CV
* 1966, Kent, GB
Lives and works in London
Education
1984-85 Northwich College of Art and Design, Cheshire
1985-88 Goldsmiths’ College of Art, London
1991 Nominated for Turner Prize
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Dallas Contemporary, Texas
Colourscapes, Waddington Custot Galleries, London (cat.)
New Works on Paper, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2017 Ian Davenport, Cascade, Custot Gallery, Dubai
Melismatic, Alan Critea Gallery, London (cat.)
2016 Doubletake, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Galleria Tega, Milan
Cadence, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich
2015 Melismatic, Galerie Xippas, Paris
Galerie Flore, Brussels
Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo
Pace Prints, New Yorks
2014 Colourfall, Waddington Custot Galleries, London (cat.)
2013 Colorfall, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2012 Between the lines, Art Plural Gallery, Singapore
Galerie Andreas Thalmann, Zürich
Reflex, Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2011 Quick Slow Quick Slow, Waddington Custot Galleries, London (cat.)
Prismatic, Alan Cristea Galleries, London (cat.)
Gallery Hopkins, Paris
2010 Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
AllerArt, Bludenz, Austria
2009 Fabstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (prints)
Paul Kasmin Gallery. New York
Puddle Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London (cat.)
2008 Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Waddington Galleries, London (cat.)
2006 Alan Cristea Gallery, London (Prints)
2005 Xippas, Paris
Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2004 IKON Gallery, Birmingham
2003 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Waddington Galleries, London (cat.)
2001 Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam
Galerie Xippas, Paris (Cat.)
2000 Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Waddington Galleries, London (cat.)
1999 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee (cat.)
1998 Galerie Xippas, Paris
1997 Galerie Moncada, Roma
Galerie Limmer, Freiburg
1996 Statements, Waddington Galleries, Art 27'96, Basel
1992 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
1990 Waddington Galleries, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Scorribanda, Galleria Nazionale Arte Moderna, Rome
2017 Colour Is, Waddington Custot Galleries, London
2016 Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate
The World Meets Here, Custot Galleries, Dubai
2015 Waddington Custot Galleries, London
British Artists, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zürich
Right Now!, Mission Gallery, Swansea
Black Paintings, Charlie Smith, London
2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
20 Years Slewe, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
2013 Hidden in the Plain Sight, Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Once Upon a time and what a very good time it was …, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Linear Abstraction, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Thirteen, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2012 Route 66: Ian Davenport/Alberto di Fabio, Luca Tommasi, Manzo
The Materiality of Paint, The Fine art Society, London
Duchamp and Cage: 100 Years Later, The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London
2011 Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Why Patterns?, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection, Kunsthal Rotterdam
2010 Process/Abstraction, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Art + Art Gallery, Moscow
2008 Weight Watchers, galerie Xippas, Paris
2007 The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London
2005 Ingleby gallery, Edinburgh
2004 10 Years Slewe’, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam (cat.)
2003 Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate, London
Blanc de Blanc, Galerie Xippas, Paris
Exodus: between promise and fulfilment, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
2002 Art Cologne, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam
Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Jerwood Drawing Prize, University of Gloucesterhire
2001 Bristish Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, London
Jerwood Painting Prize, Jerwood Galery, London
2000 Fact and Value, Charlottenburg Udstillingsbygning, Denmark
1999 Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1995 Real Art - A New Modernism, Southampton City Art Gallery
From here, Waddington Galleries/Karsten Schubert, London
1994 Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
1992 Dumb Painting, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
1991 Turner Prize Exhibition, Tate Gallery, London