Artist

Keeley, Shelagh

Title

Untitled

Technique

watercolour

Date

1980

Dimensions

99.8 height x 70.2 width

Type

mixed media

Accession Number

2023.2.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift Karen Love

Shelagh Keeley lives and works in Toronto after living twenty-two years in New York City and Paris. Keeley’s recent projects have been presented by MoMA Library and Archives, New York (2015); Vancouver Art Gallery (2015); The Power Plant, Toronto (2014); Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto (2015) and Ryerson Image Center, Toronto (2013). Keeley has also been part of a large number of international group shows including: The Unfinished Conversation: Encoding/Decoding at The Power Plant, Toronto (2015) and Museu Coleccao Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal (2016); In Order to Join – The Political in a Historical Moment at Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013) and Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai, India (2015). In 2013 Keeley created a collaborative book project with refugee children entitled Desire to Join and published by Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Germany (2013). Her work is included in public collections including MoMA, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Les Musées de la Ville de Paris; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and the Vancouver Art Gallery.