Art & Language

Conceptual art group

• ALUK (1969-1977)
  • Art-Language (1969-1985)
• ALNY (1970/71-1976)
  • The Fox (1974-1976)
• (Provisional) Art & Language (1976?)
  • Music-Language
    • Corrected Slogans (1973-1976)
    • Nine Gross and Conspicuous Errors (1976)
    • Struggle in New York (1976)
• Art & Language (1977-)
  • Michael Baldwin
  • Mel Ramsden
  • Charles Harrison (1970-2009)

Works

Art & Language as a duo

(incomplete)

• Art-Language (1969-1985)

Year	Title	Materials	Dimensions	Link
1965	Untitled Painting	Mirror mounted on canvas, two parts	119.3 × 58.3 × 10.9 cm	A-L
1965	Untitled Painting	Mirrors mounted on canvas, two parts	101.5 × 61 × 7.5 cm	A-L
1965	Untitled Painting			A-L
1965	Untitled Paintings	4 mirrors mounted on 4 canvas	61 × 30 cm	A-L
1965	Four Suprematist Squares	Installation of four 12 inch black squares painted on the wall	30.5 × 167.6 cm	A-L
1965	Black Painting	Enamel on canvas	8 × 244 cm	A-L
1966	Painting I, No.2	Inkjet on paper mounted on wooden panel	157 × 150 cm	Artsy
1966	Painting I, No.7	Inkjet on paper mounted on wooden panel	77 × 150 cm	Artsy
1966	Painting I, No.8	Inkjet on paper mounted on wooden panel	93 × 150 cm	Artsy
1966	Painting I, No.9	Inkjet on paper mounted on wooden panel	108 × 150 cm	Artsy
1967	Potato Print Model 1	Lithography on paper	52 × 67.5 cm	Artsy
1967	Potato Print Model 1	Lithography on paper	52 × 67.5 cm	Artsy
1967	Map Not to Indicate
1967-1968	Secret Painting
1968	100% Abstract
1968	M 1:2	Lithography on paper	50.6 × 62.2 cm	Artsy
1971-1972	Poster for Air-Conditioning Show
1972	Alternate Map for Documenta / Documenta Memorandum	Offset lithograph newsprint	72.2 × 50.6 cm	Artsy
1974	Index 02 (Bxal): Indexical Fragments 6
1975	Shouting Men			Artsy
1977	Ten Postcards	Lithograph on paper	20.3 × 76.5 cm	Tate
1977	Ten Posters: Illustrations for Art-Language
1977	Study for 'Ils donnent leur sang donnez votre travail'	Gouache and pencil on paper	53.4 × 106.5 cm	Artsy
1978	The Key of Dreams	Acrylic on paper	140 × 100 cm	A-L
1980	Portrait of V.I. Lenin with Cap, in the Style of Jackson Pollock III		242.4 × 213.4 cm	Tate
1980	Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock V	Enamel on canvas	239 × 210 cm	Artsy
1980	Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock VII	Enamel on canvas mounted on board	105 × 100 cm	Artsy
1980	Portrait of V.I Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock VIII	Ink on paper		Artsy
1980	Portrait of V.I Lenin by V. Charangovitch (1970) in the style of Jackson Pollock III	Enamel paint on canvas mounted on wooden panel	105 × 100 cm	Philips
1981	Gustave Courbet’s ‘Burial at Ornans’; Expressing a Sensuous Affection .../Expressing a Vibrant Erotic Vision .../Expressing States of Mind that are Vivid and Compelling	Black ink, wash, gouache and wax crayon on cartridge paper, mounted on synthetic fabric	324 × 699 × 5 cm	Tate
1981-1982	Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place	Photograph, pencil, pen and ink, watercolour, black washes and collage on paper mounted on sandwich of paper and plastic foam	76.2 × 162.3 cm	Tate
1982	Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place, Executed by Mouth (II)	Pencil and carbon paper tracings on paper mounted on sandwich of paper and plastic foam	97.5 × 210 cm	Tate
1982	Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place, in the Dark (IV), and Illuminated by an Explosion nearby (VI)	Photograph, pencil, watercolour and acrylic on tracing paper mounted on paper mounted on sandwich of paper and plastic foam	78.4 × 162.7 cm	Tate
1982	Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place (VI), Illuminated by an Explosion nearby	Photograph mounted on sandwich of paper and plastic foam	106.7 × 160.3 cm	Tate
1982	Index: The Studio at 3 Wesley Place, in the Dark (VI), Showing the Position of ‘Embarrassments’ in (IV)	Photograph, black ink, wax crayon and metallic pencil on sandwich of paper and plastic foam	79.7 × 168 cm	Tate
1984	Study for Impressionism Returning Sometime in the Future	Pencil and acrylic on paper	107 × 168 cm	A-L
1983	Study for Impressionism Returning Sometime in the Future III	Pencil and acrylic on paper	99.1 × 139.7 cm	Artsy
1985-1986	Index: Incident in a Museum II	Oil and acrylic painting on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1985	Index: Incident in a Museum III	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 × 271 cm
