Ian McKeever, Biography
Born 1946 Withernsea, Yorkshire, UK. Lives and works in Dorset, UK.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
▹ HOURS: Paintings 2019-2021, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm
2020
▹ Ian McKeever/Tony Cragg, Paintings and Sculptures, Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal
2019
▹ Ian McKeever: The Nature of Painting, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2018
▹ Ian MCKeever & Richard Deacon, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
▹ Weight and Measure, Prints 1993-2018, Young Gallery, Salisbury
▹ Paintings 1992-2018, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
2017
▹ Against Architecture Installation, Matt’s Gallery, London
▹ Painting and Painted Panels, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
▹ Letters, 2015-2017, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste
2016
▹ …and the sky dreamt it was the sea, HackelBury Fine Art Limited, London, UK
▹ Portrait of a Woman Paintings 2014 – 2016, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
▹ Twelve Standing, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
▹ Hours of Darkness, Hours of Light, Kunstmuseet i Tønder, Tønder, Denmark
▹ Between Darkness and Light, National Gallery of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn
▹ Between the Stone and the Paper, Steinprent, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
2014
▹ Ian McKeever: Painted Panels, 2012-2014, Galerie Nanna Preußners, Hamburg, Germany
▹ Ian McKeever: Hours of Darkness and Hours of Light, Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany
▹ Ian McKeever: Twelve-Standing and Three, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
▹ Ian McKeever: Eagduru – Against Architecture, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
▹ Ian McKeever: Against Photography: Early Works 1975-1990, HackelBury Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
2013
▹ Ian McKeever: Twelve-Standing, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
▹ Ian McKeever: Paintings and Photographs, Galleri Andersson/Sandström, Umeå, Sweden
2012
▹ Hartgrove: Paintings and Photographs, Josef Albers Museum, Quadrat, Bottrop, Germany
▹ Twelve – Standing, Galerie Nanna Preussners, Hamburg, Germany
2011
▹ Black and Black again…. Paintings 1987 – 2010, Museum Sønderjylland Kunstmuseet I Tønder, Denmark
2010
▹ Artists’ Laboratory 01, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
▹ Hartgrove. Paintings and Photographs, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
▹ Lithographs 2006-2010, Hostrup-Pedersen & Johansen, Valby, Denmark
2009
▹ Recent Paintings, Galleri Andersson Sandström, Stockholm, Sweden
▹ The Temple Paintings, Kings Place, London, UK
2008
▹ Assembly, Paintings and Works on Paper 2006-2007, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2007
▹ Four Quartets, Paintings 2001-2007, Morat-Institut für Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany
▹ Assembly,Paintings 2002-2007, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2006
▹ New Paintings, Galerie Andersson Sandstrom, Umeå, Sweden
▹ Whispers, New Drawings, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
▹ Bilder, 1983-1993, Morat-Institut fur Kunst und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany
2004
▹ Recent Paintings and Ten Years of Drawing, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
2003
▹ Watercolours and Gouaches 1993-2003, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
▹ Text and Work, Ian McKeever and David Miller, The Arts Institute, Bournemouth, UK
2002
▹ New Paintings, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
▹ Paintings from the Four Quartet Series, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
2001
▹ Paintings 1993-2000, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2000
▹ Paintings and Works on Paper, Alan Cristea Gallery, London and Michael Hue-Williams Gallery, London, UK
1999
▹ Ian McKeever and Kurt Kocherscheidt, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt, Germany
1997
▹ Paintings 1990 – 1996, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham and The Bonnington Gallery, University of Trent, Nottingham, UK
▹ Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
▹ Recent Paintings, Galerie Modulo, Lisbon, Portugal
1995
▹ Paintings, Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
▹ An Aspect of Landscape, Al Bustan, Beirut, Libanon
1994
▹ Recent Paintings and Drawings, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
▹ Hartgrove Paintings, Bernhard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
▹ Hour Paintings, Galerie Tanit Munich, Munich, Germany
1993
▹ Ninety New Guinea Gouaches, Morat-Institut, Freiburg, Germany
▹ Hour Paintings, Stephen Solovy Gallery, Chicago, USA
1991
▹ Greenland, Watercolours and Drawings from the Morat-Institut, Freiburg, Stadtische Galerie, Wurzburg, Germany
1990
