The activities of Art & Language have been marked from the outset by practical variety, by resistance to easy categorisation and by a tendency to provoke open and reflexive enquiry.
Art & Language
The group was founded in Coventry, England by Michael Baldwin, David Bainbridge, Terry Atkinson and Harold Hurrell. The critic and art historian Charles Harrison and the artist Mel Ramsden both became associated with the group, in 1970.
From the beginning, Art & Language questioned the critical assumptions of mainstream modern art practice and criticism. Much of their early work consisted of detailed discussion of these issues presented in their journal or in an art gallery context. However they also made exemplary works of conceptual art such as Map Not to Indicate of 1967.
In A Provisional History of Art & Language, Charles Harrison and Fred Orton record that between 1968 and 1982, up to fifty people were associated in some way with the activities around the name Art & Language. They identified three main phases of the group: the early years, up to 1972, which chiefly found public expression in the publication Art Language; a middle period divided between New York and England and linked to the publication of the journal The Fox (discontinued in 1976); and the period since 1977, during which paintings have been produced which examine the critical issues that concern them. Since 1977, Art & Language has mainly concerned three people, the artists Michael Baldwin and Mel Ramsden, and the critic Charles Harrison
Art & Language lives and works near Branbury, Oxfordshire, UK
Michael Baldwin
1945
- Born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK
Mel Ramsden
1944
- Born in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, UK
Charles Harrison
2009
- Died in Banbury, Oxforshire, UK
1942
- Born in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
- Picasso's Guernica in the Style of Jackson Pollock / A Shadow on the Tongue, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2019
- Devinera qui pourra (Figure it out who can), Gallerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
- Kangaroo?, Milani Gallery, Brisbane
2017
- Ten Posters: Illustration for Art-Language, Centre de Creation Contemporaine Olivier Debre, Tours, France
- Nobody Spoke, Kunstaele, Berlin, Germany
2016
- Not what is needed now, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Soute, Belgium
2014
- Nobody Spoke, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Uncompleted, Museum d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Made in Zurich: Art & Language Editions 1966-71, Bernard Jordan Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
- Letters to the Red Krayola, Galerie Kadel Willborn, Dusselforf, Germany; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium; Garage Cosmos, Brussels, Belgium
- The Hut Project Painting with Art & Language, blip blip blip, Leeds, UK
2012
- Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
2011
- Official Squares Again, Galerie Frita Insam, Vienna, Austria
- Portraits and a Dream, Lisson Gallery, London, UK; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2009
- Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
- Recent Works, Espacio Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain
- Works on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzberg, Austria
2008
- Brouillages/Blurrings: Works on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
- Works 1965-1978, 2007-2008, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
2007
- Distrito Cu4tro, Galerie de Arte, Madrid, Spain
- Now They Are Surroundered: Reconfigured, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
2006
- Il ne reste qu'a chanter, Galerie de l'Erban, Nantes, France/Château de la Bainerie, Tiercé, France
2005
- Hard to Say When, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Now They Are Surrounded, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe Germany; Guidhall Art Gallery, London, UK
- Gallerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
2004
- Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
- Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga, Spain
2003
- Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
- What Work Does the Artwork Do?, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
2002
- Too Dark to Read: Motifs Rétrospectifs, Lille Métropole Musée d'art modern d'art contemporain et d'art brut, Villeneuve-d'ascq, France
- Mother, Father, Monday, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2001
- 15 Essays, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
1999
- Art & Language in Practice, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
- Cinco Ensayos, Galería Juana de Aizpurur, Madrid, Spain
- The Artists Out of Work: Art & Language 1972-1981, PS1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York, NY, USA
- Three Essays, Galeria Grita Insam, Vienna, Australia und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
1998
- Sighs Trapped by Liars, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- Galerie Poo Poo, London, UK
1997
- Conceptual Art from 1966 to 1996, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
1996
- Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
- Galería Juana de Aispuru, Seville, Spain
- Sighs Trapped by Liars, Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1995
- Art & Language and Luhmann, Kunstraum, Vienna, Austria
1994
- Early Work 1965-1976; Recent Work 1991-1994, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Galeria Juana de Aispuru, Madrid, Spain
1993
- Galerie nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
1992
- Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
- Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
1991
- Hostage Paintings: The Dark Series, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Hostage Paintings: 1987-1991, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, UK; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
- Hostages, Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
- The British School of Rome, Rome, Italy
1990
- Hostages XXIV-XXXV, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989
- Hostaged, Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
1987
- Index: Incidents in a Museum, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- The Paintings, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
- Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1986
- Confessions: Incidents in a Museum, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Index: An Incident in a Museum, Galerie de Paris, Paris, France
1985
- Studies for the Studio at 3 Wesley Place, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1983
- Index: Studio at 3 Wesley Place I, II, III, IV, Gewad, Ghent, Belgium
- Index: Studio at 3 Wesley Place, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
- Index: Studio at 3 Wesley Place (Illuminated by an Explosion Nearby), VII, VIII, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria; Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1982
- Index: Studio at 3 Wesley Place Painted by Mouth, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, Netherlands
- Musée d'Art de Toulon, Toulon, France
1981
- Gustave Courbet's "Burial at Ornans: Expressing ..., Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
- Portraits of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Jan Sack, Antwerp, Belgium
1980
- Portraits of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Lisson Gallery, London, UK; University Gallery, Leeds, UK
1978
- Gallerie Association, Nice, France
- Flags for Organisations, Cultureel Informatief Centrum, Ghent, Belgium; Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1977
- Illustrations for Art-Language, Robert Self Gallery, London, UK
- Music-Language, Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome, Italy and Naples, Italy
- Robert Self Gallery, London, UK
1975
- New York – Australia, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Foksal Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
- Dialectical Materialism, Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
- Galerie Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Paris, France
- Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium
- Music-Language, Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France
- Piggy-Cur-Perfect, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
- Music-Language, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1974
- Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
- Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
- Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich, Switzerland Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
- Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium
- Art & Language 1966–1975, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK Studentski Kulturni Centar, Belgrade, Serbia
1973
- Cologne, Germany Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Annotations, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
‘Index 002 Bxal’, John Webber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1972
- The Air-Conditioning Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- The Art & Language Institute, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
- Documenta Memorandum (Indexing), Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
- Analytical Art, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1971
- Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris,
- France Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
- Tape Show: Exhibition of Lectures, Dain Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Questionnaire, Galleria Daniel Templon, Milan, Italy
1969
- Pinacotheca Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1968
- Vat ’68, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK
- Dematerialisation Show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
1967
- Hardware Show, Architectural Association, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
- Guernica, Musee Picasso, Paris, France
2017
- Economic values / museum values, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
2016
- LSD, Rob Tufnell, Koln, Germany
- Performer / Audience / Mirror, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Art & Language and Ilya Kabakov: The Non-Objective World’, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Rhona Hoffman 40 Years, Part 1’, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
- ‘Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964-1979’, Tate Britain, London, UK
- ‘Sighs Trapped by Liars: Language in Art’, Künstlerhaus Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
2015
- ‘IMAGINARY AUDIENCE SCALE’, Artspace, Newton, New Zealand
- ‘Hotel Theory’, Gallery at The Redcat, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2014
- ‘Propogandafur die Wirklichkeit’, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
- ‘Before Normal: Concept After Concept’, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskkilde, Denmark
- ‘Musée à vendre pour cause de faillité: Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation and Mumok in Dialogue’, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
- ‘Crosswords 2’, Jordan Seydoux, Berlin, Germany
2013
- Critical Episodes (1957-2011): Content becomes something to be avoided like a plague: The Art of the First Globalisation, Museum d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Bookhouse: La Forma del Libro, Museum delle Arti di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, Italy
- Lunch with Olympia, Edgewood Galleries, New Haven, CT, USA
- Secret Code, Galerie Luisa Strina, São Paolo, Brazil
- Nostalgic for the Future, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- Signs on the Road: A Group Exhibition at CAC Malaga, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
- B.A.B.E.- The Best Artists Books and Editors, Immanence, Paris, France
- The Meditteranean Experience: The Meditererranean as a Spatial Paradigm for the Circulation of Ideas and Meaning, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
- Propos d'Europe 11: La Plasticte du Langage, Foundation Hippocrene, Paris, France
- Contra Tapies, Fundacion Antoni Tapie, Barcelona, Spain
2012
- ‘Focus: Charles Harrison as Curator’, Tate Britain, London, UK
- ‘Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957–2012, Hayward Gallery, London, UK Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Goshka Macuga: Kabinett der Abstrakten (after El Lissitzky), 2003’, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
