Installation view: Ian Kiaer, Endnote, ping., Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany, 2019. Courtesy Kunsthalle Lingen.
| IAN KIAER | |
| Born 1971 in London, UK | |
| Lives and works in London, UK | |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2008 | PhD Painting Research, Royal College of Art, London, UK |
| 1998-2000 | MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London, London, UK |
| 1991-1995 | BA Fine Art, Slade School of Art, University College London, London, UK |
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2020 | Endnote, yellow, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany |
| Endnote limb, Nuit Blanche 2020, Paris, France | |
| Endnote, (ping), Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany | |
| 2019 | Endnote, ping., Kunsthalle Lingen, Germany |
| Ping, murmer, BASE, Florence, Italy | |
| Endnote, ping., Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2017 | Endnote, tooth, curated by Odile Burluraux, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France |
| Endnote, tooth, Barbara Wien, Berlin, Germany | |
| Endnote, tooth, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France | |
| 2016 | Endnote, Ledoux, curated by Jacob Proctor, Neubauer Collegium, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 2015 | Limp Oak, Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico |
| ANDNOW, Dallas, Texas, USA | |
| 2014 | Tooth House, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK |
| Tooth House, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK | |
| 2013 | Centre International de l'art et du Paysage, Vassivière, France |
| Marcelle Alix, Paris, France | |
| 2012 | Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK |
| Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA | |
| FIAC, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France | |
| 2011 | Il Baciamano, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy |
| 2010 | Endnote, Pink, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany |
| Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2009 | COMMA 15, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK |
| What Where, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy | |
| Alison Jacques Gallery Project Space, London, UK | |
| Three Proposals, SE8, London, UK | |
| 2007 | Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK |
| Bruegel project, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2006 | Erdrindenbau, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy |
| 2005 | British School at Rome, Rome, Italy |
| Art Statements, Art Basel, Miami, Florida, USA | |
| The Grey Cloth, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2004 | Endless House project, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK |
| Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy | |
| 2003 | Art Statements, Art Basel Miami Beach, Florida, USA |
| Ian Kiaer: Art Now, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Endless Theatre Project, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Ian Kiaer/Jeff Ono, aspreyjacques, London, UK | |
| Interstice/Double Impact, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2001 | Asprey Jacques, London, UK |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2020 | Was machen Sie um zwei? Ich schlafe., GAK, Bremen, Germany |
| Higher! Higher! Lower, Lower. Louder! Louder! Softer, Softer, Shimmer, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2019 | City Prince/sses, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
| YOU, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France | |
| 10 year anniversary show, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France | |
| 2018 | the big aspiration of the small picture, Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| Back in Five, Galeria de Arte Chiado8, Grupo Fidelidade, Lisbon, Portugal | |
| Ian Kiaer and Nina Canell, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany | |
| A Slice through the World: Contemporary Artists' Drawings, jointly presented by Modern Art Oxford and Drawing Room, curated by Stephanie Straine, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK | |
| We stared at the Moon from the centre of the Sun: Haroon Mirza Curates the Arts Council Collection, Towner Art Gallery, Sussex, UK | |
| 2017 | Strange Days, curated by Xavier Franceschi, frac île-de-france, Paris, France |
| 2016 | Klappe eins, Affe tot, Kunstsaele Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| What Are We Going to Paint?, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Calling All Ghosts, Old church, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| 2015 | Galleria Graça Brandão, Lisbon, Portugal |
| The Story of the Stone, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| Rushes, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France | |
| Concrete, curated by Nadia Thondrayen, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK | |
| 2014 | Non-Profit & Profit, curated by Giacomo Bazzani, SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy |
| 2013 | Thinge, curated by João Penalva, Dan Gunn, Berlin, Germany |
| L'Image Papillon, curated by Christophe Gallois, MUDAM, Luxembourg | |
| 2012 | Champs d'Experience, Centre International de l'art et du Paysage, Vassivière, France |
| Les Ateliers de Rennes Biennial, curated by Anne Bonnin, Rennes, France | |
| Alltagsobjekt Plastiktute / The Ubiquitous Plastic Bag, Gewerbemuseum, Switzerland | |
| Contemporary Collection: The Space Between, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Setting the Scene, curated by Rachel Taylor and Ann Coxon, Tate Modern, London, UK | |
| Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, conceived by Esther Stocker,Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria | |
| Au loin, une île, (Ahoy, an Island!) curated by Marie Canet and Vanessa Desclaux, Fondation D'Entreprise Ricard, Paris, France | |
| It's Moving from I to It, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania | |
| 2011 | Antic measures, Galeria Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany |
| Au loin, une île, (Ahoy, an Island!), curated by Marie Canet and Vanessa Desclaux, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France | |
| Essential Art, curated by Federico Ferrari, Collezione Maramotti, Emilia, Italy; travelled to Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| British Art Show 7: In the Days of the Comet, curated by Lisa Le Feuvre and Tom Morton,Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| All of this and Nothing: 6th Hammer Invitational, curated by Douglas Fogle and Anne Ellegood, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA | |
| Nothing Personal, Marcelle Alix, Paris, France | |
| Painting Expanded, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2010 | The Responsive Subject, Mu.Zee, Ostend, Belgium |
| British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery London, UK; travelled to Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; Tramway Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK; Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK | |
| The Mystics, Civic Room, London, UK | |
| Everynight, I go to Sleep, Stuart Shave/ Modern Art, London, UK | |
| Super Farmer's Market, Handel Street Projects, London, UK | |
| 2009 | 10th Biennale de Lyon, curated by Hou Hanru, Lyon, France |
| Concrete Island (Room 30), BP British Art Displays 1500-2009, Tate Britain, London, UK | |
| Drawing 2009 Biennial Fundraiser, The Drawing Room, London, UK | |
| Material Intelligence, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK; travelled to Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK | |
| Cabinets No. 1, SE8, London, UK | |
| La Importancia del Pez Cebra, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2008 | No Information Available, curated by Francesco Bonami, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| Reinvented: Study & Play, Galerie Jan Wentrup, Berlin, Germany | |
| Livre Circulacao: Arquitectors Europeus em Transito, Fundação Serralves, Portugal | |
| Social Diagrams. Planning Reconsidered, Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Ephemera, (w/ Gabriel Kuri, Jonathan Monk & Simon Starling)Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland | |
| Peripheral vision and collective body, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy | |
| Too Early For Vacation, curated by Hou Hanru, Limerick, Ireland | |
| Ian Kiaer and Sara MacKillop, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK | |
| Project for a New American Century, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Nineteenthirtysix, Pullman Court, London, UK | |
| Die Kugeln! Die Kreise! Die Räder! (The Spheres! The Circles! The Wheels!), curated by Christiane Rekade, Altefabrik / Kunst(zeug)haus, Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland | |
| 2007 | Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War: 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey |
| Winter Palace, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Poor Thing, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
| Plankjes, tak, atelier als supermedium # 14, atelier als supermedium,The Hague, Netherlands | |
| Disco Coppertone, Locus, Athens, Greece | |
| European Triennial of small-size sculpture, curated by David Thorp, Murska Sobota, Slovenia | |
| Various Small Fires, Royal College of Art, London, UK | |
| Nature and Society, The Ethnographical Museum, Dubrovnik, Croatia | |
| Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2006 | Lambretto, Art Project, Milan, Italy |
| Behind The Cliché, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands | |
| The Impossible Landscape, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Satellites, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, KW Institute of Contemporary Art and further venues along August Straße in Mitte, Berlin, Germany | |
| Highlights of the VAC Collection, Instituto Valencia d'Art Modern, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2005 | The Music of The Future, Gasworks, London, UK |
| ARTfutures, Contemporary Art Society, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK | |
| Universal Experience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA; travelled to Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Controlled, Contained, Configured, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| The Way We Work Now, Camden ArtsCentre,London, UK | |
| New Monastery, St Paul's Church Gallery, London, UK | |
| Ordering the Ordinary, curated by David Thorpe, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy | |
| The Hardest Thing to Draw is a Kiss, The Gallery at Wimbledon School of Art, Wimbledon, UK | |
| The Hugh Lane Re-Opening Exhibition, Dublin City Gallery, Dublin, UK | |
| (In) Tension, Hoet Bekaert Gallery, Ghent, Netherlands | |
| 2004 | Empty Garden II, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| Material as Metaphor, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA | |
| This is not a home this is a house, L'Observatoire, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy | |
| Wider Than the Sky, 117 Commercial Street, London, UK | |
| XS, FA Projects, London, UK | |
| 2003 | Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of The Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale, Delays and Revolutions curated by Franceso Bonami and Daniel Birnbaum, Venice, Italy |
| Harmony, at Happiness: A Survival Guide for Art & Life, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Invite #8, Klosterfelde Gallery, Berlin, Germany | |
| Atto Primo, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy | |
| Ponce, The Ship, London, UK | |
| In to the Grey, Cover Up, London, UK | |
| The Straight or Crooked Way, Royal College of Art Galleries, London, UK | |
| RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Australia | |
| Infallible, The Gallery at APT, London, UK | |
| 2002 | Building Structures, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA |
| Artists Imagine Architecture, curated by Jessica Morgan, ICA, Boston, Massachusetts, USA | |
| The Bold and the Beautiful, curated by Akiko Usami and Jasper Joffe, The Pavillions, London, UK | |
| RMIT Project Space, Melbourne, Australia | |
| 2002 | Pictures, GreeneNaftali Inc., New York, USA |
| 2001 | An Empty Spot to Stay, curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi and Ann Demeester, Watou Poetry Summer 2001, Watou, Belgium |
| 2000 | Hlavajová and Kathrin Rhomberg, Ian Kiaer - Athanasios Argianas - Nick Lessing, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
| Everyday-Images-Every Day, Rogaland Kunstnersenter, Stavanger, Norway | |
| UBS Painting Prize, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| Exit Art, New York, USA | |
| The Armchair Project, CINCH, London, UK | |
| Assembly, Jubilee Street, London, UK | |
| British Art Part I Installations, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin, Germany | |
| Manifesta 3, curated by Francesco Bonami, Ole Bouman, Maria Hlavajová and Kathrin Rhomberg, Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| Lemon Tree Hill, Asprey Jacques, London, UK | |
| Timothy Taylor, London, UK | |
| RESIDENCIES | |
| 2001 | Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea |
| AWARDS | |
| 2018 | The Philip Leverhulme Prize |
| 2000 | The Boise Scholarship |
| 1998 | The Basil H. Alkazzi Foundation Scholarship Award |
| 1995 | The Duveen Travel Scholarship |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS AND FOUNDATIONS | |
| Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France | |
| Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM), Turin, Italy | |
| Foundazione Morra Greco, Naples, Italy | |
| Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy | |
| Fondo Regionale Arte Contemporanea Piemonte, Turin, Italy | |
| Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA | |
| Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France | |
| Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA | |
| Saatchi Gallery, London, UK | |
| Tate Collection, London, UK | |