Keith Piper screenings & exhibitions

Screenings and Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1984

Past Imperfect, Future Tense The Black Art Gallery, London, England

1987

Adventures Close To Home, Pentonville Gallery, London, England
Another Empire State, Battersea Arts Centre, London, England

1988

Chanting Heads, Mobile Sculpture, Various sites across the UK

1989

Father I have done questionable things, Bedford Hill Gallery, London, England

1990

The Devil Finds Work, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1991

Portrait of a Shopping Center as a Cathedral, Dalston Cross Shopping Centre, London, England
A Ship Called Jesus, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Step Into The Arena, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale, England
A Ship Called Jesus, Camden Arts Centre, London, England

1992

Tradewinds, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, England
Front Het Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland

1993

Exotic Signs, Gallery Theesalon, Arnhem, Holland

1995

Reckless Eyeballing, Bonnington Gallery, Nottingham, England

1997

Relocating The Remains, Royal College Of Art, London, England
Western Passage, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, USA

1998

Four Frontiers, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England
Keith Piper, Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Relocating The Remains, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
The Exploded City, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland

1999

Relocating The Remains, The New Museum, New York, USA

2001

Machine, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
Another Arena, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland
The Mechanoid's Bloodline, Rigina Gouger Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA

2004

Crusade, Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis, USA

2007

The Abolitionist's Parlour, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England
The Perfect City, PM Gallery and House, London, England

Selected Group Exhibitions

1981

Black Art & Done, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, England

1982

The Pan-Afrikan Connection, The Africa Centre, London, England

1983

The Pan-Afrikan Connection, The Midland Group, Nottingham, England

1984

Black Art Now, The Black Art Gallery, London, England
Into The Open, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England

1985

New Horizons, G.L.C Royal Festival Hall, London, England

1986

New Contemporaries I.C.A, London, England
From Two Worlds, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England

1987

State Of The Nation, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, England
Art History, The Hayward Gallery, London, England

1988

Essential Black Art, Chisenhale Gallery, London, England

1989

Tercera Bienal De La Habana`89, Havana, Cuba
The Other Story Hayward Gallery, London, England

1991

Interogating Identity Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA
Interrogating Identity, Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Tercera Bienal De La Habana `91, Havana, Cuba
Photovideo, The Photographers Gallery, London, England
Interrogating Identity, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis, USA

1992

Force Site Schloss Presteneck, Neuenstadt, Germany
Trophies Of EmpireArnolfini, Bristol, England

1993

Interrogating Identity, Duke University Museum Of Art, North Carolina, USA
British Artists Of The 90's Videofest 93, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
Iterations, International Center Of Photography, New York, USA

1994

Down Town Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam, Holland
Quinta Bienal De La Habana, Havana, Cuba
Cocido Y Crudo, Museo Nacional Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

1995

The Masculine Masquerade, Mit List, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Video Positive, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England
Flowerfield & Reckless Eyeballing, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England
Boxer, Walsall Museum & Art Gallery, Walsall, England

1996

Perception & Perspective National Gallery Of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
New Histories, Institute Of Contemporary Arts, Boston, USA

1997

Translocations, Photographers Gallery, London, England
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes, Ottowa Art Gallery, Ottowa, Canada
2nd Johannesburg Biennale Johannesburg, South Africa
On The Bright Side Of Life, Neue Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany

1998

Biennale De L'image Paris 98, Centre National De La Photographie, Paris, France
Revolution98, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England
The Unmapped Body, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
Kunst In Vrijheid, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland

1999

Machos y Munecas, La Casa Elizalde, Barcelona, Spain

2001

Race In Digital Space, List Center For The Arts, Cambridge, USA
Bits & Pieces, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, USA
Unpacking Europe, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Holland

2002

Race In Digital Space, The Studio Museum In Harlem, New York, USA
Mass Appeal, Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
Terminal Frontiers, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England

2003

20th World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam, Holland
Transferts Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium

2004

Stranger than Fiction, Leeds City Gallery, Leeds, England
Terminal Frontiers, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
The Black Atlantic, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

2005

Terminal Frontiers, Watermans Art Centre, London, England
Making Faces, The Forum, Norwich, England
Historical Sounding Gallery, John Hope Franklin Centre, Durham, USA

2007

Uncomfortable Truths, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Curatorial Projects

1987

Co-Curator of The Image Employed, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England

1991-1992

Co-curator in association with the Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, The Bluecoat Gallery, Bristol, and Hull Time Based Arts of The Trophies of Empire. A series of exhibitions and events featuring the work of 15 contemporary Artists.

