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1916 born
1932-1934 Dorwnside College, England
1934 the Sorbonne, Paris, joined surrealist group

HONOURS

1949-50 Fulbright Fellowships for France

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

1935 exhibition with Picasso Arp, Bellmer, Brauner, de Chirico, Dali, Duchamp, Max Ernst, Magritte, Miro, Man Ray, Tanguy at Galerie Quatre Chemins, Paris.

1939 Galerie Quatre Chemins (Solo)

1953 Carnet de voyage au Sahara, Hotel Rembrandt, Tangier (Solo)

1957 New York, Chicago, Rome, London ( Solo shows)
Group show with Matta, Paris

1960 Minutes to Go (Paris) with Burroughs, Corso, Sinclair Beiles
The Exterminator (San Francisco) with Burroughs

1961 Collaborated with Burroughs on The Ticket that exploded, which trails away at the end into permutated calligraphy, “Silence to say good bye”; group show Paris. Salon “Réalités Nouvelles,” BBC broadcast “The Permutated Poems of Brion Gysin”: IAM THAT I AM. Pistol Poems, etc..

1962 Group show “L’Objet” in Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Louvre, Paris
Dreamachine shown for first time group shows Venice, Paris

1963 Guerilla Conditions, a 6” x 6′ painting on a text by Burroughs painted on the spot to permutated tapes, filmed by Antony Balch,.
Dreamachines for Helena Rubinstein with Ian Sommerville
One Man Show, Tangier introduced by Burroughs
group show Haut de Cagnes, France, and Palazzo Guggenheim, Venice

1964 Group show with Henri chopin, Paris

1966 Group shows, Paris, Prague, Nice with Bernard Heidsieck,

1967 Hepta catalogue poem, Paris
1968 Group show University of Rouen, France; film The Cut Ups, Antony Balch with Gysin, Burroughs, Sommerville, Portman, etc.

1969  The Process (NY and London)

1973 One Man and group shows, Paris, Rome; definitive return to Paris

1980 One Man shows, Paris: “Beaubourg the Last Museum,” “The Last Museum in Kodacolor 11″
group shows NY, Brussels, Sweden, Norway, Liechtenstein
‘Le Colloque de Tangier” with Burroughs, Geneva.
“Paris-New York,” “Burroughs-Gysin Read” Centre Pompidou, Paris;
“Poesie Sonore” with Steve Lacy, Paris, Le Havre, Rennes, Brussels, etc.
The Third Mind (New York); performances with Burroughs, Corso, Ginsberg, etc.
One Man show, DREAMACHlNE, Basel
group show “Ecritures” Centre Nationale des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris.

1981 One Man Show, October Gallery, London.