John Glithero (11 February 1949 – 2 August 2023), better known as John Goto, was a British
photographic art
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ist. His work addresses a range of historical, cultural and
socio-political subject areas, often using a
satirical
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approach.
Biography
John Glithero was born in
Stockport
Stockport is a town and borough in Greater Manchester, England, south-east of Manchester, south-west of Ashton-under-Lyne and north of Macclesfield. The River Goyt and Tame merge to create the River Mersey here.
Most of the town is within ...
on 11 February 1949.
As an artist, he adopted the name John Goto. His first one-man
exhibition
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, ''Goto, Photographs 1971-81'', was held at
The Photographer's Gallery in London in 1981. Other solo shows include ''Terezin'', at the Raab Gallery,
Berlin, in 1988; ''The Scar'',
Manchester City Museum and Art Gallery, 1993; ''The Commissar of Space'',
Modern Art, Oxford, 1998; ''Loss of Face'',
Tate Britain, London, 2002; ''High Summer'',
The British Academy, London, 2005; and ''Dreams of Jelly Roll'',
Freud Museum, London, 2012.
Goto was
Artist-in-Residence
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at
Kettle's Yard,
University of Cambridge, 1988-9.
Goto's books include ''Ukadia'', published to coincide with a solo exhibition at Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham, 2003, and ''Lovers’ Rock'', which is a series of
portraits made in 1977 by Goto of young
British Afro-Caribbeans.
In 2007, the ''Telegraph'' listed Goto as one of the top 100 living
geniuses.
Goto died on 2 August 2023, at the age of 74.
References
External links
Official websiteReview of High Summer by Elisabeth Mahoney in The GuardianPhotographic Migrants: John Goto’s West End Blues' by Dr Nancy Roth in Flusser Studies, Multilingual Journal for Cultural and Media TheoryReview of New World Circus by Tim Teeman in The TimesNational Portrait Gallery collection
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1949 births
2023 deaths
Academics of the University of Derby
Artists from Stockport
Photographers from Cheshire