Collections
—Art Institute of Chicago
—Ashmolean Museum
—British Museum
—Deste Foundation
—Fitzwilliam Museum
—King’s College London
—London School of Economics
—Metropolitan Museum of Art
—New York Public Library
—Rhode Island School of Design
—Victoria and Albert Museum
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Austin Desmond, London, Other Places (solo) (with Julian Page)
2024 Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris, Departures (solo)
2024 Arter, Istanbul, Suppose You Are Not (work from the Ömer Koç collection, curated by Selen Ansen)
2023 Willoughby Gerrish, London, Apertures (solo)
2023 VCRB Gallery, Antwerp, Ambiguita
2023 Austin Desmond, London, Public Figure: Painting, Drawing and Photography
2022 Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking
2021 Austin Desmond, London, Prints and Fairytales (with Julian Page)
The Art Station, Saxmundham, The Waiting Place (curated by Ann-Marie James and Emily Godden)
2020 Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, The Letchworth Open (curated by Kristian Day)
2019 Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, The Cambridge Show
King’s College, Cambridge, Not Now (solo)
Austin Desmond, London, Points of Contact
Pinsent Masons, Abstract vs Figure 1952-2019 (curated by Nick Hornby)
2016 Collyer Bristow, London, Face Value (curated by Kathleen Soriano)
2015 Syson Gallery, Nottingham, Under the Sun (solo)
David Krut Projects, New York, Machines of Loving Grace (solo)
Julian Page, Repetition/Variation
2014 Art 14 / Julian Page, Sculpture Paintings (solo)
2013 Pace, New York, Lucy de Kooning Presents (with Aakash Nihalani and
Carlos Soto)
87A Lower Marsh, London (curated by Samia Calbayrac)
House of St Barnabas, London, The Collective (curated by Katie Heller)
Transition Gallery, London, Atomic
2012 Artissima 19, Turin, Present Future curated section (solo)
2011 Pulse, Los Angeles (solo; prizewinner)
Skylight Projects, New York, Eighteen Pages (solo)
Morley College, London, Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Prize
Lloyds Club, London, Iconoclasts
2010 Jerwood Space, London (and tour), Jerwood Drawing Prize
7Eleven Gallery, New York, Make Yourself at Home
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, Gilchrist Fisher Award
2009 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Northern Print Biennale
7Eleven Gallery, New York, Better History
Prizes & Awards
2020 Paul Mellon Centre: Research Continuity Fellowship
2015 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
2013 ING Discerning Eye (winner of London and V&A Purchase prizes)
2011 Pulse Prize (winner)
2011 Rootstein Hopkins Drawing Prize (shortlisted)
2010 Jerwood Drawing Prize (shortlisted)
2010 Gilchrist Fisher Award (shortlisted)
Bibliography
—Ben Eastham, ‘How Lockdown Taught Me to Live with Art’, Art Review (March 2021)
—Susan Tallman, ‘Alexander Massouras: The Real and the Imaginary’, Art in Print vol. 6 no. 3 (September 2016)
—Robert Clark, ‘Exhibitions’, The Guardian (15 August 2015)
—Alice Gale-Feeny, ‘Alexander Massouras: Under the Sun’, This is Tomorrow (September 2015)
—Under the Sun [solo exhibition catalogue], with essays by John Newling and John-Paul Stonard (Syson Gallery, 2015)
—Gabriel Rolfe, ‘Art as Knowledge?’, Times Literary Supplement Blog (19 November 2015)
—Harriet Agnew, ‘Bojo vs Cameron’, Financial Times (8 May 2015)
—James Fox, ‘Collector’s Corner’, Printmaking Today vol. 23 no. 4 (Winter 2014)
—Emily Tobin, ‘Buying Art: Etching’, House and Garden (March 2014)
—Erica Cooke, ‘Present Future’, Artissima 2012 (exhibition catalogue)
—Rachel Spence, ‘Go Forth and Multiply’, Financial Times (13 October 2012)
—Julia Hendrickson, review of Three Moderately Cautionary Tales (etchings cycle), Art in Print, 2 (2012)
—Matthew Steeples, ‘What’s on Your Mantlepiece?’ (interview), The Steeple Times (2012)
—A. Moret, ‘Into the Unknown’, Installation, 2 (2012)
—Harriet Dennys, ‘Artistic License’, City AM (3 January 2012)
—Rachel Spence, ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, Financial Times (14 October 2011)
—Eighteen Pages [solo exhibition catalogue], with essays by Jon Wood and Nathan Dunne (Skylight Projects, 2011)
—Lyndhurst Way: A Year of Exhibitions (Hannah Barry Gallery, 2007)
Publications
—Brand New Painting: Biography, Youth and the Emerging Artist (in preparation)
—’The Originality of the Antique and Other Modernist Myths’ in Transantiquity (Porto: Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019)
—’Points of Contact’ in Points of Contact (London: Austin Desmond and Julian Page, 2019)
—‘Notes on Casts’ in Florian Roithmayr, Aftercast (Cambridge and London: Tenderbooks and Kettle’s Yard, 2018)
—‘A Young Contemporary, 1958’, ‘Dark Sunlight in Summer, 1963’, and ‘The New Millennium,2000’ in The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle 1769–2018 (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2018) https://chronicle250.com
—‘Art by the Many: The London Style Cults of the 1960s’, Conversation Piece, ed. by Thomas Crow, British Art Studies, 7 (2017)
—‘Modernist Ruins and the Temporal Landscape of Jeffrey Rubinoff’s Sculpture Park’, in The Art of Jeffrey Rubinoff, ed. by James Fox (Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2017)
—‘The Art of Art Students’, in The London Art Schools, ed. by Nigel Llewellyn (London: Tate Publishing, 2015)
—‘Basic Design and the Artist-Teacher’ in Basic Design [exhibition guide], ed. by Elena Crippa and Beth Williamson (London: Tate Media, 2013)