| 1985-1988 | BA Fine Art | Goldsmiths, University of London, London |
| ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS |
| 2015 | Ian Davenport | Galerie Flore, Brussels |
| 2015 | Ian Davenport | Dan Galeria, São Paulo |
| 2015 | Pace Prints | Pace, New York |
| 2014 | Colourfall | Waddington Custot Galleries, London |
| 2013 | Colorfall | Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York |
| 2012 | Between the Lines | Art Plural Gallery, Singapore |
| | Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich |
| 2012 | Reflex | Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome |
| 2011 | Quick Slow, Quick Slow | Waddington Custot Galleries, London |
| 2011 | Prismatic | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2009 | Fabstraction | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2009 | Puddle Paintings | Waddington Galleries, London |
| 2008 | Poured Lines | Waddington Galleries, London |
| 2008 | Ian Davenport & The Simpsons | Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2007 | Ovals Arches Lines | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2015 | Right Now! | Mission Gallery, Swansea |
| 2015 | British Artists | Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich |
| 2014 | Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy, London |
| 2013-14 | Hidden in Plain Sight: British Abstract Art from the Collection | Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth |
| 2013 | Thirteen | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Linear Abstraction | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2013 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2013 | Once upon a time and what a very good time it was… | Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2012-13 | Route 66: Ian Davenport / Alberto Di Fabio | Luca Tommasi, Monza |
| 2012 | Means Without Ends | Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2012 | Sweethearts | Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2012 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2012 | The Materiality of Paint | The Fine Art Society, London |
| 2012 | Duchamp and Cage: 100 Years Later | The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout, Suffolk |
| 2012 | PiH Contemporaries 2012 | Bonhams, London |
| 2011-12 | Editions and Acquisitions | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2011-12 | UK and US Contemporary Artists | Galeria Pilar Serra, Madrid |
| 2011 | Why Patterns? | Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam |
| 2011 | I Promise to Love You: Caldic Collection | Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
| 2011 | Lineage | Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh |
| 2011 | Gravity’s Rainbow | Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2011 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2010-11 | John Moores Contemporary Painting Prize 2010 Exhibition | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
| 2010 | The Future Demands Your Participation: Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection | Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2010 | Pictures on Pictures: Discursive Painting from Albers to Zobernig from the Daimler Art Collection | Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna |
| 2010 | Ian Davenport, Mark Francis, Peter Halley and Dan Walsh: Abstract Vision Now | Art &Art Gallery, Moscow |
| 2010 | John Moores Prize Paintings in Korea | Seongnam Art Centre, Korea |
| 2010 | Abstraction and Structure, with paintings by Ian Davenport, Katharina Grosse, Joanne Greenbaum, Frank Nitsche, Albrecht Schnider, Esther Stocker | Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt |
| 2010 | Paintings in Hospitals: Colouring in the Clinical | Menier Gallery, London |
| 2010 | Eleven | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2010 | Summer Exhibition | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2010 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 2010 | Process/ Abstraction | Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | CREAM (Damien Hirst & Contemporaries) | Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
| 2010 | FAST FORWARD British Contemporary Art in Brazil, Espaço David Ford | Brazilian British Centre Galleries, Pinheiros |
| 2009 | Contemporary Prints: Including Lichtenstein, Davenport, Opie | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2009 | Setting the Pattern | Koraalberg Contemporary Art, Antwerp |
| 2009 | Ian Davenport Michael Craig-Martin Julian Opie: Múltiple | Galeria Estiarte, Madrid |
| 2008 | Blitzkrieg Bop | Man & Eve Gallery, London |
| 2008 | 20 at The Hospital Club | The Hospital Club Gallery |
| 2008 | Weight Watchers | Galerie Xippas, Paris |
| 2008 | New Contemporary Art Displays | Tate Britain, London |
| 2007 | The Jerwood Drawing Prize | Jerwood Space, London |
| 2007 | Turner Prize: A Retrospective 1984-2006 | Tate Britain, London |
| 2007 | New Space New Work | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2007 | Between the Lines | Gallery Hakgojae, Seoul, Korea |
