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Born
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1943
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Lives and works in London, England |
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1962-63
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‘The Ground Course’, Ealing School of Art |
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1965 to date
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Editor and publisher of Control Magazine |
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1972-73
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Director of ‘The Centre for Behavioural Art’, London, England |
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1979-80
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D.A.A.D. Fellowship, West Berlin, Germany |
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1990
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Convenor of the Symposium, ‘Art Creating Society’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
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1991
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‘Stephen Willats - Printed Archive’ established at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England |
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2003
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Convenor of the Seminars ‘Art Intervention’, Control Magazine at Vilma Gold, London, England |
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2006
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‘Multiple Clothing’ seminar and performance at Tate Modern, London, England |
Selected Solo Shows:
| 2010 | The World as it is and the World as it Could be, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
| 2009 | In and Out of the Underworld, European Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany |
| The Ideological Diagram / Stephen Willats, Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln, Germany | |
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Stephen Willats, Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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2008
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Social Interactions : Beth Campbell / Stephen Willats, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland (two person exhibition) |
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Democratic Mosaics and Conceptual Towers, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
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The Speculative Diagram, Casco Projects - Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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The Architecture of Stephen Willats, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany |
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2007
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Assumptions and Presumptions, Art on the Underground |
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Person to Person People to People, Milton Keynes Gallery, Central Milton Keynes, England |
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2006
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Going Home, (An Exhibition in 3 Chapters), MOT Gallery, London, England |
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How the World is and How it could be, Museum fur Gegenswartkunst Siegen, Siegen, Germany |
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From My Mind To Your Mind, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
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Publishing Interventions, Connor Donlon Books, Herald St Gallery, London, England |
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2005
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Stephen Willats – Street Talk Amsterdam, Lumen Ttravo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karslruhe, Germany |
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Multichannel Life, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany |
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Street Talk Amsterdam, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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2004
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Messages from the Polemical City, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
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Engagierte Kunst, Neues Museum, Nurnberg, Germany |
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2003
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Personal Encounters in Your Imagination, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany |
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2002
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Cognitive Control, Institute of Visual Culture, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England |
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Through Your Symbolic World, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
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2000
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Macro To Micro, Gallery Laure Genillard, London, England |
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1999
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Multichannel Vision, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart, Germany |
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1998
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Random Encounter, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England |
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Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery, London, England |
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Creative Force, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England |
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Concepts, Strategies & Models 1962 - 65, Gimpel Fils, London, England |
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Blind Date With Reality, Stephen Willats, Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland |
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1997
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Street Talk, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
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Between Me And You, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, England |
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MULTICULT, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1996
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In Response To Each Other, Stephen Willats, Galerie Brandstetter & Wyss, Zurich, Switzerland |
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1995
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Living Together, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland |
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A State Of Agreement, Galerie Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
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1994
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Random Life, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England |
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Museum Mosaic, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England |
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Fateful Combinations, The British School at Rome |
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Into the Infra-Structure, Galerie Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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1993
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Buildings & People, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
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Multiple Clothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England |
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1991
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Publishing Interventions, 1963 - 1991, National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England |
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1990
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Mosaics, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
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1989
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Secret Language, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England |
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1988
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Transformers, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, England |
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1987
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Contemporary Living, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, The Netherlands |
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Between Objects And People, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England |
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1986
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City of Concrete, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England |
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Grusse vom Medernen Lebe, Stadtische Galerie, Regensburg, West Germany |
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Groeten uit het moderne leven, Museum van Hedenaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Concepts and Models, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England |
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Vier Hiizen in Den Haag, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands |
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Striking Back, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England |
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1984
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Another City, Riverside Studios, London, England |
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1983
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Inside The Night, Lisson Gallery, London, England |
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1982
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Meta Filter and Related Works, Tate Gallery, London, England |
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1980
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The Lurky Place, Galerie Jurgen Schweinebraden, East Berlin, Germany |
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Four Professionals, Lisson Gallery, London, England |
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Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
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4 Inseln in Berlin, National Galerie, West Berlin, Germany |
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1979
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Concerning Our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England |
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1978
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Questions About Ourselves, Lisson Gallery, London, England |
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Living Within Contained Conditions, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
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1977
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Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England |
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1976
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Life Codes And Behaviour Parameters, The Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham, England |
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Attitudes Within Four Relationships, Lisson Gallery, London, England |
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1975
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Meta Filter, A State Of Agreement, The Gallery, London, England |
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1973
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The Artist As An Instigator Of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour, Gallery House, London, England |
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1968
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Visual Automatics & Visual Transmitters, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
Selected Group Shows:
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2009
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Getting Even, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany |
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2008/9
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Getting Even, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland |
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2008
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Art Forum Berlin 2008 Art Forum Berlin, Germany |
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A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland |
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Manifesta 7, Rovereto, Italy |
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2007
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Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Gallery, London, England |
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The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Undergound, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England |
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2006
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The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Undergound, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany |
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2005
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Kritische Gesellschaften, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany |
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Wie Gesellschaft und Politik ins Bild kommen, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria |