Jeffrey Steele exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

1961: Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1963: Dillwyn Gallery, Swansea, Wales
1964: Regional College of Art Gallery, Manchester; Grabowski Gallery, London
1966: McRoberts and Tunnard, London
1967: Sheffield University Art Gallery
1974: Lucy Milton Gallery, London; Galerie Média, Neuchâtel
1976: Le Disque Rouge, Brussels
1977: Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal; Galerie Swart, Amsterdam
1978: Galerie Swart, Amsterdam
1979: Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern
1989: Galleria Seno, Milan
1992: Clare Hall, Cambridge
1998: Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
2008: Association Maison Blanche, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

Group exhibitions

1961: “Young Contemporaries”, Artists' International Association (AIA), London; “Four Young Contemporaries”, Paris Gallery, London; “Abstract Variations II”, Paris Gallery, London; “Lithographs, Drawings and Little Paintings”, Paris Gallery, London
1962: “Geometric Variations”, Paris Gallery, London; “The Geometric Environment”, AIA, London
1963: “John Moores Liverpool Exhibition”, Walker Gallery, Liverpool; “Twelve Artists”, Qantas Gallery, London; “Paintings of Sensibilité”, Paris Gallery, London; “Contemporary Art Society for Wales”, National Museum, Cardiff
1964: “Seven ’64”, McRoberts & Tunnard, London; “September International”, Grosvenor Gallery, London
1965: “The Responsive Eye”, Museum of Modern Art, New York (and tour); “Movements”, City Art Gallery, Manchester; “Trends and Trendsetters”, Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff, Wales; “Summer Exhibition”, Redfern Gallery, London
1966: “Kinetic Art”, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry and Ulster Museum, Belfast; “Form and Image”, Leeds Institute, Leeds; “London Under Forty”, Galleria Milano, Milan; “Ten ’66”, McRoberts & Tunnard, London
1967: “Pittsburgh International Exhibition”, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; “Benjamin, Steele, Tyzack”, City Art Gallery, Manchester; “Op Art”, Derry Arts Festival, Ulster Museum, Belfast and Ritchie Hendriks Gallery, Dublin; “First Edinburgh 100”, De Marco Gallery, Edinburgh
1968: “Cybernetic Serendipity”, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; “Grabowski 100”, Grabowski Gallery, London; “Wales Now”, Welsh Arts Council, touring; “Northern Ireland Arts Council Open Exhibition”, Belfast
1969: “British Movements”, Onnasch Gallery, Berlin; “Systeemi”, Amos Andersonin Taidemuseo, Helsinki
1971: “Matrix”, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; “Art Spectrum South”, City Art Gallery, Southampton (and tour)
1972: “Systems”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (and tour); “Kinetic Art”, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, Wales; “Movement”, Lucy Milton Gallery, London; “System”, Lucy Milton Gallery, London
1973: “Systems II”, Polytechnic of Central London; “Wales and the Modern Movements”, University of Aberystwyth, Wales; “Engelse Systematische Kunst”, Galerie Swart, Amsterdam; “Constructive Art”, City Art Gallery, Leicester; “Illusion in Twentieth Century Art”, MacRobert Centre, University of Sterling, Scotland
1975: “Britanniasta '75“, Taidehalli, Helsinki; “Dilworth, Kidner, Steele”, Galerie Jacomo-Santiveri, Paris; “Zeichningen”, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern; “Kunstmesse”, Düsseldorf; “Kunstmesse”, Basle
1976: “Engelse en Nederlandse Rationele Tekeningen“, De Volle Maan, Delft, Netherlands; “System + Program”, Galerie Teatru Studio, Warsaw; “Systèmes et Séries“, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon, France (and tour); “Art Génératif”, Galerie Gilles Gheerbrant, Montreal; “Mois Britannique”, Toulouse; “Kunstmesse”, Basle; “AIR Exhibition 5”, Art Information Registry, London; “Parutions”, Galerie Média, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; “Systematici op Kleinformat”, Multi Art Points, Amsterdam; “Rational Concepts, English Drawings”, Kunstcentrum Badhuis, Gorinchem, Netherlands (and tour)
