Background
Armitage, Kenneth was born on July 18, 1916 in Leeds, England.
Armitage, Kenneth was born on July 18, 1916 in Leeds, England.
Student, Leeds College of Art, 1938. Student, Slade School. Honorary Doctor, Royal College Art, 1969.
Honorary Doctor, Royal Academy Arts, London, 1994.
London 1952, 1957, 1962, 1965, New York 1954, 1956, 1958. 1962, Retrospective exhibition Whitechapel Ail Gallery, London 1959, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela 1982; represented at Venice Biennale 1958; Guest Artist, City of Berlin 1967-1969; Hakone Open-Air Sculpture, Japan 1969, one-man exhibition touring Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya 1978; retrospective exhibition, Paris 1985; sculpture Commission, new British Embassy, Brasilia 1985-1986; group exhibitions include Seoul Olympics Sculpture Exhibition 1988, World Expo, Brisbane 1988 and many in America and Europe; wrorks in major public collections throughout the world; David Bright Teacher of sculpture Bath (England) Academy of Art, 1947-1956. Gregory fellow Leeds University, 1953. British Council visitor in sculpture, Venezuela, 1963—1964.
Guest artist City of Berlin, 1967—1969.