BUCKLEY, Stephen
English, born 1944
For more than forty years Buckley has concerned himself with addressing the major themes of the twentieth century through a personal style oscillating between the matiere of Schwitters, the dandyism of Picabia and the intellectual rigour of Duchamp by deconstruction and reconstruction. Eventually self-reference was inevitable and there is now a large portfolio of themes, references, motifs and symbols which are continually reworked and reinvented. Scale has always been significant from the 20 foot La Manche (1974) to a great number of 'carry on' sized works over a period of years.
Education
1944: Born Leicester, 5 April
1962-67: University of Durham (King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
1967-69: University of Reading
Teaching
1969-70: Taught at Canterbury College of Art
1970: Taught at Leeds College of Art
1971-80: Taught at Chelsea School of Art, London
1994: Appointed Professor of Fine Art, University of Reading
Awards, Fellowships, Prizes
1972-74: Appointed Artist in Residence, King's College, Cambridge
1974: Prizewinner, 'John Moores Exhibition 9', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1975: Prizewinner, Chichester National Art Exhibition, Chichester
1977: Prizewinner, Tolly-Cobbold Exhibition
1985: Prizewinner, 'John Moores Exhibition 14', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Public Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery
The Arts Council of Great Britain
Berwick-upon-Tweed Borough Museum and Art Gallery
The British Council
BUPA House, London
City Art Gallery, Bristol
City Art Gallery, Huddersfield
The Contemporary Arts Society
Derby Museum and Art Gallery
British Government Art Collection
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
Leicester Arts and Museums Service
Leicester Education Authority
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
McMaster Museum of Art
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago, Chile
Museum of Modern Art, Caracas, Venezuela
National Art Gallery of Wales, Cardiff
National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Reading Museum
Southampton City Art Gallery
Swindon Museum and Art Gallery
Tate Britain, London
University of Cambridge, Kettle's Yard Gallery
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Commissions
1972: Neal Street Restaurant, London
1972: Mural Painting for Penguin Books, Harmondsworth
1973: Leith's Restaurant, London
1988-90: Collaboration with Rambert Dance Company
Selected Exhibition Catalogues
1973: Stephen Buckley, Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, Italy, introduction by Lynda Morris
1974: Cambridge works by Stephen Buckley, Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge, introduction by Richard Morphet and Lynda Morris
1985: Stephen Buckley: Many Angles, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Marco Livingstone
1985: Stephen Buckley: Paintings 1969-1985, published by The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, essay by Henry Geldzahler
1989: Stephen Buckley, monograph by Marco Livingstone, in the series ART RANDOM (Kyoto Shoin International Co Ltd, Japan)
1999: Stephen Buckley: Flower Paintings, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, Marco Livingstone
2004: Stephen Buckley: Narratives, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, Edward Albee
2008: Heads and Tales, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, Michael Bracewell
2010: Stephen Buckley: Selected Works 1972-1991, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2014: Further On, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, Philip Wright
Solo Exhibitions
1966
University of Durham
1970
Nigel Greenwood Inc., London
1972
Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
King's College, Cambridge
Kasmin Gallery, London
1973
Galleria dell'Ariete, Milan, Italy
1974
Kettles Yard Gallery, Cambridge
Garage Art Ltd, Covent Garden, London
1975
Jacomo-Santiveri, Paris
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1976
Kasmin Ltd at Waddington Galleries, London
1977
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Greater Manchester
Bologna Art Fair, Italy
1978
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Anthony Stokes Ltd, London (Etchings and lithographs)
Galleri Malmgram, Gothenburg, Sweden
Knoedler Gallery, London
Hobson Gallery, Cambridge (Prints)
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (Prints)
1980
Knoedler Gallery, London
Amano Gallery, Osaka, Japan
Bernard Jacobson, London (Etchings)
1981
Brooke Alexander, New York
Knoedler Gallery, London
1982
LA Louver, Los Angeles
Knoedler Gallery, London (Monotypes)
1983
Brooke Alexander, New York
Knoedler Gallery, London
1984
Thorden un Wetterling Galleri, Gothenburg, Sweden
Festival Gallery, Bath, UK (Small paintings and large monotypes)
1985
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Arts Council Gallery of Northern Ireland, Belfast
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The Clocktower, New York
1986
Galleri Wallner, Malmo, Sweden
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Brooke Alexander, New York
Knoedler Kasmin, London
1987
Knoedler Kasmin, London
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Switzerland
1988
Knoedler Kasmin, London
1989
Galleri Malmgram, Gothenburg, Sweden
1990
Knoedler Kasmin, London
Galleri Wallner, Malmo, Sweden
1991
Anne Berthoud, London
1992
'French Paintings' at the Economist Building, London
'More French Paintings and Other Works', Anne Berthoud Gallery at 24 St James Street, London
1994
Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
The University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1995
Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, Nottingham
Open Space Gallery, Reading
1997
Centenary Display, 6 paintings from the collection, Tate Britain, London
'Flower Paintings', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2001
'Some Large Paintings to be Observed Closely', John Madejski Gallery, Museum of Reading, Reading
'Paintings 1969-2001', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2004
'Narratives', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2008
'Heads and Tales', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2010
'Stephen Buckley: Selected Works 1972-1991', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2014
'Further On', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
Group Exhibitions
1969
Greenwich Theatre Art Gallery, London
Hayward Gallery, London
1970
Richard de Marco Gallery, Edinburgh
City Art Gallery, Manchester
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973
'La Peinture Anglaise Aujourd'hui', Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
'Objects and Documents', Arts Council Tour
'Paris Biennale 8e', Paris
'Henry Moore to Gilbert and George', Modern British Art from the Tate Gallery, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
'Critics Choice', Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
'Tables', Garage Art, Covent Garden, London
1974
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 9 (Prizewinner), Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
DM Gallery, London (mixed drawings)
'British Painting '74', Hayward Gallery, London
Eastern Arts Association, Touring Exhibition
'Menton Biennale', Menton, France
1975
CAS Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London
'Indian Triennale', New Delhi, India
Chichester National Art Exhibition (Prizewinner), Chichester
1976
'Peintures et Sculptures Britanniques', Centre Culturel de la Ville de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
British Exhibition, Basle Art Fair, Basle, Switzerland
'The Human Clay', Hayward Gallery, London and Arts Council Tour
JPL Gallery, London
1977
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
'Tolly-Cobbold Exhibition' (Prizewinner), Colchester
'Hayward Annual Part Two', Hayward Gallery, London
'Whitechapel Open', Whitechapel Gallery, London
'British painting 1952-77', Royal Academy of Arts, London
'Color en la Pintura Britanica', British Council Touring Exhibition, Brasil
'Small Work', Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery
1978
'Color en la Pintura Britanica', British Council Touring Exhibition, Argentina
Knoedler Gallery, London
'Members' Choice Exhibition', Liverpool Academy of Art, Liverpool
'Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art', Edmonton Art Gallery; Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Allberta; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen (Prints)
Chester Art Center, Chester (Prints)
'Critics' Choice', ICA Gallery, London
1979
'Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art', Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario; Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario; Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns, Newfoundland
'Un Certain Art Anglais Arc 11', Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Knoedler Gallery, London
'John Moores Exhibition', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
'Today: British Painting in the 60's and 70's', City Art Hall of Lund, Sweden
Tolly-Cobbold Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
'The British Art Show', Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; then tour to Laing Art Gallery and Hatton Gallery, The University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Arnolfini, Bristol and Royal West of England Academy, in conjunction with City Museum and Art Gallery
Sydney Biennale, Australia
1980
'Occasional pieces - furniture', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'Changing Summer Exhibition', Knoedler Gallery, London
'Summer Exhibition', Brooke Alexander, New York
'The Newcastle Connection', Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Art Gallery
'Eight new British Artists', Bernard Jacobson Ltd, New York
1981
'Mixed Exhibition of small pictures', Knoedler Gallery, London
'Colour in British Painting', touring Japan under auspices of British Council, chosen by Alan Bowness
Brooke Alexander, New York
'Baroque 81', Musèe d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris
'Recent Prints by Six British Painters', The Tate Gallery, London
1982
Knoedler Gallery, London
'An exhibition of ten graduates 1964-74 from the Department of Fine Art, University of Reading', held in conjunction with the Reading Festival, University Art Gallery
1983
'Twentieth Century Art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selected Recent Acquisitions', The Queens Museum, Flushing, New York
'Aspects of Post War Painting in Europe', Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
1984
'John Moores Exhibition 14', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1985
Contemporary Art Fair, London
1986
Waddington Graphics, London
'On A Plate', West Surrey College of Art and Serpentine Gallery, London
1987
'Collection 23', Aram Designs, London (Furniture)
'2D/3D', Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
'Pop Art USA-UK', Odakyu Gallery, Tokyo; Daimaru Museum, Osaka; Funabashi Seibu Museum of Art; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
1988
'Exhibition Road: Painters at the Royal College of Art', Henry Moore Gallery, London
'Athena Art Awards 1988', Barbican Centre, London
1989
'The Presence of Painting', Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
'Selections from the Edward Albee Collection', Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania
1992
'The New Patrons', National Art Collections Fund at Christies, London
Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1993
'Mixed Exhibition', Anne Berthoud Gallery, London
'John Moores Exhibition 18', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1994
'Giotto 1994', Extra Moenia, Todi, Italy
'Royal Academy Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London
'British Abstract Art - Painting', Flowers East, London
1995
'Exhibition of shortlisted artists for the 1995 Jerwood Painting Prize', Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Royal Academy of Arts, London
'Thirty Years of Northern Contemporaries', Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1996
'British and American Abstract Prints 1990-1995', Alan Cristea Gallery, London
'British Abstract Art Part 3 (Works on Paper)', Flowers East, London
'Royal Academy Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London
1997
'Clients as Curators', Coller-Bristow Gallery, London
'The Judge Hangs (A Personal Selection by Sir Stephen Tumin)', Michael Parkin Gallery, London
1998
'The Janet Wolfson de Botton Gift', Tate Gallery, London
'Inaugural Exhibition', Miami Art Museum, Florida
'Le corps du livre', L'oeuvre éditoriale de Gervais Jassaud Carré d'Art Bibliothèque, Nîmes, France
'Small is Beautiful', Flowers East, London
1999
'Royal Academy Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy of Arts, London
'Aspects of Modern British and Irish Art', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2001
'British Abstract Art 3', Flowers East, London
2002
'Tate Unseen', The Gallery, Lincoln
2003
'Jean Cocteau', curated by Marc C Chaimowicz, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
2004
'Jean Cocteau', curated by Marc C Chaimowicz, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
'Tom Bendhem: Collector', Contemporary Art Society Exhibition, touring, Ben Uri Gallery, London
2005
'1979', Bloomberg SPACE, London
2007
'Critic's Choice: Selected by William Packer', Lemon Street Gallery, Truro
2007
'Global Books - les livres d'artistes de Gervais Jassaud', Bibliothèque Carnegie, Médiathèque Jean Fala, La Comédie, Reims, France
2009
'Post War British Art and Ceramics', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
'Aspects of Modern British & Irish Art', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
'Seven British Artists in Milan, 1965-1975', Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
2010
'Seven British Artists in Milan, 1965-1975', Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
2011
'Peter Phillips/Stephen Buckley', Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich, Switzerland
2013
'Knock Knock: Seven Artists in Hastings', Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
2014
'As Wide as the Door is Open: Material Images', Fold Gallery, London
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