“In Graham Dean, we have an exceptional talent - he is renowned for his challenge of accepted ideas about watercolour, wrestling it away from its 18thcentury roots in landscape painting to make monumental, life-size depictures of the human body that can take years to complete”. 

EDUCATION

• Born 1951, Merseyside.

• Attended Laird School of Art, Birkenhead, 1968

• Bristol Polytechnic, 1970-1973

  PRIZES AND AWARDS

• Senior Abbey Award in Painting at the British School in Rome for 1992

  2000 I.C.C.D. studio residency in Trivandrum, Southern India.

  2003 Arts Council England, Travel Award

  2003 International Fellowship award at the Vermont Studio Center, USA

Selected Solo EXHIBITIONS

• 1973 Bristol Art Centre

• 1979 Corpus Christi College, Oxford

• 1980 Liverpool Academy

• 1982 The Roundhouse, London

• 1984-88 Artweek, Oxford

• 1987 Basle Art Fair

• 1988 Gallery, Cardiff

• 1988 Austin Desmond Fine Art, London

• 1989 Nerlino Gallery, New Yory

• 1990 Nerlino Gallery, New York

• 1991 Allan Art Singapore

• 1991 Austin Desmond Fine Art , London

• 1992 British School, Rome

• 1994 Jill George Gallery, London

• 1995 Kunsthaus Lubeck, Germany

• 1995 Powell Moya Partnership, London

• 1995 Jill George Gallery, London – Small Works

• 1995-96 ‘The Green Room and other Paintings’ – Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, travelling to the Jill George Gallery,  and Brighton Art Gallery and Museum

• 1997 The Green Room’ Brighton Fringe Festival

• 1997 The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

• 1998 Rivington Gallery, London

• 1999 Straight to Red, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.

• 2000 Straight to Red, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

• 2000 Small works for the Comfort Station,’ The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

• 2001 Light Sweet Crude, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

• 2004 Shimmer”, Stephen Lacey Gallery, London

• 2004 Maltby Gallery, Winchester

• 2004 Art of the 20th Century’ Armoury, New York

• 2005 Thinking Bodies’ Waterhouse & Dodd, London

• 2006 Above and Below’ Galerie Frans Jacobs/Judith Bouknegt, Paris and Amsterdam

• 2007 White Noise’Waterhouse & Dodd, London

• 2008 ‘Fragile lessons’, Kunsthandel Frans Jacobs , Hilversum , The Netherlands

• 2009 ‘Two Artists/Two Worlds’ , Kunst en Cultuur, Aalsmeer, The Netherlands

• 2010 ‘Sleepers’ Waterhouse and Dodd , London

• 2010 Solo show – Artantique Utrecht, The Netherlands

• 2010 Solo show – New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham

• 2011 Solo Show – The Basilica , Maastricht , Netherlands

• 2011 ‘Painting Music’ touring performances with David Rhodes . Aachen, Maastricht

• 2012 Williamson Art Gallery and Museum , Birkenhead . 60th birthday exhibition

• 2012 Victoria Art Gallery and Museum, Bath . ‘Fitter,Quicker,Longer’

• 2012 Waterhouse and Dodd, London . ‘Fitter,Quicker, Longer’

• 2013 Galerie Dis, Hotel Dis, Maastricht, Holland

  2013 Triumph Gallery, Moscow , ‘Thinking Bodies’

• 2014 Mid-Century Modern solo show, Hoorn, Holland

• 2014 Van Breugel Art Projects, Utrecht, Holland. Solo show

• 2015 Gallery 874 Atlanta, Georgia

• 2016/17 Synthetic Colour, Qingdao Biennale at the Qingdao Museum, China

• 2016 Cameron Contemporary

• 2020 Darnley Fine Art London Early Works Retrospective

• 2021 Waterhouse and Dodd London Viewing Room Online exhibition

• 2021 Zephyr and Maize New York various Online exhibitions

• 2021 New Ashgate Gallery Farnham ‘ Small Size Only’

• 2021 Waterhouse and Dodd, NYC

• COLLECTIONS include;

• V&A Museum, Watercolour collection

• Anita and Gordon Roddick collection

• Arts Council

• Contemporary Arts Society

• David Geffen, L.A.

• Dundee Museum and Art Gallery

• Ferens Museum and Art Gallery, Hull

• Financial Services Authority, London

• Forbes Foundation, New York

• GE Club, Great Eastern Hotel, London

• Glasgow Museum of Modern Art

• ING Art Collection, Amsterdam

• Meryll Lynch

• Musik-Und Kongresshalle, Lubeck

• National Gallery of Jamaica

• Nigel Gee

• Omer Koc collection, Istanbul

• Peter Gabriel/Real World studios

• Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam

• Royal Bank of Scotland

• Scheringa Museum of Realist Art, Spanbroek, Holland

• Simmons and Simmons, London

• Southern Arts

• Williamson Museum and Art Gallery, Birkenhead

• Qingdao Art Museum, China