Exhibitions

2018

Ian Hamilton Finlay Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Ian Hamilton Finlay: “The garden became my study,” David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Thinking Machines, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy
TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

2017

Ian Hamilton Finlay Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
Concrete Poetry: Words and Sounds in Graphic Space, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Creating the Countryside, Compton Verney, Warwickshire, UK
Ian Hamilton Finlay exhibition and talk, Ilkley Literature Festival, UK

2016

Ian Hamilton Finlay Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Neoclassicism and Revolution, Pallant House Gallery, Chirchester, UK (solo exhibition)
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Early Works (1958 – 1970), Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo exhibition)
George Grosz: Politics and His Influence, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Words, Words, Words, Charles Nodrum Gallery, Richmond, Australia
Protest, Victoria Miro, London, UK
I still believe in miracles: Celebrating 30 years of Inverleith House, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland

2015

Three Sailboats, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay | 1789 1794, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (solo)

Evening, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland (solo)

2014

Terra Mare, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Arcadian Revolutionary and Avant-Gardener, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA (solo)

2013

Ring of Waves, David Nolan Galley, New York, USA (solo)

Artist Rooms: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Nature Over Again After Poussin 1979- 1980, The Park Gallery, Falkirk, Scotland (solo)

Printed Works, Hiram Butler Gallery, USA
 (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Poet, Artist, Revolutionary, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland (solo)

2012

Ian Hamilton Finlay - Twilight Remembers, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Duveen galleries of Tate Britain, London, UK (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay - Mean Terms, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy (solo)

2011

Definitions, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK (solo)

2009

Camouflage, David Nolan Gallery, New York, UK (solo)

2008

(Neo)Classicism – A Noble Arrow, Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany (solo)

Druckgrafik, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany (solo)

Neoclassicism – A Noble Arrow, Nolan Judin Berlin (solo)

Conversations, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK

2007

Ian Hamilton Finlay & Cerith Wyn Evans, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

2006

Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London

Certain Trees: The Constructed Book, Poem and Object 1964-2006, Centre des Livres D’Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche

Word Power: Concrete Poetry and it’s Influences, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen & the Changing Room, Stirling

How to Change the World: 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London

Of Conceits and Collaborators, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh (solo)

Early Works from the Wild Hawthorne Press, 1964-1971, National Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh (solo)

L’Idylle des Cerises, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh

Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)

2005

Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York

Sentences, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh (solo)

2004

Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)

Works on Paper, 1968-2000, UBS Gallery, New York (solo)

Vessels, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago (solo)

Art and the Garden, Tate Britain, London

Bang, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

2003

Idylls and Interventions, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

2002

Maritime Works, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England; Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

2001

Souvenirs & Postcards by Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Stampa, Basel (solo)

Encounters, National Gallery, London

Nature Over Again After Poussin, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton (solo)

2000

Garden Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)

Souvenirs, Städtische Galerie Grevenbroich im Haus Hartmann, Grevenbroich, Germany (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay/Richard Tuttle, Stampa, Basel (solo)

1999

Heads Will Roll, Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal

La Biennale de Montreal, Centre International d’Art, Montreal

Variation on Several Themes, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona (solo)

1998

Modern Antiquities, Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany (solo)

Les Capteurs de Rives, 1st Biennale de Montreal, commissaire; Claude Gosselin, Montreal

Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, Netherlands (solo)

Wild Hawthorne Press, Academie Beelende Kunsten, Maastricht (solo)

Buro Sophia Ungers, Cologne (solo)

Prints, 1963-1997 (traveling exhibition), Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund (solo)

Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria (solo)

The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, New York

Wortwechsel, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Str., Munich

Grenzgänger, Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag, Stuttgart

1997

Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London

1996

Reef-Points, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)

Grains of Salt, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales (solo)

Galerie Stampa, Zurich

Schwere-Los-Skulpturen, Landesmuseum Linz

Public Works, Peninsula & Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge (solo)

70th Birthday Show, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

Works: Pure and Political, Deichtorhalle, Hamburg (solo)

