Born 1933, Surrey, England
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances
Stuart Brisley
Algus Greenspon, New York, USA 2011
Stuart Brisley
Galerie Exile, Berlin 2010
Next Door (The missing subject)
PEER, London 2010
Stuart Brisley: Recent Works
England & Co, London 2009
Crossings
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2008; Tallinn City Art Gallery, Estonia 2009
Stuart Brisley 1958-2006
England & Co, London 2006
The Collection of Ordure
Freud Museum, London 2002
Relics of the Old Decency: Objects, Artefacts, Art
Project Art Centre, Dublin 2002
In association with the Refuse Operators in Dublin, Ireland
Flannan’s Room
London 1997
Helsinki Vanitas
Museum of Modern Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland 1996
Black
South London Gallery, London 1996
Stuart Brisley
Galerie Voges – Deisen, Frankfurt 1993
Anonyme
Central Space, London 1991
Red Star and Black Crown
The Showroom, London 1989
The Cenotaph Project (1987-1990)
St Cuthbert’s Village, Gateshead 1987; Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge 1987; Jura Building, Dean Clough, Halifax 1987; Chisenhale Gallery, London 1987; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth 1988; Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow 1988; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff 1988; Orchard Gallery, Derry 1989
(With Maya Balcioglu)
The Georgiana Collection
Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 1986;Orchard Gallery 1986; Arts Council Gallery, Belfast 1986; Serpentine Gallery 1987; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead 1987
Tanzen im Gehege
Sculpture Museum Marl, Kunst Museum Dusseldorf; Kunstverein Köln; Kunstverein Münster, Germany 1983
1=666,666
Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1983
Stuart Brisley
Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris 1982
Touching Class
Acme Gallery, London 1981
Leaching Out at the Intersection, Stuart Brisley: A Retrospective
ICA London 1981; Ikon Gallery Birmingham 1981; Spacex Gallery Exeter 1981
Between
De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam 1979
(With Iain Robertson)
The Peterlee Project
Peterlee New Town, County Durham 1976-77
Weather Work
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 1976
Moments of Decision/Indecision
Teatr Studio, Palac Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw 1975
10 Days
Editions Paramedia, West Berlin 1973
Hille Fellowship
Artist Placement Group 1970
Unofficial Action
Tate Gallery, February 1968
On the evening of the performance given by Cesar Baldachini
(With Peter Sedgeley)
Chair Project
Speakers Corner, London 1967
Stuart Brisley
Studio F, Ulm 1961
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European collections, 1956–1986
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and M HKA, Antwerp 2011
Document Performance
Exile, Berlin 2011
United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s
The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2011
SOLO
Ending Imperfect (A Provisional Title)
Modern Art Oxford 2011
Has the Film Already Started – Performance in Context: 1969–1977
Tate Britain, London 2011–2012
Museum Show
Arnolfini, Bristol 2011
Soft Machines
The Pace Gallery, New York 2011
British Art 1500–2011
Tate Britain, London 2011
Goodbye London – Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies
Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst, Dresden 2011
A Life in Art: Monika Kinley
Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth 2011
Modern British Sculpture
Royal Academy, London 2011
Goodbye London: Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e. V, Berlin 2010; Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst, Dresden 2011
This Could Happen to You: Ikon in the 1970s
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2010
Super Farmer’s Market
Handel Street Projects, London 2010
East Wing Nine presents EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display
Courtauld Institute of Art, London 2010
Modern Times: Responding to Chaos
Kettles Yard, Cambridge 2010; De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 2010
100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009)
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA 2009–2010
Poetry Marathon
Serpentine Gallery, London 2009
In the Act of Drawing
Vivid, Birmingham 2009
Live Art on Camera
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2007; SPACE, London 2008
Conceptual Photography "1964–1989"
Zwirner & Wirth New York 2007
The Last Breath
Kunstihoone Tallinn, Estonia 2007
Audio Arts: Bill Furlong
Tate Britain 2007
This Will Not Happen Without You
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2006–2007; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle 2007; Interface, Belfast 2007
European Performance Art Festival
Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw 2006
How to Improve the World : 60 Years of British Art from the ACGB Collection
Hayward Gallery, London 2006
Important Mischief: British Sculpture from the 1960s and 70s
Henry Moore Institutes and Leeds City Art Gallery 2006
Whatever happened to Social Democracy?
Roosium, Malmö, Sweden 2005
Hortus
Liverpool Biennale 2004
Special Display; A Century of Artists' Film in Britian
Tate Britain, 2003–2004
Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst
Wolfsburg, Germany 2002–2003
Self Evident
Tate Britain 2002/2003
A Short History of Performance
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London April 2002
Live in the Head
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2000; Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal 2001
Establishment of www.ordure. org
In collaboration with Adrian Ward and Geoffrey Cox, July 2000
Out of Actions, Between Performance and the Object 1949–79
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 1999
Arte u Acción 1949–79
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain 1999
Out of Actions, Aktionismus, Body Art & Performances 1949–79
Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, Austria 1998–99
Out of Actions, Between Performance and the Object 1949–79
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA 1998
Darkly in Passing
The Cortical Foundation, Los Angeles 1998
Trash: Quando I Rifiuti Diventano Arte
Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy 1997–98; Archivio del ‘900, Rovereto, Italy 1997–98
British Drawing
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York 1997
Art au Corps
MAC, Galeries Contemporaines de Musee de Marseille, France 1996
25 years of British Sculpture
Serpentine Gallery, London 1995
The Sixties Art Scene in London
Barbican Art Gallery, London 1993
From Hand to Foot to Mouth
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1993
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulieres
Musée d-Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1992
Incidents in Transit (Assaigs a la recerca deL`irreal)
Tangentcies, 7 performances at Sala Montcada de la Fundacao “La Caixa” Barcelona 1992
Northern Adventures: An Exhibition of North European Art
St Pancras Station and Camden Arts Centre, London 1991
Shocks to the System
Hayward Gallery, London 1991; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 1991; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1991; Eastborne, Exeter, Plymouth and Ayr 1991
Great Britain USSR
The House of the Artist, Kiev; The Central House of the Artist, Moscow 1990
Matter of Facts: Photographie Art Contemporain en Grande-Bretagne
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France 1988; Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France 1988; Metz pour la Photographie, Caves Sainte-Croix, France 1989
From the Collection
Tate Gallery, Liverpool 1987–89
Artist in Residence
Imperial War Museum, London 1987
British Art in the Twentieth Century
The Royal Academy, London 1987; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany1987
From the Fourth to the Third World
Sao Paulo Biennale 1985
The British Art Show
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 1985; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1985; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1985; Royal Exchange Building, Melbourne, Australia 1985; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zeland 1986
The British Art Show
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1984; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 1985; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield 1985; Southampton Gallery 1985
Being and Doing
BAFTA, London Film Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland; Montreal Film Festival, Canada 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Exhibition
Camden Art Centre, London 1984
Minus One
Tate Gallery, London 1984
New Art
Tate Gallery, London 1983
British Sound
Franklin Furnace, New York, USA 1983
Live to Air
Tate Gallery, London 1982
Horizontal Walking and Vertical Lying
Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada 1982
Approaches to the Audience
Mixage International, Lanteren Venster, Rotterdam, Netherlands 1980; Culturell Centrum, t’Hooght, Utrecht, Netherlands 1980
One and the Other in the Attic of Poverty
Parachute, Montreal, Canada 1980
Un Certain Art Anglais II
ARC, Musée d-art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France 1979
Survival in Alien Circumstances
Documenta 6, Kassel 1977
Lying, Standing, Walking and Talking
Recent International Forms in Art, Sydney Biennale 1976
Hommage to the Commune
Arte Inglesi Oggi 1960-76, Palazzo Reale Milan 1976
And For Today Nothing
Gallery House, London 1972
You Know It Makes Sense 2
Festival at the Serpentine and Bank Holiday Bonus
Serpentine Gallery, London 1972
ZL 65 63 95 C
Survey of the British Avant-garde Part 1
Gallery House, Goethe Institute London 1972
Surgical Minutes
Messehalle, West Berlin 1971
Keyle Gannicule
ICA, London 1969
Selected Public Collections
Tate, London
The British Museum, London
Henry Moore Institute and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Arts Council of Great Britain
Stadtlisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne & Rhône-Alpes, France
Musee D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, France
Heine-Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Norway
Tallinn City Art Gallery, Estonia
Museum Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Stuart Brisley's archive is held at the Tate Archive, London
Selected books and videos
Look Here, Axelle Russo, The British Museum Press, London 2010
Good bye to London: Radical Art & Politics in the 70s, Ed. Astrid Proll, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany 2010
Stuart Brisley / Crossings, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton 2008
de Appel: Performances, intallations, video projects 1975–1983, Marga van Mechelen, Amsterdam 2006
The Peterlee Project, video published by Radix North East Collective, Stuart Brisley consultant, November 2005
Stuart Brisley, video within the series ‘the EYE’, Illuminations publishing, London 2004
Beyond Reason: Ordure, Stuart Brisley, Bookworks, London 2003
Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s, Richard Cork, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003
New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s, Richard Cork, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003
Left Shift, Radical Art in 1970s Britain, John Walker, IB Tauris Publishers, London and New York 2002
The Collection of Ordure: Work by Stuart Brisley, Michael Newman, published by The Freud Museum, London 2002
The Artist`s Body, Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones, Phaidon Press Ltd 2000
Performance, Live Art Since the Sixties, Roselee Goldberg, Thames & Hudson 1998
L'Art au Corps: Le corps expose de Man Ray a nos jours, Musées de Marseilles, Reunion des Musées Nationaux, Marseilles 1996
Art into Theatre: Performance Interviews & Documents, Nick Kaye, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996
The 20th Century Art Book, Phaidon, London 1996
1X & X Spotkania Krakowskie, Galeria Sztuki Wspolezesnej BWA, Krakow 1995
Avant Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now, Brandon Taylor, Harry N Abrams, New York 1995
The Sixties Art Scene in London, David Mellor, Phaidon, London 1993
Performance Ritual Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Europa, Elisabeth Jappe, Prestel-Verlag, Munich and New York 1993
Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to Present, Daniel Wheeler, Thames and Hudson, London 1992
Selected Errors: Writing on Art & Politics, John Roberts, Pluto Press, London and Boulder, Colorado, 1992
The Cenotaph Project, Maya Balcioglu and Stuart Brisley, The Orchard Gallery, Derry Northern Ireland 1991
Art Speak, Robert Atkins, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990
L'Acte pour L'Art, A. Labelle-Rojoux, Editeurs Evidant, Paris 1988
Blickwechsel 25 Jahr Berliner Kunstlerprogram, Argon Verlag, West Berlin 1988
British Art Since 1900, Francis Spalding, Thames & Hudson, London1986
Encyclopedia of British Art, Gen Editor David Bindman, Thames & Hudson 1985
The Art of Performance, a Critical Anthology, eds. Gregory Battock and Robert Nickas, E P Dutton Inc, New York 1984
Performance Text(e)s & Documents, ed. Chantal Pontbriand, Les Editions Parachute, Montreal, Canada 1981
The Story of Modern Art, Norbert Lynton, Phaidon, Oxford 1980
Contemporary British Artists, ed. Charlotte Parry Cooke, London 1979
Performance, Live Art to the Present, Roselee Goldberg, Thames & Hudson, 1979
Contemporary British Artists, eds, Genesis P. Orridge and Colin Naylor, London and New York 1978
Galeria Teatru Studio, Zbiory Sztuki Wspolczesnej I Dokumentaja, Poland 1976
Peterlee Report, Stuart Brisley, Northern Arts, Newcastle 1976
Art Since Pop, John Walker, Thames & Hudson 1975
10 Days/10 Tage, Stuart Brisley, Editions Paramedia, Berlin 1974
Art Events and Happenings, Udo Kulturman, London 1971
Selected Catalogues
Modern British Sculpture, eds. Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2011
Modern Times - responding to chaos, eds. Lutz Becker, David Elliott, Nick Wadley, Ian Boyd Whyte, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge 2010
This Could Happen To You, Ikon in the 1970s, Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2010
Stuart Brisley Works 1958-2006, England & Co, London.
Live in Your Head, Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, eds. Clive Philpot and Andrea Tarsia, The Whitechapel Gallery, London 2000.
Out of Actions: Between Performance & The Object 1949-79, Thames & Hudson London 1998
Trash: Quando i rifuiti deventano arte, The Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 1997
Black: Stuart Brisley, South London Gallery, London 1996
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulaires, Musée D`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1992
13 Critics, 26 Fotografs, Centre D` Art Santa Monica Barcelona 1992
New Works for Different Places, TSWA Four Cities Project, TSWA Ltd 1990
British Art in the 20th Century, Prestel Verlag Munich & The Royal Academy, London 1987
The Georgiana Collection: Stuart Brisley, The Third Eye Centre Glasgow and the Orchard Gallery Derry, 1986
Dialogo Sobre Arte Contempanea, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1985
The British Show, The Art Galley of New South Wales, Sydney 1985.
18 Biennal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Fundacao Biennal de Sao Paulo 1985
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Coracle Press for Camden Art Centre, London 1984
The British Art Show, Old Allegiances & New Directions, published by Orbis for the Arts Council of Great Britain 1984
Stuart Brisley – Performance, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1981
20 Live Projects, Stockholm, VAVD Editions, Stockholm 1981
Un Certain Art Anglais, Selection d`Artistes Britainiques 1970-79, Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1979
The Hayward Annual, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1977
Documenta 6 Kassel, 1977
Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Bregenzer Kunst Austellungen Landhaupstad, Bregenz Kulturabteilung, 1977
Arte Inglesi Oggi, Electa Editrice Milano/Industie Grafiche Editoriali Spa Milano 1976
Recent International Forms in Art, The Biennale of Sydney 1976