Chronology
1929 Born 12 March, London, to Charles & Sarah Berg
1947-9 National Service - Royal Signals
1949-52 Gonville and Caius Collage, Cambridge
1952-3 Trinity College, Dublin
1953-5 Worked as schoolteacher
1955-6 St Martin's School of Art, London
1956-8 Chelsea School of Fine Art, London
1958-61 Royal College of Art, London
1961 Moved into flat at Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, London
1961-78 Taught at various art schools, in particular at
Central School of Art and Design, London, and Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London
1964 First Solo Exhibition at Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1969 Moved to top-floor flat at Gloucester Gate, Regent's Park, London
1973 Awarded Gold Medal at Florence Biennale, Italy
1985 Moved to Cambridge Gate, Regent's Park, London
1980 Prizewinner at John Moores Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981 First Solo Exhibition, Waddington Gallery, London
1985 First Solo Exhibition, Piccadilly Gallery, London
1986 Retropective, Serpentine Gallery, London
1987-8 Elected Senior Tutor, Royal College of Art
1988 Moved to Hove, East Sussex
1992 Elected Royal Academician
1993 Retrospective, Barbican Gallery, London
1994 Elected Honoray Fellow of the Royal College of Art
1996 Berg's partner Mike Osmund died
2004 Elected Senior Royal Academician
2011 Died 22 October, Brighton
Selected Collections
Arts Council Collections, Southbank Centre
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport
Barclays Bank, UK
City of Bradford
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries
The British Council
The British Museum
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
London Borough of Camden, Town Hall Extension
Carlise Museum and Art Gallery
Contemporary Art Society
Dartington Hall
East Sussex County Council
The European Parliment
Goverment Art Collection
Guildhall Art Gallery
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Hove Museum and Art Gallery
Leeds City Art Gallery
The University of Liverpool Art Gallery
Manchester City Art Gallery
The Nation Trust
Pallant House Gallery
Penguin Books Ltd
Rochdale Art Gallery
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Physicians
Tate
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
Touchstones Rochdale
Victoria Gallery and Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1964, '67, '69, '72,& '75
Arthur Tooth & Sons, London
1973
Galleria Vaccarino, Florence
1976
Galerie Burg Diesdonk, Dusseldorf
1978
Waddington & Tooth Galleries, London
Yehudi Menuhin School, Surrey
1979
Waddington & Tooth Galleries, Montreal and Toronto
Hokin Gallery Inc., Chicago
1980
Rochdale Art Gallery
1981 & '83
Waddington Galleries, London
1984
Serpentine Gallery (South Gallery), London
1985, '88, '89, '91, '93, '99 & 2002
The Piccadilly Gallery, London
1986
Serpentine Gallery, London, and touring to:
The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Polythechnic Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1992
The Gardener Centre (Gallery & Studio), University of Sussex
1993
Barbican Centre, London, and touring to:
Victoria Gallery, Bath; City Art Gallery, Plymouth; Newport Museum & Art Gallery;
Mappin Galley, Sheffield; Hatton Gallery, Sheffield, and Royal Botanic Gallery, Edinborough
1994
Rye Art Gallery, East Sussex
1999 & 2009
Royal Academy, London
Dartington Hall Gallery, Devon
2008
Richmond Hill Gallery, London
2012
Pallant House Gallery (memorial exhibition), Chichester
2017
Hall Place and Gardens (retrospective curated by Artwise), Bexley
2018
Adrin Berg, A Human Nature, Frestonian Gallery, London
2021
Adrian Berg, Paintings, Frestonian Gallery, London
2023
Adrian Berg, Works on Paper, Frestonian Gallery, London
2024
Phantasmagoria, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
1955
Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery, London
1955 & '60
Young Contemporaries, RBA Galleries, London
1961
The British School at Rome, Commonwelth Insitute, London
1962, '63 & '64
St Pancras Artists, London
1965
British Painters, Arthur Tooth & Sons,
London Pop and Op, Modern British Painting, Geneva
1966
New Graphics, Arts Council Gallery,
Cambridge Colour, Form and Texture, Arthur Tooth &
Sons, London
1967
How They Started, Oxford University
1968
25 Camden Artists, Swiss Cottage Library, London
1969-70
John Moores Exhibition 7, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1970-80
The British Arts Show (selected by William Packer) (touring)
1970 & yearly until 2011
Summer Exhibition, RoyalAcademy, London
Selection from the Royal Academy, Art Exhibition Bureau (touring)
1973
Landscape, Serpentine, Gallery, London
Critic's Choice (selected by William Varley),
Gulbenkian Gallery and Florence Biennale
1974
John Moores Exhibition 9, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
British Painting, Hayward Gallery, London
1975
The English Landscape, Usher Gallery, Lincoln
National Art Exhibition, Chichester
1976
The Human Clay (selected by R.B Kitaj), Hayward Gallery, London
1977
1st Tolly Cobbold, Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge
1978
English Realism, Waddington Galleries, Montreal
1979
The Camden Scene - 18th C to the present day, Camden Arts Centre, London
2nd Tolly Cobbold, Fitwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1980
John Moores Exhibition 12, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981-1
Israel Observed (elected by Helene Marks), Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The Spirit of London, Royal Festival Hall and The Stock Exchange, London
1981
3rd Tolly Cobbold, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Contemporary Artists in Camden, Camden Arts Centre, London
1982
Aspects of British Art Today (British Council Exhibition), Tokyo Metropollian Art Museum and touring Japan
British Drawing, Hayward Gallery, London, and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Presences of Nature (selected by Neil Hanson), Carlise Museum & Art Gallery
Enter the Garden, Ellingham Mill Art Society Gallery, Suffolk
Sainsbury's Images for Today, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffiled
Small works, Polytechnic Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1982-3
John Moores Exhibition 13, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1983
The Granada Collection, Withworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Group VI, Waddington Galleries, London
New Landscape Paintings (selected by Andy Ashton), Bury Art Gallery
53-83- Three Decades of Artists from Inner London Art Schools, Royal Academy of Arts,London
The Artist's London, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
1984
The Hard-Won Image, Tate, London
A View from my Window, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
1985
John Moores Exhibition 14, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Summer in the City (selected by Antonia Payne), Ikon Gallery, Birmignham
British Artists in Italy, 1920-80, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury College
Printmaking Department RCA, Rijksakademie, Stadhouderskade, Amsterdam
1986
Art in the Home, Arts Council & Liberty, Earls Court, London
Finest Prospects, Three Historic Houses, English Heritage, Kenwood, London
Contemporary British and Malaysian Art 1986, National Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; National
Gallery, Bangkok; Hong Kong Arts Centre and The National Gallery, Singapore
1987
John Moores Exhibition 15, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Athena Art Awards 1987, Barbican Centre, London
Knowing Your Place, The London Ecology Centre
Landscapes, Castfield Gallery, Manchester
Introducing with Pleasure - Star Choices from the Arts Council Collection, Gardner Art
Centre, University of Sussex, and touring
Small Is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Land, Sea, Air, The Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury Collge and touring
The Long Perspective, National Trust Foundation for Art, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London
1988
Exhibition Road - Painters at the Royal Collegeof Art (150th Anniversary of the RCA), London
Reflections, CCA Galleries, London
Kew - The British Garden, CCA Galleries, London
Mother and Child, The Lefevre Gallery, London
Sunday Times Watercolour Competetion, The Mall Galleries, London
Artists in National Parks, Victoria & Albert Museum and touring
Stormstruck, The National Trust Foundation for Art at Petworth House
1989
The Tree of Life, South Bank Exhibition Centre, London, and Cornerhuse, Manchester
Within These Shores, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
The Royal College, Galerie zur Alten Duetschen Schule, Thun, Switzerland
Images of Paradise, Harewood House, Yorkshire, and Christie's, London
1990
London's Pride, The Museum of London
3 Ways - Contemporary British Painting, The British Council, touring to Hungary, Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and across Africa
9 Contempoary Painters (selected by Andrew Lambirth), Bristol Art Gallery
Nicholas & Andrei Tooth Memorial Exhibition, Albemarle Gallery, London
Tribute to Peter Fuller, Beaux Arts, Bath
The Forces of Nature, Manchester City ArtGallery and Harris Museum and Art
Gallery, Preston
The Tree, Chris Beetles Gallery, London
RSPB Fine Arts, RSPB at Hastings and Bonhams, London
1991
Hortus Cambrensis, National Trust Art Foundation at Erddig, Clwyd
Cabinet Paintings, Gillian Jason Gallery, London
1992
Contemporary Colourists' Gallery 10, London and Flying Colours, Edinburgh
The Celebrated City, Barbican Centre, London
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
1993
Moving into view, Arts Council Collection at the South Bank Centre, London
Innovation and Tradition; Recent Painting in Britain, Tate, London
The Sussex Scene, Hove and Eastbourne Art Galleries
John Moores Exhibition 18, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Summer Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London (and in '94 and '95)
1994
Here and Now, Serpentine Gallery, London
The Peter Greenham Memorial Exhibition, Christie's London
The Garden Party, Shire Hall Gallery, Stratford
1995
Centenary, The National Trust's Foundation for Art at Christie's, London
Works on Paper by Royal Academicians, Coram Gallery, London, and New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey
Alive! - Brighton since the 60s, University of Brighton Gallery
1996
From Place to Place, Barbican Centre, London
Woven Image, Barbican Centre, London, and touring
New Paintings, British Airways at Heathrow, London
1997-8
The Subjects of Art, Lothbury Gallery, London
1998
Eye Contact, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
Landscapes of England, Royal Academy, London
Portraits of Places, Lothbury Gallery, London
Painter Progress - The RCA Collection, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester Gardens,
A.T. Kearney's of Berkeley Square, London
1999
Brighton Up!, Brewery Arts, Cirencester, and the Black Swan Guild, Somerset
Nature in Art, Wallsworth Hall, Gloucester
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
2000
The Guildhall Art Gallery Collection, Guildhall Art Gallery, London
Pastel Painting and Drawing 1898-2000, Mall Galleries, London
Order and Event - Landscape Now, Space Gallery, London
2001
Royal Watercolour Society Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Real Encounters, South Eastern Arts, Hastings Pier Gallery
2003
The View, Waterstones, London
2004
Art of the Garden, Tate, London
2005
Visual Wit, Royal Academy (Friends Room and galleries ), London
2012
Critic's Choice (selected by Andrew Lambirth), Browse & Darby, London
2017
The Luminous Language, Frestonian Gallery, London
2018
Year One, Frestonian Gallery, London
2020
The Green Fuse, Frestonian Gallery, London
2022
Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes. Curated by Todd Bradway. Acquavella New York
Lustrum Frestonian, Celebrating 5 Years of the Frestonian Gallery, London
2023
Over Land And Sea Part II. Hunter Dunbar Projects, New York
Collection Highlights + Collection Relations. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Arts, Japan