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Keith Coventry

born 1958

Beach at Nice V 2005
© Keith Coventry

Biography

Keith Coventry is a British artist and curator. In September 2010 his Spectrum Jesus painting won the £25,000 John Moores Painting Prize.

Keith Coventry was born in Burnley in 1958 and lives and works in London. He attended Brighton Polytechnic 1978–1981 and Chelsea School of Art London 1981–1982. He was featured in the seminal exhibition Sensation at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1997 and in 2006, he received a mid-career retrospective at Glasgow's Tramway (Art Centre). He was also a co-founder and curator of City Racing, an influential not-for-profit gallery in Kennington, South London from 1988 to 1998.

His work has been exhibited widely in the UK and Europe and is included in collections worldwide, including the British Council; ºÚÁÏÉç; Arts Council of England; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis;, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In 2010 Coventry was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize.

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  • Burgess Park SE5, Planted 1983, Destroyed 1988

    Keith Coventry
    1994
  • Queens Road SE15, Planted 1988, Destroyed 1992

    Keith Coventry
    1994
  • East Street Estate

    Keith Coventry
    1994
  • Heygate Estate

    Keith Coventry
    1995
  • White Abstract (Coldstream Guard)

    Keith Coventry
    1994
  • White Abstract (Investiture of Cecil Beaton)

    Keith Coventry
    1995
  • Black Crack Pipes

    Keith Coventry
    1999
  • Nude in the Studio

    Keith Coventry
    2004
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