CLAY KETTER
CV
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Born in Brunswick, Maine, 1961
Lives and works in Uppåkra, Sweden
AWARDS
Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfond (Swedish endowment for the Visual Arts)
1991, 1995, 1996, 1998-99, 2001-02, 2004-2009
Carnegie Art Award for Nordic Painting, 1999
Ellen Trotzig-stipendiet, 1997
Lunds Konsthalls Vänner, 1997
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | Bartha Contemporary, London |
| 2009 | Galerie Templon, Paris |
| 2008 | Bartha Contemporary, London (cat) |
| 2007 | Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö Brändström & Stene, Stockholm Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
| 2005 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Brändström & Stene, Stockholm Box 2.0, Copenhagen ”corner bended” (in collaberation with B & K+) |
| 2004 | Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg Galleri Specta, Copenhagen |
| 2003 | Niels Borch Jensen Verlag und Druck, Berlin |
| 2002 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Lunds Konsthall (cat) Moderna Museet (with Lars-Johan Claesson), Stockholm Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå |
| 2001 | Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm No Limits Gallery, Milano Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
| 2000 | Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California Galleri Specta, Copenhagen |
| 1999 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm |
| 1997 | C/O – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo |
| 1996 | White Cube/Jay Jopling, London Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg ”Art is what happens to us while we’re busy making other art”, Krognoshuset, Lund (cat) Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm |
| 1995 | Art Cologne (Galleri Andreas Brändström), BVDG Programme (cat) ”room 512”, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm (Galleri Andreas Brändström) |
| 1994 | Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm Forumgalleriet, Malmö |
| 1993 | Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg |
| 1992 | Pictura, Lund |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | Icons Of A Modern Age, (with Henrik Eiben, Mike Meiré and Beat Zoderer) |
| 2009 | After Architecture. Typologies of the Afterwards, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona |
| 2008 | Branded and On Display (curators Judith Hoos Fox
& Ginger Gregg Duggan) Tufts University Art
Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts; Scottsdale Museum
of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona [US] (cat) The American Friends of the Moderna Museet Inc, Benefit Auction, Moderna Museet, Stockholm [SE] |
| 2007 | “Branded and On Display”, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion,
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
(cur. Judith Hoos Fox and Ginger Gregg Duggan), (cat) |
| 2006 | “It depends… between Art and Design”, Biennale Internationale Design 2006,
Saint-Etienne (cur. Lorand Hégyi – Marc Partouche), (cat) “Homestories”, Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten, (cur. Dr. Stefan Rasche), (cat) Besökarna (The Visitors), Västra Hamnen, Malmö |
| 2005 | “The The”, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London ”Contemporary Sculpture in the Nordic Countries 1980-2005”, The Wanås Foundation Knisslinge, Sweden |
| 2004 | ”Objects versus Design- Le Design Autrement”, IVe Biennale Internationale de Design
Musée Art Moderne, Saint- Étienne Métropole Umedalen Skulptur 05.06 - 29.08, Umeå ”Ruina” (Estetica de la Destruccion), Estudio Helga de Alvear, Madrid ”Maleri?”, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway |
| 2003 | ”Solares” (The Ideal City), IIe Bienal de Valencia, (cur. Lorand Hégyi), (cat) ”Private/Corporate II”, DaimlerChrysler Collection/Sonnabend Collection, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin ”Carnegie Art Award 2002”, Victoria Miro Warehouse, London, (cat) |
| 2002 | ”The Unthought Known”, White Cube2, London (cat) ”From Pop to Now”, Selections from the Sonnabend Collection The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery– Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs Wexner Center for the Arts – Ohio State University, Columbus Milwaukee Art Museum, (cat) ”Through a Sequence of Space”, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin ”Hovedbygningen Malmö”, Galleri F15 Moss |
| 2001 | ”Century of Innocence–The History of the White Monochrome”,
Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm ”Robert Ryman–Retrospective”, Kunstmuseum Bonn ”Painting in Transformation”, Vikingsbergs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg, (cat) ”Le repubbliche dell’arte: Interferenze ”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, (cat) |
