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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Black and Black again.... Paintings 1987 - 2010, Museum Sønderjylland Kunstmuseet I Tønder, Denmark
2010
Artists' Laboratory 01, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Hartgrove. Paintings and Photographs, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lithographs 2006-2010, Hostrup-Pedersen & Johansen, Valby, Denmark
2009
Assembly, Paintings 2006–2008, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Recent Paintings, Galleri Sandström Andersson, Stockholm, Sweden
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
Assembly, Paintings 2002–2007, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2006
New Paintings, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
New Paintings, Galerie Andersson Sandström, Umeå, Sweden
Whispers, New Drawings, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Temple Paintings, Galerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
Bilder 1983–93, Morat Institut, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
2004
Sentinel, Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Four Quartets, Recent Paintings, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
Recent Paintings and Ten Years of Drawing, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge
2003
Watercolours and Gouaches 1993–2003, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skärhamn, Sweden
Small Paintings, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Text and Work, Ian McKeever and David Miller, The Arts Institute, Bournemouth
2002
New Paintings, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå, Sweden
Ian McKeever: William Blake's Jerusalem, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Paintings from the Four Quartet Series, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, Denmark
Self Shadow Paintings, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
2001
Ian McKeever, Paintings 1993–2000, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark
2000
Paintings and Works on Paper, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Ian McKeever & Richard Deacon, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1999
Ian McKeever and Kurt Kocherscheidt, Galerie 3, Klagenfurt, Austria
1998
Recent Paintings, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Twelve x Eight and Other Woodcut Monoprints, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1997
Paintings 1990–1996, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, and The Bonnington Gallery, University of Trent, Nottingham; Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Recent Paintings, Galerie Modulo, Lisbon, Portugal
Recent Paintings, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Colour Etchings, Monoprints and One Painting, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1996
Hour Paintings, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basle, Switzerland
Works on Paper 1981–1996, University of Brighton and The Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds
1995
The Marianne North Paintings, Matt's Gallery, London
Paintings, Galerie Janine Mautsch, Cologne, Germany
An Aspect of Landscape, Al Bustan, Beirut, Lebanon
Recent Paintings and Drawings, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, USA
1994
Hartgrove, Recent Woodcuts and Monoprints, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basle, Switzerland
Hartgrove Paintings, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Hour Paintings, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1993
Ninety New Guinea Gouaches, Morat Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Door Paintings, Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
Hour Paintings, Stephen Solovy Gallery, Chicago, US
1992
Door Paintings, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Door Paintings, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems, Austria
Door Paintings, Galerie Modulo, Lisbon, Portugal
Recent Paintings, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basle, Switzerland
1991
Greenland, Watercolours and Drawings from the Morat Institut, Freiburg im Breisgau, Städtische Galerie, Würzburg, Germany
1990
Notes 1989–1990, DAAD Galerie, West Berlin, Germany
Ein Diptychon, Galerie Weisser Elefant, East Berlin, Germany
Large Diptychs, Galerie Tanit, Cologne, Germany
Paintings 1978–1990, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1989
A History of Rocks 1986–1988, Kunstforum, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Greenland, Galerie Tanit, Munich, and Cairn Gallery, Nailsworth
1988
Qorassauq (Greenland 1988), Galleria Fantasia/Pelin, Helsinki, Finland (with Timo Valjakka)
1987
The Staffa Project, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Arnolfini,
Bristol; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum and Diensthoofd Provincial 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,
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
Through the Ice Lens, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1985
Traditional Landscapes and Works on Paper, Galerie Nächst St Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Borderlines–Abstracting Art from Nature, Arnolfini, Bristol (with Frank Auerbach)
1984
Traditional Landscapes, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Recent Paintings, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
1983
Traditional Landscapes, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1982
Deutscher Zyklus, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Germany
Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Arno Kohnen, Düsseldorf, Germany
Black and White . . . Or how to paint with a hammer, Matt's Gallery, LondonLino-Cuts, Riverside Studios, London
1981
Islands, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London (with Bernd Koberling)
Paintings: Islands and Night Flak Series, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
1980
Fields, Waterfalls and Birds, Arnolfini, Bristol; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, and Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Vacuum, London (with Rafael Jablonka)
Aspects of Work 1973–1980, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Ian McKeever, Galleria del Cavellino, Venice, Italy
1979
Field Series 1978, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1978
Sand and Sea Series, Spectro Arts, Newcastle
Sand and Sea Series, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh
Sand and Sea Series, Galleria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1977
Sand and Sea Series, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London and Galleria Tommaseo, Trieste, Italy
1976
Ian McKeever, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
Works 1974–76, Galleria del Cavellino, Venice, Italy
1973
Ian McKeever, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1971
Ian McKeever, Cardiff Arts Centre
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011
Watercolour, TateBritain, London
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
Arbeiten auf Papier, Schaltwerk, Hamburg, Germany
21, Harewood House, Leeds
2009
Northern Print Biennale, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
2007
At Home, Portraits of Artists in The Royal Academy Collection, The John Madejski Fine Rooms, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Fairytale Cabinets, Montana, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
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
2nd Beijing Biennale, Beijing, China
Matisse to Freud, A Critic’s Choice: The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London, and Hayward Gallery Touring
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
In Print, 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, Serbia, and Yaroslavl Museum of Fine Art, Yaroslavl, Russia
2001
Eigenschatten, Museumsberg Flensburg, Germany and Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense,
1999
Graphic! British Prints Now, Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, Connecticut, USA
Into the Light, Photographic Printing Out of the Darkroom, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath; Callografia Nacional, Madrid, and Fundacion Municipal de Cultura, Valladolid, Spain
Erwerbungen der Marianne und Heinrich Lenhard Stiftung, Pfalzgalerie, Kaiserslautern, Germany
1997
Last Dreams of The Millennium – Reemergence of British Romantic Painting, University of California, Turlock, USA
1996
Strangers in the Arctic, Rundetårn, Copenhagen, Denmark; Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, and The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo d'Art Contemporarie de Barcelona, Spain, and Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
A Series of Twelve Prints by Six Artists, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1995
Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, and McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Life Patterns, Tate Gallery, London
Zeichnungen Sammeln, Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basle, Switzerland
Desenho Contemporaneo, Galerie Modulo, Porto, Portugal
From Picasso to Woodrow, New Acquisitions of Prints, Tate Gallery, London
Zehn von Hundert, BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen, Germany
International Biennale of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Artists’ Books, Rocket Gallery, London
1994
Paintmarks, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, and Mead Gallery, University of Warwick
Artists’ Impressions, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, and Castle Museum, Nottingham
1992
Geteilte Bilder; das Diptychon in der neuen Kunst, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Des Dessins, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basle, Switzerland
Air and Other Elements, Porin Taidemuseu, Pori, Finland
Tierra de Nadie, Hospital Real, Granada, Spain
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Aus der Sammlung, Seit 25 Jahren, Norishalle,Nuremberg, Germany
1991
Nature, Création du Peintre, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1990
Le Paysage, Trace de la Mémoire, Galerie Barbar & Cie, Paris, France
1989
Landschaft in der Erfahrung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Lifelines: Four British Artists, BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Tate Gallery, Liverpool
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, USA
Zurück zur Natur, aber wie?, Städtische 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; Mucsarnok, Budapest, Hungary; Narodni Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic, and Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
British Art of the 1980s, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, and Sara Hildenin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
Photography: Art and Image, Oldham Art Gallery
Watercolours, Galerie Harald Behm, Hamburg, Germany
Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, Belgium
1986
British Painting 1986, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Prospect ’86, Frankfurter Kunstverein/ Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
