Desmond Morris
Mother, 2019
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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| 1948 | Swindon Public Library |
| 1950 | London Gallery (with Joan Miro and Cyril Hamersma) |
| 1952 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (with Geoffrey Clarke and Scottie Wilson) |
| 1974 | Stooshnoff Fine Art, London |
| 1976 | Wolfson College, Oxford |
| Lasson Gallery, London | |
| Swindon Museum & Art Gallery (Retrospective) | |
| 1987-97 | Mayor Gallery, London |
| 1988 | Shippee Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1991 | Galerie Michele Heyraud, Paris, France |
| 1992 | Galerie Wagner, Thionville, France |
| 1993 | Swindon Museum & Art Gallery (Retrospective) |
| 1996 | City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent (Retrospective) |
| Nottingham Natural History Museum (Retrospective) | |
| 1997 | Charleston Gallery, Lewes |
| Buxton Museum & Art Gallery, Derbyshire | |
| 1998 | Clayton Gallery, Newcastle |
| Keitelman Gallery, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Jessy van de Velde Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium | |
| 2001, '06 | Galerie Pack-Huys, Mechelen, Belgium |
| 2002, '04 | Mayor Gallery, London |
| Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium | |
| 2003 | Solomon Gallery, Dublin |
| 2005 | Guillermo de Osma Galeria, Madrid, Spain |
| 2008 | Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead |
| 2012 | ISPA Instituto Universitario, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2018 | Redfern Gallery, London |
| 2020 | Beaux Arts Gallery, London |
| 2022 | Redfern Gallery, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 1948 | Kingly Gallery, London, 'Artists Known and Unknown' |
| 1949, '51 | Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 'Invitation Committee Exhibition' (with Emmy Bridgwater, William Gear, Conroy Maddox, etc.) |
| 1951 | '4th Belgian Summer Festival: Avant-Garde Trends in Current British Painting' |
| 1978 | Camden Arts Centre, 'Surrealism Unlimited' |
| 1982 | Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, 'Surrealist Painting in England 1930-1960' |
| 1985 | The Minories, Colchester, 'A Salute to British Surrealism 1930-1950' (toured to London and Hull) |
| 1986 | British Council tour of England and Wales, 'Contrariwise: Surrealism and Britain 1930-1986' |
| 1990 | Arnold Herstand & Co., New York, 'Surrealism from Paris to New York' |
| 1991 | John Bonham, Murray Feely Fine Art, London, 'The Birmingham Group' |
| 1992 | Mayor Gallery, London, 'British Surrealism' |
| 1993 | National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 'Surrealism: Revolution by Night' (toured to Brisbane and Sydney) |
| 1994 | Faggionato Fine Arts, London, 'Surrealist Sculpture' |
| 1995 | England & Co., London, 'British Surrealism 1935-1995' |
| Wolverhampton Art Gallery & Museum, 'Real Surreal: British and European Surrealism' | |
| 1996 | Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 'In the Mind's Eye: Surrealist Works on Paper' |
| 1997 | National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy, 'Marcel Duchamp and other Iconoclasts' |
| IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, 'Surrealist Objects' | |
| 1998 | Mayor Gallery, London, '85 Years of Sculpture' |
| 1999 | Mayor Gallery, London, 'Surrealism in Britain' |
| 2000 | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, 'Surrealism in Birmingham 1935-54' |
| Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Dreaming with Open Eyes: The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art' | |
| 2007 | Jerusalem, The Israel Museum, 'Dada, Surrealism and Beyond in The Israel Museum' |
| 2009 | The Vittoriano, Rome, Italy, 'Dada and Surrealism Rediscovered' |
Public Collections |
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| Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | |
| Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport | |
| Birmingham Museums Trust | |
| British Museum, London | |
| The Israel Museum, Jerusalem | |
| National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome, Italy | |
| The Reiff Collection | |
| Southampton City Art Gallery | |
| Stoke Museums | |
| Swindon Museum & Art Gallery | |
| Tate | |
| Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA | |
| Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA | |
