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Artists›Ian Breakwell

Ian Breakwell

1943

WA-00033742

Derby, UK

PaintingContemporary

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

Assets Indexed

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Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ5980984 ULAN500030876

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Selections from the Video Study Collection: 1968�1987

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

Field Verification (3 fields)

2 cross-verified · 1 single-source

Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
BiographyMoMA· 93%

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/35520
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Ian Breakwell yet.

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Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Contemporary

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (25)

The Other Side

2002 · Video, 2 projections, colour and sound

duration: 14 min.

Tate

October 12th 1982, Programme 9 from Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary

1986 · Video (color, sound)

6:55 min.

Museum of Modern Art

The Walking Man, Programme 3 from Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary

1986 · Video (color, sound)

5:05 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled, Programme 2 from Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary

1986 · Video (color, sound)

2:46 min.

Museum of Modern Art

Growth, Programme 10 from Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary

1986 · Video (color, sound)

12:39 min.

Museum of Modern Art

WattsOS

Ian Breakwell's Continuous Diary [selections]

1984 · Four videos (color, sound)

Durations variable

Museum of Modern Art

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

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[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

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[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

[no title]

1983 · Screenprint on paper

image: 302 x 210 mm

Tate

Keep Things as They Are: In Silken Chains

1981 · Paper, charcoal, wax crayon, emulsion paint, oil paint, oil pastel, gouache and ink on paper

support: 1516 x 1395 mm frame: 1560 x 1428 x 61 mm

Tate

Keep Things as They Are: In Mysterious Ways

1981 · Paper, charcoal, wax crayon, emulsion paint, oil paint, oil pastel, gouache and ink on paper

support: 1513 x 1295 mm frame: 1548 x 1334 x 60 mm

Tate

The Walking Man Diary

1975 · 11 works on panel, photographs, gelatin silver print on paper, graphite and ink

displayed: 1233 x 6159 x 19 mm frame 1: 230 x 275 x 19 mm frame 2: 224 x 282 x 32 mm frame 3: 1232 x 727 x 19 mm frame 4: 1232 x 389 x 19 mm frame 5: 1232 x 953 x 19 mm frame 6: 1232 x 575 x 19 mm frame 7: 1232 x 577 x 19 mm frame 8: 1232 x 1

Tate

[no title]

1974 · Screenprint on paper

image: 815 x 555 mm

Tate

[no title]

1974 · Screenprint on paper

image: 816 x 555 mm

Tate

[no title]

1974 · Screenprint on paper

image: 816 x 556 mm

Tate

[no title]

1974 · Screenprint on paper

image: 817 x 555 mm

Tate

[no title]

1974 · Screenprint on paper

image: 814 x 557 mm

Tate

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Artwork sources (2)

25 published of 30 catalogued · 28 with image

Tate
20 published20 img
MoMA
5 publishedof 10 catalogued8 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

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1983 · Tate · 1 prov
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[no title]
1974 · Tate · 1 prov
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[no title]
1983 · Tate · 1 prov
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The Other Side
2002 · Tate · 1 prov
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[no title]
1983 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Keep Things as They Are: In Silken Chains
1981 · Tate · 1 prov
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Six Phototext Sequences
1973 · Tate · 1 prov
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[no title]
1974 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Keep Things as They Are: In Mysterious Ways
1981 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
[no title]
1983 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Movements1

Contemporary

Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Tate

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Selections from the Video Study Collection: 1968�1987

New York · 1987