John Stezaker: biography, selected museum exhibitions, public collections and shows at kaufmann repetto

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upcoming solo exhibition

2021 fondazione morra greco, napoli
2020 at the edge of pictures: john stezaker, works 1975-1900, Luxembourg + Co., London

Selected solo exhibitions

2019 Cross, kaufmann repetto, Milan

John Stezaker: Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

She, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

2018 John Stezaker: Collages, Starkwhite, Auckland, New Zealand

Love, The Approach, London

John Stezaker: Lost World, Centre for Contemporary Photography,

Melbourne, Australia

John Stezaker, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK

Lost World, City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;

Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; Christchurch Art

Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, New Zealand; Centre for

Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia

2017 The Voyeur: Photoroman Collages, 1976–1979, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

Sublime Smoke, Lisa Oppenheim & John Stezaker, The Annexe, London, UK

Aftermath, York Art Gallery, York, UK

Paul Nash and the Uncanny Landscape, curated by John Stezaker), York Art

Gallery, York, UK

John Stezaker: Horse, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

2016 John Stezaker, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, UK

John Stezaker and Marcel Broodthaers, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp,Belgium

2015 The Truth of Masks, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA

Touch, The Approach at Independent Régence, Brussels, Belgium

Film Works, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, UK

The Projectionist, The Approach, London, UK

Collages, The Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2014 John Stezaker: New Silkscreens, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

John Stezaker: Collages, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2013 John Stezaker, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

John Stezaker: Working from the Collection, Les Rencontres Arles

Photographie, Arles, France

Crossing Over, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

Blind, The Approach, London, UK

John Stezaker: One on One, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel

Nude and Landscape, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

2012 Galerie Gisela Captain, Cologne, Germany

Marriage, curated by Annemarie Sawkins, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette

University, Milwaukee, USA

2011 John Stezaker, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, touring to MUDAM,

Art Unlimited, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Basel Group Exhibitions,Switzerland

2009 John Stezaker, Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago, USA

John Stezaker, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany

John Stezaker, Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA

2008 Masks & Shadows, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

John Stezaker, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany

Fumetti, GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Germany

2007 Two part show: Marriages, Karsten Schubert (Sep-Nov), London, Masks, The

Approach, London, UK (Oct-Nov)

John Stezaker, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA [cat]

John Stezaker, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

John Stezaker, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK

John Stezaker, Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France

2006 John Stezaker, The Approach, London, UK

John Stezaker, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany

John Stezaker, 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, U

1990 Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

1989 John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK

John Stezaker, Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1984 John Stezaker, Lisson Gallery, London, UK

1979 Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, France

Werke 1973-1978, Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, CH

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

The World Made Flesh, The New ‘57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1978 Fragments, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

Collages, 1977-1978, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK

Southampton City Museum, Southampton, UK

1977 Dream Allegories. John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977, Nigel Greenwood

Gallery, London, UK

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

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

1970 Works, 1969-1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, UK

Selected goup exhibitions

2020 Vent’anni – Twenty Years, 20th anniversary exhibition, kaufmann repetto, milan

2018 Picture Fiction, MCA Chicago, USA

Doodle & Disegno, Blain Southern, Berlin, Germany

A Murmur of History, DE LEÓN, Bath, UK

Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK

Fotofest 2018, Houston Biennial, Houston, Texas, USA

2017 The Still Point of the Turning World. Between Photography and Film, FOMU,

Antwerp, Belgium

A Green and Pleasant Land British Landscape and the Imagination: 1970s to

Now, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

The Trick Brain, Aishti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

20 Years Show, The Approach, London

Power Masks. The Power of Masks, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Artists and Postcards, Musee de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

Now, Today, Tomorrow, and Always, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK

Blackout: Richard Hamilton, Carlo Mollino, John Stezaker, Ibid, Los

Angeles, USA

Fully Awake, Blip Blip Blip Gallery, Leeds, UK

Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zachęta, Warsaw, Poland

The Ends of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, London & New York

2016 Flesh, York Art Gallery, York, UK

Revolt of the Sage, Blain|Southern, London, UK

John Stezaker and Marcel Broodthaers, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp,

Belgium

Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ldt.: Running a Picture Gallery, Chelsea Space,

London, UK

Turning to See: from Van Dyck to Lucian Freud, curated by John Stezaker,

28th May to 4th September 2016, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery

Fractured, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China

The Stolen Image, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Collage: Moving Beyond Paper, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois

at Urbana-Champaign, USA

On the immense and the numberless, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen,

Denmark

Terrain: Land Into Art, Hestercombe House & Gardens, Taunton, UK

2015 An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, The College of New Jersey

Art Gallery, Trenton, USA

Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving

Image, New York, USA

Body Building, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA

Image Search, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Individual Stories: Collecting as Portrait and Methodology, Kunsthalle

Wien, Wien, Austria

Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;

travelled as After Picasso: 80 Contemporary Artists, Wexner Center for

the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA

RAY 2015, Frankfurt, Germany

Trial / Error / Art, The Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK

Blow Up, C|O Berlin, Berlin, Germany

FOUND, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK

Screening of Blind, Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Horse, Vold Gallery, Derry, UK

Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art,

Warsaw, Poland

2014 Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London, UK

MIRRORCITY, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

19th Biennale of Sydney: You imagine what you desire, Sydney, Australia

Ruin Lust, Tate Britain, London, UK

…all silent but for the buzzing… , curated by Curating Contemporary Art

MA programme, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK

The Mysterious Device Was Moving Forward, Longhouse Projects, New York

Jahrhundertzeichen: Tel Aviv Museum of Art Visits Berlin, Martin-Gropius-

Bau, Berlin, Germany

Veils, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Karel’s Choice- Looking Back at Contemporary Art, Frans Hals Museum, De

Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, Netherlands

Regeneration, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

Somos Libres II: Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca

Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy

Blow-Up, Albertina, Vienna Austria

Remix: Selections from the International College Centre, Bates College

Museum of Art, Portland USA

2013 The Age of Collage, gestalten space, Berlin, Germany

The Edge of Painting, curated by Tess Jaray, The Piper Gallery, London,

UK

Works on Paper, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Orpheus Twice, curated by Vincent Honore, David Roberts Art Foundation,

London, UK (forthcoming)

L’image Papillon, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg

Frank Egloff & John Stezaker: Visible Merge, Barbara Krakow Gallery,

Boston, USA

Crystal Maze IV- 1+ 2+ £ = 3, as part of Nouveau Festival, The Centre

Pompidou, Paris, France

Only parts of us will ever touch each other, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac,

Paris, France

The Feverish Library (continued), Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

The Space Between, curated by Michael Bracewell, Karsten Schubert,

London, UK

Something about a Tree, curated by Linda Yablonsky, Flag Art Foundation,

New York, USA

Marriage, Qbox Gallery, Athens, Greece

Kino und der kinematografische Blick, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen,

Memmingen, Germany

Short Film Programme Still/Moving (screening of Horse and Blind), Art

Basel, Switzerland and Galerie Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

2012 D’après Giorgio, curated by Luca lo Pinto, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa De

Chirico, Rome, Italy

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK

Deutsche Borse Photography Prize 2012, The Cube (Deutsche Borse

Headquarters), Frankfurt/Eschborn; C/O Berlin, Germany

Flores; Abismo; Parataxis, curated by Carlos- Fernandez-Pello, La Casa

Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Remix: Selections from the INternational Collage Cernter, Daum Museum of

Contemporary Art, Sedalia, USA

Collages, curated by Timothee Chaillou, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris,

France

2011 Transmitter / Receiver: The persistance of collage, Middlesbrough

Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK

Anti-Photography, curated by Duncan Wooldridge, Focal Point Gallery,

Southend-on-Sea, UK

Versicherungsschatz, curated by David Rimanelli, Kimmerich, New York, USA

Make Up, curated by Mariuccia Casadio, Appalazzogallery, Brescia, Italy

The boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball, curated

by Regina Fiorito and Kelley Walker, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne,

Germany

The Draw Bridge, Q Forum, London, UK

Capitain, curated by Regina Fiorito and Kelley Walker, Cologne, Germany

A Painting Show, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany

2010 FACES with: M.Anzeri, H.Bart, V.Carrubba, J.Kraijer, W.Mutu, J.Stezaker,

Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, Italy

HEAD, The Approach, London, UK

Photomonth in Krakow, Galeria Pauza, Poland

The Page, curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich, New

York, USA

The Rustle of Language, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy

HYPERBOREAN MANNERS, Rob Tufnell at 1 Sutton Lane, London, UK

Amor Pari oder die Liebe zum Kleinen, Kunstverein Langenhagen,

Langenhagen, Germany

Beg Borrow and Steal, Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, USA

Film and Photography Central in Presentation of Recent Acquisitions, De

Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, Netherlands

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

Correspondences, Meyer Kainer, Vienna, Austria

Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Museum of Modern Art, Menschel Gallery, New York, USA

The Rustle of Language, Francesca Kaufman, Milan, Italy

Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA (travelled

to Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs USA and Tubman Museum of Art,

Roanoke, USA)

Desire Acquire Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland

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

Listen Darling…The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre,

Alcoitão, Portugal

Supernatural, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx, Spain

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

Other People’s Projects: White Columns, Studio Voltaire, 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

The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany

Tate Triennial 2006 –New British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK

Everybody Knows this is Nowhere, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark

The Swan is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

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

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

1999 23rd Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art, British Section,

Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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

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

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

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

Various group shows, Bank London, UK (1996, 1997, 1998)

1996 The Body, Touring Exhibition Canada, Various locations

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

1987 Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York, USA

1984 1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

1983 Geometry of Desire, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1982 Simulacra, Riverside Studios, London, UK

Aperto, XL, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Close to the Edge, White Columns, New York, USA

1980 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

1979 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

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

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

Education

John Stezaker studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London in the 1960s, and has since taught at Central Saint Martins School of Art, Goldsmiths College and the Royal College of Art.

Selected collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Arts Council England, UK

British Council Collection, UK

Birmingham Museums Trust, UK

David Roberts Collection, London, UK

Dundee Museum of Art, Dundee, UK

Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais, Portugal

FRAC Ile-de-France/ Le Plateau, Paris, France

Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

MoMA, New York, USA

MUDAM Collection, Luxembourg

Ringier Collection, Zurich, Switzerland

RISD Museum of Art, Providence, USA

The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Saatchi Collection, London, UK

Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria

Seattle Art Museum,Washington, USA

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Tate Collection, London, UK

The University of Warwick Art Collection, Coventry, UK

The York Museum Trust, York, UK

Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK

Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK

Luxembourg, and Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

art daily, 2019

atp diary, 2019

the observer, 2015

the guardian, 2011

frieze, 2011

time out London, 2010

artforum, 2010

the new york times, 2009

artforum, 2009

photoworks, 2007

art world, 2007

frieze, 2005

art monthly, 2005

time out, 2004