KAYE DONACHIE Born 1970, Glasgow, United Kingdom. Lives and works in London, United Kingdom. Education 1997 1996 1992
Royal College of Art, London, MA in Painting Hochschule der Künste (H.D.K.), Berlin University of Central England, Birmingham, B.A. (Hons.) Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions (C) denotes that a catalogue was published with the exhibition. 2017
upcoming: solo show at Plateau - FRAC Île de France, Paris, France
2015
Behid her eyelids she sees something, RIBOT Gallery, Milan, Italy (C) Dearest…,The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, USA
2013
Maureen Paley, London, UK
2010
Maureen Paley, London, UK
2009
Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany Marianne Boesky, New York, USA
2006
John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
2005
Maureen Paley, London, UK Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA
2004
Artists Space, New York, USA Maureen Paley, London, UK
1998
Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
1992
Malvern Arts Centre, Worcester, UK
Two Person Exhibitions 2016 2014 2012
Kaye Donachie & Guy Yanai, Mademoiselle Albertine est partie!, Appartement, Paris, France Hernan Bas & Kaye Donachie, Portraits of Solitude, De la Cruz Collection Project Space, Miami, Florida Kaye Donachie and Dagmar Heppner, Color (rules), Spazio Cabinet, Milan, Italy
Group Exhibitions 2017
The Painting Show, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2016
‘…hounded by external events…’, Maureen Paley, London, UK Only Lovers, Le Coeur, Paris, France The Painting Show. Recent Painting from the United Kingdom, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania (C) Pure Romance, The Redfern Gallery, London, UK (C)
2015
Oil on Canvas, Yuko Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo Japan (un mural, des tableaux), Frac Île-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, France
2014
GREY FLAGS, Backslash Gallery, Paris, France
2013
Meshes of the Afternoon, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA A general history of labyrinths, galerie crèvecœur, Paris, France Birds, Beasts and Flowers, Galerie Zink, Berlin, Germany
2012
To Have a Voice, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
2011
Between My Head and My Hand There is Always the Face of Death, Philip Feldman Gallery at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, USA Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
2010 2009 2008
2007
2006
2005 2004
2003
Fade Away, Transition Gallery, London, UK Get Behind Me Satan and Push, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives, St Ives, touring to Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (C) Minneapolis, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA M25: Around London, Centre Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain, curated by Barry Schwabsky 41 Tage / Die Kirchner Show, Kornhäuschen, Aschaffenburg, Germany The Brotherhood of Subterranea, Kunstbunker, Nuremberg, Germany At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA If Everybody had an Ocean, Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France (C) Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK (C) The Juddykes, The Old Art Shop at John Jones, London, UK Gravity’s Rainbow, Peres Projects, Athens, Greece Hope and Despair, Cell Project Space, London, UK Tempest, curated by John Connelly, The Fireplace Project, New York, USA About Light, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA The Afternoon of a Faun, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece Tate Triennial, Tate Britain, London, UK (C) Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany (C) Growing Up Absurd, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK Reflections, Art and Heritage Festival, Artuatuca, Tongeren, Belgium (C) wider than the sky, 117 Commercial Street, London, UK John Connelly Presents, New York, USA Prague Biennale 1, Peripheries Become the Center, Veletrzni Palac, Prague, Czech Republic Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London, UK Yes! I Am A Long Way From Home, touring exhibition: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, The Nunnery, London, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and K.I.A.D, Canterbury, UK