The Forest, Arnolfini, Bristol
1985
John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Modern Landscape, Sunderland Arts Centre, Sunderland
Painting – Photography, the Seventh Floor Gallery, Saint Martin's School of Art, London
4. Europäische Grafik – Biennale, Baden-Baden, Germany
Landscape: Fact and Feeling, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth
A Journey Through Contemporary Art with Nigel Greenwood, Hayward Annual 1985, Hayward Gallery, London
Ambiguities and Characters, Konsthall Landskrona, Sweden
Dialogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Living Art, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin, Ireland
Steirischer Herbst '85 – Phase II: Das Bild einer Ausstellung, Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria
1984
British Art Show 2 . . . Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979–84, Ikon Gallery Birmingham; Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, and City Art Gallery,
1983
The Granada Collection – New British Painting and Drawing, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
z.B. Landschaft, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Photo (Graphic) Vision, The Winchester Art Gallery, Winchester
Art Itinera 1983, Castello Pasquine, Castigliancello, Volterra, Italy
1982
Presences of Nature – Words and Pictures from the Lake District, Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
1981
Art and the Sea, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1980
Works from the British Council Collection, Serpentine Gallery, London
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
1976
Englische Landschaftsmalerei, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, and Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Figures into Space, Curwen Gallery, London
1975
From Britain ’75, Taidehalli Helsinki; Alvar Aalto-Museo, Jyväskylä and Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
Sculpture in the Park, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell
Conversation, Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone
1974
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1973
The English Landscape, Arts Centre, Lincoln
1972
Inquisitive Eye, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Spring in the Air, Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Glasgow, and Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh
1971
London Now, Messehallen am Funkturm, West Berlin, Germany
Exhibition Catalogues
2011
- Ian McKeever: Black and Black again...Paintings 1987-2010
Foreword by Ove Mogensen with writings by the artist dating from 1982 - 2009
Museum Sønderjyland, Kunstmuseet i Tønder, Denmark (in English and Danish)
2010
- Artists' Laboratory: Ian McKeever RA. Hartgrove Paintings and Photographs
Essay by Norbert Lynton, ‘Ian McKeever: Hartgrove Paintings 1992-1994', and Ian McKeever in conversation with Richard Deacon
Royal Academy of Arts, London
2008
- Ian McKeever: Assembly, Paintings and Works on Paper 2006–2007
Essay by Jill Lloyd, ‘Ian McKeever: Against the Fading of the Light’
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
2007
- Ian McKeever: Four Quartets, Malerei/Paintings 2001–2007
Essay by Martin Caiger-Smith, ‘The space between words’
Morat Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau, and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne - Ian McKeever: Assembly, Malerier/Paintings 2002–2007
Essays by Karsten Ohrt, ‘Paintings Beyond Language’ and Henrik Wivel, ‘Veils’
Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense (in English and Danish) - Eventyrskabe/Fairytale Cabinets
Essay by Lisbeth Bonde
Montana, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense (in English and Danish) - Hugh Stoneman, Masterprinter
Essays by Sara Lee, ‘Studio Practice’ and Mike Tooby, ‘The Master Printer’
Tate, St Ives, Cornwall
2006
- 50 Years with Art, Løvbjergsamlingen
Essay by Erik Steffensen, ‘Milde himmel’
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens - Ian McKeever: Whispers
Essay by Mette Berndsen, ‘Whispers’
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
2005
- Seven Royal Academicians in China
Essay by William Packer, ‘Seven Royal Academicians in China’
The Red Mansion Foundation, London - The Art of White
Essay by Clive Adams, ‘Footprints in the Snow’
The Lowry Press, Manchester
2004
- Ian McKeever: Recent Paintings and Ten Years of Drawing
Essay by Jill Lloyd, ‘Ian McKeever: Recent Paintings and Ten Years of Drawing’
Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge - Ian McKeever: Sentinel, Recent Paintings and Works on Paper
Alan Cristea Gallery, London - Ian McKeever, Four Quartets: recent paintings
Essay (republished) by Michael Tucker, ‘Here: Reflections on Paintings from the Four Quartets
Series’
Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
2003
- Ian McKeever: Watercolours and Gouaches 1993–2003
Essay by Jill Lloyd, ‘Ian McKeever: Drawings from the Last Decade’
The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn (in English and Swedish)
2002
- Ian McKeever: William Blake's Jerusalem. The Emanation of the Giant Albion
Essay by Francis Carey, ‘Ian McKeever: William Blake's Jerusalem’
Alan Cristea Gallery, London - Ian McKeever: Paintings from the Four Quartets Series
Essay by Michael Tucker, ‘Reflections on Paintings from the Four Quartets Series’ and Statements
by the Artist
Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens (in English and Danish)
2001
- Ian McKeever: Bethany and Malerier/Paintings 1993–2000
Essay and interview with the Artist by Karsten Ohrt, ‘Inside Colour.The Slowness of Colour.’
Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense (in English and Danish) - Eigenschatten
Essays by Frauke Rehder, ‘Self Shadow’ and Karsten Ohrt, ‘Angels Cast No Shadow’
Museumsberg Flensburg - Contemporary Art in Print
Edited by Patrick Elliott with an essay by Jeremy Lewison, ‘Contemporary British Art in Print?’
Booth-Clibborn Editions, London
2000
- Ian McKeever: Paintings and Works on Paper
‘Between Space and Time: An Interview between Ian McKeever and Jill Lloyd’
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1999
- Into the Light, Photographic Printing out of the Darkroom
Essay by Chris Townsend, ‘Hands On – Hands Off, Printing and the Ontology of Photography’
The Octagon Galleries, The Royal Photographic Society, Bath - Graphic! British Prints Now
Essay by Gillian Forrester, ‘Just what is it that makes today’s British prints so different,
so appealing?’
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
1998
- Ian McKeever: Twelve x Eight and Other Monoprint Woodcuts
Essay by Jill Lloyd, ‘Ian McKeever: Twelve x Eight and Other Monoprint Woodcuts’
Alan Cristea Gallery, London
1997
- Ian McKeever: Colour Etching
Essay by Pat Gilmour, ‘Ian McKeever Colour Etching’
Alan Cristea Gallery, London - Ian McKeever: Paintings 1990–1996
Essays by Jeremy Lewison, ‘Between Black and White’ and Timo Valjakka, ‘Painting has a Body’
Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, and Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (in English and Finnish)
1996
- Ian McKeever: Works on Paper 1981–1996
Essays by Michael Tucker, ‘A dance at the edge(s) of time’ and Tony Godfrey, ‘The marks on the trail
and the light in the trees’
Contemporary Art Books, London, and University of Brighton - Ian McKeever: Hour Paintings
Essay by Michael Lüthy, ‘Ian McKeever oder die Natur der Malerei’
Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basle - Nuevas Abstracciones
Essays by Enrique Juncosa, ‘las nuevas abstracciones’, Arthur C. Danto, ‘lo puro, lo impuro y lo no
puro: la pintura tras la modernidad’ and Demetrio Paparoni, ‘la abstracción redefinida’
Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
1995
- Zehn von Hundert
Essay by Lewis Biggs, ‘Aspiration Ian McKeever’
BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen
1994
- Ian McKeever: Hartgrove Paintings, 1992–1994
Essay by Norbert Lynton, ‘Ian McKeever: Hartgrove Paintings 1992–94’
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London - Ian McKeever: Paintings and Drawings
Essay by James Yood, ‘Ian McKeever’ and text by the Artist, ‘A Painting is a Door’
The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee - Artists’ Impressions
Essay by Sarah Glennie, ‘Artists’ Impressions’
Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge - Contemporary British Art in Print
Introduction by Patrick Elliott, essay by Jeremy Lewison, ‘Projects and Portfolios: Narrative and
Structure’ and Patrick Elliott, ‘Hartgrove’, including Artist’s statement
The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, and Paragon Press, London
1992
- Geteilte Bilder
Essay by Gerhard Finckh, ‘Geteilte Bilder’
Museum Folkwang, Essen - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Aus der Sammlung, Seit 25 Jahren
Introduction by Lucius Grisebach and Ulrike Alex, ‘Ian McKeever’
Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg und Kunsthalle Nürnberg - Tierra de nadie
Essays by Mar Villaespesa, ‘Presentacion plus ultra’, Mariano Maresca,
‘Un lugar para el estado’ and José Lebrero Stals, ‘Tierra de nadie’
Pabellón de Andalucía en EXPO’92
1991
- Nature – Création du Peintre
Essay by Erika Billeter, ‘Nature-Création du Peintre’
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne - Ian McKeever: Door Paintings
Galerie Modulo, Lisbon
1990
- Ian McKeever: Werkgruppen 1974–90 and Notes 1989–90
Essays by John Roberts, 'Blindheit und Licht' and Joachim Sartorius, ‘Notizen zur
Erratischen Ordnung des Universums’
DAAD Galerie, Berlin (in German and English) - Ian McKeever: Paintings 1978–1990
Essays by Lewis Biggs, ‘The Shape of Time’, Wulf Herzogenrath, ‘The Painting
and the Photograph’ and Wolfgang Max Faust, ‘Floating in the Paintings of - Ian McKeever: The Diptychs’. Text by the Artist, Black and White . . .
Or how to paint with a hammer
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London - Le Paysage, Trace de la Mémoire
Essay by Wolfgang Max Faust, ‘Floating in the Paintings of Ian McKeever: The Diptychs’
Galerie Barbar & Cie, Paris
1989
- Ian McKeever: A History of Rocks, 1986–1988
Essays by Lynne Cooke, ‘A History of Rocks: Meta Incognita’ and Helmut Friedel,
‘The Picture Gallery’
Kunstforum, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (in German and English) - Landschaft in der Erfahrung
Essay by Manfred Brunner, ‘Schrift der Landschaft, Schrift der Kunst: Ian McKeever’
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne - Lifelines: Four British Artists
Essays by Lewis Biggs, ‘Introduction Lifelines’ and John Roberts, ‘Near and Far’
BASF-Feierabendhaus, Ludwigshafen and Tate Gallery Liverpool - Synnt: Sources of Contemporary Art
Essay by Timo Valjakka, ‘Earth’
Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
1988
- Zurück zur Natur, aber wie?
Essay by Erika Rüdiger-Diruf, ‘Ian McKeever’
Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe - ROSC ’88
Essay by Aidan Dunne, ‘Influences, Cross-Currents and Connections in the Late Eighties’
Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
1987
- Ian McKeever: Echo and Reflection, Paintings 1983–1987
Essays by Stephen Bann, ‘Ian McKeever’ and Wilhelm Bojeschul, ‘Echo and Reflection’
Kunstverein Braunschweig (in German and English) - The Staffa Project: A Collaboration
Essay by David Reason, ‘Leaning into the Light’
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston - Ian McKeever: Recent Paintings
Essay by Rafael Jablonka, ‘McKeever uses photography in his work’
Galleria Krista Mikkola, Helsinki - Current Affairs: British Painting and Sculpture in the 1980s
Introduction by Lewis Biggs and David Elliott, Lewis Biggs, ‘Ian McKeever’ and Andrew Brighton,
‘Art Currency’
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford - Britannia, Paintings and Sculptures from the 1980's
Essays by Richard Francis, ‘Other People’s Dreams’ and Timo Valjakka, ‘Individuals and
Connections’
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm and Sara Hildenin Taidemuseo, Tampere - Viewpoint: L'art contemporain en Grande Bretagne (Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980s)
Introduction by Richard Cork and David Reason, ‘Ian McKeever, Pictures Which Take on Pictures’
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
1986
- Prospect ’86
Essays by Lynne Cooke, ‘Ian McKeever’ and Peter Weiermair, ‘Eine Konzeptkunst der Achtziger
Jahre’
Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt - Ian McKeever: Recent Paintings
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London - British Painting 1986
Text by Mel Gooding, ‘Ian McKeever’
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
1985
- Steirischer Herbst ’85: Phase II: Das Bild einer Ausstellung
Texts by Wolfgang Drechsler, ‘Der Wunsch nach Dauer’, Wilfried Dickhoff, ‘Phase II’ and
Gerlinde Gabriel, 'Künstlerlegenden'
Stadtmuseum, Graz - Painting-Photography
Text by Matthew Collings, ‘Painting-Photography’
The Seventh Floor Gallery, Saint Martin’s School of Art, London - A Journey through Contemporary Art with Nigel Greenwood, Hayward Annual 1985
Text by Nigel Greenwood, ‘A Journey through Contemporary Art with Nigel Greenwood’
Hayward Gallery, London - Dialogue
Texts by Wielslaw Borowski, ‘In a world outside the sanctioned’, Olle Granath, ‘To let live’ and
Anka Ptaszowska, ‘Que signifie, à l'heure actuelle, le geste de la direction du Moderna Museet . . . ?’
Moderna Museet, Stockholm - Borderlines: Abstracting Art from Nature
Essay by Rupert Martin, ‘Relocating the Image as Painting’
Arnolfini, Bristol
1984
- British Art Show 2 . . . Old Allegiances and New Directions 1979–84
Essays by Jon Thompson, Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton and Alexander Moffat
Arts Council of Great Britain, London - Ian McKeever: Recent Paintings
Essay by Lynne Cooke, ‘In Place of Fictions . . .’
