SHELAGH KEELEY
Shelagh Keeley lives and works in Toronto after living twenty-two years in New York City and Paris. Keeley’s recent projects have been presented by MoMA Library and Archives, New York (2015); Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); The Power Plant, Toronto (2014); Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2015) and Ryerson Image Center, Toronto (2013). Keeley has also been part of a large number of international group shows including: The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding at The Power Plant, Toronto (2015) and Museu Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal (2016); In Order to Join – The Political in a Historical Moment at Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013) and Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India (2015). In 2013 Keeley created a collaborative book project with refugee children entitled Desire to Join and published by Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013). Her work is included in public collections including MoMA, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Les Musées de la Ville de Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Born
Oakville, Ontario
Education
1977 Honours BFA York University, Toronto, Ontario
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022-2024 commissioned site-specific wall drawing installation: Ideas brushing against ideas. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA
2020 Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, a commissioned wall drawing installation and film projection.
2015 At the Table, commissioned project / performance with Lin Snelling, April 30, 2015 MoMA Library / Archives. NYC
2015 artist book launch : notes on obsolescence, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2015 Rereading Lucretius / improvisation with Lin Snelling, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
2015 Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2014 research residency and performance with choreographer Lin Snelling, MoMA Library and Archives, NYC
2014 Notes on Obsolescence, a commissioned site-specific wall drawing installation, The Power Plant, Toronto
2013 a collaborative book project: DESIRE TO JOIN created with refugee children published by Museum Abteiberg, Germany
2011 Performing Book, drawing installation/collaboration, Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton
2011 Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
2011 Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada
2010 McMaster University Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
2010 Artist in residence, Western Front, Vancouver
2010 Site-specific wall drawing, het Ottenhuis, Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2010 Drawing Centre Kunstvereniging Diepenheim, The Netherlands
2010 The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Canada
2009 Performing Book, drawing installation/collaboration, Dance House, Limassol, Cyprus
2008 RAM Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007 Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto
2006 Performing Book, drawing installation/collaboration with Lin Snelling, Usine C, Montreal
2006 Ram Foundation, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005 Galerie Annette de Keyser, Antwerp, Belgium
2005 Jindal steel factory, permanent site-specific installation, Mumbai, India
2004 Nature Morte Gallery, New Delhi, India
2001 Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, New Brunswick
2001 Museum Library, Brooklyn Museum, New York
1999 Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
1998 Crestet Centre d'Art, Vaison La Romaine, France
1998 Art Book, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 Printed Matter, New York, New York
1997 Galerie Annette de Keyser, Antwerp, Belgium
1996 Centre d'Arts Plastique de Saint-Fons, on-site installation, Lyon, France
1995 Indianapolis Museum of Art, on-site installation, Indianapolis
1995 RAM Galerie, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1995 1997 Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, France
1994 Centre d'Art Herblay, France
1994 John Gibson Gallery, New York
1993 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Exit Art, New York
1992 The Contemporary Museum, on-site installation, Honolulu
1991 Nexus Contemporary Art Center, on-site installation, Atlanta
1991 Granary Books, New York
1991 De Fabriek, Eindhoven
1990 Art Metropole, Toronto
1990 Mattress Factory, on-site installation, Pittsburgh
1989 49th Parallel, on-site installation New York
1989 SF Camerawork, San Francisco
1989/1988 Sagacho Exhibit Space, on-site installation, Tokyo, Japan
1989 101 Studio d'Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy
1989 Centro Culturale Canadese, Rome, Italy
1989 Franklin Furnace, New York
1989/1987 Tomoko Ligouri Gallery, New York
1986 Presentation House Gallery, on-site installation, Vancouver
1986 Gallery White Art, Tokyo, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Drawing Art from the NOG Collection, Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands
2023 The Tokyo Biennale,Tokyo, Japan
2022 Flesh and Bones: The Art of Anatomy, The Getty Institute Galleries, Getty Research Institute, Getty Center, LA, USA
2022 Conversations with the Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
2022 Alternative Exhibition / Sagacho Archives 1983-2000, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Sagacho Exhibit Space 1983 - 2000, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
