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Presentation


Born in 1945, in Sticker, St. Austell, United Kingdom. 

Lives and works in Bovingdon, Hertshire, United Kingdom. 


   Presentation

The art of David Tremlett defies easy categorization. At times his work is associative, alluding to places, structures and processes; and even semi-narrative, telling of things seen and done. At other times it is essentially formal, arranging point and line, colour and shape to purely visual effect without reference to origin and connotations. Sometimes it is expressive, celebrating delight in the pure experience of hue and texture; but on other occasions the emotional aspect recedes leaving geometrical studies in which design is explored and honoured on its own account, without specific regard to affective quality.

Education
 
1962-1963    Falmouth College of Art, Falmouth, United Kingdom 
1963-1966    Birmingham School of Art, Birmingham, United Kingdom 
1966               Royal College of Arts, London, United Kingdom

Selected Artworks
6 Forms Drawing #1 (JP)
6 Forms Drawing #1 (JP)
2011
121.0 x 121.0 cm / 47.6 x 47.6 in
3 forms in space #1
3 forms in space #1
2009
62.0 x 123.0 cm / 24.4 x 48.4 in
Creel 2
Creel 2
2009
61.0 x 122.0 cm / 24.0 x 48.0 in
Roll on #7
Roll on #7
2016
122.0 x 152.0 cm / 48.0 x 59.8 in
The History of my Travels
The History of my Travels
2010
61.0 x 62.0 cm / 24.0 x 24.4 in
Exhibitions In Our Galleries
All Exhibitions

Solo Shows


2025

Wall Drawing, Art Absolument, Paris, France

Another Step, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy


2024

Yo Dibujo, Galerie Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain


2023

I draw, Ceysson & Bénétière, Wandhaff, Luxembourg

Stezaker/Tremlett, Artvisor, London, United Kingdom

Rain in your black eyes - For Ezio - A sculpture, Cappella della Sacra Famiglia, Livorno, Italy


2022

L'Invenzione Dell a Geometria, Stamperia Arte Albicocco, Udine, Italy

Lavori su Carta (Work on Paper), Galeria Studio G7, Bologne, Italy


2020

13 diptychs / Room 5 / Wall drawing, galleria Afonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

Brian Eno – David Tremlett, galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice, Italy

Drawings volumes sculptures, Mediolanum fbos, Venice, Italy


2019

David Tremlett, Noire Gallery, Turin, Italy


2018


4X4, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain


2017


Form and Rhythm, Noire Gallery, Turin, Italy


Roll On and Other Work, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France

Somebody Has Done Something On The Wall, Studio Luca Cipelletti, Milan, Italy


2016

David Tremlett:Textile Projects, Galleria Antonio Verolino, Rome, Italy


New Work on Paper and a Wall Drawing, Holger Priess Galerie, Hambourg, Germany


2015

Form & Rhythm, Galleria Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy


2014

New Wall Drawings, Bâle, Switzerland

Pat Steir - David Tremlett, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy


2013

Light from Matter/Matter from Light: Tremlett/Verjux, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France

Overbeck-Gesselschaft, Lubeck, Germany

Work on the Wall - Work on Paper, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland

Un Duo (Michel Verjux/David Tremlett), A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

Due Pareti, BASE/PROGETTI PER L’ARTE, Florence, Italy

3 Drawing Rooms, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom


2012

David Tremlett, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY, USA


2011


Works on Paper and New Pastel/Graphite Drawing to the Wall, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

Place on Paper, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France

David Tremlett Drawing for Free Thinking, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom


2010

Drawing Rooms, Hamburg Kunsthalle, Hambourg, Germany


Place and Material, MAMAC, Nice, France


Space Change, Forte di Bard, Aosta, Italy

John Nixon and David Tremlett: Selected Works, GODDARD de FIDDES, Perth, Australia

Drawing Ideas, Gallerie Dorrie Priess, Hambourg, Germany


2009

Drawn, Rubbed, Smeared, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

Across the Walls, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneve, Switzerland

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


Works on Paper and the Wall, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland


2008


In Space, Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY, USA


D.T., Gallery G7, Bologne, Italy

Blancpain Contemporary Art at the ZOO Art Fair, Londres, United Kingdom

Galleria Invernizzi, Milan, Italy


2007

Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Roma, Italy

Back to the Drawing Board, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France


2006

Drawings, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy

Retrospective, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Retrospettiva, Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy


New Wall Drawing, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland


2005

Pastel Drawings, Visconti Fine Art Kolizej, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Místnosti a Jejich Zdi - Rooms and their Walls, House of Art, Budejovice, Czech Republic

Alan Charlton, David Tremlett: Equal Opposites, A arte studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy

Drawing, Mamac, Nice, France


2004


Drawing, Gallery Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneve, Switzerland

Alan Charlton, David Tremlett: Equal Opposites, Marcus Richter Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA


Printed Matter, New York, NY, USA


My Books - Your Books, Cappella di Santa Maria di Carcerati, Bologne, Italy


2003

Drawings in Lugano, Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland


Work on Paper & Wall Drawings, Art C.A.A.C., Issoire, France

Opere a Parette su Carta, Gallery Valentina Bonomo, Rome, Italy


2002

Crawford Art Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland


A New Wall Drawing, Massimo Valsecchi, Milan, Italy

New Work for New Spaces, Modulo Gallery, Lisbonne, Portugal

But Where is Bari?, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


2001

Paper and Walls, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy

Vert Comme Les Epinards Sur Ton Plat, Chateau De Fraisse, Nouic, France

David Tremlett: If Walls Could Talk, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy

Drawings Concerning the Church in Crosne, Paris, France

Galerie St. Séverin, Paris, France

Gallery Marcus Richter, Berlin, Germany

Gallery Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy


2000

Selection, Gallery G7, Bologna, Italy

Gallery Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneve, Switzerland

David Tremlett and Alan Charlton: Fusion, Gallery Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, United Kingdom

Passa Dentro, Tor Bella Monaca, Rome, Italy


1999

Solo Show, Dorrie Priess, Germany


1998

Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milan, Italy

CSU Gallery, Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA, USA

Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, West Perth, Australia


1997

Rooms of Drawings, Castello Falletti (Barolo Castle), Italy

Solo Show, Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom

Wall Drawings and Work on Paper, Bank Brussels Lambert, Belgium

Solo Show, La Chaufferie, France

Solo Show, Gallery Blancpain/Stepczynski, Switzerland


1996

Solo Show, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Italy

Solo Show, Gallery S65, Belgium

Solo Show, Marillena Bonomo Gallery, Italy


1995

Juan Miro Foundation, Mallorca, Spain

Gemeentmuseum, The Hague, Netherlands

Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

S.C.A.I. The Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

Carre D’Art Gallery, Nimes, France

Dorrie Priess, Hambourg, Germany

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France


1994

Opere Su Carta/Walldrawing, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy

Murs, Palais Jacques Coeur, Bourges, France

Galerie de L’ancien College, Châtellerault, France

Stadtpark Gallery, Vienne, Austria

The British School in Rome, Rome, Italy

Somebody Did Something All Over the Wall, Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1993

Wall Drawings, Galerie Lubie, Amiens, France

Wall Drawing and Drawings on Paper, FRAC Orleans, France

Rainy Day Gallery, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (P.A.C.), Milan, Italy


1992

Modulo Gallery, Lisbonne, Portugal

Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand


A Quiet Madness, Kestner Gesellshcaft, Hanover, Germany

Books, Posters, Prints, The Archives, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Dorrie*Priess, Hambourg, Germany


