David Hockney

David Hockney (b. 1937)

David Hockney studied at Bradford College of Art from 1953 to 1957, and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1959 to 1962. The 1960 exhibition, 'Picasso', at the Tate Gallery, London made a deep impression on him, and the following year he went to New York for the first time, then travelled onwards to Egypt and Los Angeles in 1963, and to France and Italy in 1967. During his time in the USA, Hockney held several teachings posts: at the University of Iowa in 1964; at the University of Colorado in 1965; and in Los Angeles from 1966 to 1967. From 1968 to 1971 he travelled in Europe, the USA, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar and Hawaii. He lived in Paris from 1973 to 1974, then returned to the USA in 1976. Hockney won a number of prizes and was awarded several honours: he graduated from the Royal College of Art with a gold medal in 1962; in 1963 he won the prize for the drawing at the Paris Biennale in 1963, and the prize for printmaking prize at the Ljubljana Biennale; and he won first prize at the 6th John Moores Exhibition in Liverpool in 1966. He was elected a member of the Royal Academy in 1991. Hockney had major retrospectives at the Royal Academy, London, titled A Bigger Picture and at the Guggenheim, Bilbao in 2012. 

Text Source: extract from Benezit Dictionary of Artists