Gilbert is born in 1943 in the Dolomites (IT)
George is born in 1942 in Devon (UK)
Gilbert & George live and work in London (UK)

Solo exhibitions

2024

• London Pictures, The Gilbert & George Center, London (UK)

2023

• The Paradisical Pictures, The Gilbert & George Center, London (UK)
• The Corpsing Pictures, White Cube Mason’s Yard, London (UK); White Cube West Palm Beach (US); Lehmann Maupin, New York (US)

2022

2021

• Thirteen Earthly Pictures, Baronian Xippas, Knokke-Heist (BE) 
• New Normal Pictures, White Cube, London (UK); Lehmann Maupin, New York (US)
• The Paradisical Pictures, Sprüth Magers, Berlin (DE)
• Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition (1971 – 2016), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (DE)

2020

• Gilbert & George: Works from a Private Collection, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London (UK)
• Gilbert & George, Casa Rusca, Locarno (CH)
• Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition (1971-2016), Kunsthalle Zürich; Luma Westbau (CH); Reykjavik Art Museum (IS)

2019

• The Paradisical Pictures, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (US)
• There Were Two Young Men (avril 1971), Fondation LVMH, Paris (FR)
• Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition (1971-2016), Moderne Museet, Stockholm (SE); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (NO)
• The Beard Pictures, Bernier/Eliades, Athens (GR)

2018

• The major exhibition, Helsinki Art Museum (FI)
• Gilbert & George: The Great Exhibition (1971-2016), LUMA, Arles (FR)
• Fuckosophy, Neues Museum, Nürnberg (DE)
• Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton (UK)
• The Beard Pictures and their Fuckosophy, White Cube, London (UK)
• Scapegoating Pictures for Belfast, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast (IE)

2017

• The Beard Pictures, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE); Lehmann Maupin, New York (US); Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris Pantin (FR); Galerie Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT); Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens (GR)
• Drinking Pieces & Video Sculpture 1972-73, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London (UK)
• The General Jungle or Carrying on Sculpting, Lévy Gorvy, London (UK)
• Luther und die Avantgarde. SCAPEGOATING PICTURES – Sündenbock-Bilder, St. Matthäus-Kirche, Berlin (DE)
• Scapegoating Pictures for Budapest, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (HU)

2016

• NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale (US)

2015

• The Banners, White Cube, London (UK)
  
• The Art Exhibition, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania (AU)
  
• Gilbert & George: The Early Years , the Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
  
• Utopian Pictures, Arndt Singapore, Singapore (SG)

2014

• Gilbert & George: Films and Video Sculptures, 1970-1981, Lehmann Maupin, New York (US)
  
• Scapegoating Pictures, White Cube Bermondsey, London, (UK)
  
• Scapegoating Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
  
• Villa Paloma, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, (MC)
  
• Gilbert & George: Artist Rooms, Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery Exeter, Devon (UK)

2013

• London Pictures, Casal Solleric Fundacio Palma Espai d’Art, Palma de Mallorca, (ES); Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisberg (DE)

2012

• London Pictures, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels (BE); White Cube all sites, London and Hong Kong (CN); Lehmann Maupin, New York (US); Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US); Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris (FR); Arndt, Berlin (DE); Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT)

2011

• Jack Freak Pictures Museum Tour, Laznia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk (PL) (2011-2012), Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (AU), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (DE)
• The Urethra Postcard art of Gilbert & George, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Turin (IT)
• Urethra Postcard Pictures, White cube, London (UK); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR); Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT); Ivory Press, Madrid (ES)

2010

• Jack Freak Pictures Museum Tour, BOZAR, Brussels (BE) (2010-2011), Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (HR), Centro de Arte Contemporaneo (CAC) Malaga, (ES)

2009

• Gilbert & George, Jack Freak Pictures, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (IT); Bernier/Eliades, Athens (GR); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (AT); Baronian-Francey, Brussels (BE); White Cube mason’s yard & Hoxton square, London (UK); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR); Arndt & Partner, Berlin (DE)

2008

• Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York (US) (2008-2009); Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (US); The Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco (US)
• Notations: Gilbert & George, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (US) 
• The Secret Files of Gilbert & George, Video Screening, CCA Kitakyushu Project Gallery (JP)

2007

• Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition, Tate Modern, London (UK); Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT)
  
• Gilbert & George – works from the collection, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
  
• Gilbert & George. Selected works from the 80s, Faggionato Fine Art, London (UK)

2006

• SONOFAGOD PICTURES Was Jesus Heterosexual?, White Cube, London (UK)

2005

• Ginko Pictures, British Pavillon – 51th Venice Biennale, Venice (IT)
• 20 London E1 Pictures, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
• Gilbert & George, Tate Britain, London (UK)

2004

• 20 London E1 Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)

2003

• Gilbert & George, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York (US); Kroller-Muller museum Otterlo (NL)

2002

• The Dirty Words Pictures, Serpentine Gallery, London (UK)
  
• The Art of Gilbert & George, Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, (PT)
  
• Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (US)
  
• Nine Dark Pictures, Portikus, Frankfurt (DE)
  
• 20 London E1 Pictures, Modern Art Museum, St Etienne (FR); Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
  
• Thirteen Hooligan Pictures, Bernier/Eliades, Athens (GR)
  
• Perversive Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York (US)

2001

• Gilbert & George, Chateau d’Arenthon Fondation pour l’Art Contemporain, Alex (Annency) (FR)
  
• The Art of Gilbert and George, The Factory, Athens School of Art (GR)
  
• New horny Pictures, White Cube, London (UK)

2000

• Gilbert & George, Parkhaus, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• Zig-Zag. Pictures 2000, FIAC, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
  
• Nineteen Ninety Nine, 1999, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna (AT)
  
• MM 2000; Biennale de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier (FR)
  
• Nineteen Ninety Nine, 1999, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago (US)

1999

• Gilbert & George 1970-1988, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo (NO)
  
• Gilbert & George 1986-1997, Drassanes, Valéncia (ES)
  
• The Rudimentary Pictures, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes (UK) (inaugural   exhibition)
  
• Gilbert & George 1991-1997, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast (UK)
  
• Nineteen Ninety Nine, 1999, Kunstmuseum, Bonn (DE)

1998

• New Testamental Pictures, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (IT)

1997

• The Fundamental Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Gilbert & George, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, (FR)
  
• Gilbert & George: Art for All 1971 – 1992, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)
  
• Gilbert & George Art, Magasin 3, Stockholm, (SE)

1996

• Gilbert & George, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, (IT)
  
• The Naked Shit Pictures, South London Art Gallery, London, (UK)

1995

• The Singing Sculpture, CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (FR)
  
• The Naked Shit Pictures, South London Art Gallery, London, (UK)
  
• Gilbert & George, Galerie Nikolas Sonne, Berlin (DE)

1994

• Robert Miller Gallery, New York (US)
• Museo d’Arte Moderna, Lugano (CH)
  
• New Shit Pictures, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne (DE)
  
• Shitty Naked Human World, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)

1993

• China Exhibition 1993, National Art Gallery, Peking; The Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
• The Cosmological Pictures, Tate Gallery Liverpool (UK)

1992

• New Democratic Pictures, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus (DK)
  
• New Democratic Pictures, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)

1991

• Gilbert & George, Gramo Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
  
• The Cosmological Pictures, Palac Sztuki, Krakow (PL) ; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (IT); Kunsthalle Zurich (CH); Wiener Secession, Vienna (AT) ; Ernst Muzeum, Budapest (HU) ; Haags Gemeenstemuseum, The Hague (NL); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IR); Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (ES); Tate Gallery Liverpool (UK) ; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (DE)
  
• The Singing Sculpture & The General Jungle, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)

1990

• Gilbert & George Pictures 1983-1988, Moscow Exhibition, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (RU)
  
• Twenty-Five Worlds By Gilbert & George, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Gilbert & George Post-Card Sculptures and Ephemera 1969-1981, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York (US)
• The New Cosmological Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galerie Langer Fain, Paris (FR)
• Gilbert & George: Worlds & Windows, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
• Gilbert & George, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Eleven Worlds by Gilbert & George and Antique Clocks, Desire Feuerle Gallery, Cologne (DE)

1989

• The for Aids Exhbitions, Anthony D’offay Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Gilbert & George: Postcard Sculptures, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (US)
  
• The 1988 Pictures, Christian Stein Gallery, Milan (IT)

1988

• Ascan Crone Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany (DE)

1987

• Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, Palacio de Valazquez, Parque del Reitrio, Madrid (ES); Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (DE); Hayward Gallery, London (UK) ; Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Gilbert & George New Pictures, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Gilbert & George Pictures, The Aldrich museum, Ridgefield (US)

1986

• Gilbert & George, The Complete Pictures 1971-1985, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Kunsthalle, Basel, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (BE)

1985

• Gilbert & George, Milwaukee Art Museum; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (US)
  
• New Moral Works, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)

1984

• New Photo-Pieces, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Gilbert & George, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; The Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (US)
  
• The Believing World, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Hands Up, Schelman & Kluser Gallery, Munich “Live’s”, Pieroni Gallery, Rome (IT)

1983

• Modern Faith, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Photo-Pieces 1980-82, David Bellman Gallery, Toronto, New Works, Crousel-Hussenot Gallery, Paris (FR)

1982

• New Photo-Pieces, Gewad Ghent (BE)
  
• Crusade, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)

1981

• Photo-Pieces 1971-80, (Retrospective) Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (DE); Kunsthalle,  Bern (CH); Centre National d’Art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR) ; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (UK)

1980/81

• Photo-Pieces 1980-81, Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris (FR)

1980

• Post-Card Sculptures, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam; Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• New Photo-Pieces, Karen & Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens; Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Modern Fears, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Photo-Pieces 1971-80, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)

1978

• Photo-Pieces, Dartington Hall Gallery, Dartington Hall (UK)
  
• New Photo-Pieces, Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Art Agency, Tokyo (JP)

1977

• Red Morning, Sperone Fischer Gallery, Basel (CH)
  
• New Photo-Pieces, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam; Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf (DE)

1976

• The General Jungle, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo (US)
  
• Dead Boards, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Mental, Robert Self Gallery, London (UK); Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle (UK)

1975

• Bloody Life, Sonnabend Gallery, Paris; Sonnabend Gallery, Geneva; Lucio Amelio Gallery, Naples (IT)
  
• Post-Card Sculptures, Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Dusty Corners, Art Agency, Tokyo (JP)

1974

• Drinking Sculptures, Art & Project,MTL, Antwerp (BE)
  
• Humane Bondage, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• Dark Shadow, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam; Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Cherry Blossom, Sperone Gallery, Rome (IT)

1973

• The Shrubberies & Singing Sculpture, National Gallery of New South Wales (AU) ; John Kaldor Project, Sydney (AU); National Gallery of Victoria (AU); John Kaldor Project, Melbourne (AU)
  
• Modern Rubbish, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
• Any Port in a Storm, Sonnabend Gallery, Paris (FR)
  
• New Decorative Works, Sperone Gallery, Turin (IT)
  
• Reclining Drunk, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (UK)

1972

• New Photo-Pieces, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• Three Sculptures on Video Tape, Gerry Schum Video Gallery, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• The Bar, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK); Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (UK)
  
• The Evening Before the Morning After, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (UK)
  
• It Takes A Boy To Understand A Boy ‘s Point Of View, Situation Gallery, London (UK)
  
• A New Sculpture, Sperone Gallery, Rome (IT)

1971

• There Were Two Young Men, Sperone Gallery, Turin (IT)
  
• The General Jungle, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• The Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (UK); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) ; Kunstverein Dusseldorf (DE); Kon. Museum Voor Shone Kunsten, Antwerpen (BE)
  
• The Ten Speeches, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (UK)
  
• New Photo-Pieces, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)

1970

• George by Gilbert & Gilbert by George, Fournier Street, London (UK)
  
• The Pencil on Paper, Descriptive Works, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf; Folker Skulima Gallery, Berlin (NL)
  
• Art Notes and Thoughts, Art & Project Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
  
• Frozen Into the Nature for You Art, Francoise Lambert Gallery, Milan; Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Cologne (DE)
  
• To Be with Art is all We Ask, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (UK)

1969

• Anniversary, Frank’s Sandwich Bar, London (UK)
  
• Shit and Cunt, Robert Fraser Gallery, London (UK)

Group exhibitions

2022

2021

• Drôles de convergences, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (RU)
• Espace Louis Vuitton, Tokyo (JP)
• Minimal/Conceptual, Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art (JP)
• Self-History, works from the Obayashi Collection, WHAT Museum, Tokyo (JP)
• Beano: The Art of Breaking the Rules, Somerset House, London (UK)
• The Plot, Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone (UK)
• Arcimboldo Face to Face, Centre Pompidou Metz (FR)
• The Paradox of Stillness, The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis (US)

2019

• Schöne Sentimenten, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (BE)
• Le Choix d’Albert, Xippas Genève, Geneva (CH)
• The World Exists To Be Put On Postcards: Artist’s Postcards from 1960 to Now, British Museum (UK)

2018

• Memory Palace, White Cube, London (UK)

2017

• Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)
• ake me (I’m Yours), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (IT)
• The Artist’s Voice, The Parkview Museum, Singapore (SP)
• The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (US)

2016

• Love. L’arte contemporanea incontra l’amore, Chiostro del Bramante, Rome (IT)
• Summer Exhibition 2016, Royal Academy of Arts, London (UK)

2014

• Ritornando, Albert Baronian @ CIAC, Ghent (BE)
• Lens-Based Sculpture: The Transformation of Sculpture through Photography, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein (LI)
• Tea with Nefertiti, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, Munich
• Somewhat Abstract: Selection from the Arts Council Collection, Nottingham Contemporary (UK)
• 69/96, Alte Fabrik, Rapperswil-Jona (CH)

2013

• Palindrome, ARNDT, Berlin (DE)
• As if it Could, ouverture, Works and Documents from the Herbert Foundation, Herbert Foundation, Ghent (BE)
• Glam! The Performance of Style, Tate, Liverpool; Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt (DE)
• Tea with Nefertiti, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (FR)
• La Sentinelle. Conversation, dédicaces et autres partitions, CPAC, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, (FR)
• Disaster / The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin (FR)

2012

• Migration, ARNDT, Berlin (DE)
• Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
• Artandpress, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (DE)
• The Artists’ Postcard Show, Spike Island, Bristol (UK)
• L’Institut des archives sauvages, Villa Arson, Nizza (FR)

2011

• Staging Action: Performance in Photography since 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
  
• Moving Portraits, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea (US)

2010

• Party!, New Art Gallery, Walsall (US)
  
• Love, Sorcha Dallas Gallery, Glasgow (US)
  
• Brave New World, MUDAM, Luxembourg (LU)

2009

• Barock, Museo d’Art Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples (IT)
  
• Just What is it..100 years years of Modern Art from Private Collections in Baden-Wurttemberg, ZKM Center for Art & Media Karlsruhe (DE)
  
• T-Tris, B.P.S. Space for Contemporary Art, Charleroi (BE)
  
• Bad Habits, Albright Knox Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Collage, London New York, Fred Gallery, London (UK)
  
• 15 Years of Collecting: Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (DE)
  
• BP British Art Displays 1500- 2009, Tate Britain, London (UK)
  
• Passports: Great Early Buys from the British Council Collection, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
  
• The Fallen Angels – Watari-Um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)

2008

• Based on Paper, MIMA, Middlesbrough (UK)
  
• The Sum of Its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York City, (US)
  
• History in the Making, A Retrospective of the Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
  
• Held together with water, Art from the Sammlung Verbund, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul (TR)
  
• Parkhaus, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf (DE)

2007

• The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
  
• Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London (UK)
  
• The Secret Public: The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (UK)
  
• INTO ME/OUT OF ME ,Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)

2006

• Interventions, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles (UK)
  
• How To Improve The World, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Where a Pawn becomes a Queen, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (DE)
  
• Inventory : Works from the Herbert Collection, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz (AT)
  
• Sixty Years of Sculpture in the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (UK)
  
• Handsome, Analix Forever, Geneva (CH)
  
• Eye on Europe – Print, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, MoMA, New York (US)
  
• Internazionale XII Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara (IT)
  
• Into me/Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island (US)
  
• LACMA at 40: Gifts in Honor of the Museum’s Anniversary, Los Angeles (US); County Museum of Art- LACMA, Los Angeles (US)
  
• E-Flux Video Rental, Arthouse at the Jones Center – Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin (US)

2005

• Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
  
• ‘Bock mit Inhalt’ – Summer Exhibition, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
  
• Superstars – from Warhol to Madonna, Kunsthalle, Vienna (AT)
  
• The Theatre of Art – Masterpieces from the Collection of the Ludwig Museum, Colo Villa Manin. Centro Darte Contemporanea, Codroipo (US)
  
• Open Systems – Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London (UK)
  
• Eye of the Storm: The IMMA Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA, Dublin (IR)
  
• The giving person, PAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples (IT)
  
• The Last Picture Show – Artists using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida (US)
  
• Faltering Flame, Shefffield Galleries & Museums Trust, Sheffield (UK)

2004

• Puzzle, Galleria Il Ponte, Florence (IT)
  
• The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (CH)
  
• From a Collection – For a Collection, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf; Stedelijk Museum (DE)
  
• Monument to Now. Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens (GR)
  
• Hidden Histories, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (UK)
  
• Head to Head, Tate Modern, London (UK)
  
• Secrets of the 90s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem (NL)
  
• Turning Points – 20th Century British Sculpture, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran (IR)
  
• The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
  
• Treasure Island: 10 Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (AT)
  
• I hate you , The Falckenberg Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (DK)

2003

• Narcissus – New Visions on Self-Representation, Crac Alsace, Altkirch  (FR)
  
• Happiness – A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
  
• The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography – 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (US)
  
• Gelijk het leven is, S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent (BE)
  
• Social Strategies – Redefining social realism, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois (US)
  
• Dreams and Conflicts:The Dictatorship of the Viewer, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (IT)
  
• Journey to Now – John Kaldor Art Projects & Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, (AU)
  
• PROJECTION, Konrad Fischer Galerie GmbH, Duesseldorf (DE)
  
• Photo – Kunst – 1852 – 2002, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
  
• Het kunstenaarsboek als wetenschappelijke bron, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
  
• Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California (US)
  
• Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens (GR)

2002

• From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York (US)

2000

• Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, New York (US)
  
• Out There, White Cube 2, Hoxton Square, London (UK)
  
• The Rudimentary Pictures, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

1998

• Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (US)
  
• Photoplay, George Eastman House, Rochester, Nexw York (US)
  
• Selected Works from The Fundamental Pictures, Massimo Martino Fine Arts & Projects, (CH)
  
• New Testamental Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
  
• New Testamental Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (AT)
  
• Black White and Red 1971 to 1980, James Cohan Gallery, New York (US)

1997

• Treasure Island, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (PT)
  
• Das Zwanzigste Jahrhundert, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft, Berlin (DE)
  
• 97 Kwangju Biennale Unmapping the Earth, Kwangju (KR)
• Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzburg (AT)
  
• The Fundamental Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery/Lehmann Maupin, New York (US)

1996

• La Vie Moderne en Europe 1870-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (JP)

1995

• Endurance: The Information, Exit Art, New York (US)
  
• Take Me (I’m Yours), Serpentine Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Attitudes/Sculptures, 1963-1972, CAPC, Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux (FR)
  
• 20/20 , In Khan, New York (US)
  
• Human/Nature Benefit Exhibition, The New Museum, New York (US)

1994

• 1969, Galerie Jablonka, Cologne (DE)
  
• Recent Work, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Sarah Staton: Supastore boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London (UK)

1993

• Contemporary Self-Portraits “Here’s Looking at Me”, elac, Centre d’Echanges de Perrache, Lyon (FR)
  
• Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London (UK)
  
• 1993: Europe Sans Frontieres, Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris (FR)
  
• Image Makers, The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York (US)
  
• Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie , Sprengel Museum, Hannover, (DE)
  
• Photoplay, Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection, NY, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida (US) ; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey (MX); Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas (VE); MASP/ Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (BR); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes; Buenos Aires, (AR); Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago (CL)

1992

• Dark Decor, DePree Art Center, Hope College, Holland, Michigan (US); San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California (US); Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Belleair, Florida (US)
  
• More Than One Photograph, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)

1991

• 20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
  
• Metropolis, International Art Exhibition 1991, Martin-GropiusBau, Berlin (DE)
  
• Photography: 1980-1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver (US)
  
• Consorts, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica (US)
  
• Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (US); Museum of Contemporary Art Wright State University, Dayton (US); Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham (US); Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph (CA)
  
• A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (US)

1990

• Assembled, The University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton (US)
  
• Team Spirit, Neuberger Museum, SUNY at Purchase; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (US); Vancouver (CA); The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami(US); Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte (US); Davenport Art Museum; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis (US)
  
• Art That Happens to be Photography, Texas Gallery (US)
  
• Exposed, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York (US)

1989

• Repetition, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York (US)
  
• Bilderstreit: contradiction, unity and fragmentation in art since 1960, Ludwig Museum in the Rheinhallen, Cologne (DE)
  
• Prospect 89, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Schirn Kunst-Halle, Frankfurt (DE)
  
• Lost and Found: The Object Transformed, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (US)
  
• New Works by Gallery Artists, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Words, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York (US)

1988

• Under Construction; New Photomontage, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield, Michigan (US) (exh. cat.) Capc, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (FR); Art Cologne, (DE) ; Hamburger Bahnhof (DE),  Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (IT); Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporary, Trent (IT); Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP); The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, (JP); The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, (JP); The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (JP)
  
• A “Drawing” Show, Cable Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)

1987

• This is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota (US)
  
• Perverted By Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Greenvale, New York (US)
  
• Romance, Curated by Ronald Jones, Knight Gallery, Charlotte (US)
  
• Selections from X) 1, organized by Saul Ostrow, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York (US)
  
• Uit het oude Europa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

1986

• Correspondances ‘New York Art Now’, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo (JP) (December 20, 1985 – January 19, 1986) and Tochigi Perfectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya (JP)
  
• Gilbert & George; Gareth Fisher, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
  
• Falls The Shadow – 1986 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Memento Mori, Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo (MX)

1985

• Paris Biennale, Paris (FR)
  
• The 1985 Carnegie International, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (US)

1984

• Sydney Biennale, Sydney (AU)
  
• The Critical Eye, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut (US)
  
• Artistic Collaboration in the 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. (US)
  
• The Poetry of Vision-Rose, The Guinness Hop Store, Dublin (IR)

1983

• Photography in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (JP)
  
• Acquisition Priorities, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (US)
  
• Trends in Post War American and European Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (US)
  
• New Art, The Tate Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Urban Pulsers: The Artist and the City, Plan for Art, Pittsburg (US)

1982

• Aspects of British Art Today, Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo (US)
  
• Documenta (7), Kassel (DE)
  
• Zeitgeist, Berlin (DE)

1981

• Westkunst, Cologne (DE)
  
• 16 Bienal De Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (BR)
  
• British Sculpture In The Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Project 6: Art Into The 80’s, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
  
• Point de Vue, Images, Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saone (FR)

1980

• Gerry Schum, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL); Kunstverein, Cologne (DE); The Art Gallery, Vancouver (CA); A Space, Toronto (CA)
  
• Kunst In Europa Na ’68, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (BE)
  
• Explorations In The 70’s, Pittsburg Plan for Art, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (US)

1979

• Process and Sequence: A Photographic Exhibition, Roosevelt, New York (US)
  
• Photography as Art/Art as Photography, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (AT)
  
• Europe In The 70’s, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (US)
  
• On Walks and Travels, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
  
• Un Certain Art Anglais, A.R.C./Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville Paris (FR)
  
• Wahrnehmungen, Aufzeichnungen, Mitteilungen, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld (DE)
  
• Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
• Gerry Schum, Stedelijck Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

1978

• Europe In The 70’s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas (US)
  
• Made By Sculptors, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
  
• Documenta (6), Kassel (DE)
  
• 38th Biennale, Venice (IT)
  
• Door Beeldhouwers Gemaakt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)

1977

• Photography as an Art Form, John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Saratoga (US)
  
• Documenta (6), Kassel (DE)
  
• Europe In The 70’s,The Art Institute of Chicago (US)

1976

• Arte Inglese Oggi, Palazzo Reale, Milan (IT)
• Group Show, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
  
• The Artist and The Photograph, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IL)

1975

• Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (US)
  
• Narrative in Contemporary Art, University of Guelph, Ontario (CA)

1974

• Word Works, Mt.San Antonio College, Walnut (US)
  
• Medium Photography, Kunstverein, Hamburg (DE) ; Kunstverein, Monster (NL)
  
• Kunst Bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Cologne (DE)
  
• Prospect, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• A Group Show, Pa.lais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (BE)
  
• Sculpture Now, Royal College of Art, London (UK)

1973

• Critics Choice, Tooth Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Art as Photography, Kunstverein, Hannover; The Museum Gallery, Paris (FR)
  
• From Henry Moore to Gilbert & George, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (BE)
  
• 11 English Drawers, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (DE) ; Kunsthalle, Bremen (DE)
  
• Contemporanea, Villa Borghese, Rome (IT)

1972

• Documenta (5), Kassel (DE)
  
• The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London (UK)
  
• Concept Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Basel (CH)
  
