Bruce McLean, b. 1944, Glasgow, UK. Lives and works in London. Graduated from St Martin’s School of Art, London, in 1965. Exhibitions include: GOMA, solo, Brisbane (2016), Tate Gallery, solo, London (1985), Whitechapel Art Gallery, solo, London (1983), Modern Art Gallerie, solo, Vienna (1982), ‘Early Works 1967-1975’ solo, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford (1975), ‘King for a Day’ solo, Tate Gallery, London (1972), ‘Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979’, Tate Britain, London (2016), ‘Out of Action; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997), ‘Berlinart 1961-1987’, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1987), ‘Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s’, British Council and Musee d’Art Moderne, Brussels (1987), New Art, Tate Gallery, London (1983). Performances include: ‘A Ball is not Dancing School’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1988), ‘Simple Manners and Physical Violence’, Tate Gallery, London (1985). Collections include: The British Council, Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf, National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Tate Gallery, London, South Bank Centre, London, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
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