Anna Keen is a British artist, born on the Isle of Wight in 1968 and brought up on the remote Scottish island of Arran. She studied six years at the art school in Paris L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts, where she obtained her diploma with distinctions. She has lived and worked as an artist in cities such as Rome, Venice, London and Amsterdam, where she has had over ten solo shows, participated in seventy collective shows, won several prizes and is represented in important private collections. Anna Keen has now returned to the UK and is currently painting the Babylonian-type London skyline, which mutates constantly.
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C.V. – ANNA KEEN
Born: Isle of Wight, UK (1968)
Art School Paris: l’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts de Paris Atelier Carron
Diplôme (felicitations du jury) (with distinctions) (1986 -1992)
Publication: London – The Metamorphosis (2019)
| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2021 | On Red, Rough, Shivering Sands The Thames Estuary Forts. (Whitstable Museum & Gallery, UK) |
| Dark Shades of Wight. (Dimbola Museum & Galleries, Isle of Wight, UK) | |
| Wandering the Wilderness. (Estuary Festival Multiple location outdoor event Essex & Kent, UK) | |
| 2020 | Lockdown Landscapes and Pandemic Portraits Oxo Tower, London, UK |
| London The Metamorphosis. Totally Thames Festival, Oxo Tower, London, UK | |
| 2018 | Porto Piccolo. Wolland Art Gallery, Trieste, Italy |
| Portraits. Ceylon Gallery, Dimbola Museum, Isle of Wight, UK | |
| Open Studio Show. Freshwater, Isle of Wight | |
| 2017 | From the Isle of Wight to London. Kendalls Fine Art, Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK |
| 2011 | Open Studio Show Ak9shed, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2009 | Open Studio Show Ak9shed, Amsterdam, NL |
| Castle 9 Collection H.A. Swets Amsterdam, NL | |
| 2007 | ‘Consolations and Desolations’ Galleria Il Polittico, Rome, Italy |
| 2005 | ‘Retrospective’ The Burnside Gallery, Isle of Arran, Scotland UK |
| 2001 | ‘Summer Show’ Gallery Davies and Tooth, London, UK |
| 2000 | ‘Venezia Invernale’ Galleria Il Polittico, Rome, Italy |
| 1999 | ‘Viaggio in Italia’ Galleria Jannone, Milan, Italy |
| 1997 | ‘Fuori les Mures’ Galleria Il Polittico, Rome, Italy |
| 1995 | ‘Dessins’ Gallerie la Regle d’Or, Paris, France |
| 1991 | ‘Les Buveurs d’Alcohol’ Connolley’s Corner, Paris, France |
| GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2021 | Estuary Festival 2021. Essex & Kent, UK |
| 2020 | Totally Thames Festival. London, UK |
| 2018 | Contemporary British Art. Black Swan Gallery(Černá labuť). Prague, Czech Republic. |
| 2016 | Be on the Way. Orsini Hall of Palace Chigi. Fornello, Italy |
| Seascapes & Isle of Arran. Whiting Bay Gallery. Isle of Arran, UK. | |
| 2015 | Iconic Interior painting. Fruscione Palace. Salerno, Italy |
| 2014 | Dark Green Bright Green. Galleria MoCA. Rome, Italy |
| 2013 | Roma Silenziosa, St Regis. Il Polittico Eventi. Rome, Italy |
| Calendario 2014, St. Regis. Il Polittico Eventi. Rome, Italy | |
| Dark Green Bright Green. Encounter Palace. Rome, Italy | |
| St. Francis and the places of His Spiritual way. Art Gallery le Logge, Assisi, Italy | |
| 2012 | Calendario 2013. St Regis.Il Polittico Eventi. Rome, Italy |
| 2011 | Calendario 2012. Galleria Il Polittico. Rome, Italy |
| 2010 | Calendario 2011. Galleria Il Polittico. Rome, Italy |
| Un Cibo senza tempo, Invito a cena con le Artisti. Galleria Il Polittico. Rome, Italy | |
| Citta di Labro. Eventi Il Polittico. Labro, Umbria, Italy | |
| 2009 | Galleria Il Polittico ‘Calandario 2010’ (Roma) |
| 2000 | Centre Culturel Francais, Palazzo delle Stelline ‘Misure Uniche per una collezione Part 2’ (Milan) |
| Teatro dell’Opera ‘Tosca’ (Roma) | |
| Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Gonfalone ‘Stations of the Cross, Via Crucis (Roma) | |
| Olympia Art Fair (London) | |
| The London Art Fair (London) | |
| 2008 | Palazzo Incontro, Il Vittoriano ‘Per Amore, La Recolta Caggiano (Roma) |
| Galleria Il Polittico ‘Calandario 2009’ (Roma) | |
| 2007 | Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Gonfalone ‘Pala d’Altare St. Edith Stein’ |
| 2006 | Chiesa di Santa Lucia in Gonfalone ‘Job’ (Roma) |
| Aldo Brandini per l’Arte ’15 anni (Frascati, Roma) | |
| 2005 | Book Presentation ‘Storia molte volte narratta’ (Roma) |
| Gallery Flowers East ‘Chiaroscuro’ (London) | |
| Galleria Il Polittico ‘Filosofia dei Fiori (Roma) | |
| 2004 | The Frissiras Museum, European Painting Award (Athens) |
| Museum. ‘Per Amore, La Recolta Gaggiano’ (Salerno) | |
| Premio Morlotti (Imbersago) | |
| 2003 | Galleria Il Polittico ‘Citta di Terra, Citta di Mare’ (Roma) |
| Rome St. Regis Grande, ‘Arte in Hotel’ (Roma) | |
| Hotel Regis Grande Rome, the Keen Suite | |
| 2002 | Flowers East Gallery ‘Small is Beautiful’ (London) |
| Museum ‘Artists of The Ideal, Nuovo Classicismo’ (Verona) | |
| Galleria Il Polittico ‘Figlio Prodigo’ (Roma) | |
| 1999 | Museo Internazionale del Imagine postale Belvedere (Ostrense, Ancona) |
| Premio Bordighera (Italy) | |
| Premio Morlotti (Imbersago, (Italy) | |
| Galleria Reginella ‘Dessins’ (Roma) | |
| Galleria Il Gabbiano ‘I corpi e le Mure’ (Roma) | |
| Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento, Il Monumento Vittoriana ‘ La Pittura Ritrovata’ (Roma) | |
| 1998 | Sedia Bulgari. La Pittura della Gioa’ (Rome)Villa Strohl-FernLa casa della vita’ (Rome) |
| Museo Young. ‘Misure Uniche per una collezione Part 2’ | |
| Palazzo Ducale, (Rovere, Mantova) | |
| 1997 | Institut de France,Paul-Louis Weiller (Paris) |
| XXIV Premio Sulmona (Italy) | |
| Galleria Don Chisciotte ‘I Buddenbrook e Roma’ (Rome) | |
| 1996 | Galleria Il Polittico Itinerante ‘Misure Unique per una Collectione’ (Rome,Lyon,Lisbon,Brussels,Grenoble) |
| Italian Cultural Institute (Brussels) | |
| Italian Cultural Institute (Grenoble) | |
| 1995 | Institut de France,Paul-Louis Weiller (Paris) |
| Galleria Il Polittico ‘Lungotevere’ (Rome) | |
| Galleria Il Polittico ‘Dodeci per Dodeci Mesi’ (Rome) | |
| 1994 | Art Fair Trevi (Italy) |
| Galerie France T (Paris) | |
| 1993 | Institut de France, Paul-Luis Weiller (Paris) |
| Galerie Catherine Guerard (Paris) | |
| Gallerie Phillipe Fregnac (Paris) | |
| 1992 | Colas (Paris) |
| Travaux des Diplomes de L’ENSBA (Paris) | |
| Salon des Artistes Francais, ENSBA students | |
| 1991 | Institut de France, Paul-Louis Weiller (Paris) |
| Fenetres sur l’art (Paris) | |
| Institut de France, Andre et Berthe Noufflard (Paris) | |
| Pignat Transport (Paris) | |
| Lafuma (Paris) | |
| Singer (Paris) | |
| Citroen (Paris) | |
| Mascarade Gallery (Villiers-sur-mer) | |
| Dessins d’après Poussin (Paris) | |
| 1990 | Institut de France, Andre et Berthe Noufflard (Paris) |
| Fenetres sur l’art (Paris) | |
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Collection BVLGARI
Collection Cerasi
Collection Rutelli
Collection Caggiano
Collection Swets
Collection Eaton
WHAT OTHERS WRITE
Download as pdf:
– London – The Methamorphosis – Edward Lucie Smith
– John Kirby
– ‘Inferno Veneziano’ Edward Lucie Smith
– John Ferris
– Rome-Milan-Paris – Arnaldo Romani Brizzi
– ‘Fuori le mura’ Marco Di Capua
– Anna Keen
