Modern Art

Born in Liverpool, 1954
Lives and works in London

Solo Exhibitions
2025

Hayward Gallery

Southbank Centre, London (forthcoming)

2023

The Groom

Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France

2022

Sex-Pol

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA

A Dream Between Sleeping and Waking

Charleston, Firle

2021

Someone Like You

Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden

2020

Linderism

Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Linderism

Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, Cambridge

2019

I Tripped the Shutter

Monteverdi Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy

Origin of the World

Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Paris, France

Ever Standing Apart From Everything

Modern Art, London

2018

The Bower of Bliss, Art on the Underground commission

Southwark Station, London

Bower of Bliss

Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow

The House of Fame

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

Her Grace Land

Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

2017

Andréhn-Schiptjenko

Stockholm, Sweden

2015

An Absence, A Presence, A Mood, A Mantle

dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2013

Blum & Poe

Los Angeles, LA, USA

The Hepworth Wakefield

Wakefield

Tate St Ives

Cornwall

Femme/Objet

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, travelling to Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

2012

Daughters of the Promised Land

The Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX, USA

2011

Modern Art

London

dépendance

Brussels, Belgium

2010

King’s Ransom (Hybrid Tea)

Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland

The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME

The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland

The Darktown Cakewalk: Celebrated from the House of FAME

Chisenhale Gallery, London

2008

Linn Lühn

Cologne, Germany

2007

Pretty Girl. No.1

Baltic, Gateshead

MoMA P.S.1

Long Island City, NY, USA

Modern Art

London

2006

We Who Are Her Hero

Galerie LH, Paris, France

Let Me Go Where My Pictures Go

dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2004

The Lives of Women Dreaming

Futura Gallery, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic

2000

The Return of Linderland

Cornerhouse, Manchester

1997

What Did You Do in the Punk War, Mummy?

Cleveland Gallery, London

England is Mine

Windows Gallery, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024

Modern Art

London

2023

Women in Revolt!

Tate Britain, London

A Spirit Inside

The Lightbox, Woking

Linder | Hannah Wilke

Alison Jacques, London

2022

A Gateway to possible worlds. Art & science fiction

Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France

The Horror Show! A Twisted Tale of Modern Britain

Somerset House, London

Linder, Megan Marrin

Dèpendance, Brussels, Belgium

2021

The Stomach and The Port

Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

2020

The Enchanted Interior

Guildhall Art Gallery, London

Summer Show 2020

Royal Academy, London

American Gardens

Planet Earth LLC, Florida, USA

The Botanical Mind: Art, Mysticism and the Cosmic Tree

Camden Arts Centre, London

2019

The Enchanted Interior

Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

The Mariner: A Painted Ship Upon a Painted Ocean

touring exhibition: The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth, Plymouth; The Edge, University of Bath, Bath; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton.

Cut and Paste | 400 Years of Collage

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh

The Aerodrome

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought, curated by Simon Moretti with Goshka Macuga and Dana Birksted-Breen (forthcoming)

Freud Museum, London

Art & Porn

ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark, travelling to: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019-20)

A Flower in My Mouth

Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria

The Lie of the Land

MK Gallery, Milton Keynes

2018

Home Futures

Design Museum, London

Exploding Collage

Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne

Impulse Control

Freedman Fitzpatrick, Paris, France

Actions. The image of the world can be different (part 1)

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge

Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings

Tate St Ives, Cornwall, travelling to: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

2017

Queer Art(ists) Now

Archive Gallery, London

The Critic as Artist

Reading International, Reading Museum, Reading

Dreamers Awake

White Cube, London

Coming Out: Sexuality, Gender, and Identity

Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Nude: Art from the Tate Collection

SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea

Daughters of Penelope

Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, Scotland

Wouldst Thou Like to Live Deliciously?

Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland

As Above, So Below, Portals, Visions, Spirits & Mystics

IMMA, Dublin, Ireland

La Modiva, part of ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival 2017

Home, Manchester

Surreal House

The Pill, Istanbul, Turkey

2016

Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become an Event?

Cooper Gallery, Dundee

Le retour des ténèbres’ /Return of Darkness

Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland

Artistic Differences

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Nude: Art from the Tate collection

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Theories of Modern Art

Modern Art, London

British Art Show 8

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Performing for the Camera

Tate Modern, London

Pure Romance

The Redfern Gallery, London

2015

British Art Show 8

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds

LINO|CUT

Paul Stolper, London

Soft Core

Invisible Exports, New York, NY, USA

2014

Primal Architecture

Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

Post Pop: East Meets West

Saatchi Gallery, London

Play What’s Not There

Raven Row, London

The Hawker

Gallery Carlos Ishikawa, London

2013

The Age of Collage

Gestalten Space, Berlin, Germany

Designing Modern Women 1890-1990

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Flowers&Mushrooms

Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Germany

The System of Objects

Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

Tom Burr & Linder

Modern Art, London

Coconut Water

White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO, USA

IN THE CUT: COLLAGE AS IDEA

Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Southbank, Australia

2012

Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Mash-up: Collage from the 1930’s to the present

L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2011

Transmitter/Receiver. The persistence of collage from the Arts Council Collection

MIMA, Middlesbrough

LIVE! Art&Rock that Changed the History

Centro Per L'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Les Paris Sont Ouverts

Freud Museum, London

Madame Realism

Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands

2010

Art For Whom?

Tate Britain, London

Another Music

Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Room Divider

Wilkinson Gallery, London

Rencontres d'Arles Photographie

Arles, France

The Dark Monarch

Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne

Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art

Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Linder Sterling and Jon Savage: The Secret Public / Punk Montages, Photography and Collages 1976 – 1981

Boo – Hooray, New York, NY, USA

Misty Boundaries Fades and Dissolves, curated by Daniella Saul with Linder, George Barber, Stewart Home, Linder, Clunie Reid, James Richards, Eva Weinmayr

FormContent, London

SUPERNATURE: an exercise in loads

AMP, Athens, Greece

2009

The Dark Monarch

Tate St Ives, Cornwall

After Twilight

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

2008

Crossroads. DA2

Salamanca Institute of Culture, Salamanca, Spain

Cohabitation

Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy

Punk. No One is Innocent

Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria

doArt

Beijing, China

2007

Re-Make/Re-Model

Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Scotland

Neolithic Porns

Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Love Me Tender: Works from the Tate collection

Tate Britain, London

Linn Lühn

Cologne, Germany

Harry Smith Anthology Remixed

Alt.Gallery, Newcastle

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll since 1967

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, USA

What We Do Is Secret

Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

The Secret Public: The last days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988

Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years

Barbican, London, touring to the Maison des Arts in Créteil, France

2006

Deconstruction

Barbara Gladstone, New York, NY, USA

Audio

Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland

Le Sphere Punk

Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

The Secret Public: The last days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988

Kunstverein Munich, Germany

2004

Collage

Bloomberg space, London

2003

Glamour

Windows Gallery, British Council, Prague, Czech Republic

Plunder

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland

2001

DEAD

The Roundhouse, London

1998

Destroy: Punk Graphic Design in Britain

Royal Festival Hall, London

Selected Performances
2020

Herland: Readings from the Bower of Bliss

Glasgow Women’s Library, Glasgow, Scotland, forthcoming

Performance: Bower of Bliss: An Improper Architecture

Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, forthcoming

2019

Another Music in a Different Arcadia

Design Museum, London

2018

The Bower of Bliss

Art on the Underground, London

2016

Children of the Mantic Stain

Southbank Center, London

2015

Children of the Mantic Stain

Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds

2012

The Ultimate Form

The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield

2007

Le Magasin

Grenoble, France

2006

The Working Class Goes To Paradise

Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London

2004

Meltdown

Royal Festival Hall, London

2000

The Working Class Goes To Paradise

Manchester, England

Selected Collections

Arts Council Collection

London

Deste Foundation

Athens, Greece

Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth House

Derbyshire

Hatton Gallery, Newcastle University

Newcastle upon Tyne

Irish Museum of Modern Art

Dublin, Ireland

Kadist Art Foundation

Paris, France

Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris

Paris, France

The Museum of Modern Art

New York, NY, USA

The SYZ Collection

Geneva, Switzerland

Tate

London

Zabludowicz Collection

London