John Stezaker
John Stezaker
Born 1949 Worcester, England
Lives and works in London
Education
Slade School of Art, London
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Two part show: Marriage, Karsten Schubert (Sep-Nov), London; Masks, The Approach W1, London (Oct-Nov)
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris
2006
The Approach E2, London
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Bridges and other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
John Stezaker, White Columns, New York
2005
Archiv & Erzählung [Archives and Narration]: John Stezaker and T.J. Wilcox, Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich
2004
The Third Person Archive and other works, The Approach, London
2001
The Holy Land Series, Wigmore Fine Art, London
1999
Angels, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1996
Garden, Cubitt Gallery, London
1991
Care & Control, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
1990
Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany [cat.]
1989
John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England [cat.]
Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Lisson Gallery, London
1979
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris
Werke 1973-1978, Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne [cat.]
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
The World Made Flesh, The New ‘57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [cat.]
1978
Fragments, Photographer’s Gallery, London, England [cat.]
Collages, 1977-1978, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England [cat.]
Southampton City Museum, Southampton, England
1977
Dream Allegories. John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977. Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London [cat.]
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France
Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy
Spectro Arts, Newcastle, England
1976
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England
Trois Oeuvres [Three Works], Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France [cat.]
1975
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris
1974
Galerie Decembre, Munster, Germany
Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
1973
The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford
1972
Beyond Art for Art’s Sake: a Propus Mundus, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England [cat.]
1970
Works, 1969-1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, England [cat.]
Group Exhibitions
2008
Not so Subtle Subtitle, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York
Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
2007
Panic Attack, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring: selected by artist Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London
2006
Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Figures of the Player: The paradox of the actor, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
A Season in Hell, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London
World Gone Mad: Surrealist Returns in Recent British Art, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; travelling to Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Limehouse Arts Foundation, London [cat.]
The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin
Tate Triennial 2006 –New British Art, Tate Britain, London [cat.]
2005
Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Cut, The Approach, London
1979, Bloomberg Space, London
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Collage, Signs & Surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
Mourning, Sies & Hoeke, Düsseldorf
RCA print folio, Royal College of Art, London
2004
Collage, Bloomberg Space, London
Je t’envisage, La disparition du portrait, Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne
Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon
About Face, Hayward Gallery, London
Future Face, Science Museum, London
Portraits of Non-Humans, David Risley Gallery, London
Polaroid, 39 Gallery, London
2003
Ex-press, Royal College of Art, London
Please Take One, 39 Gallery, London
2002
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle [cat.]
2000
The British Art Show 5, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; travelling to Collective Gallery; Dean Gallery; Fruitmarket Gallery; Royal Botanic Gardens; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Stills; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; John Hansard Gallery; Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England; Centre for Visual Arts; Chapter Arts Centre; Fotogallery; National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England [cat.]
1999
23rd Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art, British Section, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana
River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London; travelling to University of Dundee, Duncan and Jordanston Gallery, Dundee
1998
American and European Photo-art, Larem Kloker Gallery, Vienna
2nd Shoreditch Photography Biennial, London
Chemical Traces/ Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968-1998, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull City Council, Kingston upon Hull; travelling to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds [cat.]
1997
Pictura Brittanica: Art from Britain (British Council), Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; travelling to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
Strange Days, Contemporary British Photography, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan [cat.]
Sad, Gasworks, London
The Quick and The Dead, Royal College of Art, London
The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966-1976, Cameraworks Gallery, London, travelling to Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge [cat.]
Icons, Touring, Tokyo, Kyoto and Hong Kong
Life/Live: Young British Art, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; travelling to Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon [cat.]
Various group shows, Bank London (1996, 1997, 1998)
1996
The Body, Touring Exhibition Canada
1995
Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; The Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon; The Philbrook Academy, Tulsa, Oklahoma; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; The Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Japan; Takamatsu City Museum, Takamatsu, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan
The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
1994
Who’s Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London
1992
Flora Photographica, Serpentine Gallery, London
1990
Art Conceptuel, Formes Conceptuelles, Galerie 1900/2000, Paris
1989
John Stezaker, Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York [cat.]
Multiple vision: Ron Haselden, Colin McArthur, John Stezaker, Paul Wombel, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1984
1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London [cat.]
1983
Geometry of Desire, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam
1982
Simulacra, Riverside Studios, London
Aperto, XL, Biennale di Venezia, Venice [cat.]
Close to the Edge, White Columns, New York
1980
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
1979
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London [cat.]
Un certain art anglais…, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
JP2, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1978
Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1977
British Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1976
Art Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan
Times, Words and the Camera, Akademische Druck-U, Graz, Austria
1975
9th Biennale de Paris, Paris
1974
Project 74, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne
Critic’s Choice, Tooth’s Gallery, London
Beyond Painting and Sculpture…: works bought for the Arts Council by Richard Cork, Arts Council touring Exhibition [cat.] toured Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; travelled to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol.
1972
A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, House Gallery, London
The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London [cat.]
1971
The Wall Show, Lisson Gallery, London
1970
3 Schools Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1969
Three Person Show, Central Collegiate Building, University College, London
Bibliography
Selected Group Exhibition Catalogues
2006
O’Reilly, Sally, Johanna Malt and JJ Charlesworth. ‘World Gone Mad: Surrealist Returns in Recent British Art’, London: Castlefield Gallery Publicatons
2005
‘Collage Signs & Surfaces’, New York, Pavel Zoubok Gallery
2000
Higgs, Matthew et al. ‘The British Art Show 5’, London: Hayward Gallery Publishing; Distributor, North and South America and Canada: University of California Press; Distributor, Elsewhere: Cornerhouse Publications
1998
Mellor, Alan. Chemical Traces: Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968-1998, Kingston upon Hull: Ferens Art Gallery; Kingston upon Hull City Museums & Art Gallerie
‘Brooks, Rosetta. Altered States’, New York: Kent Fine Art; New York: ZG Publications
1997
Bickers, Patricia, Stephen Snoddy and Bernice Murphy, ‘Pictura Britannica: Art from Britain’, Sydney; Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney
Roberts, John (Ed.). ‘The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain, 1966 – 1976’, London: Camerawork
Williams, Gilda, ‘Strange Days: British Contemporary Photography’, Milan: Charta
Obrist, Hans Ulrich (Ed.), ‘Life/Live: Young British Art’, Paris: Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1995
Büchler, Pavel and Nikos Papastergiadis (Eds.) ‘Random Access: on crisis and its metaphors’, London: Rivers Oram Press; Concord, MA: Paul And Company
1984
Petherbridge, D. and J. Richardson, ‘1984: An Exhibition’, London: Camden Arts Centre
1979
Ncis, R. Fra, ‘Hayward Annual 1979’, London: Hayward Gallery
Fuchs, Rudolf Herman, ‘Languages: an exhibition of artists using word and image’, London: Arts Council of Great Britain
1976
Reichardt, Jascia, ‘Time, Words and the Camera’, British Council, Akademische Druck-U. Verlagsabstalt, Graz
1973
Cork, Richard, ‘Beyond Painting and Sculpture…: works bought for the Arts Council by Richard Cork’, London: Arts Council of Great Britain
1972
Campbell, Robin and Anne Seymour, ‘The New Art’, Hayward Gallery. London: The Arts Council of Great Britain
Selected Surveys and Collections
2005
‘Stillness and Time: Photography and the Moving Image’, Photoworks, London
2004
Taylor, Brandon, ‘Collage: The Making of Modern Art’, London: Thames and Hudson
2003
Campany, David, ‘Art and Photography, London and New York’, Phaidon Press
2002
Bayrle, Thomas, ‘Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting’, London and New York: Phaidon Press
2000
Patrizio, Andrew, ‘The Tree Series, Two Nine Two : Essays in Visual Culture’, Edinburgh: Faculty of Art & Design, Edinburgh College of Art
1998
Roberts, John, ‘The Art of Interruption – Realism, Photography and the Everyday’, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press
1995
‘Pretext: Heteronyms’, ed. Juliet Steyne, Rear Window Arts Trust, London
1994
‘Who’s Looking at the Family’, ed. Val Williams, Barbican, London
De Paoli, Geri & WendyMcDaris, ‘Elvis & Marilyn: 2 x Immortal’, New York: Rizzoli
Walker, John Albert, ‘Art in the Age of Mass Media’, Boulder: Westview Press
Ewing, William, ‘The Body: Photographs of the Human Form’, San Francisco: Chronicle Books
Selected Interviews, Articles and Reviews
2007
Green, David, ‘John Stezaker’, Source Magazine, Issue 50, p.8-19
Campany, David, ‘Recent Work: John Stezaker’, Photoworks, May/October, p.12-19
Marsh, Andrew, ‘Reviews: John Stezaker’, Flash Art, Vol.XL, No.252, February 2007, p.119
2006
Núñez-Fernández, Lupe, ‘Out of the Shadows’, Art Review [Vol. 62, March 2006]: 76-79
Kersting, Rita, ‘Best of 2006’, Artforum, December 2006
2005
Bracewell, Michael (Interviewer). ‘Demand the Impossible.’ Frieze [No. 89, 2005]: 88-93
Falconer, Morgan. ‘Contemporary Art’, Burlington Magazine [Vol. 147, No. 1223, Feb. 2005]: 130-132
Slyce, John, ‘John Stezaker’, Art Monthly [No. 282, Dec. 2004-Jan. 2005]: 35-36
‘John Stezaker, The Approach, London’ Art In America
2004
John Slyce, ‘John Stezaker, The Approach, london’, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan 04-05/No.282
Martin Herbert, ‘John Stezaker, The Approach’, Time Out, No.1789
Emily Pethick, ‘John Stezaker, The Approach’, Artforum Critics picks (website)
‘John Stezaker’, The Guardian Guide, Saturday October 30 – Friday November 5
2001
Barro, David. ‘Live in Your Head’, Lapiz [Vol. 20, No.171, 2001]: 76
Walker, John A. "A Vexed Trans-Atlantic Relationship: Greenberg and the British." Art Criticism [Vol. 16, No. 1, 2001]: 44-61
2000
Hunt, Ian, ‘British Art Show 5’, Art Monthly [No. 236, May 2000]: 30-33
1999
Mellor, David Alan, ‘Fearful Symmetry: John Stezaker’, Portfolio Magazine [No. 29, June 1999]: 34-39, 58-59
1998
Stahel, Urs. ‘Aspects of Contemporary Swiss Art Photography’, History of Photography [Vol. 22, No. 3, Autumn 1998]: 254-260
1997
‘Angels’, Coil [No. 5, 1997]: 1-2.
