Selected Group Exhibitions

2020/21

Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to now, British Museum touring exhibition; The Oriental Museum, Durham; Pier Arts Centre, Orkney; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Cooper Gallery, Barnsley, UK

Shadow & Light, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

Heat; Roger Ackling, Trevor Sutton, Carol Robertson, David Blackaller, Cecilia Vissers and Nick Collins. Zembla Gallery, Hawick, Scotland

2019

Fire: Flashes to Ashes in British Art 1692-2019, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK

Drawing and Ritual, Leeds City Art Gallery – part of the Yorkshire Sculpture International Festival, Leeds, UK

Clare Kenny: If I Was a Rich Girl, Kunstraum Riehen, Riehen, Switzerland

2018/19

50 Years, 50 Artists, Annely Juda Fine Art, London,

On Paper, Arts Council touring exhibition; Perth Museum and Art Gallery; Gallery   Oldham; Inverness Museum and Art Gallery; Oriel Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, UK

2018    

Twenty, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2017    

Lifelines / Roger Ackling, Carol Robertson, Trevor Sutton, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel, Switzerland

A Certain Kind of Light: Light in Art Over Six Decades, The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

2016    

Till It’s Gone, Istanbul Modern, Turkey

2015    

R. Ackling / R. Long / A. Schlosser, Galería Elvira González, Madrid 2014 Summer Show

2014    

Annely Juda Fine Art, London

David Blackaller and Roger Ackling: Sundays, Sleeper, Edinburgh, UK

Abstract Drawing, Drawing Room, London, UK

2013    

Inner Focus, Anthony Slayter-Ralph fine art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79, Hayward Touring group exhibition, SouthamptonArt Gallery, Southampton, UK, and tours to: The National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; Longside   Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Yorkshire, UK

2012    

Piet and Ida Sanders: A Life with Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

2010    

Landmark, Salthouse 10, Salthouse Church, Salthouse, UK

From Floor To Sky - British Sculpture and the Studio Experience, Ambika P3, University    of Westminster, London

Imprints-Galerie, Piégros la Clastre (F)

art forum berlin, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Vienna, Austria

Konkrete Idole. Nonfigurative Kunst und afrikanische Skulpturen, Museum Liner,   Appenzell, Switzerland

2008   

Conversations, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK

Circlo, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain

Landscape and Geometry, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK

Open Traveling Museum in Edinburgh, Tent Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

2007   

Hands On, Hands Off, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

Underground, Shoreditch Town Hall, London, UK

2006   

ALCHEMY: 12 Contemporary Artists Exploring the Essence of Photography, Harewood House, Leeds and touring to; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London; Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria ; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK (-2007)

Roger Ackling / Richard Long: 1 + 1 = 2, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, USA

Summertime, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

Zeichnung 06, Galerie Lidner, Vienna, Austria

Parallel Visions 11 – Outsider and Insider Art Today, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, USA

Definite Articles, Vertigo Gallery, London

2005   

Geometrisk Abstraktion XXIV, Kunstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden

Elements of Abstraction: Space, Line and Interval in Modern British Art, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK

Raised Awareness, Tate Modern, London, UK

Controlled, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK

2004   

Wall Projects and Drawings, The Drawing Room, New York, USA

Roger Ackling und Hanns Schimansky, Galerie Inga Kondeyne, Berlin, Germany

Ourboros the Music of the Spheres, Centre of Contemporary Art, Glasgow, UK

2003   

On General Release, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

Roger Ackling, Jonathan Stollar, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

2002   

The Great Divide, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

Signatures of the Invisible, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigåo, Lisbon, Portugal

Peinture et Photographie, Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil, Paris, France

2001    

Geometrisk, Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm, Sweden

2000   

Nature & Urbanisme 11, Gabrielle Salomon – Art Conseil,

Paris Horror Vacuui, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1999    

Chart - marking time in the landscape, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Nature/Process, University of California Art Gallery, California, USA

Primary Source, University of Massachusetts – Amherst Fine Arts Center, Massachusetts, USA

Small is Beautiful Part XVI: Music, Flowers East, London

1997    

The Quality of Light, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

Treasure Island, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigåo, Lisbon, Portugal

1994    

Fine Lines, Anthony Slayter-Ralph Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, USA

In Pursuit of Lost Time, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA

1992    

One form, one surface, one volume, Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel, Switzerland

