JOHN STEZAKER
Born 1949 in Worcester, England
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
Slade School of Art, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Galerie Maia Muller, Paris
2022
The Approach, London
2021
Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples
EYE SEE, PP Contemporary, Frankfurt
Double Shadow, Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp
2020
At the edge of pictures: John Stezaker, Works 1975-1990, Luxembourg+ Co., London
Siren Song, The Approach, London
2019
Condo Mexico City, Galería OMR, Mexico City (in collaboration with Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne)
MASKE. In der Kunst der Gegenwart, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
Cross, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan
John Stezaker: Portrait, National Portrait Gallery, London
She, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2018
John Stezaker: Collages, Starkwhite, Auckland
Lost World (curated by Robert Leonard), Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
Love, The Approach, London
2017
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
The Voyeur: Photoroman Collages, 1976-1979, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Lost World (curated by Robert Leonard), City Gallery Wellington, Wellington; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth
Horse, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Blackout (with Richard Hamilton and Carlo Mollino), Ibid Gallery, Los Angeles
2016
John Stezaker in dialogue with Marcel Broodthaers, Gallery Sofie van de Velde, Antwerpen
Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury
2015
The Truth of Masks, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Touch, The Approach at Independent Régence, Brussels
Film Works, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea Film Works, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
The Projectionist, The Approach, London
Collages, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam
2014
New Silkscreens / U.S. premiere of the film Blind, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Collages, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney
2013
Seams & Interruptions, Mendes Wood, São Paulo
Cut & Paste. Couper/Coller (with Robert Suermondt), Centre de la Photographie, Geneva
Crossing Over, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Working from the Collection / Travailler à partir de la collection (part of Arles in Black / Les rencontres d’Arles 2013), Atelier des Forges, Arles
Nude and Landscape, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Blind, The Approach, London
One on One, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
2012
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Marriage, Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee
2011
John Stezaker: The Nude and Landscape, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery – The University of the Arts, Philadelphia Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
John Stezaker, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
2010
Silkscreens, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Lost Images, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg
Tabula Rasa, The Approach, London
2009
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
The Bridge, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2008
John Stezaker. Fumetti, Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Bremen Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Mask and Shadow, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italie
2007
Two part show: Marriage, Karsten Schubert, London
Masks, The Approach, London
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
White Room, Yvon Lambert Project Room, Paris
2006
The Approach, London
New Works, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Bridges and other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery, Norwich
White Columns, New York
2005
Archiv & Erzählung: John Stezaker und T.J. Wilcox, Kunstverein München, 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
1996
Garden, Cubitt Gallery, London
1991
Care & Control, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
1990
Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt
1989
John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles
1984
Lisson Gallery, London
1979
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris
John Stezaker: Werke 1973-1978, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
John Stezaker: The World Made Flesh, The New ‘57 Gallery, Edinburgh
1978
Fragments, Photographer’s Gallery, London
Collages, 1977-1978, IKON Gallery, Birmingham
Southampton City Museum, Southampton
1977
Dream Allegories. John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris
Schema Gallery, Florence
Spectro Arts, Newcastle
1976
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Trois Oeuvres, Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris
1975
Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris
1974
Galerie December, Münster
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
1971
Time Deletions and other works, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London
1970
Works, 1969-1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Omelette papier, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2020
Extra! Le festival de la littérature vivante, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
room enough for former teasers (curated by Marcel Hiller, Christof Lötscher and Marco Zeppenfeld),
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Art Cologne at Galerie Gisela Capitain, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
When Images Collide, 2nd Biennale für aktuelle Fotografie, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
Shadow catchers (curated by Isobel Parker Philip), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Almost There, British Council (digital exhibition)
Received Wisdom, Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens, Sunderland
2019
CUT & PASTE CHAPITRE 2, Maïa Muller, Paris
Never the same river, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne
MASKE. In der Kunst der Gegenwart, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aargau
Light observed (curated by Damian Griffiths), KARST, Plymouth
CUT – COPY – PASTE. Part II, OV Project Room, Brussels
Strategic Vandalism. The Legacy of Asger Jorn’s Modification Paintings (curated by Axel Heil and Roberto Orth), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2018
Black Mirror: Art as Social Satire, Saatchi Gallery, London
Journeys With ‘The Waste Land’, Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry FotoFocus Biennial 2018, Cincinnati
Wide angle: Photography out of bound, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati
T, Marres, Maastricht
Journeys with ‘The Waste land’, Turner Contemporary, Margate
The Remains of Cinema, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
A Murmur of History, Bridget De León, Bath
Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, MCA, Chicago
2017
JUMP INTO THE FUTURE Art of the 90’s and 2000’s. The Borgmann Donation, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Paul Nash and the Uncanny Landscape: An Exhibition Curated by John Stezaker, York Art Gallery, Now, Today, Tomorrow and Always, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
The Ends of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York
Generations: John Stezaker & Giorgio de Chirico, The Approach, MiArt Life. Manual, Zachęta – National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
2016
Revolt of the Sage, Blain Southern, London
Flesh, York Art Gallery, York
#65 Nigel Greenwood Inc Ltd: Running a Picture Gallery, CHELSEA space, Chelsea College of Arts, London
Turning to See: From Van Dyck to Lucian Freud. Curated by John Stezaker, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham
Fractured, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Terrain: Land into Art, Hestercombe Gallery, Taunton
L’Image Volée / The Stolen Image (curated by Thomas Demand), Fondazione Prada, Milan
Collage: Moving Beyond Paper, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign
On the Immense and the Numberless, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen
2015
Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Body Building, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Individual Stories. Collecting as Portrait and Methodology, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
RAY 2015. Imagine Reality, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
Kino der Kunst 2015 (screening of Blind), Munich
Picasso in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg
Trial / Error / Art, The Holden Gallery, Manchester
An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media, The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Trenton
Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw
Horse, Void Gallery, Derry
FOUND, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall
