Caldbeck Gallery is delighted to present new work by John Walker in a two person show; Lois Dodd John Walker/Two Friends Painting, opening October 2, 2026.Lois Dodd John Walker/ Two Friends Painting 2026
JOHN WALKER was born in Birmingham, England in 1939. He has worked and lived across the world, yet much of his work for the last 20 years has been based in Maine, where he now lives. His work mixes abstraction and figuration, along with art history and cross-cultural exchanges, in a manner that refuses to be restricted to genre. His work based in Maine has become a conversation with the weather, light, and physical form of the canvas. Goya was a formative impact on his early work; Rembrandt, Titian, and Matisse’s cut outs have remained consistent influences.
Walker studied at Birmingham College of Art, The British School in Rome, and the Academy de la Grand Chaumiere, Paris. He was a Gregory Fellow at Leeds University, was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to the U.S. and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been artist-in residence at Oxford University, and at Monash, Melbourne. He represented England at the 1972 Venice Biennale.
Walker taught at the Royal College in London and at Yale University. In the 1980’s he was Dean of Victoria College of Art in Melbourne, Australia. From 1993 to 2015, he taught at Boston University and is currently Professor Emeritus of Art and former head of the graduate program in Painting and Sculpture at Boston University School of Visual Arts.
He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in NY; The Phillips Collection in DC; The Tate Gallery and The Hayward Gallery in London; The Kunstverein, Hamburg; The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and others.
His work can be found in museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, The Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angles, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection in D.C, The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and at the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. Walker has been showing with Caldbeck Gallery since.
John Walker lives and works in South Bristol, Maine.
