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The British artist duo Gilbert & George is made up of two men who together form a creative force. For over five decades, they have created unique works where daily life and art merge. These world-renowned artists have shaped contemporary art, and they are known for paving the way for performance art and approaching their private life like an artwork. They have challenged prevailing, bourgeois ideas of taste and decorum, and also advanced the changing of attitude towards gays and other minority groups.

Gilbert Proesch was born in 1943 in the Italian Dolomites. He studied at the Wolkenstein School of Art and Hallein School of Art, Austria and the Akademie der Kunst, Munich. George Passmore was born in 1942 in Devon, England. He was schooled at the Dartington Adult Education Centre, Devon; Dartington Hall College of Art; and the Oxford School of Art. Gilbert and George met while students at the St. Martin’s School of Art, London in 1967, and have lived and worked together in London since 1968.

Moving to the working-class neighborhood of Spitalfields in London, Gilbert and George revolted against art’s elitism, naming their house “Art for All” and declaring themselves “living sculptures.” Although their early work centered around Performance, the artists soon turned to video, photography, and drawing. As early as 1969, the artists were given an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and by 1972–73 were frequently showing with prestigious galleries like Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, and Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf. Their use of black-and-white photographic assemblages first surfaced in 1971 and by the late 1970s had developed into gridlike photo combinations. The duo was invited to participate in Documenta in Kassel in 1972, 1977, and 1982. In 1980, the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, organized a mid-career retrospective of the artists’ work, which traveled to the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Bern, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.

In the first years of the 1980s, Gilbert and George added a range of bright colors to their photographs, emphasizing their slick, stylized, and cartoonlike appearance. The content of the work of this period centered around urban life and the hope and fear associated with modern society. In 1986, Gilbert and George were awarded the Turner Prize, and in 1987 had a major exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London. In 1989, Gilbert and George exhibited 25 large pieces dealing with illness and destruction at Anthony d’Offay Gallery for an AIDS charity organization. The following year, the artists created The Cosmological Pictures, which toured ten different European museums from 1991 to 1993. Gilbert and George also exhibited in Moscow in 1990. In 1992, their largest production ever, New Democratic Pictures, was exhibited at Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark. This was followed by a solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Beijing, and the Art Museum, Shanghai, in 1993. In 1994, the artists were given an exhibition at the Museo d’Arte Moderna, Lugano, Switzerland.

SELECT RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

'Our George Crompton, WORLDS and WINDOWS by Gilbert & George', The Gilbert & George Centre, London, UK (5/1/2026 - 12/31/2026)
'Gilbert & George: 21ST CENTURY PICTURES', Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2025/2026)
'Gilbert & George: DEATH HOPE LIFE FEAR', The Gilbert & George Centre, London, UK (2025/2026)
'Gilbert & George: LONDON PICTURES', The Gilbert & George Centre, London, UK (2024/2025)
'Gilbert & George: NEW NORMAL URETHRA EXHIBITION', Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London, UK (2024)
'Gilbert & George: THE PARADISICAL PICTURES', The Gilbert & George Centre, London, UK (2023/2024)
'Gilbert & George: The Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Exhibition', Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2022)
'Gilbert & George: NEW NORMAL PICTURES', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Pantin, Paris, France (2021)
'Gilbert & George: NEW NORMAL PICTURES', White Cube Gallery, London, UK (2021)
'Gilbert & George: The Locarno Exhibition', Museo Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland (2021)
'Gilbert & George: THE GREAT EXHIBITION (1971-2016)', Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2020/2021)
'Gilbert & George: Paradisical Pictures', Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA (2019/2020)
'Gilbert & George: THE GREAT EXHIBITION (1971-2016)', Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2019/2020)
'Gilbert & George: The Beard Pictures', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Halle, Salzburg, Austria (2018)
'Gilbert & George: The Beard Pictures', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Pantin, Paris, France (2017)
'Gilbert & George: SCAPEGOATING PICTURES for Belfast', Metropolitan Arts Centre (The MAC), Belfast, Northern Ireland (2017)
'Gilbert & George: The Beard Pictures', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (2017)
'Gilbert & George: SCAPEGOATING PICTURES for Budapest', Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary (2017)
'Gilbert & George: The Art Exhibition', Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), Tasmania, Australia (2015)
'Gilbert & George: The Banners', White Cube, London, UK (2015)
'Gilbert & George: 26 New Utopian Pictures', ARNDT Fine Art, Gillman Barracks, Singapore (2015)
'Gilbert & George: Bad Thoughts', Modern Collections, London, UK  (2012) 
'Gilbert & George: London Pictures', Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY  (2012)
'Gilbert & George: London Pictures', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY  (2012)
'Gilbert & George: London Pictures', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (2012)
'Gilbert & George: London Pictures', White Cube, London, UK (2012) 
'Gilbert & George: London Pictures', White Cube, Hong Kong (2012) 
'Gilbert & George: Urethra Postcard Pictures', Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (2011/2012) 
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland (2011/2012) 
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria (2011)
'Gilbert & George: Urethra Postcard Pictures', Arndt, Berlin, Germany (2011) 
'Gilbert & George: Urethra Postcard Pictures', Ivorypress Art + Books, Space I, Madrid, Spain (2011) 
'Gilbert & George: Postcard Sculptures', Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (2011) 
'The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George', White Cube, London, UK (2011)
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium (2011)
'Gilbert & George: The Paintings', Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands  (2010) 
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de) Málaga, Málaga, Spain (2010) 
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy (2009/2010) 
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (2009)
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Baronian_Francey, Brussels, Belgium (2009) 
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', White Cube, London, UK (2009)
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (2009)
'Gilbert & George: Jack Freak Pictures', Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany (2009)
'Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition', Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY (2008/2009) 
'Gilbert & George: The Nature of Our Looking', 1970 & 'Gilbert & George: Portrait of the Artists as Young Men', Times Square, New York, NY (2008)
'Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition', Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2008)
'Gilbert & George: Notations', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2008)
'Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition', de Young Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (2008)
'Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition', Castello di Rivioli, Turin, Italy (2007/2008)
'Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition', Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2007)
'Gilbert & George: Works from the Collection', Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden (2007)
'Gilbert & George: Major Exhibition', Tate Modern, London, UK (2007)
'Gilbert & George', Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2006)
'Gilbert & George', Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany (2006)
'Gilbert & George', White Cube, London, UK (2006, 2001)
'Gilbert & George', Venice Biennale, Italy (2005)
'Gilbert & George', Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole (MAM), Saint-Étienne, France (2005)
'Gilbert & George', Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (2005)
'Gilbert & George: Perversive Pictures', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (2004)
'Gilbert & George', Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY (2004)
'Gilbert & George', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (2004)
'Gilbert & George', Centro Cultural de Belém, Portugal (2002)
'Gilbert & George', Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (2002)