The name Art & Language was first adopted in 1968, to refer to a collaborative practice that had developed over the previous two years between Michael Baldwin and Terry Atkinson, in association with David Bainbridge and Harold Hurrell.
In 1970 Ian Burn and Mel Ramsden merged their separate collaboration with
Art & Language. The journal Art-Language was first published in May 1969 and a second journal The Fox was published in New York in 1975-76.
From 1976 the genealogical thread of Art & Language's artistic work was taken solely into the hands of Baldwin and Ramsden,with the theoretical and critical collaboration of these two with Charles Harrison.
__ SOLO SHOWS
2013
'Portraits of President Barack Obama
in the Style of Jackson Pollock'
Exclusive to Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2008
'Works: 1965 - 1978, 2007 - 2008'
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
'Brouillages/Blurrings, works on paper', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
2006
'Art & Language'
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2005
'Hard to say when', Lisson Gallery, London (England)
2004
Art & Language, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Art & Language, CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Malága, Málaga
2003
Art & Language, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
2002
Art & Language - 'Too dark to read',
Musée d’art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq
2001
'Art & Language, 15 Essays'
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
1999
'The Artist Out of Work: Art & Language 1972-1981', P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
1998
'Sights Trapped by Liars',
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
1997
'Conceptual Art from 1965 to 1974'
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
1992
Art & Language, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
__ GROUP SHOWS
2013
Groupshow with :
Art & Language,
Bruce Nauman,
Bernd & Hella Becher,
Guy Van Bossche,
Sol Le Witt,
WIlliam Wegman,
Bruce Nauman
Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2008
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London (England)
'Sound of Music', Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
2007
'20 ans du Musée d’Art Moderne - L’art après 1960 dans les collections', Musée d’Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
'Des Fantômes et des Anges', MAC’s Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu
'Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945', ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
2006
'Kunst als Möbel im Widerstand', MARTa Herford, Herford
2005
'A Brief History of Invisible Art', CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
'Faire signe', La Crieé - Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes
'La insurrección invisible de un millón de mentes', Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
'The invisible insurrection of a million minds', Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain
'Voisins Officiels', Musée d’art moderne Lille métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq
'Exit- Ausstieg aus dem Bild', ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
2004
'Before The End (The Last Painting Show)', SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY
'Artists’ Favourites - act II, ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
'A Angles vifs', CAPC - Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux
'ID Troubles - Shake', Halle für Kunst e.V., Lüneburg
'Support - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung', 1950, Heute, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
'Kunst für die kunst', Neue Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen
2003
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia,
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2002
'Sans commune mesure', Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing
'Kunst nach Kunst', Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
'De singuliers débordements', Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens
'Iconoclash - Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschaft, Religion und Kunst', ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
2001
'Ingenting / Nothing, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art', Malm, Biennale for Contemporary Art in Leuven, 2001, Biennale for Contemporary Art in Leuven, Leuven
2000
'Many Colored Objects Placed Side By Side To Form A Row Of Many Colored Objects', Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
'Global Conceptualism - Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s', MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1999
'Get Together - Kunst als Teamwork', Kunsthalle Wien (project / public space Karlsplatz), Vienna
'L’envers du décor', FRAC - Rhône-Alpes, IAC, Institute d`art contemporain, Villeurbanne
'Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s', Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
'Positionen - Museiondocumenta', MUSEION - Museo d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Bolzano
1998
'Odradek', The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
'A Choice from the Collection', Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
'Ce qu’il te plaît', Mamco - musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva