About Clay Ketter

The artist Clay Ketter is one of Sweden’s greatest US imports. He was born in 1961 in Connecticut and studied in New York, but has been living on the plains of Scania in southern Sweden for more than 20 years now.

It was in Sweden he had his breakthrough in the mid-90s, with Wall Paintings, a sort of ready-made created with gypsum wallboards, with tape and spackle. Before then, he had worked as a carpenter and craftsman. His international career took off and he is currently featured with a solo exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

(* catalogue)
2009
Sonnabend Gallery, New York [US]

2008
Coastal, Brandstrom Stockholm, Stockholm [SE]*
Bartha Contemporary, London [GB]*

2007
Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö [SE]
Sonnabend Gallery, New York [US]

2006
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris [FR]

2005
Galleri Brändström & Stene, Stockholm [SE]
Corner Bender I (with B&K+), Box 2.0, Copenhagen [DK]
Sonnabend Gallery, New York [US]

2004
Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö [SE]
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg [DE]
Galleri Specta, Copenhagen [DK]

2003

Niels Borch Jensen Verlag und Druck, Berlin [DE]

2002
Sonnabend Gallery, New York [US]
Lunds Konsthall, Lund [SE]*
Moderna Museet (with Lars-Johan Claesson), Stockholm [SE]
Galleri Specta, Copenhagen [DK]
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris [FR]
Galleri Stefan Andersson, Umeå [SE]

2001
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm [SE]
No Limits Gallery, Milano [IT]
Galleri Magnus Åklundh, Malmö [SE]
Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg [DE]
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris [FR]

2000
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California [US]
Galleri Specta, Copenhagen [DK]

1999
Sonnabend Gallery, New York [US]
Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm [SE]

1997
C/O – Atle Gerhardsen, Oslo [NO]

1996
White Cube, Jay Jopling, London [GB]
Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothenburg [SE]
Art is what happens to us while we’re busy making other art, Krognoshuset, Lund [SE]
Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm [SE]

1995
Art Cologne (Galleri Andreas Brändström), Cologne [DE]
BVDG International Sponsorship Programme*
Room 512, Stockholm Art Hotel, Lydmar Hotel (Galleri Andreas Brändström), Stockholm [SE]

1994
Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm [SE]
Forumgalleriet, Malmö [SE]

1993
Galleri Mors Mössa, Gothenburg [SE]

1992
Pictura, Lund [SE]

Public Collections

Arken, Ishøj [DK]
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst/Museum of Modern Art, Oslo [NO]
Bonnierföretagen, Stockholm [SE]
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg [SE]
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago [US]
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland [US]
European Investment Bank, Luxembourg [LU]
Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg [DE]
Museum moderner Kunst, Frankfurt [DE]
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg [SE]
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Washington [US]
High Museum of Art, Weiland Family Collection, Atlanta [US]
Jumex Collection, Mexico City [MX]
Källemo/Sven Lundh, Värnamo [SE]
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk [DK]
Museum moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna [AT]
Løvbjergs Almene Fonds Samling [DK]
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö [SE]
Moderna Museet, Stockholm [SE]
Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne Métropole [FR]
Saatchi Collection, London [GB]
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego [US]
Skissernas Museum, Lund [SE]
Sonnabend Collection, New York [US]
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala [SE]
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis [US]

Permanent Installations

Foyer, Norrlandsoperan, Umeå [SE]

Awards

Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfond (Swedish Endowment for the Visual Arts), 1991, 1995, 1996, 1998–99, 2001–02, 2004–09
Carnegie Art Award for Nordic Painting, 1999
Lunds Konsthalls Vänner, 1997
Ellen Trotzig-stipendiet, 1997