing the veil', Simmons+Simmons, London
'Drawing Room 2015', Drawing Room, London
'Screen', Turps gallery, London
'Then for now', Delfina Foundation, London
'Sunday in The Park With Ed', Display Gallery, London
2014 'Derive', The Place Downstairs, London
'The social bases of abstraction', Updown gallery, Kent
'Doors in The Wall', Bearspace and Number 3, London
'Summer Show 2014', Royal Academy, London (invited)
'Instant Crush', Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
'Line and Value part 1', Updown gallery, Kent
'Into and Out of Abstraction'. Lubomirov-Easton Gallery, London
'Inside The Palace'. Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 'Perfect Death'. Lion and Lamb Gallery, London
'Vitis Vinifera'. 108 Shacklewell Lane, London
'Drawing Room 2013'. Drawing Room, London
'Going My Way'. Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'Selective Perspectives', Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2012 'Pencil and Paper', Poppy Sebire Gallery, London
'Double Vision', Lion & Lamb Gallery, London
'Caveau', Galleria Riccardo Crespi, Milan, Italy
'Around the world in 80 days' (touring), Torrance Art Museum,
Los Angeles, USA
'Mile Marker', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'London/Berlin' (touring), C4RD, London
'The Perfect Nude', Wimbledon Space, London
2011 'Polemically Small', Charlie Smith, london
'A Few Friends', Testbed, London
'The Future Can Wait', Victoria House, London
'London/Berlin', Galerie Fruehsorge, Berlin, Germany
'Polemically Small' (touring), Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
'The Perfect Crime', 4A, Malvern
'Summer Show 2011', Royal Academy, London (invited)
'Dream Skipper', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'Drawing Room 2011', Drawing Room, London
'Smaller than a lemon', Angelika Studios, High Wycombe*
2010 'A New Chapter', Poppy Sebire Gallery, London
'501 up', Zero10 gallery, London
'Summer Show 2010', Royal Academy, London
'A Miasma', ASC Gallery, London
'In Conversation', Huguenot Gallery, London
'Elevated', Rottet Studio, Los Angeles, USA
2009 'We're moving', Royal College of Art, London
'Fate and Freewill', Contemporary Art Space, Riverside, California, USA
'Obsession' (work from Lodeveans collection), University of Leeds Gallery
'Drawing 200', Drawing Room, London
'Reconstructing the old house', The Nunnery, London
(toured to Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge)
'Summer Show 2009', Royal Academy, London (invited)
‘Caos vs Ordine’, AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Supersurface’, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London
'You are more beautiful than a butterfly', Turpentine Gallery,
Reykjavik, Iceland
'PAPERVIEW', John Jones Project Space, London*
2008 'Freshly Baked', Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
'Park Avenue', Southampton City Art Gallery, Hampshire
'Pure Optic Ray', FRED Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
'Superstratum', Koraalberg Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
'Her House', Her House Gallery, London
'Paper Show' AR/Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'Hypersurface', OVADA, Oxford
'Through The Star Gate', AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy*
'Tipping Point', Purdy Hicks Gallery, London
'Arts Futures 08', Contemporary Arts Society, Bloomberg Space, London
2007 'A Carry on in The House of the Atomic Comic',
Carter/Gallagher Gallery, London
'Lady Holic', Rod Barton Invites, London
'Arts Futures 07', Contemporary Arts Society, Bloomberg Space, London
'Drawing 200', Drawing Room, London
2006 'COROLA', Camberwell Art Space, London*
'When forms become attitude', AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy*
'Cold Climate', Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
'Mimoid', L.A.F, London
2005 'Pie Fight', AR/ Contemporary, Milan, Italy
'This drawing is ribbed for her pleasure', Cynthia Broan Gallery,
New York, USA
'Drawing 200', Drawing Room, London
'Pencil', Carter Presents, London
'Nice to meet you', Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2004 'twentyfourbythirty', Keith Talent, London*
'Obstractivist', Hales Gallery, London
'Cold Climate', APT Gallery, London
'Collage', Bloomberg Space, London
2003 'New British Painting', John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
'Drawn 2b wild', Hales Gallery, London
'Bad Touch', Keith Talent, London
'Temporary Fiction', Transition, London
'v-1', Kontainer, Los Angeles, USA
'Miniature', Kybidou Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Painting Year Zero', Keith Talent, London
RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
arnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
2002 'John Moores 22', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
'Miniature', Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA
'Superfluity' Riga Contemporary Museum, Latvia
'Loco for Rococo', Nunnery, London
'Bold and Beautiful', Mile End Pavilions, London
'Giardino', Modena Museum, Modena; touring to Centro Culturale,
Paggeria; Studio d'Arte Raffaelli,
Trento; and Galleria Del Tasso Arte Contemporanea, Italy
'Crosscurrents', Raid Projects and Miller-Durazo Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2000 Hales Gallery, London (2 person show)
'John I'm Only Dancing', Touring show; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh
Margaret Harvey Gallery, St Albans
'Beautiful', Oxo Tower, London*
'Colour Coded', Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
'Sporadinate', Lock Up, London*
1998 'Hapax K-pax' Danielle Arnaud, London
'Eliminate the Negative', Gasworks, London
'Davies, Malinowski, Rolph, Wallinger', BSR Gallery, Rome, Italy
1996 'Bureau de Change', Rustin Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium
5020 Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
Economist Building, London
*denotes curated by the artist
Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Gallery, London
National Gallery of Iceland
Mark Rothko Arts Centre, Latvia
High Lanes Municipal Art Museum, Ireland
Swindon Art Museum and Galleries
British Consulate, Rome
Coopers & Lybrand, London
Simmons & Simmons, London
Jerry Speyer, New York, USA
Michael A.Ross, New York
British Airways
Goldman Sachs
Khodr Collection, Beirut
Time Warner
Pearson
Unilever
Dresdner Bank
Thompson Knight, Dallas
Selected publications
2012 'Mile Marker', Barbara Davis catalogue
2011 'The Future can wait', Catalogue
2010 'Summer Show 2010', Royal Academy Catalogue
2009 'Fate and Freewill', Contemporary Art Space,
Catalogue, text by Martin Holman
'Summer Show', Royal Academy catalogue
'Reconstructing the old house', Catalogue, text by Dave Ryan
2008 'Superstratum', Catalogue, text by John Chilver
'Singularity', Catalogue, text by Martin Holman
2007 'Happenstance', Monograph, text by Martin Holman
2006 'Miser & Now', Summer issue, Quarterly magazine
2005 'Rutherford', Newlyn Art Gallery, Catalogue
'Obstraction', AR/ Contemporary, Catalogue
2004 'New British Painting', Catalogue
2003 'The Bold and the Beautiful', Catalogue
2001 'Giardino', Catalogue
T.I.Group collection, Catalogue