Image Search, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles
Blow-Up, C/O Berlin Foundation (Amerika Haus), Berlin
2014
Mirrorcity. London artists on fiction and reality, Hayward Gallery, London
As Exciting as We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s, Ikon, Birmingham
The Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London
Regeneration, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Somos Libres II. Works from the Mario Testino Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin
Blow-Up, Albertina, Vienna
Veils, Underground Museum, Los Angeles
… all silent but for the buzzing …, Royal College of Art, London
Ruin Lust, Tate Modern, London
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Bates College Museum of Art, Portland You Imagine What You Desire. 19th Biennale of Syndey, Sydney
2013
Go! You sure? Yeah. (a POOL exhibition), LUMA / Westbau, Zurich
Karel’s Choice. Looking Back at Contemporary Art, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem
Remix. Selections from the International Collage Center, Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Knoxville
The Age of Collage, Gestalten Space, Berlin
Short Film Program Still/Moving (screening of Horse and Blind), Art Basel Galerie Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Marriage, Qbox Gallery, Athens
Kino und der kinematografische Blick, MEWO Kunsthalle Memmingen, Memmingen
L’Image papillon, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
The Feverish Library (continued), Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
2012
Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others / Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012, The Cube (Deutsche Börse Headquarters), Frankfurt/Eschborn; C/O, Berlin
Out of Focus, Saatchi Gallery, London
The Space Between (curated by Michael Bracewell), Karsten Schubert, London D’après Giorgio, Casa Museo Giorgio de Chirico, Rome
2011
Verschiebungsersatz (curated by David Rimanelli), Kimmerich, New York
Make Up (curated by Mariuccia Casadio), Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia
Transmitter/Receiver. The persistence of collage. From the Arts Council Collection, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
The boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball (curated by Regina Fiorito and Kelley Walker), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
A painting show, Autocenter, Berlin
The Draw Bridge, Q Forum, London
Anti-Photography (curated by Duncan Wooldrige), Focal Point Gallery, Essex
2010
The Page (curated by John Stezaker and Mattehw Higgs), Kimmerich, New York
Amor Parvi oder die Liebe zum Kleinen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami
Film and photography central in presentation of recent acquisitions, De Hallen, Haarlem
2009
The rustle of language, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Source Codes, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Le Sang d’un poète, Estuaire Nantes Saint-Nazaire Biennale 2009, Nantes Correspondences (with Rita Ackermann; curated by Matthew Higgs), Meyer Kainer, Vienna John Stezaker & William Horner, The Russian Club Gallery, London
Desire acquire, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
2008
listen darling…the world is yours, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitão
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 Past-Forward, 176, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Supernatural, Centro Cultural Andratx, Andratx
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
Other People’s Projects: White Columns, Studio Voltaire, London
2006
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen
Dereconstruction (curated by Matthew Higgs), Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Figures de l’acteur, Le paradoxe du comédien, 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; Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Limehouse Arts Foundation, London
The Swan is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin
Tate Triennial 2006 – New British Art, Tate Britain, London
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 & Höke, Düsseldorf
2004
Collage, Bloomberg Space, London
Je t’envisage. La disparition du portrait, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon
About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait, 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
2000
The British Art Show 5 (traveling exhibition organised by The Hayward Gallery, London), Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art; Dean Gallery; Fruitmarket Gallery; Collective Gallery; Stills Gallery; Inverleith House – Royal Botanic Gardens; Talbot Rice Art Gallery, City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Southampton City Art Gallery; John Hansard Gallery; Millais Gallery – Southhampton Institute, Southhampton; National Museum & Gallery; Centre For Visual Art; Fotogallery; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1999
23rd Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art, British Section, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana
River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London; 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; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
1997
Pictura Brittanica: Art from Britain (organised by the British Council), Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington Strange Days, Contemporary British Photography, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan
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; Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
Life/Live: Young British Art, Musee d’art moderne de la ville de Paris; Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon
1995
Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; The Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland; The Philbrook Academy, Tulsa; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville; The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; The Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu; Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Obihiro; Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka; Takamatsu City Museum, Takamatsu; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka
The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London Zombie Golf, BANK Space, London
Zombie Golf, BANK Space, 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
Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York
Multiple vision: Ron Haselden, Colin McArthur, John Stezaker, Paul Wombel, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge
1986
Identity/Desire: Representing the Body. Scottish Arts Council Touring exhibition, Collins Gallery, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow; Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, Aberdeen; Crawford Centre for the Arts, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews; Maclaurin Art Gallery, Ayr
1984
1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London 1983
Geometry of Desire, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam
1982
Simulacra, Riverside Studios, London Aperto, XL Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Close to the Edge, White Columns, New York
1980
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
1979
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Un certain art anglais…, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris JP2, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1978
Art for Society, Whitechapel Gallery, London 1977
British Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1976
Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan
Times, Words and the Camera, Akademische Druck-U, Graz
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), Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1972
A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, House Gallery, London The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London
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
1969
Three Person Show, Central Collegiate Building, University College, London
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Arts Council England, London
British Council Collection, London Birmingham Museums Trust, Birmingham UK David Roberts Collection, London
Dundee Museum of Art, Dundee
Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais FRAC Ile-de-France/ Le Plateau, Paris
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
MUDAM Collection, Luxembourg
Ringier Collection, Zurich
RISD Museum of Art, Providence
The Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Saatchi Collection, London
Sammlung Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt
Sammlung Verbund, Vienna
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Collection, London
The University of Warwick Art Collection, Coventry
The York Museum Trust, York
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Zabludowicz Collection, London