Kaye Donachie (Scottish, born )

Kaye Donachie (British, b.1970) is a Contemporary painter whose Figurative, atmospheric paintings are animated by her interest in countercultural history, utopian projects, and female heroines. Donachie received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London in 1997. She has had solo exhibitions at Malvern Arts Centre in Worcester, England (1992), Maureen Paley Interim Art and Maureen Paley Gallery in London (1998, 2004, 2005, 2010, and 2013), Artists Space in New York (2004), Peres Projects in Los Angeles (2005), John Connelly Presents in New York (2006), Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York (2009), and Peres Projects in Berlin (2009). She has also exhibited at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England (1999), the Tate Triennial at Tate Britain (2006), the Musée d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux, France (2007), and Tate St. Ives (2009). She lives and works in London.

Timeline

1970
Born in Glasgow, United Kingdom
1989–1992
University of Central England in Birmingham B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art
1996
Hochschule der Künste (H.D.K.), Berlin
1995–1997
Royal College of Art, London, MA in Painting
Currently lives and works in London
Awards
1999 John Moores Award
1997 The Deloitte and Touche Award
1997 The Christie’s Award
1996 The Basil Alkazzi Scholarship
1996 Travel Award to study at Hodshule der Kunst
1994 London Arts Board Award to Individual Artists
1993 Princes Trust Award
1992 The George Jackson Travel Award

Exhibitions

2012
Marianne Boesky, New York (solo)
2011
Between My Head and My Hand There is Always the Face of Death, Philip Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
2011
Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2010
Maureen Paley, London (solo)
2009
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives, St Ives,England
2009
Peres Projects, Berlin (solo)
2008
M25: Around London, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, curated by Barry Schwabsky
2008
41 Tage / Die Kirchner Show, Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg
2008
The Brotherhood of Subterranea|, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg
2007
At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York
2007
If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
2007
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2007
The Juddykes, The Old Art Shop at John Jones, London
2007
Gravity’s Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens
2007
Hope and Despair, Cell Project Space, London
2006
Tempest, curated by John Connelly, The Fireplace Project, New York
2006
John Connelly Presents, New York (solo)
2006
About Light, Galerie Lelong, New York
2006
The Afternoon of a Faun, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens
2006
Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London
2005
Maureen Paley, London (solo)
2005
Peres Projects, Los Angeles (solo)
2005
Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2005
Growing Up Absurd, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
2004
Reflections, Art and Heritage Festival, Artuatuca, Tongeren
2004
wider than the sky, 117 Commercial Street, London
2004
John Connelly Presents, New York
2004
Artists Space, New York (solo)
2004
Maureen Paley, London (solo)
2003
Prague Biennale 1, Peripheries Become the Center, Veletrzni Palac, Prague
2003
Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
2003
Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home, touring exhibition: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, The Nunnery, London, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and K.I.A.D, Canterbury
2002
Hasta La Vista, The Mission, London
2002
We All Love… The Mission, London
2002
Am Anfang der Bewegung stand ein Skandal (The Movement began with a Scandal), Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
2001
Kaye Donachie, James Welling, Maureen Gallace, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
2000
Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London
2000
Poster Show Gavin Brown Enterprise Corp, New York
1999
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York
1999
Limit Less, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
1999
John Moores 21, 1999, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1999
East International 1999, Norwich Gallery
1999
A Mountain and a Valley, Cubitt Street, London
1998
Kaye Donachie, Miyoko Hoshi, Stanley Picker Gallery
1998
Kingston University, Kingston
1998
London Now, Saks Project Art, New York
1998
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London (solo)
1997
Interior, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
1995
Small Paintings, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire
1994
John Jones Gallery Open, John Jones Gallery, London
1994
On the Wall - The Sister Show, (In conjunction with Writing on the Wall, Tate Gallery), Advice Arcade Gallery, Norwich
1993
Interiors Exhibition, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
1992
Malvern Arts Centre, Worcester (solo)