1991

Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Pozzuoli, Italy

The Spirit of St. Savin, Abbey Saint Savin, Saint Savin, France

Lipworth Fine Art Inc., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

Gallery S65, Aalst, Belgium

Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milan, Italy

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


1990

Les Maitres de Formes Contemporains, Brussels, Belgium

Musee Saint Priest, Lyon, France

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Modulo Gallery, Oporto, Portugal

Against the Wall, Modulo Gallery, Lisbonne, Portugal

Dorrie*Priess, Hambourg, Germany

5 Works from 1976, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France


1989

7 Wall Drawings, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Up Stairs, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom

Working Inside, Eglise de Val de Vesle, Val de Vesle, France

Serpentine Gallery, Londres, Royaume Uni 1988 Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, Australia

Dorrie*Priess, Hambourg, Germany

Les Maitres de Formes Contemporains, Brussels, Belgium

Galerie L’A, Liège, Belgium

Walls (bulletin 152), Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1987

Dates Different, Musee de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

Rikkonaisia Paikkoja, Artek Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

Barabara Ya Watakatifu Wote, 22 All Saints Rd., London, United Kingdom

Gallery S65, Aalst, Belgium

Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milano, Italy

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Wall Drawing Show, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Roma, Italy


1986

Orchard Gallery, Derry, Scotland

Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Musem Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium

Wall Drawing, Institute for Contemporary Art, Londres, United Kingdom


1985

La Rue Fragile, Le Crystal Bar, Paris, France

Gallery S65, Aalst, Belgium


9 Works, Kimberlin Hall, Leicester Polytechnic, Leicester, United Kingdom

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


1984

Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom

No Fear of things that Change (bulletin 138), Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1983

No Title (Slide/Tape Show), Raum fur Kunst, Hambourg, Germany

No Title (Slide/Tape Show), Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Older than Fire, Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milan, Italy

Sans Titre (Slide/Tape Show), Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Senza Titolo (Slide/Tape Show), Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


1982


Walls and Words, Riverside Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France


1981


White Light, Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom


Drawings, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Highpoints (bulletin 125), Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands

La Forma delle Cose, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

A Drawing on a Wall at 11 via S.Marta, Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milano, Italy


1980

Drawings on Jetty Posts, Gordon Jetty, Gordon, Tasmania, Australia

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France


1979

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands


One Work - One Book, Librarie Post Scriptum, Brussels, Belgium

Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milano, Italy

Zomba Road, Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


1978

2 Wall Drawings (building exterior), Zomba Road, Zomba, Malawi

Malawi-With men and boys (bulletin 108), Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands

On Gilbert, Massimo Valsecchi Gallery, Milano, Italy


Recent Pieces, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, United Kingdom


1977

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France


1976

Milwaukee and Afteraffects (bulletin 96), Art and Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Netherlands

Poems and Wall Work, Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Nigel Greenwood Gallery, Londres, United Kingdom

Work on Paper, Rolf Preisig Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


1975

Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy


1974

Cool Clear Water, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom


1973

Green is the Colour, Harold Rivkin Gallery, Washington, DC, USA

Project, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Tre-Pol-Pen, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom


1972


Corner, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom

The Spring Recordings, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany

Towards a Tap, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom


1971

Galerie Folker Skulima, Berlin, Germany

Work for Tap Dance, Galerie Ernst, Hannover, Germany

One Week Installation, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom


1970


Installation, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom


1969

4 Sculptures, Grabowski Gallery, London, United Kingdom


Collective exhibitions


2024

Fortuna, MRAC Occitanie, Sérignan, France


2021

Sul margine, A Arte Invernizzi, Milano, Italy


2020

La linea analatica, Compleso Monumentale di Santa Caterina, Finale Ligure, Italy


2019

Histoires de dessins – Collections des mondes dessinés, Frac Picardie, Amiens, France


2018

Summer Selection from the Elgiz Collection, Elgiz Museum, Istanbul, Turkey


2015

Mur/Murs Peinture, Dessin, Architechture, Domaine de Kerguehennec, France


2014

L’Occhio Musicale, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milano, Italy

