JOHN MURPHY
Born in 1945, St Albans, England
Lives in London
BIOGRAPHY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Between the Acts, Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat)
... the stench of shit ..., Galerie Erna Hecey, Bruxelles
2005
...Mirror, Sleeper, Edinburgh
Up or Down it's All the Same: In Gent or Venice, Het Kabinet, Gent
2004-2005
And Things Trow Light of Things, Ikon Gallery and Barber Institute,
Birmingham (exh cat)
2004
Something for the Eye, The Regency Town House, Hove
2003
Of Voyages, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
1999
The Way Up and The Way Down, Sounthampton City Art Gallery and Museum,
Southampton (exh cat)
1998
A Different Constellation, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
On the Incline of Our Tongue, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg
1997
Villa Arson, Nice (exh cat)
1996
Lisson Gallery, London
A Portrait of the Artist as a Deafman, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (exh cat)
Navigating in Madness, Galerie de Luxembourg, Luxembourg (exh cat)
1992
Remains To Be Seen, Project Room, John Weber Gallery, New York
No Representation, No Intention, No Trace, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
The Sense of Resemblance, Lisson Gallery, London
The Tone That Calls the Song, Galerie Bruges la Morte, Bruges
1991
Inaugural Violence, Christine Burgin and John Weber Galleries, New York
1990
Silent Vertigo, Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat)
1989
Phoenix, Sagitta, Horologium, Reticulum, Libra, Ursa Major, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (exh cat)
Instruments of Attack, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Galerie Marga Paz, Madrid
1987-1988
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (exh cat)
1985
Stuck in the Milky Way, Lisson gallery, London (exh cat)
1984
Beyond the Fixing of Appearances, Serpentine gallery, London
1983
The Nocturnal Inscription Represents..., Vereniging voor het Museum van
Hedendaagste Kunst, Gent
1982
(D)(E)(L)(T)(A), The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
1981
John Murphy, Art Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast (exh cat)
1980
Lesson of Money, Art Projects, Melbourne
Objects of Desire, Piwna, Warsaw
1979
Desire not Geometry, Barry Barker Gallery, London
1978
Galerie Arno Kohnen, Düsseldorf
1977
The Work of Art Is...A.J.J.M., Barry Barker Gallery, London
1976
Nature Morte, Collected Works, The New Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1975
Selected Works, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1973
Jack Wendler Gallery, London
1972
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1971
Serpentine Gallery, London
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
The Starry Messenger : Visions of The Universe, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
2005
Cantos, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg (exh cat)
Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten / 2, Erna Hecey Gallery, Brussels
I Wish..., Engholm, Engelhorn Galerie, Wien
2002
Stanze del cammino di mezzo, curated by Rita selvaggio, Casa Masaccio,
San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
Le Regard de l'Autre. Dialogue entre les collections du Frac- Normandie et du
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
2001
East Wing Collection No. 05 Looking With/Out, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Nouveau Regard, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes
2000
Aquisitions from the late 90's, Tate Britain, London
Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
A Shot in Head, Lisson Gallery, London
1999
Larmes Blanches, Hommage à James Lee Byars, FRAC Haute-Normandie,
Sauttevile / Lès Rouen, France
1998
A Conversation Piece, with Juliâo Sarmento, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (exh cat)
1997
A Vendre, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg
1995
Das Abenteuer Der Malerei, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen,
Düsseldorf and Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart (exh cat)
1994
Paula Rego, John Murphy, Avis Newman, Saatchi Gallery, London (exh cat)
1993
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London
The sublime Void, On the Memory of the Imagination, Koninklinjk Museum voor Schone-Kunsten, Antwerp, (exh cat)
New Painting', Chapter, Cardiff
Paintings From the Saatchi Collection, Mead Gallery
1992
Les Collections du Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain des Pays de la Loire
au Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
Drawings, Galerie Bruges la Morte, Bruges
1991
John Weber Gallery, New York
Les Couleurs de l'argent, Musée de la Poste, Paris, (exh cat)
Rimbaud Centenary Exhibition, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
1990
Four British Artists, John Weber Gallery, New York
Now for the Future. Purchases for the Arts Council Collection since 1984,
Hayward Gallery, London
DE PICTURA, Galerie Bruges la morte, Bruges (exh cat)
1989
Blasphemies, Ecstasies, Cries, Serpentine Gallery, Norwich (exh cat)
Unstable Universe, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
British Art: The Literate Link, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles (exh cat)
Something Solid, The Cornerhouse, Manchester (exh cat)
Vanitas, Norwich School of Art Gallery, Norwich (exh cat)
1987-1988
Quatrièmes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire, abbaye Royale de Fontevraud
(exh cat) (travelled to PARC, Nantes; Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie, Roche-Sur-Yvon;
Palais des Congrès, Mans; Palais des Congrès, Saint-Jean-De-Monts; Office Social et
Culturel, Château-Gontier)
The Analytical Theatre: New Art from Britain, (organized by Independent Curators Incorporated,
New York) (exh) (travelled to The Akron Art Museum, Ohio; Alberta College of Art Gallery,
Alberta; University Art Museum, California; Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia)
Made in London, Jack Shainman Gallery, Washington DC, and New York
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Lisson Gallery, London
1986
Falls the Shadow. Recent British and European Art. The Hayward Annual,
Hayward Gallery, London (organized by The Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat)
Aperto 86, XLII Biennale di Venizia, Venice (exh cat)
Ooghoogte van Abbemuseum 1936-1986, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (exh cat)
1985
L'Indifférent, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (exh cat)
Who's Afrid of Red, Yellow and Blue, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (exh cat)
1984-1985
The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984,
(organized by The Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat) (travelled to city of
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Royal
Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Southampton Art
Gallery, Southampton)
1984
Trough the Summer, Lisson Gallery, London
Lili Dujourie, John Murphy, Jan Vercruysse, Lisson Gallery, London
1982
British Drawing, Hayward gallery, London (exh cat)
Collazione Inglese, Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice (exh cat)
1981
The Second Internatinal Drawing Triennale, Wroclaw, Poland (exh cat)
Trough the Summer, Lisson Gallery, London
1980
British Art 1940-80, Hayward Gallery, London
1979
Lang'uages, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (selected by Rudi H. Fuchs)
(organized by The Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat)
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (organized by the Vereniging voor het Museum
van Hedendaagse Kunst) (exh cat)
Europa 79. Kunst der 80er Jahre, IX Internationale Künstlerkongress, Stuttgart
(exh cat)
Künstlerbücher, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern
1978-1979
The Mechanised Image,
(organized by the arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat)
(travelled to Portmouth Museum and Art Gallery; Sheffield Graves Art Gallery ;
Ferins Art Gallery, Hull; Camden Arts Centre, London; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle,
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen and Ulster Museum, Belfast)
Art:-Museum des Geldes, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (exh cat)
(travelled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris)
1977-1979
Artists books, (organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat)
(travelled to Brighton University, Sussex ; Arnolfini, Bristol; Institue of
Contempory Art, London; Ferins Art Gallery, Hull; Ibis Gallery,
Leamington Spa and Turpike Gallery, Leigh)
1976
Eight British Artists, C A Y C, Buenos Aires
1975
Contemporary Art Society Recent Acquisitions, Gulbenkian Hall,
Royal College of Art Gallery, London
1974
Tables, Garage Art Limited, London
1972
Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (exh cat)
1971
London now in Berlin, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (exh cat)
1969
Younger Generaion, (travelled to Washington, Philadelphia, Houston)
Big Painting for Public Places, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1968
Young Contemporaries, Royal Institute Galleries, London (exh cat)
1966
Young Contemporaries, F.B.A. Galleries, London (exh cat)
1965
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