1977: “Dilworth, Hughes, Lowe, Steele”, Annely Juda Fine Art, London; “Sul Concetto di Serie”, Museo Civico, Varese, Italy (and tour); “Rational Konzepte”, Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern; “Kunstmesse”, Cologne
1978: “Czwarty Wymiar w Czworobiku”, Galerie Teatru Studio, Warsaw (and tour); “Constructive Context”, Warehouse Gallery, London (and tour); “Rational Practice”, Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex, UK; “Maximal-Minimal”, Amos Anderson Museum, Taidemuseo, Helsinki (and tour); “Dilworth, Lowe, Steele”, Sally East Gallery, London; “Kunstmesse”, Basle
1979: “Art Construit”, Le Disque Rouge, Brussels; “Kunstmesse”, Basle
1980: “8 plus 8”, Annely Juda Fine Art, London; “Portsmouth-Duisberg Link”, Portsmouth City Art Gallery/Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, West Germany
1982: “Artists of the Sally East Gallery”, St Paul's Gallery, Leeds; “The Southern Art Show”, Winchester Gallery, UK
1983: “L'Art Exact”, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco; “Arte Programmata e Cinetica 1953-1963”, Palazzo Reale, Milan; “XIV Mednarodni Graficni Bienal”, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1984: “VII Norske Internasjonale Grafikk Biennale”, Fredrikstad, Norway; “Constructivist Tendencies in Europe”, Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm; “Nuevas Adquisiciones”, Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela; “Male Jest Piekne”, Galerie Zapiecek, Warsaw
1985: “Colour Presentations”, Gardner Centre Gallery, University of Sussex, UK (and tour); “Formal Systems Instantiated as Finished Drawings”, Exhibiting Space, London; “Boundaries”, Exhibiting Space, London; “Konkret Fünf”, Kunsthaus, Nuremberg
1986: “Arte e Scienza (Sezione Colore)”, Venice Biennale, Italy; “Systematic Constructive Drawings”; Wentworth Gallery, University of York, UK; “A Celebration of the Visual Arts in Portsmouth”, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; “Third International Contemporary Art Fair”, Olympia, London; “On the Concept of Colour Presentations”, Exhibiting Space, London
1987: “Aspects of Programmed Art”, Galerie Schoeller, Dusseldorf; “Inaugural Exhibition”, Patricia Knight Gallery, London
1988: “Exacta”, Galerie im Stadthaus, Klagenfurt, Austria; “Black and White”, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Comune di Ferrara, Italy
1990: “Britisch-Systematisch”, Stiftung für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich; “Costruttivismo, Concretismo e Cinevisualismo Internazionale”, Arte Struktura, Milan
1991: “Collezione ABV”, Salone del Mobile, Fiera di Milano, Italy; “Kolekcja Sztuki XXw” Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw
1992: “La Collection du Musée Lodz”, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1993: “Post-war Art”, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
1994: “Drucke + Multiples”, März Galerien, Mannheim, German; “Creating a Vision ”, Russell-Cotes Collection, Bournemouth, UK; “Kolor w Grafice”, Muzeum Okregowe, Torun, Poland; “Svetovna Imena Konstruktivizmardquo;, Galerija cd Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia; “Dialogos — l'arte costruisce la'europa”, Museo delle Collezioni, Bucharest
1995: “Protagonistov Konstruktivne Umnetnosti”, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; “Words”, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1996: “Gli Anni Sessanta”, Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta, Milan; “Lumière et Mouvement”, Galerie Denise René, Paris; “Insights”, Russell-Cotes Collection, Bournemouth, UK
1997: “Abstract-Optical-Kinetic”, Belgrave Gallery, London
1998: “Okuninka '97”, Muzeum Okregowe w Chelmie, Poland
1999: “Sztuka Konkretna/Abstrakcja”, Goethe Institut, Krakow, Poland; “Creu Cymuned o Arlunwyr”, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales; “12 Norsk Internasjonal Grafikk Triennale”, Fredrikstad, Norway; “Anthony Hill, Jeffrey Steele, Peter Lowe”, Galeria Stara, Lublin, Poland
2000: “Hill, Lowe, Raczko, Steele, Sztabinski, Winiarski”, Galeria Kuchnia, Warsaw; “Miedzynarodowe Triennale Grafiki”, Panstwowe Galeria Sztuki, Torun, Poland; “Grafica Opera Prima”, Muzeum Okrgngowe w Torunin, Torun, Poland
2001: “Amiche Volissimevolmente”, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Rome
2002: “Bianco e Nero”, Vismara Arte, Milan; “ 22 iz buducnosti za buducnost Vukovara”, Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti, Zagreb, Croatia (and tour); “Grafica Opera Prima”, Galeria Akademii Sztuk Pieknych, Lodz, Poland (and tour); “Kolekcja Sztuki Wspotczesnej”, Museum Chelmskie w Chetmie, Barczynska, Poland
2003: “Konstrucktive Kunst aus England”, Stadtbucherei Niebüll, Niebüll, Germany; “L'Arte del Movimento/dal Futurismo alla Video-arte”, Casa del Mantegna, Mantova, Italy
2004: “33 Protagonists of Avant-garde Movements”, European Cultural Society Foundation, Bratislava, Slovakia; “Les Editions Média de Neuchatel, une Sélection”, Musée des Beaux-Arts La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland; “Abstraction and Metaphor”, Zamek w Janowiec nad Wis, Poland; “Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru”, Newport, Wales
2005: “Exacta. Dal Costruttivismo all'Arte Sistemica 1918-1985”, NT Art Gallery, Bologna; “40 grafica Opera Prima”, Muzeum Milana Dobesa, Bratislava, Slovakia; “Prague Biennale 2”, Prague; “Elements of Abstraction”, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK; “Werken Aan De Toekomst Van Een Culturstad”, Symposium Gorinchem, Netherlands
2006: “Sztuka Optyczna i Kinetyczna”, Muzeum Chelmskie, W Chelmie, Poland; “European Neo-Constructivism of 1930-2000”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (and tour); “In Omaggio a Paolo Minoli”, Casa per l'Arte, Cantu, Italy; “Op-Art”, Galerie Latzer, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland; “Arte Cinetica”, Spazzio Boccioni, Milan
2007: “Towards a Rational Aesthetic”; Osborne Samuel Gallery, London; “Swingujacy Londyn-Kolekcja Grabowskiego”, Museum Sztuki w Lodzi, Poland; “Circa 1967”, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK
2008: “Razumsko Oko, Mednarodni Graficni”, Likovni Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia; “A Rational Aesthetic”, Southampton City Art Gallery, UK; “L'Arte Costruisce L'Europa, Arte Struktura”, Milan (and tour)
2009: “Studio Exhibition”, Curated by Trevor Clarke, London; “Twentieth Century British Art”, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
2010: “System Construction Creation”, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London
2011: “Black and White”, Komart Gallery, Berlin; “Dalla Intuizione alla Projrammazione 1921-2009”, Lipari, Italy; “The Conversation”, Von Bartha Collection, Basle; “Construction and its Shadow” Leeds City Art Gallery, UK
2012: “Kontinuität und Erneuerung”, Galerie Reckermann, Cologne; “Concrete Parallels/Concretos Paralelos”, Cultura Inglesa, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013: “Frieze Masters, London”, Dan Galeria, Sao Paulo, Brazil; “Experiment in Time”, Laurent Delaye Gallery, London; “Printiau'r Cyhoeddi”, Bay Art Gallery, Cardiff; “Dynamo, Un siècle de lumière et de mouvement dans l'art 1913-2013”, Grand Palais, Paris
2014: “Conversations Around Marlow Moss”, &Model Gallery, Leeds; “Patch of Yellow Wall”, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London; “Automatic Art”, GV Art Gallery, London; “The Social Bases of Abstract Art”, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate, Kent, UK; “44 Protagonists of the Responsive Eye, Now and Then”, Galleria Orler, Mestre, Italy
2016: “Spotlight on Systems”, Tate Britain, London
2017: “British Constructivism”, Pallant House, Chichester, UK; “Seurat to Riley: The Art of Perception”, Compton Verney Gallery, Warwickshire, UK
2018: “Action-Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art”, Kunsthal, Rotterdam

•During the 1960s and 1970s JS exhibited in many exhibitions of the 56 Group of Welsh artists founded in 1956. He was made a life member in 1974.