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Ansel Krut

Born in Cape Town 1959
Lives and works in London

Education

  • 1986  Abbey Major Scholarship in Painting, British School at Rome
  • 1983 – 1986 MA Painting, Royal College of Art, London
  • 1982 – 1983 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
  • 1979 – 1982 BA Fine Art University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Solo Exhibitions

2010
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2008
  • Next, Chicago, USA with Domobaal gallery
2007
  • Ghost Of A Flea, Drawing Centre, London
2006
  • Hotel Vinegar, Domobaal, London
2004
  • Lie Still My Beating Heart, Domobaal, London
  • It Could Be Suicide …, Domobaal, London

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009
  • Voodoo, Hoochie-Coochie and the Creative Spirit, Riflemaker Exhibition, London
2008
  • Precious Things, curated by Graham Crowley, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
  • Lovely So Real, Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Gala Benefit, Chicago
  • Just World Order, curated by Peter Bonnell, Artsway, Hampshire
  • Songs Of Love And Hate, Ancient & Modern, London
2007
  • Crystal Ship, Farmlab, Los Angeles.
  • Gyre And Gimble: Ten Painters, Blyth Gallery, Imperial College, London
  • Oyster Grit, Domobaal, London
  • Creekside Open, Selected by Victoria Miro, APT Gallery, London
  • Central Line, PM Gallery & House, London
  • Drawing Breath: 10 Years Of The Jerwood Drawing Prize Award Winners, National Art School, Sydney, Australia, touring to Singapore, then UK (catalogue).
  • Inside The Picture Plane, Panel discussion at Camden Arts Centre during Laura Owens exhibition, with Vannesa Jackson & Danny Rolph, chaired by Sacha Craddock, London.
2006
  • The 12 Days Of Christmas, 39 Mitchell Street, London
  • Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Art on Paper Biennial Exhibition, curated by Xandra Eden, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
  • That’s What I Meant To Say, DK projects, New York
  • The Square Root Of Drawing, curated by Noel Kelly, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  • World Gone Mad, curated by Bob Matthews & JJ Charlesworth, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
  • Maybe A Duck … Maybe A Rabbit …, curated by Ansel Krut, Wimbledon College of Art, London
2005
  • Intropsective Men, curated by David Kefford, Madder 139, London
  • The Unseen Art Of William Burroughs, Riflemaker, London
  • Folklore, APT Gallery, London
  • Paper Beats Rock, Cherry de los Reyes Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London
  • Mostyn Open 15, selected by Tania Kovats and David Alston, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
  • The Hardest Thing To Draw Is A Kiss, curated by David Austen, The Gallery, Wimbledon School of Art, London
2004
  • John Moores 23, Liverpool
  • Jerwood Drawing Prize, London

Current Academic Appointments

 
  • Lecturer in Painting Royal College of Art, London
  • Artist-lecturer at The National Gallery, London
  • Drawing Fellow Wimbledon College of Art (2005 – 2007)

Publications

2009
  • Voodoo: Hoochie-Coochie and the Creative Spirit, exhibition catalogue, text by Julian Barnes and Marina Warner
2008
  • Just World Order, exhibition catalogue, published by Artsway, text by Peter Bonnell
2007
  • Ghost Of A Flea, exhibition catalogue, text by Ed Krczma
  • Oyster Grit, exhibition catalogue, text by Rebecca Geldard
  • Drawing Breath: 10 Years Of The Jerwood Drawing Prize Award Winners, exhibition catalogue
2006
  • Hotel Vinegar, exhibition catalogue, text by Martin Herbert and Miles Johnson
  • Art On Paper: Art on Paper Biennial Exhibition, exhibition catalogue
  • World Gone Mad, exhibition catalogue
  • Maybe A Duck … Maybe A Rabbit …, exhibition catalogue, text by Peter Suchin
2004
  • Lie Still My Beating Heart, exhibition catalogue, text by Rebecca Geldard
  • It Could Be Suicide …, exhibition publication full colour tabloid newspaper

Selected Bibliograhy

2009
  • The Primacy Of Drawing, by Professor Deanna Petherbridge, Yale University Press
2007
  • Krut, Ansel. Shadows, Transmission: The Rules Of Engagement 11, Daniel Gustav
  • Cramer, Florian Kempf & Philip Seidel, published by Artwords Press
  • Krut, Ansel. Turpsbanana, issue 3, centrefold painting
2006
  • The Drawing Book, edited by Tania Kovats, published by Black Dog, London
2004
  • Time Out, review by Rebecca Geldard, published 31st March
  • Metro Life, Evening Standard, published 13th April
  • The Art Newspaper, published March
  • What’s On In London, March 04
  • Hubbard, Sue. review, The Independent, published 23rdMarch
  • Russell Taylor, John. The Times, Representational Art in back in the Home of the Avant-Garde, published 23rd June
  • Herbert, Martin. review, Modern Painters, Autumn issue
  • Weiner, Julia. review, The Jewish Chronicle, published 25th June