John Murphy b. 1945, St Albans, UK Solo Exhibitions 1971 Serpentine Gallery, London 1972 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1973 Jack Wendler Gallery, London 1975 "Selected Works", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1976 "Nature Morte, Collected Works", The New Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art, London "An Art of Exchange. Featuring `The Picture Frame' or Egg Note'", Barry Barker Gallery, London 1977 "The Work of Art Is... A.J. J.M.", Barry Barker Gallery, London 1978 Galerie Arno Kohnen, Dusseldorf 1979 "Desire Not Geometry", Barry Barker Gallery, London 1980 "Lesson on Money", Art Projects, Melbourne "Objects of Desire", Piwna, Warsaw 1981 "John Murphy", Arts Council of Northern Ireland Gallery, Belfast (exh cat) 1982 "(D)(E)(L)(T)(A)", The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland 1983 "The Nocturnal Inscription Represents... ", Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent 1984 "Beyond the Fixing of Appearances", Serpentine Gallery, London 1985 "Stuck in the Milky Way", Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat) 1987-88 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (exh cat) 1988 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (exh cat) "Instruments of Attack", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid 1989 "Phoenix, Sagitta, Horologium, Reticulum, Libra, Ursa Major", Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles 1990 "Silent Vertigo", Lisson Gallery, London (exh cat) "Inaugural Violence", Christine Burgin and John Weber Galleries, New York (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 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) 1997 Villa Arson, Nice (exh cat) 1998 “A Different Constellation”, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris “On the Incline of Our Tongue”, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg 2003 “The Way Up and The Way Down”, Southampton City Art Gallery and Museum, Southampton (exh cat) “Of Voyages”, Galerie Erna Hécey, Luxembourg 2004 ‘Something for the Eye’, The Regency Town House, Hove, Centre of Contemporary Visual Arts, University of Brighton 2004-5 ‘And Things Throw Light of Things’, Ikon Gallery and Barber Institute, Birmingham (exh cat) 2005 ‘…Mirror’, Sleeper, Edinburgh ‘Up or Down it’s All the Same In Gent or Venice.) Het Kabinet, Gent 2006 (Between the Acts) Lisson Gallery, London ‘…the stench of shit…’, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels 2007 ‘…the stench of shit…’, MOca Maas at Jan van Eyck Academie, Masstricht Group Exhibitions 1965 "Young Contemporaries", F.B.A. Galleries, London (exh cat) 1966 "Young Contemporaries", F.B.A. Galleries, London (exh cat) 1968 "Young Contemporaries", Royal Institute Galleries, London (exh cat) 1969 "Younger Generation" (travelled to Washington, Philadelphia, Houston) "Big Paintings for Public Places", Royal Academy of Arts, London 1971 "London Now in Berlin", Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (exh cat) 1972 "[Drawing]", Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (exh cat) 1974 "Tables", Garage Art Limited, London 1975 "Contemporary Art Society Recent Acquisitions", Gulbenkian Hall, Royal College of Art Gallery, London 1976 "Eight British Artists", C A Y C, Buenos Aires 1976-77 "Artists Books" (organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain) (exh cat) (travelled to Brighton University, Sussex; Arnolfini, Bristol; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Ferins Art Gallery, Hull; Ibis Gallery, Leamington Spa and Turpike Gallery, Leigh) 1978-79 "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, Dusseldorf (exh cat) (travelled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris) 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 Internationalen Kunstlerkongresse, Stuttgart (exh cat) "Kunstlerbucher", Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern 1980 "British Art 1940-80", Hayward Gallery, London 1981 "The Second International Drawing Triennale", Wroclaw, Poland (exh cat) "Through the Summer", Lisson Gallery, London 1982 "British Drawing", Hayward Gallery, London (exh cat) "Collazione Inglese", Scuola di San Pasquale, Venice (exh cat) 1984 "Through the Summer", Lisson Gallery, London "Lili Dujourie, John Murphy, Jan Vercruysse", Lisson Gallery, London 1984-85 "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) 1985 "L'Indifférent", John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (exh cat) ″Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue", Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (exh cat) 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 Venezia, Venice (exh cat) "Ooghoogte Van Abbemuseum 1936-1986", Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (exh cat) 1987-88 "Quatrièmes Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire", Abbaye Royale de Fontevraud, Fontevraud (exh cat) (travelled to PARC, Nantes; Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie, Roche-Sur-Yvon; Palais des Congrés, Mans; Palais des Congrés, 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 cat) (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 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) 1989 "Blasphemies, Ecstasies, Cries", Serpentine Gallery, London (exh cat) "Unstable Universe", Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles 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) 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 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 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 1994 "Paula Rego, John Murphy, Avis Newman", Saatchi Gallery, London (exh cat) 1995 “Das Abenteuer Der Malerei”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen,Düsseldorf andWürttembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart (exh cat) 1997 “A Conversation Piece”, with Juliâo Sarmento, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (exh cat) 1998 “A Vendre”, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg 1999 “Larmes Blanches, Hommage a James Lee Byars”, FRAC Haute Normandie, Sauttevile / Lès Rouen, France 2000 “Aquisitions from the late 90s”, Tate Britain, London Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxembourg “A Shot in the Head”, Lisson Gallery, London 2001 “East Wing Collection No. 05 Looking éWith/Out”, Courtauld Institute of Art, London <<Nouveau Regard>>, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France 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 ‘Cantos’ Casino Luxembourg-Form D’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg 2005 ‘Strange, Familiar and Unforgotten / 2’ Galerie Erna Hécy, Brussels ‘I wish…’ Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna 2007 ‘Salon Nouveau’, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna Selected Bibliography: Books and Catalogues 1965 Young Contemporaries. F.B.A. Galleries, London (exh cat) 1966 Young Contemporaries. F.B.A. Galleries, London (exh cat) 1968 Young Contemporaries. Royal Institute Galleries, London (exh cat) 1971 London Now in Berlin. Akademie der Kunste, Berlin (exh cat) 1972 [Drawing]. Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (exh cat). Text by Peter Ibsen. 1976 Artists Books. The Arts Council of Great Britain, London (exh cat) 1978 The Mechanised Image. The Arts Council of Great Britain, London (exh cat) Museum des Geldes. Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (exh cat) 1979 Lang'uages. Arts Council of Great Britain, London (exh cat). Text by Rudi H. Fuchs. Europa '79. Kunst der 80er Jahre. IX Internationalen Kunstlerkongresse, Stuttgart (exh cat) 1981 The Second International Drawing Triennale. Wroclaw, Poland (exh cat)