Professor John Goto

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Professor John Goto

Job title: Senior Lecturer in Photography

Email: J.Goto@derby.ac.uk
Personal website: johngoto.org.uk

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Faculty: Arts, Design and Technology

School: School of Art and Design

Subject Area: Photography

John Goto teaches at undergraduate, MA and PhD levels, and is Director of D-MARC Digital and Material Arts Research Centre at the University of Derby.

Professional interests

Goto is a prolific and highly respected photo-digital artist. He has used computers in his art since the early '90s, concentrating on historical subjects as well as often satirical accounts of contemporary society. He has held solo London exhibitions at Tate Britain, The National Portrait Gallery and Photographers' Gallery, and exhibited widely in Europe. He is currently represented by galleries in Paris, Munich and Seoul.


John Goto's work can be viewed at http://www.johngoto.org.uk/

Research interests

Goto's work is held in the following Public Collections -


Arts Council of Great Britain

Australian National Gallery

Southern Arts Collection

Victoria and Albert Museum

Museum of Modern Art, Valencia

Manchester City Museum

Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth

Perm State Museum, Perm, Russia

University of Warwick Collection

Norwich Gallery Collection, Norwich School of Art and Design

University of Sussex

Tavistock Clinic, London

Marjorie Mynard Barley Collection, St Anne's College, Oxford University

Eurohypo Bank, London

Deutsche Bank, London

British Government Art Collection

British Art Center, Yale University

National Portrait Gallery, London

The British Academy, London

Media experience

Interviewed by BBC radio Culture Cafe about his Mosaic exhibition at Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery (2011). Interviewed for Kettle's Yard Gallery's Oral History Archive (2009). Contributor to 'The Unknown Face', BBC Radio 4 (2009). His work is regularly reviewed in the British and International press.

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