Keith Tyson was born in Ulverston in 1969, he "maps" his life and what surrounds him, without limits of content and with great curiosity, following both distant or very close optical visions. Of course it's not a traditional geographical map, but a research based on senses, on the connection between the artist and the everyday-life, because "all things come to reveal something about their being."
His work evolved then into the Nature Paintings and Natural Portraits series, in which works are executed with chemical reactions on aluminum, that have an evolution independent from the artist's hand.
Tyson exhibited in galleries and museums around the world since 1996, the main recent exhibitions include: A Mystery To Myself, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2014; Panta Rhei, Peace, London, 2013; Entangled in the Amber Glow of a Weary World Woven, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark; Keith Tyson: Contemporary Grotesques, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France, 2011; Keith Tyson: 52 Variables The Pace Gallery, New York, 2010.
Keith Tyson is a British artist. He was born in Ulverston, UK in 1969.
EDUCATION
1990 – 93 University of Brighton: Alternative Practice BA
1989 – 90 Carlisle College of Art
1984 – 89 Barrow-in-Furness College of Engineering: M.E.C.S (Mechanical Engineering Craft Studies)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2014
A Mystery to Myself, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen,
Denmark
2013
Panta Rhei, Pace, London, UK
2011
Entangled in the Amber Glow of a Weary Woven World,
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Keith Tyson: Contemporary Grotesques, Galerie
Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
2010
Keith Tyson: 52 Variables, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Cloud Choreography and other Emergent Systems, Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art, London, UK
Keith Tyson, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2008 Fractal Dice, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, USA Nature Paintings, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, Cumbria, UK Random Nature, Project B, Milan, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2015
De Pictura, Project B, Milan, Italy
Collected Lines, Drawings from the Ringier Collection,
Winterhur, Switzerland
Eureka, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Chewing Gum, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
2014
The Drawing Room, Magasin 3, Stockholm Konsthall,
Stockholm, Sweden
In the Round, Pace gallery, New York, USA
2012
Painting Without Paint, David Risley Gallery,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Freedom Not Genius: Works from Damien Hirst’s MurderMe
Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
Beyond Reality: British Painting Today, Galerie Rudolfinum,
Prague, Czech Republic
Sacred Geometry and Secular Science, Loyola University
Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
2011
Adventures in Wonderland, MdM Museum, Porto Cervo,
Italy
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
7th La Biennale de Montréal: Chance, École des beaux-arts de
Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Space. About a Dream, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Peeping Tom, Kunsnthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands
2010 50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA VaXINations, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece Changing The World, ARNDT Contemporary Art GmbH and Co, Berlin Pastiche, PaceWildenstein, NY, USA On The Square, PaceWildenstein, NY, USA
Dopplereffekt - Images in Art and Science, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Peeping Tom, VEGAS Gallery, London The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2009 eARTh: Art Of A Changing World, Royal Academy, London Capturing Claudia, Colnaghi Gallery, London The Age of Marvellous, All Visual Arts, One Marylebone, London Pete and Repeat, Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London 15th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Blum & Poe, L.A, USA Il faut être absolument moderne, Paradise Row, Istanbul Walking In My Mind, Hayward Gallery Summer Exhibition, Southbank Centre, UK The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada 150 Years of Art and Design, Brighton University, Brighton, UK Mythologies, Haunch of Venison, London, UK Universal Code, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada British Subjects: Identity and Self-fashioning, 1967-2009, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
2008 In Drawing, Purdy Hicks, London Wall Rockets, Flag Art Foundation, New York Drawn from the Collection 1500 – 2008, The Clore Gallery, Tate Britain, London, UK History in the Making: A Retrospective of The Turner Prize, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Diagonal Argument, Betonsalon, Paris, France Beyond Measure: Conversations Across Art & Science, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK Estratos, Murcia, Spain Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London Accidental Modernism, Leslie Tonkonow Gallery, New York, USA
AWARDS
2007 Professorship, University of Brighton, U.K
2005 Honorary Degree of Doctors of Letters, University of Brighton, UK
2002 Turner Prize, London, UK
1996 ICA Arts and Innovation Award, London, U.K
COLLECTIONS
Tullie House Museum, Cumbria, UK Arts Council Collection, Great Britain, London, UK Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France French National Art Collection (FNAC), Paris, France Foundation Francois Pinault The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark SMAK – Stedelik Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Gent The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA The South London Gallery Collection, London, UK Tate Modern, London, UK MOMA, New York, USA Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art, USA
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