1937-1974     1975-1990     1991-Present
						1991	Makes paintings using ideas from Turandot and Die Frau Ohne Schatten. Makes computer drawings on his Mac II FX computer using Oasis software by Timearts. In the fall begins designing sets and costumes with Ian Falconer for the Richard Strauss Die Frau Ohne Schatten (performances scheduled for the Royal Opera, London, November 1992 and the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, L.A., October 1993).
						1992	In January, opens Turandot and a painting exhibition in Chicago. Finishes designs for Die Rrau Ohne Schatten and travels to London in the spring to supervise construction of the stage sets. Continues with new paintings in his Malibu studio. Opens Die Frau Ohne Schatten in London in November.
						1993	Travels to Barcelona for a retrospective of his work at the Palau de la Virreina in January . Opens a painting exhibition in New York of his "Very New Paintings". Creates twelve prints with Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles. Continues research with color laser printed photographs from color slide pictures of travels to Japan, Scotland, and England. Stages his two opera productions in fall 1993, for San Francisco and Los Angeles. Begins portrait and dog drawings in December.
						1994	Creates gouache drawings and collages. Editions four images of his color laser printed photographs. Designs costumes and scenery for 12 opera arias for the T.V. broadcast of Placido Domingo's "Operalia 1994" in Mexico City.
						1995	Begins portrait paintings of his dogs, Stanley and Boodgie. Paints large abstracts to exhibit in Los Angeles. Paints BMW art car for the BMW art car collection. Exhibits paintings and drawings at the 1995 Venice Biennale, Italy. Opens his traveling Drawing Retrospective in Hamburg, Germany in the summer. Paints still lifes and makes digital inkjet prints from photographs of paintings. Paints museum walls in Munich for a group exhibition on the subject of the “Pierrot” figure. Opens painting exhibition of still lifes and dog paintings at Rotterdam Museum in the fall, and attends his Drawing Retrospective opening at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Makes five etchings with aquatint with printer, Maurice Payne.
						1996	Paints portraits of family & friends in January.   Opens his Drawing Retrospective at the L.A. County Museum of Art in February. Creates Snails Space with Vari-lites, "Painting as Performance", March 10, 1996 at his Santa Monica Blvd. studio and exhibits this with other paintings in two New York galleries in May.   Begins flower paintings in Summer 1996.   Travels to Melbourne to stage his opera production of Die Frau Ohne   Schatten in the autumn. Begins portraits in L.A. and continues painting portraits in England during December 1996.
						1997	Restages his opera production of Tristan und Isolde (Revival from 1987) at the Los Angeles Music Center Opera in January/February 1997. Continues new portrait paintings, and opens exhibition of flower paintings and portrait paintings in London in the spring. Visits the southwest on two separate occasions during the summer. Celebrates his 60th birthday in Los Angeles. Travels to London at the end of July to receive Order of the Companion of Honour award from Her Majesty, the Queen of England. Makes new oil paintings of the Yorkshire landscape. Opens his photography exhibition at the Museum Ludwig in Koln in December.
						1998	Paintings and drawings of Stanley & Boodgie are published in a new book called David Hockney’s Dog Days, in Europe and the USA. Begins new suite of etchings with Maurice Payne in Los Angeles. Continues large landscape paintings. Exhibits some of them at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in April. Paints A Bigger Grand Canyon, oil on 60 canvases, with an overall size of 81 1/2 x 293” and exhibits it at the National Museum of American Art, in Washington D.C. in June. Exhibits landscape paintings, drawings and photocollages at L.A. Louver in Venice, California in September. Paints A Closer Grand Canyon and makes other detail studies of the Grand Canyon in oil and in crayon.
						1999	Opens three exhibitions in Paris in January and February. In the spring exhibits 1998 etchings at Pace Prints in New York. Installs 9 Grand Canyon paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts, London for the Summer Exhibition. Travels to London and begins portrait drawings using a camera lucida. Exhibits some of the drawings in London, in June. Begins research and correspondence with art historians and friends concerning the use of mechanical devices by Ingres and other artists. Publishes an article in the RA magazine in the Summer 1999 issue concerning his findings. Returns to Los angeles and continues his drawings with the camera lucida, and his research. In the autumn, participates in the “Ingres and Portraiture” International symposium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Also gives a talk about his research to the art history department at Columbia University, New York.
						2000	Begins writing a book about his research and theories on old masters use of mechanical devices. During the summer, in London, begins paintings of his garden and continues work on his book.
						2001	Completes his book, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, for an autumn publication date with Thames and Hudson Ltd., London and Penguin/Putnam Inc., New York. Gives lectures about his discoveries, at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam in February, and at the L.A. County Museum of Art in March. In the summer, travels to England, Germany, Italy and Belgium. Works on a documentary with the BBC about his research and theories. Opens his traveling photography retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in mid-July. Gives lecture for MOCA in August. Attends Die Frau Ohne Schatten rehearsals at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in September/October. Edits his film, “Secret Knowledge” with the BBC director. Film is broadcast in England October 13, 2001. Exhibits paintings and drawings of his garden in Paris in November. Participates in symposium at NYU Law School in December, concerning his book & film theories.
						2002	Has conversation with Lawrence Weschler about his book & film theories at the J. Paul Getty Museum auditorium in Los Angeles in mid-January. Travels to new york in mid-february to work on his opera production revival of “Parade: A Triple Bill” for the Metropolitan Opera. Begins working in watercolor while staying at the Mayflower Hotel in New York. Travels to London in March 2002 and continues his watercolors. Sits for the painter, Lucian Freud, while in London. Assists Her Majesty the Queen of England in presenting the ‘2002 Visual Arts Award’ to a student at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in celebration of the Queen’s 50th Anniversary Golden Jubilee. Travels from London to the Norweign fjords and to Iceland and creates watercolors and sketchbooks of his travels..
						2003	Begins watercolors in Los Angeles in February. Visits Norway in June. Continues work in watercolor, in London and in L.A. In November, attends the ‘Optics, Optical Instruments and Painting: the Hockney-Falco Thesis Revisited’ conference in Ghent, Belgium. Travels to Florence, Italy in early December to receive an honorary degree at the Academy of Fine Arts and to receive the ‘Lorenzo de’ Medici Lifetime Career Award’ at the Florence Biennale.
						2004	Continues watercolors in London. Travels to Spain and France. In March, travels to Yorkshire to begin watercolors of the countryside. Exhibits watercolors at Richard Gray Gallery, New York in March. Exhibits portraits, garden and interior watercolors at the Whitney Biennial in March through May. In May, travels to Palermo, Sicily to receive the ‘Rosa d’Oro’ award. Exhibits a selection of Spanish watercolors at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in June through August. Continues watercolors of Yorkshire through the fall and winter.
						2005	Resumes oil painting with portraits of friends in Los Angeles in January/February. Exhibits new Yorkshire watercolors at L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California in February/March.
						1937-1974     1975-1990     1991-Present