CV Highlights; Stephen Farthing RA
1976-77 Abbey Major Scholar, The British School at Rome
Oct 1989-Jan 1990 Artist in residence, Hayward Gallery, London, England
1989 Represented Great Britain at Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil,
1990 Solo Exhibition,"The Knowledge: Kyoto", National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
1990-2000 Ruskin Master of Drawing, University of Oxford
Since 1998 Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts , London
Since 2000 Honorary Keeper of the Royal Academy Collections, London
Since 2000 Emeritus Fellow of St Edmunds Hall , The University of Oxford
Since 2004 University Professor of Drawing at the University of Arts , London
Autumn 2007 Hood Fellowship, Institute of Creative Arts & Industries, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
2010 The Back Story, Artists’ Laboratory, solo exhibition the Royal Academy of Arts , London
2010 Art : the whole story, Edited by, Stephen Farthing, Thames & Hudson, London, 2010, ISBN 9780500288955
Since 2013 Chairman of the Royal Academy Exhibitions Committee, London
2013 Edited Derek Jarman’s Skechbooks Thames & Hudson
April 2014-15 Exhibition Titian’s Ghosts, Ham House (National Trust) , London, England
Autumn2016 Visiting Professor University of Tasmania , Hobart
Recent Solo Exhibitions:
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank , London . UK
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
Otemae Centre for the Arts, Otemae University, Kansai, Japan
Mary Ogilvy Gallery, St Anne’s College, Oxford
Anne Berthoud Gallery, London, UK
British Council, Kyoto, Japan
Brantwood House, Cumbria, UK
Amagansett Applied Arts, New York
Purdy Hicks Gallery , London
West of England Academy , Bristol , UK
Royal Academy of Arts , London
Public Commissions:
2016. 300 Anniversary Capability Brown , Painting for Milton Abbey , Milton Abbas , Dorset , UK
2014 -15 National Trust, Titian’s Ghosts, 3 paintings for the Great Staircase, a temporary installation for Ham House, Surrey , UK
2006 Aston Villa Football club , Mural for stadium, Aston, Birmingham , UK
2004 Cleveland Browns NFL, Browns Town Mural for stadium, Cleveland, Ohio
1988 Portrait of the past and present historians Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, Sir Keith Thomas, Sir John Elliot, Lawrence Stone and Jean Thirsk (commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, London).
1988 Topographical painting of Dorset (commissioned by the Dorchester Hospital Trust)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford British Council, London
Aston Villa Football Club
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery : Birmingham , UK
Bradford Art Galleries and Museums, England
British Council London
British Council, Kyoto
British Council, Mexico City
British Museum , London
BUPA Collection, London, England
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, England
Cleveland Browns, NFL , Cleveland Ohio
Deutsche Bank, London, England
Government Art Collection Fund
Leicester City Museum, England
Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff,
National Portrait Gallery, London
Oxford University Press, Oxford
St Edmund Hall , University of Oxford , Oxford
Royal Academy of Arts, London
Royal College of Art, London
Sheffield City Art Gallery
Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery, England
Towner art Gallery , Eastbourne
University of Liverpool Art Collection, England
University of Surrey, Guildford, England
Victoria & Albert Museum , London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool