- Arts Council of Great Britain
- Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast
- BBC online collection ‘Your Paintings’
- Birmingham City Art Gallery, Birmingham
- Bristol City Art Gallery, Bristol
- British Council, London
- Contemporary Art Society, London
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Government Art Collection, London
- Granada Television Company, Manchester
- Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow
- National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
- Northern Arts Association, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Nuffield Foundation, London
- Premio Marzotto, Rome
- Royal Academy of Arts, London
- Swedish Lloyd Shipping Lines, London
- Tate, London
- Union Bank of Switzerland, London
- Victoria Art Gallery, Melbourne
- Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
- Ian Stephenson is represented by fifteen works in the collection of the Tate and in many private collections.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
1957
Metavisual Tachiste and Abstract Painting in England Today, Redfern Gallery, London.
1958
John Moores Exhibition Selection,
1958
Royal Watercolourists Society Galleries, London.
1958
One Man Show, New Vision Centre, London.
1959
Nine Young Contemporaries, Gimpel Fils Gallery, London.
1961
4th Six Young Painters, Arts Council Tour, UK.
1961-69
Reguarly exhibited at the New Art Centre, London.
1962
The Arts Council as Patron, Arts Council Gallery, London.
1962
One Year of British Art, Arthur Tooth Gallery, London.
1963
Recent Trends in Painting, Arts Council Tour, London.
1963
British Painting in the Sixties, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
1964-5
Premio Marzotto Mostra di Pittura Contemporanea, Club Unione, Valdagno and toured Europe.
1965
New Painting 61-64, Arts Council Tour, Europe.
1966
9o Mostra Internazione di Bianco e Nero, Museo Caccia di Villa Ciani, Lugano.
1967
18e Salon de Jeune Peinture, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.
1967-8
Drawing towards Painting, Arts Council Tour, UK.
1967
5e Biennale des Jeunes Artistes, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.
1967-75
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation Collection of Recent British Painting, Tate, London and International tour.
1968
Junge Generation Grossbritannien, Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
1969
Six at the Hayward, Hayward Gallery, London.
1970
One Man Show: Retrospective Exhibition, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle Upon-Tyne.
1970
Large Paintings, Hayward Gallery, London and Arts Council Tour, UK.
1970
Arts Council Paintings 68-70, Arts Council Tour, UK.
1973
Process Markmaking Structure Space Scale in British Abstraction, Tate, London.
1973
La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd’hui, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris.
1973
Elf Englische Zeichner, British Council Tour, Baden Baden and Bremen, Germany.
1973
Europalia: Recente Britse Tekenkunst, Koninklijk Museum, Antwerp.
1973-75
Drawing towards Painting 2, Arts Council Tour, England.
1974
British Painting 74, Hayward Gallery, London.
1974
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London.
1975
Recent Acquisitions: Gallery17, Tate, London.
1975
One Man Show: Ionic Variation Watercolours, Hester van Royen Gallery, London.
1976
Arte Inglese Oggi1960-76, Palazzo Reale, Milan.
1977
Ian Stephenson: Paintings1955-66 and1966-77, Hayward Gallery, London, and Arts Council Tour, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol and Turnpike Gallery, Leigh on Sea.
1977
British Artists of the Sixties, Tate, London.
1977
Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz.
1977
British Painting1952-1977, Royal Academy, London.
1977
Contemporary Art Society Jubilee Exhibition: Works on Paper, Royal Academy Diploma Galleries, London.
1977-8
Series, Tate, London.
1978-79
Ian Stephenson: Ionic Variation Paintings on Paper1961-1977, City Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham and Cardiff.
1978-9
Abstract Paintings from the United Kingdom, British Embassy, Washington.
1979
Tate ’79Exhibition, Tate, London.
1979
The Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK.
1980
Art Anglais D’ Aujourd’hui, Geneva.
1980
Hayward Annual 1980, Hayward Gallery, London.
1980
British Art1940-80, London.
1980-81
Colour in British Painting, Hong Kong and Far East.
1982
A Taste of British Art Today, Brussels.
1982
Arteder Muestra Internacional, Bilbao.
1982
La Couleur en la Peinture Britannique, Luxembourg and Bucharest.
1985
Peintiadau Prydeinig1946-72, Penarth, UK.
1992-3
Ready Steady Go, London and Arts Council Tour, England.
2003
Formal Situation Abstraction in Britain 1960- 1970, Tate, Liverpool.
2004
Art and the Sixties: This Was Tomorrow, Tate Britain, London.
2005
One man show: Ian Stephenson, Roche Court, Salisbury, UK.
2005
British Art and the 60s from Tate Britain, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
2006
And our eyes scan Time, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea, UKand touring to BALTIC, Gateshead, UK.
2007
Metavisual Tachiste Abstract: Painting in England Today 1957, a Fiftieth Anniversary, The Redfern Gallery.
2008
A(r)t Home: Duddo, Northumberland.
2009
One Man Show: Be Quiet Now, Gymnasium Art Gallery, Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland.
2010
The Independent Eye: Contemporary British Art from the Collection of Samuel and Gabrielle Lurie, Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, Connecticut, United States of America.
2011
One Man show: Ian Stephenson at Economy, Studio 10, London Fields, London