education
1961-63 Glasgow School of Art
1963-66 St Martins School of Art

solo exhibitions
1969
Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
1970
'King for a Day', Nova Scotia; College of Art Gallery, Halifax
1971
'Objects no Concepts', Situation, London; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1972
'King for a Day', Tate Gallery, London;Galeria Françoise Lambert, Milan
1975
'Early Works 1967-1975', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle; 'Nice Style: The End of an Era 1971-1975', PMJ Self, London
1977
'New Political Drawings', Robert Self Gallery, London and Newcastle
1978
'The Object of the Exercise?' The Kitchen, New York
1979
University Gallery, Southampton; Barry Barker, London; Ink, Zurich
1980
'New Works and Performance/Actions Positions', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and Arnolfini, Bristol
1981
Chantal Crousel, Paris; Musee d'Art et Industrie, St Etienne Art and Project, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Basel
1981
Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (and 1985/86/87)
1982
Karansha Gallery, Tokyo (and 1983/84/88); Greta Insax, Vienna; Mary Boone Gallery, New York; Modern Art Galerie, Vienna; Chantal Crousel, Paris
1982/83
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1983
Kiki Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf; DAAD Gallery, Berlin; Dany Keller, Munich; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin;
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Dany Keller, Munich
1984
Art Palace, New York; Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York
1985/86
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1985/86
Galerie Gayrek, Dusseldorf; Tate Gallery, London
1986
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
1987
Hillman Holland, Atlanta
1988
Museum von Hendendaagse, Netherlands
1989
The Scottish Gallery, London
1990
Arnolfini, Bristol; Karansha Gallery, Tokyo;Glasgow Print Studio, Glasgow
1990
Dean Clough, Halifax
1991
'Minimal Moves', Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf; 'Work', Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; 'Recent Acquisitions', Metal Monotypes, William Jackson Gallery, London; 'Moving Goalposts', Berkeley Square Gallery, London
1992
'A Far Cry from Beverley Hills', Gmyrek Graphik, Dusseldorf; Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh; 'Bruce McLean: Keramik', Droysen, Berlin; 'No Style An Other Situation: Knife Edge', London; 'Books 1985-1992', Eagle Gallery, London
1993
'Pavilions for Nothing and Rooms for Redundant Gestures', Kunstmuseum, Soro Norkoppings, Norkoppings Kunstmuseum, Sweden
1994
'Seven River Sombrero Series and Other Projects', Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent; 'Best Seat Theatre and Other Projects', Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
1995/96
'Urban Turban', Cornerhouse, Manchester, touring to Norwich Gallery and Ormeau Baths, Belfast
1997
'Bruce McLean', Galerie se, Bergen
1998
'Bruce McLean', Galerie Fortlaan 17, Gent
2000
Bruce McLean', Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh

selected performance
1980
'Action at a Distance, Questions of Misinterpretation', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; 'A Thinner Brim', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; 'Possibly a Nude by a Coal Bunker', Riverside Studios, London; 'High Up on a Baroque Palazzo', The Mickery Theatre, Amsterdam
1981
'A Contemporary Dance', Kunsthalle, Basel
1982
'A Farewell Performance', Riverside Studios, London; 'Une Danse Contemporaine', Folkwang Museum, Essen; 'Painting on the Angst', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1983
'Yet Another Bad Turn-up', Riverside Studios, London
1985
'Simple Manners and Physical Violence', Tate Gallery, Riverside Studios, London and touring to Dusseldorf and Cologne; The Adio Arts Awards, Riverside Studios, London
1986
'Physical Manners and Good Violence', Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle; 'Partitions', Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; 'A Song for the North', Tate of the North, Liverpool
1988
'The Invention of Tradition', Tate of the North, Liverpool; 'A Ball is not a Dancing School', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1990
'Vertical Balcony', Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Dean Clough, Halifax; Tramway, Glasgow
1991
'Art Architecture and the Environment', Tate Gallery

selected publications
1990
Mel Gooding, 'Bruce McLean', Phaidon Press
Clare Henry, 'Bruce McLean', Glasgow Herald, 12 October
1991
'Minimal Moves', catalogue, Galerie Gmyrek, Dusseldorf
Adrian Searle, 'Recent Acquisitions', Time Out, September
1992
Jeremy Hunt, 'Bruce McLean: Prints 1980-1992',
Mel Gooding, 'A Pavilion for Nothing and Rooms for Redundant Gestures', Soro Kunstmuseum catalogue
William Alsop and Mel Gooding, 'Berlin: City of Objects', Artemis
Press, London
1994
Stephen Walsh, 'Dance Bites', programme for the Royal Ballet Production of 'Reynard', Royal Opera House, London
Alan Robertson, 'For Fox Sake', Time Out, August
Edith Doove, 'Bruce McLean', Artfactum, September
William Furlong, 'Audio Arts: Discourse and Practice in Contemporary Art'
'Make Space: Design for Theatre and Alternative Spaces', catalogue, Theatre Design Umbrella, London
'Special Feature: William Alsop, Mel Gooding, Bruce McLean, Proposals for the New Gallery, Museum of Modern Art For London
in the New Millennium', Art and Design, London
1995
'Sculpture', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London

selected group exhibitions
1980
'Dokumentation 7' Ink, Zurich;
'Art in the Seventies', Biennale, Venice
1981
'A New Spirit in Painting', Royal Academy of Arts, London;
'New Work', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; 'The 4th Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;
'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century', Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London
1982
'Aspects of British Art Today', British Council touring exhibition,
Japan; 'Document 7', Museum Fredericianum, Kassel; 'Zeitgeist', Hartin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1983
'Thought and Action', Laforet Museum, Tokyo; 'Art in Aid of Amnesty', Work of Art Gallery, London; 'New Art', Tate Gallery, London; 'December Exhibition', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1984
'When Attitudes Become Form', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; 'The Critical Eye', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven,
Connecticut; 'An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture', Museum of Modern Art, New York; 'The British Art Show', Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1985
'Bilder fur Frankfurt', Bestandausstellung des Museums fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; 'John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14; Walker Art Gallery
'Towards an Art of Peace Biennale', Rane Block. Hamburg
'Homage au Gezmes', I.C.C., Berlin
1985
'Sculptor's Drawings', Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh; '7000 Oaks', Kunsthalle, Tubingham
1985/86
'11 European Painters', National Gallery, Athens
1986
'Peter Moores Liverpool Project 8: Out of Line', Walker Art Gallery; 'The Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1987
'British Art in the 20th Century', Royal Academy, London;
'Current Affairs', Museum of Modern Art Oxford: a British Council exhibition touring to the National Gallery, Prague; 'Vessel', Serpentine Gallery, London; 'Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980's', British Council, Musee d'Art Moderne, Brussels;
'Berlinart 1961-1987', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987/88
'Bingo, Bango, Bongo', Tokyo
1988
'British Home Made', Rouen;
'Out of Clay: Creations in Clay by Artists, Potters and Sculptors',
City Art Gallery, Manchester;
'Twenty Years of British Sculpture', Musee des Beaux Arts, Le Havre
1989
'Balkon mit Facher', DAAD, Berlin; 'Scottish Art since 1900', Edinburgh
1990
'Great British Art Show', Glasgow
1991
'Scottish Art in the 20th Century', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1993
'Out of Site, Out of Mind', Lisson Gallery, London; 'The Sixties: The Art Scene in London', Barbican Art Gallery; 'The Raw and the Cooked', Barbican Art Gallery, London and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1994
'Contemporary Print Show', the Barbican Concourse Gallery,
'Make Space', Upper Campfield Market Gallery, Manchester
1995
'Power to Change', BBC Wales;
RIBA, London
1996
Glasgow Print Studio
1997
'De Re Metallica', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; 'Glass Light and Space', Crafts Council, London; 'Out of Action; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979', Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1998
'Drawing Itself', The London Institute
1980
'Dokumentation 7' Ink, Zurich;
'Art in the Seventies', Biennale, Venice
1981
'A New Spirit in Painting', Royal Academy of Arts, London;
'New Work', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; 'The 4th Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney;
'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century', Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London
1982
'Aspects of British Art Today', British Council touring exhibition,
Japan; 'Document 7', Museum Fredericianum, Kassel; 'Zeitgeist', Hartin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1983
'Thought and Action', Laforet Museum, Tokyo; 'Art in Aid of Amnesty', Work of Art Gallery, London; 'New Art', Tate Gallery, London; 'December Exhibition', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1984
'When Attitudes Become Form', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge; 'The Critical Eye', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven,
Connecticut; 'An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture', Museum of Modern Art, New York; 'The British Art Show', Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1985
'Bilder fur Frankfurt', Bestandausstellung des Museums fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; 'John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14; Walker Art Gallery
'Towards an Art of Peace Biennale', Rane Block. Hamburg
'Homage au Gezmes', I.C.C., Berlin
1985
'Sculptor's Drawings', Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh; '7000 Oaks', Kunsthalle, Tubingham
1985/86
'11 European Painters', National Gallery, Athens
1986
'Peter Moores Liverpool Project 8: Out of Line', Walker Art Gallery; 'The Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1987
'British Art in the 20th Century', Royal Academy, London;
'Current Affairs', Museum of Modern Art Oxford: a British Council exhibition touring to the National Gallery, Prague; 'Vessel', Serpentine Gallery, London; 'Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980's', British Council, Musee d'Art Moderne, Brussels;
'Berlinart 1961-1987', Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987/88
'Bingo, Bango, Bongo', Tokyo
1988
'British Home Made', Rouen;
'Out of Clay: Creations in Clay by Artists, Potters and Sculptors',
City Art Gallery, Manchester;
'Twenty Years of British Sculpture', Musee des Beaux Arts, Le Havre
1989
'Balkon mit Facher', DAAD, Berlin; 'Scottish Art since 1900', Edinburgh
1990
'Great British Art Show', Glasgow
1991
'Scottish Art in the 20th Century', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
1993
'Out of Site, Out of Mind', Lisson Gallery, London; 'The Sixties: The Art Scene in London', Barbican Art Gallery; 'The Raw and the Cooked', Barbican Art Gallery, London and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1994
'Contemporary Print Show', the Barbican Concourse Gallery,
'Make Space', Upper Campfield Market Gallery, Manchester
1995
'Power to Change', BBC Wales;
RIBA, London
1996
Glasgow Print Studio
1997
'De Re Metallica', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London; 'Glass Light and Space', Crafts Council, London; 'Out of Action; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979', Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1998
'Drawing Itself', The London Institute

collections and commission
Aberdeen Art Gallery; Arts Council of Great Britain; The British Council; Contemporary Arts Society; Saatchi Collection; Galerie Gayrek; Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Het Kruithaus Kunstmuseum, Hertogenbosch; L A Louver Gallery; Laine Art Gallery; National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; South Bank Centre, London; Tate Gallery, London; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan; University of Southampton; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal Festival Hall, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Union Bank of Switzerland, London; Canary Wharf, London; Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; British Rail; Glaxo Holdings; Scottish Airports, Glasgow; Broadgate, London; Ludgate Development, London; Credit Suisse, Canary Wharf; Bridlington South Foreshore Promenade; Slough Estates; Tottenham Hale Station; Laing Construction; Ayrshire Council; Royal Museum of Scotland