Keith Farquhar
Keith Farquhar
Neon Vagina: Red, Yellow and Blue, 2018
neon
116 × 78 × 15 cm (45 5/8 × 30 3/4 × 5 7/8 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Double Amy, 2015
U.V. direct print on corrugated, galvanised steel
244 × 179,5 cm (96 1/16 × 70 11/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
installation view, Badly Primed Canvas
Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, 2015
Keith Farquhar
installation view, Badly Primed Canvas
Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium, 2015
Keith Farquhar
Electric Blue (back), 2009-2011
inkjet on computer-cut card with flat-pack cardboard plinth
92 × 46 × 28 cm (with plinth)
Keith Farquhar
installation view, Mirror Effect
The Box, Los Angeles, USA, 2015
Keith Farquhar
installation view, Quantum Physics for Beginners
High Art, Paris, France, 2014
Keith Farquhar
More Dream Material (spooning), 1993-2014
Aluminium street lights
950 cm (374 inches) each
Keith Farquhar
Woolmark, 2014
U.V. direct print on corrugated, galvanised steel
304 × 213 cm (119 11/16 x 83 7/8 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Untitled (LAP GOD), 2014
U.V. direct print on corrugated, galvanised steel
304 × 213 cm (119 11/16 x 83 7/8 inches)
Keith Farquhar
More Dream Material (spooning), 1993-2014
Aluminium street lights
950 cm (374 inches) each
Keith Farquhar
Untitled, 2013
Inkjet Hahnemuhle Canvas with UV Protection
91,5 × 61 cm (36 × 24 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Untitled, 2013
Inkjet Hahnemuhle Canvas with UV Protection
91,5 × 61 cm (36 × 24 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Cycling Shorts, 2012
bodypaint on live figure
Keith Farquhar
installation view Ken & Cady Noland
Piper Keys, London, 2013
Keith Farquhar
Ken & Cady Noland, 2013 (detail)
U.V. direct print on birch ply with cut holes, face-painted children
2 sheets, each 244 × 122 cm (96 1/16 × 48 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Woolmark 2, 2012
U.V. direct print on corrugated, galvanised steel
244 × 91 cm (96 1/16 × 35 13/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Boy, 2012
Oil-stick and photocopy on 180gm recycled paper
59 × 42 cm (23 1/4 × 16 9/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Boy, 2012
Oil-stick and photocopy on 180gm recycled paper
59 × 42 cm (23 1/4 × 16 9/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Jeans Pull, 2007
Photographic cardboard cutout
Keith Farquhar
House and garden, 2007
photographic cardboard cutout
137.5 × 195 × 25 cm (54 1/8 × 76 3/4 × 9 13/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Dirty Feet, 2007
photographic cardboard cutout
Keith Farquhar
Can i b a painting 2, 2005
Levi’s, North Face, Birkenstock, Plywood, computer
Keith Farquhar
Gore-texerotic, 2005
Jeans, Gore-tex jacket, hanger, MDF, Birkenstock sandals, laptop with DVD
dimensions variable
Keith Farquhar
Young Mum, 2005
cut gore-tex, hanger, aluminium foil
94 × 43 × 21 cm (37 × 16 15/16 × 8 1/4 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Neon Vaginas: Red, Yellow and Blue, 2005
neon
70 × 40 cm (27 9/16 × 15 3/4 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Neon Vaginas: Red, Yellow and Blue, 2005
neon
70 × 40 cm (27 9/16 × 15 3/4 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Trouble for Brand New Wood, 2004
MA1 Jacket, bleached jeans, socks, pasting tables, wood
244 × 183 × 183 cm (96 1/16 × 72 1/16 × 72 1/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
The Streets, 2003
Found clothing, paint and polythene on plywood with plexiglass.
113 × 83.5 × 15 cm (44 1/2 × 32 7/8 × 5 15/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
American Classic, 2003
Found clothing, acoustic guitar, Zippo lighter, on found hessian backboard.
