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Biography
Born in Brunswick, Maine, 1961
Lives and works in Lilla Uppåkra, Sweden.
Education:
| 1986 | State University of New York Purchase Center for the Arts, BFA |
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2013 | “See What I Mean,” Bartha Contemporary, London |
| 2012 | “Road: Clay Ketter with Nils Bergendal,” Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, Sweden “Clay Ketter on purpose,” Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö, Sweden “Clusterwork,” Martin Bryder Gallery Lund, Sweden “Courtyards and Symmetric Settlements,”Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Galleri Mårtenson&Persson, Båstad, Sweden Bartha Contemporary, London |
| 2009 | Moderna Museet; May 30 – August 16 Galerie Daniel Templon Sonnabend Gallery, New York David Schwarz Project II: Clay Ketter, Richard & Dolly Maas Gallery, School of Art+Design, Purchase College, S.U.N.Y., NY Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö [SE] |
| 2008 | “Coastal”, Brandstrom Stockholm Bartha Contemporary, London |
| 2007 | Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, Sweden Galleri Specta, Copenhagen Brändström and Stene, Stockholm Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2006 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
| 2005 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Brändström and Stene, Stockholm Box 2.0, Copenhagen “Corner Bender”; (collaboration with B&K+) |
| 2004 | Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, Sweden Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg Galleri Specta, Copenhagen |
| 2003 | Niels Borch Jensen Verlag und Druck, Berlin |
| 2002 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Lunds Konsthall, Lund Moderna Museet, Stockholm Galleri Specta, Copenhagen Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Galleri Stefan Anderson, Umeå |
| 2001 | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm NEG/No Limits Gallery, Milan Galleri Magnus Aklundh, Malmoe Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg |
| 1999 | Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California Galleri Specta, Copenhagen Rose Art Gallery, Brandeis University |
| 1999 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York Galleri Andreas Brandstrom, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1997 | C/O – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo |
| 1996 | Fargfabriken, Stockholm Krognoshuset / Aura, Lund White Cube/Jay Jopling, London Galleri Mors Mossa, Goteborg Galleri Andreas Brandstrom, Stockholm |
| 1995 | Art Cologne, BVDG International Sponsorship Programme / Galleri Andreas Brandstrom Stockholm Art Hotel, Gallerie Andreas Brandstrom, Stockholm |
| 1994 | Forumgalleriet, Malmo Galleri Andreas Brandstrom, Stockholm |
| 1993 | Galleri Mors Mossa, Goteborg |
| 1992 | Pictura, Lund |
Group Exhibitions:
| 2012 | Freakshow, Malmö, Sweden Collectors of Skies, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York photoGRAPHIC, Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen |
| 2011 | MADRE, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples Sense and Capability, Collection of Tore A. Holm, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway Within / Beyond Borders, The Collection of the European Investment Bank at the Byzantine & Christian Museum, Athens, Greece De/Constructing the Norm, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Habitat, Galleri Specta, Copenhagen MMK 1991-2011 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Social Structures,Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketcham, Idaho |
| 2010 | Space Invasion, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin Galleri Örsta, Kumla, Sweden Konstruktioner, Västerås konstmuseum Contemporary Swedish Art and Design, American Ambassador’s Residence, Stockholm, Sweden Icons of a Modern Age, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK |
| 2009 | Deformities of Speed, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark After Architecture. Typologies of the Afterwards, Arts Santa Mònica, Barçelona Vitt, Vitt, Vitt, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden Branded and On Display (cur. Judith Hoos Fox & Ginger Gregg Duggan), Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah |
| 2008 | “Branded and on Display”; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona “Presque Rien II”, Laure Genillard, London The American Friends of the Moderna Museet Inc, Benefit Auction, Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| 2007 | “Branded and on Display”; Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign |
| 2006 | “It depends… between Art and Design”; Biennale International Design 2006, Saint Etienne (cur. Lorand Hégyi – Marc Partouche) “Homestories”; Galerie Münsterland, Emsdetten (cur. Stefan Rasche) “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 | “Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection, New York”; Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuberg/Vienna; October 2004 – March 2005 “Objects versus Design – Le Design Autrement”; 4th Biennale Internationale de Design; Musée Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Metropole “Ruina: Esthetics of Destruction”; Estudio Helga de Alvear, Madrid “Maleri?”, Galleri F15; Moss, Norway Umedalen Skulptur, Umeå |
| 2003 | “Solares (The Ideal City)”; 2nd Bienal de Valencia “Private/Corporate II: DaimlerChrysler Collection / Sonnabend Collection”, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin “Carnegie Art Award 2002”; Victoria Miro Warehouse |
| 2002 | “The Unthought Known” White Cube2, London “From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection”, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York “Through a Sequence of Space”, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin “Hovedbygningen Malmö”, Galleri F15, Moss |
