Born 1949, Worcester, UK
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
Slade School of Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibitions
2020
At the Edge of Pictures: John Stezaker, Works 1975–1990, Luxembourg & Co, London, UK
2019
John Stezaker, National Portrait Gallery, London
Cross, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
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
2017-18
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 [cat]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 [cat]
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
2011-12
John Stezaker, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, touring to MUDAM, Luxembourg, and Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA [cat]
2011
John Stezaker, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
The Nude and Landscape, curated by Sid Sachs, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, USA
2010
John Stezaker: Silkscreens, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
Lost Images, Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany
Tabula Rasa, The Approach, London, UK
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 [cat]
John Stezaker, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, Germany
Fumetti, GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Germany [cat]
2007
Two part show: Marriages, Karsten Schubert (Sep-Nov), London, Masks, The Approach,
London, UK (Oct-Nov) [cat]
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, UK
1990
Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany [cat.]
1989
John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, UK [cat.]
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 [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
2020
Biennale fur Aktuelle Fotografie, Mannheim, Germany
2019
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles Edition, Arles, France
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
2016-17
Flesh, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2016
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
2014-15
Institute of Sexology, Wellcome Collection, London, UK
MIRRORCITY, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2014
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 a cura di 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 [cat.]
The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin, Germany
Tate Triennial 2006 –New British Art, Tate Britain, London, UK [cat.]
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 [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, 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 [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 Exhibition Catalogues
2018
John Stezaker: Lost World, London: Ridinghouse, published on the occasion of Lost World, touring exhibition in various Australia and New Zealand locations.
2015
The Truth of Masks, Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, published on the occasion of The Truth of Masks, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA
2013
John Stezaker: One on One, London: Ridinghouse, published on the occasion of John Stezaker: One on One at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
2010
John Stezaker: Silkscreens, London: Galerie Gisela Capitain, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, The Approach, in association with Ridinghouse
John Stezaker, London: Ridinghouse, in association with Whitechapel Gallery, Mudam Luxembourg, and Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
2008
De Vries, Janneke, et al. Fumetti, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter Konig, published on the occasion of John Stezaker, “Fumetti”, GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst
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
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2016
Bate, D., Art Photography, London: Tate Publishing
Bush, D., Hellige, H., Klanten, R. (eds.), The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art Vol. 2, Berlin: gestalten
2014
AS EXCITING AS WE CAN MAKE IT: IKON IN THE 1980s, Birmingahm: Ikon
2013
Higgins, J., Why it does not have to be in focus: Modern photography explained, London: Thames & Hudson
Bush, D., Hellige, H., Klanten, R. (eds.), The Age of Collage: Contemporary Collage in Modern Art, Berlin: gestalten
2009
Clearwater, Bonnie, Celebrity Equinox, International Corporate Art, p. 14
2008
Craig, Blanche, ed. Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art, London: Black Dog Publishing
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
2018
Forrest, Eleanor, Review: John Stezaker’s Still Life, The Mancunion, February 4
2017
McNay, Anna, Interview with John Stezaker, Art Quarterly, Autumn issue
2016
Readings, Harpers Magazine, March 1
Portrait Collages, Quaint Quarterly, Issue 03, March 1, pp. 83-93
2015
Cristello, Stephanie, JOHN STEZAKER // THE TRUTH OF MASKS, The Seen, December 1
Forrest, Nicholas, John Stezaker: The Projectionist, BLOUIN ARTINFO, March 19
Da Silva, Jose, Contemporary Art Finds Many Homes in the Regions Outside London, The Art Newspaper, May 1
Sherwin Skye, John Stezaker, Bexhill-on-Sea, The Guardian, May 10
Cumming, Laura, John Stezaker: Film Works Review – An Overwhelming Onrush of Images, The Observer, April 26
John Stezaker: The Projectionist at The Approach, The Upcoming, March 14
Anything but “cool”, L’Officiel, December, pp. 64-75
2014
Collages, Kunstbeeld, No. 9, p. 36
Independent Art Fair: John Stezaker at The Approach, Kolaj, Issue 8, p. 21
Rubio, Lorraine, artnet Asks: Conceptual Artist John Stezaker, artnet, October 31
Pietsch, Hans. Bilderfinder, Art Magazin, February
John Stezaker at The Approach, Kolag, July
Bailey, Stephanie, John Stezaker, Ocula, July 31
Cutting a Photograph Can Feel Like Cutting Through Flesh, The Guardian, March 28
Zhong, Fan, 9th Cinema Verite, W Magazine, October
Baker, Harriet, Top 10 Collage Artists: Hannah Hoch to Man Ray, AnOther Magazine, January 14
2013
Seams & Interruptions, Interview by David Campany, Frieze Masters, No. 2, pp. 80-87
Who Would Believe It? Nicolas Roeg and John Stezaker in conversation,Frieze, No. 158, October, pp. 236-243
Griffin, Jonathan, The Seeds of Destruction, Tate ETC., Autumn, pp. 44-49
2012
Brown, Mark, Deutsche Börse photography prize won by John Stezaker, guardian.co.uk, 3 September
John Stezaker wins Deutsche Börse photography prize, BBC News, Entertainment & Arts, 4 September
Taylor, Allison, John Stezaker: Educator’s Guide, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, January, pp. 2-6
John Stezaker’s uncanny couplings, phaidon.com, April 19
2011
Darwent, Charles, John Stezaker, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London,Independent on Sunday, 30 January
McLean-Ferris, Laura, Stezaker: King of cut and paste, The Independent, 7 February
Dillon, Brian, John Stezaker: What a carve up, The Guardian, 29 January
Hodgson, Francis, Puns in the language of pictures, Financial Times, 9 February
Eichler, Dominic, John Stezaker, Frieze, n. 126, January-February
Cumming, Laura, John Stezaker; Moving Portraits, The Observer, 30 January
2010
Tuck, Mike, The Man Who Would Be King, Artslant, www.artslant.com, March
Herbert, Martin, Third Life, Artforum, Issue XLVIII, No. 8, p.160-167
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
Public & Selected Private 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
