Gilbert
1943 * in the Dolomites, Italy

George
1942 * in Devon, UK

Education

Gilbert
Wolkenstein School of Art, Hallein School of Art and Munich Academy of Art

George
Dartington Adult Education Centre, Dartington Hall College of Art Oxford Art School
Gilbert & George 1967 Met and studied at St. Martin’s School of Art, London

Solo Exhibitions

2023

THE CORPSING PICTURES, White Cube, London
THE PARADISICAL PICTURES, The Gilbert & George Centre, London
THE CORPSING PICTURES, Lehmann Maupin, New York
THE CORPSING PICTURES, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland

2022

THE CORPSING PICTURES, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland
Gilbert & George. The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition, Auckland Art Gallery Toio Tāmaki, New Zealand

2021

NEW NORMAL PICTURES, Lehmann Maupin, New York City, US; White Cube, London, UK
THE PARADISICAL PICTURES, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
GILBERT & GEORGE: THE GREAT EXHIBITION (1971 – 2016), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2020); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway (2019) and LUMA, Arles, France (2018)

2020

Gilbert & George. The Locarno Exhibition, Casa Rusca Museum, Locarno, Switzerland

2019

THE PARADISICAL PICTURES, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, US
There Were Two Young Men, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
THE BEARD PICTURES, Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong, China and Seoul, South Korea

2018

GILBERT & GEORGE: THE MAJOR EXHIBITION, Helsinki Art Museum (HAM), Helsinki, Finland
Fuckosophy, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK
The Beard Pictures and their Fuckosophy, White Cube, London, UK
Scapegoating. Pictures for Belfast, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, Ireland
The Beard Pictures, Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece

2017

The Beard Pictures, Alfonso Artiaco Gallery, Naples, Italy
Drinking Pieces & Video Sculpture 1972-1973, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
Luther und die Avantgarde. Scapegoating Pictures – Sündenbock-Bilder, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin, Germany

2015

The Art Exhibition, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
The Banners, White Cube, London, UK
The Early Years, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Utopian Pictures, Galerie Arndt, Gilman Barracks, Singapore

2014

Scapegoat, Pictures for Paris, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Scapegoating Pictures for London, White Cube, London, UK
Video Sculptures 1972-1981, Lehman Maupin, New York, US
Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Artist Rooms, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter, UK

2013

London Pictures, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain; MKM, Duisburg, Germany

2012

London Pictures, Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece; White Cube, London, UK and Hong Kong, China; Lehmann Maupin, New York, US; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France; Galerie Arndt, Berlin, Germany; Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy; Baronian Francy, Brussels, Belgium

2011

The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Jack Freak Pictures, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria and Centre for Contemporary Art, Laznia, Gdansk, Poland

Urethra Postcard Pictures, White Cube, London, UK ; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris ; Alfonso Artiaco Project Space, Naples, Italy, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain ; Galerie Arndt, Berlin, Germany

2010

Jack Freak Pictures, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium ; CAC Malaga, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Serbia

2009

Jack Freak Pictures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; White Cube, London, UK; Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece; Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy

2008

The Secret Files of Gilbert & George, Video Screening, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery, Japan
Notations, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US

2007

Major Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy;De Young Museum, San Francisco, US 2008;Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, US 2008;Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, US 2008; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, US 2008
Works from the Collection, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
Selected Works from the 80s, Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK

2006

Sonofagod Pictures. Was Jesus Heterosexual?, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands; White Cube, London

2005

Ginko Pictures, 51st Venice Biennale, British Pavilion, Venice, Italy
20 London E1 Pictures, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

2004

The Perversive Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
Thirteen Hooligan Pictures, Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece
20 London E1 Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; Modern Art Museum, Saint Etienne, France

2003

Gilbert & George, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, US
Gilbert & George, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

2002

The Dirty Words Pictures, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Nine Dark Pictures, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
The Art of Gilbert & George, Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
Gilbert & George. A Retrospective, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece

2001

Gilbert & George, Chateau d’Arenthon Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain Alex, Annecy, France
Nineteen Ninety-Nine, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
New Horny Pictures, White Cube, London, UK
The Art of Gilbert & George, The Factory, Athens School of Art, Greece
Gilbert & George – The Tuileries; An Eight-Part Charcoal on Paper Sculpture, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
Gilbert & George, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece

2000

Gilbert & George, Parkhaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
Zig-Zag Pictures 2000, FIAC, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
MM 2000, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Gilbert & George 1991 to 1997, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1999

