| 1948 |
Swindon Public Library.
First Solo Exhibition. January 10th to 24th. |
| 1948 |
Swindon Public Library.
Group Exhibition: Contemporary Art Group. (With Frans Baljon, John Eyles, Edward Kingan, Mervyn Levy and Walter Poole) August 21st to September 4th. |
| 1948 |
Kingly Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: Artists Known and Unknown. July 12th onwards. |
| 1948 |
West Bromwich Art Gallery.
Group Exhibition: Ryland Sketch Club Exhibition. December 1st to 31st. |
| 1949 |
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Galleries.
Group Exhibition: The Birmingham Artists Committee Invitation Exhibition. (With Emmy Bridgwater, William Gear, Conroy Maddox, Oscar Mellor, John Melville and others) January 29th to February 8th. |
| 1949 |
Bilston Corporation Art Gallery.
Group Exhibition: The Birmingham Artists Committee Invitation Exhibition. (With Emmy Bridgwater, William Gear, Conroy Maddox, Oscar Mellor, John Melville and others) February 9th to March 2nd. |
| 1950 |
London Gallery.
First London Exhibition. (With Joan Miro and Cyril Hammersma.) February 2nd to 28th. |
| 1951 |
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Galleries.
Group Exhibition: Birmingham Artists Committee Invitation Exhibition. (With Emmy Bridgwater, Conroy Maddox and others) January 27th to February 7th. |
| 1951 |
Folk House, Bristol.
Group Exhibition: Festival of Britain: Contemporary West Country Painting and Sculpture. June 16th to July 14th. |
| 1951 |
Salle des Expositions, Knokke-le-Zoute.
Group Exhibition: 4th Festival Belge D'Eté: Les Tendances D'Avant-Garde dans la Peinture Britannique Actuelle. July 29th to August 11th. |
| 1952 |
New Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
First Oxford Exhibition. (With Geoffrey Clarke and Scottie Wilson) May 27th to June 8th. |
| 1974 |
Stooshnoff Fine Art, London.
Solo Exhibition. April 2nd to June 12th. |
| 1976 |
Wolfson College, Oxford.
Solo Exhibition: Paintings of the 1950s and 1960s. May 2nd to 31st. |
| 1976 |
Quadrangle Gallery, Oxford.
Solo Exhibition. May 4th to 29th. |
| 1976 |
Lasson Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition. October 12th to November 12th. |
| 1976 |
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.
Retrospective Exhibition. November 16th to December 7th. |
| 1978 |
Camden Arts Centre.
Group Exhibition: Surrealism Unlimited. January 17th to March 5th. |
| 1978 |
Galerie D'Eendt, Amsterdam.
Solo Exhibition. October 7th to November 1st. |
| 1982 |
Galerie 1900-2000, Paris.
Group Exhibition: Les Enfants D'Alice. La Peinture Surréaliste en Angleterre. 1930-1960. May 14th to June 30th. |
| 1983 |
Wylma Wayne Fine Art, London.
Group Exhibition: Christmas Show. November 30th to December 23rd. |
| 1985 |
The Minories, Colchester.
Group Exhibition: A Salute to British Surrealism. 1930-1950. April 6th to May 5th. |
| 1985 |
Blond Fine Art, London.
Group Exhibition: A Salute to British Surrealism. 1930-1950. May 22nd to June 22nd. |
| 1985 |
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.
Group Exhibition: A Salute to British Surrealism. 1930-1950. July 6th to August 4th. |
| 1986 |
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
Group Exhibition: Contrariwise. Surrealism and Britain 1930-1986. September 20th to November 15th. |
| 1986 |
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath.
Group Exhibition: Contrariwise. Surrealism and Britain 1930-1986. November 22nd to January 3rd. |
| 1987 |
Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle.
Group Exhibition: Contrariwise. Surrealism and Britain 1930-1986. January 10th to February 21st. |
| 1987 |
Mostyn Art Gallery, Llandudno.
Group Exhibition: Contrariwise. Surrealism and Britain 1930-1986. February 28th to April 11th. |
| 1987 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition. September 16th to October 17th. |
| 1987 |
Smith's Galleries, London.
Group Exhibition: The Day Book Picture Show. December 3rd to 13th. |
| 1987 |
Keats Gallery, Knokke-Le-Zoute.
Group Exhibition: British Season 1987. (With P.J. Crook and Michael Rothenstein.) December 5th to 31st. |
| 1988 |
Shippee Gallery, New York.
Solo Exhibition. April 28th to May 28th. |
| 1988 |
Keats Gallery, Knokke-Le-Zoute.
Solo Exhibition. July 9th to August 11th. |
| 1988 |
Fine Art Associates, London.
Group Exhibition: The Avant-Garde in Britain, 1910-1960. October 28th to November 19th. |
| 1988 |
Ghent Art Fair, Belgium.
Group Exhibition. November. |
| 1989 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition: Works on Paper 1947-1988. November 22nd to December 22nd. |
| 1990 |
Arnold Herstand and Company, New York.
Group Exhibition: Surrealism: from Paris to New York. May 12th through Summer. |
| 1990 |
John Bonham, Murray Feely Fine Arts, London.