| 2007 | A Summer Selection | Crane Kalman Gallery, London |
| 2007 | Royal Academy Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| AWARDS & RESIDENCIES |
| 2002 | Prospects (First Prize) | Essor Project Space, London |
| 2000 | Premio del Golfo, Prize winner | La Spezia, Italy |
| 1999 | John Moores, Prize winner | Liverpool |
| 1991 | Nominated for The Turner Prize | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
| 2014 | Garratt, Sheryl: 'The Bright Side' | Telegraph Magazine |
| 2014 | Monograph review | Art Quarterly |
| 2014 | Ian Davenport: Colourfall | Icon Online |
| 2014 | Phillips, Sam: 'Our pick of this week’s art events: 6–12 June' | RA Magazine |
| 2014 | Ellis-Petersen, Hannah: 'Artist Ian Davenport launches Colourfall, his first UK retrospective' | The Guardian |
| 2014 | 'Waddington Custot Galleries opens exhibition of recent paintings by Ian Davenport' 'Ian Davenport’s colourful line-up at Waddington Custot Galleries in London', Wallpaper* | Online |
| 2014 | Wright, Karen: 'Ian Davenport: Painter' | The Independent Radar |
| 2014 | Wullschlager, Jackie: 'Ian Davenport: Colourfall' (review) | Financial Times |
| 2014 | Colourfall by Ian Davenport at Waddington Custot Galleries, London | London Art Reviews Online |
| 2014 | Wullschlager, Jackie: ‘Vivid or vapid?’ | Financial Times |
| 2014 | Optics, Pop and Colour: Bridget Riley and Ian Davenport | Candid Magazine Online |
| 2014 | Pour Boy | Artists & Illustrators |
| 2014 | Monograph review | Christie’s Magazine |
| 2014 | Lambirth, Andrew: ‘Mixed blessings’ | Spectator |
| 2014 | Monograph review | World of Interiors |
| 2014 | Colour intuition | British Museum Magazine, Autumn |
| 2014 | Artist page | The-Art-Form, September |
| 2014 | Cahill, James: 'Recent Exhibitions' | The Burlington Magazine, October |
| 2014 | Filler, Martin and Michael Bracewell: Ian Davenport | Thames & Hudson, London |
| 2013 | Arthur Bray, 'Ian Davenport "Colorfall" Exhibition @ Paul Kasmin | Hyperbeast |
| 2013 | Paul Longo, 'Ian Davenport’s Colorfall at Paul Kasmin Gallery’ | Musee |
| 2013 | Colorfall | Vogue Mexico |
| 2013 | Katy Donoghue, 'Focus: Ian Davenport' | Whitewall, Fall |
| 2013 | Gleadell, Colin: 'Market news' | The Telegraph |
| 2013 | Song, Berwin, 'Earning his Stripes' | Time Out Singapore |
| 2012 | Linear Space | Tatler |
| 2012 | Ian Davenport: Between the Lines | Lifestyle Asia |
| 2012 | Stanley, Michael: Ian Davenport: Between the Lines (exhibition catalogue) | Art Plural Gallery, Singapore |
| 2012 | Between the Lines: A Q&A with artist Ian Davenport | City Nomads |
| 2012 | Ho, Darren, 'Fluidity in the Lines' | August Man |
| 2012 | Henkes, Alice: Ian Davenport: Recent Paintings, Works on Paper and Prints (exhibition catalogue) | Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich |
| 2012 | Campbell-Johnston, Rachel, 'Exhibitions: Now showing’ | The Times |
| 2012 | Luca Massimo Barbero: Ian Davenport: Reflex (exhibition catalogue) | Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea, Rome |
| 2012 | Marco Roberto Marelli: Route 66: Ian Davenport / Alberto Di Fabio (exhibition catalogue) | Luca Tommasi, Monza |
| 2011 | Cultural Calendar | The Wall Street Journal |
| 2011 | Wullschlager, Jackie: 'Gravity’s Rainbow' | The Financial Times |
| 2011 | Clark, Robert: 'Exhibitions: Gravity’s Rainbow' | The Guardian Guide |
| 2011 | 'Masterwork: Wall of many colours' | The Scotsman |
| 2011 | Cooper, Neil: 'Group Show: Gravity’s Rainbow’ | The List |
| 2011 | Ian Davenport (exhibition catalogue) | Galerie Hopkins, Paris |
| 2011 | Stanley, Michael: Ian Davenport: Quick Slow Quick Quick Slow (exhibition catalogue) | Waddington Custot Galleries, London |
| 2011 | Godfrey, Tony: Ian Davenport: Prismatic (exhibition catalogue) | Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2011 | Making a splash | Mayfair Times, October |
| 2010 | Craig-Martin, Michael: Art: curated by Michael Craig-Martin (exhibition catalogue) | Galerie Haas & Fuchs, Berlin |
| 2010 | 'Ian Davenport and David Shrigley head artist pilgrimage to Macclesfield church for Save Us' | www.culture24.org.uk |
| 2010 | 242nd Summer Exhibition | Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| COLLECTIONS |
| Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London |
| Birmingham City Art Gallery |
| Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul |
| British Council Council |
| Contemporary Art Society, London |
| Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
| FNAC Fonds National d’art contemporain, Puteaux |
| The Government Art Collection, London |
| Museum of Modern Art, La Spezia |
| National Museum of Wales, Cardiff |
| Nuffield College, Oxford University |
| Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery |
| Southampton City Art Gallery |
| Tate, London |
| Unilever, London |
| University of Kent, Canterbury |
| Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
| Weltkunst Collection, Zurich |
| Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester |
