John Walker
John Walker (American, born 1939, Birmingham, England) studied at Birmingham College of Art (1956 – 60), and continued his studies at The British School in Rome (1960 – 61), and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris (1961 – 63).
Walker was a Gregory Fellow at Leeds University (1967 – 69). He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to the United States (1969 – 70), and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1981. He has been artist-in-residence at Oxford University (1977 – 78) and at Monash University, Melbourne (1980).
Walker represented England at the 1972 Venice Biennale.
The artist has taught at the Royal College in London and at Yale University. In the 1980s he was Dean of Victoria College of Art in Melbourne. From 1993 to 2015, he was head of the graduate program in Painting and taught at Boston University from where he retired as Professor Emeritus of Art.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art; The Phillips Collection; The Tate Gallery; The Kunstverein, Hamburg; The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney; among others.
His work can be found in major museum collections including The Art Institute of Chicago; The Guggenheim Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; MoMA; National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Gallery of Australia; Phillips Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art; Tate Gallery London; Whitney Museum of American Art; Yale Center for British Art; among many others.
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