CURRENT EXHIBITION
A Step and a Boat Among Changing Forms, curated by Anna Kiff
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BD
3 September 2024 - 2 March 2025
A solo exhibition of prints by Ken Kiff RA in the Belle Shenkman Room at the Keeper's House. The earliest print in this show is a woodcut made in his studio at home in 1981, while the later works include a complex drypoint from his National Gallery residency in 1993. His visual poetry interacts with the materiality of the medium to striking effect.
The exhibition is in a Member's room, non members can visit by asking at the desk in the main entrance.
Opening times Tue - Sun 10am - 6pm, Fri 9pm
FORTHCOMING Exhibitions
Ken Kiff: A Hundred Suns, curated by Alistair Hicks
Three Highgate
3 Highgate High Street, London, N6 5JR
2 October 2024 - 5 January 2025
This solo exhibition reflects Alistair Hicks interest in the work of Ken Kiff and poetry which led to this exhibition of paintings, drawings and prints. Inspired by a painting by Kiff of the 20th C poet Mayakovsky, the exhibition includes loans from a private collection and the Estate around themes of the sun, the journey and the poet.
Shearsman Books will publish a book of poetry, with essay by Alistair Hicks illustrated with works by Ken Kiff.
Opening times Thu + Sat 2-6pm, Sun 12-4pm
Drawing the Unspeakable, curated by David and Liza Dimbleby
Towner Eastbourne
Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ
5 October 2024 - 27 April 2025
This group show curated by the broadcaster David Dimbleby and his daughter, the artist and writer Liza Dimbleby, explores the universal language of drawing – a medium that has long been recognised as a powerful tool for expressing the inexpressible.
Featuring over 200 works, including 13 works on paper by Kiff, Drawing the Unspeakable is an in-depth exploration of human experience through art.
Opening times Tue - Sun 10am-5pm
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue, curated by Kathy Battista
Albertz Benda
515 West 26th St
New York, NY 10001
July 13 - August 11, 2023
This exhibition presents works in various media, alongside new works by contemporary artists who live and work in the US. The title speaks to Kiff's fascination with creatures – human, animal and mythological – that inhabit his visionary, expressive paintings.KATE BARBEE | SARAH BEDFORD | COADY BROWN | KIM DINGLE |
KEN GUN MIN | JOSHUA PETKER | KATHY RUTTENBERG |
HIBA SCHAHBAZ | ELIF URAS | JESSICA WESTHAFER
The Moth and the Thunderclap, curated by Simon Grant
Modern Art
4-8 Helmet Row, EC1
4 February - 18 March 2023
A group exhibition featuring over 40 artists. Taking its title from a painting by the celebrated American artist Charles Burchfield, The Moth and The Thunderclap aims to show how artists have been compelled to reflect an indeterminate psychological space where nature and culture collide, often filtered through their experience of landscape.
Ken Kiff: Man, Bird and Tree
Carl Freedman Gallery
28 Union Crescent, Margate, CT9
20 November 2022 to 5 February 2023
A major solo exhibition. Kiff remains an artist of fascination with many admirers including a new generation of figurative painters. His paintings and drawings, created in a wide variety of media, are characterised by mythical landscapes and fantastic flights of the imagination, all painted in radiant saturated colours. At the heart of almost every work is a confrontation between people, animals and monsters that leaves at least one of the protagonists wide-eyed or open-mouthed. We are meant to be both bewildered and enchanted.
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