B. 1952
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
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
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
of War, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
1984
Aperto '84, Biennale, Venice, Italy
Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
, Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich; Stadliche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
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.