| 1949 | Worcester, England |
| lives and works in London |
| 2011 | John Stezaker, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York |
| John Stezaker, The Whitechapel Gallery, London | |
| John Stezaker, MUDAM, Luxembourg | |
| 2010 | John Stezaker, Capitain Petzel, Berlin |
| John Stezaker. Lost Images, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg | |
| John Stezaker, Tabula Rasa, The Approach, London | |
| 2009 | Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago Friedrich Petzel, New York |
| 2008 | GAK- Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst Bremen, Bremen, Germany John Stezaker, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf John Stezaker, Mask and Shadow, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy |
| 2007 | Two part show: Marriage, Karsten Schubert (Sep-Nov), London Masks, The Approach W1, London (Oct-Nov) The Rubell Family Collection, Miami Stills Gallery, Edinburgh Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool Project Room, Yvon Lambert, Paris |
| 2006 | The Approach E2, London Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles Bridges and other Metaphors, Norwich Gallery, Norwich John Stezaker, White Columns, New York |
| 2005 | Archiv & Erzählung [Archives and Narration]: John Stezaker and T.J. Wilcox, Kunstverein München, Munich |
| 2004 | The Third Person Archive and other works, The Approach, London |
| 2001 | The Holy Land Series, Wigmore Fine Art, London |
| 1999 | Angels, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1996 | Garden, Cubitt Gallery, London |
| 1991 | Care & Control, Salama-Caro Gallery, London |
| 1990 | Film Still Collages, Friedman-Guinness Gallery, Frankfurt |
| 1989 | John Stezaker: New Work, Salama-Caro Gallery, London Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1984 | Lisson Gallery, London |
| 1979 | Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris Werke 1973-1978, Kuntsmueum Luzern, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne Ikon Gallery, Birmingham The World Made Flesh, The New ‘57 Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1978 | Fragments, Photographer’s Gallery, London Collages, 1977-1978, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Southampton City Museum, Southampton |
| 1977 | Dream Allegories. John Stezaker Collages 1976-1977. Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris Schema Gallery, Florence Spectro Arts, Newcastle, England |
| 1976 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Trois Oeuvres [Three Works], Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris |
| 1975 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Galerie Éric Fabre, Paris |
| 1974 | Galerie Decembre, Munster Galleria Lia Rumma, Rome Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples |
| 1973 | The Museum of Modern Art Oxford, Oxford |
| 1972 | Beyond Art for Art’s Sake: a Propus Mundus, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
| 1970 | Works, 1969-1971, Sigi Krauss Gallery, London |
| 2011 | A painting show, Autocenter, Berlin |
| The Draw Bridge, Q Forum, London | |
| Anti-Photography (curated by Duncan Wooldrige), Focal Point Gallery, Essex | |
| 2010 | The Page, Kimmerich, New York |
| Amor Parvi oder Die Liebe zum Kleinen, Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen | |
| Beg Borrow and Steal, Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami Film and photography central in presentation of recent acquisitions, De Hallen, Haarlem |
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| 2009 | The rustle of language, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Source Codes, Galerie Sprüth Magers, Berlin Le Sang d’un poète: Estuaire Nantes Saint-Nazaire Biennale 2009, Nantes Correspondences (with Rita Ackermann), curated by Matthew Higgs, Meyer Kainer, Vienna John Stezaker & William Horner, The Russian Club Gallery, London Desire acquire, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich |
| 2008 | listen darling...the world is yours, Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Alcoitao Not so Subtle Subtitle, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York |
| Collage: The Unmonumental Picture, New Museum, New York |
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| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London |
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| Past-Forward, 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London |
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| Cohabitation: 13 Artists and Collage, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan |
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| 2007 | Panic Attack, Barbican Art Gallery, London |
| Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring: selected by artist Steven Claydon, Camden Arts Centre, London |
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| 2006 | Dereconstruction, curated by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| Figures of the Player: The paradox of the actor, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon |
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| A Season in Hell, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London |
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| World Gone Mad: Surrealist Returns in Recent British Art, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury; travelling to Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Limehouse Arts Foundation, London |
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| The Glass Bead Game, Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin |
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| Tate Triennial 2006 –New British Art, Tate Britain, London |
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| 2005 | Time Lines, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf |
| Cut, The Approach, London |
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| 2004 | Collage, Bloomberg Space, London |
| Je t’envisage, La disparition du portrait, Musee de L’Elysee, Lausanne |
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| Cara a Cara, Culturgest, Lisbon |
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| About Face, Hayward Gallery, London |
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| Future Face, Science Museum, London |
