Artists: Ian McKeever

 

 

Ian McKeever

About the artist...

McKeever was born in Withernsea, Yorkshire, in 1946. He moved to London in 1965 to Study English Literature, and self-taught, he began to paint in 1969.

His work can be found in many of the world's leading galleries and collections: The British Museum, The Government Art Collection, and The Tate Gallery in London; The Morat-Institut in Freiburg; The National Gallery of South Africa; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; The Yale Center for British Art in Connecticut; amongst others.

McKeever lives and works in Dorset.


Biography

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Assembly, Paintings 2006–2008, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
  Recent Paintings, Galleri Sandström Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
  Temple Paintings, Kings Place Gallery, London
2008 Assembly, Paintings and Works on Paper 2006–2007, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2007 Four Quartets, Paintings 2001–2007, Morat Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
  Assembly, Paintings 2002–2007, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2006 New Paintings, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
  New Paintings, Galerie Andersson Sandström, Umeå, Sweden
  Whispers, New Drawings, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Temple Paintings, Galerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005 Bilder 1983–93, Morat Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
2004 Sentinel, Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
  Four Quartets, Recent Paintings, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
  Recent Paintings and Ten Years of Drawing, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
2003 Text and Work, Ian McKeever and David Miller, The Arts Institute, Bournemouth
  Small Paintings, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
  Watercolours and Gouaches 1993 - 2003, The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Sweden
2002 Gallery City Park, Austria
  Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2001 Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
1999 Backspace, London
1995 The Marianne North Paintings, Matts Gallery. London
1990 Whitechapel Art gallery, London
1987 Kunstverein Braunschweig
1986 River Gallery, West Port, Connecticut
1971 Cardiff Arts Centre
   
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Art and Design at Brighton 1859–2009, University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
2007 At Home, Portraits of Artists in The Royal Academy Collection, The John Madejski Fine Rooms, Royal Academy of Arts, London
  Fairytale Cabinets, Montana, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
  Hugh Stoneman: Master Printer, Tate St Ives, Cornwall
2006 50 Years with Art, Løvbjergsamlingen, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
2005 Seven Royal Academicians in China, National Art Gallery, Beijing, China;Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, and Royal Academy of Arts, London
  2nd Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China
  Matisse to Freud, A Critic’s Choice: The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London, and Hayward Gallery Touring
  The Art of White, The Lowry, Manchester
2004 Works and Days, Acquisitions for the Louisiana Collection 2000–2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2003 How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London
  In Print, Hakodate Museum of Art and Marugame Museum of Contemporary Art, Shikoku Island, Japan
  The Gallery, Poole
  Selections from the Chellgren Gift, Speed Art Museum, Kentucky
1999 Graphic! British Prints Now, Yale Center for British Art
1994 Paintmarks, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
   
AWARDS
2002 Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
1989 Received DAAD Award to work in Berlin
   
TEACHING
2001 University of Brighton, Visiting Professor
1992-6 Slade School of Art, Lecturer
1993 Stadel Schule, Frankfurt, Guest Professor
1984-9 Camberwell School of Art
   
COLLECTIONS

Arts Council of Great Britain
The Royal Academy of Art, London Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
The British Council, London
The British Museum, London
The Government Art Collection of Great Britain, London
The Tate Gallery, London
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick
Red Mansion Foundation, London Huddersfield City Art Gallery, Huddersfield Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori
Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder, Denmark
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
New Carlsberg Glytotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Nordic Aquarell Museum, Skarhamn, Sweden Morat-Insitut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg
Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern
Kunsthalle Kiel
Museum Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest
National Gallery of South Africa, Johannesburg
The Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
New York City Library, New York
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art, Cincinnati Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts The Haggerty Museum of Modern Art, Milwaukee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

 
 

Installation - 'How Heavy is Black?'
Works on Canvas
 
Press Releases
2003 - How Heavy is Black?
 

2002 - 'How Heavy is Black?'
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Sentinel IX, 2003