Terry Atkinson

Berlin, East Prussia and the Desert

Stadtgalerie_Terry_Atkinson_14 copy — Installation view: Terry Atkinson, *Roll Over Chuck Berry*, Stadtgalerie Bern, Switzerland 2022

Installation view: Slat-Greaser Trough 3, Wood, household paint, industrial grease, 274 × 128 × 20 cm 1990 / 2024 Raven Row, London 2025 — Installation view: *Slat-Greaser Trough 3,* Wood, household paint, industrial grease, 274 × 128 × 20 cm 1990 / 2024 Raven Row, London 2025

Installation view: Terry Atkinson, Yale Union, curated by Richard Birkett Portland, Oregon 2014

Installation view: Terry Atkinson, Neu Cöln, curated by Valerie Knoll, Cologne Germany 2025

American Civil War: Study 89Americana V: Mirror (1) FH (2) TS and JC (3) BT (4) KC (5) CC (6) RP (7) AJ (8) EH (9) CK (10) J-P 1]Pencil on paper96 x 130.5 cm2021 — American Civil War: Study 89
*Americana V: Mirror (1) FH (2) TS and JC (3) BT (4) KC (5) CC (6) RP (7) AJ (8) EH (9) CK (10) J-P 1]*
Pencil on paper
96 × 130.5 cm
2021

American Civil War: Study 85Americana II(1) Sherman watches the 107th New York storm through Columbia, South Carolina, February 1865 (2) Bart turns green – whether the approach of the Jedi was the cause of this remains an open question (3) CB (4) Fallen Statue (5) Ghost ironclad on the Mississippi outside Vicksburg, 1863 (6) Dancing in the Street and Baby It’s You (7) S C sings into the microphone, 1964 (8) R P (9) Grey Massachussetts mourning bodice, 1864.Pencil, coloured pencil and colour photocopy on paper75.7 x 111.7 cm2021 — American Civil War: Study 85
Americana II
(1) Sherman watches the 107th New York storm through Columbia, South Carolina, February 1865 (2) Bart turns green – whether the approach of the Jedi was the cause of this remains an open question (3) CB (4) Fallen Statue (5) Ghost ironclad on the Mississippi outside Vicksburg, 1863 (6) Dancing in the Street and Baby It’s You (7) S C sings into the microphone, 1964 (8) R P (9) Grey Massachussetts mourning bodice, 1864.
Pencil, coloured pencil and colour photocopy on paper
75.7 × 111.7 cm
2021

American Civil War: Study 76American patterns of consumership, 1860-1960.Reading left to right, top to bottom(1)Trepanning Instruments (2) Union Officer (3) Trotsky Postcard Ghost at Antietam (4) HT (5) Trotsky Postcard Bandaged Head 1 (6)Trepanning Instrument (7) Trotsky Postcard Bandaged Head (8) Prosthetic Arm (9) Intrusive Quatttrocento Image (10) Andersonville (Trotsky Postcard) (11) Trepanning Instrument (12) Trepanning Instrument (13) The Shirelles (14) Hollywood 1 (15) Everly Brothers (16) Skull (17) Hollywood 2 (Yoda) (18) Will You LoveMe Tomorrow (19) Hollywood 3, Distant Cousin of ET (20) Cathy’s Clown (21) Chuck Berry (22) School DayPencil, coloured pencil, pastel and collage on paper101 x 81.8 cm2020 — American Civil War: Study 76
American patterns of consumership, 1860-1960.
Reading left to right, top to bottom
(1)Trepanning Instruments (2) Union Officer (3) Trotsky Postcard Ghost at Antietam (4) HT (5) Trotsky Postcard Bandaged Head 1 (6)Trepanning Instrument (7) Trotsky Postcard Bandaged Head (8) Prosthetic Arm (9) Intrusive Quatttrocento Image (10) Andersonville (Trotsky Postcard) (11) Trepanning Instrument (12) Trepanning Instrument (13) The Shirelles (14) Hollywood 1 (15) Everly Brothers (16) Skull (17) Hollywood 2 (Yoda) (18) Will You LoveMe Tomorrow (19) Hollywood 3, Distant Cousin of ET (20) Cathy’s Clown (21) Chuck Berry (22) School Day
Pencil, coloured pencil, pastel and collage on paper
101 × 81.8 cm
2020

