Clay Ketter

The artist

Clay Ketter was born in 1961 in the USA and has been living in Sweden for over 20 years. He made a name for himself in the 1990s with his hybrid works using painting, building materials and photography. His work follows in the American abstract painting tradition as shaped by artists from Jackson Pollock to Robert Ryman. Ketter’s abstract surfaces, with their unexpected textures and a strange flatness, probe the strange beauty of building and demolition sites.

Exhibitions

Courtyards and Symmetric Settlements

February 23 - April 7, 2012
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg
New Paintings

October 31 - December 23, 2009
Paris - Impasse Beaubourg
New works

June 9 - July 22, 2006
Paris - Beaubourg
Road Trip

November 30 > January 8, 2003
Paris - Beaubourg
Oeuvres récentes

March 10 - April 21, 2001
Paris - Beaubourg

Biography

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Birth	Born in 1961 in Brunswick, Maine, USA
Residency	He works and lives in Malmö, Sweden
Education	BFA, School of Art+Design, Purchase College, State University of New York

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2019	Clay Ketter : Out of my Hands, Cecilia Hilström Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Clay Ketter : Companion Studies,Galleri Thomassen, Göteborg, Sweden Clay Ketter : Like This, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö, Sweden
2018	Clay Ketter : Registration, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Clay Ketter : Abstraktion 2005–2018, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden Clay Ketter : Grafika, Staffanstorps konsthall, Sweden
2017	Do You See What I Mean?, Galleri Kant, Copenhague, Denmark
2016	Clay Ketter: Q&A, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Recalcitration, Kansas, New York, USA
2015	Ah Pook Was Here, Galleri Ping Pong, Malmö, Sweden
2014	Martin Bryder Gallery, Lund, Sweden Clay Ketter, Photography, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA Scope, not scape, Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2013	See What I Mean, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK

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2012	Road Clay Ketter with Nils Bergendal, Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, Sweden Clay Ketter on purpose, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö, Sweden Cluster One, Martin Bryder Gallery, Lund, Sweden Clay Ketter, Galerie Sonnabend, New York, USA Courtyards and Symmetric Settlements, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2011	Social structures, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, USA
2010	We do what we do, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Galleri Mårtenson&Persson, Båstad, Sweden Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2009	New Paintings, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Clay Ketter, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Galerie Sonnabend, New York, USA 2008 Gulf coast slabs, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Coastal, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Sweden 2007 My Birthday in Spain, Galleri Specta, Copenhague, Denmark Galerie Sonnabend, New York, USA Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, Sweden 2006 New Works, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France 2005 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA Cornered, Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Sweden Shifter (avec l'architecte Arno Brandlhuber), Box 2.0, Copenhague, Denmark 2004 Galleri Magnus Aklund, Malmö, Sweden New sculpture, Galleri Spectra, Copenhague, Denmark Galerie Vera Munro, Hambourg, Germany 2003 Niels Borch Jensen Verlag und Druck, Berlin, Germany 2002 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Galleri Specta, Copenhague, Denmark Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Das befreite nichts (Gruppenausstellung), Galerie Vera Munro, Hambourg, Germany 2001 Galerie Vera Munro, Hambourg, Germany 2000 Recent Works, Galleri Specta, Copenhague, Denmark 1996 New Work, White Cube, London, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

2019	Clay Ketter/Eva Hild/Love Lundell/ Janne Peltokangas, Daslands Konstmuseum, Sweden Gaia, que deviens-tu ?, Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
2018	Thomas Bang/Simon Callery/Clay Ketter, Galleri KANT, Copenhague, Denmark The Sultans of Salvage: Clay Ketter & Michael Johansson, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Sweden
2016	Polyfoni 4, Galleri Thomas Wallner Simris, Sweden Next: Utopia, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköpings, Sweden The Sonnabend Collection, Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
2015	Et grænseland,Dronninglund Kunstcenter, Dronninglund, Denmark Tree Installation, Skandaloss Festival, Art Program, Gagnef, Sweden Space Invaders: Sculptors Vision, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2014	Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Här/ Nu, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden Landscapes in a Décolleté –the Window as an Element and a Metaphor, Opelvillen Rüsselsheim, Rüsselsheim, Germany
2013	Sverige i FN–Konst och samtal i det globala rummet, Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden Come Together, Surviving Sandy, Daedalus Foundation, Industry City, Brooklyn, New York, USA The Sonnabend Collection, Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna di Ca’ Pescaro, Venice, Italy Freakshow, Malmö, Sweden
2012	Works on Paper by Gallery Artist, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK Collectors of Skies, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA photoGRAPHIC, Fotografisk Center, Copenhague, Denmark

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2011	MADRE, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples, Italy 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, Athènes, Grèce De/Constructing the Norm, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Habitat, Galleri Specta, Copenhague, Denmark MMK 1991-2011 20 Jahre Gegenwart, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfort sur le Main, Germany Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy Social Structures, curated by Courtney Gilbert, Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketcham, USA
2010	Space Invasion, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery, Berlin, Germany Galleri Örsta, Kumla, Sweden Konstruktioner, Västerås konstmuseum, Sweden Contemporary Swedish Art and Design, American Ambassador's Residence, Stockholm, Sweden Icons of a Modern Age, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2009	Branded and on Display, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, USA Vitt, Vitt, Vitt, Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden After Architecture. Typologies of the Afterwards, Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain Deformities of Speed, Sophienholm, Lyngby, Denmark

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS (SELECTION)

	Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
	Arken, Ishøj, Denmark
	Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
	Bonnierföretagen, Stockholm, Sweden
	Brooklyn Museum, USA
	Dunkers Kuturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

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	Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
	European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
	Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg, Germany Museum moderner Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden Fondation d'Art Contemporain Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Paris, France Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, USA High Museum of Art, Weiland Family Collection, Atlanta, USA Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico Källemo/Sven Lundh, Värnamo, Sweden Louisiana, Humlebæk, Denmark Løvbjergs Almene Fonds Samling, Denmark Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Musée Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métropole, France Prada Foundation, Milano, Italy Perez Museum Collections, Miami, USA Saatchi Collection, London, UK Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden Sonnabend Collection, New York, USA Uppsala Museet, Uppsala, Sweden Museum moderner kunst, Stiftung Ludvig, Vienne, Austria Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

PERMANENT INSTALLATION (SELECTION)

2014	Malltavia, Grundskolan Munspelet, Lund, Sweden
2003	Foyer, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå, Sweden

PUBLICATIONS (SELECTION)

2011	Mario Codognato, "Clay Ketter" Ileana Sonnabend. An Italian Portrait (exhib. cat.), Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2010	Wetterling Gallery, Clay Ketter: We Do What We Do (exhib. cat.), Stockholm, Sweden Torstern Andersson, Rolf Hansson, Clay Ketter (exhib. cat.), Galleri Örsta, Kumla, Sweden
2009	Lyngby Kunstforening, Deformities of Speed (exhib. cat.), Lyngby, Denmark Martí Peran, Andrea Aguado, After Architecture. Typologies of the Afterwards (cat.expo), Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, Spain Clay Ketter, "Soft and Roundabout", Soft and Roundabout - Beat Zoderer (exhib. cat.), Galleri Mårtenson & Persson, Båstad, Sweden Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Magnus af Petersens, Lars Nittve, Moderna Museet (exhib. cat.), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Ed. Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany
2008	Coastal, (exhib. cat.), Brändström & Stene, Stockholm, Sweden Exhibition catalogue, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2007	Exhibition catalogue, Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö, Sweden
2005	Corner Bender (in collaboration with B&K+ Arno Brandlhuber,) (exhib. cat.), Box 2.0, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002	Exhibition catalogue, Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden

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1995	Exhibition catalogue, BVDG International Sponsorship Programme (Galleri Andreas Brändström) Art Cologne, Germany

Press

20 Minutes - mars 2012

Les paysages de Clay Ketter exposé chez Templon

Amalia Casado

Revues.net - mars 2012

Clay ketter

Benoît Blanchard

E-Litterature - janvier 2012

les ascendances ambigües de Clay Ketter