Recent Acquisitions

The Courtauld Gallery

The Israel Museum

The British Museum

Artist’s Statement

The drawing Work Today, Tomorrow (above) was made in response to the prevailing mood during the 1983 general election campaign that ushered in Margaret Thatcher's second Prime Ministerial term. Unemployment was a rallying cry of the campaign. Politicians were resigned to the prospect that high unemployment rates would remain a permanent feature of post-industrial society.

 I first came upon Millet's gleaners and sowers in my studies of 19thC Art History at University College London. I had always loved Van Gogh's early drawings of threadbare peasants and workers in the Brabant region and his sympathetic reworking of Millet's labourers later in life.

The unlikely juxtaposition (after Max Ernst) of Millet's 'Sower' and the hydraulic pump (foreground, from an admired mid-19thC engraving) was likewise a response to the prevalent trend within art historical circles at the time to probe the effects of industrialisation on the British countryside in the early part of the century and hence dismantle the notion of the picturesque in English Art. This unlikely juxtaposition is echoed in the title of my exhibition 'Impossible Meetings' at the Anne Berthoud Gallery in Covent Garden in the Autumn 1983, where the drawing was first shown.

Current and Recent Events

2023/24

The Holocaust and the Visual Arts
Glenn Sujo, ‘The Holocaust and the Visual Arts: Perplexity, Meaning’, in Cambridge History of the Holocaust (Mark Roseman, ed.), Volume 4, ‘Outcomes, Aftermath, Repercussions’ (Laura Jockusch and Devin Pendas, ed.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024 (forthcoming).

Colloquium & festschrift, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, in honour of Dr. Shulamith Behr, co-convenor with Dr. Robin Schuldenfrei, Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, London WC1X 9EW. Wednesday 20 March 2024 at 2.00pm

Conference, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and Buchenwald Memorial Weimar, ‘Ekphrasis and interpretation, when words fail’ in ‘“To tear these images from time” Exploring Visual Representations from Nazi Camps, Ghettos and the Holocaust’, 9-12 October 2023. A full conference programme is available HERE.

Conference, Freie Universität Berlin. ‘East-West: Art, Rhetoric and Indexicality after 1945 (with Raised Arm and Fist)’ in ‘Representations of the Holocaust in the Cold War Eastern Bloc: the Early Decades.’ Agata Pietrasik, Daniel Véri, Convenors. Contributors from Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, United Kingdom, United States. Harnack-Haus, Freie Universität Berlin, 9–10 June, 2023. A full conference programme is available HERE.

Colloquium, Tate Gallery Archives, London. ‘Gleanings from the Sketchbooks of Jankel Adler: Roadmaps to Cosmopolitanism and International Modernism?’ in Émigré Art Archives Symposium. Contributors: Monica Bohm-Duchen, Rachel Dickson, Peter Eaves, Adrian Glew, Alexandra Lazar, Sarah MacDougall, Joanne Rosenthal, Ines Schlenker, Glenn Sujo. Tate Gallery Archives, London, 16 June 2023. A full conference programme and presentation are available HERE.

Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter.
Anthology of essays in celebration of the life of Sir William Coldstream CBE (1908–1987).
Glenn Sujo, ‘Desiderata’ in Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter (Catherine Coldstream, ed., with contributions by Catherine Lampert, Lynda Morris, Peter Rumley et al) Oxford: The Coldstream Press (forthcoming).

2021/22

Benjamin Rhodes Arts, London. Inaugural Exhibition, 17 August –24 September 2022. Works by Michael Ginsborg, Paul Gopal Chowdhury, Glenn Sujo, et al.

Migrations & the Visual Arts: The Second Generation Experience
Keynote address, Young Blood and the Exterminatory Idea: A Continuum?
Symposium, University of Leicester, in association with the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 7 May 2021. A video of the lecture is available HERE.

Aporiai: Reworkings of the Visual Field after
Lecture, Aporiai: Reflections on the discontinuities of time, memory and the visual field after. Triennial Conference of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exiles Studies, University of London, 9–11 March 2021.

Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter
Anthology of essays in celebration of the life of Sir William Coldstream CBE (1908–1987).
Glenn Sujo, ‘Desiderata’ in Bill Coldstream: Portraits of a Painter (ed. Catherine Coldstream, with contributions by Catherine Lampert, Lynda Morris, Peter Rumley et al) Oxford: The Coldstream Press, Spring 2021.

John Golding Remembered
Anthology of essays in celebration of the life-time achievement of artist, curator, educator and historian of modern art, Dr. John Golding CBE (1929—2012). Glenn Sujo, ‘24 Ashchurch Park Villas: Theatre of Light’ in John Golding Remembered (ed. Jenna Lundin-Aral, with contributions by Dawn Adès, Richard Calvocoressi, Elizabeth Cowling, Christopher Green, John Richardson, Edmund de Waal, et al.) London: John Golding Artistic Trust, Spring 2021.

2020

Diverging Paths: Aspects of Jankel Adler’s Posthumous Legacy
‘Driftwood Cast Upon a Foreign Shore’: Jankel Adler in Britain, 1940–49 (ed. Sarah MacDougall, Rachel Dickson, London: Ben Uri Art Gallery & Museum, forthcoming)

Tributes: Clara Diament Sujo (1921-2020)
Special edition ‘Papel Literario’, El Nacional, Caracas, 12 July 2020

Drawing: Inquiry, Reprise, Insight
Convenor, Workshop, West Dean College of Arts and Conservation, Chichester, West Sussex, 28 June - 1 July 2020. Postponed, forthcoming)

Conditions and Lineaments of The Human
Convenor, Workshop, Bedford School in collaboration with the Higgins Art Gallery, Bedfordshire and Learning Pathways, Friday 28 February – Sunday 1 March 2020

Bodyscapes
Survey exhibition and book (curator and editor, Adina Kamien-Kazhdan)
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, February–October 2020; exhibition extended to July 2021.

Ghetto Suite and Allegories — A new body of work in progress.
Forthcoming touring exhibition and book, in preparation

2019

Jankel Adler and Josef Herman: Friends, Orphans, Refugees
A Conversation between David Herman and Glenn Sujo
Europe House, London, 10 October 2019

Yehuda Bacon: The Cursive Hand
The Cold Shower of a New Life: The Post-War Diaries of a Child Survivor
(ed. Sharon Kangisser, Dorota Julia Nowak, Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2019)

Modern Pluralities of Drawing (and odd rivals) in ‘Who is Afraid of Drawing?’
Lecture, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, 8 June 2019

Yehuda Bacon: A Critical Reading and Excursus
Glenn Sujo in conversation with Sarah MacDougall, Director, Ben Uri Gallery and Museum, London, 13 May 2019

Drawing Through Movement: Creativity, Improvisation
Convenor, three-day intensive workshop. Learning Pathways in association with The British Museum and Siobhan Davies Dance.
London, 28 February – 1 March 2019

2018

Archives of Latin American Art, Getty Research Institute
Curatorial development in collaboration with CDS Gallery
New York and Los Angles, July – December 2018

Jankel Adler: Tireless Invention and the Work of Hands
Jankel Adler und die Avant Garde: Chagall, Dix, Klee, Picasso
(ed. Antje Birthälmer, Gerhard Finckh, Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, 2018)

Visit to Poland and Germany.
Research meetings with ‎Director and Curatorial Staff, Muzeum Sztuki Łódź; Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw; POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews; Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal; Zentrums für verfolgte Künste Kunstmuseum Solingen. Spring 2018