Alan Uglow was born in 1941 in Luton, England, and died in Manhattan in 2011.
After earning his degree in painting and printmaking at the Central School of Art in London, Uglow relocated to New York City in the late 1960’s. Throughout the decades that followed he frequently exhibited at, among others, Mary Boone Gallery in New York, Günther Umberg’s Raum für Malerei in Cologne and Galerie Nordenhake in Malmö and Stockholm.

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