Born 1933 in Haslemere, Surrey, England. Lives and works in London.


Exile Exhibitions

2012 Stuart Brisley (solo)
2012 Art Brussels (with Jo-ey Tang)
2011 Document Performance (group)
2010 Measurement and Division (solo)

Select Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2012
Next Door (the missing subject), PEER, London

2011
Stuart Brisley, Algus Greenspon, New York
Ending Imperfect – A Provisional Title (Performance), SOLO, Modern Art Oxford

2010
Measurement and Division, Exile, Berlin
Next Door (The missing subject), PEER, London

2009
Stuart Brisley: Recent Works, England & Co, London
Crossings, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and Tallinn City Art Gallery, Estonia

2006
Stuart Brisley 1958-2006, England & Co, London

2002
The Collection of Ordure, Freud Museum, London
Relics of the Old Decency: Objects, Artefacts, Art
Project Art Centre, Dublin (In association with the Refuse Operators in Dublin, Ireland)

1997
Flannan’s Room, London

1996
Helsinki Vanitas, Museum of Modern Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland
Black, South London Gallery, London

1993
Stuart Brisley, Galerie Voges – Deisen, Frankfurt

1991
Anonyme, Central Space, London

1989
Red Star and Black Crown, The Showroom, London
The Cenotaph Project (1987-1990), St Cuthbert’s Village, Gateshead; Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge; Jura Building, Dean Clough, Halifax; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow; Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff; Orchard Gallery, Derry(with Maya Balcioglu)

1987
The Georgiana Collection, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; Orchard Gallery; Arts Council Gallery, Belfast; Serpentine Gallery, London; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

1983
Tanzen im Gehege, Sculpture Museum Marl, Kunst Museum Dusseldorf; Kunstverein Köln; Kunstverein Münster, Germany
1=666,666, Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London

1982
Stuart Brisley, Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris

1981
Touching Class, Acme Gallery, London
Leaching Out at the Intersection, Stuart Brisley: A Retrospective, ICA, London; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Spacex Gallery, Exeter

1979
Between, De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (with Iain Robertson)

1977
The Peterlee Project, Peterlee New Town, County Durham

1976
Weather Work, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

1975
Moments of Decision/Indecision, Teatr Studio, Palac Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw

1973
10 Days, Editions Paramedia, West Berlin  

1968
Unofficial Action, Tate Gallery

1967
Chair Project, Speakers Corner, London

1961
Stuart Brisley, Studio F, Ulm

Select Group Exhibitions and Performances

2012
Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European collections, 1956–1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

2011
United Enemies. The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Soft Machines, The Pace Gallery, NY
The Museum Show, Arnolfini, Bristol
Modern British Sculpture, Royal Academy, London
British Art 1500–2011, Tate Britian, London
Goodbye London: Radical Art and Politics in the Seventie, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e. V, Berlin Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst, Dresden

2010
This Could Happen to You: Ikon in the 1970s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Super Farmer’s Market, Handel Street Projects, London
Modern Times: Responding to Chaos, Kettles Yard, Cambridge; De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill

2009
100 Years, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Poetry Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London
In the Act of Drawing, Vivid, Birmingham

2008
John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; SPACE, London
The Last Breath
Kunstihoone Tallinn, Estonia

2007
This Will Not Happen Without You, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; Interface, Belfast

2006
European Performance Art Festival, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujadowski Castle, Warsaw
How to Improve the World : 6o Years of British Art from the ACGB Collection, Hayward Gallery, London
Important Mischief: British Sculpture from the 1960s and 70s, Henry Moore Institutes and Leeds City Art Gallery

2005
Whatever happened to Social Democracy?, Roosium, Malmö, Sweden

2004
Hortus, Liverpool Biennale

2003
Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst, Wolfsburg, Germany
Self Evident, Tate Britain

2002
A Short History of Performance, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

2001
Live in the Head, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museu do Chiado Lisbon Portugal

2000
Establishment of www.ordure. org. In collaboration with Adrian Ward and Geoffrey Cox

1999
Out of Actions, Between Performance and the Object 1949–79, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Arte u Acción 1949–79, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain
Out of Actions, Aktionismus, Body Art & Performances 1949–79, Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, Austria

1998
Darkly in Passing, The Cortical Foundation, Los Angeles  
Out of Actions, Between  Performance and the Object 1949–79, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Trash: Quando I Rifiuti Diventano Arte, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy 1997–98; Archivio del ‘900, Rovereto, Italy

1997
British Drawing, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

1996
Art au Corps, MAC, Galeries Contemporaines de Musee de Marseille, France

1995
25 years of British Sculpture, Serpentine Gallery, London

1993
The Sixties Art Scene in London, Barbican Art Gallery, London
From Hand to Foot to Mouth, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford

1992
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulieres, Musée d-Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

1991
Shocks to the System, Hayward Gallery, London; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Eastborne, Exeter, Plymouth and Ayr

1990
Great Britain USSR, The House of the Artist, Kiev; The Central House of the Artist, Moscow

1989
Matter of Facts: Photographie Art Contemporain en Grande-Bretagne, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France; Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France; Metz pour la Photographie, Caves Sainte-Croix, France

1987
From the Collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Artist in Residence, Imperial War Museum, London
British Art in the Twentieth Century, The Royal Academy, London; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

1985
From the Fourth to the Third World, Sao Paulo Biennale
The British Art Show, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Royal Exchange Building, Melbourne, Australia; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zeland

1984
The British Art Show, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham ; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield; Southampton Gallery
Being and Doing, BAFTA, London Film Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland; Montreal Film Festival, Canada

Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Exhibition, Camden Art Centre, London 1984
Minus One, Tate Gallery, London

1983
New Art, Tate Gallery, London
British Sound, Franklin Furnace, New York, USA

1982
Live to Air, Tate Gallery, London
Horizontal Walking and Vertical Lying, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada

1980
Approaches to the Audience, Mixage International, Lanteren Venster, Rotterdam; Culturell Centrum, t’Hooght, Utrecht, Netherlands
One and the Other in the Attic of Poverty, Parachute, Montreal, Canada

1979
Un Certain Art Anglais II, ARC, Musée d-art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France

1977
Survival in Alien Circumstances, Documenta 6, Kassel

1976
Lying, Standing, Walking and Talking, Recent International Forms in Art, Sydney Biennale
Hommage to the Commune
Arte Inglesi Oggi 1960-76,  Palazzo Reale Milan

1972
And For Today Nothing, Gallery House, London 
You Know It Makes Sense 2, Serpentine Gallery, London
Survey of the British Avant-garde Part 1, Gallery House, Goethe Institute London

1971
Surgical Minutes, Messehalle, West Berlin

1969
Keyll Gannicule, ICA, London

Selected Public Collections

Tate, London
The British Museum, London
Henry Moore Institute and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Arts Council of Great Britain
Stadtlisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Institut d'art Contemporain, Villeurbanne & Rhône-Alpes, France
Musee D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, France
Heine-Onstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Norway
Tallinn City Art Gallery, Estonia

Stuart Brisley's archive is held at the Tate Archive, London

Selected books and videos

Stuart Brisley / Crossings, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton 2008
The Peterlee Project, video published by Radix North East Collective, Stuart Brisley consultant, November 2005
Stuart Brisley, video within the series ‘the EYE’, Illuminations publishing, London 2004
Beyond Reason: Ordure, Stuart Brisley, Bookworks, London 2003
Everything Seemed Possible: Art in the 1970s, Richard Cork, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003
New Spirit, New Sculpture, New Money: Art in the 1980s, Richard Cork, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2003
Left Shift, Radical Art in 1970s Britain, John Walker, IB Tauris Publishers, London and New York 2002
The Collection of Ordure: Work by Stuart Brisley, Michael Newman, published by The Freud Museum, London 2002
The Artist`s Body, Tracey Warr and Amelia Jones, Phaidon Press Ltd 2000
Performance, Live Art Since the Sixties, Roselee Goldberg, Thames & Hudson 1998
L'Art au Corps: Le corps expose de Man Ray a nos jours, Musées de Marseilles, Reunion des Musées Nationaux, Marseilles 1996
Art into Theatre: Performance Interviews & Documents, Nick Kaye, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1996
The 20th Century Art Book, Phaidon, London 1996
1X & X Spotkania Krakowskie, Galeria Sztuki Wspolezesnej BWA, Krakow 1995
Avant Garde and After: Rethinking Art Now, Brandon Taylor, Harry N Abrams, New York 1995
The Sixties Art Scene in London, David Mellor, Phaidon, London 1993
Performance Ritual Prozess: Handbuch der Aktionskunst in Europa, Elisabeth Jappe, Prestel-Verlag, Munich and New York 1993
Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to Present, Daniel Wheeler, Thames and Hudson, London 1992
Selected Errors: Writing on Art & Politics, John Roberts, Pluto Press, London and Boulder, Colorado, 1992
The Cenotaph Project, Maya Balcioglu and Stuart Brisley, The Orchard Gallery, Derry Northern Ireland 1991
Art Speak, Robert Atkins, Abbeville Press, New York, 1990
L'Acte pour L'Art, A. Labelle-Rojoux, Editeurs Evidant, Paris 1988
Blickwechsel 25 Jahr Berliner Kunstlerprogram, Argon Verlag, West Berlin 1988
British Art Since 1900, Francis Spalding, Thames & Hudson, London1986
Encyclopedia of British Art, Gen Editor David Bindman, Thames & Hudson 1985
The Art of Performance, a Critical Anthology, eds. Gregory Battock and Robert Nickas, E P Dutton Inc, New York 1984
Performance Text(e)s & Documents, ed. Chantal Pontbriand, Les Editions Parachute, Montreal, Canada 1981
The Story of Modern Art, Norbert Lynton, Phaidon, Oxford 1980
Contemporary British Artists, ed. Charlotte Parry Cooke, London 1979
Performance, Live Art to the Present, Roselee Goldberg, Thames & Hudson, 1979
Contemporary British Artists, eds, Genesis P. Orridge and Colin Naylor, London and New York 1978
Galeria Teatru Studio, Zbiory Sztuki Wspolczesnej I Dokumentaja, Poland 1976
Peterlee Report, Stuart Brisley, Northern Arts, Newcastle 1976
Art Since Pop, John Walker, Thames & Hudson 1975
10 Days/10 Tage, Stuart Brisley, Editions Paramedia, Berlin 1974
Art Events and Happenings, Udo Kulturman, London 1971

Selected Catalogues

Modern British Sculpture, eds. Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson, Royal Academy of Arts, London 2011
Modern Times - responding to chaos, eds. Lutz Becker, David Elliott, Nick Wadley, Ian Boyd Whyte, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge 2010
This Could Happen To You, Ikon in the 1970s, Jonathan Watkins, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2010
Stuart Brisley Works 1958-2006, England & Co, London.
Live in Your Head, Concept and Experiment in Britain 1965-75, eds. Clive Philpot and Andrea Tarsia, The Whitechapel Gallery, London 2000.
Out of Actions: Between Performance & The Object 1949-79, Thames & Hudson London 1998
Trash: Quando i rifuiti deventano arte, The Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, 1997
Black: Stuart Brisley, South London Gallery, London 1996
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulaires, Musée D`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1992
13 Critics, 26 Fotografs, Centre D` Art Santa Monica Barcelona 1992
New Works for Different Places, TSWA Four Cities Project, TSWA Ltd 1990
British Art in the 20th Century, Prestel Verlag Munich & The Royal Academy, London 1987
The Georgiana Collection: Stuart Brisley, The Third Eye Centre Glasgow and the Orchard Gallery Derry, 1986
Dialogo Sobre Arte Contempanea, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 1985
The British Show, The Art Galley of New South Wales, Sydney 1985.
18 Biennal Internacional de Sao Paulo, Fundacao Biennal de Sao Paulo 1985
Nineteen Eighty-Four, Coracle Press for Camden Art Centre, London 1984
The British Art Show, Old Allegiances & New Directions, published by Orbis for the Arts Council of Great Britain 1984
Stuart Brisley – Performance, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1981
20 Live Projects, Stockholm, VAVD Editions, Stockholm 1981
Un Certain Art Anglais, Selection d`Artistes Britainiques 1970-79, Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1979
The Hayward Annual, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London 1977
Documenta 6 Kassel, 1977
Englische Kunst der Gegenwart, Bregenzer Kunst Austellungen Landhaupstad, Bregenz Kulturabteilung, 1977
Arte Inglesi Oggi, Electa Editrice Milano/Industie Grafiche Editoriali Spa Milano 1976
Recent International Forms in Art, The Biennale of Sydney 1976


For further information on Stuart Brisleyplease visit the artist's website: www.stuartbrisley.com