Prof John Goto

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Prof John Goto's Biography

Forename(s): John
Sex: Male
Date of Birth: Stockport

Foretitle(s): Prof
Surname: GOTO
Style: Prof John Goto
Recreations: jazz, political and art history

Prof John Goto's Professional Career

Career: artist; pt/t lectr: Camberwell Sch of Art 1979-81, Poly of Central London 1979-87, Oxford Brookes Univ 1979-99, Ruskin Sch of Drawing & Fine Art Univ of Oxford 1987, Univ of Derby 2000-03; prof of fine art Univ of Derby 2003-; visiting lectr to numerous art colls since 1979; Br Cncl scholar: Paris 1977, Prague 1978; artist fell Girton Coll Cambridge 1988-89, vice-chm Visual Arts Panel Southern Arts Assoc 1989-90; Solo Exhibitions incl: Goto Photographs 1971-81 (The Photographer's Gallery) 1981, Goto Photographs 1975-83 (PPS Galerie Gundlac Hamburg) 1983, ULUV Gallery Prague (Br Cncl Exhibition) 1983, Moravian Gallery Bruno Czechoslovakia 1983 (touring Czechoslovakia and Spain 1983-85), Sites of Passage (Fischer Fine Art and Ashmolean Museum Oxford) 1986 and 1988, Terezin (Cambridge Darkroom, John Hansard Gallery Southampton, Cornerhouse Manchester and Raab Galerie Berlin) 1988-89, The Atomic Yard (Kettle's Yard Cambridge and Raab Gallery) 1993, The Scar (Benjamin Rhodes Gallery London, Manchester City Galleries and John Hansard Gallery Univ of Southampton) 1993, John Goto (touring Russia) 1994-95, The Framers' Collection (Portfolio Gallery Edinburgh) 1997, The Commissar of Space (MOMA Oxford) 1998, NPG2000 Exhibition of Cmmn Artist (Nat Portrait Gallery London) 1999, Capital Arcade (Korea, Sweden and UK tour) 1999 and 2000, High Summer (London, Edinburgh, Netherlands, Oporto and UK tour) 2001-02, Loss of Face (Tate Britain) 2002-03, Ukadia (Djanogly Art Gallery) 2003 (also at Galeria f5.6 Munich and Gallery On Seoul 2005), John Goto's New World Circus (nat tour) 2006-07 and (tour Finland to Poland) 2008-09, Floodscapes (Gallery On Seoul and UK tour) 2006-08, Dance to the Muzik of Time (Dominique Fiat Gallery Paris) 2008; Group Exhibitions incl: Painting/Photography (Richard DeMarco Gallery) Edinburgh 1986, Next/Tomorrow (Kettle's Yard Cambridge) 1986, Fifteen Studios (MOMA Oxford) 1986, Romantic Visions (Camden Arts Centre) 1988, Blasphemies Ecstasies & Cries (Serpentine Gallery) 1989, Photographic Art in Britain 1945-89 (Barbican), Metamorphosis (Raab Gallery Millbank) 1989, After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art (Royal Festival Hall and UK tour) 1995-96, Trade (Winterthur, Rotterdam) 2001-02, Sight Seeing (Graz) 2003, Collage (Bloomberg Space London) 2004, Identity_Factories (Mir Gallery Bucharest) 2005, John Goto's New World Circus (Lodz Art Centre Poland and Voipaala Arts Centre Finland) 2008, High Summer (Haus de Fotografie Dr Robert-Gerlich-Museum Burghausen) 2009

Prof John Goto's Publications

Books and Publications: Catalogues Shotover (1984), Terezin (1988), The Atomic Yard (1990), The Scar (1993), Commissar of Space (1998), The National Portrait Gallery: An Architectural History (2000), Ukadia (2003), Carro Electrico 104 (2005), New World Circus (2006), Floodscapes (2006), Dance to the Muzik of Time (2009)

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