Ian McKeever (British, born )

Timeline

1946
Born in Withernsea, Yorkshire
1965
Moved to London to study English literature
1969
Commenced painting as an autodidact
1970
Took a SPACE Studio at St. Katherine’s Dock – first real contact with professional artists
1971
Exhibited in a mixed show in Berlin, subsequently invited to teach part-time at the Slade School of Fine Art – first association with the fine art establishment; One-man exhibition at Cardiff Arts Centre
1976
Commercial exhibition with Galleria del Cavellino in Venice as a result of which met Nigel Greenwood and exhibited with him from 1977 to 1987
1979
Since 1979 he has travelled extensively in connection with his work to places such as the Faroe Islands, Lappland, Greenland, Tasmania, Australia, Papua New Guinea and Siberia
1980–1981
Arts Council of Great Britain Scholarship, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1981
Met his wife, Gerlinde Gabriel
1981–1982
Scholarship, Kunsthalle Nuremburg
1984–1987
Senior Lecturer in Painting, Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, London
1989–1990
DAAD Scholarship, Berlin, Germany
1991
Since 1991 he has lived and worked on a farm in Dorset, England
1993
Guest Professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Frankfurt, Germany
1992–1996
Lecturer in Postgraduate Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London
2000
Worked at the studios of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Connecticut
2001
Appointed Visiting Professor to the University of Brighton
2002
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Arts Institute at Bournemouth
2003
Currently lecturer in post graduate painting at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.

Exhibitions

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

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