Education
John Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London, graduating with a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 1973.
John Stezaker attended the Slade School of Art in London, graduating with a Higher Diploma in Fine Art in 1973.
In the early 1970s, he was among the first wave of British conceptual artists to react against what was then the predominance of People’s art Solo exhibitions have been rare, however, in the mid-2000s, Stezaker"s work was rediscovered by the art market. He is now collected by several international collectors and museums.
His work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropriation of pre-existing images such as postcards, film stills, and publicity photographs.
Art historian Julian Stallabrass said, "The contrast at the heart of these works is not between represented and real, but between the unknowing primitives of popular culture, and the conscious, ironic artist and viewer of post-modern images." One work included in an exhibition at Salama-Caro Gallery, London, in 1991, depicted an image of a punch clock together with the caption "Why Spend Time on an Exhibition Like This?" Colin Gleadell wrote in The Daily Telegraph in 2007 that Stezaker "is now being hailed as a major influence on the Young British Art movement." Until 2006, Stezaker was Senior Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London. He is represented in London by The Approach Gallery.
Solo exhibitions Works, 1969–1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London, 1970 Beyond Art for Art’s Sake: a Propus Mundus, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, 1972 The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, 1973 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, 1973. Galerie Decembre, Munster, 1974 Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome, 1974 Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, 1974 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, 1975 Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, 1975 Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, 1976 Trois Oeuvres, Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, 1976 Dream Allegories.
John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977.
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, 1977 Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, 1977 Schema Gallery, Florence, 1977 Spectro Arts, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 1977 Fragments, Photographers" Gallery, London, 1978 Collages, 1977–1978, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 1978 Southampton City Museum, Southampton, United Kingdom, 1978 Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris, 1979 Werke 1973-1978, Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, 1979.
