Phillip King was born in Tunisia in 1934, arrived in England in 1945, and studied modern languages at Cambridge University from 1954 to 1957. He began to make sculpture during his time at university and from 1957 to 1958 studied sculpture at St Martin's School of Art, where Anthony Caro was teaching. King taught at St Martin's for a year before working as an assistant to Henry Moore, where he gained experience working on a larger scale.

In 1964 King had his first of many solo exhibitions at the Rowan Gallery. He also had several solo shows in America in the 1960s. He established a major reputation in both group and solo shows in Britain and overseas using a variety of materials from fibreglass and metal through to wood and slate. He has had several retrospective exhibitions, including one at the Whitechapel Art Gallery (1968) and at the Hayward Gallery (1981). He was commissioned to create work for Expo '70 in Tokyo. Further retrospectives of his work were held at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in 1997, and at Forte de Belvedere, Florence in 1997. King was only the second English sculptor to be given this honour, the first being Henry Moore.

Phillip King was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1967 to 1969. He taught at St Martins School of Art from 1959 until 1980, and was Professor of Sculpture at Hochschule der Künste, Berlin (1979-80). He was Professor of Sculpture at the Royal College of Art, London from 1980 to 1990, and was made Professor Emeritus at the College in 1990. He went on to be elected Professor of Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools, London in 1990, a post which he held until his election as President of the Royal Academy in 1999.

Recent solo exhibitions
2008 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; 2007 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; 2006 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; 2003 Jesus College, Cambridge; 2002 Place Gallery, Cavagnole, Italy; 2001 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; Garth Clark Gallery, New York; 1998 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London; 1997 Forte de Belvedere, Florence; 1996 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield; 1995 Galerie Waszkowiak/Walter Bischoff Galerie, Berlin; 1994 Observer Studio Exhibition, London; 1993 Musée des Beaux-Arts André Malraux, Le Havre; Galerie Waszkowiak, Berlin; Le Prieure Saint Michel, Vimoutiers; La Filature, Nouvel Espace Culturel, Mulhouse; 1992 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim; Art Warehouse, London; MAAK Gallery, London; 1990 Mayor Rowan Gallery, London; Grob Gallery, London; 

Public collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Arts Council of Great Britain; Bradford City Art Gallery, UK; British Council, London, UK; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; City of Rotterdam, Netherlands; Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK; Cultural Centre, Adelaide, Australia; Felton Bequest, Melbourne, Australia; Galleria d'Arte Moderno, Turin; Government Art Collection, London, UK; Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan; Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan; Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands; Leeds Museum & Galleries (City Art Gallery), UK; Leicestershire Education Authority, UK; Leisure Centre, Osaka, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum, USA; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Middleheim Open Air Museum, Antwerp, Belgium; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan; Osaka City Public Art Collection, Japan; Prefectural Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyama, Japan; Rijksmuseum, Netherlands; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK; State University of New York College, Purchase, New York, USA; Stuyvesant Foundation, New York, USA; Tate Gallery, London, UK; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel; Tokyo University Art Collection, Japan; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Yale Centre for British Art, USA

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