Group Exhibition: An Exhibition of Living British Surrealists. August 1st to September 15th. |
| 1990 |
Louise Hallett Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: Autumn Show. November 29th to December 7th. |
| 1990 |
John Bonham, Murray Feely Fine Arts, London.
Group Exhibition: Christmas Show, 1990. December 5th to 15th. |
| 1991 |
Galerie Michele Heyraud, Paris.
Solo Exhibition: Oeuvres Surréalistes. February 14th to March 23rd. |
| 1991 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition. May 2nd to June 14th. |
| 1991 |
John Bonham, Murray Feely Fine Arts, London.
Group Exhibition: The Birmingham Seven. June 12th to July 13th. |
| 1991 |
Galerie Michele Heyraud, Paris.
Group Exhibition: La Forme et ses Symboles. (With J. Bolze, M. Delacroix and O. De Frayssinet.) September 14th to October 19th. |
| 1991 |
John Bonham, Murray Feely Fine Arts, London.
Group Exhibition: Christmas Show, 1991. December 4th to 14th. |
| 1992 |
Galerie Marie-Therese Wagner, Thionville.
Solo Exhibition: Desmond Morris: Écrivain - Zoologiste - Peintre. March 7th to 31st. |
| 1992 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: British Surrealism. March 24th to May 22nd. |
| 1993 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: The Figure. March 1st to April 30th. |
| 1993 |
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Group Exhibition: Surrealism: Revolution by Night. March 12th to May 2nd. |
| 1993 |
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Group Exhibition: Surrealism: Revolution by Night. May 21st to July 11th. |
| 1993 |
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery.
Retrospective Exhibition: Paintings 1946-1993. July 7th to August 15th. |
| 1993 |
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Group Exhibition: Surrealism: Revolution by Night. July 30th to September 19th. |
| 1994 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition: Paintings From the Sixties. June 2nd to July 8th. |
| 1994 |
Faggionato Fine Arts, London.
Group Exhibition: Surrealist Sculptures. October 12th to December 16th. |
| 1995 |
England & Co., London
Group Exhibition: British Surrealism 1935-1995. May 5th to May 27th. |
| 1995 |
Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum.
Group Exhibition: Real Surreal: British and European Surrealism. June 17th to August 19th. |
| 1996 |
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester.
Group Exhibition: In the Mind's Eye. Surrealist Works on Paper. April 26th to June 30th. |
| 1996 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: Works on Paper. June 15th to August 31st. |
| 1996 |
City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.
Retrospective Exhibition: Fifty Years of Surrealism. June 16th to July 28th. |
| 1996 |
Nottingham Natural History Museum.
Retrospective Exhibition: Fifty Years of Surrealism. September 14th to November 17th. |
| 1996 |
Atrium Bookshop, Cork Street, London.
Solo Exhibition for book launch: Fifty Years of Surrealism. September 18th. |
| 1996 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: A Dada and Surrealist Bouquet. November 25th to December 20th. |
| 1997 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition: Fifty Years of Surrealism. May 6th to June 7th. |
| 1997 |
Charleston Gallery, Near Firle, Lewes, East Sussex.
Solo Exhibition: Fifty Years of Surrealism. May 11th to June 8th. |
| 1997 |
York City Art Gallery, Exhibition Square, York.
Group Exhibition: In the Mind's Eye. Surrealist Works on Paper. August 16th to September 14th. |
| 1997 |
Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Buxton, Derbyshire.
Solo Exhibition: A Surrealist World. |
| 1997 |
British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London.
Group exhibition. September 24th to September 27th. |
| 1997 |
FIAC. Paris.
Group Exhibition: Faces and Places: Dada and Surrealist Portraits and Landscapes. September 30th to October 8th. |
| 1997 |
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome.
Group Exhibition: Marcel Duchamp ed altri iconoclasti, anche. (Selected by Arturo Schwarz.) November. |
| 1997 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition: Faces and Places: Dada and Surrealist Portraits and Landscapes. November 18th to December 19th. |
| 1997-8. |
IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain.
Group Exhibition: El Objecto Surrealista. October 16th 1997 to 4th January 1998. |
| 1998 |
Clayton Gallery, Newcastle.
Solo Exhibition. Fifty Years of Surrealism. April 30th to May 30th |
| 1998 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition. 85 Years of Sculpture. May 20th to June 26th. |
| 1998 |
British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London.
Group Exhibition. September |
| 1998 |
Keitelman Gallery, Brussels.
Solo Exhibition. October 29th to December 20th. |
| 1998-9 |
Jessy Van der Velde Gallery, Antwerp.
Solo Exhibition. October 31st to January 1999. |
| 1999 |
Art Consultancy Witteveen, Amsterdam.
Solo Exhibition. Paintings and Drawings 1947-1997 Feb 6th to March 13th. |
| 1999 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Group Exhibition. Surrealism in Britain. May. |
| 1999 |
Mayor Gallery, London
Solo Exhibition. Works on Paper 1949-1999. December 15th to 23rd. |
| 2001 |
Galerie Pack-Huys, Mechelen, Belgium
Solo Exhibition. Naked Surrealism. November 23rd 2001 to Jan 3rd 2002 |
| 2002 |
Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium.