| 2000 | ”Against Design”, (cur. Steven Beyer), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, (cat) ”Painting Zero Degree”, Independent Curators International, ICI, New York (cur. Carlos Basualdo) Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, University of Oklahoma, Norman Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, (cat) ”New Work: Abstract Painting”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin Sonnabend Gallery, New York ”Work and Information”, Galleri Søren Houmann, Copenhagen ”Impostures: Clay Ketter and George Stoll”, (cur. Lelia Amalfitano) Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö ”Century of Innocence–The History of the White Monochrome” (cur. Åsa Nacking, Bo Nilsson) Rooseum–Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, (cat) Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm ”Robert Ryman–Retrospective”, (cur. Dr. Bernhart Schwenk) Haus der Kunst, Munich, (cat) |
| 1999 | ”Primary Structures” (Martin Gerwers + Clay Ketter + Gerold Miller + Beat Zoderer) (cur. Jan Winkelmann), Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (cat) ”Effulgent”, (cur. Sven Lundh), Malmö Konstmuseum ”Built”, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica ”Hvid”, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, (cat) ”Carnegie Art Award 1999” Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Reykjavik, London, (cat) |
| 1998 | ”Platser”, Riksarkivet, Statens Konstråd, Stockholm, (cat) ”Everyday”, (cur. Jonathan Watkins), 11th Biennale of Sydney, (cat) ”Every Other Day”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney ”Clay Ketter + Jeff Koons + Fischli-Weiss”, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Paul Morris Gallery, New York ”Speculation” (Stefan Altenburger + Arno Brandlhuber + Clay Ketter + Andreas Roth) Galleri Specta, Copenhagen (cat) ”Young Americans 2”, Saatchi Gallery London, (cat) ”Lebensraum”, (cur. Daniel Birnbaum) “Arkipelag”, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, (cat) |
| 1997 | ”Thomas Demand + Clay Ketter”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich ”Louisiana Udstillingen ’97”, Louisiana Humlebæk, Denmark, (cat) ”Stefan Kern + Clay Ketter + Tobias Rehberger”, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne ”Beau Geste”, Angels Gallery, Santa Monica ”Deposition”, (cur. Bo Nilsson), IASPIS, Venice Biennale XLVII (cat) |
| 1996 | ”Interieurs” (Fischli-Weiss + Clay Ketter + Abigail Lane), Gallerie Chantal Crousel, Paris ”Abstrakt/Reale”, (cur. Lorand Hegji), Museum Moderner Kunst/Stiftung Ludvig, Vienna, (cat) ”Form Follows Anything”, (with Catharina Gabrielsson Åman) Färgfabriken, Stockholm, (cat) ”På Tiden”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, (cat) |
| 1995 | ”Nutopi”, (”Aperto ’95”)! (Clay Ketter + Dan Peterman + Yutaka Sone + Rirkrit Tiravanija + Jeffrey Wisniewski + Andrea Zittel) (cur. Lars Nittve) Rooseum–Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, (cat) ”Shaking Patterns” , ”Lagoon 2”, W 139, Amsterdam ”Tilt”, Malmö |
| 1994 | ”Black and White”, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki ”Lägenhet”, 12 vacant apartments, Malmö, Göteborg, (cat) |
| 1993 | ”Floor Show”, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIE
Dan Jönsson “Under the Volcano”
Clay Ketter : Gulf Coast Slabs
Bartha Contemporary, London
2008
Judit Collins “Achitecture & Furnither”
Sculpture Today
Phaidon Press
2007
Håkan Nilsson ”Clay Ketter: Materializing the Context”
Konsthistorisk Tidskrift (Journal of Art History)
Taylor & Francis, London
vol. 71, # 1-2, 2002
Dan Jönsson
”Clay Ketter & Lars Johan Claesson”
Moderna Museet c/o BoStad 02
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
08-09, 2002
Matthew Guy Nichols
”Clay Ketter at Sonnabend”
Art in America
#6, June 2002
Nina Möntmann
”Clay Ketter/Galerie Vera Munro”
Artforum
p. 146, April, 2002
Nicole Büsing/Heiko Klaas
”Clay Ketter”
Artist Kunstmagazin
#51, 2/2002
Daniel Birnbaum
”Nachträglich, like kissing the hand of history”
The Unthought Known
White Cube, London, 2002
Ken Johnson
”Clay Ketter/Sonnabend”
Art in Review, New York Times
p. E44, Friday, Jan.18, 2002
Åsa Nacking
”The Fading Perfection of Modernism
Viewed Through Clay Ketter’s White Paintings”
Century of Innocence exhibition catalogue
Rooseum, Malmö, 2000
Bruce Fergusson
”Labors of Love. Love’s Labors Lost”
Clay Ketter
Propexus , Malmö, 2000
Åsa Nacking
”Made Ready-Mades”
Nu: The Nordic Art Review
vol. II, #2, 2000
Stefan Altenburger / Arno Brandlhuber
Clay Ketter / Andreas Roth
Speculation
Specta , Copenhagen, 1998
Brooks Adams / Lisa Liebmann
”Nothing Left Undone”
Young Americans 2 exhibition catalogue
Saatchi Gallery, London, 1998
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