2019 Pulled in Brooklyn, IPCNY International Print Center Gallery, New York, New York.
2018 The Scotiabank Photography Award Longlist, Canada
2017 The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding /Decoding, Stamps Gallery,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2017 installation at the IFA Gallery, A World in the City: Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Stuttgart, Germany
2017 Persistence, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2017 4th Biennial exhibition The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. October 2017 – March 2018
2017 Govenor General Awards in Visual and Media Arts Exhibition 2017, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada
2017 When Form Becomes Attitude, Contemporary Calgary, Alberta, Canada
2016 The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding / Decoded. John Akomfrah, Steve McQueen, Terry Adkins, Shelagh Keeley,
Sven Augustijen, Zineb Sedira. Museu Colecao Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal
2015 Anything but Homeless /Drawings from the NOG Collection, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam,The Netherlands
2015 a collaborator in the EXILE project installation by Dora Garcia at The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2015 The Book Undone: 30 Years of Granary Books, Columbia University Rare Books & Manuscript Library, NYC
2015 Talking Back: New Acquisitions, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Poetics of Space, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2015 Border Cultures: Part Three /security, surveillance. Yto Barrada,Harun Farocki,Trevor Paglen, Shelagh Keeley, Hito Steyerl
Rebecca Belmore, and others. Art Gallery of Windsor, Canada
2015 The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding / Decoding, The Power Plant,Toronto, Canada
2015 Symposium: Expanding the Conversation / Encoding / Decoding the Cultural Present, The Power Plant, Toronto
2015 Discussion with Shelagh Keeley and Kaiwan Mehta moderated by Ranjit Hoskote,Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Mumbai
2015 In Order to Join / The Political in a Historical Moment. Adrian Piper, Sheela Gowda, Mona Hatoum, Shelagh Keeley, Rosemarie
Trockel Astrid Klein, Helen Chadwick and others. Max Mueller Bhavan & Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai, India
2013 Sarai Reader 09:The Exhibition, curated by Raqs Media Collective, Devi Art Foundation, Gurgaon, India
2013 In Order to Join / the Political in a Historical Moment, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
2013 Here and There: Photography and Video Works on Immigration. Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto
2012 Korenbeurs Schiedam, Schiedam,The Netherlands
2012 Nuit Blanche, Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Hotel de Ville, Paris, France
2012 Artist book collection, Sagacho Archives, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Fellow Travellers, DMG, University of Toronto, Toronto
2010 AIGA Design Center NYC, 50 Books/50 Covers, best international book design 2009
2010 Art School Dismissed, Shaw Street Public School, Toronto
2010 Visceral Bodies, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C.
2009 Site-specific installation, Caoyang Village Public Art Project curated by Jonathan Watkins, Shanghai, China
2009 Everything Changes curated by Jonathan Watkins, Moganshan Lu, Shanghai, China
2008 Hysteria and the Body, National Gallery of Canada, travelling exhibition
2007 Intrusions au Petit Palais, Fonds municipal d’art contemporain, Petit Palais, Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, France
2006 Permanent Collection, MOCCA, Toronto
2005 Material Devotion, Jaipur Literature Festival, on-site installation, Jaipur, India
2003 For the Record – Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2002 The 25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, NY
2000 Face à L'autre, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
2000 The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, Exit Art, NY
2000 Sight / Insight: Visual Commentaries on the Physical World. The New York Public Library, NY
2000 End Papers,Drawings 1890 -1900 and 1990-2000. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1999 Drawings, Annette de Keyser Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1998 Raw Ideas, Large Scale Drawings, John Gibson Gallery, NY
1998 Jeux de Genres, Les Musees de la Ville de Paris, L'Espace Electra, Paris, France
1998 Interiors, Galerie Aline Vidal, Paris, France
1998 Five Years Together, Galerie Annette de Keyser, Antwerp, Belgium
1998 Books by Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1998 Process, Documentation and Fragments from the Mattress Factory's Archives, Pittsburgh
1997 The Pleasure of Reading, John Gibson Gallery, NY
1997 Mother Nature, John Gibson Gallery, NY
1996 Vital Signs, Part III, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1996 Voyeurs Delight, Franklin Furnace, NY
1996 Odd Bodies, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1993 Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, NY
1993 Nineties, John Gibson Gallery, NY
1993 Chambres d'Hotel, on-site installation, Quebec City
1992–1994 Drawn in the nineties, Independent Curators International (ICI), travelling exhibition, NY
1992 Mostra da X Gravura, Museu da Gravura Cidad de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil
1992 Natural Science, John Gibson Gallery, NY
1992 La Fabbrica di Seta, on-site installation, Arezzo, Italy
1992 From the Intimacy of the Page, The Power Plant, Toronto
1991 Encounters with Diversity, P.S.1 Museum, NY
1991 Milanopoesia, Spazio Ansaldo, Milan, Italy
1991 Physical Relief, Hunter College Art Gallery, NY
1991 Contemporary Works from the Permanent Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
1991 Helen Chadwick and Shelagh Keeley, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
1989 If You Lived Here:The City in Art, Theory and Social Activism, a project by Martha Rosler, DIA Art Foundation, NY
1989 Perugia Video and Film Festival, Perugia, Italy
1988 Flaneur, collaboration with Goro Namerikawa (Sankai Juku), Sagacho Exhibition Space, Tokyo, Japan
1987 1st International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1987 Infermental 6, Berlin Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
1987 Immigrants and Refugees/Heroes or Villains, Exit Art, NY
1987 Selections 36, The Drawing Center, NY
1986 Dream Island/Nature Morta, Miyagi Museum, Sendai, Japan
1986 Selections, curated by Valerie Smith, Artist's Space, NY
Selected Awards
2023 Tennessee RE-PAIR Triennial Nashville invited participant by Engine for Art, Democracy and Justice, Vanderbilt University, USA
2018 The Scotiabank Photography Award Long List, Canada
2017 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
2017 invited residency / work fellowship Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2014 Canada Council Long Term Grant
2013 Visiting Artist, Kunstakademie / Dusseldorf Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany
2011 Distinguished Visitors Grant, University of Alberta, Edmonton
2009 AIGA50 Books/50 Covers. Best international book design. NYC
2012 Ontario Arts Council
2009 / 2011 Toronto Arts Council
2002 Artist in Residence, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS
2006 / 2011 The Canada Council
2000 Pollock Krasner Foundation
1995 Nexus Press Olympic Book Residency, Atlanta (representing North America)
1989 Edward Albee Fellowship
1989 Japan/Canada Award
Selected Public Collections
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Agnes b collection, Paris, France
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
AIGA Design Archives, Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Artotheque, Centre d'Arts Plastiques, Lyons, France
Bibliotheques Nationale de France, Paris, France
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Collection de Bruin-Heijn / Cees and Inge de Bruin, Amsterdam / Wassenaar, the Netherlands
Columbia University, Butler Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection, NY
Department de Seine Saint-Denis, France
Department of External Affairs, Ottawa
Edward Albee Foundation, NY
The Frances Dittmer Collection, NY
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
Frac Department de Seine Saint-Denis, France
Frac Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
Franklin Furnace Artist Book Collection / Archive, MoMA Library, New York, NY
Fonds Art Contemporain de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Getty Research Institute, Getty Library, The Getty Center LA
Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto
Harvard Art Museum, Boston, Mass.
Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Houghton Rare Book Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Ile-de-France Regional Collection of Contemporary Art FRAC
Ikko Tanaka Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Issey Miyake Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Jindal SW Steel Foundation art collection, Mumbai, India
Les Musés de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The Museum of Modern Art Library, NYC
Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, Montreal
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, New York, NY
New York University, Fales Library and Special Collections,The Exit Art Archive, New York, NY
NOG collection SNS REAAL Fund, Netherlands
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
Peabody Essex Museum, Phillips Library, Salem, MA
Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton, NJ
Progressive Insurance Peter B. Lewis Collection, Cleveland, Ohio
Refco Corporation, Chicago
Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Sagacho Archives,Tokyo, Japan
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Smithsonian Libraries Artist’s Books Collection, Washington D.C.
Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
Stanford University, The Green Library, Department of Special Collections, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, The Clark, Williamstown, MA
Sydney Lewis Collection, Virginia
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
University of Toronto, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library and The Donovan Collection, St. Michael's College
Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Victoria and Albert Museum, National Art Library, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
The Wedge Collection / Dr. Kenneth Montague, Toronto, Canada
Yale University Art Gallery, CT
Yale University, Beinecke Rare Books & Manuscript Library, CT