Born 1933, Surrey, England
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Performances
Interregnum, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paulo, 2016
Hales Gallery, London (forthcoming), 2016
Drawn, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2016
4 day performance A new sound work for Belfast, Belfast 2015
Stuart Brisley, Headwinds, MAC Belfast 2015
Breath, a new performance Royal Academy Life Rooms 29 October 2014
Stuart Brisley, State of Denmark, Modern Art Oxford Curated by David Thorp with the Museum of Ordure 2014
Back to the future: solo stand at Artissima Artissima, Torino, Italy 2013
Before the Mast 10 day performance, domobaal 2013
Stuart Brisley domobaal, London 2013
Stuart Brisley Mummery+Schnelle, London 2013
Stuart Brisley Exile, Berlin 2012
Next Door (the missing subject) PEER, London 2012
Stuart Brisley Algus Greenspon, New York 2011
Measurement and Division Galerie Exile, Berlin 2010
Next Door (the missing subject) PEER, London 2010
Stuart Brisley: Recent Works England & Co, London 2009
Crossings John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2008; Tallinn City Art Gallery, Estonia, 2009
Stuart Brisley 1958-2006 England & Co, London 2006
The UK Museum of Ordure Catalyst Arts Belfast 2004
4th Peterlee Report: The Peterlee Project 1976–2004 Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, Sunderland 2004
The Collection of Ordure Freud Museum, London 2002
Relics of the Old Decency: Objects, Artefacts, Art Project Art Centre, Dublin 2002 In association with the Refuse Operators of Dublin, Ireland
Made to Measure Made to Measure, London 1999
The Trouser Manifesto (with Edie Freeman) ICA, London 1999
Singing the Drawing Ydoolb Yadnus (with Edie Freeman) South London Gallery, London, 1999
Giving Raspberries to the Big Bananas The Altes Schlacthaus, Bern 1998
Flannan’s Room London 1997
Helsinki Vanitas Museum of Modern Art KIASMA, Helsinki, Finland 1996
Black South London Gallery, London 1996
Stuart Brisley Galerie Voges – Deisen, Frankfurt 1993
From Hand to Foot to Mouth Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1993
Anonyme Central Space, London 1991
Red Star and Black Crown The Showroom, London 1989
Bourgeois Manners No.3/In-sight Unseen Air Gallery, London, and The Guardian 1989
The Cenotaph Project (1987-1990) St Cuthbert’s Village, Gateshead 1987; Kettle’s Yard
Gallery, Cambridge 1987; Jura Building, Dean Clough, Halifax 1987; Chisenhale Gallery,
London 1987; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth 1988; Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow 1988;
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff 1988; Orchard Gallery, Derry 1989 (with Maya Balcioglu)
The Georgiana Collection Third Eye Centre, Glasgow 1986;Orchard Gallery 1986; Arts Council Gallery, Belfast 1986; Serpentine Gallery 1987; Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead 1987
Food As Metaphor Cameraworks, London 1985
Tanzen im Gehege Sculpture Museum Marl; Kunst Museum Dusseldorf; Kunstverein Köln; Kunstverein Münster, Germany 1983
First Level, Second Degree Broadcast by Television South West, England 1983
1=666,666 Lewis Johnstone Gallery, London 1983
Stuart Brisley Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris 1982
Inside/Outside Krakow 1981
Touching Class Acme Gallery, London 1981
Leaching Out at the Intersection, Stuart Brisley: A Retrospective ICA, London 1981; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1981; Spacex Gallery, Exeter 1981
Little Celebrations of Normality Ayton Basement, Newcastle 1980
From Behind and Slightly to the Left Academy of Art, Oslo 1979
Face to Face Theater der Nationen, Hamburg 1979
Between De Appel Foundation, Amsterdam 1979 (with Iain Robertson)
10 Days 5th Year Anninversary Acme Gallery, London 1978
A, B & C Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast; Orchard Gallery, Derry 1978
180 Hours – Work for Two People Acme Gallery, London 1978
3rd Peterlee Report Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham 1977
2nd Peterlee Report Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland 1977
1st Peterlee Report Northern Arts Gallery, Newcastle 1976
Weather Work National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia 1976
26 Hours Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide 1976
Solo Show Battersea Arts Centre, London 1976
Moments of Decision/Indecision Teatra Studio, Palac Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw 1975
12 Days Kunst Forum, Rottweil 1975
10 Days Editions Paramedia, West Berlin 1973
Hille Fellowship Artist Placement Group 1970
Unofficial Action Tate Gallery, February 1968 On the evening of the performance given by Cesar Baldachini (With Peter Sedgeley)
Chair Project Speakers Corner, London 1967
Stuart Brisley New Vision Centre, London 1965
Stuart Brisley Studio F, Ulm 1961
Stuart Brisley, Malerei und Graphik Gallerie Deutscher Bucherbund, Munich
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
Yes, but is it performable? Investigations on The Performative Paradox, Kunstlerhaus
Graz, Steirischer Herbst, Graz 2016
The Body Extended: Sculpture and Prosthetics, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
2016
Z archiwum Galerii Studio (From Galeria Studio Archive), Night of Museums in Warsaw,
Warsaw 2016
As Before in Process Performance Presence, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig,
Germany 2016
Resistance, AV Festival Biennial (Part 1), Newcastle, 2016
Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, 2016
Photography, Concept, Performance, Documentation, Drawing, Language
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, 2016
L'Exposition D'un Film, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015
And Tate Modern, London, 2015
The World As It Is And the World As It Could Be, ArteBA, Buenos Aires, 2015
3rd Mardin Biennial "Mythologies", Mardin, Turkey 2015
basal, Aanant & Zoo, Berlin 2015
History Is Now: 7 Artists Take On Britain Hayward Gallery, London 2015
Abrakadabra (on the magical dimension of sound, from the word to siren songs and radio waves) Curated by Claudia Rodriguez-Ponga Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paulo 2015
The Cenotaph Project and the Public Sphere in UNDERGROUND - Arts and Humanities Festival King's College, London 2014
This Is What Comes... Curated by Hugh Mulholland The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2014
artBO Feria Internacional de Arte de Bogota Galeria Jaqueline Martins, Sao Paulo 2014
Systemics#4: Aarhus Rapport - the avantgarde as network (or, the politics of the ultra local) Curated by Joasia Krysa and Lars Bang-Larsen 2014
Monument Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2014
Keywords: Art, Culture and Society in 1980s Britain Tate Liverpool, Liverpool 2014
Systemics #3. Against the idea of growth, towards poetry (or, how to builds a universe that doesn't fall apart two days later) Kunsthal Arhus, Aarhus C., Denmark 2014
Ways of Working: the Incidental Object Fondazione Merz, Turin 2013–2014
Acme Studios: The First Decade Whitechapel Gallery, London 2013
Konteksty/Contexts In Situ Contemporary Art Foundation, Sokolovsko, Poland 2013
Recent Acquisitions: Arcimboldo to Kitaj British Museum, London 2013
XV Interakcje Festival MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow, Krakow 2013
Re-Performance. Between Performance and Photography BWA Sokół Nowy Sącz, Poland, 2013
Stuart Brisley: Photographs Mummery + Schnelle, London 2013
A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance Art Tate Modern, London 2012–2013
Moral Holiday Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 2012–2013
Moby-Dick Big Read Unexpurgated 135 chapters of Moby Dick - online project, one chapter per day starting 16.9.2012
Parallel Universes: 1970–1985 The Block Gallery, Brisbane 2012
Bomb Culture BFI Southbank, London 2012
Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European collections, 1956–1986 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and M HKA, Antwerp 2011
Document Performance Exile, Berlin 2011
United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2011
Ending Imperfect (A Provisional Title) in SOLO, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford 2011
Has the Film Already Started – Performance in Context: 1969–1977 Tate Britain, London 2011–2012
Museum Show Arnolfini, Bristol 2011
Soft Machines The Pace Gallery, New York 2011
British Art 1500–2011 Tate Britain, London 2011
Goodbye London – Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies Motorenhalle, Projektzentrum für zeitgenössiche Kunst, Dresden 2011
A Life in Art: Monika Kinley Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth 2011
Modern British Sculpture Royal Academy, London 2011
Goodbye London: Radical Art and Politics in the Seventies Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e. V, Berlin 2010
This Could Happen to You: Ikon in the 1970s Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 2010