Solo Exhibition. Retrospective. March 23rd to June 16th. |
| 2002 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition. Paintings and Works on Paper. April 2nd to May 3rd. |
| 2002 |
Art Consultancy Witteveen, Amsterdam.
Solo Exhibition. 55 Years of Surrealism. Nov 16th to Dec 23rd. |
| 2003 |
Solomon Gallery, Dublin.
Solo Exhibition. Naked Surrealism. Oct 29th to Nov 17th. |
| 2004 |
Mayor Gallery, London.
Solo Exhibition. Recent Paintings & A Lost World; Sketches for a Bestiary 1960. Dec 1st to Dec 22nd. |
| 2005 |
Art Consultancy Witteveen, Amsterdam.
Solo Exhibition. From May 6th. |
| 2005 |
Art Consultancy Witteveen, Amsterdam.
Solo Exhibition. May 7th to Jun 4th 2005. |
| 2005 |
Guillermo de Osma Galeria, Madrid.
Solo Exhibition. Desmond Morris, Pintor Surrealista. Sept 27th to Oct 28th 2005. |
| 2005 |
Alexander Clayton Art, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Solo Exhibition. Surrealist Paintings (1949-2004). Nov 4th to Nov 30th 2005. |
| 2006 |
Gallery Pack-Huys, Mechelen.
Solo exhibition. May 5th to June 2006. |
| 2008 |
Desmond Morris: 80th Birthday Retrospective.
Works from 1946 to 2007. January 10th to 30th 2008. MAYOR GALLERY, January 10th to 30th 2008. |
| 2008 |
Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead.
Desmond Morris Retrospective: Lines of Thought. September 12th to November 9th. |
| 2008 |
Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam.
Solo Exhibition. Lines of Thought. October 18th to November 22nd. |
| 2008 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford.
Three Surrealists. (with Conroy Maddox and Oscar Mellor.) December 5th to January 25th 2009. |
| 2009 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford.
Three Surrealists. (with Conroy Maddox and Oscar Mellor.) December 10th to January 2010. |
| 2010 |
Verbeke Foundation, Belgium.
Desmond Morris: First Collage Exhibition. January 16 to May 10th 2010. |
| 2010 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition. Dec 9th 2010 to January 2011. |
| 2011 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition of New Work. Dec 9 2011 to 28 January 2012. |
| 2012 |
Southampton City Art Gallery.
The Road is Wider than Long; Roland Penrose and British Surrealism 9 February th 13 May 2012 |
| 2012 |
ISPA Gallery, Lisbon
Solo Exhibition: Desmond Morris, Pintura. May 24 2012 to 21 Jun 2012 |
| 2012 |
Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
Group exhibition: British Surrealists Sep 14 2012 to 17 Nov 2012 |
| 2012 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition of New Work: The Tree of Time Dec 7 2012 to 8 Feb 2013 |
| 2013 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition of New Work Dec 5 2013 to 28 Jan 2013 |
| 2014 |
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
Group Exhibition: British Surrealism Unlocked Apr 10 2014 to 21 Jun 2014 |
| 2014 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition of New Work: Headworks Jun 5 2014 to 28 Jun 2014 |
| 2014 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition: 70 Years of Surrealism: The New Work of 2014 Dec 5 2014 to 31 Dec 2014 |
| 2015 |
O3 Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition. 4 Jul 2015 to 26 Jul 2015 |
| 2015 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition. The New Oil Paintings of 2015 4 to 31 December 2015 |
| 2016 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition. The New Paintings of 2016 2 to 31 December 2016 |
| 2017 |
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Solo Exhibition. The New Paintings of 2017 7 to 31 December 2017 |
| 2018 |
Redfern Gallery, London
Solo Exhibition Works in paper 1948 - 2018 16 May to 9 June 2018 |
| 2019 |
Mallams, Oxford
Solo exhibition New paintings: Bodyworks 4 April to 7 April 2019 |
| 2019 |
Farleys Gallery, Sussex
Solo exhibition of New Work 11 August to 13 October 2019 |
| 2019 |
Ronapainting Gallery, Ship Street, Oxford.
Desmond Morris, Rona, Chase Marsden 19 November 2019 to March 2020. |
| 2020 |
Beaux Arts Gallery, London.
Solo exhibition. Desmond Morris in the 21st Century. 14 October to 12 December |
| 2020 |
Ronapainting Gallery, Walton Street, Oxford.
Mixed exhibition. 3 December to 23 January 2021. |
| 2022 |
THE LAST SURREALIST.
Solo exhibition of paintings at the Redfern Gallery in London. 11 May to 10 June 2022. |
| 2022 |
Informal opening day of his new Art Institute, DIVA
(The Dun Laoghaire Institute of Visual Arts). 10 June 2022. |
| 2022 |
Exhibition of recent paintings at the Ronapainting Gallery
Walton Street, Oxford. 7 June to 30 July 2022. |
| 2022 |
Creatures of the Mind
Formal opening of DIVA Opened on 15 September 2022. |
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