Callum Innes (b. 1962, Edinburgh, Scotland) lives and works between Edinburgh and Oslo. Innes studied painting and drawing at Gray‘s School of Art in Aberdeen and Edinburgh College of Art. Following breakthrough solo exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1992, the artist was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 1995. He won the NatWest Prize for Painting in 1998 and the Jerwood Prize for Painting in 2002. His work can be found in major public collections worldwide, including that of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Bern; The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth; The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and Tate Modern, London.
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Callum Innes
Alphabet 17 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 i8 Galleryi8 Gallery is pleased to announce Alphabet, an exhibition of new paintings by Callum Innes. The show, the artist’s fourth with i8, will be on view from 17 October until 30 November.Read more -
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a pure land 16 Apr - 29 May 2021 i8 Galleryi8 Gallery and OSL contemporary are pleased to announce “a pure land”, a solo exhibition by Callum Innes. The show comprises a group of fifty watercolours constituting a single, major...Read more -
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9 Jun - 6 Aug 2016 i8 GalleryCallum Innes’s approach to the canvas, through his method of subtraction, has prompted the term “unpainting”, a coinage the painter is at ease with. And it is true that the...Read more -
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15 Mar - 20 Apr 2013 i8 GalleryIn his first exhibition at i8 Gallery, Callum Innes shows a selection of new oilpaintings and watercolours. Using a complex process of applying and removing paint, (a technique that has...Read more
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Callum Innes: Cadmium Orange, Red Violet, Lamp Black
Kode, Bergen, Norway 15 Mar - 28 Apr 2024Light and landscape, control and chaos: Callum Innes is considered one of the most significant abstract painters of his generation. The Scottish artist lives and works in both Edinburgh and Oslo.Read more -
Callum Innes: I'll Close My Eyes
De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands 5 Oct 2016 - 26 Feb 2017The interplay of applying and removing paint, of presence and absence: it constitutes the essence of the oeuvre developed by Scottish artist Callum Innes (Edinburgh,...Read more
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CHART 2024
Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark 29 Aug - 1 Sep 2024i8 Gallery's presentation at Chart 2024 features artworks by established artists associated with the gallery’s history. The exhibition showcases important works from each artist’s respective...Read more -
Frieze London 2023
The Regent's Park 11 - 15 Oct 2023i8 Gallery's presentation for Frieze London 2023 features artists who are key figures within the gallery's history. Two new works by Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967,...Read more -
Market 2023
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden 12 - 14 May 2023i8 Gallery returns to Stockholm for Market Art Fair presenting works by Alicja Kwade, Callum Innes, Ólafur Elíasson, Kristján Guðmundsson, and Yui Yaegashi.Read more
b. 1962 in Edinburgh, UK
Lives and works in Edinburgh and Oslo
EDUCATION
1980-84
Grays School of Art, Aberdeen
1984-85
Edinburgh College of Art, Post Graduate DIP
AWARDS
1995 Turner Prize shortlist
1998
Winner, Nat West Art Prize
2002
Winner, Jerwood Prize for Painting
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Alphabet, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
Darker than blue, alfonsoartiaco, Napoli
Present Perfect, OSL contemporary, Oslo
Cadmium Orange, Red Violet, Lamp Black, Kode, Bergen
Turn, Sean Kelly, Los Angeles
2023
Between, Galerie Tschudi, Zürich
St Sebastian, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Callum Innes, Parra & Romero, Ibiza
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London
2022
Tondos, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Callum Innes, Fox Jensen & Fox Jensen McCroy, Alexandria
2021
a pure land, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
a pure land, OSL Contemporary, Oslo
Orange & Black, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
2019
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Asia, Taipei
Callum Innes: Keeping Time, Frith Street Gallery, London
2018
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
Callum Innes, OSL contemporary, Oslo
Byzantine Blue, Delft Blue, Paris Blue, Ingleby, Edinburgh
Tape, Loock Galerie, Berlin
In Position, Château la Coste, Le Puy Ste Réparade
2017
Callum Innes: With Curve, Sean Kelly, New York
Callum Innes, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
In Two, Ivorypress Gallery, Madrid
2016
On Ground, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
I’ll Close my Eyes, De Pont Museum, Tilburg
Callum Innes, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík
2015
Callum Innes, OSL Contemporary, Oslo
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London
2014
Callum Innes, Loock Galerie, Berlin
2013
Watercolours, Galerie Tschudi, Zürich
Liminal, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Callum Innes: Malerei als Prozess, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum for Art and Design, Nürnberg
Callum Innes, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik
Callum Innes, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester
2012
The Regent Bridge (permanent commission for Edinburgh Art Festival), Edinburgh
Callum Innes: Works on Paper 1989 - 2012, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Callum Innes, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Unforseen, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Nightglow, Galerie Tschudi, Zürich
2023
Light is Therefore a Colour, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained, Hill Art Foundation, New York
2022
Line Up, Galerie Tschudi, Zürich
A Family Story, MAC Lyon, Lyon
Belonging - European Investment Bank Art Collection, Hunt Museum, Limerick
Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Maison de Balzac, Paris
2021
A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s, IKON, Birmingham
Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu. Entre genie et folie, Maison de Balzac, Paris
2020
Hauptsache Malerei - Werke aus der Hilti Art Foundation im Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2019
Absolutely Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
Private View, 25 years Slewe at Huize Frankendael, Amsterdam
Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