▹ Notes, DAAD Galerie, West Berlin, Germany
▹ Ein Diptychon, Galerie Weisser Elephant, East Berlin, Germany
▹ Large Diptychs, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
▹ Paintings 1978 – 1990, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1989
▹ A History of Rocks 1986 – 1988, Kunstforum, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
▹ Greenland, Galerie Tanit, Munich and Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth, UK
1988
▹ Qororssuaq (Greenland 1988), Galleria Fantasia/ Pelin, Helsinki, Finland (with Timo Valjakka)
1987
▹ The Staffa Project, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum and Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt, Belgium (with Thomas Joshua Cooper)
▹ Recent Paintings, Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, Finland
▹ Ian McKeever im Innsbrucker Kunstverein, Kunstverein Innsbruck, Austria
▹ Echo and Reflection, Arbeiten 1983-1987, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
▹ Recent Paintings and Drawings, Galerie Harald Behm, Hamburg, Germany
▹ Paintings 1986-1987, Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
1986
▹ Traditional Landscapes and Works on Paper, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart, Germany
▹ Recent Paintings, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London UK
▹ Through the Ice Lens, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1985
▹ Traditional Landscapes and Works on Paper, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
▹ Works on Paper, Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
▹ Borderlines-Abstracting Art from Nature, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (with Frank Auerbach)
1984
▹ Traditional Landscapes, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
▹ Recent Paintings, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
1983
▹ Traditional Landscapes, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
1982
▹ Deutscher Zyklus, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, UK
▹ Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Arno Kohnen, Düsseldorf, Germany
▹ Black and White…or How to Paint With a Hammer, Matt’s Gallery, London, UK
▹ Lino-Cuts, Riverside Studios, London, UK
1981
▹ Islands, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK (with Bernd Koberling)
▹ Paintings: Islands and Night Flak Series, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
1980
▹ Fields, Waterfalls and Birds, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
▹ Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
▹ Vacuum, London, UK (with Rafael Jablonka)
▹ Aspects of Work 1973-1980, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
▹ Ian McKeever, Galleria del Cavellino, Venice, Italy
1979
▹ Field Series 1978, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
1978
▹ Sand and Sea Series, Spectro Arts, Newcastle, UK
▹ Sand and Sea Series, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
▹ Sand and Sea Series, Galleria Foksal, Warsaw, Russia
1977
▹ Sand and Sea Series, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London and Galleria Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy
1976
▹ Ian McKeever, Icon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
▹ Works 1974-76, Galleria del Cavellino, Venice, Italy
1973
▹ Ian McKeever, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
1971
▹ Ian McKeever, Cardiff Arts Centre
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
▹ Art Museum Riga Bourse, Riga, Latvia, Contemporary Art Exhibition Qwaypurlake, Hauser & Wirth Somerset, UK
2014
▹ Leitmotif, HackelBury Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
▹ Structures, British and German Painting in Dialogue, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany; The Exchange, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK
▹ Some Artists’ Artists, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
2013
▹ Convergence, HackelBury Fine Art Ltd, London, UK
▹ In Cloud Country: Abstracting from Nature, Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds, UK
▹ Gifted, From the Royal Academy to the Queen, Royal Collection Trust, London, UK
2012
▹ Format, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
▹ Prism: Drawings from 1990-2011, National Museum of Norway, Oslo, Norway
▹ Materiality, HackelBury Fine Art, London, UK
2011
▹ Watercolour, Tate Britain, London, UK
▹ Artists for Kettle’s Yard, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, UK
▹ Royal Academicians, Seongnam Arts Center, South Korea
▹ Under Stor Press, Master Graphic from Atelier Larsen, Helsingborg, Sweden
2010
▹ Watercolours from the Sir Sydney Jones Collection, Victoria Gallery and Museum, Liverpool, UK
▹ Arbeiten auf Papier, Schaltwerk, Hamburg, Germany
▹ 21, Harewood House, Leeds, UK
▹ p.p.painting 2010, Eisengraberamt, Austria
2009
▹ Northern Print Biennale, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle, UK
▹ Art for Life, Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity, Jonathan Clark Fine Art, London, UK
2007
▹ At Home, Portraits of Artists in The Royal Academy Collection, The John Madejski Fine Rooms, Royal Academy, London, UK
▹ Fairytale Cabinets, Montana, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
▹ Hugh Stoneman: Master Printer, Tate St.Ives, Cornwall, UK
2006
▹ The Art of White, The Lowry, Manchester, UK
▹ 50 Years with Art, Lovjbergsamlingen, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
2005
▹ Seven Royal Academicians in China, National Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, and Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
▹ 2nd Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China
▹ Matisse to Freud, A Critic’s Choice: The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London and Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2004
▹ Works and Days, Acquisitions for the Louisiana Collection 2000-2004, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2003
▹ Hakodate Museum of Art and Marugame Museum of Contemporary Art, Shikoku Island, Japan
2002
▹ Centenary Exhibition, Carlsberg Foundation, Glyptothek, Copenhagen, Denmark
▹ In Print, The Art Pavilion Gallery, Belgrade; Yaroslavl Museum of Fine Art, Yaroslavl, Russia
2001
▹ Eigenschatten, Museumsberg Flensburg and Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
1999
▹ Graphic, British Print Now, Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, UK
▹ Last Dreams of the Millennium, The Stephen Solovy Art Foundation, Chicago, USA
▹ Into the Light, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath; Callografia Nacional, Madrid and Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Valladolid
1996
▹ Strangers in the Arctic, Rundeturn, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, USA
▹ Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo d’Art
▹ Contemporarie de Barcelona and Kunsthalle Bielefeld
▹ A Series of Twelve Prints by Six Artists, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
1995
▹ Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
▹ Yale Center for British Art, New Haven and McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
▹ Life Patterns, Tate Gallery, London, UK
▹ Zeichnungen Sammeln, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel, Switzerland
▹ Desenho Contemporaneo, Galerie Modulo, Porto, Portugal
▹ From Picasso to Woodrow, New Acquisitions of Prints, Tate Gallery, London, UK
▹ Zehn von Hundert, BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen, Germany
▹ International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Sloveina
▹ Artists Books, Rocket Gallery, London, UK
1994
▹ Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK; Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK
▹ Artists Impressions, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK
1992
▹ Geteilte Bilder; das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
▹ Des Dessins, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
▹ Air and Other Elements, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
▹ Tierra de Nadie, Hospital Real, Granada, Spain
▹ Aus der Sammlung, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany
1991
▹ Nature, Creation du Peintre, Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1990
▹ Le Paysage, Trace de la Memoire, Galerie Barbar & Cie, Paris, France
1989
▹ Landschaft in der Erfahrung, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
▹ Lifelines: Four British Artists, BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen and Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK
▹ Synnyt: Sources of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1988
▹ ROSC ’88, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin Ireland
▹ New British Painting, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
▹ Zuruck zur Natur, aber wie?, Stadtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany
▹ A British View, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1987
▹ Current Affairs – British Painting and Sculpture in the 80s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Mucsarnok,Budapest; Narodni Galerie, Prague, Chezh Republic; Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
▹ British Art of the 1980s, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; Sara Hildenin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
▹ Photography: Art and Image, Oldham Art Gallery, Oldham, UK
▹ Watercolours, Galerie Harald Behm, Hamburg, Germany
▹ Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s, Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium
1986
▹ British Painting 1986, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
▹ Prospect ’86, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
▹ The Forest, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1985
▹ 4. Europaische Grafik-Biennale, Baden-Baden, Germany
▹ Landscape: Fact and Feeling, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
▹ A Journey Through Contemporary Art with Nigel Greenwood, Hayward Annual 1985, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
▹ Ambiguities and Characters, Konsthall Landskrona, Landskrona, Sweden
▹ Dialogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
▹ Steirischer Herbst’85 – Phase II: Das Bild einer Ausstellung, Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria
1984
▹ British Art Show 2…Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979-84, Ikon Gallery Birmingham, UK; National Gallery of Scotland, UK; City Art Gallery, Southampton, UK
1983
▹ The Granada Collection-New British Painting and Drawing, Whitworth Art, Whitworth, UKGallery, Manchester, UK
▹ z.B. Landschaft, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
▹ Photo (Graphic) Vision, The Winchester Art Gallery, Winchester, UK
▹ Art Itinera 1983, Castello Pasquine, Castigliancello, Volterra, Italy
1982
▹ Presences of Nature-Words and Pictures from the Lake District, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, UK
1981
▹ Art and the Sea, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
1980
▹ Works from the British Council Collection, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
▹ Paesaggio di Paesaggi, Salone degli Specchi del Teatro Communale, Milan, Italy
1979
▹ Zeichen-Triennale, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
▹ Photographic Works, Galleria Cannaviello, Milan, Italy
1978
▹ Reference Works, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
1976
▹ Englische Landschaftsmalerei, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
▹ Figures into Space,Curwen Gallery, London, UK
1975
▹ From Britain ’75, Taidehalli Helsinki, Finland; Alvar Aalto-Museo, Jyvaskyla, Finland; Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
▹ Sculture in the Park, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, UK
▹ Coversation, Folkstone Arts Centre, UK
1974
▹ Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
1973
▹ The English Landscape, Arts Centre, Lincoln, UK
1972
▹ Inquisitive Eye, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
▹ Spring in the Air, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Glasgow and Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1971
▹ London Now, Messehallen am Funkturm, West Berlin, Germany
TIMELINE
1965
▹ Moved to London to study English literature
1970
▹ Began painting and took a SPACE Studio at St. Katherine’s Dock, London
1971
▹ Exhibited in a group show in Berlin, subsequently invited to teach part-time at the Slade School of Fine Art, London
1973
▹ Arts Council Bursary
1978
▹ Arts Council Bursary
▹ Arts Council of Great Britain Scholarship, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
▹ Scholarship, Kunsthalle Nuremberg and subsequent one-man exhibition
1984
▹ Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Printmakers Award
1984–89
▹ Senior Lecturer in Painting, Camberwell School of Arts, London
1989–90
▹ DAAD Scholarship, Berlin
1992–96
▹ Trustee of the Whitechapel Art Gallery
▹ Lecturer in Postgraduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
1993
▹ Guest Professor at Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt
2000
▹ Studio Scholarship, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut
▹ Appointed Honorary Professor at University of Brighton
2001
▹ Honorary Fellowship, The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
2003
▹ Elected Royal Academician of the Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006
▹ Appointed Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy of Arts, London
COLLECTIONS
Tate Gallery, London, UK
British Museum, London, UK
The British Council, UK
The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
The Government Art Collection, UK
The Arts Council of Great Britain, UK
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, UK
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Warwick, UK
Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Morat Institut fur Kunst, Freiburg, Germany
Schloss Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany
Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Museum of Fine Art, Budapest, Hungaria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
The New Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
Sønderjyllands Kunstmuseum, Tønder, Denmark
New Carlsberg Glytotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Nordic Aquarell Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden
National Gallery of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
New York City Library, New York, USA
Yale Center for British Art, UK
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA
MIT List Visual Arts Centre, Massachusetts, USA
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
Cincinnati Museum of Modern Art, Cincinnati, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts, USA