Ian Kiaer has exhibited internationally since 2000, with solo exhibitions at institutions including Tate Britain, London; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin; Kunstverein München, Munich; and Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. He has also exhibited at the Venice Biennale (50th), Istanbul Biennale (10th), Berlin Biennale (4th), Lyon Bienniale (10th) and Manifesta 3.
Ian Kiaer is developing a critique of painting as a ‘minor form’ informed by notions of the model and the fragment both in studio practice and writing. This research is also explored through the postgraduate and doctoral programme in a series of seminars and reading groups around the question of painting.
Ian Kiaer studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (BA Hons), and the Royal College of Art (MA). In 2000 he received the Boise Scholarship for a six-month fellowship at Seoul National University. He completed an AHRC-funded PhD in 2008.
Ian has taught widely in Europe on MA programmes such as the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam; De Ateliers, Amsterdam; and the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon, as well as working as a visiting tutor at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Goldsmiths, Royal Academy of Arts, The Ruskin, Slade School of Fine Art and art colleges nationwide. He was external examiner for Fine Art at the University of Westminster from 2009–12.
Ian’s work is in many public collections including Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts; Saatchi Gallery, London; and Tate, London.