John Stezaker
John Stezaker
1949 Worcester, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
Slade School of Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Tabula Rasa, The Approach, London, UK
2009
Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago, USA
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
2008
Masks & Shadows, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy [cat]
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fumetti, GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Germany [cat]
Two part show: Marriages, Karsten Schubert (Sep-Nov), London, Masks, The Approach,
London, UK (Oct-Nov) [cat]
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA [cat]
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2006
The Approach, London, UK
Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Bridges and other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
John Stezaker, White Columns, New York, USA
2005
Archiv & Erzählung [Archives and Narration]: John Stezaker and T.J. Wilcox, Kunstverein
Muenchen, Munich, Germany
2004
The Third Person Archive and other works, The Approach, London, UK
2001
The Holy Land Series, Wigmore Fine Art, London, UK
1999
Angels, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1996
Garden, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
1991
Care & Control, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK
1990
Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany [cat.]
1989
John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK [cat.]
Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1984
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1979
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France
Werke 1973-1978, Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, CH [cat.]
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
The World Made Flesh, The New ‘57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland [cat.]
1978
Fragments, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK [cat.]
Collages, 1977-1978, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK [cat.]
Southampton City Museum, Southampton, UK
1977
Dream Allegories. John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977. Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London,
UK [cat.]
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France
Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy
Spectro Arts, Newcastle, UK
1976
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
Trois Oeuvres [Three Works], Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France [cat.]
1975
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France
1974
Galerie Decembre, Munster, Germany
Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome, Italy
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
1973
The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
1972
Beyond Art for Art’s Sake: a Propus Mundus, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London,
UK[cat.]
1970
Works, 1969-1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, UK [cat.]
Group Exhibitions
2009
Taj Mahal Travellers, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
The Quick and The Dead, Walker Art Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
Source Codes, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
Le sang d’un poète, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France
Propaganda, Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul
In The Pines, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
William Horner & John Stezaker, The Russian Club Gallery, London, UK
2008
Not so Subtle Subtitle, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA
Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York, USA
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Past-Forward, 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
2007
Panic Attack, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring: selected by artist Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2006
Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
Figures of the Player: The paradox of the actor, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon,
France
A Season in Hell, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK
World Gone Mad: Surrealist Returns in Recent British Art, Herbert Read Gallery,
Canterbury; travelling to Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Limehouse Arts Foundation,
London, UK [cat.]
The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany
Tate Triennial 2006 –New British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK [cat.]
2005
TIME LINES, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Cut, The Approach, London, UK
1979, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, USA
Collage, Signs & Surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, USA
Mourning, Sies & Hoeke, Düsseldorf, Germany
RCA print folio, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2004
Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
Je t’envisage, La disparition du portrait, Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne, France
Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
About Face, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Future Face, Science Museum, London, UK
Portraits of Non-Humans, David Risley Gallery, London, UK
Polaroid, 39 Gallery, London, UK
2003
Ex-press, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Please Take One, 39 Gallery, London, UK
2002
Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK [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, Sloevina
River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London; travelling to University of
Dundee, Duncan and Jordanston Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
1998
American and European Photo-art, Larem Kloker Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2nd Shoreditch Photography Biennial, London, UK
Chemical Traces/ Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968-1998, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull City Council, Kingston upon Hull; travelling to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK [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, Italy
[cat.]
Sad, Gasworks, London, UK
The Quick and The Dead, Royal College of Art, London, UK
The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966-1976,
Cameraworks Gallery, London, travelling to Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge,
UK [cat.]
Icons, Touring, Tokyo, Kyoto, Japan and Hong Kong, China
Life/Live: Young British Art, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; travelling to
Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal [cat.]
Various group shows, Bank London, UK (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, UK
1994
Who’s Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
1992
Flora Photographica, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
1990
Art Conceptuel, Formes Conceptuelles, Galerie 1900/2000, Paris, France
1989
John Stezaker, Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1987
Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York, USA [cat.]
Multiple vision: Ron Haselden, Colin McArthur, John Stezaker, Paul Wombel, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge, UK
1984
1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK [cat.]
1983
Geometry of Desire, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1982
Simulacra, Riverside Studios, London, UK
Aperto, XL, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy [cat.]
Close to the Edge, White Columns, New York, USA
1980
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1979
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK [cat.]
Un certain art anglais…, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
JP2, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1978
Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1977
British Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1976
Art Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Times, Words and the Camera, Akademische Druck-U, Graz, Austria
1975
9th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France
1974
Project 74, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
Critic’s Choice, Tooth’s Gallery, London, UK
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, UK
1972
A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, House Gallery, London, UK
The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK [cat.]
