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Keith Coventry Biography
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1958 |
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Born in Burnley, Lancashire, UK
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1978 - 1981 |
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BA Fine Art, Brighton Polytechnic, UK
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1981 - 1982 |
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MA Fine Art, Chelsea School of Art, London
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Lives and works in London
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Prints, Museum of London (solo)
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2010
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Echoes of Albany, The Lightbox, Woking (solo)
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2010
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The Figure: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
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2010
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Pleasure Point: Celebrating 25 Years of contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD)
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2010
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The Indiscipline of Painting, Mead Art Gallery, Warwick
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2010
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The Gathering, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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2010
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Peeping Tom (curated by Keith Coventry), VEGAS, London
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2009
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My Yard: The British Council Collection (selected by Jeremy Deller and Alan Kane), Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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2009
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Henry Moore, Leeds City Art Gallery
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2009
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Benches & Binoculars, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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2009
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The White Show, The Arts Council Collection at PM Gallery and House, London
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2009
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Paintings and Sculptures Part II: Works 2002-2009, Haunch of Venison, London (solo)
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2008
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Painting & Sculpture, Part I: Early Groups, Haunch of Venison, London (solo)
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2008
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Copper and Silk, Paul Stolper Gallery, London (solo)
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2008
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Seomi & Tuus Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
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2008
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Heroes and Racists, Fine Art Society, London (solo)
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2008
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Anaesthesia as Aesthetic, Haunch of Venison, Zurich (solo)
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2007
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Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London
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2007
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Diagrammatic Logic: Selections from the Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
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2007
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Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
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2007
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Unfinished Symphonies, Fine Art Society, London
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2007
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Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian, New York
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2007
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Republic, L’Est, London
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2007
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Experiments in Abstraction, Andipa Gallery, London
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2007
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Key Groups, Julius Werner Berlin, Germany (solo)
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2006
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Hirst and his Contemporaries, Andipa Gallery, London
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2006
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Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, UK (solo)
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2006
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Fine Art Society, London, UK (solo)
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2006
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To Here, Bloomberg Space, London
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2006
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Reconstruction #1, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire
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2005
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Supernova, British Council touring exhibition
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2005
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Colour my world, Riflemaker gallery, London
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2005
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Magic White, Lowry Museum, Salford, UK
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2005
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Hallucinature, Cell Project Space, London
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2005
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Vertigo, Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire, UK
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2005
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Chronic Epoch, Beaconsfield, London
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2005
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Real Strange, Lounge Gallery and Studios, London
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2004
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Guided by Heroes, Hasselt, Belgium
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2004
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Pastoral, Dick Smith Gallery, London
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2004
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Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK (solo)
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2004
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Society Consumed, Tate Britain, UK
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2004
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Reflections, Tongeren, Belgium
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2004
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Board meeting, London, UK
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2004
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Between Letters and Abstraction, 3°W Gallery, Grasmere, UK
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2004
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Domesticity, Cell Project Space, London
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2003
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Thatcher, Blue Gallery, London
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2003
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Fourth sex, Station Leopoldi, Florence, Italy
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2003
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Independence, South London Gallery, London
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2002
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Landscape, British Council
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2002
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Dogger Fisher Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
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2002
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Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2002
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Adapt Now, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
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2001
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A Century City, Tate Modern, UK
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2001
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City Racing 1988-1998: a partial account, ICA, UK
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2001
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A Century of Innocence-The Story of the White Monochrome, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
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2001
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Black and White Blains Fine art, London
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2000
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Sensation: Young British artists from the Saatchi Collection, Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY, USA
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2000
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A Century of Innocence-The Story of the White Monochrome, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
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2000
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The Wreck of Hope, The Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
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2000
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EmilyTsingou Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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2000
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Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
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1999
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Hirst, Fairhurst, Coventry, Quinn, Helly Nahmad Gallery, London, UK
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1999
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John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, UK
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1999
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Keith Coventry and Paul Noble, Trondheim Biennial, Norway
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1999
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Thinking Aloud, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
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1998
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The Last Show, City Racing, London, UK
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1998
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The Colony Room Club 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Gallery, London, UK
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1998
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Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, Nationalgalerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
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1998
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Feeringbury VIII: Cultivated, Minories Gallery, Colchester, UK
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1998
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Bad Faith, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
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1998
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A to Z, The Approach, London, UK
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1998
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What's In A Name, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
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1998
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Supastore De Luxe (No. 2), Up & Co Uscha Pohl, New York, USA
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1998
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Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen, Denmark (solo)
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1998
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A22 Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1998
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Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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1997
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Beaconsfield, London, UK (solo)
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1997
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Kohn/Turner Gallery, LA, USA (solo)
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1997
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Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK (solo)
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1997
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Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
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1997
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Baumgartner Galleries, Inc, Washington D.C., USA
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1997
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Primary Paint, Museum of Modern Art, San Diego, USA
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1997
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Traffic, Curtain Road Arts, London, UK
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1997
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Blue Print, Print Gallery, Glasgow, UK
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| Literature |
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2008
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Keith Coventry: Anaesthesia as Aesthetic, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
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2007
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Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London.
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2007
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Keith Coventry: Paintings, Tramway, Glasgow. Essay by Andrew Wilson
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2005
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Supernova, British Council. Essay by Caroline Douglas
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2004
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Reflections, Art centre Z33, Belgium
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2002
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Landscape, British Council, London
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2002
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Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990S, Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, USA
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2001
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Roberta Rotta, Ideal Beauty, L’Uomo Vogue, February
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2000
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Jonathan Jones, Review, Keith Coventry, The Guardian, October 28
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2000
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Louise Buck, London Contemporary Galleries, The Art Newspaper, September
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2000
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Bronwyn Cosgrave, Coventry Cool, Vogue, October
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1999
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Suprise, Suprise, Art & Auction, March 15
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1999
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Roger Bevan, Who’s Still a ‘Sensation’?, Art & Auction, June
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1999
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Simon Grant, Portrait of the gallery owner as a young man, Evening Standard, October 28
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1999
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Giorgio Guglielmino, Coriolano e gli hooligans, Il Giornale Dell’Arte, no.181, October
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1999
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Hirst, Fairhurst, Hume, Coventry, Quinn, Helly Nahmad Gallery, London
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1998
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The Colony Room Club 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, A22 Gallery, London
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1998
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Sensation, Royal Academy of Arts, London
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1998
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Keith Coventry, Galerie Frahm, Copenhagen, Denmark
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1998
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Gleadall, Colin, Formaldehyde Blues, Art Monthly no. 221, November
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1997
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Forty Under Forty, The Art Newspaper, no. 67, February
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1997
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Colin Gleadall, Qualifications & Discriminations, Art Monthly, September
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1997
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Sarah Kent, Sensationgeneration and Keith Coventry, Time Out supplement, September 10-17
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1997
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Arting Around, Time Out, September 24-October 1
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1997
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Kate Bernard, Keith Coventry, Evening Standard, October 30
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1997
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Mark Currah, Keith Coventry. The Showroom, Time Out, November 5-12
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1997
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Keith Coventry, The Showroom, London UK, London
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