Paperworks, Stampa, Basel (solo)

Lesen im Buch der Kunst, Library of Baden, Karlsruhe

Where is Abel, Thy Brother? The Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw

1995

Wege der Birke, Bern

The Green Room, Sydney Gardens, Bath

1994

Streiflichter: Fragments from the French Revolution, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York (solo)

3 Sailboats, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

Icons and Proposals, Laumeire Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis (solo)

Das Jahrhundert des Multiple, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

East of Eden, Museum Schloss Mosigkau, Dessau-Mosigkau, Germany

Translokation, Haus der Architektur, Graz

A Proposal for the Leasowes and Other Works, MBC Dudley, England (solo)

Skultur statt Denkmal, Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf

Words, Galerie Sfeir-Semler at the Galerie Jergen Becker, Hamburg

Konfrontation, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

Inscriptions, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia (solo)

Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

The Sonnet is a Sewing Machine for the Monositch, Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews (solo)

Wildwachsende Blumen, Lenbachhaus, Munich (solo)

Tate Gallery, London (solo)

1993

CAYC, Buenos Aires (solo)

12/1794, Galerie Busche, Berlin (solo)

10 Maquettes for Neo-Classical Structures, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

City Art Gallery, Leeds (solo)

Verzmelde Werken, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands

Instruments of the Revolution and Other Works, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (solo)

Force Sight, Schloss Presteneck, Neuenstadt, Stein am Kocher, Germany

1992

Three British Book Artists', Mandeville Gallery, Univ. of California, San Diego

Lux Eurpoae, Lux Europae Trust, Edinburgh

The Poor Fisherman, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Night Lines, Centraalmuseum, Utrecht

Rhetorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Metropolis, Berlin

A Wartime Garden, Galleria Victoria Miro, Florence (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorne Press, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (solo)

Virtual Realities, Traveling Gallery Exhibition, Scotland

Definitions, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel, Germany (solo)

Gulfs and Wars, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen (solo)

Malerisamling Lillehammer, Lillehammer (solo)

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (solo)

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (solo)

Tate Gallery, Liverpool (solo)

Gallery Stadtpark, Krems, Austria (solo)

1991

Ideologische Äusserungen, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt (solo)

Pastorales, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany (solo)

Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen, Bachem (solo)

A Wartime Garden, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Holzwege, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen (solo)

Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Wild Hawthorne Press 1958-1990, Firth Street Gallery, London (solo)

The Ocean and the Revolution, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)

Idylls, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

Christine Burgin, New York (solo)

Stampa, Basel (solo)

ACTA & Galleria, Milano (solo)

Galerie Schedle & Arpagas, Zurich (solo)

Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (solo)

British Art Now: A Subjective View, Stagaya Art Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

Poesis, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh

Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition, Messepalast Halle E, Vienna

Allegorie, Galerie Sfeir-Demmle, Kiel

1990

Von der Natur in der Kunst, Messepalast, Vienna

Freiheit-Gleichheit-Brüderlichkeit, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg; Stampa, Basel

Bühnen-Stücke, Kunstverein, Munich

Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg

2000 Jahre-Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn

Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

British Sculpture 1960-1988, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpt

Works, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle (solo)

Paperworks, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna (solo)

Städtische Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch-Hall (solo)

Galerie Wernicke, Stuttgart (solo)

1989

1789-1794, Kunsthalle Hamburg (solo)

Bicentenary Celebrations, Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenween (solo)

Skulpturen Republik, exhibition of the Vienna Festival, Vienna

Brittannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture, Le Havre

Camouflage, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York

Art in the Garden, Garden Festival, Glasgow

Pyramiden, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem

Saturne en Europe, Musee de la Ville de Strasbourg

Starlit Waters: British Sculpture 1968-88, Tate Gallery, Liverpool

Michael Klein Gallery, New York (solo)

An Exhibition on Two Themes, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem, Germany (solo)

1988

Musee d’Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France (solo)

Triennale Milano

Poursuites Revolutionnaires, Foundation Cartier pour l’Art, Jouy-en-Josas (solo)

Aphrodite of Terror, Edinburgh International Exhibition

Monument to Feuerbach, Summer Exhibition, Antwerp

Homage to Ian Hamilton Finlay, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

Pastorales, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris (solo)

1987

Documenta 8, Kassel

Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas (solo)

Inter Artes et Naturam, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (solo)

The Unpainted Landscape, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

Midway, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris (solo)

1986

L’Art et le Sacre Aujourd’hui, Cistercian Abbey, L’Epau

Between Object and Image, Madrid and Barcelona

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland (solo)

Marat Assasine and Other Works, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)

Promenades, Parc Lullin, Geneva

Little Sparta and Kriegsschatz, Espace Romeau-Chapelle Sainte-Marie, Nevers (solo)

British Council Exhibition, Sydney, Australia

1985

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (solo)

Eric Fabre Galerie, Paris (solo)

Talismans and Signifiers, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Liberty, Terror and Virtue, City Art Gallery, Southampton (solo)

Print Gallery, Peter Brattinga, Amsterdam (solo)

1984

Merian Park, Basel

1983

Hayward Gallery, London

1981

Unnatural Pebbles, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

1980

Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo (solo)

Nature Over Again After Poussin, Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (solo)

Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Battersea Park, London

1977

Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (solo)

City Art Gallery, Southampton (solo)

1976

Coracle Press, London (solo)

Homage to Watteau, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

1974

National Maritime Museum, London (solo)

1972

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (solo)

1971

Winchester College of Art (solo)

1970

Ceolfrith Bookshop Gallery, Sunderland (solo)

1969

Pittencreiff House, Dunfermline (solo)

Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)

1968

Axiom Gallery, London (solo)

1997 Hunter Square, Edinburgh

1992 Floiadepark, Zoetermeer, Netherlands

1992 Shenstone’s Leasowes, Dudley, England

1993 Beelden op de Berg, Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, Netherlands

1994 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis

1996 Botanic Garden University of Durham

1994 The Gyle, Shopping Centre, Edinburgh

1995 Landesgartenschau, Grevenbroich

1991 Stockwood Park Nurseries in the Borough of Luton, England

1997 Kunsthalle, Hambourg

1994 Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst & Co. Bank, Frankfurt/Main

1991 Library of Baden, Karlsruhe, Germany

1989 Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England

1990 Private Library of the German architect Ungers, Cologne

1990 12th & K Office Tower, Sacramento, California

1990 Railway Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland

1989 Forest of Dean, England

1988 Museum of Modern Art, Strasbourg

1987 Skulptur Projekt, Munster

1987 Campus of the University of California, San Diego

1987 Furka Pass, Switzerland

1987 West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh

1986 Domaine de Kerguehennec, Brittany

1986 Schweizergarten, Vienna

1991 Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck

1998 Den Haag, the Netherlands

1986 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

1998 Serpentine Gallery, London

1980 Kroller-Muller Sculpture Garden, Otterlo

1979 British Embassy, Bonn

1978 Bell’s Garden, Perth

1976 University of Liege, Liege

1975 Garden of the Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart

1975 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

Selected Permanent Installations

2004 St. Mary Axe, City of London

2004 Fleur de l’Air, garden in Provence, France

2001 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh

2000 Wallraff- Richartz Museum, Cologne

1998 The Ark, London

2000 Schonthal Monestry, Switzerland

2000 Hamilton, Scotland

1999 Bundesarbeitsgericht, Erfurt, Germany

1999 Private garden, Zurich, Lauffen, Basel, Switzerland

1999 BUGA, Magdeberg, Germany

1999 Barcelona, Spain

1999 Park am Goetheturm im GruGurtel, Frankfurt, Germany

1999 Montreal, Canada

1999 Dienstgebaude fur den Generalbundesanwalt beim

1999 Bundesgerichtshof, Karlsruhe, Germany

1999 Ponte Vedra, Spain

1999 Shell Research, Thorton Research Centre, England

2000 Patumbah Park, Switzerland

1984 Celle, Garden of Giuliano Gori (Near Florence)