Howard Hodgkin

Howard Hodgkin (scenic design, Via Dolorosa) was born in London in 1932 and evacuated during the war to the United States, where he lived on Long Island from 1940 to 1943. He studied at the Camberwell School of Art and the Bath Academy of Art, Corsham. In 1984, he represented Britain at the Venice Biennale, winning the Turner Prize the following year. He was knighted in 1992 and made a Companion of Honour in 2003. An exhibition of his “Paintings 1975-1995,” organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, opened in 1995 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and toured to museums in Fort Worth and Düsseldorf, and to London’s Hayward Gallery. A retrospective opened at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2006. It traveled to London’s Tate Britain and then to the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. Hodgkin first worked in the theater in 1981, when he designed the set and costumes for Richard Alston’s Night Music with the Ballet Rambert. They later collaborated on Pulcinella, which was filmed by the BBC and released on DVD. For the Mark Morris Dance Group, Hodgkin designed the sets for Rhymes with Silver (1997), Kolam (2002), Mozart Dances (2006), and Layla and Majnun (2016). He is represented by Gagosian Gallery and has shown with them in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Rome, and London. Hodgkin was passionate about India and Indian art for most of his life. Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum exhibited Hodgkin’s own paintings “Inspired by India” along with Indian miniatures from his collection in 2015. “After All,” an exhibition of prints, opened the Alan Cristea Gallery in Pall Mall, London in October 2016. Hodgkin died March 9, 2017 in London, England.