Born 1938, Devonside, by Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire, Scotland.

1955-60
Edinburgh College of Art, DA Edin, Andrew Grant Post Graduate Scholar

1961
Appointed as conservator Scottish Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh, resigned to travel in Greece

1961-63
Athens School of Fine Art, Greece, in Athens and Hydra
Teaching English, Strateghaki Language Schools, Athens

1963–88
Part-time and full-time teaching, Edinburgh College of Art
Declined to stand for membership of Royal Scottish Academy

1968
Lecturer, Festival Summer School, University of Wisconsin at Newbattle College

1968-72
Teaching with Workers Adult Education, Edinburgh

1972
Scottish Arts Council Award

1973 -74
Visiting Professor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, USA
Visiting Artist, Yale University, Norfolk Summer School, USA

1977
Scottish Arts Council/DAAD Award, Berlin

1977-85
A founding Board member of WASPS, Workshop and Artists Studio Provision, Scotland

1978-79
Visiting Foreign Artist, Cleveland Institute of Art, USA

1978
English Speaking Union Award, USA

1981
Interview/commentary for Jon Schueler Painting,
University of Edinburgh Video Department

1982
Lived and worked in New York

1982-88
Member of the Art Committee, Scottish Arts Council

1984-88
Board member of 369 Gallery, Edinburgh

1985
Lived and worked Zurich, May to October

1988
Guest Artist, Blossom Summer Program, Kent State University, USA

1988-03
Professor of Painting, Chair of Painting, Cleveland Institute of Art

1995
Ohio Arts Council Fellowship

1997
Cleveland Arts Prize

1998
Travelled in Japan

1999-03
Member of Board of Directors, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art

2000
Teaching, Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, France

2001-03
Dean of Fine Arts, Cleveland Institute of Art

2002
Auvillar Residency, (CECA, Denver, USA), Auvillar, France

2003
Resigned as Dean, returned to paint full-time Edinburgh

2005
Curator with John L. Moore of Drawn to Cleveland, an exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland

2008
Peacock Visual Arts, invited to work with Master printer Michael Waight

2009
Reiach & Hall Architects, Edinburgh and NHS, Glasgow, commission, murals and low relief sculpture in New Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow.

2012
Contemporary Artists 1: Kenneth Dingwall, publ. St Andrews University, with essays by Natalie Adamson, Tom Normand and Alistair Rider

2016
Invited speaker at The Jon Schueler Centenary Symposium, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye

2017
Jim Mooney and Kenneth Dingwall public discussion of the work exhibited in Jon Schueler, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

2019
Catalogue essay, Abstract Art from Scotland for the exhibition Beneath the Surface, City Art Centre, Edinburgh

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2019
Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem

2014
XL Gallery, Newcastle University

2012
Pier Art Centre, Orkney
School of Art History and the King James Library, University of St Andrews
Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem

2006
Granaio, Castelluccio della Foce, Siena, Italy

2004
Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem

2001
Sleeper, Edinburgh

1999
Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York

1998
Knoedler, New York, (Invitational, Bartolozzi, Dingwall, McGill)

1997
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (MOCA), USA
Pier Arts Centre, Orkney

1996
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

1991
Cleveland Museum of Art, Invitational

1987
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich

1980
Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh

1979
Mayor Gallery, London
Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh

1977
House Gallery, London
Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh
Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh

1974
Stevens Gallery, Minneapolis, USA

1969
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh

1962
McGill Gallery, Hydra, Greece

2020
Art-Noser Galerie, Hombrechtikon, Zurich, Switzerland, Jusqu’au bout

2019
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Abstraction, curator Griffin Coe
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Beneath the Surface, curator Maeve Toal

2016
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Simply Painting, curator Jim Mooney
Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh, The Scottish Endarkenment: Art and Unreason /1945 to Present, curators Bill Hare and Andrew Patrizio

2015
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scottish Painting: People, Places, Ideas
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Simply Painting, curator Jim Mooney, toured to Thurso Museum
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Impulses Toward Life, a drawing show

2014
Laure Genillard Gallery, London, schema /sukima, curator David Connearn

2013
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Artists in Print: 21 Years of Collaboration

2011
Cleveland Museum of Art, USA, In Honor of the Cleveland Arts Prize

2010
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Tom Alexander Collection
Cairn Gallery, Editions

2009
Centre for Contemporary Print Making, Norwalk, CT, USA, Five Scottish Print Studios
The Lemon Street Gallery, Truro; The Edinburgh School of Painting, curator Dr Bill Hare, University of Edinburgh

2008
Peacock Visual Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aberdeen, New Works
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scottish Art on Paper: Recent Acquisitions

2007
City Arts Centre, Edinburgh, Beyond Appearances

2006
Castelluccio di Pienza, Italy, Per la Musica 2, In contri di Terra di Siena

2005
Castelluccio di Pienza, Italy, Per la Musica, In contri di Terra di Siena

2004
Swissca Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland, Swissca
Katherina Rich Perlow. Gallery, NY, Gallery Artists Invitational
Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Modern Scottish Art

2003
Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York Galleries

2002
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, USA, Mid-Atlantic, curator Tom E Hinson, Cleveland Museum of Art
Kulturschiene, Herrliberg-Feldmeilen, Switzerland, Bernard Lüthi und Freunde: Zeigen Bilder und Skulpture
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Abstraction

2001
Fritz Galerie, Zurich, Licht+Wohnen
Katherina Rich Perlow Gallery, NY, Couples

2000
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Tourcoing, Lille, 2000 collectionneurs pour l’an

1999
Aberdeen Art Gallery, and McManus Gallery, Dundee
Liberation & Tradition, Scottish Art 1963-1975

1998
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Group Show

1996
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, USA, Steel Cities

1995
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Arbeiten auf Papier II
Hammond Galleries, Lancaster, USA, States of Mind

1994
Richard Demarco European Foundation, Edinburgh, Homage to Beuys
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA, 25th Anniversary Exhibition

1993
Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Movement and Gesture
Bowman and Penelec Galleries, Allegheny College, USA, Geometric Abstraction

1992
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Eine Schwiezer Privatsammlung
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA, Recent Abstract Painting: Ross Bleckner, Kenneth Dingwall, Susan Laufer, Ken Nevadomi, Sean Scully

1991
Musée national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg, Works on Paper, British Council Touring Exhibition

1990
Russian Museum, Kiev, Ukraine, Works on Paper, British Council Touring Exhibition
Barbican Art Centre, London, Scottish Art since 1900
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Arbeiten Auf Papier

1989
National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
Works on Paper, British Council Touring Exhibition
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Scottish Art since 1900  

1988
Kent State University, USA, School of Art Gallery, Blossom Artists
Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Sculpture and Works on Paper: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Kenneth Dingwall, Ulrich Ruckriem, Robert Mangold,Tracy McKenna, Peter Joseph, Linda Taylor, Saul LeWitt
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Vorschau Art
Crawford Arts Centre, University of St Andrews, Freeing the Spirit, Contemporary Scottish Abstraction (toured 1988-89)

1987
Basle, Switzerland, Die Internationale Kunstmesse
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Drawing Selection

1986
Crawford Art Centre, University of St Andrews, Flinging a Paint Pot…
Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, Review/Preview

1985
British Council Touring Exhibition of Australia and New Zealand, New Works on Paper
Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh/Dublin
The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh and The Fine Art Society, Glasgow, Scottish Drawing – A Historical Survey

1983
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scottish Art
British Council Touring Exhibition of Poland, New Works on Paper

1982-83
Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition of England, Inner Worlds

1982
Orchard Gallery, Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Contemporary Art and Music

1981
Mayor Gallery, London, Recent Acquisitions at the Southampton Art Gallery
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Contemporary Art and Music
House Gallery, London, Drawing Today

1979
House Gallery, London, House at Home

1978
Edinburgh College of Art, Painters in Parallel, curator Cordelia Oliver.
Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki, Finland, Modern Konst Fran Skottland

1976
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Aberdeen/Edinburgh

1975-76
Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, The Need to Draw
Dundee City Art Gallery, Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum

1974
McRoberts Art Centre, Stirling University, Contemporary Scottish Art

1973
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Awards to Artists

1972
Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Awards to Artists

1972
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Art Spectrum
Dundee City Art Gallery, Art Spectrum
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Art Spectrum

1971
Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh College of Art,The Edinburgh School, curator James Cumming

1970
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Painting ’70

1968
Marjory Parr Gallery, London, Edinburgh

1964
McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, Commonwealth Festival Exhibition

2009
Rose Design Award, Architecture Grand Prix, New Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow awarded for the building and Tom A Clark’s project The Grace of the Birch: wall paintings and low relief sculptures – Thomas A Clark, Kenneth Dingwall, Andreas Karl Schulze, Olwen Shone, Donald Urquhart

2008
Printmaking residency, with master printer Michael Waight, Peacock Visual Art Centre, Aberdeen

2002
Residency Auvillar, France, CECA, Denver, USA

1997
The Cleveland Arts Prize
Murphy Travel Award, Cleveland Institute of Art, USA

1995
Ohio Arts Council Fellowship

1979
English Speaking Union Award, USA

1977
Scottish Arts Council/DAAD Award, Berlin

1972
Scottish Arts Council Award

2019
Maeve Toal – introduction, Kenneth Dingwall – essay, Abstract Art from Scotland, illustrated catalogue for Beneath the Surface, curator Maeve Toal, City Art Centre, Edinburgh
Kenneth Dingwall: Some Notes, publ. Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem
Duncan Macmillan, Kenneth Dingwall, The Scotsman, Sept. 11

2017
Bill Hare, A Point in Time – The Eternal Now, Scottish Art News, pp16–23.

2015
Jim Mooney, catalogue essay, Simply Painting, touring exhibition to Inverness Art Gallery, Thurso Museum, Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen

2014
David Connearn, Alistair Rider, Kitagawa Tomoaki, essays, Schema-Sukima,  Laure Genillard Gallery, London

2013
Michael Waight, Artists in Print: 21 Years of Collaboration, illustrated catalogue with artists’ statements, Peacock Visual Arts, Centre for Contemporary Art, Aberdeen

2012
Natalie Adamson, Tom Normand, Alistair Rider, essays in illustrated catalogue, Contemporary Artists 1: Kenneth Dingwall, publ. University of St Andrews
Lindsay Blair, The Grace of the Birch: Art Nature Healing, catalogue of the art collection of New Stobhill Hospital, Glasgow, p39
Duncan Macmillan, Kenneth Dingwall, The Scotsman Magazine, June

2011
Craig Richardson, Scottish Art since 1960, Ashgate, pp23, 63-64

2010
Sleeper 2000-2010, illustrated catalogue, Sleeper Publications
Thomas A. Clark, A Grove of Larches, Space to Heal, Sleeper Publications
Keith Alexander, editor, The Tom Alexander Collection, exhibition catalogue for the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, and taped discussion on the collection between Keith Alexander and Kenneth Dingwall
Julian Halsby and Paul Harris, The Dictionary of Scottish Painters: 1600 to the Present, Birlinn Ltd, first published in 1990 by Canongate Publishing

2009
The Public Catalogue Foundation, catalogue of Paintings in Public Collections in Tees Valley, Tyne and Wear, Hampshire, Southampton and the Isle of Wight
Bill Hare, The Edinburgh School of Painting, Lemon Street Gallery, illustrated catalogue

2007
Craig Richardson, The Shape of Things to Come, The Drouth, magazine
Dan Cameron, Toby Devan Lewis, Peter B. Lewis, Tony Morrison, Art Works, DAP Publishing, New York

2006
Craig Richardson, Breathing Space, Free Association, magazine, pp46-51.

2005
Kenneth Dingwall and John L. Moore, catalogue text: Drawn to Cleveland, publ. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Nina Freedlander, Creative Essence: Cleveland’s Sense of Place, vol. I, Kent State University Press

2004
Scotland Now, publ. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

2003
Kenneth Dingwall, Link, publ. Cleveland Institute of Art
35th Anniversary Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland

2002
Richard Ingleby, Abstraction, Ingleby Gallery, catalogue
Alice Dewey, editor, New: recent acquisitions of contemporary British art, Scottish National Gallery
Kenneth Dingwall. The Function of Non-Functional Art, Link, vol. 1, issue 3

2000
Murdo Macdonald, Scottish Art, publ. Thames and Hudson

1999
Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau, editors, The Sound of Sleat, by Jon Schueler, publ. Picador, NY, 1999, pp293, 293n.28, 342, 342n.80