150 × 60 × 12 cm (59 1/16 × 12 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Solo Skinhead, 2004
MA1 jacket, bleached jeans on plywood
2 parts – each 198 × 91 cm (77 15/16 × 35 13/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Peace, 2003
hoodies, other clothes, plexiglass
dimensions variable
Keith Farquhar
Gnasher, 2004
Glasgow Celtic football shirt fragment, Boxer shorts, nail-brush in plexi box
126 × 70 cm (49 5/8 × 27 9/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Fuck Arsenal, 2004
MA1 jackets, jeans, Arsenal football shirt season 2004/05, vinyl sticker on plywood
152 × 183 cm (59 13/16 × 72 1/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Let’s Destroy the Earth but Keep Humans, 2003
collage, marker pen
54,5 × 42 cm (21 7/16 × 16 9/16 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Integrity of Personality, 1998
acrylic stain on unprimed cotton duck,
152 × 228 cm (59 13/16 × 89 3/4 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Stigma, 1997
marker pen on gloss paint on canvas
Keith Farquhar
Phenomenology of Moral Experience, 1996
marker pen on gloss paint on canvas
213 × 121 cm (83 7/8 × 47 5/8 inches)
Keith Farquhar
The Plight of the Remedial Child, 1996
marker pen on gloss paint on canvas
Keith Farquhar
Changing Man’s Behaviour, 1996
marker pen on gloss paint on canvas
91 × 121 cm (35 13/16 × 47 5/8 inches)
Keith Farquhar
Mixed Ability Work in Comprehensive Schools, 1996
marker pen on gloss paint on canvas
Born 1969, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lives works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
EDUCATION
| 1996 | M.A. Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London |
| 1992 | Exchange to Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore |
| 1993 | Bachelor of Arts, Edinburgh College of Art |
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2020 | Neue Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany (forthcoming) |
| 2019 | Keith Farquhar, High Art, Paris, France |
| 2018 | HEADSPACE app, Cabinet, London, UK Near me Need Help, Edinburgh Leisure (Keith Farquhar with Tim Fraser), Celine Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland Lap Gods, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2017 | Ocean Terminal, Curfew, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2015 | Badly Primed Canvas, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2014 | Quantum Physics for Beginners, High Art, Paris, France |
| 2013 | Ken & Cady Noland, Piper Keys, London, UK Ocean Terminal, Leslie Fritz Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2012 | ABSTRACT PRINTINGS, New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland BOY, Hotel, London, UK |
| 2011 | Unpainted Nudes, Whitespace, Edinburgh, Scotland More Nudes in Colour, Glasgow, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 2010 | More Nudes in Colour, Southend. Focal Point Gallery, Southend-On-Sea, UK More Nudes in Colour, Studio Voltaire, London, Scotland |
| 2009 | Nudes in Colour, Hyperground, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2008 | In Domestos Chaos, Crescent Artspace, Scarborough, UK |
| 2007 | Keith Farquhar, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK K. Haring, H. Matisse – Works by Matisse and Keith Haring remade by Keith Farquhar, The Embassy, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2006 | Keith Farquhar, Round Room, The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2005 | Keith Farquhar with Mark Leckie, Inverleith House, Royal Botanical Garden, Edinburgh Nyehaus, New York, USA can I b a painting 2?, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | BRAND NEW WOOD, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK |
| 2003 | Roman Peace, Galerie Neu, Berlin Let’s Destroy the Earth but keep Humans and other drawings, Kjubh, Cologne A rites of Passage: From T-Shirts into Shirts, Galleria Laura Pecci, Milan (mit Craig Gibson) V-Necks versus Roundnecks, Unlimited, Art Basel 02 |
| 2002 | Blind Craft, Galerie Neu, Berlin doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 2001 | Mintview, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1998 | Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1996 | God’s Largest Creature, The Gallerette, London |
| 1994 | Dogs Left in Cars, Suzuki Motors, Edinburgh Aerial, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1993 | More Dream Material, Edinburgh College of Art |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2017 | Fleming Falloon, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium I’m Nobody, High Art, Paris, France Post Analog Painting, The Hole, New York, USA |
| 2016 | Finding Ling Ling’s Head, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium Grey (curated by Domenico De Chirico), Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy The Eternal Return of the Real, Forde, Geneva, Switzerland Cycling Shorts (as part of Manifesta), Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland Bahamas Bienalle, Detroit, USA |
| 2015 | Mirror Effect (organized with Kate Costello and Liz Craft), The Box, Los Angeles, USA Piper Keys, Space, London, UK Exhibition, Circa Projects at Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK |
| 2014 | Panda Sex (curated by Tom Morton), State of Concept, Athens, Greece Let’s Destroy the Earth but Keep Humans (curated by Matthew Richardson), Gregor Staiger, Zurich, Switzerland Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium Counterpoint, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland The crime was almost Perfect, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2013 | Holes in the Walls Early Works 1948-2013, Kunsthalle Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland Trouble Every Day (curated by Dmitry Komis), Vogt Gallery, New York, USA mass. en masse. mass medium., CGP London Cafe Gallery, London, UK The Day Before This Place, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 | Neue Alte Brücke and Real Fine Arts, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, France More Light, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark Privato, 16th Line Gallery, Rostov on Don, Russia |
| 2011 | Outrageous Fortune: artists remake the tarot (curated by Andrew Hunt), Hayward Touring/Focal Point Gallery Sticks and Stones (Keith Farquhar, Leo Gabin, John Kleckner, Ruairiadh O’Connell, Tanja Roscic), Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany Dystopia (written by Mark von Schlegell and curated by Alexis Vaillant), CAPC, Bordeaux, France X, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy |
| 2009 | Two Horizons. Works from the Collections of Charles Asprey & Alexander Schröder, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2007 | Pop goes the weasel!, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA Sculpural Exhibition, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany |
| 2006 | Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany Nach Schiele/After Schiele, Atelier Augarten, Vienna, Austria Dada’ s Boys, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland East International, Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art (curated by Jeremy Deller and Dirk Snauwaert) |
| 2005 | Showcase, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 2004 | Happy Days are Here Again, David Zwirner, New York, USA |
| 2003 | Prague Biennale, National Gallery / Veletvizni Palace, Prague, Czech Republic The Haunted Swing, The Collecive Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Independence, South London Gallery, London, UK nation, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Malerei II Ausstellung Nulldrei, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany Let’ s Destroy the Earth but Keep Humans, Kjubh, Cologne, Germany A Rites of Passage (From T-shirts into Shirts), Galeria Laura Pecci, Milan, Italy Milligan’ s Island, The International 3, Manchester, UK |
| 2002 | Transmission at Maschenmode, Berlin Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, China The Best Book about Pessimism I Ever Read, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany Ladies’ Rock, The Changing Room, Stirling, UK |
| 2001 | Panache, Flourish Studio, Glasgow, Scotland Deutsch–Britische Freundschaft, Maschenmode, Berlin, Germany Els Hanappe – Underground, Athens, Greece Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany Here and Now: Scottish Art 1990–2001, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Generator Projects, McManus Galleries and Peacock Visual Arts, Scotland The Soft Parade, Windows Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic |
| 2000 | Abstract Art, Delfina, London, UK The Crisis of Loyalty, Art and Idea, Mexico City, Mexico Die Gefahr Im Jazz, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, Berlin, Germany Nouveau Riche, The Approach, London, UK It may be a Year of Thirteen Moons but it’s Still the Year of Culture, Transmission Gallery,Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1999 | Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA Casey Kaplan (curated by Liam Gillick) , New York, USA Painting Lab, Entwistle Gallery, London, UK Shake the Disease, Duncan of Jordanstone, College of Art and Design, Dundee Heart and Soul, 60 Long Lane, Borough, London, UK The XX century–A century of art in Germany, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany Malerei, INIT Kunst-Halle, Berlin, Germany Whippet, Stichtung Duende Activiteiten, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1998 | Honkeytonk, The Kitchen, London, UK Printemps, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London, UK What’s in a Name, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK Canny, Archway, London, UK Surfacing, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK Nobody Helps Anybody, Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London, UK Cluster Bomb, London, UK |
| 1997 | Deutsch Britische Freundschaft, London, UK Multiple Choice, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK Sentimental Education, Cabinet Gallery, London, UK New Contemporaries ‘97, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK / Camden Arts Centre, London, UK / C.C.A., Glasgow, Scotland Gonzo, The Old Bethnal Green Police Station, London, UK |
| 1996 | How Many Women Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb, Campbells Occasionaly, Copenhagen, Denmark Update, Turbinenhallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark Dean Street Garage Sale, Dean Street, London, UK Dog-U-Mental, Bank |
| 1995 | Stoppage, Centre de Creation Contemporaine, Tours, France Nobby Stiles, 14 Vandy Street, London, UK |
| 1994 | Nu-Smell, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland |
| 1992 | Laxative, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
British Council Collection, London, UK
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
New Walk Museum, Leicester, UK
Keith Farquhar in Used Resources at Nuer Essener Kunstverein, Essen, Germany
28 February – 3 May 2020
Keith Farquar in HEADSPACE app at Cabinet, London, UK
1 – 29 September 2018
Keith Farquhar with Tim Fraser as Edimburgh Leisure in Near me Need Help at Celine Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
21 April – 20 May 2018
Ocean Terminal, Keith Farquhar at Curfew, Edinburgh, Scotland
18 – 27 August 2017
Keith Farquhar in I’m Nobody at High Art, Paris, France
12 May – 10 June 2017
Keith Farquhar in Post Analog Painting at The Hole, New York, USA
7 April – 14 May 2017
Performance of Cycling Shorts by Keith Farquhar as part of Manifesta 11 at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland
10 September 2016 at 9:30pm
Keith Farquhar in Grey at Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
13 January – 19 February 2016
Keith Farquhar in Mirror Effect (organized with Kate Costello and Liz Craft), The Box, Los Angeles, USA
23 May – 20 June 2015
Keith Farquhar in Piper Keys at Space, London, UK
8 – 22 February 2015
Keith Farquhar in Exhibition at Circa Projects, Gateshead, UK
9 January – 21 February 2015
Keith Farquhar in Panda Sex (curated by Tom Morton) at State of Concept, Athens, Greece
29 November 2014 – 17 January 2015
Keith Farquhar in Let’s Destroy the Earth but Keep Humans (curated by Matthew Richardson) at Gregor Staiger, Zurich, Switzerland
22 November – 20 December 2014
Keith Farquhar in Counterpoint at Talbot Rice Gallery as part of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
1 August – 18 October 2014
Nick Warner, ‘Keith Farquhar’, Frieze, October 2013
Skye Sherwin, ‘Artist of the week: Keith Farquhar’, The Guardian, October 2010
Tom Morton, ‘Keith Farquhar’, Frieze, March 2002
Dan Fox, ‘Keith Farquhar and Gary Web’, Frieze, November 2000
