{{Short description|Scottish abstract painter}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2017}} {{Use British English|date=January 2017}} '''Callum Innes''' (born 1962) is a Scottish abstract painter, a former Turner Prize nominee and winner of the Jerwood Painting Prize. He lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
==Early life and education== Callum Innes was born in Edinburgh. He studied at Gray's School of Art (1980–84) and graduated from Edinburgh College of Art<ref name="ingleby">{{cite web|url=http://www.inglebygallery.com/artists/callum-innes/|accessdate=14 July 2012|title=Callum Innes – Artist – Ingleby Gallery}}</ref> in 1985.
==Career== Innes began exhibiting in the mid-to-late 1980s and in 1992 had two major exhibitions in public galleries, at the ICA, London, and the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. Since then he has had numerous solo exhibitions throughout Britain, Europe, North America, New Zealand and Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calluminnes.com/biography/|title=biography – Callum Innes|work=calluminnes.com|access-date=30 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118161339/http://www.calluminnes.com/biography/|archive-date=18 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
=== Solo exhibitions === Innes' first major London exhibition was hosted in 1990 at Frith Street Gallery, London<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/shows/view/callum_innes1/|title=Exhibitions – Callum Innes – Frith Street Gallery|work=frithstreetgallery.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023172046/http://www.frithstreetgallery.com/shows/view/callum_innes1/|archive-date=23 October 2014|url-status=dead|access-date=23 October 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> who continue to represent him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.calluminnes.com/galleries/|title=galleries – Callum Innes|work=calluminnes.com|access-date=23 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140118154615/http://www.calluminnes.com/galleries/|archive-date=18 January 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> A substantial selection of his best-known series, the "Exposed" paintings, was exhibited in 1998 at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England, and at the Kunsthalle Bern the following year. "From Memory", a major exhibition of Callum Innes' work over the past 15 years, was shown at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh in 2006, and toured to Modern Art Oxford, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.Innes had a substantial solo exhibition of new work at Ingleby Gallery for the Edinburgh Art Festival (2009). "At One Remove", featured at Sean Kelly Gallery New York (2010),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2010-02-04_callum-innes/|title=Sean Kelly Gallery – Callum Innes – Installation Views|work=skny.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502010326/http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2010-02-04_callum-innes/|archivedate=2 May 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> as did an exhibition entitled ''water|colour'', featuring 101 of the artist's watercolours paired with text by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2010-12-16_callum-innes-colm-toibin/|title=Sean Kelly Gallery – callum innes – colm tﾃｳibﾃｭn – Installation Views|work=skny.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140901100358/http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2010-12-16_callum-innes-colm-toibin/|archivedate=1 September 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Callum Innes held his first major solo exhibition in Asia at Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edouardmalingue.com/en/exhibitions/23/callum-innes/|title=Callum Innes|work=edouardmalingue.com|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202230731/http://www.edouardmalingue.com/en/exhibitions/23/callum-innes/|archivedate=2 December 2013|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
His most recent solo exhibitions include ''Callum Innes: Keeping Time'', Frith Street Gallery, London (2019),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/exhibitions/callum-innes|title=Callum Innes – Exhibitions|website=Frith Street Gallery|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> ''In Position,'' Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France (2018),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chateau-la-coste.com/en/callum-innes-position/|title=Callum Innes – In Position|date=2018-01-31|website=Chateau la Coste|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> ''Watercolours'', Galerie Tschudi (2013–14),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.galerie-tschudi.ch/|title=Galerie Tschudi|work=galerie-tschudi.ch}}</ref> ''Liminal'', Sean Kelly Gallery, New York (2013),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2013-10-25_callum-innes/|title=Sean Kelly Gallery – Callum Innes – Installation Views|work=skny.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502010334/http://www.skny.com/exhibitions/2013-10-25_callum-innes/|archivedate=2 May 2014|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Whitworth Gallery, Manchester (2013)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/calluminnes/|title=Callum Innes (The University of Manchester)|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032701/http://www.whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whatson/exhibitions/calluminnes/|archivedate=2 May 2014|url-status=dead|accessdate=2014-04-30|df=dmy-all}}</ref> and i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland (2013).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://i8.is/exhibition/callum-innes/|title=Callum Innes|work=i8.is|access-date=30 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502001724/http://i8.is/exhibition/callum-innes/|archive-date=2 May 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> "I'll Close my Eyes''",'' a major retrospective of Innes' work, was shown at De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, Netherlands in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://depont.nl/en/exhibition/release/callum-innes/|title=Callum Innes: I'll Close my Eyes|website=De Pont museum|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref>
=== Group exhibitions === Callum Innes has participated in many group shows, including ''The British Art Show 3'' (1990), ''Wonderful Life'', Lisson Gallery, London (1993), ''From Here'', Karsten Schubert Gallery and Waddington Galleries (1994), ''Abstractions Provisoires'', Musee d'Art Moderne de St Etienne (1997), the touring exhibition ''About Vision – New British Paintings in the 1990s'' (1996-7) and ''Abstract Painting Once Removed'' at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. The last decade has seen Innes continue to participate in international group exhibitions including "Six Degrees of Separation" Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand (2001), "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2004), "Three: 3 Artists in solo displays", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2007), "Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing", Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (2009), "What you see is where you're at", Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (2010), "Heaviness and Grace", Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (2010). Recent group exhibitions include, ''Actions. The image of the world can be different'', Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (2018).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kettlesyard.co.uk/events/actions/|title=Actions. The image of the world can be different (part 1) – Events|website=Kettle's Yard|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> ''Abstract Painting Now!,'' Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria (2017),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kunsthalle.at/en/exhibitions/1-abstract-painting-now-gerhard-richter-katharina-grosse-sean-scully|title=Abstract Painting Now! Gerhard Richter, Katharina Grosse, Sean Scully...|website=www.kunsthalle.at|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05|archive-date=5 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190805125338/https://www.kunsthalle.at/en/exhibitions/1-abstract-painting-now-gerhard-richter-katharina-grosse-sean-scully|url-status=dead}}</ref>''Silver,'' Frith Street Gallery, London (2014),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/exhibitions/silver|title=Silver – Exhibitions|website=Frith Street Gallery|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> ''GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland'', Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh (2014) and ''Watercolour'', Tate Britain (2011), among others.
==Collections==
Innes' work is represented in numerous collections, both private and public including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art,<ref>{{cite web|title=Callum Innes, Exposed Painting Mars Black Exposed Painting Mars Black|url=http://www.themodern.org/collection/artists/Innes|publisher=Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth|accessdate=19 January 2014}}</ref> The Irish Museum of Modern Art,<ref>{{cite web|title=IMMA|url=http://www.immacollection.com/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t2.artist_list.$TspTitleLink$0.link&sp=10&sp=Sartist&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=29&sp=3&sp=SsimpleList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=2|accessdate=19 January 2014}}</ref> The Tate London,<ref>{{cite web|title=Callum Innes|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/callum-innes-2379|publisher=Tate|accessdate=19 January 2014}}</ref> The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery of Australia, Canberra,<ref>{{cite web|title=Exposed painting black oxide|url=http://artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=134688|publisher=National Gallery of Australia|accessdate=19 January 2014}}</ref> Guggenheim Museum, Deutsche Bank, De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://depont.nl/en/collection/artist/innes/|title=Callum Innes|website=De Pont museum|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> Centre Pompidou,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.centrepompidou.fr/id/cdLaBRx/rxAGyX9/fr|title=Callum Innes {{!}} Centre Pompidou|website=www.centrepompidou.fr|language=fr|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref> Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona and Arts Council Collection, UK, British Museum, London, IMMA, Dublin, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.
== Recognition == In 1995 he was shortlisted for the Turner Prize which was won by Damien Hirst.<ref name="turner95">{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain-other-venues/exhibitionseries/turner-prize-series/turner-prize-year-year|title=Turner Prize: Year by Year|accessdate=14 July 2012}}</ref> In 1998 Innes won the NatWest Art Prize<ref name="ingleby" /> and in 2002 he won the Jerwood Painting Prize<ref name="Guardian2002">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/may/23/arts.artsnews|title=Jerwood win by abstract painter|author=Angelique Chrisafis|work=The Guardian|accessdate=24 January 2014}}</ref> and the Artisti Invitati Al Premio Internazionale.
==Publications==
* de Chassey, Eric (2018),''Callum Innes: In Position'', Château La Coste, Le Puy Ste Réparade. * Ed. Innes, Callum, text(s) by Fiona Bradley, Briony Fer, Colm Tóibín et al. (2016) ''Callum Innes: I’ll Close My Eyes'', Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, {{ISBN|978-3-7757-4245-0}} * Tóibín, Colm (2016) ''Callum Innes: Edges'', Spain / UK / Switzerland: Callum Innes & Ivorypress {{ISBN|978-84-942820-3-4}} * Innes, Callum and Colm Tóibín (2011) w''ater | colour,'' New York: Sean Kelly Galery {{ISBN|9780966215830}} * Ed. Bradley, Fiona, text(s) by Michael Auping, Fiona Bradley, Eric de Chassey et al. (2006) ''Callum Innes: From Memory'', Germany: Hatje Cantz {{ISBN|978-3-7757-1850-9}}
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==External links== * {{official website|http://www.calluminnes.com/}} *[http://www.artnet.com/artist/8789/callum-innes.html Callum Innes on artnet.com, including examples of work] *[https://www.frithstreetgallery.com/artists/callum-innes Frith Street Gallery: Callum Innes] *[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/callum-innes-2379/callum-innes-im-curious-about-colour Callum Innes – 'I'm Curious About Colour' | TateShots] * [http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/innes_callum.html Callum Innes on Artcyclopedia] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160616114308/http://edouardmalingue.com/artists/callum-innes/ Edouard Malingue Gallery], Hong Kong gallery representing Callum Innes
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