Born in Nassau, Bahamas

Moved to Edinburgh

Short listed for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, England

Awarded Honorary Doctorate by the University of Aberdeen

Awarded Honorary Doctorate from the Herio-Watt University, Glasgow

Awarded honorary professorship from the University of Dundee

Awarded CBE in New Year's Honors
Awarded Scottish Horticultural Medal by the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award

Died on March 27th in Lanark, Scotland

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Neoclassicism and Revolution, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Et in Arcadia ego, KEWENIG Berlin, Germany
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries, England
Poet and Publisher, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

Three Sailboats, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Germany
Ian Hamilton Finlay | 1789 1794, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Ian Hamilton Finlay. Evening, Galerie Stampa, Basel

Terra Mare, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Ian Hamilton Finlay: Arcadian Revolutionary and Avant-Gardener, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, United States

Ian Hamilton Finlay: Ring of Waves, David Nolan Galley, New York, United States
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, United States
Ian Hamilton Finlay", Tate Britain, London "Ian Hamilton Finlay: Poet, Artist, Revolutionary", Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland

Ian Hamilton Finlay - Twilight Remembers, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ian Hamilton Finlay", Duveen galleries of Tate Britain, London, England

Definitions", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Ian Hamilton Finlay - Mean Terms, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

Camouflage, David Nolan Gallery, New York, United States

(Neo)Classicism – A Noble Arrow, Nolan Judin Berlin Druckgrafik, Kusthalle Bremen, Germany

The Sonnet is a Sewing-Machine for the Monostich", Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England

Ian Hamilton Finlay, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Ian Hamilton Finlay - The Graphic Work, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne

Revolution. Virtue. Eloquence. Transparency., Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sentences, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
L'idylle de Cerises, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Of Conceits and Collaborators, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Philosophers Garden", Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Souvenirs, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
Ian Hamilton Finlay Prints, 1963-2004, Pine Weber Gallery, New York, United States
Vessels, Arts Club of Chicago, United States
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, England
Works on Paper 1968-2000, UBS Gallery, New York, United States

Idylls and Interventions, Victoria Miró Gallery, London, England
Souvenirs, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, England
Maritime Works, Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, London, England

Maritime Works, Tate St. Ives, England
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Souvenirs – Postcards by Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Scottish National Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

Garden Works, Nolan/ Eckman Gallery, New York, United States
Nature over again after Poussin, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, United States

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona

Modern Antiquities, Landesmuseum, Mainz; Stadsgalerij, Heerlen, The Netherlands

Galerie Stadtpark, Krems Galerie Stampa, ART 28’97, Basel, Switzerland
Das Schreckliche hinter dem Schönen - Prints/Grafiken 1963-1997, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
Wild Hawthorn Press, Academie Beelende Kunsten, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Works - Pure and Political, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Stones & Leaves, The Houghton Library, Harvard University, Boston, United States

Wildwichsende Blumen, Lenbachhaus, Munich "CAYC", Buenos Aires, Argentina

Instruments of Revolution and other works, The Mall, ICA, London, England
Städt. Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Philadelphia Museum of Art/Johnson Special Exhibition

Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer, Norway
Gulfs And Wars, Kunstverein Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Kunstverein Frankfurt, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Pastorales, Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England

Galerie Schedle & Arpagaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
ACTA-Galleria, Milan Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, United States
New Works, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany
Victoria Miró Gallery, London, England
The Ocean and the Revolution, Galerie Burnett Miller, Los Angeles, United States
A War Time Garden, Galerie Graeme Murray, Edinburgh, Scotland
Galerie Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Wild Hawthorn Press 1958-1990, Frith Street Gallery, London, England
Holzwege, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
Uncover... Discover, New Art For Glasgow, TSWA , Glasgow, Scotland

Galerie Wernicke, Stuttgart, Germany
Städtische Galerie am Markt, Schwäbisch-Hall, Germany
Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenween, Scotland
Paperworks, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
1789-1794, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Works, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland

Musée d'Art Contemporain, Dunkerque, France
An Exhibition on Two Themes, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany
Victoria Miró Gallery, London, England
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, England
Proposals, Museum of Contemporary Art, Dunkirk, France

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Midway, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
Pastorales, Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France
Fondation Cartier pour l'art Contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas Victoria Miró Gallery, London, England
The Stuart Collection University of California, San Diego, United States

Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Installationen, Schweizer Garten, Vienna, Austria
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Marat Assassiné & other works, Victoria Miró Gallery, London, England

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England
L'APAC, Nevers, France
Eric Fabre Gallery, Paris, France

Talimans and Signifiers, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Liberty, Terror and Virtue, City Art Gallery, Southampton, England

Unnatural Pebbles, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Nature over again after Poussin, Collins Exhibition Hall, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
Kröller-Müller, Otterloo, The Netherlands
Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Installation, British Embassy, Bonn, Germany

Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, England
Serpentine Gallery, London, England

Coracle Press, London, England
Homage to Watteau, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England

Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart, Germany

National Maritime Museum, London, England

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Winchester College of Art, Winchester, England

Ceolfrith Bookshop, Sunderland, England

Pittencrief House, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Scotland
Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

The Present Order, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig, Germany
Beyond Lawn and Order, Gallery joségarcía, mx, Mexico City
Frequent Long Walks, Hannah Barry Gallery, London, England
Concerning Concrete Poetry, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland

Folkestone Triennial, Kent, England

The Dark Would, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Scotland

Once upon a time and a very good time it was..., Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-79, Southhampton City Art Gallery, Southhampton, England

Common Ground, City Park Hall, New York, United States
The Imminence of Poetic 30th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

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
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York, United States

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

Art With Paper, Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney
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
Upside Down/Inside Out, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England

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, United States
Arbeiten auf Papier — von Arakawa bis Zimmer — Smlg. Kulak, Otto Galerie, Munich, Germany
Conversations, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England
Ian Hamilton Finlay & Cerith Wyn Evans, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

You Silently: Image - Object - Text, University Gallery, University of Essex, Colchester, England

A Mostra Invisible/ The Invisible Show, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain

Tate Triennal 2006, 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

Edition, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Down the Garden Path: The Artist's Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, United States
Big Bang, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France

Wer bietet mehr? – 15 Jahre Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Art of the Garden, Tate Britain, London, England
The 1960s, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Bang, Colgate University, Colgate University, Hamilton, United States

Zona People 1974-1985 Non Profit Art Space - Firenze, MAMCO Musée d'art moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Italy

Blast to Freeze, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
A Library for a Justified Sinner, Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Sous les Ponts, Le Long De La Riviere, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'art contemporain, Luxemburg

Et in Arcadia Ego, haags centrum for beeldende kunst, Den Hague, The Netherlands
Ian Hamilton Finlay/Richard Tuttle, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Tomorrow For Ever, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg, Germany
Skulpturenpark Ismaning, Munich, Germany
Encounters, National Gallery, London, England

wordvolume - Künstler machen Worte - Bilder, Objekte und anderes, Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne, Germany
Das druckgraphische Werk, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany
Heads will roll, Victoria Miró Gallery, London, England
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
La Biennalle de Montreal, Centre International d'Art, Montreal, Canada

L’oeuvre au sens large", Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
Les Capteurs de Rêves", 1st Biennale de Montreal, Canada

Wortwechsel. Sechs zeitgenössische Positionen zu Kunst und Schrift, Künstlerwerkstatt, Munich, Germany
Paperview, TZ’Art & Co., New York, United States

Translokation", Haus der Architekten, Graz, Austria
East of Eden, Museum Schloß Mosigkau, Dessau, Germany
Das Jahrhundert des Multiple, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Konfrontation, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Die Sprache der Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Autria
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Skulptur statt Denkmal, Galerie Fricke, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galerie Sfeir-Semler in der Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany

Force Sight,Schloß Presteneck, Stein am Kocher, Germany
Three British Book Artists, San Diego Gallery of the University of California, Mandeville, Louisiana, United States
Lux Europe, Luc Europe Trust, Edinburgh, Scotland
Verzamrelde Werken, Centrum Beeldende, Groningen, The Netherlands

Metropolis, Berlin Werkstatt Kollerschlag, Linz, Austria
Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Skulpturenweg Nordhorn, Germany
Neun Entwürfe für die Landspitze Nordhorn, Nordhorn
Rhetorical Image, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, United States
Night Lines, Centraalmuseum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

Glasgow's Great British Art Exhibition, Glasgow, England
Von der Natur in der Kunst", Vienna, Autria
Aspetti e Pratiche dell'Arte Europea, Rivara Galerie Sfeir-Semmler, Kiel, Germany
Oberhalb der Baumgrenze, Schloß Gut Kramerhof, Austria
Poesis, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Scottish Art since 1900, Edinburgh/London

Pyramiden, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany
British Sculpture 1960-88, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium
Prospekt '89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Kunstverein München, Bühnen-Stücke, Munich, Germany
Freiheit-Gleichheit-Brüderlichkeit, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany
Galerie Stampa, Basel "2000 Jahre - Die Gegenwart der Vergangenheit", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Composition Trouvé, Guillaume Bijl
Ian Hamilton Finlay, The Desmoulin Connection

Pyramiden, ICC, Berlin, Germany
Tate Gallery Liverpool, Starlit Waters, British Sculpture 1968-88, Liverpool, England
Art in the Garden, Garden Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Skulpturen Republik, Exhibition of the Vienna-Festival, Vienna, Austria
Triennale Mailand, Les Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, France
Saturne en Europe, Mailand Michael Klein Gallery, New York, United States
Britannica, 30 Ans de Sculpture, Le Havre, France

Skulptur Projekt, Münster, Germany
Dokumenta 8, Kassel, Germany
The Unpainted Landscape, Edinburgh, Scotland
Aphrodite of the Terror, Edinburgh, Scotland
International Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland

Cistercian Abbey l'Epau, Yvré-l'Évêque, France
Parc de Sculpture de Kerguehennec, Bignan-Locminé, France
Säulen, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen-Bachem, Germany

Promenades, Parc Lullin, Geneve, Italy
Little Sparta et Kriegsschatz, Espace Rameau Chapelle Sainte Marie, Paris, France

Merian Park, Basel, Switzerland

Hayward Gallery, London, England

Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary Sculpture, Battersea Park, London, England

St. Mary Axe, City of London, England
Fleur de l'Air, a private garden in Provence, France

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Schoenthal Monestry, Switzerland
Patumbah Park, Switzerland
Hamilton, Scotland

Bundesarbeitsgericht, Erfurt, Germany
Private garden, Zurich, Lauffen, Basel, Switzerland
Bundesgartenschau, Magdeburg, Germany
Park am Goetheturm, Frankfurt a.M., Germany
Barcelona, Spain
Montreal, Canada
Bundesgerichtshof, Karlsruhe, Germany
Isla de esculturas, Ponte Vedra, Galicia, Spain
Shell Research, Thorton Research Centre, England

Serpentine Gallery, London, England
The Ark, London, England
Den Haag, Netherlands

Hunter Square, Edinburgh, Scotland
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Botanic Garden, University of Durham, England

Schloßpark, Landesgartenschau, Grevenbroich, Germany
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
The Gyle, Shopping Center, Edinburgh, Scotland

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, United States
Schröder Münchmeyer Hengst & Co. Bank, Frankfurt a.M., Germany

Beelden op de Berg, Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, Netherlands

Shenstone's Leasowes, Halesowen, England
Floriadepark, Zoetermeer, Netherlands

Stockwood Park Nuseries in the Borough of Luton, England
Library of Baden, Karlsruhe, Germany
Overbeck-Gesellschaft, Lübeck, Germany

Private bibliotheque of the architect Oswald M. Ungers, Cologne, Germany
12th & K Office Tower, Sacramento, United States
Scotland Railway Bridge, Glasgow, Scotland

Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Forest of Dean, England

Musée de l'Art Moderne, Strasbourg, France

Skulptur Projekt, Münster, Germany
Campus of University of California, San Diego, United States
Furka Pass, Switzerland
West Princess Street Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland

Domaine de Kerguenhennec, Bretagne, France
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Schweizer Garten, Vienna, Austria

Fattoria Celle, Giuliano Gori, Celle, Germany

Kröller Müller Museum, Sculpture Garden, Otterlo, The Netherlands

British Embassy, Bonn, Germany

Schottland Bell‘s Garden, Perth, Australia

University, Liège, Belgium

Garden of the Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, Germany
Schottish National Gallery, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chichester, England
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, United States
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Limousin, Limoges, France
Gallery North - Northumbria University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany
GFZK - Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Jupiter Artland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO, United States
MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL, United States
MOMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, United States
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, France
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland Palazzo Forti - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
Tate, London, England Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada