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Kenneth Martin    (British, 1905-1984)

 Kenneth Martin - Chain System (4th Version) (Sculptures) h: 6 x w: 17 x d: 12 cm / h: 2.4 x w: 6.7 x d: 4.7 in
Kenneth Martin
Chain System (4th Version) 1968
 
  

Biography
1905 Born in Sheffield
1923 - 1929 Worked in Sheffield as a designer
1927 - 1929 Studied at Sheffield School of Art
1930 Married Mary Balmford
1929 - 1932 Studied at the Royal College of Art, London
1965 Gold Medal, President of the Italian Council of Ministers, on the occasion of the International Congress of Artists and Critics at Verucchio
1946 - 1967 Visiting teacher at Goldsmiths’ College of Art, London
1971 Awarded OBE
1976 Honorary Doctorate, Royal College of Art
1976 Midsummer Prize, City of London
1984 Died in London

Exhibitions
2001 Definitions of Chance: Kenneth Martin / François Morellet / Sonja Rijnhout / Zdenek Sykora, Art Affairs, Amsterdam
1999 Annely Juda Fine Art, London (solo)
1999 Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (solo)
1999 a line in painting, Gallery Fine, London
1997 Sherman Galleries, Sydney (solo)
1996 Out of Order, Independent Art Space, London and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1995 - 1996 Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art New York
1995 Drawing the Line, South Bank Centre National Touring Exhibition
1995 Portfolio 55 Protagonistov Konstruirare Umetuosti, Ljubijana
1994 Art Unlimited, Multiples of the 60s and 90s, South Bank Centre National Touring Exhibition
1994 1st International Print Triennale, Krakow, Katowice and Torun, Poland
1994 Line + Movement, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1993 Partners, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1993 New Beginnings, Postwar British Art from the collection of Ken Powell, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Sheffield and London
1992 Zufall aus Prinzip, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
1990 British - Systematism, Stiftung fuer Konstructive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich
1990 Masterpieces from the Arts Council Collection, organised by South Bank Centre for Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo
1990 Konkret Zehn, Kunsthalle & Kunsthaus, Nuremberg
1990 Avant-Garde British Printmaking 1914-60, British Museum, London
1990 Camberwell Painters, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Sunninghill
1990 Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich (with Mary Martin) (solo)
1989 Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern (solo)
1989 Quadrat Bottrop (solo)
1989 Joseph Albers Museum (with Mary Martin) (solo)
1989 Painting the Visible World, Austin Desmond Fine Art, London
1989 ‘The Experience of Painting’, South Bank Centre and Laing Art Gallery Tour to Newcastle, Sheffield and Stoke
1989 From Picasso to Abstraction, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1989 ‘Das Quadratische Feur’, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt
1988 - 1989 ‘The Presence of Painting’. South Bank Centre Tour: Sheffield, Newcastle and Birmingham
1988 - 1989 Modern British Sculpture from the Collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1988 The Non-Objective World Revisited, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1988 ‘Exhibition Road’, Painters at the Royal College of Art, RCA Gulbenkian Hall
1987 Annely Juda Fine Art, London (with Mary Martin) (solo)
1986 40 Years of Modern Art 1945-85, Tate Gallery, London
1986 From Figuration to Abstraction, Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1986 Arte e Scienza-Sezione II Colore, 42nd International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
1986 British Prints, The Post-War Years 1945-60, Redfern Gallery, London
1985 Serpentine Gallery, London (solo)
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