Gilbert & George 1970-1988, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Finland
Gilbert & George 1986-1997, Drassanes, Valencia, Spain
The Rudimentary Pictures, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK; Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, US

Nineteen Ninety Nine, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US 2001

1998

New Testamental Pictures, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy;

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Black, White and Red 1971 to 1980, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
Selected Works from The Fundamental Pictures, Massimo Martino Fine Arts & Projects, Mendrisio, Switzerland

1997

The Fundamental Pictures, Sonnabend and Lehmann Maupin, New York, US ; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Art for All 1971-1992, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo Gilbert & George Art, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden

1996

Gilbert & George, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
The Naked Shit Pictures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995

The Singing Sculpture, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
The Naked Shit Pictures, South London Art Gallery, London, UK
Gilbert & George, Galerie Nikolas Sonne, Berlin, Germany

1994

Gilbert & George, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
Gilbert & George, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland
The Naked Shit Pictures, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne, Germany
Shitty Naked Human World, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

1993

China Exhibition 1993, National Art Gallery, Peking and Art Museum, Shanghai, China

1992

New Democratic Pictures, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK; Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

1991

Gilbert & George, Gramo Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
The Cosmological Pictures, Palac Sztuki, Krakow, Poland;Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy;Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland, 1992;Secession, Vienna, Austria 1992;
Ernst Muzeum, Budapest, Hungary 1992;Haags Gemeenstemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands 1992;
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland 1992;
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain 1992;
Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK 1993;
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, 1993
The Singing Sculpture & The General Jungle, Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1990

Gilbert & George Pictures 1983-1988, Moscow Exhibition, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Twenty-Five Worlds By Gilbert & George, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, US
Gilbert & George Postcard Sculptures and Ephemera 1969-1981, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, US
The New Cosmological Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Gilbert & George, Galerie Langer Fain, Paris, France
Worlds & Windows, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Gilbert & George, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Eleven Worlds by Gilbert & George and Antique Clocks, Désiré Feuerle Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1989

For Aids Exhibition, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Postcard Sculptures, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, US
The 1988 Pictures, Christian Stein Gallery, Milan, Italy

1988

The 1988 Pictures, Ascan Crone Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1987

Gilbert & George. The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, Spain; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Hayward Gallery, London, UK; Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Gilbert & George New Pictures, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Gilbert & George Pictures, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, US

1986

The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Charcoal on Paper Sculptures 1970 to 1974, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France

The Paintings 1971, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK

1985

Gilbert & George, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, US; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
New Moral Works, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US

1984

New Photo-Pieces, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Gilbert & George, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, US
The Believing World, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Hands Up, Schelman & Kluser Gallery, Munich, Germany
Live’s, Pieroni Gallery, Rome, Italy

1983

Modern Faith, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Photo-Pieces 1980-82, David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
New Works, Crousel-Hussenot Gallery, Paris, France

1982

New Photo-Pieces, Gewad, Ghent Crusade, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK

1981

Photo-Pieces 1971-80 (Retrospective), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Photo-Pieces 1980-81, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France

1980

Postcard Sculptures, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
New Photo-Pieces, Karen & Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece; Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Modern Fears, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Photo-Pieces 1971-80, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1978

Photo-Pieces, Dartington Hall Gallery, Devon, UK
New Photo-Pieces, Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Art Agency, Tokyo, Japan

1977

New Photo-Pieces, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam; Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dirty Words Pictures, Art & Project, Amsterdam; Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

1976

Red Morning, Sperone Fischer Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
The General Jungle, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US
Dead Boards, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Mental, Robert Self Gallery, London and Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle, UK

1975

Bloody Life, Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France; Sonnabend Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland; Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples, Italy
Postcard Sculptures, Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York Dusty Corners, Art Agency, Tokyo, Japan

1974

Drinking Sculptures, Art & Project, MTL, Antwerp, Belgium
Humane Bondage, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dark Shadow, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam and Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
Cherry Blossom, Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy

1973

The Shrubberies & Singing Sculpture, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Kaldor Art Projects, Sydney; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Kaldor Art Projects, Melbourne, Australia
Modern Rubbish, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Any Port in a Storm, Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
New Decorative Works, Sperone Gallery, Turin, Italy
Reclining Drunk, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK

1972

New Photo-Pieces, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
Three Sculptures on Video Tape, Gerry Schum Video Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Bar, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London and Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK

The Evening Before the Morning After, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
It Takes A Boy To Understand A Boy’s Point Of View, Situation Gallery, London, UK
A New Sculpture, Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy
The Paintings, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

1971

There Were Two Young Men, Sperone Gallery, Turin, Italy
The General Jungle, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
The Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
The Ten Speeches, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
New Photo-Pieces, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1970

George by Gilbert & Gilbert by George, Fournier Street, London, UK
The Pencil on Paper, Descriptive Works, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany; Folker Skulima Gallery, Berlin
Art Notes and Thoughts, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frozen Into the Nature for You Art, Francoise Lambert Gallery, Milan, Italy; Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Cologne, Germany
To Be with Art is all We Ask, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK

1969

Anniversary, Frank’s Sandwich Bar, London Shit and Cunt, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK

1968

Three Works – Three Works, Frank’s Sandwich Bar, London, UK
Snow Show, St. Martin’s School of Art, London, UK
Bacon 32, Allied Services, London, UK
Christmas Show, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Visiones Expandidas, Fotografía experimental, Fundació ‘la Caixa’ x Centre Georges Pompidou, Caixa Forum museums, Madrid and Barcelona, Spain
Flags, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Me, Myself: I: Artists’ Self-Portraits, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Responsibility to Reveal: 30 Years of The Knight Purchase Award for Photographic Media, Akron Art Museum, Ohio, US
CITY, White Cube West Palm Beach, Florida, US

2021

Drôles de convergences, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo, Japan
Minimal/Conceptual, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, Japan
Self-History. Works from the Obayashi Collection, WHAT Museum, Tokyo Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London, UK
The Plot, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
Arcimboldo Face to Face, Centre Pompidou Metz, France
The Paradox of Stillness, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, US
Diversity United: Contemporary European Art, Flughafen Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany;
Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bonn 2018; Memory Palace, White Cube, London, UK

2017

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Take me (I’m Yours), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
The Artist’s Voice, The Parkview Museum, Singapore
The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, US

2016

Love. L’arte contemporanea incontra l’amore, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome, Italy
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK

2015

Take me (I’m Yours), Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

2014

Lens-Based Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein 69/96, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland

2013

Palindrome, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany
As if it Could, Ouverture, Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Glam! The Performance of Style, Tate, Liverpool, UK; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2012

Tea with Nefertiti, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2013; Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2014
To Be With Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Finland
Cara Domani, Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
I Wish This Was A Song: Music in Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Finland
The Insides are on the Outside, Glass House, São Paulo, Brasil
Art and Press, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2011

United Enemies. The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Made in Britain. Contemporary Art from the British Council Collection, Hong Kong Heritage Museum and Suzhou Museum, China
Staging Action. Performance in Photography since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK

2010

Happiness is a New Idea, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK Decadence Now: Visions of Excess, Galerie Rudolfinium, Prague, Czech Republic
Less is More, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Party!, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Love, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
Brave New World, MUDAM, Luxembourg

2009

Barock, Museo d’Art Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy
Just What is it? 100 Years of Modern Art from Private Collections in Baden- Wurttemberg, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
T-Tris, BPS Space for Contemporary Art, Charleroi, Belgium
Bad Habits, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Collage, London New York, Fred Gallery, London, UK
15 Years of Collecting: Against the Grain, Kunstmusuem Wolfsburg, Germany
BP British Art Displays 1500-2009, Tate Britain, London, UK
Passports. Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
The Fallen Angels-Watari-Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Based on Paper, MIMA, Middlesbrough, UK The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York, US
History in the Making, A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Held Together with Water. Art from the Sammlung Verbund, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey
Parkhaus, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

2007

The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
The Secret Public. The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Into me / Out of me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

2006

Interventions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, US
How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Where a Pawn Becomes a Queen, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Inventory: Works form the Herbert Collection, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Handsome, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Eye on Europe – Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
7th Internazionale Biennale di Scultura di Carrara, Italy
Into Me / Out of Me, MoMA PS1, New York
LACMA at 40: Gifts in Honor of the Museum’s Anniversary, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
e-flux Video Rental, Arthouse at the Jones Center – Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, US

2005

Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Bock mit Inhalt – Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Superstars – from Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
The Theatre of Art – Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum Cologne, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
Open Systems – Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, UK
Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
The Giving Person, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Italy
The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Florida, US
Faltering Flame, Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, UK

2004

Puzzle, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy
The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
From a Collection – For a Collection, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Monument to Now, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
Video et Cogito, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Head to Head, Tate Modern, London, UK
Secrets of the 90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Turning Points – 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Iran
The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
Treasure Island: 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
I Hate You: The Falckenberg Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

