STEPHEN WILLATS

Born in London in 1943, Stephen Willats was one of the very few serious representatives of international Concept Art in England during the sixties and seventies. Solo exhibitions include: Stephen Willats: Man from the 21st Century, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 2014–2015; Concerning our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2014; Control: Work 1962-69, Raven Row, London, 2014; Conscious - Unconscious, In and Out the Reality Check, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2013; Stephen Willats: Surfing with the Attractor, South London Gallery, London, 2012; COUNTERCONSCIOUSNESS, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2010; In Two Minds, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, 2010; Assumptions and Presumptions, Art on the Underground, London, 2007; From my Mind to Your Mind, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2007; How the World is and How it could be, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen (2006); Changing Everything, South London Art Gallery, 1998; Meta Filter and Related Works, Tate Gallery London, (1982); 4 Inseln, in Berlin, National Gallery, Berlin, (1980) and Concerning our Present Way of Living, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, (1979). In the 1960s, he founded the magazine Control, which is still in publication.

Text courtesy Victoria Miro.