SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1969
Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
1970
'King for a Day', Nova Scotia and College of Art Gallery, Halifax
1971
'Objects no Concepts', Situation, London and Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1972
'King for a Day', Tate Gallery, London and Galeria Francoise Lambert, Milan
1975
'Early Works 1967-1975', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle
'Nice Style: The End of an Era 1971-1975', PMJ Self, London
1977
'New Political Drawings', Robert Self Gallery, London and Newcastle
1978
'The Object of the Exercise?', The Kitchen, New York
1979
University Gallery, Southampton
Barry Barker, London
Ink, Zurich
1980
'New Works and Performance/Actions Positions', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and Arnolfini, Bristol
1981
Chantal Crousel, Paris
Musee d'Art et Industrie, St. Etienne
Art and Project, Amsterdam
Kunsthalle, Basel
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1982
Karansha Gallery, Tokyo
Greta Insax, Vienna
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Modern Art Gallerie, Vienna
Chantal Crousel, Paris
1982/1983
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1983
Kiki Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf
DAAD Gallery, Berlin
Dany Keller, Munich
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Karansha Gallery, Tokyo
1984
Art Palace, New York
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Karansha Gallery, Tokyo
1985
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Galerie Gayrek, Dusseldorf
Tate Gallery, London
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1986
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1987
Hillman Holland, Atlanta
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1988
Museum von Hendendaagse, Netherlands
Karansha Gallery, Tokyo
1989
The Scottish Gallery, London
1990
Arnolfini, Bristol
Karansha Gallery, Tokyo
Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
Dean Clough, Halifax
1991
'Minimal Moves', Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
'Work', Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
'Recent Acquisitions', Metal Monotypes, William Jackson Gallery, London
'Moving Goalposts', Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1992
'A Far Cry from Beverley Hills', Gmyrek Graphik, Dusseldorf
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
'Bruce McLean: Keramik' Droysen, Berlin
'No Style An Other Situation: Knife Edge', London
'Books 1985-1992', Eagle Gallery, London
1993
'Pavilions for Nothing and Rooms for Redundant Gestures', Kunstmuseum Soro Norkoppings, Norkoppings Kunstmuseum, Sweden
1994
'Seven River Sombrero Series and Other Projects', Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent
'Best Seat Theatre and Other Projects', Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
1995/1996
'Urban Turban', Cornerhouse, Manchester, touring to Norwich Gallery and Ormeau Baths, Belfast
1997
'Bruce McLean', Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent
2000
'Bruce McLean', Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh
2002
Bruce McLean & William Alsop, Malagaarba Works, Wiley Academy, Chichester, West Sussex
Bruce McLean & William Alsop, Two Chairs, Milton Keynes Gallery; Cube, Manchester (2003)
2006
'Process, Progress, Project Archive, 1966-2006', Chelsea Space, London; Galerie Fortlaan 17, Belgium
2008
'Black Bougainevillea. New Paintings and Prints.' Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
2009
'Bruce McLean: New Work', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2010
'Waiter Waiter', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
'Spaghetti alla Vongole Twice', The New Art Gallery, Walsall
'A Book, A Print, A Poster...etc', Parfitt Gallery, Crydon
2011
'Waiter Waiter Curator Curator', Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
2012
'The Shapes of Sculpture', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
'Time-Based Painting', Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
2014
'Action Sculpture Potato Painting', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
'Another Condition of Sculpture', Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
'Bruce McLean: Sculpture, Painting, Photography, Film', firstsight, Colchester, UK
'Bruce McLean', Grazer Kunstverein, Graz (with Hreinn Friotinnsson)
’Gesture’, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2015
’Bruce McLean’, GXGallery, London, UK
’Bruce McLean: Urban Turban: A Moving Picture + A Well and Carefully Peeled Potato: A Still painting’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
2016
'Bruce McLean: One hundred plates', New Art Center, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
’Bruce McLean: A Hot Sunset and Shade Paintings’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
2018
’Bruce McLean: Garden Ware Vessels’, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
’Bruce McLean: Minimal Invisible Missing’, School Gallery Delta House Studios, London, UK
2019
’Bruce McLean: Good Works’, Lemon Street Gallery, Truro, UK
’Bruce McLean: 5 Decades of Sculpture’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
1980
'Action at a Distance, Questions of Misinterpretation', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
'A Thinner Brim', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
'Possibly a Nude by a Coal Bunker', Riverside Studios, London
1981
'A Contemporary Dance', Kunsthalle, Basel
1982
'A Farewell Performance', Riverside Studios, London
'Une Danse Contemporaine', Folkwang Museum, Essen
'Painting on the Angst', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1983
'Yet Another Bad Turn-up', Riverside Studios, London
1985
'Simple Manners and Physical Violence', Tate Gallery, Riverside Studios, London, and touring to Dusseldorf and Cologne
The Adio Arts Awards, Riverside Studios, London
1986
'Physical Manners and Good Violence', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
'Partitions', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
'A Song for the North', Tate of the North, Liverpool
1988
'The Invention of Tradition', Tate of the North, Liverpool
'A Ball is not Dancing School', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1990
'Vertical Balcony', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, Dean Clough, Halifax and Tramway, Glasgow
1991
'Art Architecture and the Environment', Tate Gallery, London
2001
'3 Demonstration Sculptures on 3 Levels', Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent
2009
'A New Live Talking Sculpture', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2010
'A Hot Potato Against a Dark Background', Testbed 1, London
2014
‘Bruce McLean (action sculptor) interviews himself ’, Frieze, London
'The Changing Room', Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
2015
GX Gallery, London
Railings Gallery, London
2019
The Coronet Theatre, London
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1980
'Dokumentation7', Ink, Zurich
'Art in the Seventies', Biennale, Venice
1981
'A New Spirit in Painting', Royal Academy of Arts, London
'New Work', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
'The 4th Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1982
'Aspects of British Art Today', British Council Touring Exhibition, Japan
'Document 7', Museum Fredericianum, Kassel
'Zeitgeist', Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berling and Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1983
'Thought and Action', Laforet Museum, Tokyo
'Art in Aid of Amnesty', Work of Art Gallery, London
'New Art', Tate Gallery, London
'December Exhibition', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1984
'When Attitudes Become Form', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
'The Critical Eye', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
'An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture', Museum of Modern Art, New York
'The British Art Show', Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1985
'Bilder fur Frankfurt', Bestandausstellung des Museums fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
'John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
'Towards an Art of Peace Biennale', Rane Block, Hamburg
'Homage au Gezmes', ICC, Berlin
'Sculptor's Drawings', Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
'7000 Oaks', Kunsthalle, Tubingham
1985/1986
'11 European Painters', National Gallery, Athens
1986
'Peter Moores Liverpool Project 8: Out of Line', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
'The Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of South Wales, Sydney
1987
'British Art in the 20th Century', The Royal Academy of Arts, London
'Current Affairs', Museum of Modern Art Oxford: British Council Exhibition touring to the National Gallery, Prague
'Vessel', Serpentine Gallery, London
'Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s', British Council and Musee d'Art Moderne, Brussels
'Berlinart 1961-1987', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987/1988
'Bingo, Bango, Bongo', Tokyo
1988
'British Home Made', Rouen
'Out of Clay: Creations in Clay by Artists, Potters and Sculptors', City Art Gallery, Manchester
'Twenty Years of British Sculpture', Musee des Beaux Arts, Le Havre
1989
'Balkon mit Facher', DAAD, Berlin
'Scottish Art since 1990', Edinburgh
1990
'Great British Art Show', Glasgow
1991
'Scottish Art in the 20th Century', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1993
'Out of Site, Out of Mind,' Lisson Gallery, London
'The Sixties: The Art Scene in London', Barbican Art Gallery
'The Raw and the Cooked', Barbican Art Gallery, London and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1994
'Contemporary Print Show', The Barbican Concourse Gallery, London
'Make Space', Upper Campfield Market Gallery, Manchester
1995
'Power to Change', BBC Wales and RIBA, London
1996
Glasgow Print Studio
1997
'De Re Metallica', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
'Glass Light and Space', Craffs Council, London
'Out of Action; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979', Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1998
'Drawing Itself', The London Institute, London
1999
'Net Web Culture Capture: Bruce McLean and David Proud', Milton Keynes Gallery, Manchester
2000
'Re-Play', Generali Foundation, Wien
'Das funfte Element - Geld oder Kunst', Kunsthalle Dusseldorf
2002
'Blast to Freeze', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
'Tableaux Vivants - Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video', Kunsthalle Wien
2004
'Neue Figuration in den 80er Jahren', Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
'The Schools Portfolio', The Royal Academy of Art, London
2005
'Go Between', Magazin4, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
'20: Twenty', Cornerhouse, Manchester
'Wittgenstein in New York', Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin
2006
'Body Scenes', Galerie Wolfgang Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
'Tod Bendhem - Collector', Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, Gloucestershire
2007
'Sammelstucke - Originalgraphische Werke', Galerie & Edition Bode GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany
'Tanzen, Sehen', Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla, Spain
'A Process of Living', Leicester City Council, Leicester
2008
'Performing the City', Lothringer 13, Munchen
2009
'The Sculpture Show', V22, London
'Clay', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2013
'A House of Leaves', David Roberts Art Foundation, London
'Tortoise', WW Gallery, London
Knife Edge Press: The Complete Works (so far), Cooper Gallery, Dundee
2015
'Set in Stoke', British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent
2016
‘Conceptual Art in Britain: 1964–1979’, Tate Britain, London
'Either Those Curtains', FOLD Gallery, London
’Trigger Words’, Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow, UK
2017
’Painting a Century’, New Art Centre, Salisbury, UK
2018
’Tanya Leighton: 10 Year Anniversary’, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2019
’Prints I wish I had published’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
’Some of the artists I have worked for’, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
2020
’The Return of the Spirit in Painting’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
AWARDS
1965
Pratt Bequest for Sculpture
1966
Sainsbury Award for Sculpture
1975
Major Arts Council of Great Britain Award
1978
Arts Council Bursary
1981
DAAD Fellowship, Berlin
1985
Mercedes Benz Prize
John Moores 1st Painting Prize
1994
Royal Television Society Design Award for Production Design (non-drama)
1995
Lords Provost Prize, Glasgow
COLLECTIONS AND COMMISSIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery
Arts Council of Great Britain
The British Council
Contemporary Arts Society
Saatchi Collection
Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Het Kruithuis Kunstmuseum, Hertogenbosch
LA Louver Gallery
Laine Art Gallery
National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka
South Bank Centre, London
Tate Gallery, London
Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan
University of Southampton
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Royal Festival Hall, London
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
Union Bank of Switzerland, London
Canary Wharf, London
Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Museum of Modern Art, Edinburgh
British Rail
Glaxo Holdings
Scottish Airports, Glasgow
Broadgate, London
Ludgate Development, London
Credit Suisse, Canary Wharf
Brindlington South Foreshore Promenade
Slough Estates
Tottenham Hale Station
Laing Construction
Ayrshire Council
Royal Museum of Scotland