John Houston was a Royal Scottish Academician, a Member of the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, and a Member of the Royal Glasgow Institute. He lived and worked in Edinburgh and was married to the artist Elizabeth Blackadder.
1930 Born, Buckhaven, Fife
1948-54 Studied at Edinburgh College of Art
1955 Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art
1982-89 Deputy Head of the School of Painting and Drawing, Edinburgh College of Art
1990 Created a Member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
2004 LLD Heriot Watt University
2008 Died 27th September in Edinburgh
Solo Exhibitions
1958 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1960, 62, 65, 67, 71, 75, 80, 90, 93, 97, 2003 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1966, 68, 70, 72, 75, 77, 79, 81, 84, 89, 92, 95, 98, 2000 Mercury Gallery, London
1969 Wusthum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, Wisconsin
Johnson Foundation, Racine, Wisconsin
Lane Gallery, Bradford
1970 Cerberus Gallery, New York
1970, 72, 74, 76, 79, 86 Loomshop Gallery, Lower Largo, Fife
1974 Oban Art Society, Glen Pavilion, Dunfermline
1976 Scottish Arts Council, Gaelic College, Skye
1978 Lamp of Lothian Collegiate Centre, Haddington
1979 Middlesbrough Art Gallery and Museum
1983, 85 Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh
1985 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
1985-6 Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Portraits of Sir Alexander Gibson
1987 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Works on Paper 1962-1987, and tour
1994, 99 Corrymella Scott Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
1996 McGeary Gallery, Brussels
Roger Billcliffe Fine Art, Glasgow
Macaulay Gallery, Stenton, East Lothian
1999 Bohun Gallery, Henley-on-Thames
Glasgow Print Studio, Monoprints
2004 Browse & Darby, London
2005 The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
2009 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Memorial Exhibition
2010 Browse & Darby, London, A Retrospective
