| 1925 | Born in Nassau, Bahamas |
| 2006 | Died in Lanark, Scotland |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2015 | Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2014 | Terra Mare, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Ian Hamilton Finlay: Arcadian Revolutionary and Avant-Gardener, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA |
| 2013 | Ian Hamilton Finlay: Ring of Waves, David Nolan Galley, New York Artist Rooms: Ian Hamilton Finlay, Nature Over Again After Poussin 1979-1980, the Park Gallery, Falkirk, Scotland Ian Hamilton Finlay: Printed Works, Hiram Butler Gallery, Texas Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tate Britain, London |
| 2012 | Ian Hamilton Finlay - Twilight Remembers, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2011 | Definitions, Victoria Miro Gallery, London Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy |
| 2009 | Camouflage, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 2008 | (Neo)Classicism – A Noble Arrow, Nolan Judin, Berlin, Germany Druckgrafik, Kusthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany |
| 2007 | The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich, Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
| 2005 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Sentences, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland L'Idylle des Cerises, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Early Works from the Wild Hawthorne Press, 1964-1971, National Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, Scotland Of Conceits and Collaborators, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2004 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Works on Paper, 1968-2000, UBS Gallery, New York Vessels, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago |
| 2003 | Idylls and Interventions, Victoria Miro Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Maritime Works, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2001 | Souvenirs & Postcards by Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Stampa, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2000 | Garden Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Souvenirs, Städtische Galerie Grevenbroich im Haus Hartmann, Grevenbroich, Germany Ian Hamilton Finlay/Richard Tuttle, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland Nature Over Again After Poussin, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada |
| 1999 | Variation on Several Themes, Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain |
| 1998 | Modern Antiquities, Landesmuseum, Mainz, Germany |
| 1997 | Prints, 1963-1997 (traveling exhibition), Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, Netherlands Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria Buro Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany Wild Hawthorne Press, Academie Beelende Kunsten, Maastricht, Netherlands |
| 1996 | Reef-Points, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Grains of Salt, Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, Wales |
| 1995 | Paperworks, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland Works: Pure and Political, Deichtorhalle, Hamburg, Germany 70th Birthday Show, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| 1994 | Streiflichter: Fragments from the French Revolution, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York 3 Sailboats, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England Icons and Proposals, Laumeire Sculpture Park and Museum, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1993 | CAYC, Buenos Aires Tate Gallery, London, England Wildwachsende Blumen, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany The Sonnet is a Sewing Machine for the Monositch, Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews, Scotland 12/1794, Galerie Busche, Berlin, Germany Inscriptions, Massimo Minini Gallery, Brescia, Italy A Proposal for the Leasowes and Other Works, MBC Dudley, England |
| 1992 | Instruments of the Revolution and Other Works, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England City Art Gallery, Leeds, England 10 Maquettes for Neo-Classical Structures, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
| 1991 | Ideologische Ausserungen, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany Gallery Stadtpark, Krems Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Gulfs and Wars, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Germany Malerisamling Lillehammer, Norway Pastorales, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lubeck, Germany Definitions, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel, Germany The Poor Fisherman, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Ian Hamilton Finlay & The Wild Hawthorne Press, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh A Wartime Garden, Galleria Victoria Miro, Florence, Italy |
| 1990 | Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Galerie Schedle & Arpagas, Zurich, Switzerland ACTA & Galleria, Milano, Italy Stampa, Basel, Switzerland Christine Burgin, New York Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen, Bachem, Germany Idylls, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England The Ocean and the Revolution, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles Ian Hamilton Finlay & the Wild Hawthorne Press 1958-1990, Firth Street Gallery, London, England Holzwege, Neuer, Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany A Wartime Garden, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1989 | 1789-1794, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany Galerie Wernicke, Stuttgart, Germany Stadtische Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch-Hall, Germany Paperworks, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria Works, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Ireland Bicentenary Celebrations, Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenween, Scotland |
| 1988 | Musee d'Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France An Exhibition on Two Themes, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem, Germany Michael Klein Gallery, New York |
| 1987 | Inter Artes et Naturam, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Foundation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas Midway, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France Pastorales, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France Poursuites Revolutionnaires, Foundation Cartier pour l'Art, Jouy-en-Josas Hommage to Ian Hamilton Finlay, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
| 1986 | Ian Hamilton Finlay, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland Marat Assasine and Other Works, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
| 1985 | Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England Eric Fabre Galerie, Paris, France Little Sparta and Kriegsschatz, Espace Romeau-Chapelle Sainte-Marie, Nevers, France |
| 1984 | Talismans and Signifiers, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Liberty, Terror and Virtue, City Art Gallery, Southampton Print Gallery, Peter Brattinga, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 1981 | Unnatural Pebbles, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1980 | Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands Nature Over Again After Poussin, Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1977 | Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Serpentine Gallery, London, England Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England |
| 1976 | Coracle Press, London, England Hommage to Watteau, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland City Art Gallery, Southampton |
| 1974 | National Maritime Museum, London, England |
| 1972 | Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1971 | Winchester College of Art, Southhampton, England |
| 1970 | Ceolfrith Bookshop Gallery, Sunderland, England |
| 1969 | Pittencreiff House, Dunfermline, Scotland Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1968 | Axiom Gallery, London, England |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2011 | Printed in Norfolk: Coracle Publications 1989-2012, The Gallery at Norwich University, Norwich, England The Artists’ Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol, England Néon, Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France Grow Together: Concrete Poetry in Brazil and Scotland, Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Dalcrombie, Inverness-shire, Scotland Faster and Slower Lines, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland Art + Architecture 11, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2010 | one blue moment, Galerie Schütte, Essen, Germany The Ground Around: idylls, earthworks & thunderbolts, Vilma Gold, London, England Umso mehr…, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany Bense und die Künste, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2009 | Art With Paper, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, Australia PROJECTS 2, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland British Council Collection: The Third Dimension, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England Poor. Old. Tired. Horse., Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England Nous tournons en rond dans la nuit, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, France |
| 2008 | xviii Biennale Internazionale di Scultura, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Italy Here We Dance, Tate Modern, London, England Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London, England Sol LeWitt x2, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Arbeiten auf Papier — von Arakawa bis Zimmer — Smlg. Kulak, Otto Galerie, Munich, Germany Conversations, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England |
| 2007 | Ian Hamilton Finlay & Cerith Wyn Evans, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2006 | Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, England Certain Trees: The Constructed Book, Poem and Object 1964-2006, Centre des Livres D'Artistes, Saint-Yrieix-La-Perche, France Word Power: Concrete Poetry and it's Influences, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen & the Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland How to Change the World: 60 Years of British Art, Arts Council Collection, Hayward Gallery, London, England |
| 2005 | Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2004 | Art and the Garden, Tate Britain, London, England Bang, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York |
| 2000 | Encounters, National Gallery, London, England |
| 1999 | Heads Will Roll, Victoria Miro Gallery, London Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal La Biennale de Montreal, Centre International d'Art, Montreal, Canada |
| 1998 | Les Capteurs de Rives, 1st Biennale de Montreal, commissaire; Claude Gosselin, Montreal, Canada |
| 1997 | Material Culture, Hayward Gallery, London Grenzganger, Deutscher Sparkassen Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, New York Wortwechsel, Kunstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Str., Munich, Germany |
| 1996 | Galerie Stampa, Zürich Schwere-Los-Skulpturen, Landesmuseum Linz, Austria Public Works, Peninsula & Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 1995 | Wege der Birke, Bern, Suisse Where is Abel, Thy Brother? The Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland Lesen im Buch der Kunst, Library of Baden, Karlsruhe, Germany The Green Room, Sydney Gardens, Bath, Australia |
| 1994 | Das Jahrhundert des Multiple, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany East of Eden, Museum Schloss Mosigkau, Dessau-Mosigkau Translokation, Haus der Architektur, Graz, Austria |
| 1993 | Konfrontation, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany Skulptur statt Denkmal, Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorf, Germany Words, Galerie Sfeir-Semler at the Galerie Jergen Becker, Hamburg, Germany |
| 1992 | Three British Book Artists', Mandeville Gallery, Univ. of California, San Diego Force Sight, Schloss Presteneck, Neuenstadt, Stein am Kocher, Germany Lux Eurpoae, Lux Europae Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland Verzmelde Werken, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, Netherlands |
| 1991 | Rhetorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Metropolis, Berlin Night Lines, Centraalmuseum, Utrecht, Netherland Virtual Realities, Traveling Gallery Exhibition, Scotland |
| 1990 | Von der Natur in der Kunst, Messepalast, Vienna, Austria Allegorie, Galerie Sfeir-Demmle, Kiel, Germany Glasgow's Great British Art Exhibition, Scotland Messepalast Halle E, Vienna, Austria Poesis, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland British Art Now: A Subjective View, Stagaya Art Museum, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan |
| 1989 | Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2000 Jahre-Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany Hier Wird Getanzt, XPO Galerie, Hamburg, Germany British Sculpture 1960-1988, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium Buhnen Stucke, Kunstverein, Munchen, Germany Freiheit-Gleichheit n Bruderlichkeit, Germanisches Nationalmuseuem, Nurnberg Stampa, Basel, Switzerland |
| 1988 | Starlit Waters: British Sculpture 1968-88, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England Saturne en Europe, Musee de la Ville de Strasbourg Triennale Milano, Italy Pyramiden, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen/Bachem Art in the Garden, Garden Festival, Glasgow, Scotland Camouflage, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Brittannica: 30 Ans de Sculpture, Le Havre Skulpturen Republik, exhibition of the Vienna Festival, Vienna, Austria |
| 1987 | Documenta 8, Kassel The Unpainted Landscape, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland Monument to Feuerbach, Summer Exhibition, Antwerp, Belgium Aphrodite of Terror, Edinburgh International Exhibition, Scotland |
| 1986 | L'Art et le Sacre Aujourd'hui, Cistercian Abbey, L'Epau, France Between Object and Image, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain |
| 1985 | Promenades, Parc Lullin, Geneva, Switzerland British Council Exhibition, Sydney, Australia |
| 1984 | Merian Park, Basel, Switzerland |
| 1983 | Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1977 | Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Battersea Park, London, England |