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

Biography

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

Voir plus

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

Voir plus

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

Voir plus

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

Voir plus

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

Press Release

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