Paula Rego
Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An uncompromising artist of extraordinary imaginative power, she has revolutionised the way in which women are represented.
Paula Rego
1934
Born in Lisbon
1945-51
Educated in St Julian's School, Carcavelos
1952-56
The Slade School of Art, London
1956-63
Lived in Ericeira, Portugal, with her husband, the painter Victor Willing, and three children
1962-63
Bursary from the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
1976
Settled permanently in London
1983
Visiting Lecturer in Painting Slade School of Art
1990
Appointed the First National Gallery Associate Artist
1992
Honorary Master of Art, Winchester School of Art, 12 June
1999
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, 24 June
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, University of East Anglia, Norwich, 8 July
2000
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, 3 June
2002
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, The London Institute, 23 May
2004
GrCruz da Ordem de Sant'Iago da Espada presented by the President of Portugal
2005
Commissioned by the Royal Mail to produce a set of Jane Eyre Stamps
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Oxford University, June
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Roehampton University, July
Currently lives and works in London
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004
Paula Rego, Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal
Paula Rego in Focus, Tate Britain, London
2003-2004
Paula Rego, Corner 2004, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003
Paula Rego - Pendle Witches, Hebden Bridge Arts Festival, Linden Mill, Hebden Bridge, N. Yorkshire
Jane Eyre and Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London
2002
Paula Rego - Jane Eyre, Marlborough Gallery, New York,
2001
Paula Rego, Celestina's House, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Paula Rego- Nursery Rhymes e Outras Gravuras, Parque das Nacoes, Lisbon, Portugal
2000
Paula Rego, Pendle Witches, Children's Crusade and Drawings, Abbot Hall ArtGallery, Kendal
1999
Paula Rego - The Children's Crusade - a suite of 12 etchings, Marlborough Graphics, London
Paula Rego - Recent Work, Marlborough Galeria SA, Madrid, Spain
Rego O Crime do Padre Amaro, FundaçCalouste Gulbenkian , Lisbon, Portugal
Open Secrets - Drawings and Etchings by Paula Rego, University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA; Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris, curated by Memory Holloway; text by Memory Holloway and Ruth Rosengarten
Children's Crusade, Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop, Scotland
Nursery Rhymes, White Gallery, Brighton
1998
Paula Rego: Pendle Witches and Peter Pan, Midland Art Centre, Midlands
Paula Rego - The Sins of Father Amaro, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Paula Rego - Pra Lá et Pra Cá, Galerie III, Lisbon, Portugal
Paula Rego - Pendle Witches, Harris Museum
Paula Rego, Pendle Witches, Marlborough Galeria Madrid
1997
Paula Rego Retrospective exhibition, Tate Gallery Liverpool, travelling to Fundaçdas Descobertas, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Nursery Rhymes, Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, travelling to Town Hall, Larnaca, Cyprus
1996
Nursery Rhymes, University Gallery, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
1995
Nursery Rhymes, Ty Llen, Cardiff Literature Festival, Cardiff
Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan, Annandale Galleries, Sydney Australia; Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne Keel university.
1994
Paula Rego, Dog Women, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada
1993
Nursery Rhymes, Cheltenham Literary Festival
1992-1993
Paula Rego Peter Pan & Other Stories, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Paula Rego Peter Pan, A Suite of 15 etchings and aquatints, Marlborough Graphics, London
1991-1992
Tales from the National Gallery, travelling Exhibition: Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery; Middlesborough Art Gallery; Whitworth Art Gallery,Manchester; Cooper Art Gallery, Barnsley; the National Gallery, London; The Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
1991-1996
Nursery Rhymes, South Bank Centre, British Council, and Marlborough Graphics, travelling exhibition in the U.K., including: Bridport Arts Centre, Dorset; Rufford Craft Centre, Nottinghamshire; Hove Museum and Art Gallery; Vicarage Gallery, North Shields, Graphics Studio, Dublin.
1990-1991
Nursery Rhymes, British Council, travelling Exhibition in Europe
1990
Nursery Rhymes, Galeria III, Lisbon, Portugal
Nursery Rhymes, Galeria Zen, Oporto, Portugal
1989
Paula Rego, Nursery Rhymes, Marlborough Graphics Gallery, London
III, ARCO, Madrid, Spain
III, Lisbon, Spain
1988
Retrospective Exhibition, FundaçCalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, Casa de Serralves, Oporto; the Serpentine Gallery, London
1987
Selected work 1981-1986, Aberystwyth Arts Centre and UK tour Edward Totah Gallery, London
1985
Paula Rego, The Art Palace, New York
Rego, Edward Totah Gallery, London
1984
Paula Rego, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Midland Group, Nottingham
Rego, Edward Totah Gallery, London
1983
Paula Rego, Arnolfini, Bristol,
Rego, Galerie Espace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1982
Paula Rego, Galeria III, Lisbon, Edward Totah Gallery, London
1981
Paula Rego, AIR Gallery, London
1978
Paula Rego, Galeria III, Lisbon, Portugal
1977
Paula Rego, Módulo Centro Difusor da Arte, Oporto, Portugal
1975
Paula Rego, Módulo Centro Difusor da Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
1974
Paula Rego, Galeria da Emenda, Lisbon, Portugal
1972
Paula Rego, Galeria Alvarez, Oporto, Portugal
1971
Paula Rego, Galeria SMamede, Lisbon, Portugal
1965
Paula Rego, SNBA, Lisbon, Portugal
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, Pastel Society, Pall Mall, London
Only Make Believe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
Nome Que No Peito Escrito Tinhas, Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal
Guys'n'Dolls. Art, Science, Fashion and Relationships, Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
2004
Five Painters from Portuguese Modernity (1911-1965), Amadeo de Souza-Cardosa, Almada Negreiros, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Joaquin Rodrigo & Paula Rego, La Pedrera, Fundaçao Caixa de Catalan, Barcelona,
BODY. From Munch to Melgaard, Kistefos Museum, Norway
2003
The Enduring Image, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
La Fête, Le Bellevue, Biarritz, Museo Valenciano de la llustración y la Modernidad, Valencia,
2002
Belas Artes Centenary Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal
London International Small Print Biennale, Morley Gallery, London
The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
of Age - Works from the Tate Collection, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Metamorphing, The Science Museum, London
Heavenly Creatures - Paula Rego and Ron Mueck, The British School at Rome, Italy
2000-2001
British Art Show 5, Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre travelling exhibition: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Southampton City Art Gallery, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery,
The School of London and their Friends - The Collection of Elaine and Melvin Merians, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
1998
Recollection Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Georg Herold / Albert Oehlen Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Barbel Grasslin, Frankfurt, Germany
Forward Archives, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1997
Display Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996
On Paper II , Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA
Peinture, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris, France
Provins - Legende Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
1995
Open Studio, The Florence Trust, London
exhibition, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Brighton Museum in collaboration with the Institute of International Visual Art
Acquisitions, National Portrait Gallery, London
1994-95
An American Passion - the Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, The McLellan Galleries, Glasgow; The Royal College of Art, London
1994
Unbound - Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London
of Influence (Nursery Rhymes and Peter Pan graphics), Snug Harbour Cultural Center, Statton Island, New York
and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
Murphy, Avis Newman, Paula Rego, The Saatchi Gallery, London
1993-1994
Writing on the Wall - Women Writers on Women Artists, Tate Gallery, London, travelling to the Norwich Castle Museum and the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1992-1993
Innocence and Experience, Manchester City Art Galleries and South Bank Centre; travelling Exhibition: Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Castle Museum, Nottingham; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
into Paint: British Figurative Painting of the 20th Century, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1992
Myth, Dream and Fable, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
1991-1992
From Bacon to Now - The Outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
Primacy of Drawing - An Artist's View, South Bank Centre travelling exhibition: Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; Stoke-on-Tent Art Gallery; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1991
Modern Painters - A Memorial Exhibition for Peter Fuller, City Art Galleries, Manchester
, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1990-1991
British Art Now: A Subjective View, British Council travelling Exhibition
The Great British Art Exhibition, Glasgow
Eleventh International Print Biennale, Bradford
1990
Now for the Future, Hayward Gallery, London; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1989-1990
Picturing People: Figurative Art in Britain 1945 - 1989, British Council Travelling Exhibition: National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; Hong Kong Museum of Art; National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare
1989
Ines de Castro, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
1988
Works on Paper by contemporary artists, Marlborough Fine Art, London
35 Pinturas de Colecçao do Banco Portugues do Atlantico, Casa de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal
Cries and Whispers, British Council Travelling exhibition, Australia
Narrative paintings, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
Objects and Image, Aspects of British Art in the 1980's, Stoke-on-Trent Art Gallery
1987
Art Contemporáneo Portugués, Madrid, Spain
Current Affairs - British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia
70s - 80s: Arte Portuguesa, Brazil, SPaulo, Rio de Janeiro
Obras de Arte Uniao de Bancos Portugeses, Case de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal
Feira do Circo, Forum Picoas, Lisbon, Portugal
ExposiçAmadeo Souza - Cardoso, Casa de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal
Obras de uma Colecçao Particular, Casa de Serralves, Oporto, Portugal
1986
A primeira década , Módulo?Centro Difusor da Arte, Lisbon
XXéme au Portugal, Centre Albert Borchette, Brussels
Teira Exposiçao de Artes Plásticas, FundaçCalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
AICA?PHILAE, SNBA, Lisbon
Love Sacred and Profane, Plymouth
The Human Zoo, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham
British and Malaysian Art, National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur
?Nine Portuguese Painters, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1985
Passion and Power, La Mama and Gracie Mansion, New York
The British Art Show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Diálogo sobre arte contemporanea, Centro de Arte Moderna; FundaçCalouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Bienale de Paris
Animals, Edward Totah Gallery, London
ExposiçDiálogo, FundaçCalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
Bienal de SPaulo (representing Britain)
1984
? an exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London
Os Novos Primitivos, Cooperative Arvore, Oporto
1983
Third Biennale of Graphic Arts, Baden Baden
Eight in the Eighties, New York
Marathon 83, New York
1982
Three Women, Edward Totah Gallery, London
Inner Worlds, Midland Group, Nottingham
Pintura portuguesa contemporanea, Museu Luis de Cam, Macau
Annual, London
John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool
1981
Artists in Camden, Camden Arts Centre, London
Ante?visdo Centro de Arte Moderna, FundaçCalouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon The Subjective Eye, Midland Group, Nottingham
1979
Femina, UNESCO, Paris
1978
Portuguese Art since 1910, Royal Academy of Art, London
Exposiçindividual, Galeria III, Lisbon
1977
Artistas Portugueses en Madrid - Pintura e Escultura Contemporaneas, Madrid
1976
Arte Portugués Contemporanea, Galerie Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
Art Portugais Contemporain, Musée d'Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris
de Arte Moderna Portuguesa, SNBA, Lisbon
1975
XIII Bienal de SPaulo
Figuraçao Hoje, Lisbon
1974
Expo AICA, SNBA
1973
Pintura portuguesa de hoje - abstractos e Neo - figurativos, Lisbon, Salamanca, Barcelona
26 Artistas de Hoje, Lisbon
de Artistas Modernas Portugueses, Galleria Quadrum, Lisbon
1970
Novos Sintomas na pintura portuguesa , Galeria Judite Dacruz, Lisbon
1969
Represented Portugal in the XI Bienal de SPaulo, Brazil
Portugaise Contemporaine, Paris
1967 de Tokyo
Novas Iconologias, Lisbon
Art Portugais - Peinture et sculpture de Naturalisme à nos jours, Brussels, Paris, Madrid
1965
Six Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1961
Segunda Exposiçde Artes Plásticas, FundaçCalouste Goulbenkian, Lisbon
1955
Young Contemporaries, London
Collections
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Arts Council, London
Berardo Collection, Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal
British Council, London
British Government Collection, on loan to the British Embassy, Lisbon
British Museum, London
Bristol City Art Gallery
Chapel of the Palacio de Belém, Lisbon
Frissiras Museum, Athens
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
National Gallery, London
National Portrait Gallery, London
New Hall, Cambridge
Portuguese Embassy, London
Rugby Museum and Art Gallery
Saatchi Gallery, London
Tate Gallery, London
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Yale Center for British Art
Selected Publications
Ruth Rosengarten, Compreender Paula Rego 25 Perspectivas, Publico Serralves, 2004
T.G. Rosenthal, Paula Rego: The Complete Graphic Work, Thames & Hudson, London, 2003
Fiona Bradley, Paula Rego, Tate Publishing, 2002
Marco Livingstone, Paula Rego - Grooming, in Art: The Critics' Choice, Aurum Press, London, 1998
Paula Rego, Tate Gallery Publications, 1997
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Paula RegoUp the Tree (Jane Eyre Series), 2002Lithograph83 x 59 cms
32 5/8 x 23 1/4 ins3/35 -
Paula RegoThe Seduction of Prince Pig, from: Mr. Pig, 2006Lithograph in colours, on wove paper89.5 x 64.5 cms
35 1/4 x 25 3/8 insAP 6/15 -
Paula RegoGetting Ready for the Ball (Jane Eyre series), 2001-02Coloured lithograph on three sheets177 x 82.5 cms
69 3/4 x 32 1/2 insEdition of 35Signed -
Paula RegoLife Room III, 2005Lithograph65 x 47 cms
25 5/8 x 18 1/2 ins -
Paula RegoThe Seduction of Prince Pig, from: Mr. Pig, 2006Lithograph in colours, on wove paper89.5 x 64.5 cms
35 1/4 x 25 3/8 insAP 6/15