1945 Born, Lancaster
1964-7 St Martin’s School of Art, London
1976-8 Northern Arts Fellow in Visual Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1986 David Octavius Hill Memorial Award, Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner
2010- Emeritus Professor in Fine Art, University College London
Solo Exhibitions
1969 Camden Arts Centre, London
1970 Lisson Gallery, London
1970 New Arts Laboratory, London (with Ian Breakwell)
1971 Lisson Gallery, London
1972 College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
1973 Lisson Gallery, London
1974 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1974 Galleria Toselli, Milan
1975 Lisson Gallery, London
1975 Galleria Banco, Brescia
1976 Galerie Hetzler+Keller, Stuttgart
1976 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1976 Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1977 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
1977 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1977 Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne
1978 Galeria Akumulatory, Poznan
1978 Galleria Banco, Brescia
1978 Studio Paola Betti, Milan
1978 John Gibson Gallery, New York
1978 Lisson Gallery, London
1978 Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1979 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1979 Galeria Foksal, Warsaw
1979 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1980 Lisson Gallery, London
1980 Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart
1981 Orchard Gallery, Londonderry
1981 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1982 Amano Gallery, Osaka
1982 Ryo Gallery, Kyoto
1983 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1983 Kunstverein, Cologne
1983 Kunsthalle, Bremen
1984 Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1984 Kettle’s Yard Gallery, Cambridge
1984 Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1984 Galerie Média, Neuchâtel
1985 Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
1986 Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt
1987 Sprengel Museum, Hanover
1987 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1988 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
1989 Renaissance Society, Chicago
1989 Lisson Gallery, London
1989 Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
1989 Galerie Le Réverbère, Lyons
1990 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
1990 Kunstverein, Stuttgart
1992 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1992 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
1993 Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
1993 Galerie Gutsch, Berlin
1994 Galerie de l’Ancienne Poste, Calais
1995 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
1996 L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt
1997 Kunsthalle, Krems
1997 Ar/Ge Kunst Galerie, Bolzano
1997 Kunstverein, Hanover
1997 Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris
1998 Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol
1999 Centro Internacional de Arte, Palazzo de Revillagigedo, Gijón
1999 Centro de Fotografía, University of Salamanca
1999 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
1999 L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt
1999 Kunst Haus, Dresden
1999 Kunstverein, Stuttgart
1999 Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken
2000 Städtische Galerie, Erlangen
2000 fig-1 Gallery, London
2000 Galerie Seitz, Berlin
2000 Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2000 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
2001 Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
2002 L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt
2003 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
2004 Galleria Artra, Genoa (with Jemima Stehli)
2004 Galleria Artra, Milan (with Jemima Stehli)
2005 Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
2008 Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna
2008 Studio Dabbeni, Lugano
2009 L.A. Galerie, Frankfurt
2009 Galerie Mèdia, Neuchâtel
2009 Galleria Artra, Milan
2011 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
2011 Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna
2014 Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (curated by Duncan Wooldridge)
2014 Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna
2015 Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
2016 Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia
2016 Art Affairs, Amsterdam
2018 Galerie De La Filature, Mulhouse
2021 Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia (with Luigi Ghirri)
2021 Fondazione Rolla, Bruzella, Switzerland (with Doug and Mike Starn)
Publications
1974 Elemental Conditioning, Museum Of Modern Art, Oxford
1976 Black Depths, White Expanse, Grey Extent, Robert Self Publications, London
1977 Analytische Fotografie, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
1978 From The Northern Counties, Lisson Gallery, London
1981 Borderland, Orchard Gallery, Londonderry
1983 John Hilliard, Kunstverein Cologne; Kunstverein Frankfurt; Kunsthalle Bremen
1984 John Hilliard: New Works 1981 To 1983, Kettle’s Yard Gallery, University
Of Cambridge
1984 John Hilliard, Institute Of Contemporary Arts, London
1986 John Hilliard, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt
1989 John Hilliard, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
1990 Vanitas, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
1993 Scene, Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds; Galerie de l’Ancienne
Poste, Calais
1997 John Hilliard: Works 1990-96, Kunsthalle Krems; Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano;
Kunstverein Hanover
1999 John Hilliard, Palacio de Revillagigedo, Gijón
1999 John Hilliard, Centro de Fotografia, University of Salamanca
1999 John Hilliard, ed. Uta Nusser, Verlag das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg
2003 The Less Said The Better, Städtische Galerie, Erlangen
2009 Arguments, John Hilliard and Jemima Stehli, Artra Edizione and Untermehmen Fine
Arts Books, Milan
2014 Not Black And White – Abstraction And The Monochrome In The Work Of John
Hilliard, ed. Duncan Wooldridge, Ridinghouse Press, London
2015 Accident And Design, Holzwarth Publications, Berlin
2016 Town And Country, Massimo Minini, Brescia
Works In Public Collections
Art Gallery Of South Australia, Adelaide
Arts Council Of England
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery
British Council
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Paris
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Johannesburg Art Gallery
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Landesmuseum Niederösterreich, St Pölten
Leeds City Art Gallery
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo
Milwaukee Art Museum
Musée Cantonal De La Photographie, Lausanne
Musée d’Art de Toulon
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
Musée d’Art Moderne, Grenoble
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Étienne
Musée d’Art Moderne André Malraux, Le Havre
Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds
Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Museum de Moderne Rupertinum, Salzburg
Museum Of Modern Art, New York
Museum Of Modern And Contemporary Art, Nice
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz
Prefectural Museum, Tochigi
Southampton City Art Gallery
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Städtische Galerie, Erlangen
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Wadsworth Atheneum Art Museum, Hartford
Yale Center For British Art, New Haven