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
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
1995 Turner Prize shortlist
1998
Winner, Nat West Art Prize
2002
Winner, Jerwood Prize for Painting
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Alphabet, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Darker than blue, alfonsoartiaco, Napoli, Italy
Present Perfect, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Cadmium Orange, Red Violet, Lamp Black, Kode, Bergen, Norway
Turn, Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, USA
2023
Callum Innes, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2022
Tondos, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, United States
2021
a pure land, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
a pure land, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Orange & Black, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2019
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
Callum Innes: Keeping Time, Frith Street Gallery - Golden Square, London, UK
2018
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Callum Innes, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Byzantine Blue, Delft Blue, Paris Blue, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
Tape, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany
In Position, Château la Coste, Le Puy Ste Réparade, France
2017
Callum Innes: With Curve, Sean Kelly, New York, US
Callum Innes, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
In Two, Ivorypress Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2016
Callum Innes: On Ground, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Callum Innes: I’ll Close my Eyes, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Callum Innes, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015
Callum Innes, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK
2014
Callum Innes, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2013
Watercolours, Galerie Tschudi, Switzerland
Liminal, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, US
Callum Innes: Malerei als Prozess, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum for Art and Design, Nürnberg, Germany
Callum Innes, i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Callum Innes, Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, England
2012
The Regent Bridge (permanent commission for Edinburgh Art Festival), Edinburgh, Scotland
Callum Innes: Works on Paper 1989 - 2012, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Callum Innes, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Unforseen, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
A Family Story, MAC Lyon, Lyon, France
Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, Maison de Balzac, Paris, France
2019
Absolutely Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York
Shadowplay, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Beyond Borders, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2018
TWENTY, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Actions. The image of the world can be different (part 1), Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2017
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Ages of Wonder: Scotland’s Art 1540 to Now, Royal Scottish Academy, National Galleries Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Elemental Forms, Colorado University Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
And per se and: Part IX - Callum Innes & Agnes Martin, Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
2016
Cher(e)s Ami(e)s: Tribute to contemporary collections donors, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
My Abstract World, Collectors Room Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Park, Guangzhou, Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou, China
2015
30 Years, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Chromophobia, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva
Pattern of Abstraction, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Absent Presence, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
Flowers for Poul, Galleri Bo Bjergaard, Copenhagen
2014
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Transgression, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London, England
Within/Beyond Borders: Art from the European Investment Bank Collection, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
Recent Acquisitions, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, NL
Generation, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2013
A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland
Moving, Norman Foster on Art, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
HAUPTSACHE GRAU #03 Farbiges Grau, Mies Van Der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany
2012
10 Years in Zuoz, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
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
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
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
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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