Le Pas et Le Page, Musee Gassendi, DIgne-les-Bains, France

L’Inventaire, Vol 4 Acquisitions de 1988-1991, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-les-Ruoen, France

Mont Blanc, Val Ferret, Courmayeur, Italy


2013


Lines a Brief History, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

De Belles Sculptures Contemporaines, Hab Gallery, Nantes, France

Drop me a line, Laure Genillard Gallery, United Kingdom

Parole, Parole, Parole, Museo Pecci Milan, Milano, Italy

La Ville Dessine, Beauvais Galerie Nationale de Tapisserie, Oise, France

Collection Permanente/1, curated by Bruno Cora, CAMUSAC, Cassino, Italy

La Main Invente le Dessin, Abbaye de Saint-Riquier, Saint-Riquier, France

Vielleicht sehe ich auch zu tief in die Dinge hinein, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany

Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, Southampton City Art Gallery, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, United Kingdom


2012

Oeuvres sur Papier, Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France

Immagine della Luce,Villa Clerici, Milano, Italy

Drop me a line, Laure Genillard Gallery, United Kingdom


2011

Incontri (with Mary Obering, David Simpson), Galleria Studio G7, Bologna, Italy

Constellations, F.R.A.C. Picardie, Amiens, France


Pour une Républiques des Rêves, CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch, France

Aftermath - curated by Laure Genillard, Chelsea Space, London, United Kingdom

ac4ca-konkrete, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth, Australia

Dessin Contemporain, Musées Ville de Toulon, Toulon, France

Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom


2010

30 Years Studio Dabbeni (1979-2009), Studio Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland

L’envers du Motif, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France


Entre Glace et Neige, Centre Saint Bénin, Aosta, Italy

Western China International Art Biennial, Yinchuan, China


2009

Temps du Passage, Lycée Pierre Mendès France, Péronne, France

L’Art Dans les Chapelles, Chapelle Notre Dames des Fleurs, Moric, Moustoir-Remungol, Brittany, France

SUMMER, Goddard Fiddes Gallery, Perth, Australia

SOT-LÃY-LAISSE, BacC, Geneve, Switzerland


2008


Rome - London, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, United Kingdom


2007

Au Pied du Mur, Arsenal de St.Jean-des-Vignes, Soissons, France

Presentation, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria


Group Exhibition, Goddard de Fiddes Gallery, Perth, Australia


2006

Ceci n’est pas une fenetre, Centre Culturel de la Sarthe-Prieure de Vivoin, Vivoin, France


Creme anglaise, FRAC, Dunkerque, France


Important Mischief, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom


2005

Landscape/Matter/Enviroment and Still Life, Tate Modern, Londres, United Kingdom

Entriacte, Casa Gallizio, Alba, Italy


Effervescence, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France


Lumieres Contemporaines, Centre Internatioal du Vitrail, Chartres, France


Le Paysage comme Atelier, Galeries des Lycees, Fontaine les Vervins, France

Visioni, Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, Italy


2004


Work from the Lewitt Collection, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA

Return to Sender, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Intra-Muros, MAMAC, Nice, France

L’Art au Futur Anterieur, Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France

Across the Border, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium


2003

Un Cabinet de Dessins et d’Oevres sur Papier, Galerie Jean Brolly, Paris, France

Cabinet d’Ann Philbin, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France


Nomadas Y Bibliofilos, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain

Incontri.....all a Collezione di Graziella Lonardi Buontempo, Villa Medici, Roma, Italy

Group Exhibition, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Pozzuoli, Naples, Italy


Livres des artistes, Mediateque Municipale Louis Aragon, Fontany-sous-bois, France


2002

ArteCinema - 7th International Flm Festival of Contemporary, Naples, Italy

Art Sweet Home, Gallery G7, Bologna, Italy

Paysages, Maison des Arts et Loisirs, Laon, France

Corps Sublimes, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Extra Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom

On General Release, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, United Kingdom


