Biography
Norman Ackroyd CBE RA is one of Britain’s finest landscape artists. Born in 1938 in Leeds, Ackroyd attended the Royal College of Art, London from 1961 to 1964. He was elected to the Royal Academy of Art in 1988 and Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art in 2000. In 2007 he was made CBE for services to engraving and printmaking. His work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Tate, London, The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle, the British Museum, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2013 Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex, UK
2013 Eames Fine Art, Bermondsey, London
2013 Atelier Rose ‘& Gray, Hale, Cheshire, UK
2012 North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex, UK
2012 Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, Scotland
2011 North House Gallery, Manningtree, Essex, UK
2011 Corn Hall Gallery, Diss, Norfolk, UK
2010 Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, UK
2010 Brook Gallery, Devon, UK
2009 Fine Art Society, London
2008 Galway Museum, Galway, Ireland
Selected Public Collections
Albertina Museum, Vienna
Art Institute of Chicago
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Council
British Museum, London
Cleveland Museum of Art
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
National Gallery of Canada
National Gallery of Norway
National Gallery of Scotland
National Gallery of South Africa
Queensland Art Gallery
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
Stedelijk, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Utah Museum of Fine Art
and numerous museums and art galleries in the United Kingdom