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

   
2003 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
2003 How Heavy is Black?, Broadbent, London
  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
 

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

2002 - 'How Heavy is Black?'
(on-line & download)

 

Sentinel IX, 2003