Les Années 70 : L’art en cause, Capc, Bordeaux, France

De Singuliers Debordements, La Maisons de la Culture d’Amiens & Galerie du Wazoo, Amiens, France


Ruines et Monuments, Galeries des Lycees, Chantilly, France


2001

Extra Art, CCAC, San Francisco, CA, USA

Group Exhibition, Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Genève, Switzerland

Dix Annees de Tissages, Galerie Nationale de la Tapisserie, Beauvais, France

Shoes or No Shoes?, Cultural Centre of Gent, Gent, Belgium

Dialogue Ininterrompu, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France


Traits ou Lumieres? Euh je peux prendre les deux?, Enfance de l’Art; Bagnols-Les-Bains, France

Paysages, Espace Henri Matisse, Creil, France

La Sculpture au Pied du Mur, Salle de la SCOMAM, Laval, France

La Geografia degli artisti, La Galleria Milano, Milano, Italy

Conception (Conceptual Documents 1968-72), Norwich Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom

UK in the 70’s, Gallery Durand-Dessert, Paris, France


2000


Abstracions Terrestres, Galerie du Faou dic, Lorient, France

1/2000, Collège Jacques-Cartier, Chauny, France


1999


Grands papiers - oeuvres du FRAC Picardie, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

Visible - In Visible, Centre d’Art Sacré Contemporain, Pontmain, France


Uit depot, Art and Project at Rijksmuseum, Twenthe, Netherlands

De Corazón, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain


1998

Group Exhibition, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Au Fil du Trait, Carré d’Art, Nimes, France

Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia Galleria Comunale De Arte Moderna di Spoleto, Italie

Un certain classicisme, FRAC Franche-Comté, France

Voies et Vertus du Dessin - oeuvres du FRAC Picardie, France

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

Thème Ecriture, Blancpain/Stepczynski, Genève, Switzerland


1997

The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Blick zurück nach vorn, Gallery Dorrie*Priess, Hambourg, Germany

Drawing Distinctions, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA

Drawing Distinctions, Arizona University Museum, Tucson, AZ, USA

Hommages, Ancien Entrepôt Uniroyal, Brussels, Belgium

Mage art contemporain, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Troyes, Troyes, France


Livres d’artistes: L’invention d’un genre, Bibliothèque nationale, Paris, France

Au Pied du Mur, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

Parabase, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria

Dessins de Sculpteurs, Espace Jean Legendre, Compiègne, France


1996


Les (dé)finitions de l’art, Chateau de Villeneuve - Fondation Emile, Vence, France

Zeitgenössische Kunst, Gallery Dorrie*Priess, Hambourg, Germany

Dessins en Series, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens, France

L’Inquieto Geometrico (Uneasy Geometry), Studio Carlo Grossetti, Milano, Italy

Traits Sensibles, Musée des Ursulines, Macon, France

Recent Tapistries from Aubusson, Musée de la Tapisserie, Aubusson, France

The World Over/De Wereld Bollen, Wellington City Art Gallery N.Z & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Petit Impertinence, Georges Perec, Paris, France


1995

1:1 (wall drawings), Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany

Mélange d’Aout, Laure Genillard Gallery, Londres, United Kingdom

Desenho Contemporâneo, Modulo Gallery, Oporto, Portugal

Natures Contemporaines, FRAC de Picardie, Amiens, France

Accidents de terrain, FRAC Bretagne, Lannion, France


1994

Group Exhibition, L.A.C. (Lieu d’Art Contemporain), Sigean, France

Comme dans une Image, Gilbert Brownstone & Cie Gallery, Paris, France

DESSINER une collection d’art contemporain, Musee du Luxembourg, Paris, France

Looking at Words: Reading Pictures, Elms Lester Painting Rooms, London, United Kingdom

