Whitney McVeigh

Whitney McVeigh

Whitney McVeigh
Born 1968
New York City, United States
Education Edinburgh College of Art

Whitney McVeigh (1968) is an American multimedia artist living and working in London. Born in New York, she grew up in London from the age of seven. She is known primarily for her work with objects and paintings. In 2009 she was featured in BBC Four Where is Modern Art Now [1] alongside Sir Anthony Caro and Grayson Perry.

Early life

McVeigh is the daughter of Pamela Osborn and Charles McVeigh III, an American banker.[2] She attended Bedales School from 1980-1985. Whilst studying for a BA at Edinburgh College of Art from 1995 - 1998, McVeigh ran a funk, reggae and rare groove night club named 'Chocolate City' with her then boyfriend Jamie Byng,[3] publisher and Managing Director of Canongate Books, whom she married in 1996 and with whom she has two children.[4] Byng and McVeigh separated in 2001.

Exhibitions

Whitney McVeigh has travelled extensively to carry out her practice and has held residencies in India, Mexico, China and the Nirox Foundation in South Africa. Exhibitions include a solo project at the Gervasuti Foundation for the 55th Venice Biennale Hunting Song.[5] and New Work at the A Foundation, London (2009).[6] McVeigh made a film-based artwork during a trip to Syria to create Sight of Memory, screened in Icastica Arezzo 2013.[7] In 2015, McVeigh produced a film in collaboration with Pulse Films.[8] 'Birth': Origins at the end of life' shown at the Reynolds Room at Royal Academy [9] as part of an annual event with St Christopher's Hospice. In 2015 she held solo exhibition Inventory: Invisible Companion at St Peter's Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge.[10] McVeigh exhibited Language of Memory at Summerhall Arts Centre, Edinburgh in 2015-16.[11] In August 2016 she exhibited film and solo exhibition Contours at Hazard Gallery in Johannesburg .

Whitney McVeigh is part-time Fellow in Creative Practice at University of the Arts London.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Where is Modern Art Now.
  2. ↑ Charles McVeigh III
  3. ↑ The Real Byng. The Scotsman, 2 June 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2014
  4. ↑ "Canongate...I liked it so much I bought the Company". The Scotsman. 23 September 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2014
  5. ↑ "Whitney McVeigh. Hunting Song". Wall Street International. 2014. Retrieved October 24, 2014.
  6. ↑ Sherwin Skye. "Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week" The Guardian, London, 16 October 2009. Retrieved on 10 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Icastica, 2013".
  8. ↑
  9. ↑ Royal Academy of Arts
  10. ↑ Kettle's Yard
  11. ↑ Lost Objects find a Universal Message - The Times (Scotland), December, 2015
  12. ↑ "UAL.

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