Born in 1959, London, England
EDUCATION
1988-89
Chelsea School of Art, MA
1978-81
Goldsmiths College, BA Hons. 1st class
1977-78
St. Martins School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS *denotes catalogue
2014
The Tumbling Surveyors Pursuit, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2011
Journeys to recover your future, Culver Center of the Arts, CA*
2008
Compliant Keepers, Riverside Art Museum September 2008, Riverside, CA
Half known slow burnt layers, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside.
Whispered sprinkle, CAS, Riverside.
2002
Precious Encounters, Beaux Arts, London *
2001
Building watertight structures in volcanic pools, Beaux Arts, London *
2000
Habitat, Kings Road, London
Beaux Arts, London *
Installation, DayGlo, NightGlo, UV, London Art Fair, Business Design Centre
1998
Odyssey, One in the Other, London
1997
Hales Gallery, London
1995
Todd Gallery, London
1994
Todd Gallery, London
1993
Galerie Raph Debarrn, Paris
1992
Todd Gallery, London *
1990
Todd Gallery, London
Todd Gallery, Soho, London
1988
Todd Gallery, London
Journeying in Search of Hidden Treasures; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham *
1987
David Leapman Recent Paintings; Flaxman Gallery, North Staffs Poly, Stoke-on-Trent
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Splash, Bankside Gallery, London
John Moores prizewinners, Celebrating 60 years of the John Moores Painting Prize,
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK.
Inverted Realities, McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, CA
Showboat, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
Odyssey II, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles
Supermarket Art Fair, Durden and Ray, Stockholm, Sweden.
Convergences, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Dragnet, Durden and Ray , Los Angeles
Transiting, Arena One Gallery, Los Angeles
Collectivity, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
A heap of broken images where the sun beats, Aegean Center for the Arts, Paros, Greece
Native, PAPER Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Ghost Tide, Thames-Side Studio Gallery, London
Stewarts RCA Secrets, RCA, London
Synthetic Shorelines, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
2017
Native, Art Office Ozasa, Kyoto, Japan
The Surface of Things, PAPER and The New Adelphi Gallery, Manchester UK.
Going Native, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
Round Won, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
The Collectivists, Brand Library and Art Center, Glendale CA
FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Los Angeles
Beset on all sides, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
The Sense of Things, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
Replete Repeat Repeat Replete, DAG Gallery, Los Angeles
Entangled Loci, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany
2016
Native:Tokyo, Gallery Lara Tokyo, Japan
Native, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
Archival Beginnings (Objects from the Permanent), Cerritos College Gallery, Los Angeles
MAS 13 Torrance Art Museum
MAS Attack 11 Artra Curatorial, Fabrik Expo, Los Angeles
MAS 10:Tempe, Fine Art Complex 1101, Tempe, AZ
Ufology, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, CA
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London and Dubai, UAE
2015
Borderlands, Albus 3 Arts, Northampton, UK
Bearing Witness in the Drone Age, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
An Odyssey, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Abstracted Visions, Cerritos College Gallery, Los Angeles*
View from the edge of the soul, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles
Chinese Open 15, Q Park, Chinatown, London
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London and Dubai, UAE
2014
Mind the Gap, Autonomie, LA
Crossing Lines, &Model, Leeds, UK
Chinese Open, Year of the Horse, Q Park , Chinatown Soho, London
MAS Attack, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Monster Drawing Rally, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
RCA Secret, Royal College of Art, London
2013
Essential, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
Paradox Maintenance Technicians, #2, Torrance Art Museum, CA
Theatrical Dynamics, Torrance Art Museum, CA
MAS Attack, LA Mart, LA
Monster Drawing Rally, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2012
Doubt, CAS, Riverside, CA
Painting on Edge ll, d.e.n. contemporary, LA
Painting on Edge l, Autonomie, LA
FlashFlOOd, Little Berlin, Philadelphia.
2011
40 Artists - 80 Drawings, Burton Art Gallery and Museum, UK
2010
Hang then decay... 5th Terrace Annual, Terrace, London
RCA Secret 2010, Royal Collage of Art, London
Layers, John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize Show, Seongnam Arts Center, South Korea*
2009
RCA Secret 2009, Royal Collage of Art, London
Fate and Freewill, CAS, Riverside CA
40 Artists 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire, UK
Ricochet, Chip Projects, London
Rebound, Quonset Hut Studios, Riverside CA *
2007
Driven, Fieldgate Street Gallery, London
SUMMER, Beaux Arts, London *
Oh Deborah, CAProjects, London
2006
Jerwood Drawing Prize Jerwood Space, London and tour 2006-2007 *
Salon Connexions, Contemporary Art Projects, London
42, The Three Colts Gallery, London
Pairs, The Drawing Gallery, London
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 24, Walker Art Gallery *
Summer '06, Beaux Art, London
Summer Sale, Foster Art, London
Keith Talent LA Art Fair
Fosterart Winter exhibition 2006, London
World gone Mad, Canterbury touring to Manchester and London. *
The Drawing Gallery at London Art Fair
40 Artists 40 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery at City Inn, London.
Keith Talent at Scope New York Art Fair
Lodestar, Terrace, London
The Spiral of Time, APT London *
2005
The Spiral of Time Open Hand Open Space, Reading, UK
Clutterin Colours Roamin in Limbo, Keith Talent Gallery, London
Summer '05 Beaux Arts, London *
Ex Roma - Rome Scholars 1999-2004, APT Gallery, London
Moving Art, Artower, London.