- ‘Deep Cuts’, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
- ‘The Avantgarde: Deep Cuts’, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands
- ‘Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art’, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
2011
- ‘Homo Economics’, MD72, Berlin, Germany; Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Erre, Variations labyrinthiques’, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
- ‘A Monument to Radical Instants’, Virreina Centre de la Image, Barcelona, Spain
2010
- ‘Animism’, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
- ‘Double Bind/Arretez d’essayer de me comprendre!’, Villa Arson, Nice
- ‘Animism’, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- ‘Mirror, Mirror: Then and Now’, The Anne & Gordon Museum of Art, Adelaide, Australia
- ‘Algumas Obras a Ler – Colecção Eric Fabre’, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
- ‘Seconde main’, Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Paris, France
- ‘Breaking Point: Kathryn Bigelow’s Life in Art’, Castillo/Corrales, Paris, France
2009
- ‘Planet of Signs – Concrete Erudition’, FRAC Île-de-France, Paris, France
- ‘Lisson Presents 5’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- ‘That’s All Folks!’, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
- ‘Lisson Presents 7’, Lisson Gallery, London
- ‘Mirror, Mirror: Then and Now’, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia ‘Schere, Stein, Papier’, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Switzerland
- ‘Sculpture Show’, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
- ‘Sound of Music’, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK
- ‘1968: Die Grobe Unschuld’, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
- ‘A Mancha Humana’, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- ‘Voids: A Retrospective’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- ‘Lisson Presents 1’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Vivre l’art’, Collection Venet, Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux
2008
- ‘Feelgood Things’, Muller Muller Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
- ‘Brussels Biennial 1’, Brussels Biennial, Brussels, Belgium
- ‘Muzej u senci’, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
- ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967’, Musée d’art contemporaine de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
- ‘Der Garten der Pfade, die sich verzweigen’, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris,
France
- ‘Présence Panchounette’, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
- ‘Peripheral Vision and Collective body’, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
- ‘Group Show 2008’, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
- ‘Based on Paper: The Marzona Collection’, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
- ‘guess who's coming’, Mirta Demare, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- ‘Sound of Music’, Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
- ‘Art Metropole: The Top 100’, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
2007
- Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- ‘For Sale’, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
- ‘Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967’, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
- ‘Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2006
- ‘Public Space/Two Audiences: Works and Documents from the Herbert Collection’, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;
- Kunsthaus, Graz, Graz, Austria
- ‘Intouchable: L’Idéal Transparence’, Cente national d’art contemporain, Nice, France
- ‘Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples 1960 to Now’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
2005
- ‘Radical and Modest’, Ben Uri Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Cram Sessions 03 Sound Politics’, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MA, USA
- ‘Collective Creativity’, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- ‘The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds’, Rekald, Bilbao, Spain
- ’50 Years of Documenta 1955–2005’ Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
- ‘Wall Works: Robert Barry, Art & Language, Lawrence Weiner’, Mulier
Mulier
Gallery, Knokke, Belgium - ‘A Brief History of Invisible Art’, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
- ‘Made for this World: Contemporary Art and the Places We Build’, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
- ‘Re:Modern’, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
- ‘BIG BANG’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2004
- ‘Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon’, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- ‘ID Troubles’, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Germany
- ‘N(e)orretratos’, Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
- ‘Before the End (The Last Painting Show)’, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA
2003
- ‘Glad that Things Don’t Talk’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- ‘John Russell Presents: Frozen Tears’, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Individual Systems’, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- ‘What Am I Doing Here? (A Political Exhibition)’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Wittgenstein – Family Likenesses’, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, UK
- ‘Adorno’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2002
- ‘Shoot The Singer: Music on Video’, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA
- ‘Iconoclash’, Zentrum füur Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
- ‘Conceptual Art 1965–1975 from Dutch and Belgium Collections’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- ‘Art & Language Paints a Picture’, Theater der Welt, Festivalzentrum, Bonn, Germany
- ‘Kunst Nach Kunst’, Neue Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
- ‘Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst in the 20th Century’, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
