1935 Born in Wigan, Lancashire on 10 January
1952 Studied at Saint Martin's School of Art under Anthony Caro
1954 Studied at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts under Karel Vogel
1957 Finished studies at Camberwell School and started apprenticeship at Fiorini Art bronze foundry
1960 Became a visiting lecturer in sculpture at Birmingham School of Art and Coventry College of Art
1989 Elected Associate of the Royal Academy on 31 May
1991 Elected Royal Academician on 26 June as a sculptor
1992 Moved to the South of France
1999 Returned to London
2007 Became a professor of sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools
2010 Elected Senior Royal Academician on 1 October
2015 Died on 6 January
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1960 Portal Gallery
1961 26 Young Sculptors, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London
1970 Richard Feigen Gallery, USA
1973 Kolnisher Kunstverein, Cologne
1976 Art Inglese Oggi, Pallazzo Reale, Milan
1977 Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park
1981 Landscape Prints, Tate Gallery, London
1982 British Sculpture in the 20th Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery
1984 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK
1987 Galerie Albrecht, Munich
1989 Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto
1991 Galerie Salis, Salzburg
1993 Sculpture 93, Chelsea Harbour, London
1994 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1995 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (Sculpture retrospective - 5 decades)
1999 Royal Academy of Arts, London (Prints retrospective)
Mayor Gallery, London; Ian Mackenzie Fine Arts
2000 Sculpture at Goodwood (Commission)
Bronze, British Contemporary Sculpture, Holland Park, London
2001 Carnival of Animals, The Hague
A P Gianini Gallery, San Francisco, from Bank of America Collection (Prints)
2005 A Parliament of Owl, Mayor Gallery, London
2007 The Four Seasons of Ivor Abrahams at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf
2008 By Leafy Ways, Henry Moore Foundation, UK
Ivor Abrahams: Painted Sculpture, The Mayor Gallery, London
Coriander Prints @ Jill George Gallery, Jill George Gallery, London
2011 Suburban encounter, Mayor Gallery, London
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Ivor Abrahams: Mystery and Imagination, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2012 Ivor Abrahams: Eden and Other Suburbs, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2015 Black White & One, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate
Ivor Abrahams, Updown Gallery, Ramsgate
2016 Ivor Abrahams: Poised Companions, The Mayor Gallery, London
Wreck and Ruin, Falmouth Art Gallery, Falmouth
2019 Prints I wish I had published, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, UK
The Mayor Gallery at TEFAF Maastricht 2019, The Mayor Gallery, UK
Ivor Abrahams: The garden and other themes, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, UK
From the Figure, Miriam Shiell Fine Art, Toronto
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Arts Council of Great Britain
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Bradford Art Gallery and Museum
British Council, London
Buymans Museum, Rotterdam
City Museum and Art Gallery, Portsmouth
Denver Museum, Colorado
Fort Lauderdale Museum, Florida
Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz
Liverpool University
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Minneapolis Art Institute
Moore College, Philadelphia
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Norton College of Art, Miami
Rice University, Texas
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Sharjah Art Museum, UAE
Stoke City Art Gallery
Strassburg Museum
Tate Gallery, London
Vassar College Art Gallery, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Wedgwood Museum, Stoke-on-Trent
Wilhem Lembruch Museum, Duisburg
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamston