Art & Language

Art & Language is a conceptual artists' collaboration founded around 1967 in the United Kingdom by Terry Atkinson (b. 1939), David Bainbridge (b. 1941), Michael Baldwin (b. 1945) and Harold Hurrell (b. 1940).Neil Mulholland, The Cultural Devolution: art in Britain in the late twentieth century, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2003, p165.  The name of the group was derived from their journal, Art-Language The Journal of conceptual art. In their text-works, they created conceptual art as part of their discussions.

Art & Language is at the origin of conceptual art and their work was an important influence on its development.

 Past members and associates
 Terry Atkinson
 David Bainbridge
 Kathryn Bigelow
 Ian Burn
 Sarah Charlesworth
 Michael Corris
 Preston Heller
 Graham Howard
 Harold Hurrell
 Joseph Kosuth
 Christine Kozlov
 Nigel Lendon
 Andrew Menard
 Philip Pilkington
 Neil Powell
 David Rushton
 Terry Smith
 Mayo Thompson

 Awards 
Terry Atkinson was Nominated in 1985 for the Turner Prize.

Art & Language was nominated in 1986 for the Turner Prize.

 Permanent collections 
Papers and works relating to New York Art & Language are held at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

In March 2011, Philippe Méaille loaned 800 artworks of Art & Language to the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). In June 2015, the Conseil départemental de Maine-et-Loire and Philippe Méaille signed a long term lease agreement for the Chateau de Montsoreau to promote contemporary art in the Loire Valley.

 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
 Arts Council of Great Britain, United Kingdom.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
 Centro de Arte Contemporàneo de Malaga, Malaga, Spain.
 Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau, France.
 Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland.
 Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France.
 FRAC Haute Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France.
 FRAC Languedoc Roussillon, Montpellier, France.
 FRAC Nord Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France.
 Grand-Hornu, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Belgium.
 Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA, USA.
 Les Abattoirs, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toulouse, France.
 Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
 MACBA, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain.
 MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland].
 Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Zurich, Switzerland.
 Musée d'Art Moderne (Saint-Etienne), Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France.
 Museum fur Angewande Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
 Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung, Vienna, Austria.
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, USA.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA.
 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
 Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium.
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom.
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom.

 References 

Category:British artists
Category:Conceptual artists