Alan Uglow 1941-2011

Alan Uglow was born in 1941 in Luton, England, and died in Manhattan in 2011. After earning his degree in painting and printmaking at the Central School of Art in London, Uglow relocated to New York City in the late 1960’s.

Throughout the decades that followed, he frequently exhibited at, among others, Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Günther Umberg’s Raum für Malerei in Cologne and Galerie Nordenhake in Malmö, Stockholm and Berlin. In 2013, a solo exhibition of his work was on view at MIT List Visual Arts Centre in Cambridge, MA. In 2010, he had two large-scale surveys, concurrently on view in Germany at the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and at the Museum Wiesbaden. Other recent solo exhibitions include the CCNOA–Centre for Contemporary NonObjective Art, Brussels (2006) and the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2004). His first museum solo exhibition was held in 1992 at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne.

Uglow’s work is represented in private and public collections internationally, including the Cincinnati Art Museum; Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; High Museum, Atlanta; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Museum Wiesbaden, Germany; National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Sammlung Lafrenz, Hamburg; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.