Background
Huxley, Paul was born on May 12, 1938 in London. Son of Ernest William and Winnifred Mary (Hunt) Huxley.
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Paul Huxley, British Artist. Recipient First prize Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1964, Bourse de Sejour, Paris Biennale, 1965, Linbury Trust award, 1977, Equal First prize Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Forth National Exhibition, 1983, EqualFirst prize Athena Arts awards, 1985; Harkness fellow, 1965.
Education
He attended Harrow School of Art from 1951 to 1956, and the Royal Academy Schools from 1956 to 1960.
Career
His first solo exhibition was in 1963 at the Rowan Gallery, London, where he continued to exhibit regularly for two decades. Huxley has taken part in group exhibitions since 1959, when he exhibited in ‘Young Contemporaries’, London. In 1964 he participated in ‘The New Generation’ exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery with Patrick Caulfield, David Hockney, John Hoyland and Bridget Riley.
More recently he has been part of group exhibitions at the Barbican (1993), the Gulbenkian Centre for Modern Art, Lisbon (1997), and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Leicester City Art Gallery (both 1999).
In 1964 Huxley travelled to the United States as first prize in the Stuyvesant Travel Awards. He taught at the Royal College of Art from 1976, and was Professor of Painting there from 1986 until 1998, when he became Professor Emeritus.
He has worked as a visiting lecturer at Glasgow School of Artist He was commissioned to make 22 ceramic mural designs for King"s Cross railway station in 1984, and has also produced work for the Rambert Dance Company (1991) and Pallant House Gallery, Chichester (2001).
From 1975 to 1982 he was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, and also served as chairman of its Exhibitions Committee.
He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1987 and has been its Treasurer since 2000. 2011 Gallery Reis, Singapore. 2011 Art in Focus, Charing Cross Hospital, London.
2009 Chang Art, Beijing.
2009 Watergate Gallery, Seoul, South of Korea. 2008 Lyon & Turnbull, London.
2003 Rhodes + Mann, London
2002 Rhodes + Mann, London
2001 Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2001 Rhodes+Mann, London. 1999 New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury
1998 Jason & Rhodes Gallery, London
1994 Gardner Art Centre, Sussex University
1992 Gillian Jason Gallery, London
1991 Galerie zur alten deutschen Schule, Thun, Switzerland.
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Huxley was a member of the advisory panels for the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Serpentine Gallery.
Connections
Married Margaret Dora Perryman, September, 1957 (divorced 1970). Children: Mark, Nelson. Married Susan Jennifer Metcalfe, May 18, 1990.
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Recipient First prize Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1964, Bourse de Sejour, Paris Biennale, 1965, Linbury Trust award, 1977, Equal First prize Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Forth National Exhibition, 1983, EqualFirst prize Athena Arts awards, 1985. Harkness fellow, 1965.Recipient First prize Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1964, Bourse de Sejour, Paris Biennale, 1965, Linbury Trust award, 1977, Equal First prize Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts Forth National Exhibition, 1983, EqualFirst prize Athena Arts awards, 1985. Harkness fellow, 1965.