John Stezaker b. 1945
° Worcester, UK
Lives and works in London.
Studied at the Slade School of Art in London.
Stezaker became fascinated by the use of images that had nothing to do with the then-current cultural forms of expression, such as pop art. Combining/assembling found images (photographs) instantly generated a different form of aesthetics, in which anachronisms and vagueness about intentions took control of a well-made (visual) plot that served to disrupt the public’s perception.
Notable exhibitions include the Venice Biennale, the Biennale of Sydney and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. Stezaker’s work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Rubell Family Collection (Miami); the Tate Collection (London) and the Saatchi Collection (London), among others.
John Stezaker is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, The Approach (London) and Galerie Gisela Capitain (Cologne).
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John Stezaker
Strange Love 12 Oct - 24 Nov 2024 South (former location) -
John Stezaker
Double Shadow 27 Feb - 4 Apr 2021 New SouthSolo exhibition of the British artist John Stezaker. The Double Shadow collages are the latest in a series of collages involving silhouette cut-outs which began in the late 1970s. Cut...Read more -
L'heure bleue Part I
Groupshow 9 Jun - 31 Jul 2020 New SouthL’Heure Bleue Gallery Sofie Van de Velde and PLUS - ONE Gallery present ‘L’Heure Bleue’. L’heure bleue is the moment when the sun has set, but the night has not...Read more -
Lust, Laughter, Liquor
Group exhibition 22 Mar - 6 May 2018 New SouthIn May 2017, PLUS-ONE Gallery and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde decided to reinforce their projects in a shared and second gallery space in the Nieuw Zuid area in Antwerp....Read more -
Wordswordswords
Group exhibition 14 Oct - 28 Dec 2017 New SouthRein Dufait, Max Pinckers, Rik De Boe, John Stezaker, Navid Nuur, Philippe Vandenberg, Joris Van Moortel, Guillaume Bijl, Bernd Lohaus & Saâdane Afif. “Magritte didn’t mean Les Mots et les...Read more -
John Stezaker
John Stezaker in dialogue with Marcel Broodthaers 13 Oct - 26 Nov 2016 Groen Kwartier (former location)John Stezaker (b. 1949) is a British artist who in the 1970s who was a student at the Slade in London, at the same time as Marcel Broodthaers was working...Read more
Selected Solo Exhibitions |
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2024 |
'Strange Love', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp |
2023 |
'Double Shadow', Petzel Gallery, New York, US |
2022 |
'Double Shadow', The Approach, London, UK |
2021 |
'John Stezaker', La Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT |
2020 |
'At the Edge of Pictures: John Stezaker, Works 1975–1990', Luxembourg & Co, London, UK |
2019 |
'John Stezaker: Portrait', National Portrait Gallery, London, UK |
2018 |
'Lost World', Centre for Contemporary Photography – Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, AU |
2017 |
'John Stezaker', Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK |
2016 |
'John Stezaker', Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, UK |
2015 |
'The Truth of Masks', Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA |
2014 |
'John Stezaker: New Silkscreens', Petzel Gallery, New York, USA |
2013 |
'John Stezaker', Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, CH |
2012 |
'John Stezaker', Galerie Gisela Captain, Cologne, DE |
2011 |
'John Stezaker', Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA |
2010 |
'John Stezaker: Silkscreens', Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE |
2009 |
'John Stezaker', Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago, USA |
2008 |
'Masks & Shadows', A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT |
2007 |
'Two part show: Marriages', Karsten Schubert , London, UK |
2006 |
'John Stezaker', The Approach, London, UK |
2005 |
'Archiv & Erzählung: John Stezaker and T.J. Wilcox', Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich, DE |
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, UK |
1996 |
'Garden', Cubitt Gallery, London, UK |
1991 |
'Care & Control', Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK |
1990 |
'Film Still Collages', Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, DE |
1989 |
'John Stezaker: New Work', Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK |
1984 |
'John Stezaker', Lisson Gallery, London, UK |
1979 |
'John Stezaker', Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, FR |
1978 |
'Fragments', Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK |
1977 |
'Dream Allegories: John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977', Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK |
1976 |
'John Stezaker', Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK |
1975 |
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK |
1974 |
Galerie Decembre, Munster, DE |
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 Group Exhibitions |
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2023 |
'Wörthersee, Wörtersee', Kunstraum Lakeside, Klagenfurt, AUT |
2020 |
'Vent’anni – Twenty Years', 20th-anniversary exhibition, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, IT |
2019 |
Rencontres Photographiques d'Arles Edition, Arles, FR |
2018 |
'Picture Fiction,' MCA Chicago, USA |
2017 |
'The Still Point of the Turning World. Between Photography and Film', FOMU, Antwerp, BE |
2016 |
'Revolt of the Sage', Blain|Southern, London, UK |
2015 |
'An Unfixed Image: The Photographic Across Media', The College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Trenton, USA |
2014 |
'As Exciting As We Can Make It: IKON in the 1980s', IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK |
2013 |
'The Age of Collage', gestalten space, Berlin, DE |
2012 |
'D’après Giorgio a cura di Luca lo Pinto', Fondazione Giorgio e Isa De Chirico, Rome, IT |
2011 |
'Transmitter / Receiver: The persistance of collage', Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK |
2010 |
'FACES with: M.Anzeri', H.Bart, V.Carrubba, J.Kraijer, W.Mutu, J.Stezaker, Monica De Cardenas Galleria, Milan, IT |
2009 |
'Taj Mahal Travellers', Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, SE |
2008 |
'Not so Subtle Subtitle,' curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York, USA |
2007 |
'Panic Attack', Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK |
2006 |
'Dereconstruction', curated by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA |
2005 |
'TIME LINES', Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, DE |
2004 |
'Collage', Bloomberg Space, London, UK |
2003 |
'Ex-press', Royal College of Art, 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, UK |
1999 |
'23rd Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art', British Section, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana, SI |
1998 |
'American and European Photo-art,' Larem Kloker Gallery, Vienna, AUT |
1997 |
'Pictura Brittanica: Art from Britain' (British Council), Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUS; travelling to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, AUS; Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ |
1996 |
'The Body', Touring Exhibition, CA |
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, JP |
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, FR |
1989 |
'John Stezaker', Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
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, NL |
1982 |
'Simulacra', Riverside Studios, London, UK |
1980 |
'Hayward Annual', Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
1979 |
'Hayward Annual', Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
1978 |
'Art for Society', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK |
1977 |
'British Art', Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, BE |
1976 |
'Art Inglese Oggi', Palazzo Reale, Milan, IT |
1975 |
'9th Biennale de Paris', Paris, FR |
1974 |
'4Project 74', Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, DE |
1972 |
'A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain', House 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 |