Shadowplay, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin
Beyond Borders, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels
2018
TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
Actions. The image of the world can be different (part 1), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2017
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau
Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now, Royal Scottish Academy, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh
Elemental Forms, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
And per se and: Part IX - Callum Innes & Agnes Martin, Ingleby, Edinburgh
2016
Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Tribute to contemporary collections donors, Centre Pompidou, Paris
My Abstract World, Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin
Park, Guangzhou, Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou
2015
30 Years, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
Chromophobia, Gagosian Gallery
Pattern of Abstraction, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Absent Presence, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester
Flowers for Poul, Galleri Bo Bjergaard
2014
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
Transgression, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London
Within/Beyond Borders: Art from the European Investment Bank Collection, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon
Recent Acquisitions, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
Generation, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh
2013
A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney
Moving, Norman Foster on Art, Carré d’Art, Nîmes
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
HAUPTSACHE GRAU #03 Farbiges Grau, Mies Van Der Rohe Haus, Berlin
2012
10 Years in Zuoz, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz
Intercambio global. Abstracción geométrica desde 1950, MACBA - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
La ligne passée, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Koerich
C6H1005 V, Jensen Gallery, Auckland
Time out of Mind, Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
Callum Innes / Ingo Meller / Wilhelm Mundt / Robert Zandvliet / Remy Zaugg, Bernard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt am Main
The Architecture Of Colour, Jensen Gallery, Paddington
Seeing Red, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin
Private View, Loock Galerie, Berlin
COLLECTIONS
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Arts Council of England, UK
Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, USA
The Bohen Foundation, New York, USA
The British Arts Council, London, UK
The British Museum, London, UK
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Contemporary Arts Society, London, UK
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands
Deutsche Bank, London, UK
Deutsche Bank, Sydney, Australia
Fondation d'art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Paris, France
Government Art Collection, United Kingdom
Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein
HypoVereinbank, Munich, Germany
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum, Nuremberg, Germany
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, UK
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
National Galleries of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Neuberger & Berman Collection, New York, USA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, USA
Royal Bank of Scotland, UK
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Southampton City Art Gallery, UK
Tang Teaching Museum/ Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
Tate, London, UK
The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, UK
Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, UK
University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2024
Tondos, Anomie Publishing, London, UK
2021
a pure land, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
2018
In Position, Chateau La Coste and Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2016
I’ll Close My Eyes, De Pont Museum, Netherlands and Hatje Cantz Verlag, Berlin, Germany
2013
Callum Innes: History, Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
2011
water|colour, Callum Innes and Colm Tóibín, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
2009
Callum Innes: I look to you, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2006
From Memory - Callum Innes, Hatje Cantz (in association with the Fruitmarket
Gallery), Germany, to accompany the touring exhibition of the same title 2005 Callum Innes: Resonance, Tate St. Ives, UK
2004
Callum Innes, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2002
Jerwood Painting Prize, Sasha Craddock, Jerwood Foundation 2001 Exposed Paintings, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
6 Degrees of Separation, Jensen Gallery and Ludwig Wittgenstein, New Zealand 2000 Blue: borrowed and new, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
Moving Targets 2: A User's Guide to British Art Now, Tate Publishing, London,
UK
1999
Callum Innes, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Callum Innes, essay by Marco Livingstone, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 1998 Callum Innes, Watercolours, Ikon Gallery, Kunsthalle Bern, Germany
1997
Abstract Painting Once Removed, curated by Dana Friis-Hansen, Contemporary
Arts Museum, Housten
Abstraction/Abstraction Géométries Provisoires, exhibition catalogue, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne
Callum Innes Watercolours, Kunsthaus Zürich
1996
Callum Innes, essay by Mel Gooding, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK
1995
Callum Innes, essay by Friedrich Meschede and forward by Peter Fleissig, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Architecture of the Mind, Galerie Barbera Farber, Amsterdam, Netherlands Callum Innes, Adrian Searle, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
From Here, Andrew Wilson, Karsten Schubert Gallery & Waddington Galleries New Voices, British Arts Council
Turner Prize 1995, Tate Publishing, London, UK
1993
Coalition, Andrew Nairn, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK
Prospect ’93: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Frankfurter
Kunstverein und Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
1992
Callum Innes, essay by Rainer Crone, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, in
association with the Frith Street Gallery, UK
1991
Kunst Europa: Grossbritannien, Meveric-Hughes, Henry and Jonathan Watkins,
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Kunstvereine, Freiberg, Germany. 1990 Painting Alone, Rainer Crone, Pace Gallery, UK
The British Art Show 1990, South Bank Centre, London, UK