1998
Pamela Popeson, Knoedler Invitational, Cover, vol. 12 issue 5
Ian Gale, Zen Again, Scotland on Sunday, Jan. 4, p.28

1997
Steven Litt, A Must See Show, The Plain Dealer, May 16
Ian Gale, Something from Nothing: Kenneth Dingwall, Spectrum, Scotland on Sunday, Jan. 12
Eileen Sclater, Kenneth Dingwall, Paintings and Drawings, The Orcadian, Feb. 6

1996/7
Duncan Macmillan, Kenneth Dingwall 1990-1995, catalogue essay, publ. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA

1994
Duncan Macmillan, Scottish Art in the 20th Century, publ. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh, pp.133-134, p.149
Peter J M McEwan, editor, Directory of Scottish Art and Architecture, Antique Collectors Club
Turning Silver into Gold, 25th anniversary catalogue, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

1993
Frances Spalding / Judith Collins: Dictionary of British Art, vol. VI, 20th Century Painters And Sculptors, Antique Collectors Club
George Roland: Geometric Abstraction, publ. Bowman and Penelec Galleries, Allegheny College, catalogue.

1992
David S. Rubin, Recent Abstract Painting, publ. Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, catalogue
Steve Litt, Abstract Paintings, Concrete Feelings, The Plain Dealer, Feb. 29
Steve Litt, Learning the Art of Exhibition, The Plain Dealer, Nov. 16

1991
Murdo Macdonald, Moving on and Ever Upwards, The Scotsman, Dec. 23
Tom E. Hinson, The Invitational, publ. Cleveland Museum of Art, catalogue, p.5-8, p.61
Helen Cullinan, Kenneth Dingwall: Profile, The Plain Dealer, Feb. 24
The Invitational, The Plain Dealer, Feb. 28
Dave Paterson, The Un-May Show, Cleveland Magazine, March

1990
Duncan Macmillan, Scottish Art 1460-1990, publ. Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh. p.398, p.400
Barbican Art Centre, London, publication, Scottish Art Since 1900

1989
Keith Hartley, Scottish Art Since 1900, publ. Lund Humphries, p.38-39, p.129

1988
Peter Nickels, Kenneth Dingwall, vol. 22, No 1 Winter, Link, pp. 8,12,13 Cleveland Institute of Art

1987
Kenneth Dingwall, catalogue, Peter Noser Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

1986
Martin S. Ackerman, Smart Money and Art, Investing in Fine Art, publ. Station Hill Press, New York, pp.39,40

1984
Isobel Johnstone, Arts Council Acquisitions 1979-83, Arts Council of Great Britain, catalogue, p.36
Ian Barker, The British Council Collection 1938-84, The British Council, catalogue, p.57

1983
Mary Rose Beaumont, New Works on Paper, British Council, catalogue

1982
Paul Overy, Inner Worlds, Arts Council of Great Britain, catalogue

1981
Graeme Murray, New Works of Contemporary Art and Music, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, catalogue
Douglas Hall, Scottish Culture: 20th Century Painting, publ. Edward Arnold

1980
Fenella Crighton, Kenneth Dingwall, Art and Artists, Jan. p.34
Matthew Collings, Kenneth Dingwall, Flash Art, Feb. p.55
Bryony Johnston, Modern Art Cricket, Harpers and Queen, June, p.163

1979
Paul Overy, Kenneth Dingwall, The Times, Aug. 16
Waldemar Januszczak, Kenneth Dingwall, The Guardian, Dec. 4
Carine Maurice, Kenneth Dingwall, Arts Review, Dec.

1978
Marja Terttu Kivirinta, Scottish Art in Helsinki, Helsingin Sanomat, Finland, November
Cordelia Oliver, Painters in Parallel, Scottish Arts Council, catalogue

1977
Paul Overy, Kenneth Dingwall, Scottish Arts Council, catalogue essay
Marina Vaizey, Kenneth Dingwall, The Sunday Times, Sept. 4
Edward Lucie-Smith, Leaving the Hood on the Lens, Evening Standard, Aug. 25
John Spurling, Kenneth Dingwall, The New Statesman, Sept. 9