- ‘Sans Commune Mesure’, Centre de la photographie, Paris, France; Musée d’art Moderne de Lille Métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France; Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
2001
- ‘Conception: Conceptual Documents 1968–72’, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK; Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK; Chisendale Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965–75’, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal
2000
- ‘Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965–75’, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Many Coloured Objects placed side by side to form a row of Many Coloured Objects’, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- ‘British Art Show 5’, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (Hayward Gallery touring exhibition)
1999
- ‘Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s–1980s’, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Arrested Ambition’, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Get Together: Kunst Als Teamwork’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
- ‘The 1999 East Wing Collection’, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
1998
- ‘Odradek’, Bard College, New York, NY, USA
- ‘L’envers du décor: Dimensions décoratives dans l’art du XXe siècle’, Lille Métropole Musée d’art modern d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
- ‘Then and Now’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Ce qu’il te plait’, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
- ‘The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966– 1976’, Camerawork, London, UK
- ‘Magic der Zahl in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts’, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
- Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
- ‘Musterwohen’, Hofgarten am Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin, Germany
- ‘Livres d’artistes: L’invention d’un genre 1960–1980’, Galerie Mansart, Paris, France
1995
- ‘British Art of the 1980s & 1990s: Works from the Weltkunst Collection’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
- ‘From Here’, Waddington Galleries and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Les fragments du désir’, Futur Musée des Instruments, Brussels, Belgium
- ‘Toponimias (8) Ohos Ideas del Espacio’, Fundación ‘La Caixa’, Madrid, Spain
- ‘Reconsidering the Oject of Art 1965–1975’, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
1994
- ‘The Ideal Place III’, Haags Centrum voor Aktuele Kunst, The Hague, Netherlands
- ‘Answer Machine Project: 50 x 50 x 50’, London, UK
1993
- ‘Arena Des Privaten’, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
- ‘Looking at Seeing and Reading’, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- ‘Out of Sight Out of Mind’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1992
- ‘Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art’, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
- ‘Travaux d’Artistes’, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, France
- ‘The Cutting Edge’, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK ‘Repeticion/Transformacion’, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
- ‘La Freccia Evolutiva dell’Irreversibilitá’, Studio Oggetto, Milan, Italy
- ‘Le Sens Figuré: FRAC ’Île-de-France 1991–1992’, Centre international d’art contemporain de Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Centre Culturel de Pierrefonds, Pierrefonds, Canada; Galerie Les Trois C, LaSalle, Canada; Maison de la Culture Cote-des-Neiges, Montreal, Canada; Studio A, Montreal, Canada
- ‘1968’, L’Usine, Dijon, France
- ‘Now They Are’, Grita Insam Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1991
- ‘Inheritance and Transformation: Selected Works and New Projects’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1990
- ‘Team Spirit’, Neuberger Museum, New York, NY, USA; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA; The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA; Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, USA; Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA, USA; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA (organised by Independent Curators International)
- ‘Rhetorical Image’, New Museum, New York City, NY, USA
- ‘Glasgow’s Great British Art Exhibition’, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, UK
- ‘Approaches to Realism’, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK; Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK; Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington, UK
- ’65–75 Aspetti e Pratiche dell’ Arte Europea’, Castello di Rivara, Turin, Italy
- ‘Art Conceptuel, Formes Conceptuelles’, Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, France
- ‘Rhetorical Image’, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
1989
- ‘L’art conceptual, une perspective’, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France; Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
- ‘Words’, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Jet Lag’, Turon Travel Inc., New York, NY, USA
- ‘Sans titre 1989’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- ‘The Situationist International, 1957–1972’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
1988
- ‘The Analytical Theatre: New Art from Britain’, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA; Alberta College of Art, Calgary; University Art Museum California State University, Long Beach; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA (organised by the Independent Curators International) ‘British Art: The Literate Link’, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- ‘Art Conceptuel 1’, Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
- ‘Starlit Waters’, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
- ‘Something Solid: Re-using Art from the Past’, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
1987
- ‘Perverted by Language’, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, NY, USA
- ‘British Art of the Twentieth Century: The Modern Movement’, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
- ‘Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the ‘80s’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
- ‘British Art of the 1980s’, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
- ‘Minimal Art, Conceptul Art, Narrative Art, Art & Language’, Galerie Christian Cheneau, Paris, France
1986
- ‘Prospekt 86’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1984
- 5th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- ‘1965–1972 When Attitudes Became Form’, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
- ‘L’Architecte est absent: Works from the collection of Annick and Anton Herbert’, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA
- ‘The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979–1984’, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery/Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield, UK; Southhampton, UK (Arts Council of Great Britain touring exhibition)
1983
- ‘New Art’, Tate Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Masterworks of Conceptual Art’, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
- L’arte povera, l’art conceptual et les mythologies individuelles en Europe’, Musée d ́art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1982'
- Aspects of British Art Today’, Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- ‘Mannerism: A Theory of Culture’, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
- Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1981
- ‘Summer Group Show’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1980
- ‘Kunst in Europa na ‘68’, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1979
- ‘Un Certain Art Anglais’, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France ‘Languages’, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, UK
1978
- ‘Poster-Work’, Belgrade Museum, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
- ‘Group Show’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- ‘Le disque, médium artistique: du futurisme à l’art conceptuel’, Musée d ́art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1977
- 'Lisson Gallery’, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Radical Attitudes to the Gallery’, Art Net, London, UK
- ‘Ils donnent leur sang: donnez votre travail’ (mural), Eldon Square Shopping Centre, Newcastle, UK
1976
- 'Drawing Now’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Arte Inglese oggi 1960–76’, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
- ‘Sculptor’s Drawings’, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY, USA
- 37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
- ‘New Work/New York’, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1974
- ‘L’Art au Present’, Palais Galliera, Paris, France
- ‘Projekt ’74’, Kunsthalle Köln/Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
- ‘Kunst uber Kunst’, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
- ‘New York Art & Language’, Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
- ‘Summer Group Show’, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Report from SoHo’, Gray Gallery, New York University, New York, NY, USA
1973
- ‘Einige Frume Beispiele Konzeptueller Kunst Analytischen Charakters’, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
- ‘Contemporanea’, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
1972
- ‘Conceptual Art’, Gallery of the Students’ Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Y ugoslavia
- ‘Los Encuentros de Pamplona’, Pamplona, Spain ‘Konzept Kunst’, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- 'De Europa’, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
- ‘The New Art’, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1971
- ‘The British Avant-Garde’, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY, USA
- 7th Biennale des Jeunes, Parc Floral de Paris, Paris, France
- ‘El arte como idea en Inglaterra’, Centro de Arte y Comunicación, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- ‘The Boardwalk Show’, Atlantic City, NJ, USA
- ‘Taal-Kunst: een faset van Konseptuele Kunst’, Utrecht, Netherlands
- ‘Arte Conceptuale’, Galleria Daniel Templon, Milan, Italy
- ‘Art Systems’, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- ‘Art as Idea’, Victoria & Albert Museum Circulation Department, London, UK
1970
- ‘Art in the Mind’, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, USA
- ‘Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects’, New York, Cultural Centre, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Information’, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Language IV’, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- ‘Idea Structures’, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
- ‘Summer Show’, Studio International, London, UK
- ‘Concept-Théorie’, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1969
- ‘March’ (catalogue-show), Seth Sieglaub, New York, NY, USA
- Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, USA
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada
- ‘557, 087’, Seattle, WA, USA ‘955, 000’, Vancouver, Canada
1968
- ‘Language II’, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Collections
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
- Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
- Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain
- Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
- Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
- FRAC Haute Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France
- FRAC Languedoc Rousillon, Montpellier, France
- FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
- Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA, USA
- Les Abattoirs, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Toulouse, France
- Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
- Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
- Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
- Lille Métropole Musée d’art modern d’art contemporain et d’art brut, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
- Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, Austria
- Musée des Arts Contemporains de la Communauté Français, Grand-Hornu, Belgium
- Musée d’art moderne Saint-Etienne Metropole, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, USA
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
- Tate Collection, London, UK
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