Wall to Wall, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom


1993

Videos by Artists, Gallery Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy

Valises, Museum of Modern Art, Liège, Belgium

Interieurs, Centre d’art Contemporain, Castres, France

Siege, Solar do Largo de Sta. Maria, Obidus, Portugal


Un Sogno per i Campi Flegrei, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Pozzuoli, Italy

Domaine de Kerguehenner, Brittany, France

Differentes Natures, La Defense, Paris, France

Moving into View, South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom

Out of Sight Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Werk op Papier, van krimpen/art & project, Rotterdam, Netherlands


1992


Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Where? L’identite ailleurs que dans l’identification, Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France

Dessins de Sculpteurs, FRAC Bretagne, France


Tierra de Nadie, Hospital Real, Granada, Spain

Gestaltete Raume, Siemens, Munich, Germany

Group Exhibition, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

Wall Drawing, Yokohama Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan


7 Artists, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, Netherlands


1991


Original Copies, The Lazelle Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Group Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Scotland


1990

British Art Now: A Subjective View, Setagaya Museum, Fukuoka Museum, Nagoya Museum, Tochigi Museum, Hyogo Museum, Hiroshima Museum, Japan


A New Necessity, Banks of the River Tyne, Gateshead, United Kingdom

Kulturen-Verwandtschaften in Geist und Form, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

Mentalitaten und Konstruktionen in Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Nachst St.Stephan, Vienna, Austria


1989

Hamburg Projekt, Hambourg, Germany

Espace, Galerie La Defense, Paris, France

Directly on a Surface, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Europese Raaklijnen, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium

Fenetres en Vue (Noise), Museum of Modern Art, Liège, Belgium

Territoires, Musee Saint-Denis, Reims, France


1988

Britannica - 30 Years of Sculpture, Musée d’Evreux, Evreux, France

British Now, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

Unknown Work, Dorrie*Priess, Hambourg, Germany

Collection Agnes and Frits Becht, Musée d’Art Moderne du Nord, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France


Viewpoint, Musée d’Art Moderne, Brussels, Belgium

Dessin: Naissance d’une collection, Chapelle des Visitandes, Amiens, France


1987

Vessel, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Collection Agnes and Frits Becht, Centre d’Art Contemporain Midi-Pyrenees, Toulouse, France

Century 87, Restaurant Pier 10, Amsterdam, Hollande 
Group Exhibition, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France

Traversees, Musee de St-Michel en Thierache, France

L’Art La Ferme, Chapelle De L’Hopital St.Julien, Chateau-Gontier, France

Unpainted Landscapes, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, United Kingdom

L’Exotisme au Quotidien, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belgium


1986


Focus on British Art, I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium

Accidents de Terrain, Quimper, France


Konfrontatie, Acadamie Voor Schone Kunsten, Aalst, Belgium

Landspace, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Collection du FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France

Sculture Da Camera, Castello Svero, Bari, Italy

Intuition and Memory, Museum d’Art Moderne, Brussels, United Kingdom

Homage to the Paper, Gallery S65, Aalst, Belgium

The Inspiration Comes from Nature - Part 2, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Unpainted Landscape, Smith Art Gallery and Museum, Stirling, Scotland

1985

Second Ateliers Internationaux, FRAC, Fontevrand, France


Museum ? Museum ! Museum, Museum Fur 40 Tage, Hambourg, Germany

Kunstwerk, Peter Stuyvestant Collection, Netherlands

Groups VII, Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom

Carta, FRAC. Cellier Carnot - Champagne Pommery, Reims, France

Group Exhibition, Dracos Art Centre, Athens, Greece

When Attitudes Became Form, Le Nouveau Museum, Villeurbanne, France


1984

Collectie Becht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

When Attitudes Became Form, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom

The Critical Eye/1, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA

Groups VI, Waddington Galleries, London, United


1983

Groups V, Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom

The Granada Collection, Recent British Paintings and Drawings, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

Douceur de l’Avant Garde, A.P.P. Gallery, Rennes, France


1982


6 Artists, Penwith Galleries, St. Ives, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Exhibition of individual works throughout the city, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Chambery, France

Hayward Annual 1982, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom


1981

British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Murs, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

New Works of Contemporary Art and Music, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Groups IV, Waddington Galleries, Londres, United Kingdom

Aljofre Barocco, Salone di Palazza Ducezio, Syracuse, Italy


1980

First Day Covers, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Das Bild einer Gerchichte 1956-1976: Die Sammlung Panza di Biumo, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Non-Realized Projects, International Center of Culture, Cuajimalpa, Mexico

Europe ‘80, Espace Lyonnaias de l’Art Contemporain (E.L.A.C.), Lyon, France


1979

The Native Land, Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno, United Kingdom

On Walk and Travels, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Un Certain Art Anglais, ARC, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France


1978

L’Estampe Aujourd’hui, Bibliotheque National, Paris, France

Focus ‘78, Centre de Recherches pour les Expositions et le Spectacle (CRES), Paris, France


In Newlyn, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Cornwall, United Kingdom


1977


Le Sentiment du Paysage, Musee d’Art de l’Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France

On Site, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom

Cinq Jeunes Artistes, Galerie Divergence, Metz, France


03-23-03, Institute of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada


1976


8 Artists, Robert Self Gallery, London, United Kingdom

York Festival, Chapel Gallery, York, United Kingdom

A Summer Show, Amsterdam, Netherlands

18 Artists, Carlisle Museum, Carlisle, United Kingdom


1975

New Media I, Malmo Konsthalle, Malmo, Sweden


1974

An Element of Landscape, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom


1973

Aspects d’Art Actual (Festival d’Automne), Musee Galerie, Paris, France

Group Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Story, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

11 Englische Zeichner, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany


1972

Documenta 5, Museum Fredericainum, Kassel, Germany

The New Art, Hayward Gallery, Londres, United Kingdom


1971

Film Show, Situation Gallery, Londres, United Kingdom


Multiples, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Wall Show, Lisson Gallery, Londres, United Kingdom

The British Avant Garde, The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY, USA

Prospect 71, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany


1970

Edinburgh Festival, Goldbergs Department Store Roof, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

British Sculpture of the Sixties, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom


1969

Young Contemporaries, Picadilly Galleries, London, United Kingdom

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2016
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2007
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2003
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2002
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1999
clear & fuzzy, scai the bathhouse, Japan.

1998
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1996
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1995
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1994
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1993
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1991
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1990
David Tremlett : Walls in Modulo gallery, Modulo, Lisbon, Portugal.
1, 9, 8, 7. front side, Hester van Royen, United-Kingdom.
5 postcards from Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, gallery S65, Belgium.
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1989
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1988
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1987
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1985
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1984
Old Tom & Hotel room, Centre for British Art, USA

1983
Restless, Waddington galleries, United-Kingdom.

1979
On the border, Stedelijk Museum, Netherlands.

1978
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1974
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2017
Horizon David Tremlett / Michel Verjux, galerie Jean Brolly, Maastricht/Paris, The Netherlands/France.

2016
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2014
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2013
3 drawing rooms. Ikon gallery. Designed by Matt Appleton at Modern Activity, United-Kingdom.

2011
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2010
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2009
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2008
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2006
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2005
David Tremlett – British Council Nairobi. éd. British Council. United-Kingdom/Kenya.
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2003
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2001
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2000
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1998
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1997
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1996
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1995
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1994
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1993
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Siege. ed. Solar do largo de sta. Maria, Portugal.
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1992
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1991
Original copies. ed. The Lazelle gallery, New Zealand.

1990
Written forme. ed. Palais des Beaux Arts, Belgium.
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1989
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1988
British now. ed. Musée d’Art Contemporain, Canada.
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1987
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1986
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1985
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1984
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1983
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1982
6 artists, Penwith galleries, United-Kingdom.

1981
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1980
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1978
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