Ellis Parrinder
Whitney McVeigh
Artist / Writer
Whitney McVeigh (b. 1968, New York) lives and works in London where she is a Fellow in Creative Practice at University of the Arts.
Recent solo exhibitions include Elegy to Nature at Eykyn Maclean, Language of Memory at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh (2015-16) and Inventory: Invisible Companion at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2015).
Group projects include Plato in LA: Contemporary Artists’ Visions at Getty Museum (Villa), Los Angeles, Not a single story, Wanas Konst, Sweden and Nirox Sculpture Park, South Africa (2018), and Glass Stress, White Light White Heat at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013).
McVeigh presented the short film Birth: Origins at the End of Life at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2015). She was featured in BBC4 television documentary, Where is Modern Art Now alongside Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Michael Landy and Sir Anthony Caro (2009) and in 2007 gave a short presentation of her work at Louise Bourgeois’s Salon in New York.
McVeigh will guest-curate Documentum, co-founded by Stephen Shore, William Boling and Dawn Kim, a periodical archiving and examining the cultural ephemera of our time.
Whitney McVeigh
Artist / Writer
Whitney McVeigh (b. 1968, New York) lives and works in London where she is a Fellow in Creative Practice at University of the Arts.
Recent solo exhibitions include Elegy to Nature at Eykyn Maclean, Language of Memory at Summerhall Arts, Edinburgh (2015-16) and Inventory: Invisible Companion at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2015).
Group projects include Plato in LA: Contemporary Artists’ Visions at Getty Museum (Villa), Los Angeles, Not a single story, Wanas Konst, Sweden and Nirox Sculpture Park, South Africa (2018), and Glass Stress, White Light White Heat at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013).
McVeigh presented the short film Birth: Origins at the End of Life at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2015). She was featured in BBC4 television documentary, Where is Modern Art Now alongside Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Michael Landy and Sir Anthony Caro (2009) and in 2007 gave a short presentation of her work at Louise Bourgeois’s Salon in New York.
McVeigh will guest-curate Documentum, co-founded by Stephen Shore, William Boling and Dawn Kim, a periodical archiving and examining the cultural ephemera of our time.
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Impressions of a Lived TimeDec 8, 2022 – Apr 16, 2023The exhibition is part of a comprehensive research on lesser-known painting and graphic works in Ștefan Câlția’s creative process. (more…)
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Vinca Petersen: Me, Us and DogsNov 3 – Dec 16, 2023Edel Assanti is pleased to present Vinca Petersen’s second solo exhibition at the gallery, Me, Us and Dogs, concurrent with the artist’s inclusion in two inaugural displays on view in London at the V&A Photography Centre and the recently reopened National Portrait Gallery. (more…)
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Good Morning, America / Vol. 1PublicationOver the past six years, photographer Mark Power has travelled across the US to create a complex visual narrative of a country in the midst of change. This new book, Good Morning, America (Volume One), represents a personal and timely exploration of both the American cultural and physical landscape (more…)
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TransmissionAug 31 – Dec 3, 2023Here is a radio tower standing tall, which looks like a monument soaring up with some revolutionary force. This is Paik’s Transmission Tower. Shown only at the Rockefeller Center, New York in 2002 and at the Sydney Opera House in 2004, it found its permanent home at Nam June Paik Art Center. (more…)
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Gego. Measuring InfinityJul 11, 2023 – Apr 2, 2024The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Gego. Measuring Infinity, a major retrospective offering a fully integrated view of the work by German-Venezuelan artist Gertrud Goldschmidt (b. 1912, Hamburg; d. 1994, Caracas), also known as Gego, and her distinctive approach to the language of abstraction. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the exhibition examines the artist’s formal and conceptual contributions through her organic forms, linear structures, and modular abstractions. (more…)
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Ai Weiwei: know thyselfSep 14, 2023 – Mar 30, 2024neugerriemschneider is pleased to present know thyself, Ai Weiwei’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Opening at our Christinenstrasse location to coincide with Berlin Art Week and the fall edition of Gallery Weekend Berlin, Ai here continues his extended engagement with imagery created from Lego bricks to reassess, de- and reconstruct or contextualize anew works from throughout art history and the contemporary media landscape. (more…)
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The American Document / Part IIFractured States / Peter van AgtmaelAfter returning from years of war coverage, Peter van Agtmael tries to piece together the memory, identity, race, class, and family, in a landscape which has become as surreal as the war he left behind. (more…)
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Allan SekulaPHOTOGRAPHER / FILMMAKERAllan Sekula was an American photographer, writer, critic and filmmaker. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania in 1951, he lived most of his life in Los Angeles and the surrounding regions of southern California. (more…)
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Sarah Lucas. Happy GasSep 28, 2023 – Jan 14, 2024A British artist’s brash and tender exploration of what makes us human. Sarah Lucas is internationally celebrated for her bold and provocative use of materials and imagery. Using ordinary objects in unexpected ways, she has consistently challenged our understanding of sex, class and gender over the last four decades. (more…)
