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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 |
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Recent Paintings, Galleri Sandström Andersson, Stockholm,
Sweden |
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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 |
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Assembly, Paintings 2002–2007, Kunsthallen Brandts,
Odense, Denmark |
| 2006 |
New Paintings, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland |
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New Paintings, Galerie Andersson Sandström, Umeå,
Sweden |
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Whispers, New Drawings, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen,
Denmark |
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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 |
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Four Quartets, Recent Paintings, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance |
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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 |
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Small Paintings, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Watercolours and Gouaches 1993 - 2003, The Nordic
Watercolour Museum, Sweden |
| 2002 |
Gallery City Park, Austria |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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Fairytale Cabinets, Montana, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense,
Denmark |
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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 |
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2nd Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China |
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Matisse to Freud, A Critic’s Choice: The Alexander Walker
Bequest, The British Museum, London, and Hayward Gallery Touring |
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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 |
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In Print, Hakodate Museum of Art and Marugame Museum of Contemporary
Art, Shikoku Island, Japan |
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The Gallery, Poole |
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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 |
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| AWARDS |
| 2002 |
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
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| 1989 |
Received DAAD Award to work in Berlin |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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