1932        Born in Glengormley, Co. Antrim

1951        Graduated from Belfast College of Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1956                    CEMA Gallery, Belfast

1959                    Piccolo Gallery, Belfast

1961                    CEMA Gallery, Belfast

1962                    Studio 25, Belfast

1964                    Arts Council Gallery, Belfast

1970,71               Bell gallery, Belfast

1973                    Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast

1974                    Retrospective, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast

                            Watergate Gallery, Washington D.C., U.S.A.

1975,77,81,85    Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast

1981,82,83          Arts Council Gallery, Belfast

1986                    Basil Blackshaw, Grant Fine Art, Newcastle, Co. Down

1987                    David Hendricks Gallery, Dublin

1990                    Kerlin Gallery, Dublin

1992                    Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast

1993                    Clotworthy House, Antrim

1995                    Retrospective 1995-1998, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

1996                    Ormeau baths gallery, Belfast

1997                    Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

                            Model & Niland Arts centre, Sligo

2002 / 3               Paintings 2000-2003, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2005                    Fenton Gallery, Cork

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1952                    Two person show, Donegal Place Gallery, Belfast

1953                    Ulster Arts Club, Group Show, Browns Bookshop Gallery, Edinburgh

1958                    Tate Museum, London

1958-61                Irish Exhibition of Living Art

1960                    Two person show, Ritchie Hendricks Gallery, Dublin

1965                    Four Ulster painters, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol

                            Paintings and Sculpture by Irish Artists, Ritchie Hendricks Gallery, Dublin

                            Aspects of the Ulster landscape, Arts Council of Northern Ireland at the Ulster Museum, Belfast

1966                    Open Painting, Arts Council of Northern Ireland at the Ulster Museum, Belfast

1967                    Two Ulster painters, Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition

1968                    Duchas, Queen’s University, Belfast

                            Ulster painting ’68, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast

1970                    Aspects of Landscapes by Irish Artists, An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin

                            Ulster faces by Ulster Artists, Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition

1971                    Rosc: Irish imagination, 1959-1971, Dublin

1975                    Orieachtas competition, Dublin, Belfast and Letterkenny

                            Women of Ulster, Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition

1977                    Orieachtas competition, Dublin, Belfast and Letterkenny

1980                    The Delighted Eye, London

                            Rosc: Irish Art 1943-1973, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork

                            Figurative Image, Dublin

                            Irish ways Exhibition, Chicago, U.S.A.

1981                    Sense of Ireland Exhibition, London

1982 /3                Aspects of Drawing, Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition

1983                    Six Painters from Ireland, Tour by An Chomhairle Ealí and Department of Foreign Affairs, Dublin to countries of the (then) EEC

1985                    Two Living Generations, Northern Irish Art, fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

1986                    Arts Council of Northern Ireland touring exhibition

1988                    Rosc: Guinness Hop Store, Dublin

1989                    Two person show, Narrow Water gallery, warrenpoint, Co. Down

1990                    Living Landscape, West Cork Arts centre, Skibbereen

                            Faces in a Bookshop, Kenny gallery, Galway

1994                    The Longer View, Group Show, One oxford Street, Belfast

1995                    George Moore Famine Exhibition, Claremorris

                            Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast

2000                    Two person exhibition, Peppercannister gallery, Dublin

2001                    Painting Landscape, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

PUBLICATIONS

Blackshaw, eamonn Mallie (editor), essays by Eamonn Mallie, Brian Fallon and Jamshid Mirfenderesky, Belfast 2003

Basil Blackshaw: Paintings 2000-2002, S.B.Kennedy, Ulster Museum, Belfast

Basil B - Painter, Brian Ferran, Belfast 1995