1951 Born in Sussex 1967-73 Tunbridge Wells, Brighton and Canterbury Art Schools Bass player, Kilburn and the Highroads 1982 Winner of the Imperial Tobacco Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery 1985-98 Artistic Records Committee, Imperial War Museum 2002 Received Honorary Fellowship from KIAD Artist-in-Residence, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2004 Elected Royal Academician 2002-8 Visiting Professor of Drawing and Painting, University of the Arts, London 2009 Life Class: Today's Nude directed by Alan Kane in association with Artangel and Channel 4, broadcast 7 July   One Man Exhibitions 1984 National Portrait Gallery, London 1986-87 Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Usher Gallery, Lincoln Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh South Hill Park, Bracknell Camden Arts Centre, London Ramsgate Library Gallery 1991-92 'Double Portrait', A Painting of two film-makers and their simultaneous Film-Portrait of the painter Humphrey Ocean with Belinda Parsons and John Tchalenko Dulwich Picture Gallery, London Tate Gallery, Liverpool Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford Whitechapel Art Gallery, London Castle Museum, Norwich 1997-98 'urbasuburba', Humphrey Ocean and Jock McFadyen Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London 'The Painter's Eye' Humphrey Ocean and John Tchalenko, National Portrait Gallery, London 2003 'how's my driving', Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2009 'Humphrey Ocean Perfectly Ordinary', Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University   Group Exhibitions 1982 The South Bank Show, South London Art Gallery, London 1986 Das Automobil in der Kunst 1886-1986, Haus der Kunst, Munich 1989 Picturing People 1945-1989, British Council touring Far East 1996 Die Kraft der Bilder, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin 1996 British Council, Treasures from The National Portrait Gallery, London; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Fukushima; Matsuzakaya Art Museum, Nagoya; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Hiroshima Museum of Art; Daimaru Museum, Tokyo 1999 Contemporary British Landscape, Flowers East 2000-01 Painting The Century, National Portrait Gallery, London 2000-01 Best of British, Australian National Portrait Gallery, Canberra 2001 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sir Peter Blake's room 2001 Portrait of Paul McCartney (NPG 5695) by Humphrey Ocean shown with Portrait of Winifred Radford (NPG 6397) by Meredith Frampton, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield 2002-3 Royal Treasures: A Golden Jubilee Celebration, Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace 2003-4 The Art of Reinvention, Hotbath Gallery, Bath with Gavin Turk, Peter Gabriel, Paul Simonon 2004-6 How Do You Look, an exhibition by John Tchalenko featuring a collaboration with Humphrey Ocean Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Yard Gallery, Nottingham; County Gallery, Maidstone; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds; Hunterian Gallery, Royal College of Surgeons, London 2006 Icons and Idols: Commissioning Contemporary Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London; York City Art Gallery 2008 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, curated Gallery 4 Changing Rooms, curated by Group Show, 38 Shakespeare Road, Brixton, London 2009 The Russell Herron Collection 'This Was Now', Sartorial Contemporary Art, London   Commissions 1983-96 Portraits of Philip Larkin, Paul McCartney, A.J. Ayer, Lord Whitelaw, Tony Benn for The National Portrait Gallery, London 1988-92 Danny McGrain, Ralph Glasser for Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh 1989 Graham Greene for the Royal Library, Windsor Castle 1998-99 Wellcome Trust Sci-Art Award for a project with John Tchalenko on 'The Painter's Eye Movement' in collaboration with Stanford and Oxford 1999 The First of England', a contemporary art commission for the opening of Neptune Court, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 2000 MBZ Bruges-Zeebrugge Port Authority, Belgium 2003 Christchurch College, Oxford 2006 Goldsmiths College, University of London   Publications 1982 'The Ocean View' (Plexus) 'Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks' by Stephen Nugent with drawings by Humphrey Ocean (Fourth Estate; and 1994 BrownTrout, San Francisco) 1997 'urbasuburba' Humphrey Ocean and Jock McFadyen exhibition catalogue with a story 'Island Life' by Will Self (Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester) 2001 'Zeebrugge by Humphrey Ocean' (Bruges-Zeebrugge Port Authority) 2003 'how's my driving' with an introduction by Desmond Shawe-Taylor (Dulwich Picture Gallery, London) 2009 'Humphrey Ocean Perfectly Ordinary' with an introduction by David Anfam (Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury Christ Church University)   Public Collections British Council Bruges-Zeebrugge Port Authority Christ Church, Oxford Ferens Art Gallery, Hull Imperial War Museum, London Magdalen College, Oxford National Maritime Museum, Greenwich National Portrait Gallery, London Royal Library, Windsor Castle Royal Society of Chemistry St John's College, Cambridge Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh South London Gallery Collection University of Birmingham Victoria and Albert Museum, London Wellcome Trust Wolverhampton Art Gallery The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester   Bibliography Paul Fussell 'Farewell to a cute, quaint, complacent land' The Guardian, 1 July 1992 Ralph Glasser 'Moment of reflection before a mirror of the soul' Scotland on Sunday, 30 May 1993 Tom Lubbock 'Who wants a portrait . . .? 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Robbins 'A Map of Babel' Science, Vol 288, 21 April 2000 Charles Saumarez Smith 'Is the portrait a dead art?' The Sunday Telegraph, 29 October 2000 R.C. Miall and John Tchalenko 'A Painter's Eye Movements: A Study of Eye and Hand Movement during Portrait Drawing' Leonardo, San Francisco, Vol 34 No 1 pp35-40, 2001 Nick Hornby 'My mate Humphrey' The Independent on Sunday, 13 July 2003 Rachel Campbell-Johnston 'R C-J's London choice' The Times, 2 August 2003 Derwent May 'A gentle splash' The Times, 13 August 2003 David Frazer Jenkins 'Humphrey Ocean in Dulwich' The British Art Journal, Vol4 No3 Autumn 2003 Sarah Greenberg 'Man of Mystery' Royal Academy of Arts Magazine No 91, Summer 2006 David Cannadine 'A picture of change' BBC History magazine, September 2006 Martin Gayford 'Face Facts' Royal Academy of Arts Magazine No 94, Spring 2006 Tim Leeman '£5 millon player signs for art's premier league' The Times, 23 January 2008 Andrew Lambirth 'Unholy Alliance' Spectator, 4 November 2009