GLENYS JOHNSON

Glenys Johnson was initially involved in performance art as well as painting, touring in the late 1970s with the Theatre of Mistakes. In 1989 her painting was the subject of a solo show at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in London and since then she has exhibitied widely. Her works of the 1980s were often politically charged and she has frequently addressed life in the modern metropolis as in recent paintings that universalise the cityscape of London and present the city as a place in flux, either on the point of growth or collapse.

Glenys Johnson is represented by James Hyman Gallery.

Glenys Johnson


1952
Born

1970-74        
Gloucestershire College of Art & Design

1974-76        
Slade School of Art, University of London

1977-80        
Toured with Theatre of Mistakes

1983                
Lived and worked in New York

Lives and works in London


Selected Solo Exhibitions


2007                 
Glenys Johnson - A City Distilled, James Hyman Gallery, London

2001                
Glenys Johnson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

2000                
Glenys Johnson, Galleria Ceribelli Albini, Milan, Italy

1998-99        
Glenys Johnson, Wigmore Fine Art Gallery, London

1998                
Glenys, Johnson, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

1996                
Glenys Johnson, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany

1993                
Glenys Johnson, Frith Street Gallery, London

1991                
Glenys Johnson: Mapping Localities, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1989        
Glenys Johnson, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Glenys Johnson, Villa Oppenheim, Charlottenburg, Berlin, Germany

1988                
Glenys Johnson, The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland

Glenys Johnson, Cornerhouse, Manchester

1986                
Glenys Johnson, Air Gallery, London

Glenys Johnson: The Issue of Painting, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale

1985                
Glenys Johnson, Riverside Studios, London

1981                
Glenys Johnson, Artists Space, New York, USA


Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Then and Now. Works on Paper by Hughie O'Donoghue, Tony Bevan and Glenys Johnson, James Hyman Gallery, London

2006        
Building Sites, James Hyman Fine Art, London (with Frank Auerbach, Tony Bevan and Lewis Chamberlain)

2001        
Look Out - Art Society Politics, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton; Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Pitshanger Manor Gallery, London; Wolsey Art Gallery, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich

1994                
Europa '94, Junge Europaische Kunst, Munich, Germany

Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1991                
Out of Limbo, Luis Cerunda Foundation, Seville, Spain

1990                
British Artists in Russia, Kiev and House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1989        
Four Painters from London, College of Architecture, Malaga, Spain (with Tony Bevan, Adam Lowe and Joao Penalva)

Invisible Cities, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds

1988        
Depicting History for Today, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale

1987        
Recent Paintings, Serpentine Gallery, London (with Stuart Brisley, Ken Curry and Mark Wallinger)

1986        
Between Identity / Politics - A New Art, Gimpel Fils, London; The Arts Centre, Darlington; Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, USA

1985                
Summer in the City, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

Images of War, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff

1984                
Aperto '84, Biennale, Venice, Italy

Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool

Offshore, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich; Stadliche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

1983                
Before it Hits the Floor, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1982                
Constructions & Configurations, Kettles Yard, Cambridge

1981                
Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London

Selected Collections

Arthur Andersen & Co.

Arts Council Collection

British Museum, London

BUPA

Deutsche Bank

Rugby Borough Council

Staatsgalerie moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany

Unilever PLC

Selected Publications

Berthoud, A., Glenys Johnson - Indigomonochrome 1997-98, Purdy Hicks, 1998.

Hyman, J. (ed.), Glenys Johnson - A City Distilled, James Hyman Gallery, 2007.

Johnson, G., Glenys Johnson, ICA, 1989.

Johnson, G., Glenys Johnson: Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst Munchen, Das Museum, 1996.