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Derek Boshier

Derek Boshier - Artists - Garth Greenan Gallery

Derek Boshier, 1965.
Image by Tony Evans/Timelapse Library Ltd., Hulton Archive

Born 1937 in Portsmouth, UK, Derek Boshier was a seminal British artist and was a leading figure of the British Pop scene in the 1960s. He worked in Los Angeles for many years until his death in 2024.

Boshier rose to prominence early in his career. In 1961, while he was still a student at the Royal College of Art in London, the Whitechapel Art Gallery presented the landmark exhibition Young Contemporaries, featuring his works alongside those of his classmates David Hockney, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, and Peter Phillips. Just one year later, Boshier was featured along with Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips, in Ken Russell’s Pop Goes the Easel—a 1962 BBC documentary about Britain's Pop Art movement. Russell differentiated the movement by its unapologetic delight in mass culture, and Boshier, in particular, by the intellectual tenor of his paintings. Boshier’s work of the period dealt with the space race, pop music, and the Americanization of Britain. Just about every part of British life, the artist observed, from its fashions to its entertainment to its Kellogg’s-based breakfasts, was increasingly shaped by America’s far reaching advertising and cultural dominance.

In his iconic painting England’s Glory (1961), the artist depicts an American Flag spreading like an oil spill over a matchbox that bears the painting’s eponymous phrase. Elsewhere in the work, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson’s famous quote from the Battle of Trafalgar, "England expects that every man will do his duty," competes with Kellogg’s Yogi Bear for space, symbolizing the unrelenting ubiquity and spread of American consumerism. To this day, the visual artifacts of mass culture remain potent ingredients in the artist’s work where corporate logos commingle with history, art, and poetry—Joan Miro and William Blake.

Boshier was both prolific and wide-ranging in his artistic production, working in varied media as painting, drawing, prints, film, sculpture, and installation, among others. The Clash’s “2nd Songbook,” as well as David Bowie’s "Lodger" album cover exposed mass audiences to his work. His collaboration with Bowie sparked a life-long friendship, many subsequent collaborations, and a handful of Bowie paintings.

In addition to his art practice, Boshier has a long and distinguished record as an educator, teaching at the Central School of Art and Design, London from 1963–1979, the Royal College of Art, London from 1973–1979, the University of Houston from 1980–1992, and the California Institute of Arts in Los Angeles from 1997 to 2024.

He has been the subject of over 91 solo exhibitions at prestigious venues such as: Flowers Gallery (1974 and 1976, London); Texas Gallery (1987, 1989, and 1991, Houston); Galerie du Centre (2003, 2005, 2007, and 2013, Paris); Flowers Gallery (2008, 2012, and 2013, New York); the National Portrait Gallery (2013, London) and Gazelli Art House (2017 and 2019, London). His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions including: Art and The Sixties (2004, Tate, London); Pop Art: UK (2004, Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy); British Pop (2006, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Spain); Pop Art Portraits (2007, National Portrait Gallery, London); and Made in Space (2013, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, Gavin Brown Gallery, New York, and Venus over Manhattan, New York), among others.

His work features in numerous public collections internationally, including: the Tate, London; the British Museum, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, Windsor Castle; the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; the National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Menil Collection, Houston; the Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel; Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana; the Bernardo Museum, Lisbon; the National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia; the Yale Centre of British Art, Connecticut; the High Museum, Atlanta; the Brooklyn Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

1937
Born in Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

 

EDUCATION

1959–1962
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1965
Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels, Belgium
Derek Boshier, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, United Kingdom, March 30–May 1

1967
Derek Boshier, Galerie Bichofberger, Zurich, Switzerland, November 11–December 7

1968
Robert Fraser Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1970
Galerie Varennes, Paris, France
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Zeichnungen – Lithographien, Galerie Bucholz, Munich, Germany

1971
Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1972–1973
Derek Boshier: Documentation and Work 1959– 1972, Portsmouth City Museum and Gallery, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, July 1972; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, United Kingdom; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom; Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom, September 26–October 21, 1973

1974
54 Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery. London, United Kingdom, January 30–February 16

1975
Derek Boshier: Work 1971–74, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, May 3–31
Routes, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1976
Places, Angela Flowers Gallery,London, United Kingdom