Super Farmer’s Market Handel Street Projects, London 2010
East Wing Nine presents EXHIBITIONISM: The Art of Display Courtauld Institute of Art, London 2010
Modern Times: Responding to Chaos Kettles Yard, Cambridge 2010; De la Warr Pavilion, Bexhill 2010
100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009) P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA 2009–2010
Poetry Marathon Serpentine Gallery, London 2009
In the Act of Drawing Vivid, Birmingham 2009
PERFORMING THE CITY - Kunst Aktionismus im Stadt Raum 60er und 70er Jahre Lothringer13, Städtische Kunsthalle München, Munich 2008
Live Art on Camera John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2007; SPACE, London 2008
Conceptual Photography 1964–1989" Zwirner & Wirth New York 2007
The Last Breath Kunstihoone Tallinn, Estonia 2007
Audio Arts: Bill Furlong Tate Britain 2007
This Will Not Happen Without You John Hansard Gallery, Southampton 2006–2007;
Hatton Gallery, Newcastle 2007; Interface, Belfast 2007
About Barbara Suckfull in European Performance Art Festival Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw 2006
How to Improve the World : 60 Years of British Art from the ACGB Collection Hayward Gallery, London 2006
Trace from the Trace Archive Franklin Furnace, New York 2006
Important Mischief: British Sculpture from the 1960s and 70s Henry Moore Institutes and Leeds City Art Gallery 2006
Whatever happened to Social Democracy? Roosium, Malmö, Sweden 2005
Museum of Ordure: The Audio Library Site Gallery, Edinburgh 2004
Stuart Brisley/Mustafa Hulusi: OCCUPATION The Great Unsigned, Waugh Thistleton, London 2004
Faltering Flame Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield 2004
Tanzen im Gehege/The Rooster Preservation Programme in European Performance Festival Lublin 2004
Hortus Liverpool Biennale 2004
Special Display; A Century of Artists' Film in Britain Tate Britain, London 2003–2004
Independence South London Gallery, London 2003
Live Culture Tate Modern, London 2003
The Collection of Ordure in International Performance Art Willisaw, Switzerland 2003
Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20. Jahrhunert Wolfsburg Kunstmuseum 2002–2003
Self Evident Tate Britain, London 2002–2003
A Short History of Performance Whitechapel Art Gallery, London April 2002
Cooking to Death in Span International London 2001
Full Moon + Three in Helle Nachte (with Andrea Saemann) Basel 2001
Live in Your Head Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2000; Museu do Chiado, Lisbon 2001
Talking Hygiene in 5th International Performance Festival Kunsthaus, Dresden 2000
Louise Bourgeois' Legs in New Dance Horizons University of Regina, Saskatchewan 2000
Intimations of Ordure in Rencontre Internationale D'Art Performance Le Lieu, Centre en Art Actuel, Quebec 2000
Establishment of www.ordure. org In collaboration with Adrian Ward and Geoffrey Cox, July 2000
Out of Actions, Between Performance and the Object 1949–79 Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 1999
Arte u Acción 1949–79 Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona – MACBA, Barcelona, Spain 1999
Out of Actions, Aktionismus, Body Art & Performances 1949–79 Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna, Austria 1998–99
Out of Actions, Between Performance and the Object 1949–79 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA 1998
Darkly in Passing The Cortical Foundation, Los Angeles 1998
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 1997–98
British Drawing Sandra Gering Gallery, New York 1997
Inner Art 20 Summerhill Parade, Dublin 1997
L'Art au Corps MAC, Galeries Contemporaines de Musee de Marseille, Marseille 1996
25 years of British Sculpture Serpentine Gallery, London 1995
The Sixties Art Scene in London Barbican Art Gallery, London 1993
From Hand to Foot to Mouth Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1993
The 60s Art Scene Barbican Gallery, London 1992
Arte Sella, Borgo Valsugana 1992
Incidents in Transit (Assaigs a la recerca del`irreal) Tangentcies, 7 performances at Sala Montcada de la Fundacao “La Caixa” Barcelona 1992
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulieres Musée d-Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France 1991
Northern Adventures: An Exhibition of North European Art St Pancras Station and Camden Arts Centre, London 1991
Shocks to the System Hayward Gallery, London 1991; Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland 1991; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1991; Tower Art Gallery Eastbourne; Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; City Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth;
Maclaurin Art Gallery Ayr 1991
Premiere Biennale d-Art Actuel de Quebec Quebec 1990
TSWA – Fours Cities Project Glasgow 1990
Great Britain USSR The House of the Artist, Kiev; The Central House of the Artist, Moscow 1990
Thatcher Years Flowers East Gallery, London 1989
Mir Caravan Prague 1989
Matter of Facts: Photographie Art Contemporain en Grande-Bretagne Musée des BeauxArts, Nantes, France 1988; Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France 1988; Metz pour la Photographie, Caves Sainte-Croix, France 1989
Blickwechsel– 25 Jahre Berliner Kunstlerprogramme Berlin 1988
Edge 88 London 1988
Modern British Sculpture from the Collection Tate Gallery, Liverpool 1987–89
Art of Clay Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester 1987–88
Exhibition Road – Painters at the Royal College of Art Royal College of Art Galleries, London 1987–88
Critical Realism – Britain in the 1980s through the work of 28 Artists Nottingham Castle Museum; Edinburgh Art Centre; Sterling Smith Art Gallery; Camden Arts Centre; Worcester Art Gallery; Wincester Gallery 1987–88
4 Days Universty of Krakow, Krakow 1987
Art in Action Dartington College of Art, Totnes 1987
State of the Nation Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry 1987
Artist in Residence Imperial War Museum, London 1987
British Art in the Twentieth Century The Royal Academy, London 1987; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart 1987
The British Art Show Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 1985; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 1985; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia 1985; Royal Exchange Building, Melbourne, Australia 1985; National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand 1986
From the Fourth to the Third World Sao Paulo Biennale 1985
Urban Weather (sound for Miranda Tufnell Dance Company) Nottingham, Bristol, London, Munich, Amsterdam 1985
Conversation Piece (the Red Army) in Window, Wall, Ceiling, Floorshow Interim Art, London 1985
Institute for Measurement and Control (towards the intermediary zone) in Dialogue on Contemporary Art Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; Nordic Arts Centre, Helsinki; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1985
Normal Activities May Be Resumed: an Obstruction Instruction Guide ICA, London 1985
The British Art Show Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1984; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1985; Mappin Gallery, Sheffield 1985; Southampton Gallery 1985
Not in Bad Faith Acme Studios, London 1984
Home and Abroad: Arts Council and British Council Acquisitions Serpentine Gallery, London 1984
Nothing Beyond the Frame Tate Gallery, London 1984
The Market Force in Dogworks Interim Art, London 1984
Being and Doing BAFTA, London Film Festival; Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland;
Montreal Film Festival, Canada 1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four: An Exhibition Camden Art Centre, London 1984
Minus One in Nordic Winter Art Symposium Geilo, Norway 1984
Minus One Tate Gallery, London 1984
New Art Tate Gallery, London 1983
Levels and Degrees in British Sound Franklin Furnace, New York, USA 1983
There Will Be No Disasters in Live to Air Tate Gallery, London 1982
Horizontal Walking and Vertical Lying in Agit Prop Walter Philips Gallery, Banff; Mercer Union, Toronto; Tate Gallery, London 1982
The Imperative Voice Fylkingen, Stockholme 1981
British Artists in Berlin Goethe Institute, London 1981
Artists and Performance Tate Gallery, London 1981
Approaches to the Audience in Mixage International Lanteren Venster, Rotterdam 1980;
Culturell Centrum, t’Hooght, Utrecht 1980
One and the Other in the Attic of Poverty Parachute, Montreal, Canada 1980
Approaches to Learning in Actions – A Season of Performance Art Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1980
Into Bits and Pieces in Zur Definitionen eines Neuen Kunstbegriffes Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck 1979
Between the Wall and the Floor in Darkspace Project Arts Centre, Dublin 1979
Une Nouvelle Oeuvre pour la Consommation Institutionelle in Un Certain Art Anglais II
ARC II, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1979
In Between and Outside in Berlin – A Critical View – Ugly Realism ICA, London 1978