1985	Index: Incident in a Museum IV	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1985	Index: Incident in a Museum V	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum VI	Oil on canvas on plywood	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum VII	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum VIII	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum IX	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum X	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum XI	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum XII	Alogram and oil on canvas	243 × 379 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum XIII	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum (Madison Avenue) XIV	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 × 271 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum XV	Alogram and oil on canvas	243 × 379 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum XVI	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	243 × 379 cm
1987	Index: Incident in a Museum XVII	Alogram and oil on canvas	271 × 379 cm
1987	Index: Incident in a Museum XVIII	Oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1987	Index: Incident in a Museum XIX	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood	174 × 271 cm	Tate
1987	Index: Incident in a Museum XX	Alogram and oil on canvas	174 × 271 cm
1987	Index: Incident in a Museum XXI	Photography and oil on canvas on plywood	234 × 379 cm
1986	Index: Incident in a Museum XXII (The decade, 2003 -2013)	Alogram and oil on canvas on plywood
1987	Index: Incident in a Museum XXV		174 × 271 cm
1987	Unit Cure, Unit Ground X	Acrylic on paper	101.3 × 137 cm	Artsy
1989	Hostage XIII (3)	Oil on canvas	147 × 152.3 cm	Artsy
1990	Hostage LXXIII	Glass, oil on canvas on wood	214 × 142.5 cm	Artsy
1990	Study for Hostage 48	Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper	127 × 88.9 cm	Artsy
1990	Study for Hostage 60	Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper	130 × 90 cm	Artsy
1990	Hostage LX	Oil on canvas on wood with glass	214 × 142.5	Lisson Gallery
1990	Study for Hostage 65	Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper	127.5 × 88 cm	Artsy
1991	Study for Hostage 79	Acrylic, ink and pencil on paper	130 × 90 cm	Artsy
1991	Hostage LXXIX	Glass, oil on canvas on wood	214 × 142.5	Lisson Gallery
1992	Art & Language Paints a Picture	text
1992	Exit (Now They Are) 2	Oil pastel on tracing paper and paper	136 × 100.5 cm	Phillips
1992	3 Maps	Set of 3 boxed jigsaws	5 × 24.5 × 32.5 cm	Artsy
1995	Study for Background, Incident, Foreground II	Acrylic on paper	128 × 92 cm	Phillips
1999	Lovely Slang V	Glass over oil and mixed media on canvas laid on wood	59.5 × 42.5 cm	Phillips
1999	Art & Language Paints a Picture: A Picture Painted by Actors	Graphite and acrylic paint on canvas and alogram on canvas over plywood and mixed media		Tate
	There were sighs trapped by liars (XXIV)	Acrylic on color photograph	87 × 119 cm	Artsy
2002	Homes from Homes, Virus I	Oil and enamel on canvas and mixed media	98 × 175 cm	Lisson Gallery
2004	Thirty Studies for a Luhmann Memorial	30 works: collage, gouache on paper, passe-partout	30 × 26 cm	Phillips
2004	Lovely Slang XXI	Glass over oil and mixed media on canvas on wood	82.9 × 70 cm	Lisson Gallery
2004	Lovely Slang XXII	Glass over oil and mixed media on canvas on wood	69 × 60.8 cm	Lisson Gallery
2004	Lovely Slang XXVIII	Glass over oil and mixed media on canvas on wood	72 × 65 cm	Artsy
2005	Karaoke	Video, projection, colour and sound (stereo), 10 screenprints on paper and 13 ringbound booklets	41 min. 10 sec	Tate
2007	No Secret Painting XI	Painting and text		Lisson Gallery
2007	Portraits of John Wayne, Jimmy Carter, Ad Reinhardt and Wile E. Coyote	Acrylic, crayon and mixed media, 4 parts	90.3 × 39.7 × 38.5 cm	Artsy
2007	Studies and Conversations: Qui Pourra	Collage and mixed media on photograph	45 × 80 cm	Artsy
2008	Qui Pourra	HD Video	15 min. 36 sec.	Lisson Gallery
2009	French Painting by Mouth	Lasertran, acrylic and mixed media with 144 pages of text bound in four volumes	88 × 76 × 70 cm	Artsy
2009	The Impression of Liars' Voices	Acrylic on canvas and mixed media, framed picture		Lisson Gallery Phillips
2009	The Background of a Hostage Incident	Acrylic on canvas and mixed media	89.6 × 42.3 × 35 cm	Artsy
2009	An Interview with Mayo Thompson	Acrylics on canvas and mixed media	101.3 × 47.5 cm	Artsy
2009	Now They Are Again No Secret	Acrylic on canvas and mixed media, framed picture		Lisson Gallery
2009	Who Can Return?	Acrylic on canvas, photograph and mixed media	98 × 48.5 × 36 cm	Artsy
2009	Portraits and a Dream	144 pages of 32 lines of text each printed on grey A3 paper plus one blank page, arranged in a grid and pasted onto one wall, 144 sets of 'paperchains' consisting of 16 links, suspended in rows on cables stretched between two walls		Lisson Gallery
2009	Portrait of Vladimir Putin in the Style of Jackson Pollock	Oil and enamel on canvas; pencil on paper		Lisson Gallery
2009-2010	Five American Background Songs	Acrylic on canvas and mixed media, plexiglas top	105.2 × 58.5 × 41 cm	Artsy
2011	Portrait and a Dream VII (1981)	Ink and crayon on paper and mixed media		Lisson Gallery
2011	Portrait and a Dream IX (1966)	Ink and acrylic on paper and mixed media		Lisson Gallery
2011	Portrait and a Dream XI (1968)	Ink on photostat and mixed media, 2 parts		Artsy
