John Stezaker

Biography

°1949, Worcester, UK
Lives and works in London.
Stezaker 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, like in pop art. Combining/assembling found images (photographs) instantly generated a different form of aesthetics, in which anachronisms and a 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, Biennale of Sydney and the Whitchapel 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), Galerie Gisela Capitain (Cologne).

°1949, Worcester, UK
Lives and works in London.
Stezaker studied at the Slade School of Art in London.

John Stezaker is represented by Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, The approach (London), Galerie Gisela Capitain (Cologne).

	Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021	'Double Shadow', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerp, BE
2018	'Love', The approach, London, UK
2017	'John Stezaker', Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK 'Lost World', City Gallery Wellington, Wellington, NZ; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, NZ; Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch, NZ; Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, AU 'The Voyeur: Photoroman Collages', 1976–1979, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA 'John Stezaker & Lisa Oppenheim: Sublime Smoke', The Approach, 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, BE
2015	'The Truth of Masks', Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, USA 'Touch', The Approach at Independent Régence, Brussels, BE 'Film Works', De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill On Sea, UK 'The Projectionist', The Approach, London, UK 'Collages', The Netherlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, NL
2014	'John Stezaker: New Silkscreens', Petzel Gallery, New York, USA 'John Stezaker: Collages', Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, AU
2013	'John Stezaker', Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva, CH 'John Stezaker: Working from the Collection', Les Rencontres Arles Photographie, Arles, FR 'Crossing Over', Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE 'Blind', The Approach, London, UK 'John Stezaker: One on One', Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, IL 'Nude and Landscape', Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
2012	'John Stezaker', Galerie Gisela Captain, Cologne, DE 'Marriage', curated by Annemarie Sawkins, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA 'John Stezaker', Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, 'John Stezaker', MUDAM, Luxemburg, LU 'John Stezaker', Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
2011	'John Stezaker', Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA 'The Nude and Landscape', curated by Sid Sachs, University of The Arts, Philadelphia, USA
	'John Stezaker: Silkscreens', Capitain Petzel, Berlin, DE 'Lost Images', Kunstverein Freiburg, DE 'Tabula Rasa', The Approach, London, UK 'Art Unlimited', Galerie Gisela Capitain, Basel Group Exhibitions, CH
2009	'John Stezaker', Richard Grey Gallery, Chicago, USA 'John Stezaker', Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, DE 'John Stezaker', Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
2008	'Masks & Shadows', A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, IT 'John Stezaker', Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, DE 'Fumetti', GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, DE
2007	'Two part show: Marriages', Karsten Schubert , London, UK 'Masks', The approach, London, UK 'John Stezaker', The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA 'John Stezaker', Stills Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 'John Stezaker', Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK 'John Stezaker', Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris, FR
2006	'John Stezaker', The approach, London, UK 'John Stezaker', Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf, DE '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: 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 'John Stezaker', Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1984	'John Stezaker', Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1979	'John Stezaker', Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, FR 'Werke 1973-1978', Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, CH 'John Stezaker', Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK 'The World Made Flesh', The New ‘57 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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 'John Stezaker', Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, FR 'John Stezaker', Schema Gallery, Florence, IT 'John Stezaker', Spectro Arts, Newcastle, UK
1976	'John Stezaker', Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK 'Trois Oeuvres', Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, FR
1975	Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK 'John Stezaker', Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, FR
1974	Galerie Decembre, Munster, DE Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome, IT Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, IT
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