| Dates: | born 1949
| | Biography: | John Stezaker was born in 1949 in
Worcester, England. He studied at the
Slade School of Art, and currently
teaches Critical and Historical Studies
at the Royal College of Art.
Stezaker has been highly influential in
the key artistic developments of the
last three decades, from Conceptual Art,
New Image Art through to the
re-emergence of collage. As a leading
figure of the British Conceptual Art
group, Stezaker showed in the first
Hayward Annual of 1972 called The New
Art, but his conceptual interests soon
gave way to what can now be seen as a
long-term fascination with the image.
Using found photographs and printed
material, Stezaker's collages involve
various techniques such as removals,
maskings, reparations, rotations and
visual concordances. While juxtaposing
disparate sources, his work creates
compelling new images, relationships
and
characters.
Selected recent solo exhibitions include
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (2009);
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
(2009); Mask and Shadow, A Palazzo
Gallery, Brescia, Italy (2008); Galerie
Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf (2008);
Fumetti, GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle
Kunst, Bremen, Germany (2008); a
two-part show: Marriage, Karsten
Schubert, London and Masks, The
Approach
W1, London (2007); The Rubell Family
Collection, Miami, USA (2007); Stills
Gallery, Edinburgh (2007); Open Eye
Gallery, Liverpool (2007); Bridges and
Other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery,
Norwich (2006); White Columns, New
York
(2006); Archiv & Erzählung / Archives
and Narration: John Stezaker and TJ
Wilcox, Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich
(2005).
Selected recent group exhibitions
include William Horner & John Stezaker,
The Russian Club Gallery, London
(2009);
Collage: The Unmonumental Picture,
New
Museum, New York (2008); Past-
Forward,
176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London
(2008); Cohabitation: 13 Artists and
Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan,
Italy (2008); Panic Attack, Barbican Art
Gallery, London (2007); Dereconstruction
(curated by Matthew Higgs), Barbara
Gladstone Gallery, New York (2006);
Figures of the Player: The Paradox of
the Actor, Collection Lambert en
Avignon, Avignon, France (2006); World
Gone Mad: Surrealist Returns in Recent
British Art, Herbert Read Gallery,
Canterbury and travelling to Castlefield
Gallery, Manchester, Limehouse Arts
Foundation, London (2006); Tate
Triennial 2006 – New British Art, Tate
Britain, London (2006); Time Lines,
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und
Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2005); 1979,
Bloomberg Space, London (2005);
Collage,
Signs & Surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery,
New York (2005).
Stezaker lives and works in London and
is represented by The Approach.
| | | Source: | New Contemporaries website | | | Date of source: | accessed 2009 |
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| | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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