Bodyspace, Drawing and Context in Rights and Roles Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 1978
24 Hours Vienna Performance Festival, Vienna 1978
APG Whitechapel Gallery, London 1977
Beneath Dignity Englisch Kunst de Gegenwart, Bregenz 1977
Measurement and Division Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London 1977
Survival in Alien Circumstances Documenta 6, Kassel 1977
15 Artists Living in the North-East Sunderland Arts Centre 1976
Lying, Standing, Walking and Talking Recent International Forms in Art, Sydney Biennale 1976
Hommage to the Commune Arte Inglesi Oggi 1960-76, Palazzo Reale Milan 1976
Workshop Battersea Arts Centre, London 1975
30 International Kunstler in Berlin Beethoven Halle, Bonn 1973
The Minder's Line, also entitled The Procrustean Bed, in Magic and Strong Medicine Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 1973
Untitled performance in Fluxshoe Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1973
Untitled performance Quaglino's restaurant, London 1973
Artist as Whore Gallery House, London 1972
Chairs, in Anti-Festival Queen's University, Belfast 1972
Conference Table Action, in British Thing Heine-Onstad Foundation, Oslo 1972
And For Today... Nothing Gallery House, London 1972
You Know It Makes Sense 2 Festival at the Serpentine and Bank Holiday Bonus Serpentine Gallery, London 1972
ZL 65 63 95 C Survey of the British Avant-garde Part 1 Gallery House, Goethe Institute London 1972
You Know It Makes Sense, in Environmental Exhibition Ikon Gallery, Birmingham 1972
INN70 Art & Economics Hayward Gallery, London 1971
Alexanders' Car Showroom Event, in Locations Edinburgh 1971
Surgical Minutes Messehalle, West Berlin 1971
Institute for Peculiar Studies, in The Human Presence: Live-Actions Structure Camden Arts Centre, London 1970
Work in Progress Sigi Krauss Gallery, London 1970
Celebration for Due Process, in Come Together festival Royal Court Theatre, London 1970
Guests of Honour New Arts Lab, London 1970
Celebration for Institutional Consumption, in Brighton Festival West Pier, Brighton 1970
The Game, in Play Orbit ICA, London 1969–1970
British Movements '69 Onnasch Galerie, Berlin; Museum Gelsen Kirchen 1969
Homo Sapiens Chessington Zoo, London 1969
Tower with Living Person, in Environments Reversal Camden Arts Centre, London 1969
Group Exhibition London 1969
Event at Maidstone College of Art London 1969
Keyle Gannicule ICA, London 1969
Event at Slade School of Fine Art London 1969
Event in support of dismissed teachers from Guildford School of Art RI Galleries, London 1969
Five Light Artists at Greenwich Greenwich Theatre Gallery, London 1969
Wall Sea Event Portsmouth 1969
Art for Export Camden Arts Centre, London 1968–69 (installation with Bill Culbert)
Public Eye Kunsthaus, Hamburg 1968
Artists for Czechoslovakia Camden Arts Centre, London 1968
Swinging London Madam Tussauds, London 1968
Ritual Murder in Whsht event Nodnol Marble Arch, London 1968
Survey '68: Abstract Structure Camden Arts Centre, London 1968 (installation with Bill Culbert)
Pavillions in the Parks Chelsea and Croydon 1968
Black, White and Grey, in Whsht event Probe Middle Earth, London 1968
Light in Movement Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry; Trinity College, Dublin and Union Arts Festival, University of Bristol 1967–68 (installation with Bill Culbert)
Chair Project Speaker's Corner, London 1967 (participatory event)
White Meal, in Whsht event Earthed Middle Earth, London 1967
Group Exhibition Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1967 (installation with Bill Culbert)
Demarco Gallery at Goldbergs Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 1967
Four Dances, Four Colours, Three Systems, in Whsht event Fused Middle Earth, London 1967 (installation/event with with Alan Beattie, performed by dancers)
Group exhibition McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London 1967
K4, Kinetic Audio Visual Environments in Brighton Festival West Pier, Brighton 1967 (installation with Bill Culbert)
Experiments in Form Grosvenor Gallery, London 1966
Group exhibition McRoberts and Tunnard Gallery, London 1966
Structure 66 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff 1966
Midland Group Open Exhibition Midland Group Gallery, Nottingham 1966
The London Group Art Federation Galleries, London 1965
Group exhibition Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pennsylvania 1963
Group exhibition White Art Museum, Cornell University 1963
Group exhibition White Art Museum, Cornell University 1962
Land Grant Universities Centennial Exhibition Kansas City 1961
South Eastern Coast Exhibition Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida 1961
Grosse Sommer Ausstellung Neue Gruppe Haus der Kunst, Munich 1960
Young Contemporaries RBA Galleries, London 1959
Young Contemporaries RBA Galleries, London 1958
Young Contemporaries RBA Galleries, London 1957
Young Contemporaries RBA Galleries, London 1953
Selected Public Collections
Arts Council England British Council Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Cuneo, Italy FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France Henry Moore Institute and Leeds City Art Gallery, UK HeineOnstad Kunstsenter Oslo, Norway Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland Musee D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, France Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum Sammlung Prinzhorn, Heidelberg Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia Stadtlisches Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany Tallinn City Art Gallery, Estonia Tate, London The British Museum, London Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Stuart Brisley's archive is held at the Tate Archive, London
Selected books and videos
Stuart Brisley: Performing the Political Body and Eating Shit, Michael Newman,
The MAC Belfast and Museum of Ordure, 2015
Stuart Brisley Headwinds, Debbie Lisle, The MAC, Belfast 2015
This Is What Comes…Collective Histories of Northern Irish Art, Hugh Mulholland, ed. Eoin Donnelly, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast 2014
Stuart Brisley The Peterlee Project 1976-1977, Museum of Ordure and Antipyrine, Aarhus 2014
Stuart Brisley State of Denmark, David Thorp, Modern Art Oxford and Museum of Ordure, Antipyrine, Aarhus 2014
01.01.CM. Collection of the Museum of Ordure, Museum of Ordure and Antipyrine, Aarhus 2014
Serpentine Gallery Poetry Marathon: Saturday and Sunday 17–18 October 2009, eds. Nicola Lees and Lucia Pietroiusti, Koenig Books, London 2012
Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, Claire Bishop, Verso, London 2012
Look Here, Axelle Russo, The British Museum Press, London 2010
Good bye to London: Radical Art & Politics in the 70s, Ed. Astrid Proll, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany 2010
Hornsey 1968: The Art School Revolution, Lisa Tickner, Frances Lincoln Limited, London 2008
Stuart Brisley / Crossings, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton 2008
Interviews – Artists: Recordings from Cv/Visual Arts Research, eds. Sarah James and Nick James, The Russell Press, Nottingham 2008
Art of Negotiation, eds. David Butler and Vivienne Reiss, Cornerhouse Publications, Manchester 2007
de Appel: Performances, intallations, video projects 1975–1983, Marga van Mechelen, Amsterdam 2006
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction, Second edition, Pan Meecham and Julie Sheldon, Routledge, London and New York 2005
The Peterlee Project, video published by Radix North East Collective, Stuart Brisley consultant, November 2005
Cynicism from Diogenes to Dilbert, Ian Cutler, McFarland & Company, Inc., North Carolina, Jefferson and London 2005
Stuart Brisley, video within the series ‘the EYE’, Illuminations publishing, London 2004
Social Sculpture: The Rise of the Glasgow Art Scene, Sarah Lowndes, Luath Press Limited, Edinburgh 2003
Sculpture in 20th-Century Britain Vols I & II, General Editor: Penelope Curtis, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2003
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
The Analysis of Performance Art: A Guide to its Theory and Practice, Anthony Howell, Routledge, London and New York 1999
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, London 1986
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
The Individual and the Organisation: Artist Placement Group 1966–79, eds. Anthony Hudek and Alex Sainsbury, Raven Row, London 2012
A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, ed. Catherine Wood, Tate Publishing, London 2012
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.
Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion, ed. Hannah Firth, Chapter, London 2008
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
13 Critics, 26 Fotografs, Centre D` Art Santa Monica Barcelona 1992
Lieux Communs, Figures Singulieres, Musée D`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1991
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