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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

Cadmium Orange, Red Violet, Lamp Black, Kode, Bergen, Norway

 

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 TimeFrith 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

Bibliography

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

Art Fairs