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Ian Davenport
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United Kingdom
• 1966
Davenport is known for his abstract paintings which explore process and materiality.
Biography
Ian Davenport was born in Kent, England, in 1966. He graduated from Goldsmiths College of Art, London, in 1988, in the generation of the Young British Artists, participating in the seminal 1988 exhibition Freeze. In 1991, he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, for which he remained the youngest ever nominee, and in 1999 was a prize winner in the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool. Two years after graduating, Davenport had his first solo show at Waddington Galleries, London, in 1990.
Davenport is known for his abstract paintings which explore process and materiality. In recent years, his work has consisted of carefully poured lines of acrylic paint down a surface, which puddle and pool at the bottom. This technique allows him to explore complex arrangements of line and color.
His work is held in important museum collections including the Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Modern, Tate Britain, London; Pompidou Center, Paris; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff; Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal; Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia; Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul; Museum of Modern Art, New York and Dallas Museum of Art, Texas. He was featured within the Giardini of the 57th Venice Biennale and has a permanent installation at Museo Chiostro del Bramante.