1965 Born:  January 16, Maidstone, Kent, England QUALIFICATIONS: M.Phil. Visual Arts. University of Lancaster, 1989 Thesis: ‘Richard Estes: A Contemporary Realist’ B.A. Visual Art with First Class Honors, 1986 University of Wales, Aberystwyth PROFESSIONAL POSTS:   Currently: Chair of the Department of Visual Art. Senior Research Lecturer in Painting & Art History, University College Scarborough AWARDS: 1990 Elizabeth T. Greenshields Memorial Foundation, Montreal, Canada: International Bursary for Painting 1988 British Academy Travel Grant to New York 1987 British Academy Studentship 1986 University College of Wales, Aberystwyth Sir Francis Williams Prize (Top Student) BOOKS 2002 Meisel, Louis K. Photorealism at the Millennium. New York: Harry N. Abrams, pp. 143-146 SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS 2008 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York: “Recent Acquisitions” Group Show 2007 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York: Group Show 2006 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York: ‘Big Urban Landscapes’ Group Show 2005 Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia: The Reality Show/ The Big Picture 2004-05 Roberson Museum, Binghamton, New York: ‘The Prague Project’ Group Show 2004 Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York:  ‘The Big Picture’ Group Show    Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghamton, New York: ‘New American Realism & Photorealism’ Group Show   Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York: ‘Some Photorealism’ Group Show Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York:  ‘The New Photorealists’ Group Show 2003 Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, ‘Iperrealisti’ Group Show Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York:  "New Paintings" 2002 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York: ‘Photorealism at the Millennium’ Group Show Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York ‘Urban Landscapes’ Group Show 2001 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York: ‘Near & Far: Perspective and Structure’ Group Show Blains Fine Art, London: ‘Urban Realism’ Group Show The London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre 1999 Blains Fine Art, London: One Man ShowThe London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre 1997 Allan Stone Gallery, New York: Group Show Paton Gallery, London: Group ShowThe London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre 1996 Paton Gallery, London: ‘Transcription’Paton Gallery, London: ‘Trojan’ (Clive Head and Jason Brooks)Catalogue/Essay “Trojan: Clive Head” Benedict ReadMall Galleries, London: Figure Drawings Gallerie Goetze, Basel Switzerland: Group Show Solo Exhibition: ‘Silent Happenings’Elizabethan Gallery, Wakefield. Catalogue/Essay‘Talking of Post Modernism, a Way Ahead’: a critical examination of the painting of Clive Head”Dr. R.A. Withers FRSA The London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre 1994 Colin Jellicoe Gallery, Manchester: ‘Contemporary Realism’ Gallerie Goetze, Basel: Group Show The London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre 1993 Gallerie Goetze, Basel: Group Show Colin Jellicoe Gallery, Manchester: ‘A Figurative Approach’ The Bath Contemporary Art Fair The London Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre Miami Art Fair, Florida ‘Surface Tension’ Hay, Head and WhiteheadRotherham Art Gallery Gallerie Goetze, Basel, Switzerland: Theme Exhibition, ‘The Kiss’The Bath Contemporary Art FairGreenwich Festival. Feature ExhibitionMarcus & Marcus Gallery, AmsterdamTheme Exhibition, ‘And God She Created Woman’ ‘And Then She Created Man’  Woodlands Art Gallery, London: One man exhibition, ‘Monuments to the Moment, Super Realist Paintings of the Contemporary Landscape’Marcus & Marcus Gallery, Amsterdam: Group ShowGhent Art Fair, BelgiumColin Jellicoe Gallery, Manchester: ‘Works on Paper’Gallerie Goetze, Basel SwitzerlandMaidstone Museum and Art Gallery, Colin Jellicoe Gallery, Manchester:  ‘Contemporary Realism’Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Bradford