2002
Hasta La Vista, The Mission, London, UK We All Love…, The Mission, London, UK. Am Anfang der Bewegung stand ein Skandal (The Movement began with a Scandal), Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, Germany
2001
Kaye Donachie, James Welling, Maureen Gallace, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
2000
Poster Show, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK Poster Show, Gavin Brown Enterprise Corp, New York, USA
1999
Surveying the Landscape, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA Limit Less, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria John Moores 21, 1999, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (C) East International 1999, Norwich Gallery, UK A Mountain and a Valley, Cubitt Street, London, UK
1998
Kaye Donachie, Miyoko Hoshi, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, Kingston, UK London Now, Saks Project Art, New York, USA (C)
1997
Interior, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, UK
1995
Small Paintings, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire, UK
1994
John Jones Gallery Open, John Jones Gallery, London, UK On the Wall – The Sister Show, (In conjunction with Writing on the Wall, Tate Gallery), Advice Arcade Gallery, Norwich, UK
1993
Interiors Exhibition, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Bibliography (C) denotes catalogue. 2017
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Casuic, Carmen, Concerns of radical eccentricity, revistaarta.ro, 7 March 2017. Suchin, Peter, ... Hounded by External Events..., Art Monthly, February 2017, pp. 23-25. …Hounded by External Events… , Mousse Magazine, January 2017. Avery, Amanda, ‘Hounded by External Events’ at Maureen Paley, London, uk.blouinartinfo.com, 2 December 2016 O’Keeffe, Georgia, In Her Own Words: Kaye Donachie, Tate etc, Summer 2015, p. 76. Quaroni, Ivan, Kaye Donachie, Flash Art, December - January 2016, p. 86. Kaye Donachie: Behind her eyelids she sees something, RIBOT gallery, Milan (C). Kale, Neha, Kaye Donachie in One Breath, Vault Magazine, April 2015, p. 64-67. Segal, Mark, New at Fireplace Project, easthamptonstar.com, 23 July 2015. Segal, Mark, The Art Scene: New at Fireplace Project, The East Hampton Star, 23 July 2015, p. C3. Monte Verità, Initiales 4, ENSBA LYON, Lyon, France, September 2014 pp. 74-79. Kaye Donachie’s Malady of Death, dazeddigital.com, 31 January 2014. Kaye Donachie at Maureen Paley: Paintings Inspired by Marguerite Duras Vouvella, frameweb.com, 7 Janurary 2014. Berstein, Amy, Between My Head and My Hand There is Always the Face of Death, portlandart.net, 21 January 2011. Motley, John, Review: Between My Head and My Hand There is Always the Face of Death, oregonlive.com, 27 January 2011. Snyder, Stephanie, Between My Head and My Hand There is Always the Face of Death, artforum.com, 21 March 2011. Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon Press, London, pp. 88-91.
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Archer, Michael, Kaye Donachie, Artforum, Summer 2010, pp.362-363. Art; Kaye Donachie, The Big Issue, 1 March 2010, p. 30. Art; Kaye Donachie, kultureflash.net, 15 April 2010. Cairns, Steve, Critics’ Picks; Kaye Donachie, Artforum.com, 31 March 2010. Coxhead, Gabriel, Reviews: Kaye Donachie, Time Out, 18 March 2010, p. 43. Critics’ Choice: Kaye Donachie, Time Out, 18 March, p. 46. Critics’ Choice: Kaye Donachie, Time Out, 8 April, p. 42. Kaye Donachie, Kunstbeeld.NL, April 2010, p. 91. Sam, Sherman, Kaye Donachie, Map, Summer 2010, p. 84. Sherwin, Skye, Kaye Donachie, The Guardian Guide, 27 February 2010, p. 38. Camhi, Leslie, Culture Shock, style.com, 6 April 2009. Daddy VI: Occult Daddy, 2008. Flaccavento, Angelo, Modern Take On Collecting, L’Uomo Vogue, July 2008, pp. 161-162. Stephenson, Sarah, Painting in the 21st Century, artkrush.com, 2 April 2008. Wallis, Clarrie, Kaye Donachie, Flash Art, October 2008, p. 91. Coomer, Martin, Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Modern Painters, June 2007, pp. 114-115. Fox, Dan, If Everybody Had An Ocean, Frieze, September 2007, p. 182. Griffin, Jonathan, Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Frieze, May 2007, p. 157. Slimvolume Poster Publication 2006-7. Grosz, David, Getting Real, Looking Back, The New York Sun, November 2, 2006. Bell, Eugenia, Kaye Donachie, Artforum, March 2006, pp. 309-310. Conner, Justin, Kaye Donachie, Interview, November 2006, p. 40. Cumming, Laura, Tate Triennial 2006, Observer, 5 March 2006. Kent, Sarah, Dire Straits, Time Out, 8 March 2006. Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People, Thames & Hudson, 2006, pp. 84, 98-9. O’Keeffe, Alice, New British stars spurn celebrity cult, The Observer, 26 February 2006. RF, Kaye Donachie Monte Verita, Modern Painters, March 2006. Schwabsky, Barry, Kaye Donachie, MAP, March 2006. Umar, Saheer, Kaye Donachie, Tokion, April 2006, pp. 26 & 28. Williams, Eliza, Tate Triennial 2006, Flash Art, May 2006, pp. 63 & 64. Don’t miss, Art Review, March 2006. Inside the Tate Triennial: Beatrix Ruf, Dazed & Confused, March 2006, p. 210. Tate Triennial 2006 – New British Art, Tate Publishing, (C). The Year Ahead 2006, The Art Newspaper, January 2006, p. 50. Top 100 Artists, Flash Art, October 2006, pp. 68-69. Boer, Basje, In den beginne shiep de kunstenaar den hemel en de aarde, Mister Motley, Nº9, 2005, pp. 3, 14-17. Hackworth, Nick, Next year’s next big things from the world of arts, Evening Standard, 30 December 2005, pp. 26-27. Lack, Jessica, Kaye Donachie, London, The Guardian Guide, 9 December 2005, p. 36. Art inspired by Swiss utopia, East London Advertiser, 8 December 2005, p. 30. Caspar David Friedrich ist auch Kitsch, Art Das Kunstmagazin, May 2006. Ideal Worlds: New Romanticism in Contemporary Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Hatje Cantz, (C). Coomer, Martin, The Young and the Restless, Elle Magazine, UK edition, March 2004. Herbert, Martin, Kaye Donachie, Time Out London, 24-31 March. Lack, Jessica, Exhibitions – Epiphany, The Guardian, 29 March 2004. Suchin, Peter, Kaye Donachie – Maureen Paley Interim Art, London, Frieze, May 2004, p. 102. Vellodi, Kamini, London: Interim Art, Kaye Donachie: Epiphany, Contemporary, Nº 26, 2004. Ward, Ossian, Die nächste Generation, Art Das Kunstmagazin, August 2004. Reflections, Art and Heritage Festival, Artuatuca, (C). Kent, Sarah, ‘Yes! I am a Long Way from Home’, Time Out London, 9-16 April 2003. Suchin, Peter, At the beginning of the movement was a scandal, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Frieze, October 2002. temporarysite.org, 2002, www.temporarysite.org/MUNICH_Kaye.htm.
1999 1998 1997 1994
Cork, Richard, The Undiscovered Country, John Moores 21, 1999. John Moores 21, National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1999, (C). Coomer, Martin, Kaye Donachie, Time Out London, Nº 1441, 1-8 April 1998. Del re, Gianmarco, Kaye Donachie, Interim Art, Flash Art, Summer 1998. London Now, Saks Fifth Avenue Project Art, 1998, (C). Hubbard, Sue, Interior, Time Out, Nº 1421, 12-19 November 1997. McEwan, John, John Jones Gallery Open, The Sunday Telegraph, 1997. Power to the Pupils, The Observer Magazine, 25 May 1997. Rose, Cynthia, John Jones Gallery Open, Time Out, 1994. Wheen, Nathalie, The Sister Show, Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4, 1994. On the Wall – The Sister Show.
Talks 2015
Festival of Art & Design, Ulster University, Belfast, UK (un mural, des tableaux), Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau, Paris, France Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
Awards 1999 1997 1996 1994 1993 1992
John Moores Award The Deloitte and Touche Award The Christie’s Award The Basil Alkazzi Scholarship Travel Award to study at Hodshule der Kunst London Arts Board Award to Individual Artists Princes Trust Award The George Jackson Travel Award
Collections The British Council, London, UK Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain (FRAC), Paris, France National Museum of Gdansk, Poland