• The Paintings, Koninkijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp (BE)

1971

• Prospect 71 Projection, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (DE)
  
• The Brithis Avant-Garde, Cultural Centre, New York (US)
  
• Situation/Concept, Innsbruck (AT)
  
• The Paintings, Whitchapel Art Gallery, London (UK) ; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL) ; Kunstverein, Dusseldorf (DE)

1970

• Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
  
• 18 Paris IV, 66 Rue Mouffetard, Paris (FR)
  
• Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Civic Gallery of Modern Art, Turin (IT)
  
• Untitled, C.A.Y.C., Buenos Aires (AR)
  
• Plans and Projects, Kunsthalle, Bern (CH)

1969

• Conception, Stadtisches Museum, Leverkusen (DE)
  
• Anniversary, Frank’s Sandwich Bar, London (UK)
  
• Shit and Cunt, Robert Fraser Gallery, London (UK)

1968

• Three Works – Three Works, Frank’s Sandwich Bar, London (UK)
  
• Snow Show, St. Martin’s School of Art, London (UK)
  
• Bacon 32, Allied Servies, London (UK)
  
• Christmas Show, Robert Fraser Gallery, London (UK)

Awards

2011

• Lifetime Achievement Award, New Museum, New York

2008

• Honorary Degree in Philosophy, London Metropolitan University, London

2005

• Gilbert & George, British Pavilion, 51st International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice

1986

• Winner of the Turner Prize

1984

• Shortlisted for Turner Prize

Monographs, solo exhibition catalogues and artist books

2021

• Thirteen Earthly Pictures, Text by Michael Bracewell, Baronian Xippas, Brussels (BE)

2014

• Gilbert & George: Scapegoating Pictures for London, Text by Michael Bracewell, White Cube, London (UK)

2013

• Fellrath, Till (ed.), Le Théorème de Nefertiti, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (FR)

2010

• Gilbert & George, London Pictures, text by Michael Bracewell, Hurtwood Press, London (UK)

2011

• Argenzio, Mirta, The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George, Torino (IT)
• Obrist, Hans Ulrich and Inigo Philbrick, Gilbert & George: Art Titles, 1967-2010 in Alphabetical Order, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, (DE)

2010

• Gilbert & George Pictures: Jack Freak, Cac Malaga, (ES)

2009

• Bracewell, Michael, The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George, DelMonico Books, Prestel (DE)
• Bracewell, Michael, Jack Freak Pictures, Hatje Cantz Books, (DE)

2007

• Gilbert & George: Major Exhibitions- Tate Modern (Tate Modern,London 2007)

2006

• Fuchs, Rudi, The Complete Pictures, Tate Publishing, London (UK)
• Bracewell, Michael, SONOFAGODPICTURES was Jesus Heterosexual?, White Cube, London (UK)

2005

• Birnbaum, Daniel and Michael Bracewell, Gilbert & George: Ginkgo Pictures – Venice Biennale 2005, _ _ British Council, London (UK)

2004

• Rosenblum, Robert, Introducing Gilbert & George, Thames & Hudson, London (UK)
• Jahn, Wolf, Gilbert & George, Kunstler Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, WB Verlag, Munich (DE)
• Bracewell, Michael, Perversive Pictures 2004 (Sonnabend Gallery and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York (US)
• Prenzler, Anne, Eric Troncy and Lóránd Hegyi, Twenty London East One Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, (FR) Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Metropole (FR) and Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (DE)
• Jonquet, François, Gilbert & George: Intimate Conversations with François Jonquet, Phaidon Press Limited, London (UK)
• Dutt, Robin, Gilbert & George, Philip Wilson Publishers, London (UK)

2002

• Gilbert & George an Exhibition, Kunsthaus Bregenz (AT)
• D’Argenzio, Mirta, A arte De Gilbert & George, Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon (PT)
• Bracewell, Michael, Gilbert & George Nine Dark Pictures, Portikus Frankfurt (DE)
• Gilbert & George: The Dirty Words Pictures, Serpentine Gallery, London (UK)

2001

• Gilbert & George New Horny Pictures, White Cube, London (UK)
• The World of Gilbert & George, Enitharmon Press, London (UK)

2000

• Gilbert & George: The Rudimentary Pictures, Milton Keynes Gallery, (UK)

1999

• Gilbert & George (1986-1997), Generalitat Valenciana (ES)
• Farson, Daniel, Gilbert & George: A Portrait, HarperCollins, London (UK)

1998

• Gilbert & George: New Testamental Pictures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (FR)
• Gilbert & George: New Testamental Pictures, Meseo di Capodimonte, Napoli (IT)

1997

• Rosenblum, Robert, Gilbert & George – The Fundamental Pictures, Sonnabend Gallery and Lehman Maupin Gallery, New York (US)
• Gilbert & George – Art For All 1971-1996, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo (JP)
• Gilbert & George, Magasin 3, Konsthall, Stockholm, (SE)
• Gilbert & George, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, (FR)
• The Words of Gilbert & George With Portraits of the Artists from 1968 to 1997, Thames & Hudson, (UK)
• Gilbert & George the Fundamental Pictures, text by Robert Rosenbaum, Cyber Art Publications, London (UK)

1996

• Eccher, Danilo, Gilbert & George, text by Martin Gayford, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (IT)

1995

• Gilbert & George: The Naked Shit Pictures, South London Gallery, (UK)

1994

• Gilbert & George: Recent Works, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (US)
• Jahn, Wolf, Gilbert & George, Museo d’Arte Moderna della Citta di Lugano (CH)
• Jahn, Wolf, New Shit Pictures, Galerie Rafael Jablonka, Cologne (DE)
• Gilbert & George, Shitty Naked Human World, Kunstmusem- Wolfsburg (DE)

1993

• Markowski, Wojciech, Norman Rosenthal and Andrew Wilson, Gilbert & George: China Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Peking and The Art Museum, Shanghai (CN)
• Ratcliff, Carter and Robert, Rosenblum, The Singing Sculpture, Thames and Hudson, London and Anthony McCall Associates, New York (US)

1992

• Kold, Anders, Lars Morrell and Andrew Wilson, New Democratic Pictures, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark and Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)

1991

• Monarchy as Democracy, text by Wolf Jahn, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London and Oktogon, Munich (DE)
• Farson, Daniel, With Gilbert & George in Moscow, Bloomsbury, London (UK)
• Fuchs, Rudi and Wojciech, Markowski, The Cosmological Pictures, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (NL)

1990

• Richardson, Brenda and Sergei Klokov, The Moscow Catalogue, Gilbert & George and Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
• Rosenblum, Robert, 25 Worlds and Windows, Robert Miller Gallery, New York (US)
• Rosenblum, Robert, Worlds and Windows, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
• Eleven worlds by Gilbert & George and Antique Clock, text by Remo Guider, Desire Feurele, Cologne (DE)
• Gilbert & George: Postcard Sculptures and Ephemera, 1969-1981, text by Carter Ratcliff, Hirschl and Adler, New York (US)

1989

• Gilbert & George, For AIDS Exhibition, Anthony D’Offay Gallery, London (UK)
• Jahn, Wolf, The Art of Gilbert & George, Thames & Hudson, London (UK)

1986

• The Charcoal on Paper Sculptures 1970-1974, text by Davvatas Demosthenes, CAPC, Bordeaux (FR)
• Jahn, Wolf, The Paintings 1971, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
• Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures 1971 – 1985, text by Carter Ratcliffe, Thames and Hudson, London ; Rizzoli, New York (US) ; and Schirmer/ Mosel, Munich (DE)

1985

• Death Hope Life Fear, text by Rudi Fuchs, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, (IT)

1984

• Gilbert & George, text by Brenda Richardson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland (US)

1980

• Gilbert & George 1968 to 1980, text by Carter Ratcliffe, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, (NL)

1977

• Gilbert & George, Taxispalais Gallery, Innsbruck (AT)

1976

• Dark shadow, Nigel Greenwoodn London (UK)

1973

• Kaldor, John, Gilbert & George, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney (AU)

1972

• The Grand old Duke of York, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, (CH)

1971

• The Paintings, Kunstverein, Dusseldorf, (DE)
• Side by Side, Konig Bros, Cologne (DE)
• A Day in the Life of Gilbert & George, Gilbert & George, London (UK)

1970

• The Pencil on Paper Descriptive Works, Gilbert & George, London (UK)
• Art Notes and Thoughts, Gilbert & George, London (UK)
• To Be with Art is All we Ask, Gilbert & George, London (UK)
• A Guide to the Singing Sculpture, Gilbert & George, London (UK)