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton - Ian McKeever: Traditional Landscapes
Essay by Tony Godfrey, ‘Traditional Landscapes’
Galerie Tanit, Munich
1983
- zB Landschaft
Essay by Margarethe Jochimsen, ‘zB Landschaft’
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn - Photo(Graphic) Vision
Essay by Susan Arrowsmith, ‘Photo(Graphic) Vision’
The Winchester Gallery, Winchester
1982
- Ian McKeever: Deutscher Zyklus
Essays by Muriel Wilson, ‘Ian McKeever’ and Gerlinde Gabriel, ‘Proposals’
Kunsthalle Nuremberg
1981
- Ian McKeever: Paintings: Islands and Night Flak Series
Essay by Marco Livingstone, ‘Ian McKeever: One Year’s Work 1980–81’
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1976
- Englische Landschaftsmalerei
Essay by Peter Rippon and Michael Schwarz, ‘Die Landschaftsbilder von Bob Evans, Paul Hempton,
Ian McKeever und Graham Nickson oder neue Ansätze in einer alten Gattung’
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Selected Writings by the Artist and Artist’s Books
2011
- Ian McKeever: Black and Black again... Paintings 1987-2010, Museum Sønderjylland Kunstmuseet I Tønder
- 'Where Myth Meets Paint', Reflections on paintings by Poussin and Twombly at The Dulwich Picture Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, London, summer 2011, p.22
- 'Ian McKeever: Beauty cannot be made', Transcription of lecture delivered at Landscape and Beauty Symposium at University of Plymouth, in 2008. University of Plymouth Press, 2011
2009
- Ian McKeever: Paintings, a monograph presenting an in-depth overview on McKeever's work with text contributions from Michael Tucker, Catherine Lampert and Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton, Lund Humphries in association with Kings Place Gallery, London
2008
- ‘Stilled Life’, Essay on Vilhelm Hammershøi, Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, London, No. 99, summer, pp. 60–61
- ‘Ian McKeever: Selected Statements and Notes’, Art of England, Staffordshire, Issue 43, March, pp. 26–28
- ‘Absolute Light’, Essay on Russian Icons, Republished in Iconi Maalari, 1/2008, Helsinki, pp. 74–76
2006
- ‘Distances’, Artist's Travel Notes, Framework, Helsinki, No. 5, July, pp. 94–97
- Ian McKeever: Temple Paintings, Reflections, Galleri Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen
2005
- In Praise of Painting,Three Essays, Edited and with an Introduction by Michael Tucker, University of Brighton Publications, Brighton
- ‘Between the Wall and the Floor: The Wood Sculptures of Kurt Kocherscheidt’, Essay, Kurt Kocherscheidt Catalogue Raisonné, Springer, Vienna and New York, pp. 345–362
- Chinese Whispers, Artist’s book, Limited edition of 30 copies with an original drawing inserted, numbered and signed, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
2004
- Ian McKeever: Sentinel, Recent Paintings and Works on Paper, Quotations selected by the Artist, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
- ‘Absolute Light’, Essay on Russian Icons, British Museum Magazine, London , No. 49, summer, pp. 5–7
2003
- ‘In Praise of Painters’, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Kehnet Nielsen, Saudade, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, pp. 11–15
2002
- ‘Thinking about Georgia O’Keeffe’, Essay, Louisiana Revy, Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebæk, 42.årgang, No. 2, February, pp. 26–29
- ‘Notes on Painting’, Reflections, Ian McKeever: Paintings from the Four Quartets Series, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Horsens, pp. 26–29
- ‘Finishing Touches. William Blake's Jerusalem’, Essay, Artists and Illustrators, London, July, p. 64
1998
- Here and There, Photograph, gouaches and drawings, Limited edition of 98 copies, Plantsüden, Tokio – Polling
1996
- ‘Gradually Going Magadan’, Artist’s Statement, Strangers in the Arctic, FRAME, Helsinki and Pori Art Museum, Pori, p. 190
- ‘Gradually Going Magadan’, Artist’s Statement, Republished in The 1996 Drawing Show, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
1995
- Ian McKeever: The Marianne North Paintings, Reflections and Diary Notes, Matt´s Gallery, London
- ‘Chaun’ and ‘Images of Permafrost’, Travel Notes and photographs, Ikijää, Permafrost, Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, pp. 17–20 and pp. 87–99
- ‘A Painting is a Door’, Artist’s Statement, Ian McKeever: Paintings and Drawings, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, p. 5
- Thoughts on Emil Nolde, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Emil Nolde, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, pp. 18–19
1994
- Black and White . . . and Very Grey Areas, Manifesto, Cairn Gallery, Nailworth
1993
- that which appears, A collaboration with the poet Thomas A. Clark, Sequence of 80 poems by Thomas A. Clark and 22 woodcuts by Ian McKeever, Edition: 50 copies numbered, plus 12 proof copies, Paragon Press, London
- ‘Hartgrove’, Artist’s Statement, Contemporary British Art in Print, National Galleries of Scotland in association with Paragon Press, London, p. 166
- ‘Strange Business’, Exhibition Catalogue Essay, Alan Davie: The Quest for the Miraculous, University of Brighton in association with Lund Humphries and Barbican Art Gallery, London, p. 77
1992
- Door Painting No. 17, Artist’s Book (limited edition of 26 copies with an original drawing inserted, numbered and signed), Galerie Stadtpark, Krems
1991
- ‘Aus dem Neuguinea-Reisetagebuch’, Das Plateau, Stuttgart, No. 7, October, pp. 25–45
1989
- Ian McKeever: Grønland, Diary notes, Galerie Tanit, Munich and Morat Institute, Freiburg im Breisgau
1988
- ‘Index’, Artist’s Statement, Zurück zur Natur, aber wie?, Städtische Galerie im Prinz-Max-Palais, Karlsruhe, p. 134
1987
- ‘Swedish Lapland, an extract’, Transcript of audio-visual statement, British Art of the 1980s, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, p. 71
- ‘Restaurants, birds . . . and why Constable never painted Staffa’, Essay, The Staffa Project, Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston, pp. 44–45
1984
- Black and White . . . Or how to paint with a hammer, Artist’s statement, Republished in Kunstforum International, Landschaft–Ausgabe, Cologne, May
1982
- Black and White . . . Or how to paint with a hammer, Manifesto, Matt´s Gallery, London
- ‘Notes on Drawing’, Artist's statement, Ian McKeever: Deutscher Zyklus, Kunsthalle Nuremberg, pp. 13–14
- ‘Ian McKeever’, Interview with Tony Godfrey, Aspects, Newcastle upon Tyne, No. 17, winter, pp. 1–3
1981
- ‘Photography as Fine Art’, Transcript of a lecture given at Serpentine Gallery, London, Republished in Open Eye, Liverpool, Issue 14, February/March, pp. 7–9
- Artist’s Statement, Studio: International Journal of Modern Art, New York, November
1980
- ‘Photography as Fine Art’, Transcript of a lecture given at Serpentine Gallery, London, Photographic Journal, London, Vol. 120, No. 5, May, pp. 235–236
1979
- ‘From an Interview with Tony Godfrey, October 1979’, Interview with Tony Godfrey, Fields, Waterfalls and Birds, Arnolfini, Bristol
1978
- Ian McKeever: Field Series, Essay on Photography and Drawing, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
- Notes around a Painting for a Hole in the Ground, Artist’s Statement, Aspects, Newcastle upon Tyne, No. 4, autumn, p. 4
- ‘Field and Flow; Drawing and Photography’, Essay, Vanguard, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, December, pp. 6–7
1977
- Artist’s Statement, Skira Annual, Vol. 3
1976
- Artist’s Statement, Ian McKeever: Works 1974–76, Galleria del Cavellino, Venice
- Artist’s Statement , Englische Landschaftsmalerei, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, pp. 66–70
1974
- ‘White Chalk Quarry Project’, Artist's Proposal, Studio: International Journal of Modern Art, New York, May
- ‘Grass Verge Paintings’, Artist's Proposal, Studio: International Journal of Modern Art, New York, July/August
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, South Africa, 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