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| Portraits of Non-Humans, David Risley Gallery, London |
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| Polaroid, 39 Gallery, London |
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| 2003 | Ex-press, Royal College of Art, London |
| Please Take One, 39 Gallery, London |
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| 2002 | Life is Beautiful, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle |
| 2000 | The British Art Show 5, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland; travelling to Collective Gallery; Dean Gallery; Fruitmarket Gallery; Royal Botanic Gardens; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Stills; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; John Hansard Gallery; Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England; Centre for Visual Arts; Chapter Arts Centre; Fotogallery; National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, Wales; Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham |
| 1999 | 23rd Ljubljana International Biennial of Graphic Art, British Section, Mednarodni grafični likovni center, Ljubljana |
| River Deep, Mountain High, Gallery Westland Place, London; travelling to University of Dundee, Duncan and Jordanston Gallery, Dundee |
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| 1998 | American and European Photo-art, Larem Kloker Gallery, Vienna |
| 2nd Shoreditch Photography Biennial, London |
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| Chemical Traces/ Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968-1998, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull City Council, Kingston upon Hull; travelling to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds |
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| 1997 | Pictura Brittanica: Art from Britain (British Council), Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; travelling to Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia; Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand |
| Strange Days, Contemporary British Photography, Galleria Gian Ferrari, Milan |
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| Sad, Gasworks, London |
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| The Quick and The Dead, Royal College of Art, London |
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| The Impossible Document: Photography and Conceptual Art in Britain 1966-1976, Cameraworks Gallery, London, travelling to Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge |
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| Icons, Touring, Tokyo, Kyoto and Hong Kong |
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| Life/Live: Young British Art, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; travelling to Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon |
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| Various group shows, Bank London (1996, 1997, 1998) |
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| 1996 | The Body, Touring Exhibition Canada |
| 1995 | Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; The Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida; The Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Oregon; The Philbrook Academy, Tulsa, Oklahoma; The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; The Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; The Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii; Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan; Daimaru Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Japan; Takamatsu City Museum, Takamatsu, Japan; Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan |
| The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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| 1994 | Who’s Looking at the Family, Barbican Art Gallery, London |
| 1992 | Flora Photographica, Serpentine Gallery, London |
| 1990 | Art Conceptuel, Formes Conceptuelles, Galerie 1900/2000, Paris |
| 1989 | John Stezaker, Glenn Dash Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 1987 | Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York |
| Multiple vision: Ron Haselden, Colin McArthur, John Stezaker, Paul Wombel, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, Cambridge |
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| 1984 | 1984: An Exhibition, Camden Arts Centre, London |
| 1983 | Geometry of Desire, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam |
| 1982 | Simulacra, Riverside Studios, London |
| Aperto, XL, Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Close to the Edge, White Columns, New York |
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| 1980 | Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London |
| 1979 | Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London |
| Un certain art anglais…, ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris |
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| JP2, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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| 1978 | Art for Society, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1977 | British Art, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels |
| 1976 | Art Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan |
| Times, Words and the Camera, Akademische Druck-U, Graz, Austria |
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| 1975 | 9th Biennale de Paris, Paris |
| 1974 | Project 74, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne |
| Critic’s Choice, Tooth’s Gallery, London |
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| Beyond Painting and Sculpture…: works bought for the Arts Council by Richard Cork, Arts Council touring Exhibition [cat.] toured Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds; travelled to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol |
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| 1972 | A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, House Gallery, London |
| The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London |
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| 1971 | The Wall Show, Lisson Gallery, London |
| 1970 | 3 Schools Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London |
| 1969 | Three Person Show, Central Collegiate Building, University College, London |