"Carter Presents" "pencil" (a drawing show), Jamie Robinson, London
40 Artists 40 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, London
Keith Talent, Aqua Art Miami, Florida
2004
Summer Show, Beaux Arts, London.
Gifted, inc. Ofili and Wallinger The Arts Gallery, UAL, London *
Fine Arts Mostra, The British School at Rome, Italy *
2003
Summer Show Beaux Arts, London
2002
The Bigger Splash, Whitechapel Art Gallery at the London Art Fair
The Saatchi Gift, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh
Fight, Manchester artists v London artists, LCCA, London
Saatchi, Gift to the Arts Council Collection Usher Gallery, Lincoln, UK
Summer '02 Beaux Arts, London *
2001
Cultural Ties, Kapil Jariwala-Westzone Gallery, London *
Third Counter, Callan, Hindle, Leapman and Seymour, 7 Addington Square, London
Beaux Arts, London
2000
Beaux Arts, London
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1999
Work on paper, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark *
Reciprocity, Sun and Doves, London
Simmer, Beaux Arts, London
Leapman, Brown & Murphy, Riley; Robert Sandelson Gallery, London
Recent Acquisitions, Beaux Arts, London
1998
The Jerwood Painting Prize; London *
Leapman, Mullins, Cohen; Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Art Works, Riverside, CA, USA
1997
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20; Prize-winner, Walker Art Gallery *
WHAT; Trinity Buoy Wharf, London *
British-German Partnership, Nord LB, Hanover, Germany
1996
The East Wing Collection; Courtauld Institute of Art, London *
Whitechapel Open; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Being There II; Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Holland *
David Leapman, Richard Woods, Keith Wilson; Hales Gallery, London
1995
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 19; First Prize-winner Walker Art Gallery *
Retour a l'oeil, et au-dela; Galerie Raph Debarrn, Nice, France
WEU Presidency Exhibition, British Council Collection, Belgium
1994
On Paper, Rosa Lee, Perry Roberts, Marcia Hafif, Maria Lalic, David Leapman;
Todd Gallery, London
Promenade des Anglais; Galerie Raph Debarrn, Nice, France
LandEscapes, inc. Callery, Gussin, Leapman, Winstanley
Ex Lanificio Bona Cariganano, Turin, Italy *
XXVIe Festival International de la Peinture,
British Council, Haut de Cagnes, France *
1993
Moving into View: Recent British Painting; Arts Council Collection,
Royal Festival Hall, London Touring as New Painting *
Roger Clarke, Maria Lalic, David Leapman. Todd Gallery, London
Strictly Painting; Cubitt Street Gallery, London
In House Out House; Unit 7, Camberwell
Pet Show; Union Street Gallery, London
The Economist. London
1992
Galerie Gutharc Ballin, Paris
1991
Journal Journey David Leapman & Laurel Paley; The Art Works, Riverside, CA
Hyunsoo Choi et David Leapman; Galerie Gutharc Ballin, Paris
Glenn Brown, Suzy Willey, David Leapman; Todd Gallery
1990
Aperto 90; Venice Biennale*
The Art Works, Riverside, CA
Whitechapel Open; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1989
New Paintings by David Leapman and Roy Voss; Curwen Gallery, London
New Contemporaries; ICA, London and Touring Show
1988
Figuring out the Eighties; Laing Art Gallery & Museum, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK *
The Maginot Line; Riverside Studios, London
The Athena Art Award; Barbican, London *
New Places in Paintings, David Leapman & Jeff Dellow; Todd Gallery, London
1987
Our Wonderful Culture: Voyage; Fisherman Studio, London
1986
Between Identity & Politics - A New Art; inc. Hiller, Leapman, Spiro
Gimpel Fils, London, The Arts Centre, Darlington;
Gimpel and Weitzenhoffor, New York, NY *
Whitechapel Open; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Unheard Music, incl. Chadwick, Leapman, Wallinger; Stoke-on-Trent Museum, UK
Small Scale; Lidewij Edelkoort Gallery, Paris *
1985
Whitechapel Open; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Work by East London Artists; Whitechapel Gallery
Nature Morte; Edward Totah Gallery, London
Impulse 8, inc. Goldsworthy, Leapman, Mach
Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach, W.Germany *
Our Wonderful Culture; St. George's Church, Bloomsbury, London
1984
Problems of Picturing, Bevan, Leapman, Milroy, Toren; Serpentine Gallery, London *
1983
Young Blood, Leapman, Mach, Milroy, Opie; Riverside Studios, London
1981
New Contemporaries; ICA, London
AWARDS
2003
Abbey Award Fellowship in painting, British School at Rome
1997
John Moores 20 Prizewinner
1995
John Moores 19 First Prizewinner
1986
London Arts Board Grant to Individual Artists
1985
Jacob Mendelson Scholarship Trust
1982
Greater London Arts Association Award
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council of Great Britain
Government Art Collection, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
UCR Sweenney Art Gallery
Stoke-on-Trent Museum & Art Gallery, UK
The British Council
Contemporary Art Society, UK
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Rugby Art Gallery, UK
Saatchi Collection
Virgin
Unilever
Sony
Goldman-Sachs
Buck Collection
Cerritos College
Private Collections worldwide