Literature

2009
Camhi, Leslie. “People Are Talking About…Culture Shock,” Vogue/Style.com, April 6, 2009
2008
Daddy VI: Occult Daddy, 2008.
2008
Flaccavento, Angelo, Modern Take On Collecting, L’Uomo Vogue, July 2008, pp.161-162.
2008
Stephenson, Sarah, Painting in the 21st Century, artkrush.com, 2 April 2008.
2008
Wallis, Clarrie, Kaye Donachie, Flash Art, October 2008, p.91.
2007
Coomer, Martin, Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Modern Painters, June 2007, pp.114-115.
2007
Fox, Dan, If Everybody Had An Ocean, Frieze, September 2007, p.182.
2007
Griffin, Jonathan, Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Frieze, May 2007, p.157.
2007
Slimvolume Poster Publication 2006-7.
2006
Grosz, David, Getting Real, Looking Back, The New York Sun, November 2, 2006.
2006
Bell, Eugenia, Kaye Donachie, Artforum, March 2006, p309-310.
2006
Conner, Justin, Kaye Donachie, Interview, November 2006, p40.
2006
Cumming, Laura, Tate Triennial 2006, Observer, 5 March 2006.
2006
Kent, Sarah, Dire Straits, Time Out, 8 March 2006.
2006
Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Thames & Hudson, 2006, pp 84, 98-9.
2006
O’Keeffe, Alice, New British stars spurn celebrity cult, The Observer, 26 February 2006.
2006
RF, Kaye Donachie Monte Verita, Modern Painters, March 2006.
2006
Schwabsky, Barry, Kaye Donachie, MAP, March 2006.
2006
Umar, Saheer, Kaye Donachie, Tokion, April 2006, p26&28.
2006
Williams, Eliza, Tate Triennial 2006, Flash Art, May 2006, p63&64.
2006
Don’t miss, Art Review, March 2006.
2006
Inside the Tate Triennial: Beatrix Ruf, Dazed & Confused, March 2006, p210.
2006
Tate Triennial 2006 - New British Art, Tate Publishing.
2006
The Year Ahead 2006, The Art Newspaper, January 2006, p50.
2006
Top 100 Artists, Flash Art, October 2006, pp.68-69.
2005
Boer, Basje, In den beginne shiep de kunstenaar den hemel en de aarde, Mister Motley, Nº9, 2005, p3, 14-17.
2005
Hackworth, Nick, Next year’s next big things from the world of arts, Evening Standard, 30 December 2005, p26-27.
2005
Lack, Jessica, Kaye Donachie, London, The Guardian Guide, 9 December 2005, p36.
2005
Art inspired by Swiss utopia, East London Advertiser, 8 December 2005, p30.
2005
Caspar David Friedrich ist auch Kitsch, Art Das Kunstmagazin, May 2006.
2005
Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Hatje Cantz
2004
Coomer, Martin, The Young and the Restless, Elle Magazine, UK edition, March 2004.
2004
Herbert, Martin, Kaye Donachie, Time Out London, 24-31 March.
2004
Lack, Jessica, Exhibitions – Epiphany, The Guardian, 29 March 2004.
2004
Suchin, Peter, Kaye Donachie – Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, Frieze, May 2004, p102.
2004
Vellodi, Kamini, London: Interim Art, Kaye Donachie: Epiphany, Contemporary, Nº26, 2004.
2004
Ward, Ossian, Die nächste Generation, Art Das Kunstmagazin, August 2004.
2004
Reflections, Art and Heritage Festival, Artuatuca.
2003
Kent, Sarah, ‘Yes! I am a Long Way from Home’, Time Out London, 9-16 April 2003.
2002
Suchin, Peter, At the beginning of the movement was a scandal, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Frieze, October 2002.
2002
temporarysite.org, 2002, www.temporarysite.org/MUNICH_Kaye.htm.
1999
Cork, Richard, The Undiscovered Country, John Moores 21, 1999.
1999
John Moores 21, National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1999
1998
Coomer, Martin, Kaye Donachie, Time Out London, Nº 1441, 1-8 April 1998.
1998
Del re, Gianmarco, Kaye Donachie, Interim Art, Flash Art, Summer 1998
1998
London Now, Saks Fifth Avenue Project Art, 1998
1997
Hubbard, Sue, Interior, Time Out, Nº 1421, 12-19 November 1997.
1997
McEwan, John, John Jones Gallery Open, The Sunday Telegraph, 1997.
1997
Power to the Pupils, The Observer Magazine, 25 May 1997.
1994
Rose, Cynthia, John Jones Gallery Open, Time Out, 1994.
1994
Wheen, Nathalie, The Sister Show, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 1994.
1994
On the Wall - The Sister Show
English (US)

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