JOHN KEANE

1954 Born Hertfordshire

1972-76 Camberwell School of Art

2000- Visiting Professor, University of the Arts, London

2000- Visiting Research Fellow, Camberwell College of Arts

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1980 Peking, Moscow, Milton Keynes, Minsky’s Gallery, London

1982 Some of it Works on Paper, Centre 181, London

1984 War Efforts, Pentonville Gallery, London

1985 Conspiracy Theories, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Perspective 1985, Basel Art Fair, Switzerland

1986 Work Ethics, Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1988 Bee-Keeping in the War Zone, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Against the Wall, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Greater Manchester
The Accident, commissioned painting and screenprint for Greenpeace,
Flowers East, London

1989 Divided States, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
Forum, Hamburg, Germany

1990 The Other Cheek?, Flowers East, London

1991 Cloth Caps and Hang Gliding, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
London
The Other Cheek?, Arts Council Gallery, Belfast
Before The War, Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow

1992 Gulf, Imperial War Museum, London; Northern Centre for
Contemporary Art, Sunderland; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Tullie House,
Carlisle; Aberdeen Art Gallery, Aberdeen
Fairy Tales of London, Lannon Cole Gallery, Chicago
Burden of Paradise, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Not the Gulf, Watermans Art Centre, London

1993 The Struggle for Control of the Television Station, Flowers East, London;Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York
Gulf, Norton Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

1994 The Struggle for Control of the Television Station, Galerie Leuenberger, Zurich
Five and a Half Years of Screenprints, Flowers Graphics, London
Fear of God, Riverside Studios, London

1995 Works on Paper, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Graham Greene and the Jungle of Human Dilemma, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1997 Truth, Lies & Super-8, Flowers East at London Fields, London
John Keane, Wellington College
John Keane A Painter in Focus, Wolverhampton Art Gallery
Truth, Lies & Super-8: The Polyprints, Riverside Studios, London
John Keane A Painter in Focus, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Conflicts of Interest, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne

1999 Trading Flaws and Sporting Mistakes, Flowers West, Santa Monica

2000 Prints and Monoprints, Flowers Graphics
Making a Killing, Flowers East at London Fields
Gwenda Jay Addington Gallery, Chicago

2001 Saving the Bloody Planet, Flowers East, London

2002 Saving the Bloody Planet, Flowers West, Santa Monica
Recent Events, Flowers Central, London

2003 Events, Galerie Behemot, Prague

2004 The Inconvenience of History, London Institute Gallery, London;The Naughton
Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast; Greenbelt Festival; Derby Museum and Art
Gallery; Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Back To Fundamentals, Flowers East, London; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston upon Hull

2006 Fifty Seven Hours in the House of Culture, Flowers East, London.
Andrei Sakharov Museum, Moscow
Guantanamerica, Flowers, New York

2008 Angola, Flowers Central, London

2009 Intelligent Design, more paintings about war and religion, Flowers, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1983-84, 87 Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1983 Tolly Cobbold, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and nationwide tour
Art for Schools, Wells Centre, Norfolk

1983-84 Leicestershire Exhibition for Schools
TWSA National Touring Exhibition

1985 Contemporary Art Society Market, 5 Dials Gallery, London

1986 Artists Against Apartheid, Royal Festival Hall, London
Sixteen, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Anti-thesis, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Royal Overseas League, London
Critic’s Space, selected by Fenella Crichton, Air Gallery, London
Small is Beautiful Part 4: Angela Flowers Gallery, London

1987 Southbank Picture Show, (prizewinner), Royal Festival Hall, London Athena Art Awards, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Art after Hours, Limelight Club, London
Self-Portrait, Artsite Gallery, Bath
Process and Product, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Greater Manchester
Critical Realism, Castle Museum, Nottingham, touring exhibition
State of the Nation, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
Heroes, Air Gallery, London
Art for the City, Lloyds Building, London
Which side of the fence?, Imperial War Museum, London
Small is Beautiful: Part 5, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
The Big Fight, Vanessa Devereux Gallery, London
The Other Landscape, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

1988 New British Painting, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnatti, Ohio, touring exhibition
The Print Show, Angela Flowers Gallery, London
Contemporary Portrait, London
Royal Overseas League, London
Wall to Wall Print Show, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London
Nutidkunst, Silkesborg Kunstmuseum, Copenhagen

1989 Big Paintings, Flowers East, London
Falklands Factor, Manchester City Art Gallery and touring exhibition
Leicestershire Schools Exhibition
Confrontation - Three British Artists, Joy Emery Gallery, Michigan, USA
Fourth International Young Artists Competition, Union of Fine Artists, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Thatcher Years: An Artistic Retrospective, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Portfolio Two, Curwen Gallery, London

1990 Flowers at Moos, Gallery Moos, New York
Real Life Stories, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Where There is Discord, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough
Angela Flowers Gallery 1990, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London

1991 Angela Flowers Gallery 1991, Flowers East, London
Inaugural Exhibition, Lannon Cole Gallery, Chicago

1992 Artist’s Choice, Flowers East, London

1993 But Big is Better, Flowers East, London
John Moores 18, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
New Figurative Painting, Salander O’Reilly/Fred Hoffman Galleries, Los Angeles
Small is Beautiful: Part 9, Flowers East, London

1993-95 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London

1994 Reflections of Conflict by 16 British and Irish Artists, Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums
An American Passion, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow

1995 Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1996 Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London
Small is Beautiful Part XIV: Sex, Flowers East at London Fields, London
The Print Show 1996, Flowers Graphics, London

1997 John Keane and Peter Howson, Galerie Piltzer, Paris
Prints, Riverside Studios, London
British Figurative Art, Part One: Painting, Flowers East, London
After the War was Over, Angela Flowers Gallery (Ireland) Inc., Co. Cork
The Body Politic, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
Small is Beautiful Part XV: Death, Flowers East at London Fields, London

1998 Corps Ville Societe, La Glaciere, Brussels

2000 The Times of Our Lives: Endings, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
Milton Keynes Hospital
Sporting Pictures at the Virgin Lounge
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers West
Small is Beautiful: Self Portrait, Flowers East at London Fields, London
Flowers Three, Flowers Central, London

2001 Small is Beautiful XIX, Still Life, Flowers East, London
32 Years of Angela Flowers Gallery

2002 Small is Beautiful XX, Voyage, Flowers East, London

2003 Postindustrial Landscape, Museum of Fine Art, Prague
John Keane & Peter Howson, Rivington Gallery
Small is Beautiful XXI, War & Peace, Flowers Central, London

2004 Pax Britannica, The Aquarium Gallery, London
Small Is Beautiful XXII _ Here and Now, Fl;owers Central, London
Six Real Painters, Flowers Central, London

2005 35th Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London
Paintings from the 90s, Flowers Central,London
Flowers West at Keller and Greene, Los Angeles
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, London

2006 Icons and Idols, National Portrait Gallery, London
Heads, Flowers East, London
Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
Occupied Space , Art for Palestine, Gallery 27, London

2007 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition,
Beyond the Narrative, PM Gallery, London
Conflict, 20-21 Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
Children in Conflict, Woverhampton City Art Gallery and touring till 2009

2008 Children in Conflict, Drumcroon Art Gallery,
Wigan, Aberdeen Art Gallery

2009 Children in Conflict, Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry

SELECTED RESIDENCIES AND COMMISSIONS

1985-86 Artist in Residence, Whitefield School, London
1988 Commissioned exhibition about Ollerton Mining Community, by Nottinghamshire County Council
1991 Official British War Artist, Gulf War
1998 Commissioned painting for The Lowry Centre Trust
2000/01 Artist in Residence, Independent on Sunday
2000 Project with Greenpeace UK in the Amazon rain forest
2001 Portrait of Mo Mowlam for the National Portrait gallery
2002 Project with Christiian Aid in Israel and the Occupied Territories
2005 Portrait of Sir Bill Morris for the National Portrait Gallery
2006 Portrait of Greg Dyke for the BBC
2006 Project with Christian Aid in Angola
2006- Project with the National Theatre and ENO to create an opera about the
Moscow theatre siege

2009 Portrait of John Snow for Channel Four

2010 Portrait of Kofi Annan for the United Nations

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aberdeen Art Gallery
Arthur Anderson & Co.
Arts and Museum Section of Cleveland County Library and Leisure Department
BBC
British Coal
Chase Manhattan Bank, NA
Christie’s Corporate Collection
Contemporary Art Society
Dain Rauscher Inc, USA
Detroit Institute of Fine Art, USA
Deutsche Bank
The Economist
The Financial Times
Glasgow Museums: Gallery of Modern Art
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
Hill Samuel Investment Services Group
Hull City Museums, Art Galleries and Archives
Leicestershire County Council
London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
The National Army Museum
National Portrait Gallery
National Power
Paintings in Hospitals
Rugby Museum
Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London
Unilever
Ulster Museum
University College of Wales, Aberystwyth
Wolverhampton Museum and Art Gallery

Warwick University