Liz Stumpf, Assistant Exhibitions Curator, leads a tour of David Hockney: A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting.
Throughout his seven-decade career, David Hockney (b. 1937, Bradford, UK) has remained endlessly inventive, driven by a lifelong commitment to celebrating and reimagining the world around him. Deeply fascinated by the many ways in which reality can be observed and represented, Hockney has worked across a range of artistic media including painting, photographic collage, set design, drawing and printmaking. A Year in Normandie and Some Other Thoughts about Painting brings to London for the first time the British artist’s monumental frieze A Year in Normandie (2020–21), alongside a new series of still lifes and portraits.
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
David Hockney (b. 1937 in Bradford, Yorkshire, UK) is one of the most influential artists of our time. His work has been presented in major solo exhibitions in institutions worldwide, including Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (2025); Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2023); Tate Britain, Centre Pompidou and the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2017), among many others. David Hockney has been honoured with many prestigious awards, including his recognition as a Companion of Honour from the British and Commonwealth Order for his outstanding achievement in the arts in 1997. He recently received the Officier in France’s Légion d’Honneur award (2026). David Hockney’s work is part of numerous public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; the Art Institute of Chicago; the National Portrait Gallery, London; Tate Britain, London; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