2003

Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/Videogalerie Schum, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany Narcissus – New Visions on Self-Representation, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France Happiness – A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
Gelijk het leven is, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Social Strategies – Redefining Social Realism, Illinois State University, US
Normal Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale Journey to Now – John Kaldor Art Projects & Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Projection, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
PhotoKunst – 1852-2002, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
Het kunstenaarsboek als wetenschappelijke bron, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, US
Group Show, Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece
From Broodthaers to Horn, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2002

From Pop to Now. Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, US Retrospectacle: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art, Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
Real Life, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK
Warhol to Koons. International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Weston Link, Edinburgh, UK
Public Affairs, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
On General Release, Norwich Gallery, UK

2001

Shortcuts, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Nothing in the Main Hall, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden Conception – The Conceptual Document 1968-1972, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Reisen in Ich – Künstler / Selbst / Bild. Sammlung Essl, Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Nothing, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
The First 10 Years. Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Imago Mundi, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Hypermental – Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950-2000. Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff Koons, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Echoes of the Scream, ARKEN Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2000

Inner Eye. Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, US
Out There, White Cube, London, UK
The Rudimentary Pictures, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Enclosed and Enchanted, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Man – Body in Art from 1950 to 2000, Arken Museum for Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
Inaugural Exhibition. Making Time – Considering Time As a Material in Contemporary Art, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida, US
Partage dexotismes, 5th Biennale de Lyon, France
Seeing Time, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Many Colored Objects Placed Side By Side To Form A Row Of Many Colored Objects, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg

1999

Zeitwenden – Rückblick und Ausblick, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Permanent Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, US
The First View. Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Ego Alter Ego – Das Selbstportrait in der Fotografie der Gegenwart, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
Gesammelte Werke 1. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1968, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Veronicas Revenge – Photographies de la Collection Lac-Suisse, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Insite 98 – Mysterious Voyages. Exploring the Subject of Photography, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, US
Linhas de Sombra Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

1998

Out of Actions. Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Photoplay, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, US
A Choice from the Collection, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s, David Zwirner, New York, US
Exhibition of the Century, Wellington City Gallery, New Zealand

1997

Treasure Island, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

1997

Kwangju Biennale – Unmapping the Earth, South Korea
Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

1996

La Vie Moderne en Europe 1870-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo , Japan

1995

Endurance. The Information, Exit Art, New York, US
Take Me (I’m Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Attitudes/Sculptures, 1963-1972, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
20/20, In Khan, New York, US
Human/Nature Benefit Exhibition, New Museum, New York, US

1994

1969, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne, Germany
Recent Work, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, UK
Sarah Staton: Superstore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK

1993

Contemporary Self-Portraits, ‘Here’s Looking at Me’, ELAC, Centre d’Echanges de Perrache, Lyon, France
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Europe Sans Frontières, Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France
Image Makers, The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, US Konstruktion Zitat. Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Photoplay. Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas; Museu de Arte de São Paulo; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

1992

Dark Decor, DePree Art Center, Hope College, Holland, Michigan; San Jose Museum of Art, California; Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, US
More Than One Photograph, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

1991

20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Metropolis, International Art Exhibition 1991, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany Photography: 1980-1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver, Colorado, US
Consorts, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Cruciformed. Images of the Cross Since 1980, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio; Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham; Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US

1990

Assembled, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
Team Spirit, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina; Davenport Art Museum, Iowa and Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Art That Happens to be Photography, Texas Gallery, Houston Exposed, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, US

1989

Repetition, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, US
Bilderstreit: Contradiction, Unity and Fragmentation in Art Since 1960, Ludwig Museum in the Rheinhallen, Cologne, Germany
Prospect 89, Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Lost and Found: The Object Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, US
New Works by Gallery Artists, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, US
Words, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

1988

Under Construction, New Photomontage, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield, Michigan, US
Collection Sonnabend, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Germany; Hamburger
Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d’Arte Moderna, Trento, Italy; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
A ‘Drawing’ Show, Cable Gallery, New York, US

Three Decades. The Oliver Hoffman Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, US

1987

This is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, US
Perverted By Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, US
Romance, Knight Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
Selections from X1, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York
Uit het oude Europa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1986

Falls The Shadow, Hayward Gallery, London Forty Years of Modern Art, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Mater Dulcissima, Chiesa Dei Cavaliere di Malta, Siracusa, Italy

1985

Correspondances. New York Art Now, Laforet Museum, Harajuku; Tochigi Prefectural, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Gilbert & George; Gareth Fisher, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Memento Mori, Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
Biennale of Paris, Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris, France
The 1985 Carnegie International, Pittsburg, Pennsylvannia
Overture, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
One City a Patron, Scottish Arts Council (Touring Exhibition)
A Journey Through Contemporary Art, Hayward Gallery, London

1984

The Critical Eye, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Artistic Collaboration in the 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Poetry of Vision-Rose, The Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
Dialog, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Turner Prize Exhibition, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
The British Art Show, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, UK;
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane;
Art Galley of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Private Symbol. Social Metaphor, 5th Biennale of Sydney
Collection Annick and Anton Herbert, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Photography in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Kyoto
Gilbert & George / Richard Long, The Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Via New York, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Content, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Collectie Becht, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Histoires de Sculpture, Espace Graslin – Manufacture Des Tabacs, Nantes;
Musée d’Art Modern de Villeneuve; Chateau des Ducs d’Eperon, Cadillac-Gironde, France

1983

Photography in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan Acquisition Priorities, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Trends in Post-War American and European Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
New Art, Tate Gallery, London
Urban Pulsers: The Artist and the City, Plan for Art, Pittsburg, California

1982

Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Zeitgeist, Berlin

1981

Attitudes, Concepts, Images 60/80, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Westkunst, Cologne, Germany
Artist and Camera, Arts Council Touring Exhibition, UK
16th Bienal de São Paulo
British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Project 6: Art into the 80s, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
No Title, Wesleyan University, UK Touring Exhibition

Point de Vue, Images, Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saone, France

1980

Gerry Schum, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Kunstverein, Cologne; The Art Gallery, Vancouver and A Space, Toronto, Canada
Kunst in Europa na ’68, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Explorations in the 70s, Pittsburg Plan for Art, California, US

1979

Process and Sequence: A Photographic Exhibition, Roosevelt, New York
Photography as Art/Art as Photography, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
Europe in the 70s, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
On Walks and Travels, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
Un Certain Art Anglais, ARC/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Wahrnehmungen, Aufzeichnungen, Mitteilungen, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London
Gerry Schum, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1978

Europe in the ’70s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
Made By Sculptors, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
38th Venice Biennale
Door Beeldhouwers Gemaakt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1977

Photography as an Art Form, John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Saratoga, Florida
Europe in the ’70s, Art Institute of Chicago Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany

1976

Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy Group Show, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
The Artist and The Photograph, Israel Museum, Jerusalem

1975

Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Narrative in Contemporary Art, University of Guelph, Ontario

1974

Word Works, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
Medium Photography, Kunstverein Hamburg and Kunstverein Munster, Germany
Kunst Bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle Cologne, Germany
Prospect, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Group Show, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Sculpture Now, Royal College of Art, London, UK

1973

Critics Choice, Tooth Gallery, London, UK
Art as Photography, Kunstverein Hannover and The Museum Gallery, Paris
From Henry Moore to Gilbert & George, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

11 English Drawers, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany Contemporanea, Villa Borghese, Rome

1972

Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Concept Kunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
The Paintings, Koninkijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp, Belgium

1971

Prospect 71 Projection, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
The British Avant-Garde, Cultural Centre, New York, US
Situation/Concept, Innsbruck, Austria
The Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany

1970

Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
18 Paris IV, 66 Rue Mouffetard, Paris, France
Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Galeria Civica de Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
Untitled, CAYC, Buenos Aires
Plans and Projects, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

1969

Conception, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany

Selected Awards

1984 Shortlisted for Turner Prize
1986 Winner of the Turner Prize
2008 Honorary Degree in Philosophy, London Metropolitan University

Selected Public Collections

Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum, UK Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio Albertina Museum, Vienna
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Astrup Fearnley Museet fur Moderne Kunst, Oslo Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
British Council, London
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux Centre Pompidou, Paris
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hall Art Foundation, North Adams, Massachusetts
Hiscox Art Projects, London
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
La FAB (The Agnès B Foundation), France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
LUMA Foundation, Zürich
Magasin III, Stockholm
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxembourg City
museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna
Musée d’Arts Contemporains au Grand-Hornu, Boussu
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain Nice, France
Museet d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée de Grenoble, France
Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo, Bilbao, Spain
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum of Canterbury, UK
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Portrait Gallery, London
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Neues Museum, Nuremburg, Germany