| 2001 | “Le repubbliche dell’arte: Interferenze”, Palazzo delle Papesse, Sienna “Painting in Transformation”, Vikingsbergs Konstmuseum, Helsingborg “Robert Ryman – Retrospective”, Kunstmuseum, Bonn “Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome” Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm |
| 2000 | “Painting Zero Degree” (cur. Carlos Basualdo), Independent Curators International, New York; traveling to: Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, University of Oklahoma; Norman Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio (catalogue) “Against Design” (cur. Steven Beyer), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; traveling to: 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 (catalogue) “New Work: Abstract Painting”, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin Sonnabend Gallery, New York “Work and Information”, Galleri Soren Houmann, Copenhagen “Impostures: Clay Ketter and George Stoll” (cur. Lelia Amalfitano), Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts “Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome” (cur. Asa Nacking, Bo Nilsson, Rooseum-Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo (catalogue) Galleri Magnus Aklundh, Malmo Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm “Robert Rymn-Retrospective” (cur. Dr. Bernhart Schwenk), Haus der Kunst, Munich; Kunstmuseum, Bonn (catalogue) |
| 1999 | “Primary Structures” (Martin Gerwers + Clay Ketter + Gerold Miller + Beat Zoderer) (cur. Jan Winkelmann) Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst Leipzig (catalogue) “Effulgent” (cur. Sven Lundh), Malmo Konstmuseum “Built”, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica “Hvid”, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (catalogue) “Carnegie Art Award 1999” Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Reykjavik, London (catalogue) |
| 1998 | “Fischli & Weiss, Clay Ketter, Jeff Koons” Sonnabend Gallery, New York Paul Morris Gallery, New York “Lebensraum” Nordiska Museet, Stockholm “Platser” Riksarkivet, Stockholm “Young Americans 2” Saatchi Gallery, London “Speculation” Specta, Copenhagen “Everyday” 11th Biennale of Sydney “Every Other Day” Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney |
| 1997 | “Thomas Demand + Clay Ketter” Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich “Lousiana Udstillingen ‘97” Louisiana, Denmark “Stefan Kern + Clay Ketter + Tobias Rehberger” Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne “Beau Geste” Angles Gallery, Los Angeles “Deposition” Venice Biennale “Junge Kunst International 97” Overbeck – Gesellshaft, Lubeck |
| 1996 | “Interiors” (Fischli-Weiss + Clay Ketter + Abigail Lane) Galerie Chantel Crousel, Paris “Abstract/Real” Museum Moderner Kunst / Stiftung Ludvig, Vienna “Form Follows Anything” (with Catharina Gabrielsson Aman) Fargfabriken, Stockholm (catalogue) “Pa Tiden” Moderna Museet, Stockholm “Tidsanda III” Malmo Konstmuseum “Till Filmen” Goteborgs Konstmuseum |
| 1995 | “Shaking Patterns”, “Lagoon 2” W 139, Amsterdam “Nutopi” Rooseum, Malmo “Tilt” Malmo |
| 1994 | “Black and White” Galerie Anhava, Helsinki “Lagenhet” Malmo – Goteborg |
| 1993 | “Floor Show” Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund |
Selected Bibliography:
| 2002 | Nicole Büsing / Heiko Klaas “Clay Ketter”, Artist Kunstmagazin, #51, 2Daniel Birnbaum “Nachträglich, like kissing the hand of history” The Unthought Known, White Cube, LondonKen Johnson “Clay Ketter / Sonnabend” Art in Review, The New York Times p.E44, Friday, Jan.18 Matthew Guy Nichols Nina Möntmann Dan Jönsson Håkan Nillson |
| 2000 | Beyer, Steven and Brookhart, Melissa “Things We Live With”, Against Design exhibition catalogue Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PASozanski, Edward J. “Along the fuzzy boundary between design and art”, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Feb. 13, p.A11Plagens, Peter. “Against Design” Newsweek.com, Feb.7 Hamilton, William L. Nacking, Asa Ferguson, Bruce Åsa Nacking |
| 1998 | Brooks, Adams and Lisa Liebmann. “Nothing Left Undone” Young Americans 2 exhibition catalogue Saatchi Gallery, LondonAltenburger, Stefan and Brandlhuber, Arno “Clay Ketter / Andreas Roth” Speculation Specta, Copenhagen |
| 1997 | Kent, Sarah. “Clay Ketter” Deposition exhibition catalogue IASPIS, Venice Biennial XLVII |
| 1996 | Arrhenius, Sara. “Clay Ketter @ Andreas Brandstrom, Stockholm,” Flash Art , vol.XXIX, #189, summerNilsson, Hakan. “Clay Ketter on Finding the Rules,” Material, #30.Birnbaum, Daniel. “IKEA at the End of Metaphysics,” Frieze,#31. Hegyi, Lorand. Birnbaum, Daniel. |
| 1995 | Decter, Joshua. “Visionary Pragmatism and the Triumph of Chameleon Aesthetics” Nutopi exhibition catalogue Rooseum, Malmo |
Collections:
Arken, Denmark
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Bonnier Företagen, Stockholm
Dunkers Kulterhus, Helsingborg
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg
Goteborgs Konstmuseum, Goteborg
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
High Museum of Art, Weighland Family Collection, Atlanta, Georgia
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Källemo / Sven Lundh, Värnamo
Louisiana, Denmark
Løvbjergs Almene Fonds Samling, Denmark
Malmö Konstmuseet, Malmo
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métropole
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum moderner kunst/ Stiftung Ludvig, Wien
Museum moderner kunst, Frankfurt
Saatchi Collection, London
Skissernas Museum, Lund
Sonnabend Collection, New York
Uppsala Meseet, Uppsala, Sweden
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Permanent Installations:
Foyer, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå