David Hockney, O.M., C.H., R.A.

David Hockney, O.M., C.H., R.A.

A painter, draughtsman, printmaker, photographer and designer, Hockney studied at the Bradford School of Art 1953-7 and at the Royal College of Art in London where he met R.B. Kitaj and was featured in the exhibition Young Contemporaries alongside Peter Blake. Associated with the Pop art movement, his early works display Expressionist elements. Hockney moved to Los Angeles in 1964 and in 1967 won the John Moores Painting Prize at the Walker Art Gallery. One of the most celebrated British artists of the twentieth century, he was made a Royal Academician in 1997. In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II appointed him to the Order of Merit in recognition for his contributions to the arts.