1996-1997

Co-curator of Displaced Data, Race, Diaspora and New Configurations on the Digital Revolution. A project developed in collaboration with The Photographers Gallery, London, England

2000

Exhibition Co-Selector with Sebastian Lopez of the Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland. 10TH East International, Norwich Gallery, England

Selected Video & Multimedia Installations & Projects

1990

The production of a seven minute video piece on Betacam SP using state of the art post production facilities entitled The Nations Finest, commissioned by Film & Video Umbrella and the Cornerhouse, as part of the Manchester Olympic Festival. Subsequently screened on Channel 4 in June 1992 as part of the Dazzling Image series, and has been screened a video festivals internationally.
The production and exhibition of a tape/slide, video and photographic exhibition entitled The Devil Finds Work, commissioned by The Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
The production and exhibition of a multi-projector computer generated tape-slide installation entitled Insiders/Outsiders, commissioned by the Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.
The production and exhibition of a series of multi-media installations featuring video, computer animation, tape slide and computer generated stills in an exhibition entitled A Ship Called Jesus, commissioned by the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England.

1991

Production and exhibition of computer animation's and computer generated lightboxes for an installation entitled Step into the Arena, commissioned by Rochdale Art Gallery, England
Production and exhibition of four computer animation's for a four monitor mixed media installation entitled Tagging the Other, commissioned as part of Photo Video, Impressions Gallery, York, England.

1992

Production and exhibition of mixed media installation incorporating computer generated lightboxes as part of Force Site, Schloss Presterneck, Neuenstadt, Germany.
Production and exhibition of computer animation's for a twelve monitor, four video source mixed media installation for entitled Trade Winds, commissioned by Merseyside Moviola, Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, England.
Production and exhibition of three multi-monitor, multi-source video and computer animation installations for a solo exhibition entitled Front, Kijkhuis, Den Haag, Holland.

1993

Production and exhibition of a multi-media installation featuring computer montaged light boxes entitled Transgressive Acts, commissioned as part of an exhibition entitled In The Ring, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York, USA.
Production and exhibition of a multi-media installation featuring Video Projections and multi projector tape slide entitled Exotic Signs, commissioned as part of an international exhibition of site specific work SONSBEEK 93, Arnhem, Holland.
Re-staging of a four Video Monitor, computer animation based installation entitled Tagging the Other, in association with The International Centre of Photography, New York, USA. MONTAGE 93, International Festival of the Image, Rochester, New York, USA.

1994

Production of large scale public art piece entitled Tall Ships, commissioned by Greenwich Festival 94, Greenwich Park, London.
Production and staging of multi-media installation entitled Terrible Spaces, Quinta Bienal De La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
Production and staging of multi-monitor video installation with video projection entitled The Unmapped Body, exhibited in Cocido Y Crudo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.

1995

New Media Artist Residency, Banff Center of the Arts, Alberta, Canada, production of interactive video installation entitled Reckless Eyeballing, in collaboration with Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada and Video Positive, Liverpool.
Authoring of interactive CD Rom based project for the Critical Decade, commissioned by Autograph & InIVA(The Institute of International Visual Art), London, England.

1996

Production of Digital Animation entitled Go West Young Man, commissioned by the Arts Council and Channel 4, UK.
Conception, development and production of an interactive CD-Rom, an exhibition of three interactive gallery based installations and a Web Site for InIVA On-Line, Relocating the Remains, a project commissioned by InIVA, London, England. Exhibition staged at the Guilbenken Gallery, Royal Collage of Art, London, July 1997.

1997

Production of mixed media installation in collaboration with Ramona Ramlochand, The Night has a Thousand Eyes, Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada.
Development and production of digital video installation entitled The Exploded City, The African Museum, 2nd Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Development and production of digital video and mixed media installation with printed mattresses entitled Western Passage, The Fabric Workshop Museum, Philadelphia, USA.

1998

Production and presentation of Interactive Installation entitled Message Carrier I, Biennale de L'Image, Paris 98, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France.
Production and presentation of interactive installation entitled Robot Bodies, commissioned by FACT, ISEA 98, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, England.
Presentation of digital video installation entitled The Exploded City, World Wide Video Festival, Gate Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland.
Presentation of interactive installation entitled Message Carrier II, for the exhibition The UnMapped Body, Yale University Art Gallery, USA.

1999

Presentation of interactive and video installations for the solo exhibition Relocating the Remains, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA.

2000

Production and presentation of interactive multimedia installations for solo exhibition entitled Machine, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway.

2001

Production and presentation of interactive multimedia installation with multiple projections for solo exhibition The Mechanoids Bloodline, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA.
Production and presentation of the installation A fictional tourist in Europe, Unpacking Europe, Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland.

2002

Presentation of CD-Rom version of The Mechanoids Bloodline, Race in Digital Space, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, USA.
Production and presentation of the installation Stranger, Terminal Frontiers, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, England.

2003

Presentation of Interactive Installation Robot Bodies III, Transferts, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium.