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EXHIBITIONS & SITE-SPECIFIC COMMISSIONS

2024     Soho Farmhouse, Oxfordshire (8 paintings) 

2022     Soho House, Paris (8 paintings)

2018     Annabel's, London (20 paintings)  

2017     'Annie Kevans', The Fine Art Society, London, 3 - 25 October

2016     'Annie Kevans', Danziger Gallery, New York, 4 November - 13 January

2016     'Annie Kevans: Selected Portraits', Fine Art Society, Edinburgh, 14 July - 3 September

2014     'Women and the History of Art', Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco

2014     'Women and the History of Art', The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London

2014     'All About Eve', Fifty One Too, Antwerp

2010     'Manumission', Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York

2009     'Ship of Fools', The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London

2009     'All the Presidents' Girls', Volta, New York

2007     'Vamps & Innocents', Antonio Ferrara, Vienna

2007     'Swans', 319 Portobello Road, London

2006     'Girls', Studio 1.1, London

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

      

2024     'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy, London

2024     'This Person Does Not Exist', RNat5A, London
2024     'Begin', The View Gallery, Royal Wooton Bassett  

2023     'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy, London

2022     'The World of Frida' Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

2021     'The World of Frida', R.W. Norton Art Gallery, Shreveport, Louisiana

2021     'The World of Frida', International Museum of Art & Science, McAllen, Texas 

2021     'The World of Frida', Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, Alabama

2020     'The World of Frida', CA Center for the Arts, Escondido, California    

2020     'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy, London

2020     'The World of Frida', Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, California

2020     'The World of Frida', Museum of Arts & Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida

2019     'Store/Room', Studio 1.1, London, September

2019     'The World of Frida', Carlsbad Museum & Art Center, Carlsbad, New Mexico

2019     'Multicolour', Migrate Art, Cork Street Galleries, London

2018     'The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition' (250th anniversary), Royal Academy, London

2018     'The World of Frida', Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California

2017     'Love is Love by Jean Paul Gaultier', Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

2017     'Reportrait', Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham

2017     'The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy, London

2017     'Women Artists: Power and Presence', The Otter Gallery, Chichester

2017     'Women Artists - A Conversation', The Fine Art Society, London

2016     'Fifteen Minutes', Cornell Art Museum, Florida

2016     'The Collective', House of St Barnabas, London

2016     'ICON', Candida Stevens Fine Art, Chichester

2015     'Brussels, Dawn October 12, 1915', Studio 1.1, London

2015     'Abditory', Bo Lee Gallery, London

2015     'She Came To Stay', Rook & Raven, London

2015     'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier...', Le Grand Palais, Paris

2015     'Good Figures', Mall Galleries & the Jerwood Gridshell Space, Weald & Downland Open Air Museum, West Sussex

2015     'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier...', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2014     'The Unwritten', Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht

2014     'What Duchamp Taught Me', The Fine Art Society, London

2014     'The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk', Barbican Art Gallery, London

2014     'War and Trauma’, Museum Dr Guislain, Gent, Belgium

2014     'Politricks', Beursschouwburg, Brussels

2014     'Curiouser and Curiouser', Cecilia Brunson Projects, London

2013     'Paper’, Saatchi Gallery, London

2013     ‘The Future Can Wait, London

2013     ‘The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy, London

2013     House of the Nobleman, Bankside, London

2013     ‘A House of Many Windows’, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London

2012     'The Future Can Wait', Bloomsbury, London

2012     'This Is London’, Shizaru Gallery, London

2011     'Mindful', Old Vic Tunnels, London

2011     'I', Pertwee, Anderson & Gold, London

2011     'Among Flesh', Alison Jacques Gallery, London

2011     'Polemically Small', Torrance Art Museum, California, US

2009     'Creating Identity: Portraits Today', 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, US

2009     'The Future Can Wait', Old Truman Brewery, London

2009     'About Face’, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York

2008     'Awopbopaloobop', Transition Gallery, London

2008     'Remember My Name', Sartorial Contemporary Art, London

2008     'A Summer Show', Studio 1.1, London

2008     'Ist Das Ein Portrait?', Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, Germany 

2008     'The Painting Room', Transition Gallery, London

2007     'Hiram', Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2007     'ING Discerning Eye', Mall Galleries, London

2007     'New British Artists', Galerie Karin Sachs, Munich, Germany

2007     'New to DACS', The Kowalsky Gallery at DACS, London

2007     'Avatar of Sacred Discontent', Port Eliot Castle, UK

2007     'Portrait: a fictional narrative?', Clifford Chance, London

2007     'Salon 2007: New British Painting', 319 Portobello Rd, London

2007     'Winter Exhibition 2007', Contemporary Art Projects, London

2006     'The Portrait', Ashwin Street, London

2006     'Jerwood Drawing Prize', Touring group show

2006     'Beyond the Grave', Sartorial Contemporary Art, London

2006     'Absolute Democracy', Antonio Ferrara, Reggio Emilia, Italy

2005     'Geisterfahrer', Paintworks, Bristol, UK

2005     'Radar', The Empire Gallery, London

2004     'Future Map Visual Arts', Arts Gallery, Univ. of the Arts, London

2004     '-scopeCircle', -scope art fair, London

2004     'Young Gods', Clapham Art Gallery, London

2001     'VAMalgam', Victoria & Albert Museum, London

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1999 - 04  Central St Martins School of Art & Design, Fine Art, BA(Hons)

1997 - 99  Central St Martins School of Art & Design, Foundation

1997 - 99  City University, Museum & Gallery Management, MA

 

 

PANEL PARTICIPATION & PUBLIC TALKS

2023    'MarieClaire: Women in Art' - Little House Balham, 10 October

2018    'Bazaar Art Week - Where Are The Women Artists?' (panellist), Soho House, 5 October

2015    'The Importance of Women Artists in Today's Market' (panellist), Art15 London, May

2014    'Annie Kevans', Marres Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Netherlands, 15 November

2014    'Annie Kevans in conversation with Emma Acker (De Young Museum)', Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, 2 October

2014    Newsnight (live TV), BBC, 20 August

2014    'Artist Rooms: Louise Bourgeois Symposium' (panellist), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 4 September

2013    'Paper: Artist Conversation' (panellist), Saatchi Gallery, 25 July

 

 

COLLECTIONS

 

21c Museum, US

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, US

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

New Hall Art Collection, UK

Pallant House Gallery, UK

Jean Pigozzi Collection, US

David Roberts Collection, UK

Saatchi Collection, UK

Sender Collection, US

SONS Museum, Belgium

Tesco PLC, UK

Annabel's, UK

Groucho Club, UK

Soho House, UK & US

 



EXHIBITION CATALOGUES & BOOKS

2024     'This Person Does Not Exist', RNat5A Gallery, UK

2023     'My Husband' (front cover), Maud Ventura, Harper Collins, US

2019     'Irgendwann wird es gut' (front cover), Joey Goebel, Diogenes Publishing, Switzerland, Germany, Austria

2019     'Women Can’t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art', Dr Helen Gorrill, I.B. Tauris, UK

2018     'A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women)', Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists', Danielle Krysa, Running Press, US

2018     'Madam & Eve, Women Portraying Women', Liz Rideal & Kathleen Soriano, published by Laurence King Publishing, UK

2017     'Columbia. A Journal of Literature and Art' (front cover), Columbia University's School of the Arts, US

2016     'The Blue Line: A Novel' (front cover), Ingrid Betancourt, Penguin Press, US

2015     'Jean Paul Gaultier au Grand Palais', TM Loriot, N Bondil & JP Gaultier, published by Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Canada

2015     'The Groucho Club', published by the Groucho Club, UK

2015     'She Came to Stay', Rook & Raven Gallery, UK

2015     'And Painting? A pintura contemporanea em questao', Isabel Sabino, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, Portugal

2013     'Paper', Ben Street & Roxie Warder, Saatchi Gallery, UK

2013     '100 London Artists', Edward Lucie-Smith & Zavier Ellis, published by Elizabeth Beecher Publishing, UK

2011     'Don de Gentes' (front cover), Elvira Lindo, Santillana Ediciones Generales, S.L., Madrid, Spain

2011     'Peter Jensen &', by Peter Jensen, Gerard Wilson, Abake & Susannah Frankel, published by Dent-de-Leone, UK

2009     'Ship of Fools', The Fine Art Society, UK

2006     'The Jerwood Drawing Prize', printed by Wimbledon College of Art, UK

 

SELECTED PRESS (see Press section for details)

2024     Forbes, US, Lee Sharrock, 'Meet The Artists Working At The Intersection Of Art And Science', 25 October

2023     Marie-Claire, UK, Sofia Piza, 'Women, Representation and Art', October

2021     Famosa Magazine (France), Lucie Roth, 'Annie Kevans - Peintre de Tabous', September

2021     M Le Monde (France), Valentin Pérez, 'Hotel Très Particulier', 11 September

2021     Flow Magazine (France), Chris Muyeres, 'Mises en Lumière', July

2020     Harper's Bazaar (Korea), 'The Power of Creativity', October

2020     Harper's Bazaar (Japan), 'The Power of Creativity', September

2020     Harper's Bazaar (UK), 'The Power of Creativity', July

2019     Flow Magazine (the Netherlands), Chris Muyres, 'Terug in de Spotlights', September

2019     Harper's Bazaar, 'Bazaar Art Week: Where Are All The Women Artists?', Helena Lee, January

2018     Harper's Bazaar, 'Meet the women artists of Soho House', September

2018     The Jealous Curator, Danielle Krysa, Podcast interview, August

2017     Vogue (US), Dodie Kazanjian, 'Can You Define Beauty?', July

2017     Financial Times, Lily Le Brun, 'Women in conversation: three shows put female artists in dialogue', 17 February

2016     Vogue (US), Leslie Camhi, 'Face TIME', December

2016     Idol, Bianca Gerlach, 'Get Inspired by Artist Annie Kevans’ ‘Anti-Portraits’', 2 August

2016     AnOther, Madeleine Morley, 'The Fluid "Anti-Portraits" of Artist Annie Kevans', 18 July

2015     Huffington Post, Priscilla Frank, 'Women Artists from Multiple Generations Speak of...', 15 June

2015     Huffington Post, 'Mosaic of a Lady: 5 Super Femme Stories', Mia Kossiavelou, 6 March

2015     Tatler, 'Art for Sale', Josh Spero, March

2014     The Bay Area Reporter, Sura Wood, 'Provocative Women', 16 October

2014     The Daily Californian, Gillian Edevane, 'Annie Kevans exhibit empowers, rediscovers', 9 October

2014     Wall Street International, 'Annie Kevans. Women and the History of Art', 2 October

2014     San Francisco Chronicle, Julian Guthrie, 'Annie Kevans: Women and the History of Art', 1 October

2014     Fine Art Connoisseur,  Jeffrey Carlson, 'Portraying Women Artists & Re-Envisioning History', 25 September

2014     Newsnight (BBC TV), 20 August

2014     Newstalk Radio (Ireland), Orla Barry, 'The Green Room: Why Were Women Aibrushed out of Art History?', 31 May

2014     BBC Radio 5 Live, interview with Rhod Sharp, 21 May

2014     BBC World Service (radio), interview with James Menendez on 'Newshour', 20 May

2014     The Guardian, Nell Frizzell, 'Why were so many female artists airbrushed from history?', 19 May

2014     BBC Russia (radio), interview with Katerina Linnik, 19 May

2014     The Times, Rachel Campbell-Johnston, 'The Women Artists Painted Over by History', 14 May

2014     Port Magazine, 'Annie Kevans: Women and the History of Art', 12 May

2014     The Evening Standard, Louise Jury, 'Portraits at new Annie Kevans exhibition honour the art of motherhood', 12 May

2014     AnOther Magazine, Tish Wrigley, 'Annie Kevans: Women and the History of Art', 8 May

2014     Harper's Bazaar, Zoe Dickens, 'Q&A with Annie Kevans, The artist on her work for Jean Paul Gaultier', 10 April

2014     De Morgen (Belgium), Sofie Mulders, 'Net op tijd: expo over maitresses van de groten der aarde' ,18 January

2014     Mongoos Magazine, Gowri Balasegara, 'Annie Kevans: Up Close and Personal', 14 January

2013     De Volkskrant newspaper (the Netherlands), Olaf Tempelman, 'Idi Amin is eigenlijk een lieve schat', 21 December

2013     Port Magazine, Betty Wood, ‘Paper: Annie Kevans’, 25 July

2013     Glass Magazine, Nico Kos Earle, ‘Shadows of Their Former Selves’ 23 July

2013     Outlook India, Ali Khan Mahmudabad, ‘An Ideal of Innocence’, 18 July

2013     The Art Collector, ‘Artist Interview: Annie Kevans’, 4 July

2013     Blic (Serbia), Irena Hadziomerovic, ‘Zbirka portreta "Dečaci" prikazuje Miloševića, Karadžića i Hitlera...’, 29 June

2013     Running in Heels, Polly Allen, ‘Meet Annie Kevans’, 24 June

2013     BBC Russia, Katerina Arkharova, ‘’Paper’ at Saatchi Gallery in London’, 22 June

2013     The Globe and Mail (Canada), Leah McLaren, ‘What can we learn from the face of a dictator as a child?’, 21 June

2013     Huffington Post, ‘Young Dictator Portraits: Annie Kevans' Paintings Of Hitler, Mao And Mussolini’, 20 June

2013     The Guardian, Mark Brown, ‘Saatchi Gallery Hosts Display of Dictators in their Youth’, 17 June

2013     BBC London Radio, Robert Elms, ‘Interview with Annie Kevans’, 13 June

2013     Culture Compass, Lorna-Ann Marks, ‘Interview with Annie Kevans’, April

2012     Amuse, Polly Glass, ‘State of the Art’, October

2010     Beautiful Decay, Monroe, ‘Annie Kevans’, 8 August

2009     The Daily Beast, Olivia Cole, ‘When They Were Young’, 17 December

2009     Elle, Claire Sacre, ‘Preview / Exhibition of the Month: Annie Kevans’, December

2009     Independent, Alice Jones, ‘There’s More to these Faces than Meets the Eye’, 27 November

2009     Manner (Germany), ‘The President’s Boy’, June

2009     Evening Standard, Olivia Cole, ‘Six Young British Artists to Watch’, 17 July

2009     Stella (Sunday Telegraph Magazine), Nisha Lilia Diu, ‘All the Presidents’ Women’, 31 May

2009     Elle Girl (Korea), ‘Celebrity Canvas’, May

2009     Der Spiegel (Germany), ‘Matressen in Ol’, March

2009     The Art Newspaper (International), ‘Volta Scores with its Fresh Off-beat Art’, 6 March

2009     Garageland, Emma Talbot, ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll ‘N’ Art’, Issue 7 

2008     Time Out (London), Helen Sumpter, ‘In the Studio - Annie Kevans’, August

2007     Art Magazine, Goschka Gawlik, ‘Gesicht und Charakter’, 10 November 

2007     Harper's Bazaar, Derren Gilhooley, ‘Forty Under 40’, September

2007     Harper's Bazaar, Francesca Martin, ‘The Review’, July

2007     Saatchi Online, Laura K Jones, ‘Laura K Jones on Annie Kevans’, 12 June 

2007     Sunday Times, Richard Brooks, ‘Sorry, this isn’t the Portrait the Sheikh Expected’, 15 April

2006     New Woman, ‘The Brit Hit List’, July

2006     Daily Telegraph, Celia Walden, ‘Child Despots’, 19 May

2006     BBC London News, BBC1, Interview with Brenda Emmanus, 11 April

2006     De Morgen (Belgium), Nica Broucke, ‘Ontdekking van Saatchi....’, 5 April

2006     Independent, Terry Kirby, ‘Unknown Artist’s Exhibition Illustrates...’, 3 April

2006     Sunday Times, Richard Brooks and Olivia Cole, ‘Saatchi Scoops up New British Art’, 2 April

2005     Harper's & Queen, ‘Urges & Acquisitions’, November

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