Background
Laing, Gerald Ogilvie was born on February 11, 1936 in Newcastle-Opon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. Son of Gerald Francis and Enid Moody (Foster) Laing.
Laing, Gerald Ogilvie was born on February 11, 1936 in Newcastle-Opon-Tyne, Northumberland, England. Son of Gerald Francis and Enid Moody (Foster) Laing.
Student, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, 1955. Student, St. Martin's School of Art, London, 1965.
in United Kingdom, United States of America and Federation Republic of Germany; many group exhibitions in Europe, United States of America, Japan and Brazil; works in many public collections including Museum of Modem Art and Whitney Museum, New York, Victoria & Albert Museum, Tate Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, London and Scottish National Gallery of Modem Art, Edinburgh; major commissions: Callanish University of Strathclyde, Glasgow 1971, Frieze of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, George St., Edinburgh 1979, Fountain of Sabrina, Broad Quay House, Bristol 1981, Portrait of Siaka Stevens Artist-in-residence Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, Colorado, 1966. Assistant professor Columbia University, New York City, 1986-1987. Commissioner Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, Edinburg, since 1987.
Represented in permanent collections: Victoria and Albert Museum, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Museum Modern Art, New York Whitney Museum, Minneapolis Museum, Indianapolis Museum, Denver Museum, Universities of New York, Harvard University, Cornell University, Brandeis, Puerto Rico, Aberdeen, Strathcyde. Author: Kinkell: the Reconstruction of a Scottish Castle, 1985.
Served to lieutenant English Army, 1953-1960. Member Royal Society of British Scupltors (associate). Clubs: Chelsea Arts (London).
Lodges: Seaforth.
Married 1st Jenifer Ann Redway in 1962 (divorced in 1967). Married 2nd Galina Golikova in 1969 (divorced in 1983). Married 3rd Adaline Havemeyer Frelinghuysen in 1988.