1991     

Archaeology into Art, Eastbourne, UK (touring exhibition)

Norfolk Portfolio: Recent Work by Roger Ackling, Anthony Benjamin, Derrick Greaves, Norwich Castle Museum, Norwich, UK

Dessins d'une Collection, Movement 5, FRAC, Picardie, France

White Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Modern Drawings, Anthony Slayter-Ralph Gallery, New York

1990    

The Journey 1990, Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, UK

Territories II, Musée de Beaux Arts, Reims, France

1988/89

Private Eyes, Camden Art Centre, London

Victoria Miro Gallery, London

Le Reveil de la Nature, Helsinki Art Hall, Helsinki, Finland

Britannica, Trente ans de Sculpture, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, touring to   Museum Van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium, and Centre d'Art Contemporain    Midi-Pyrenees, Labege- Innopole, Toulouse, France

Roger Ackling, David Nash, Diane Samuels, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1987   

The Unpainted Landscape, Scottish Arts Council, Touring Exhibition

Coon Selected Works, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth

Book Works, Jonah Jones, Artists Market, London

1986    

Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Un Aspect Des Collection du Fonds Regional D'Art Contemporain Bretagne, Rennes, France

Overland, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Landscape, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge

1985    

Seven Artists, London College of Furniture Gallery

Promenade - Outside Sculpture, Geneva, Switzerland

Carta, Fonds Regionaux D'Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardennes, touring exhibition Papier/Dechirure, M.J.C. Les Hauts de Belleville, Paris

Common Ground, Ecology Centre, London

Landscape Interiors, Coracle Press, London

1984    

Six Artists, Metropolitan Gallery, London

Selected Works, Herefordshire Museum Survey of Fire, Chalons sur Marne Museum, Region Champagne-Ardennes

Second Nature, curated by Commong Ground, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall

Three Galleries, Serpentine Gallery, London

Selected Work, Warwick Art Trust

1983    

Eleven Artists, London College of Furniture Gallery, London

L'Objet Defeu, Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris

Works on Paper, British Council Touring Exhibition

Works on Loan, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh

Constructed Images, Arts Council Touring Exhibition World Print Biennale, San      Francisco

Whitechapel Open, London

Contemporary Choice, Serpentine Gallery, London

III Biennale European Graphic Art, Baden-Baden

Through Children's Eyes, Southampton City Art Gallery

Art and the Land, Rochdale Art Gallery

1982    

A Mansion of Many Chambers, Arts Council Touring Exhibition curated by David Brown    

Recent Acquisitions of the Arts Council Collection, National Theatre, London

Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Touring Japan

10th Anniversary, L.Y.C. Museum, selected by D. Nash

Studio F - Ten Years of Painting, Chelsea Art School Gallery, London

English Books, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt

1981     

Contemporary Art and Music, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh

Selected Works, Lisson Gallery, London

Graeme Murray Artists at St. Paul's Gallery, Leeds

Contemporary Art, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland

American and British Art, Gillespie-Laage, Paris

São Paulo Art Biennial, São Paulo

1980    

Opening Show, Lisson Gallery, London Nuova Image, Triennale, Milan

XVI Venice Biennale Aperto, Venice

Toulon Biennale, France

Selected Works, Graeme Murray, Edinburgh

Whitechapel Open, London

British Art 1946-80, Hayward Gallery, London

Five Work Caps, Coracle Press, London

1979    

Recent Acquisitions of Southampton Art Gallery, exhibited at the Mayor Gallery, London

Europa 79 - Art of the 80's - Survey of New European Art, Düsseldorf Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London

Drawing, Gillespie-Laage Gallery, Paris

Drawings from Outer Hebrides, London College of Furniture Gallery

1978    

Foundlings, Coracle Press, London

1977    

Six British Artists, Museum of Fine Art, Pretto, New York (organised by the Lisson Gallery)

European and American Drawing, Gillespie-Laage Gallery, Paris

Miniatures, Coracle Press London

Whitechapel Open, London

Annina Weber Gallery, New York

1968    

Zwemmers Summer Show, London

1967    

Although We Are Painting Now, Ealing Art School, London

Four European Film Makers, ICA, London Avantgarde Film, ICA, London

Young Contemporaries/Film

Roger Ackling’s work has featured in numerous exhibitions across the world since the 1970’s with a particular frequency and warm reception in Japan, a country whose art, culture and thinking Ackling had a deep affinity.