American Civil War: Study 73Study for a painting: American Civil War MosaicReading left to right, top to bottom(1) Postcard from Trotsky Head (2) Hailing Poussin (3) Postcard from Trotsky Head (4) Camp Wife, 31st Pennsylvanian Infantry, camped near Washington. (5) Forage cap (6) Prosthetic (7) Warrior bust (8) West Tennessee hog (9) Confederate Five Dollar Bill (10) Colfax 1873 (11) Powder black infantryman (12) H T (13) Striving Union infantrymanPencil, coloured pencil, colour photocopy, collage, oil pastel on paper85 x 74.5 cm2019 — American Civil War: Study 73
Study for a painting: American Civil War Mosaic
Reading left to right, top to bottom(1) Postcard from Trotsky Head (2) Hailing Poussin (3) Postcard from Trotsky Head (4) Camp Wife, 31st Pennsylvanian Infantry, camped near Washington. (5) Forage cap (6) Prosthetic (7) Warrior bust (8) West Tennessee hog (9) Confederate Five Dollar Bill (10) Colfax 1873 (11) Powder black infantryman (12) H T (13) Striving Union infantryman
Pencil, coloured pencil, colour photocopy, collage, oil pastel on paper
85 × 74.5 cm
2019

American Civil War: Study 31A two-part drawing of (1) A black and white tableau of three Union soldiers of Meade’s Army of the Potomac, carefully posed by one of Brady’s photographers (left to right: drummer boy, corporal fresh from skirmishing, young infantryman) is intruded upon by (2) the swish of an overflying and time travelling giant cousin of Yoda (transmitted from coloured Hollywood digital material from 2004). All this during the rain-sodden pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia by Meade’s Army of the Potomac, July 1863.Pencil and coloured pencil on paper59.2 x 84 cm2018 — American Civil War: Study 31
A two-part drawing of (1) A black and white tableau of three Union soldiers of Meade’s Army of the Potomac, carefully posed by one of Brady’s photographers (left to right: drummer boy, corporal fresh from skirmishing, young infantryman) is intruded upon by (2) the swish of an overflying and time travelling giant cousin of Yoda (transmitted from coloured Hollywood digital material from 2004). All this during the rain-sodden pursuit of Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia by Meade’s Army of the Potomac, July 1863.
Pencil and coloured pencil on paper
59.2 × 84 cm
2018

Wing-Greaser 11990 / 2025Wood, household paint, industrial grease260 × 130 × 13.5 cm — *Wing-Greaser 1*
1990 / 2025
Wood, household paint, industrial grease
260 × 130 × 13.5 cm

Terry Atkinson (b.1939)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025 Terry Atkinson - L'Artista è un Motore di Significati, Ca' Pesaro, Venice
Terry Atkinson: Greaser sculptures and drawings from the American Civil War, Curtis LeMay and Frontispiece series, Josey, Cologne
Artists' Books, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
2024 The Books Are Very Nearly Cooked, Schiefe Zähne, Berlin
2022 Terry Atkinson, Roll Over Chuck Berry, Stadtgalerie, Bern (CH) Switzerland
2021 Greaser sculptures and drawings from the series
Berlin, East Prussia and the Desert and American Civil War~
Josey Gallery, Norwich UK
2019 American Civil War Galleria Six, Milan
2017 Galleria SIX , Milan
2014 Yale Union Portland, Oregon USA
2004 Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds UK
2003 Royal Leamington Spa, Art Gallery, Warwickshire
1999 Real Gallery, New York City USA
1996 Luciano Inga-Pin, Milan Italy
1995 Kunstewerke, Berlin Germany
1991 Irish Museum of Modern Art , Dublin Ireland
1991 Gimpel Fils, London UK
1987 Stampa, Basel Switzerland|
1987 Air Gallery, London UK
1987 Gimpel Fils, London UK
1985 Gimpel Fils, London UK
1983 Whitechapel Art Gallery, London UK

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Fake Barn Country, Raven Row, London UK
2023 La Guerra E' Finita! La Pace Non E' Ancora Iniziata
Fondazione Imago Mundi, Treviso Italy
2019 Intermedia MART , Rovereto Italy
2018 Mechanisms-CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA USA
2016 Double Act: Art and Comedy-Metropolitan Arts Centre (MAC),Belfast Ireland
Stampa, Basel Switzerland
2014 Imma Collection: Conversations-Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin Ireland
2013 Materials and Money and Crisis-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK,Vienna
2012 Projects 3 Zeichnung / Drawing 1969 - 1981-Stampa, Basel Switzerland
2011 Sculpture In So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960-75-ZieherSmith, New York USA
2009 Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart-Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal Germany
2008 The Map is not the Territory-Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg Germany
ATKINSON - BRISLEY - HEAD-Fieldgate Gallery,Londra
2007 Terry Atkinson und Susi Pop-Zwinger Galerie ,Berlin Germany
Sue and Terry Atkinson-Bournville Centre for Visual Arts Birmingham UK
ShowOff III-Galerie MøllerWitt, Aarhus Denmark
2006 The Signings-Keith Talent Gallery, London UK
2005 Drawings and Works on Paper from the IMMA Collection-Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA,Dublin Ireland
Go Between-Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz Austria
Heal the world-The Third Line, Dubai
Sharjah International Art Biennial 7-Sharjah International Art Biennial,
Sharjah United Arab Emirates
2004 AUF PAPIER-Galerie Neher GmbH & Co. KG, Essen Germany
The Solar Anus-Henry Peacock Gallery, London UK
Bearings: Landscapes from the IMMA Collection-Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin Ireland
2003 The Haunted Swing-Collective Gallery,Edimburgo, Scotland
hockerfuckingblocked-Henry Peacock Gallery, London UK
2000 Sentieri Interrotti. Crisi Della Rappresentazione E Iconoclastia Nelle Arti
Dagli Anni Cinquanta Alla Fine
Del Secolo-Palazzo Bonaguro,Bassano del Grappa, VI Italy
1999 Museion, Museum, Bolzano Italy
1997 Amour & Obsession-Galerie Fortlaan 17
1993 Declarations of War-Kettle's Yard, Cambridge UK
1990 Art Conceptuel Formes Conceptuelles-Galerie 1900-2000, Paris France
1987 State Of The Art: Ideas And Images In The 1980s-Institute of Contemporary Arts, London UK
1986 Human Interest-Cornerhouse, Manchester UK
City Llfe: An Exhibition In Three Parts - Political Life-Cornerhouse, Manchester UK
1985 The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984 Southampton UK
City Art Gallery,Southampton
The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984 Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
1984 The British Art Show: Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-1984, Birmingham UK
Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham UK
41 esposizione d'arte La Biennale di Venezia Italy
5th Biennale of Sydney 1984: Private Symbol Social Metaphor-Biennale of Sydney Australia
1982 Hayward Annual 1982: British Drawing-Hayward Gallery, London UK
Printed Art - A View of two Decades-MoMA - Museum of Modern Art,New York, NY USA
1971 British Avant-Garde-New York Cultural Center, New York, NY USA
1970 Information-MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA
Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects-New York Cultural Center,New York, NY USA
955, 000-Vancouver Art Gallery,Vancouver, BC Canada
1969 557, 087-Seattle Art Museum,Seattle, WA USA
Language III-Dwan Gallery - New York USA
One Month-Seth Siegelaub Contemporary Art,New York, NY USA