SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1957 Colonna Gallery, Milan
1958 Wildenstein Gallery, London
1958 Waddington Galleries, London
1959 Colonna Gallery, Milan
1961 Galerie d’Eendt, Amsterdam
1961–62 Garelick’s Gallery, Detroit and Forum Gallery, New York
1962 Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
1962 Gallery of the Union of Czech Writers, Prague
1964 Arte al Borgo, Palermo
1969 Disparates
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1976 New Art Centre, London
1977 Paintings and Drawings 1959–1977
Camden Arts Centre and New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1978 Gallery of the Institute of Cultural Relations, Budapest
1980 New Art Centre, London
1987 Peter de Francia: Painter and Professor, an anthology
Camden Arts Centre, London
1987 Peter de Francia: Paintings and Drawings
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
1989 Untitled
Frith Street Gallery, London
1990 Centre for Contemporary Art, New Delhi
1990 Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
1995 Gloria Gallery, Nicosia
1996 Drawings 1993–96
Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London
1999 Ballets africains: Drawings
The Place, London
1999 Drawings
Ruskin School, Oxford
2002 Fables and Other Drawings, 1990–2001
Queen’s Gallery, British Council, New Delhi
2004 Drawings
The Gallery, Wimbledon School of Art
2005 After the Bombing
James Hyman Gallery, London
2006 Portraits
James Hyman Gallery, London
2006 Peter de Francia
Tate Britain, London
2007–08 The Ship of Fools: Peter de Francia in Focus
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2008 Modern Myths: Drawings from Four Decades
New York Studio School
2008 A Sideways Glance: Art World Drawings
Charleston, Sussex
2009 Art World Drawings
James Hyman Gallery, London
2011 Peter de Francia: A 90th Birthday Retrospective
James Hyman Gallery, London
2012 Peter de Francia: An Intimate View
James Hyman Gallery, London
2015 Italian Drawings
Estorick Collection, London
2017 Le temps s’écoute
ASC Gallery, London
2021 Peter de Francia. Disparates: A Centenary Tribute
James Hyman Gallery, London
2022 Peter de Francia 1921–2012
The Fine Art Society, London and Edinburgh
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1948 Some Contemporary British Painters
Wildenstein’s, London
1952 Looking Forward: British Realist Pictures, curated by John Berger
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1956 Looking Forward: An Exhibition of British Realist Pictures Selected by John Berger
South London Art Gallery
1956 Three British Painters: Peter de Francia, Derrick Greaves, Edward Middleditch
Adams Gallery, London
1956 British Graphic Art Exhibition: 1450–1956
Palace Museum, Peking, and touring China
1957–58 John Moores Exhibition
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1958 Portraiture: The Dying Art
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London
1960 Pittori Realisti e Figurativi, italiani e stranieri
Pinacoteca Civica, Alessandria
1960 Das Junge England
Europaisches Forum, Alpbach, and Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz
1963 Contemporary Image
Upper Grosvenor Galleries, London
1963 Drawings of the Nude
Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London
1963 Paintings by the Staff of the Royal College of Art
Cheltenham Art Gallery
1964 Pittsburgh International
1965 Premio Suzzara
Mantua
1966 Survey ’66: Figurative Painters
Hampstead Art Centre, London
1966 Situation 66
Rathaus, Augsburg
1966 Engagierte Kunst
touring venues in Vienna, Graz, Linz, Alpbach
1975 Body and Soul
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1976 The Human Clay
Hayward Gallery, London
1976 20th-Century Drawing
Marlborough Gallery, London
1977 British Painting 1952–1977
Royal Academy of Art, London
1979–80 Narrative Paintings: Figurative art of two generations
Arnolfini, Bristol; ICA, London;City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1980 British Art 1940–1980
Hayward Gallery, London
1982 The Hayward Annual: British Drawing
Hayward Gallery, London; Ashley Gallery, Epsom; Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery; Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St Andrews; Peter Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull
1987 Human Interest
Cornerhouse, Manchester, and touring
1987 Art History: Artists look at contemporary Britain
Hayward Gallery, London
1988 Summer Selection: contemporanea
Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York
1989 Blasphemies, Ecstasies, Cries
Serpentine Gallery, London
1989 School of London: Works on Paper
Odette Gilbert Gallery, London
1997 The Art of Drawing
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
1997 Modern British Art: The First Hundred Years
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2000 Carnivalesque
Arts Council Touring Exhibition
2004 Drawn Together: Five Artists
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2004 The Discerning Eye
Mall Galleries, London
2006 Drawing Inspiration
Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
2006 Portraits: Andrews, Auerbach, Bevan, Coldstream, de Francia, Freud, Kossoff, Moynihan, Paolozzi
James Hyman Gallery, London
2006 Wilson Gift
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
2006 New Directions: Paintings and drawings from the 1950s and 1960s by Michael Andrews, Peter de Francia, Derrick Greaves and Robert Medley
James Hyman Gallery, London
2006–08 Drawing Breath: 10 Years of the Jerwood Drawing Prize
touring venues in Wimbledon, Sydney, Singapore, Bristol, Aberdeen
2006–07 Home and Away
James Hyman Fine Art, London
2007 A Tribute to Colin St John Wilson
James Hyman Gallery, London
2011 Beyond the Human Clay
James Hyman Gallery, London
2012 John Berger: Art and Property Now
Somerset House, London
2014 Drawn Together: Artist as Selector
Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
2017 Focusing on the Male Form
Henry Miller Fine Art, London
2017 Seeing Through Drawing: A celebration of John Berger
Mandell’s Gallery, Norwich
2021 Masterpieces of Twentieth-Century British Art
James Hyman Gallery, London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering
Arts Council England
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
British Council, New Delhi
British Museum, London
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield
Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
Imperial War Museum, London
Institute of Healthy Ageing, London
Morley College, London
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, Prague
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
National Portrait Gallery, London
Pallant House, Chichester
Royal College of Art, London
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Tate
Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wimbledon School of Art
Ulster Museum, Belfast
Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven