Bruce Russell

1946

Born in London

1964-1969

Chelsea School of Art
Foundation, BA, MA

1968

Young Contemporaries Prizewinner

1969-70

Fellowship in Painting
Gloucestershire College of Art

1973

First one-man exhibition
White Rose Gallery, Bradford

1975

Arts Council Award

1976-1980

One-man exhibitions at Hoya Gallery and AIR Gallery, London; Portsmouth Festival; New York Studio School (with William Henderson); Ian Birksted Gallery, London and New York; Midland Group, Nottingham (with Richard Kidd).

Group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London (British Painting 1952-1977 and Summer Exhibition); XI International Festival of Painting, Cagnes sur Mer, France; Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London; Serpentine Gallery, London; Young British Painters, University of Dallas, Texas; A Change of Sensibility, Brussels; Style in the Seventies, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; The British Art Show, Sheffield; Whitechapel Open, London; Seven Painters, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge.

Arts Council Major Award

Senior Lecturer in Painting, Newcastle Polytechnic; co-founder and curator, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery.

Founder and curator, 7 Floor Gallery, St Martins School of Art, London.

1981-1990

One-man exhibitions at Mancester Old Town Hall; Cleveland College Art Gallery; Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London.

Group exhibitions at John Moores XI, Liverpool; Galeries Aspects, Brussels; Ian Birksted Gallery, London and New York; CAS Market; opening show, Benjamin Rhodes Gallery, London; Mike Ginsborg, Jim Latter, Bruce Russell, Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham; 30 London Painters, Royal Academy, London

Head, School of Fine Art, Kingston University London (1987-present).

1991-2005

One-man exhibitions at Watermans Art Centre, London; Beardsmore Gallery, London; Knights Park Galery, Kingston University, London; Aperto, Venice Biennale; Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; ICCED, San Luis, Argentina; Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana; Grand Vallery State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Group exhibitions at ICAF, London; Contemporary Abstract Painting, Beatrice Royal Gallery, Eastleigh, Hampshire; 30 Years of Cheltenham Fellows, Cheltenham; Absolut Secret, Royal College of Art, London.

Professor of Fine Art and Head of the School of Fine Art, Kingston University London (1987-2006).

Public art commssion, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia (1996).

Founding Director, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London (1997).

Public art commission, A3 Tolworth subway refurbishment, Highways Authority (1998).

Work in Collections

AIR Gallery, London
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
British Embassy, Dublin
Contemporary Art Society, London
De Beers, London
European Parliament, Strasbourg
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
Government Art Collection
ICCED, Argentina
Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge
Kingston University London
National Westminster Bank
Prudential Life Insurance
Racal Electronics
Royal Academy, London
Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Steelcase Strafor
Unilever
Universidade de Vigo, Galicia, Spain
University of Northumbria
Warwick University
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

Selected Part-time Teaching

CoAct School of Fine Art, Limerick, Ireland
Escuelas de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Goldsmiths College
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Loyola University, New Orleans, Lousiana
New York Studio School
Royal College of Art
Slade School of Fine Art
Syracuse University, New YorkTyler School of Art, Philadelphia
Universidade de Vigo, Galicia, Spain
University of London

External Assessor / Consultant

Nottingham Trent University, Faculty Professorial Board; Sheffield Hallam University, PhD External Assessor; Surrey Institute, Professorial Board; Colchester Institute; UCC Chichester; APU Cambridge.

Selected Publications and Reviews

Art International
Art Monthly
Arts Review
Artscribe
The Guardian
The Independent
The Observer
The SundayTimes
Time Out
The 20th Century Dictionary of British Painters and Sculptors
Directory of British Artists Since 1945
Marquis Who'sWho in the World, 2006
Dictionary of International Biography, 2006

Monograph

Bruce Russell / GMT, Chris Horrocks, Art Books International, 1999

Bruce Russell, Liss, 2006
Photo: Phyllida Russell