GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) 2024 George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain Magdalene College, Cambridge, England 2023–Ongoing Travels with and without a Donkey in the Cévennes The Foster Museum, Palo Alto, California 2022 Blake +7 Falmouth Art Gallery, England Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London, England (Invited Artist) 2016 Inspiring Sights: Yellowstone through the Artists’ Eyes Whitney Western Art Museum, Cody, Wyoming 2015 Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona The West Select Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (silver medal) (also 2013) 2011 Land Use Misuse: The Celebration and Exploitation of the American Landscape Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2010 Works on Paper Science Museum, London, England 2006 Yosemite: Art of an American Icon* Autry National Center of Western Art, Los Angeles, California (toured) 2003 The Whole Salmon: A Multidisciplinary Commission Project* Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho (toured) 2002 In Praise of Trees Salisbury Festival, Salisbury Museum, Wiltshire, England 2000–2001 A Century of Grand Canyon Art Kolb Studio, Grand Canyon Village, Arizona After Lewis and Clark: Explorer Artists and the American West* Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, Idaho Boise Art Museum, Idaho 1995 100 Years: Context and Continuity Newlyn Orion Art Gallery, Penzance, England 1989 A Century of Art in Cornwall Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, England 1987 Knowing Your Place Ecology Centre, London, England (toured) 1985 Travels without a Donkey in the Cévennes (with James Ravilious) Curwen Gallery, London, England (toured) 1984 Edinburgh Festival (with Richard Demarco), Scotland PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles, California Boise Art Museum, Idaho Denver Art Museum, Colorado Falmouth Museum and Art Gallery, England Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England Magdalene College, Cambridge, England Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, England Scott Polar Research Institute, Cambridge, England Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut Yosemite National Park, California PUBLICATIONS AND HONOURS 2024 George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain, exhibition booklet, Magdalene College, Cambridge, England 2017 Explorers’ Sketchbooks: The Art of Discovery & Adventure, by Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert, published by Thames & Hudson 2016 The Natural History of Edward Lear, by Robert McCracken Peck, published by David R. Godine Sacred Places: Watercolour Diaries from the American Southwest, published by The Foster Museum 2015 Yosemite, by Kate Ogden, published by Reaktion Books 2008 Painting at the Edge of the World: The Watercolours of Tony Foster, published by University of Washington Press 2002 Awarded the Cherry Kearton Memorial Medal “for his artistic portrayal of the world’s wilderness” by the Royal Geographical Society, London 1998 The Majesty of the Grand Canyon: 150 Years in Art, published by First Glance Books 1994 Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society 1988 Awarded the Yosemite Renaissance Prize MEDIA Feature-length documentary, Tony Foster: Painting at the Edge (2026) Articles and reviews have appeared in American Watercolor, Appalachia, Arizona Republic, Art and Antiques, Art Book, Art Newspaper, L’Art de aquarelle, Artists and Illustrators, Art Monthly, Art News, Art of England, Art Review, Art Times, Boston Globe, Cahiers de géopoétique, Condé Nast Traveler, Crafts Magazine, Dallas Morning News, Down East, Fine Art Connoisseur, Guardian, Independent, International Artist Magazine, Nature, New Statesman, New York Times, Pratique des arts, Resurgence and Ecology Magazine, Scotsman, Seattle Times, Sierra Magazine, Southwest Art, Spectator, Sunday Telegraph, Times (London), Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and many other publications. Foster’s work has been featured on many television and radio programs and is the subject of television documentaries made by TSW Television South West (1988), BBC Radio 4 (1999), Sky Artsworld (2006), and MontagneTV (2014). *Accompanied by a catalogue 109