2012	Art & Language Paints a Picture (The performance of the Actors of the Jackson Pollock Bar); Art & Language Paints a Picture (Directions for the Actors)	Oil on canvas trimmed in chains, mixed media, framed	200 × 350 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola I (1968)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	35 × 75.6 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola II (1972)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	41.4 × 61.2 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola III (1990)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	41.4 × 41.4 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola IV (1976)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	41.4 × 41.4 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola V (2000)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	79.2 × 83.5 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola VI (1997)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	42.5 × 62.7 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola VII (1973)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	51.8 × 71 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola VIII (1973)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	51.8 × 71 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola IX (2009)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper		Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola X	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	73.4 × 75.2 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola XI (1982)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	52.3 × 102.8 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola XII			Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola XIII (1968)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	71.2 × 71.4 cm	Artsy
2012	Letters to The Red Crayola XIV (1976)	Ink, acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	78.4 × 64.3 cm	Artsy
2013	Part of an American Portrait	Perforated offset print	19.1 × 19.1 cm	Artsy
2013	Portraits and a Dream III	Paper and canvas		Artsy
2013	Portrait of President Barack Obama in the Style of Jackson Pollock			Phillips
2013-2014	Nobody Spoke	Installation comprising 17 'chairs', alogram on canvas over plywood with acrylic and mixed media		Lisson Gallery
2014	Sea Ghost III	Acrylic with ink and mixed media on canvas	176 × 149.5 cm	Artsy
2014	Sea Ghost IV	Acrylic with ink and mixed media on canvas	176 × 149.5 cm	Artsy
2014	Sea Ghost V	Acrylic with ink and mixed media on canvas	176 × 149.5 × 4 cm	Lisson Gallery
2014	Tell Me, Have You Ever Seen Me? II, Xi Jinping	Printed text on paper, ink, pencil and mixed media on paper, vitrine	120 × 50 × 50 cm	Lisson Gallery
2015	Now They Are I	144 parts, ink and paint on paper	42 × 29.7 cm	Artsy
2015	Not That it is Needed Now (Oak) VIII	Oil on paper mounted on aluminum	34 × 34 cm	Lisson Gallery
2015	Not That it is Needed Now (Archive) XX	Oil and mixed medium on canvas	61 × 61 cm	Lisson Gallery
2016	Now They Are II	Indian Ink on laser printed text on Teslin 144 SRA3 sheets	45 × 31.7 cm	Lisson Gallery
2016	Lovely Hostage IV	Glass, oil on canvas	73 × 65 cm	Artsy
2016	Lovely Hostage V	Glass, oil on canvas	73 × 65 cm	Artsy
2016	Lovely Hostage VI	Glass, oil on canvas	73 × 65 cm	Artsy
2016	These Scenes	5 mixed media works containing woodblock print, monotype, aquatint etching, etching, Xerox print, pencil drawing, crayon writing and collage on 300 gram laid paper	80 × 120 cm	Artsy
2016	Have You Ever Seen Me? I	Acrylic, collage and mixed media on paper	76 × 76 cm	Lisson Gallery
2014-2017	Nobody Spoke Again	Alogram with acrylic on canvas and mixed media	110 × 200 × 200 cm	Artsy
2017	not to be seen	Wood, electric wire, bulbs	160 × 60 × 60 cm	Artsy
2017	Almost a Home for Homeless Stuff	Screenprint	64 × 45 cm	Artsy
2017-2018	Flags for Organisations II	Gouache on Teslin with laser printed text	29.7 × 42 cm	Artsy
2018	Studies and Conversations: Qui Pourra	Ink and pencil on paper	40.1 × 94.7 cm	Artsy
2018	Studies and Conversations: Qui Pourra	Ink and acrylic on paper	40.1 × 94.7 cm	Artsy
2018	Platons Hölle	Oil on canvas	160 × 120 cm	Artsy
2018	A Bad Place	Indian ink on laser printed text on Teslin	252 × 710 cm	Artsy
2019	Drawing from the Winter of 2013-2014 (107.4% Abstract)	HP Indigo Print, Metapaper extrarough white 270g/qm	42 × 29.7 cm	Artsy
2019	10 Posters	Hand Silkscreen	120 × 80 cm	Artsy
2019	A Shadow on the Tongue IV	Indian ink over text on Teslin	168 × 148 cm	Lisson Gallery
2019	A Shadow on the Tongue XIII	Acrylic over text on Teslin	168 × 148 cm	Lisson Gallery
2019	French Painting by Mouth (Chair in Bright Colours)	Lasertran, acrylic and mixed media with 36 pages of bound text	88 × 38.4 × 35.5 cm	Artsy
2021	FLAG	Hand silkscreen on double 250 gram Poly-Opti-Premium-Cloth	200 × 120 cm	Artsy