1977
Events and Routes, Peterloo Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom; Oriel Gallery, Cardiff, United Kingdom, November 10–December 3
Events and Art Books, A I R Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1978
Events, A I R Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1979
Drawings and Books for Artists, Felicity Samuels Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Paintings and Drawings, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1981
Drawings: 1980–81, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, United Kingdom, July 1–25
Paintings, Drawings and Photographs: 1961–79, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Lodz, Poland; Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland, September 23–November 8
Drawings: 1980–81, Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas, October 10–December 12

1981–1982
Derek Boshier: Texas Works, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, December 13, 1981– February 14, 1982

1982
Paintings and Drawings 1981–82, Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas, July–August

1982–1983
Derek Boshier: The Texas Works, The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom, November 24, 1982–January 2, 1983

1983
Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings 1960–82, Blue Coat Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, March 9–April 2
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, April 16– May 7

1984
New Drawings, Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy

1985
Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom, July 5–August 30

1986
Derek Boshier: Paintings, 1985–86, Totah Stelling Gallery, New York, New York, May

1987
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, January 9–31
Derek Boshier, Edward Totah Gallery, London, United Kingdom, June 10–July 4
Albert Totah Gallery, New York, New York, October 31

1988
Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, March 3– April 9

1989
Derek Boshier, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 14–February 28
Derek Boshier: Large Paintings and Drawings, 1983– 1988, Mexicarte Museum, Austin, Texas, March 3–30
Derek Boshier, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1990
Derek Boshier: New Works, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January 19–February 24

1991
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas, March 15–April 25
Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, California, September 28–October 27

1993
Derek Boshier Drawings 1962-63, Independent Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1995–1996
Derek Boshier: The Texas Years (Work 1980–95), The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, December 9, 1995–January 28, 1996

1996
Derek Boshier: Recent Works, Connaught Brown Gallery, London, United Kingdom, March 22–April 20

1996–1997
Derek Boshier, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom, November 16, 1996–January 4, 1997

1997–1998
Journey/Israel Project, Mishkan Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel, March 1997; Holocaust Museum, Houston, Texas, June 25–September 19

1998–1999
Derek Boshier. Paintings & Drawings, Weil Gallery at Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, Texas, December 8, 1998–January 27, 1999

2000
Derek Boshier: New Work, Shakespeare Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, March 31–May 16

2001
Derek Boshier, Flowers West, Los Angeles, California, May 5–June 9
Derek Boshier, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France, March

2002
Derek Boshier Sports, F.G. Cozens, Dusseldorf, Germany

2003
Derek Boshier Works on Paper: A Retrospective 1957– 2003, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, August 25–October 25
Derek Boshier: New Paintings – “Books”, Keller & Greene, Los Angeles, California, September 5– October 11

2004
Shelf Life: Derek Boshier Recent Paintings and Sculptures, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California, June 25–July 31
Derek Boshier: “Extreme Makeover”, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California

2005
99 Cent War (Iraq): Installation and Paintings, Galerie Du Centre, Paris, France, October 13–November 19; The Florence Trust, London, United Kingdom

2006
Derek Boshier: All in A Day’s Work, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas, February 11–March 11
Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1962, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, March 10–31
Derek Boshier: New Paintings, FIAC – Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 26–30

2007
Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1955–2007, Flowers East, London, United Kingdom, May 4–June 2
Derek Boshier: Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France

2008
Derek Boshier, Robin Cronin, Houston, Texas, April 2– May 8
Derek Boshier: Extreme Makeover, Flowers, New York, New York, May 9–June 14
Derek Boshier New Paintings, Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, California, November 14–December 12

2011
Derek Boshier: In the 70’s, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, April 8–May 7

2012
Derek Boshier: Works for David Bowie and the Clash, Pallant House, Chichester, United Kingdom, June 23–October 7

2013
Derek Boshier, 1962, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January 26–March 9
Paris France, Paris Texas, Paris Hilton: Derek Boshier New Paintings, Flowers Gallery, New York, New York, March 1–April 6; Galerie du Centre, Paris, France, March 9–April 19
Derek Boshier Drawings, Chelsea Arts Club, London, United Kingdom, March 4–April 3

2013–2014
Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom, September 27, 2013–May 5, 2014

2014
Change, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany, March 2–April 12
All in a Day’s Work, boyd | satellite, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 4–29
Journey/Israel Project, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 6–12

2015
Derek Boshier: “Re-Think/Re-Entry,” Flowers Gallery, New York, New York, October 7–November 7

2017
On The Road, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, May 13–June 17; Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom, October 6–November 18

