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Gilbert and George Biography
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1942 |
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Born George Passmore in Plymouth, UK
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1943 |
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Born Gilbert Prousch in St. Martin in Thurn, Italy
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Met and studied at St Martin's School of Art, London, UK
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1984 |
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Shortlisted for Turner Prize
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1986 |
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Winner of the Turner Prize
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Honorary Degree in Philosophy, London Metropolitan University, London, UK
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Jack Freak Pictures, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
White Cube, London, UK (solo)
Galerie Baronian Francey, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Gegen den Strich. 15 Jahre Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
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2008
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Gilbert & George, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Gilbert & George, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
Gilbert & George, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (solo)
Gilbert and George, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Fransisco, CA (solo)
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2007
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The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
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 Art, London, UK
INTO ME / OUT OF ME Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, UK;Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
Gilbert & George – works from the collection, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Denmark (solo)
Gilbert & George. Selected works from the 80s, Faggionato Fine Art, London, UK (solo)
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2006
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SONOFAGOD Pictures Was Jesus Heterosexual?, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Germany; White Cube, London, UK (solo)
Interventions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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, Graz, Austria
Handsome, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
Eye on Europe - Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Internazionale XII Biennale di Scultura di Carrara Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
Into me / Out of me P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY
LACMA at 40: Gifts in Honor of the Museum’s Anniversary, Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
E-Flux Video Rental, Arthouse at the Jones Center - Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX
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2005
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Gilbert & George, British Pavilion, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
20 London E1 Pictures, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (solo)
Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Superstars - from Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Open Systems - Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, UK
Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
The giving person, PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples, Italy
The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
Faltering Flame, Shefffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Sheffield, UK
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2004
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The Perversive Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Thirteen Hooligan Pictures, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece (solo)
20 London E1 Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; Modern Art Museum, St Etienne, France (solo)
Puzzle, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence, Italy
Monument to Now. Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Video et Cogito, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands, UK
Head to Head, Tate Modern, London, UK
Turning Points - 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Treasure Island: 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
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2003
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Gilbert and George, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Gilbert & George, Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands (solo)
Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/videogalerie schum, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Narcissus - New Visions on Self-Representation, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium
Social Strategies - Redefining social realism, Illinois State University, Normal, Il
Dreams and Conflicts:The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Journey to Now - John Kaldor Art Projects & Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
PROJECTION, Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Photo - Kunst - 1852 – 2002, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Het kunstenaarsboek als wetenschappelijke bron, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
From Broodthaers to Horn. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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2002
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The Dirty Words Pictures, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Nine Dark Pictures, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
The Art of Gilbert & George, Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Gilbert & George: A Retrospective, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria; School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece (solo)
From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
RETROSPECTACLE: 25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Real Life, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
Warhol to Koons: International Contemporary Art from a Private Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Weston Link, Edinburgh, Scotland
Public Affairs, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
On General Release, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2001
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Gilbert & George, Chateau d’Arenthon Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Alex, France (solo)
On General Release, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
New Horny Pictures, White Cube2, London, UK (solo)
Gilbert & George. Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
The Art of Gilbert and George, The Factory, Athens School of Art,, Athens, Greece (solo)
Gilbert and George - The Tuileries, an eight-part charcoal on paper sculpture, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, The Netherlands (solo)
Museum voor oude en moderne kunst, Enschede, The Netherlands (solo)
Shortcuts, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Nothing in the Main Hall, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
Nothing, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
Nothing, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
Nothing, Contemporary Art Center Vilnius (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
Imago Mundi, capc Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Hypermental - Wahnhafte Wirklichkeit 1950 - 2000 - Von Salvador Dali bis Jeff Koons, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Echoes of the Scream, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
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2000
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Gilbert & George, Parkhaus, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
Zig-Zag Pictures 2000, FIAC, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
MM 2000; Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France (solo)
Gilbert & George 1991 to 1997, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Ireland (solo)
Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Out There, White Cube 2, Hoxton Square, London, UK
The Rudimentary Pictures, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Enclosed and Enchanted, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Man – Body in Art from 1950 to 2000, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Skovvej, Denmark
Dream Machines, Dundee Contemporary Arts - DCA, Dundee, Scotland
Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL
5e Biennale de Lyon - Partage dexotismes, La biennale dart contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France
Seeing Time, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
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1999
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Gilbert & George 1970-1988, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway (solo)
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Nineteen Ninety Nine, 1999, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (solo)
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1998
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Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
New Testamental Pictures, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy (solo)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
Black White and Red 1971 to 1980, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1997
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The Fundamental Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gilbert & George: Art for All 1971 – 1992, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Gilbert & George Art, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
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1995 - 1996
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The Naked Shit Pictures, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Gilbert & George Retrsospective, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (solo)
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1995
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The Singing Sculpture, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (solo)
The Naked Shit Pictures, South London Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Gilbert & George, Galerie Nikolas Sonne, Berlin, Germany (solo)
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1994
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Gilbert & George, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gilbert & George, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland (solo)
The Naked Shit Pictures, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne, Germany (solo)
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1993
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National Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
Shanghai Art Museum, China (solo)
The Cosmological Pictures, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK (solo)
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1992
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Gemeenstemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
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1991
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Gilbert & George, Gramo Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium (solo)
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (solo)
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1990
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Twenty-Five Worlds By Gilbert & George, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gilbert & George Post-Card Sculptures and Ephemera 1969-1981, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (solo)
The New Cosmological Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery, New York , NY (solo)
Galerie Langer Fain, Paris, France (solo)
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1989
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Gilbert & George: Postcard Sculptures, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
The 1988 Pictures, Christian Stein Gallery, Milan, Italy (solo)
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1988
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The 1988 Pictures, Ascan Crone Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany (solo)
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1987
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Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, Palacio de Valazquez, Parque del Reitrio, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Gilbert & George New Pictures, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1986
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Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures 1971 - 1985, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France (solo)
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1984
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The Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (solo)
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1983
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New Works, Crousel-Hussenot Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
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1981
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Centre National d'Art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1971 - 1972
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Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1968
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Bacon 32, Allied Servies, London, UK (solo)
Christmas Show, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Torino, Italy
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
National Museums, Liverpool, UK
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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| Literature |
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2002
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Gilbert & George An Exhibition, Bregenz: Kunsthaus, 2002 (catalogue)
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1998
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Gilbert and George: New Testamental Pictures. Paris, France: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 1998 (catalogue)
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| Links to further information |
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