• 1965 Untitled Painting (note: mirror painting)
• 1965 Suprematist Squares
• 1966 Paintings I
• 1966 Entropy
• 1966-67 Painting-Sculpture
• 1967 Potato Print Model
• 1967 Map to Not Indicate
• 1967 Studies for a Secret Painting
• 1967-68 Geology
• 1967-68 Guaranteed Painting
• 1968 100% Abstract
• 1968 M 1:2
• 1972 Documenta Memorandum (Indexing)
• 1974 Indexical Fragments
• 1975 Dialectical Materialism (Dark Green)
• 1978 Ten Illustrations for 'Radical Philosophy'
• 1979-81 Portraits of V. I. Lenin (and other works) in the Style of Jackson Pollock
• 1981-83 The Artists' Studio
• 1985-88 Incidents in a Museum
• 1987-88 Study for a Museum of the Future
• 1990 Surf 76
• 1990 Hostage
• 1992 Index V (Now They Are)
• 1992-93 Incident: Now They Are
• 1992 Hello, How Are You?
• 1992 Art & Language Paints a Picture
• 1995 Portrait of an Artist
• 1996-00 Sighs Trapped By Liars
• 1998-99 Index: Wrongs Healed in Official Hope
• 2000 Down to the Stone
• 2000-01 Homes from Homes
• 2000 Lovely Slang
• 2001 Framed unit No. # of Index (Landscape with St. George)
• 2002 Homes from Homes, Virus I
• 2004 Lovely Slang
• 2007 No Secret Painting
• 2009 French Painting by Mouth (note: chair)
• 2009 An Interview with Mayo Thompson (note: chair)
• 2009 The Background of a Hostage Incident (note: chair)
• 2009 Who Can Return? (note: chair)
• 2009 Now They Are Again No Secret
• 2009-10 Five American Background Songs (note: chair)
• 2012 Letters to The Red Crayola
• 2012-13 Drawings from the Winter
• 2013 Letters to The Jackson Pollock Bar in the Style of The Red Krayola
• 2014 Sea Ghost
• 2013 Portrait and a Dream
• 2013-14 Nobody Spoke
• 2014-17 Nobody Spoke Again
• 2014 Tell Me, Have You Ever Seen Me? #, Xi Jinping
• 2015 Now They Are
• 2015 Not That it is Needed Now
• 2016 These Scenes
• 2016 Lovely Hostage
• 2016 Have You Ever Seen Me ?
• 2018 Studies and Conversations: Qui Pourra
• 2019 Drawing from the Winter of 2013-2014 (107.4% Abstract)
• 2018 Platons Hölle
• 2019 French Painting by Mouth (Chair in Bright Colours)
• 2019 A Bad Place
• 2019 A Shadow on the Tongue
• 2019 10 Posters
• 2021 Flag (note: BETTER/WORSE)