John WALKER
John Walker (b. 1939, Birmingham, United Kingdom) currently lives and works in Maine. Walker studied at the Moseley School of Art, the Birmingham School of Art and L'academie de la Grande Chaumiere. Among a long list of accolades, Walker received the John Moores Painting Prize in 1976 and the Turner Prize in 1985. He has had numerous exhibitions both domestically and abroad including solo exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1974, 1978), Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1978), The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. (1978, 2002), and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art (2017). The artist’s works are in many important collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Tate Gallery, London. Walker recently retired from directing the MFA program at Boston University in 2015. He is currently represented by Alexandre Gallery.