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Richard Hamilton was born in 1922 in London. He was educated at the Royal Academy Schools (1938-40, 146-48) and Slade School of Fine Art (1948-51). From 1952 he was a leading member of the Independent Group (along with Eduardo Paolozzi, Lawrence Alloway, Alison and Peter Smithson, and others) based at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. During the 1950s he organized a series of exhibitions including Man, Machine and Motion (1955) and, with others, This Is Tomorrow (1956), at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. In the 1960 he designed a typographic version of Marcel Duchamp's Green Box, notes for 'The Large Glass' (1915-23) and in 1965-66, with Duchamp's approval, he reconstructed Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass).

Solo exhibitions include: Hanover Gallery, London (1964), and retrospectives at the Tate Gallery, London (1970 and 1992), Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2003), and Museum Ludwig Cologne (2003). He presented 'A Host of Angels' in Venice (2007) and more recently his 'Protest Pictures' at the Inverleith House in Edinburgh (2008). Hamilton lives and works in Oxfordshire.