Hatton, Brian. ‘Paraphotography’, Art Monthly [No. 207, June 1997]: 1-5
1993
Hall, Charles, ‘Now Voyager’, Art Review [Vol. 45, Sept. 1993]: 48-49
1991
Dannatt, Adrian, ‘John Stezaker’, Flash Art [Vol. 24, No. 160, Oct. 1991]: 114-117
Taylor, Brandon, ‘Photo/Montage’, AICARC: Bulletin of the Archives & Documentation
Centers for Modern & Contemporary Art [No. 29-30, 1991]: 47-55
1988
Thomas, Michael J. ‘The Game-as-Art Form: Historic Roots and Recent Trends’, Leonardo [Vol. 21, No. 4, 1988]: 421-423
1985
Brooks, R. ’An Art of Controlled Madness’, Art And Text [No.17, 1985]: 22-27
1983
Brisley, S. and John Stezaker. ‘Polemics.’ Art Monthly [No. 62, Dec. 1982–Jan. 1983]: 29-31
de Benito, Eduardo. ‘Londres: Entre Aquí y La Nada.’ Lapiz [Vol. 1, No. 2, Jan. 1983]: 50-53
Hatton, Brian. ‘Simulacra at the Riverside’, Artscribe [No. 39, Feb. 1983]: 30-34.
Newman, Michael. ‘Simulacra’, Flash Art [No. 110, Jan. 1983]: 38-40
1977
Blakeston, O. ‘Exhibitions Reviews’, Arts Review [Vol. 29, No. 12, 1977]: 398-399
1976
‘John Stezaker.’ Flash Art. [No. 66-67, 1976]: 23
Brooks, R. ’Please, No Slogans’, Studio International [Vol. 191, No. 980, 1976]: 155-161
Morris, L. ‘English Art Today’, Data [No. 20, March-April 1976]: 45-46, 53-59
Tagg, J. ‘John Stezaker’, Studio International [Vol. 191, No. 981, May-June 1976]: 309-310
Taylor, Brandon. ‘The Avant-Garde and St. Martin’s’, Artscribe [No. 4, Sept.-Oct. 1976]: 4-7
1975
Politi, G., and J. -L Allexant. ‘Paris Biennial’, Flash Art [No. 58-59, Nov. 1975]: 14
Smith, P. ‘Conversation with John Stezaker’, Studio International [Vol. 189, No. 974, March-April 1975]: 130-132
1973
Blakeston, O. ‘John Stezaker, Nigel Greenwood, London.’ Arts Review [Vol. 30, No. 14, 1973]: 388
Bowen, D. ‘John Stezaker. Nigel Greenwood, London’, Arts Review [Vol. 25, No. 22, 1973]: 753.
Brooks, R. ’A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain’, Flash Art [No. 39, Feb. 1973]: 6-7
Brooks, R. ‘Problem Solving and Question Begging: The Works of Art-Language and John Stezaker’, Studio International [No. 961, Vol. 186, Dec. 1973]: 276-278.
Stezaker, John, ‘John Stezaker: Premises’, Flash Art [No. 40, March-May 1973]: 16-18
Selected writings by the artist
2003
Buchler, Pavel (Ed.). Conversation Pieces, Manchester: i3 Publications
1996
Hetherington, Paul, et al (Eds). Issues in Art and Education: aspects of the fine art curriculum. London: Tate Publishing in association with the Wimbledon School of Art.