1971
The Wall Show, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1970
3 Schools Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1969
Three Person Show, Central Collegiate Building, University College, London, UK
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
2010
Coomer, Martin, In the studio: John Stezaker, Time Out, February 18-24
Sherwin, Skye, Artist of the week 72: John Stezaker, guardian.co.uk, www.guardian.co.uk, Thursday 28 January
2009
Roulo, Robyn Farrell, John Stezaker, Art Slant
Wilson, Michael, Reviews: John Stezaker, Artforum, May p.235
Johnson, Ken, John Stezaker, The Bridge, Weekend Arts, The New York Times, March
20th
Galleries-Chelsea John Stezaker, The New Yorker, March 23rd
2008
The Power 100, Art Review, October. Front cover and interview p.94-5, images
throughout p.107, p.123, p.143, p.148
Collage; Assembling Contemporary Art, Black Dog Publishing, front cover and A
Conversation with John Stezaker by David Illington p.20-1. Images p.7, p.42, p.43, p.
81, p.91, p.92
Casadio, Mariuccia, Cool Europe, Italian Vogue issue 690, February
Luke, Ben (Interviewer) New Work; John Stezaker, Art World, p.62-7. Issue 2, image on
front cover
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, p.119
2006
Núñez-Fernández, Lupe, Out of the Shadows, Art Review, Vol. 62, March, p. 76-79
Kersting, Rita, Best of 2006, Artforum, December
2005
Bracewell, Michael (Interviewer). Demand the Impossible, Frieze, No. 89, p. 88-93
Falconer, Morgan. Contemporary Art, Burlington Magazine, Vol. 147, No. 1223, Feb,
p. 130-132
Slyce, John, John Stezaker, Art Monthly, No. 282, Dec. 2004-Jan. 2005, p. 35-36
John Stezaker, The Approach, London, Art In America
2004
Slyce, John, John Stezaker, The Approach, London, Art Monthly, Dec-Jan, No.282
Herbert, Martin, John Stezaker, The Approach, Time Out, No.1789
Pethick, Emily, John Stezaker, The Approach, Critics picks, Artforum.com,
www.artforum.com
John Stezaker, The Guardian Guide, Saturday October 30 – Friday November 5
2001
Barro, David, Live in Your Head, Lapiz, Vol. 20, No.171, p. 76
Walker, John A. A Vexed Trans-Atlantic Relationship: Greenberg and the British, Art
Criticism, Vol. 16, No. 1, p. 44-61
2000
Hunt, Ian, British Art Show 5, Art Monthly, No. 236, May p. 30-33
1999
Mellor, David Alan, Fearful Symmetry: John Stezaker, Portfolio Magazine, No. 29, p.
34-39, 58-59
1998
Stahel, Urs. Aspects of Contemporary Swiss Art Photography, History of Photography, Vol.
22, No. 3, Autumn p. 254-260
1997
Angels, Coil, No. 5, p. 1-2.
Hatton, Brian. Paraphotography, Art Monthly, No. 207, p. 1-5
1993
Hall, Charles, Now Voyager, Art Review, Vol. 45, September, p. 48-49
1991
Dannatt, Adrian, John Stezaker, Flash Art, Vol. 24, No. 160, October, p. 114-117
Taylor, Brandon, Photo/Montage, AICARC: Bulletin of the Archives & Documentation
Centers for Modern & Contemporary Art, No. 29-30, p. 47-55
1988
Thomas, Michael J. The Game-as-Art Form: Historic Roots and Recent Trends, Leonardo
Vol. 21, No. 4, p. 421-423
1985
Brooks, R. An Art of Controlled Madness, Art And Text, No.17, p. 22-27
1983
Brisley, S. and John Stezaker, Polemics, Art Monthly, No. 62, p. 29-31
de Benito, Eduardo, Londres: Entre Aquí y La Nada, Lapiz Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 50-53
Hatton, Brian, Simulacra at the Riverside, Artscribe, No. 39, p. 30-34.
Newman, Michael, Simulacra, Flash Art, No. 110, p. 38-40
1977
Blakeston, O. Exhibitions Reviews, Arts Review, Vol. 29, No. 12, p. 398-399
1976
John Stezaker, Flash Art, No. 66-67, p. 23
Brooks, R. Please, No Slogans, Studio International Vol. 191, No. 980, p. 155-161
Morris, L. English Art Today, Data No. 20, March-April, p. 45-46, 53-59
Tagg, J. John Stezaker, Studio International, Vol. 191, No. 981, May-June p. 309-310
Taylor, Brandon, The Avant-Garde and St. Martin’s, Artscribe, No. 4, Sept-Oct, p. 4-7
1975
Politi, G. and J. -L Allexant. Paris Biennial, Flash Art, No. 58-59, Nov, p.14
Smith, P. Conversation with John Stezaker, Studio International, Vol. 189, No. 974,
March-April, p. 130-132
1973
Blakeston, O. John Stezaker, Nigel Greenwood, London, Arts Review, Vol. 30, No. 14, p.
388
Bowen, D. John Stezaker. Nigel Greenwood, London, Arts Review, Vol. 25, No. 22, p.
753.
Brooks, R. A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Flash Art, No. 39, Feb, p. 6-7
Brooks, R. Problem Solving and Question Begging: The Works of Art-Language and John
Stezaker, Studio International, No. 961, Vol. 186, Dec, p. 276-278.
Stezaker, John, John Stezaker: Premises, Flash Art, No. 40, March-May p. 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.