Shelagh Keeley Explained

Birth Place:Oakville, Ontario
Nationality:Canadian
Alma Mater:York University BFA (1977)
Known For:drawings and immersive installations

Shelagh Keeley (born 1954) is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist. She is best known for her drawings and immersive installations, but her practice also includes photography, film, collaborative performances, and artist's books.[1]

Life

Keeley was born in Oakville, Ontario and graduated with an Honours BFA in Art History / Anthropology from York University, Toronto, in 1977.[2] After spending 23 years in New York City and Paris, Keeley is now based in Toronto.

Work

Keely has exhibited in Canada and internationally since the 1980s.[3] Her work has a sustained engagement with the theme of global labour, including a permanent steel installation inscribed with workers' slogans in the Jindal steel factory in Mumbai (2005), and a site-specific installation in the tea pavilion in Cao Yang Park, Shanghai, the site of a workers' housing project (2009). Her recent production includes a commission by The Power Plant, Toronto, to create a new installation for the venue's large clerestory walls (2014/15)[4] and by MoMA, Library and Archives, NYC, for a new research / performance with choreographer Lin Snelling (2014/15).[5]

In 2010, the Robert McLaughlin Gallery and the McMaster University Museum of Art co-produced a 25-year retrospective of Keeley's work that also travelled to the Confederation Centre Art Gallery in Charlottetown, PEI, and the Dunlop Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan.[6] [7] [8]

Awards

Keeley was the recipient of a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2017.[9]

Collections

Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, the Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, the Vancouver Art Gallery,[10] the Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[11]

Select Exhibitions and Performances

Notes and References

  1. Web site: An Interview with Shelagh Keeley. www.gallery.ca. en. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190308080802/https://www.gallery.ca/magazine/artists/an-interview-with-shelagh-keeley. 2019-03-08. live.
  2. Web site: Shelagh Keeley. Circuit Gallery. en-US. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307112348/http://www.circuitgallery.com/artists/shelagh-keeley/. 2019-03-07. live.
  3. Web site: CCCA Artist Profile for Shelagh Keeley. ccca.concordia.ca. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307112347/http://ccca.concordia.ca/artists/artist_info.html?link_id=1188. 2019-03-07. live.
  4. Web site: The Power Plant - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre. www.thepowerplant.org. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20181014091329/http://www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2014/Fall/Shelagh-Keeley--Notes-on-Obsolescence.aspx. 2018-10-14. live.
  5. Web site: Video Vtape. www.vtape.org. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173842/http://www.vtape.org/video?vi=8593. 2019-03-07. live.
  6. Book: Keeley, Shelagh. Shelagh Keeley. Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton. 2010. 9781926589039. Oshawa, Hamilton.
  7. Web site: Past Archive. MMA. McMaster Museum of Art. en-CA. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173848/https://museum.mcmaster.ca/exhibitions/past-archive/. 2019-03-07. live.
  8. Web site: - Events - Shelagh Keeley Exhibition reception September 16 @ McMaster Museum of Art. www.akimbo.ca. en-us. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173755/http://www.akimbo.ca/20312. 2019-03-07. live.
  9. Web site: GGArts Winner Archives. Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts. en. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173746/https://ggavma.canadacouncil.ca/the-awards/past-winners. 2019-03-07. live.
  10. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery . 2019-05-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190419024511/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/collection_and_research/2014_acquisitions.html . 2019-04-19 . live .
  11. Web site: Shelagh Keeley. Circuit Gallery. en-US. 2019-03-06. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307112348/http://www.circuitgallery.com/artists/shelagh-keeley/. 2019-03-07. live.
  12. Web site: Shelagh Keeley Exhibitions 2020. Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada. en-US. 2020-03-05.
  13. Web site: Through the Memory Atlas: 40 Years of Collecting. Gallery. Kamloops Art. Kamloops Art Gallery. en. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307113607/https://kag.bc.ca/?p=0&action=exhibitions&subaction=view&ID=915. 2019-03-07. live.
  14. Web site: Vancouver Art Gallery. www.vanartgallery.bc.ca. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190129095903/https://www.vanartgallery.bc.ca/the_exhibitions/exhibit_persistence.html. 2019-01-29. live.
  15. Web site: 2017 Canadian Biennial. www.gallery.ca. en. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190322154302/https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/canadian-biennial-2017. 2019-03-22. live.
  16. Web site: UTOPIA FACTORY. Contemporary Calgary. en-US. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307112310/https://www.contemporarycalgary.com/whats-on/2017/3/16/utopia-factory. 2019-03-07. live.
  17. Web site: The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding. en.museuberardo.pt. en. 2019-03-07.
  18. Web site: The Power Plant - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre. www.thepowerplant.org. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20181216122853/http://www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2015/Winter-Spring/The-Unfinished-Conversation--Encoding-Decoding.aspx. 2018-12-16. live.
  19. Web site: Border Cultures: Part 3 (security, surveillance). Windsor Art Gallery. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173844/https://www.agw.ca/exhibitions/current/404. 2019-03-07. live.
  20. Web site: The Power Plant - Exhibitions – The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery – Harbourfront Centre. www.thepowerplant.org. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20181014091329/http://www.thepowerplant.org/Exhibitions/2014/Fall/Shelagh-Keeley--Notes-on-Obsolescence.aspx. 2018-10-14. live.
  21. Web site: Here and There: Photography and Video Works on Immigration Ryerson Image Centre. ryersonimagecentre.ca. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173739/https://ryersonimagecentre.ca/exhibition/here-and-there-photography-and-video-works-on-immigration/. 2019-03-07. live.
  22. Web site: Construction Sites: Identity and Place. Gallery. Kamloops Art. Kamloops Art Gallery. en. 2020-03-05.
  23. Web site: Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada – Shelagh Keeley: An Encyclopedia of Memory and Slowness. en-US. 2019-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190307173851/https://museumofcontemporaryart.ca/exhibition/shelagh-keeley-an-encyclopedia-of-memory-and-slowness/. 2019-03-07. live.

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