2018
Derek Boshier: An Exhibition of Drawings, Prints, and Paintings and “Ghosts of Portsmouth,” Jack House Gallery, Portsmouth, United Kingdom, September 7–October 13
Cascades Over the Decades: Prints from 1964–2014, Sims Reed Gallery, London, United Kingdom, November 12–December 10

2019
It’s Only When the Tide Goes Out… Selected Works and Ephemera, 1976 – 2018, MOSTYN, Wales, United Kingdom, March 16–June 30
Derek Boshier: Paintings, Drawings, and Film Selected Works 2004–2019, Redbud West Gallery, Houston, Texas, April 6–30
Night and Snow, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom, October 4–November 10

2021
Derek Boshier: Alchemy Alchemy, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, New York, March 25–May 22
Icarus and K Pop, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom, October 7–November 13

2022
Derek Boshier: Occupations, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, California, September 10– November 5
Derek Boshier: Paintings and Drawings, Novi Sad City Museum, Petrovaradin, Serbia, November 10– December 1, 2022

2023
Derek Boshier: Reinventor, Gazelli Art House, London, UK, October 13–November 18

2024
Derek Boshier: Strange Lands, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, March 9 – April 20

 

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Bach, Peter. Derek Boshier: Paintings 1985–86. New York: Totah Stelling Art, 1986.

Beil, Ralf and Ruhkamp, Uta. This Was Tomorrow: Pop Art in Great Britain. Cologne: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2016.

Blanton Museum of Art. American Art Since 1900. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, 2006.

Bluecoat Gallery. Derek Boshier: Selected Drawings 1960–1982. Liverpool: Bluecoat Gallery, 1983.

Bocola, Sandro. Timelines – The Art of Modernism: 1870–2000. Cologne: Taschen, 2001.

Brett, Guy. Carnival of Perception: Selected Writings on Art. London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 2004.

Brooks, Rosetta. Derek Boshier: Paintings 1987. New York: Albert Totah Gallery, 1987.

Colburn, Bolton T., ed. Collecting on the Edge. Logan, UT: Utah State University, 2017..

Connaught Brown. Derek Boshier: Recent Works. London: Connaught Brown, 1996.

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston. Derek Boshier: The Texas Years. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1996.

Coulter-Smith, Graham and Owen, Maurice. Art in the Age of Terrorism. London: Paul Holberton, 2005.

Fermon, An Jo, ed. Pop Art Heroes Britain. London: Whitford Fine Art, 2016.

Finch, Christopher. Derek Boshier: Works on Paper 1955–2007. London: Flowers, 2007.

Flowers. Derek Boshier: Extreme Makeover. New York: Flowers, 2008.

Flowers. Derek Boshier: New Paintings/Chemical Culture Series. London: Flowers, 2008.

Galerie du Centre. Derek Boshier. Paris: Galerie du Centre, 1993.

Galerie du Centre. Derek Boshier. Paris: Galerie du Centre, 2001.

Gazelli Art House. Derek Boshier: Night and Snow. London: Gazelli Art House, 2019.

Gazelli Art House. Derek Boshier: On the Road. London: Gazelli Art House, 2017.

Gazelli Art House. Robert Fraser’s Groovy Arts Club Band. London: Gazelli Art House, 2018.

Gorman, Paul, ed. Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015.

Keller and Greene. Derek Boshier. Los Angeles: Keller and Greene, 2003.

Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery. Derek Boshier: Works on Paper: A Retrospective 1955–2003. Ogden, UT: Weber State University, 2003.

Pierini, Marco. Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Culture. Siena: Centro Arte Contemporanea, 2006.

Shakespeare Fine Art. Derek Boshier: New Work. London: Shakespeare Fine Art, 2000.

Walker, John A. Art & Outrage: Provocation, Controversy and the Visual Arts. London: Pluto Press, 1999.

Whitford Fine Art. Derek Boshier: Pop, Works on Paper from 1962. London: Whitford Fine Art, 2006.

Whitworth Art Gallery. Derek Boshier: Work 1971–74. Manchester: University of Manchester, 1975.

PERIODICALS

Cotter, Holland. “Derek Boshier at Totah-Stelling.” Art in America, October 1986.

Crow, Thomas. “The Absconded Subject of Pop.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 55/56 (2009): 5–20.

Bloom, Suzanne and Hill, Ed. “Derek Boshier, Texas Gallery.” Artforum, September 1985.

Bradley, Chrissie. “Derek Boshier at Steven Wolf Fine Arts.” Artweek 39, no. 1 (2008): 15.

“The Derek Boshier Conversation.” Cellophaneland, November 12, 2019.

“Derek Boshier: Imaginary Portraits.” Art Daily, December 19, 2013.

Faroux, Renaud. “Clash City Painter.” Étapes, May 2006.

———. “Derek Boshier, La Chute Des Idoles.” L’Oeil, 2003.

Gander, Kashmira. “Why is the RCA the Best Art School In The World?” Independent, April 6, 2016.

Gorman, Paul. “Boshier & Bowie.” GQ, December 1, 2015.

Griffin, Jonathan. “The Breakfast Club.” LALA, Spring 2020.

Harvey, Doug. “Rediscovering Derek Boshier.” Modern Painters 25, no. 8 (2013): 86–89.

Livinstone, Marco. “Letter from Derek Boshier.” Art Monthly, no. 90 (1985): 3–4.

“London Roundup: Derek Boshier at the I.C.A.” Art Monthly, no. 63 (1983): 13–14.

Massouras, Alexander. “Review: Derek Boshier.” Art

Monthly, no. 427 (2019): 29–30.

Minioudaki, Kalliopi. “Pop’s Ladies and Bad Girls: Axell, Pauline Boty, and Rosalyn Drexler.” Oxford Art Journal 30, no. 3 (2007): 404–430.

Moeller, Robert. “A Pop Artist Who’s Never Conformed.” Hyperallergic, October 21, 2013.

Nisbet, James. “Derek Boshier.” Artforum, May 2013.

Petry, Michael. “Falling Leaves: A Fall Preview.” Huffington Post, October 8, 2015.

“Portrait of David Bowie as the Elephant Man by Derek Boshier To Be Exhibited For the First Time.” ArtWeek, September 26, 2013.

Richards, Chris. “David Bowie Remembered by His Admirers, Collaborators, and Friends.” Washington Post, April 21, 2017.

Rozzo, Mark. “Special B.” Air Mail, March 27, 2021.

Southern, Keiran. “Derek Boshier carved a career in pop art after dodging the butcher’s block.” The Times, July 16, 2022.

Stuart, Gwynedd. “Hockney Contemporary Derek Boshier Has Immortalized Old Friend David Bowie (Again).” LA Weekly, May 12, 2017.

Teixeira Pinto, Ana. “Derek Boshier’s Change.” Art Agenda, April 10, 2014.

“Unseen David Bowie Portrait Goes On Show at NPG.” Blouin ArtInfo, September 23, 2013.

Yau, John. “An Artist’s Lifetime of Asking the Hard Questions.” Hyperallergic, April 9, 2021.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1962
Image in Progress, Grabowski Gallery, London, United Kingdom, August 14–September 11
New Approaches to the Figure, The Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London, United Kingdom, August 28– September 28

1964
The New Generation: 1964, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom, March–May

1968
The New Generation: 1968, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom, April–May

1972
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 8, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, April 27–July 2

1974
Sculpture Now: Dissolution or Redefinition?, Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom

1976
Pop Art in England: Beginnings of a New Figuration, 1947-63, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, February 7–March 21; Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany, April 3–May 16; York City Art Gallery, York, United Kingdom, May 29–July 11

1979
British Drawings since 1945, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom

1983
Enigma of the Night, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas, August 23–October 9; Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas, October 14–November 27

1985
Texas Currents, San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas, September 26–October 31; November 7– December 13
The Artist’s Eye, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

1988
One + One: Collaborations by Artists and Writers, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, January 22–February 25

1990
Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, May 19–July 15

1995
Images from Space, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, January 20– March 6
Three Giants, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1997–2004
Drawing Distinctions: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolours fromthe British Council Collection, Milton Keynes Gallery, Buckinghamshire, England, 1997; University Art Museum, Berkeley, California, April 5–June 22, 1997; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, October 1–November 30, 1997; Penang State Museum And Art Gallery, Penang, Malaysia, August 7–September 10, 1998; National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 1, 1998–January 1, 1999; Acadia University Art Gallery, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada, October 1–November 15, 1999; Timmins Museum And N E C, Timmins, Ontario, Canada, December 1, 1999– January 15, 2000; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, February 6–March 26, 2000; Prairie Art Gallery, Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, June 6–June 15, 2000; Yukon Arts Centre, Yukon, Whitehorse, Canada, August 15–September 30, 2000; The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia, December 12, 2000–January 11, 2001; Pushkin Museum Of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia, January 23–March 9, 2001; Museum Of Fine Arts, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, March 22–April 25, 2001; Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, August 15–November 25, 2001; Castle Museum And Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK, December 12, 2001– January 27, 2002; Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, October 22, 2003–January 1, 2004

2000
Cowboy Installation, Window Gallery, St. Martin’s College, London, United Kingdom

2003
3 Pop Guys 40 Years After: Derek Boshier, Bernard Rancillac, Peter Saul, Galerie du Centre, Paris, France, May 22–July 5

2004
Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom, June 30–September 26

2005–2006
British Pop, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, October 17, 2005–Feburary 12, 2006

2006
Good Vibrations: Visual Arts and Rock Culture, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, May 26– September 24
As Is When, 12th International Print and Drawing Biennial, National Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, September 22–November 13
Texas 100, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

2007
Pop Art, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, March 31–August 4
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York, April 27–June 16
Swinging London, Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, May 15–September 2
Magazine: New Paintings, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, October 4–November 14
Nothing Moments, Steven Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, California, October 13–November 10

2007–2008
Extreme Makeover, 800 Gallery, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, February 15–March 23, 2007; Flowers, New York, New York, May 9–June 14, 2008
Pop Art Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom, October 11, 2007–January 20, 2008
Pop Art 1956-1968, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy, October 27, 2007– January 27, 2008

2008
Pop Art: Now and Then, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, February 16– August 30
No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967– 87, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Aberystwyth, Wales, March 15–April 27; Tullie House, Carlisle, United Kingdom, May 10–July 13; The Exchange, Penzance, United Kingdom, September 12–November 1

2009
Extreme Makeover: Collages & Drawings, AMMO Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana

2010
Urban Vex: Etchings and Drawings, Royal Academy School Galleries, London, United Kingdom

2012
In Profile: An Exhibition of New Prints by Derek Boshier, Huguenot Editions, London, United Kingdom, January 26–February 25

2013
Made in Space, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, March 16–April 15
David Bowie is influencing your behavior, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, March 23–August 11
Made in Space, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise; Venus over Manhattan, New York, New York, July 11–August 10

2013–2014
Glam: The Performance of Style, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom, February 8–May 12, 2013; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, June 14–September 22, 2013; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria, October 19, 2013–February 2, 2014

2014
Cogwheels Carved in Wood, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 19–May 4

2015
International Pop, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 11–August 29
Ry Rocklen & Derek Boshier: Condominium Pancake, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium, April 24–May 30

2016
Pop Art Heroes: Pop, Pin-ups & Politics, Whitford Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, May 27–July 1

2016–2017
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945– 1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany, October 14, 2016–March 26, 2017
This Was Tomorrow – Pop Art in Great Britain,
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, October 30, 2016–February 19, 2017
British Invasion, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, California, November 19, 2016–January 22, 2017

2019
Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, January 17–July 31

2020
British Post-War Abstraction, Whitford Fine Art, London, UK, March 30–May 8

2021
Drawing Biennial 2021, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom, May 21–July 5
Let’s Talk About Text, Gazelli Art House, London, United Kingdom, June 10–July 3
Majeure Force, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, California, June 27–July 25

2022
Storyville: The Intersection of Abstraction, Allusion, and Depiction, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, August 16–November 22

2022-2023
The 58th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Sept 24, 2022–Apr 2, 2023

2023
Design for Life: Art and Architecture: Part 1, Hestercombe Gallery,.Taunton, UK, March 18–July 2

2024
On The Edge: Los Angeles Art from The Joan And Jack Quinn Family Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, March 23–September 2

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Portsmouth Museum of Art, United Kingdom

United Kingdom Government Art Collection

Arts Council of the United Kingdom

British Council Collection

Guildhall Museum, London

Tate Gallery of British Art, London

British Museum, London

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, United Kingdom

City of Sheffield Galleries, United Kingdom

City of Portsmouth Art Gallery, United Kingdom

Brooklyn Museum

Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona

Palm Springs Art Museum, California

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

Yale Centre of British Art, New Haven

High Museum, Atlanta

Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii

New Orleans Museum of Art

Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin

Dallas Museum of Art

Menil Collection, Houston

Museum of Fine Art, Houston

El Paso Museum of Art, Texas

San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas

Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, Texas

Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase

National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia

Peter Stuyvesant Collection, the Netherlands

Mishkin Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel

Museum of Art, Lodz, Poland

National Gallery of Poland, Warsaw

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

Berardo Museum, Lisbon

Centro Wilfredo Lam, Havana

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