Keegan McHargue
Nato nel 1982, Portland, Oregon. Vive e lavora a New York, USA.
Keegan McHargue è un artista americano autodidatta. È noto per i suoi disegni e pitture astratte ed illusorie. Nei suoi dipinti combina elementi onirici figurativi per poi stravolgere le regole della prospettiva.
McHargue si concentra nella tensione tra la tragedia e la commedia. Lo stile appiattito dell’artista evoca il disegno di un bambino, quale modo di esprimere la sua comprensione del mondo. McHargue è interessato al subconscio e raffigura scene di fantasia per ricostruire gli incidenti della vita quotidiana.
Nel 2003, McHargue ha la sua prima mostra personale a New York alla Wrong Gallery. Da allora è rappresentato dalla Fredericks & Freiser Gallery di New York. Ha partecipato a numerose mostre personali e collettive in tutto il mondo, come Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco; Deitch Projects, New York; Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Parigi; MACRO Museum, Roma; DESTE Foundation, Atene. Le use opere sono parte di importanti collezioni pubbliche permanenti tra cui: Deste Foundation of the Contemporary Arts, Atene; Judith Rothschild Foundation | Drawing Collection, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
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2022 Eye On Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Londra
2021 Artists of the gallery – Christmas Edition, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurigo
2020 Rebooting Nature, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Londra
Every day, Terrace Gallery, Londra
Time, Suspended, The Gallery at Catherine Prevost, Londra
2018 Nature Morte, Guildhall Art Gallery, Londra
Transference, with Mathew Weir, MOCA London, Londra
Arcadian Dreams, CCASM, Jersey Channel Islands
Whispering Colour, Bo Lee Gallery, Londra
Artists of the Gallery – Part 1, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurigo
2017 Nature Morte, The four Domes Pavillion, National Museum of Wrocław, Polonia
Die Wunderkammer, Objects of Virtue, CCASM, Jersey Channel Islands
2016 Nature Morte, Konsthallen-Bohusläns Museum, Svezia
2015 Summer Exhibition, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Londra
Nature Morte, Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life, Ha gamle prestgard, Stavanger, Norvegia
2014 Natural Order, Purdy Hicks Gallery, Londra
2012 Sweethearts – Artist Couples, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Londra
Plus Art Projects at The Mayor’s Parlour, Bow, Londra
2011 Drawing 2011, Drawing Room, Londra
2010 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Londra
William Blake and the Naked Tea Party, Ekleksographia, ahadada
2009 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Londra
Drawing 2009, Drawing Room, Londra
Open Impact, Spike Island, Bristol
2008 Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Londra
2007 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg Space, Londra
Drawing 2007, Drawing Room, Londra
Force Of Nature, The Gallery@Adventure Ecology HQ, Londra
Summer Exhibition 2007, Royal Academy, Londra
British Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germania
Small Is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Londra
2006 Into The Light Of Things, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
Small is Beautiful, Portraits XXIV, Flowers Central, Londra
2005 Sue Arrowsmith, Claude Heath, Ausstellungsraum, Gallery Hollenbach, Zurigo
Drawing Two Hundred, The Drawing Room, Londra
Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg, Space, Londra
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Londra
2004 Arbeiten Auf Papier, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germania
Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Londra
2003 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, Londra
About Painting, Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, Germania
Pictures at an Exhibition, KPMG, Londra
Drawn 2B Alive, Hales Gallery, Londra
2002 At Sea, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, Inghilterra
Prospects 2002 Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, Essor Gallery Project Space, Londra
Mapping the Process, Essor Gallery, Londra
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2002, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham touring to
Jerwood Space, Londra; mac, Birmingham; Glasgow School of Art; EICH Gallery,
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull; The Promenade Gallery, The
Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester
2000 Y2K Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia, Cipro
Incorporate 3, Art and Business, Londra
Cultural Ties, Jariwala Westzone Gallery, Londra
2001 Sue Arrowsmith, Maria Chevska, Alexis Harding,Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart,
Germania
Tradition and Innovation, British Painting from The Royal Bank of Scotland Art
Collection, York City Art Gallery, York, Inghilterra
XS, Galerie Fahnemann, Berlino
British Abstract Painting 2001, Flowers East, Londra
At Sea, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001, University of Gloucester, Cheltenham, touring to
The Alberto Vilar, Gallery at The Prince’s Foundation, Londra, EICH Gallery,
University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, Hull, Inghilterra
Collection Selection, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, Inghilterra
1998 The Natwest Art Prize 1998, Lothbury Gallery, Inghilterra
1997 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 20, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool