Friedhard Kiekeben

• Artist

• Associate Professor Fine Art, (tenured) Columbia College, Chicago, IL, USA

Education

• MPhil RCA Research Degree in Printmaking 1993

Thesis Title: "Reality, Illusion and the Matrix Principle"

Royal College of Art, London, England

- the first research degree in Printmaking awarded by the RCA

• Diploma in Art and Design , (nine-year program) 1990

Specialization in Printmaking; Thesis Title: "Das Prinzip Reihung"

(The Series Principle / Etching as Installation)

Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach, Germany

- MFA level degree,

• Painting, Drawing and Printmaking 1986 - 1987

Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

Select International Exhibitions and Projects

Note: One Person Show (OMS); Catalogue (CAT)

2022:

• Crystal (Bonnard), Walldrawing, Douro Museum, Global Print, 2022
• also: Overpaintings ‘Madison’
• Series ‘Hamilton’, Art at Wharepuke, New Zealand
• Artists Prints, RIT City Art Gallery, Rochester, NY

2020/21:

• Kessho - Antifreeze, Walldrawing - Columbia College
• Black and White, Northville Art House
• Grey Cube Gallery, series Black White and Grey

2019/20:

• Frankfurter Kunstsäule, public art project, Frankfurt Germany
• Solo show ‘Walldrawings’ Gallery Arte Giani, Frankfurt, Germany 

2019:

• Loop Orange / Green Dream, Yuwaku Sousaku no Mori Art Center, Kanazawa, Japan

2018:

• Wall Drawings: Cerulean - Tourbillon - Treccia;  Arte Giani, Frankfurt, (OMS)
• Loop Orange, 9th International Biennial, Moreira Center, Braganca, Portugal

• Installation Friction (yellow), Kloster Irsee, Germany

2017:

2015:

• Madison, Set of Prints/Drawings, Tieton 10X, Tieton Arts Center, WS, CAT

• Quantum Ice - Ohio, Vinyl Print Installation, Pearl Conard Gallery, OSU, Mansfield, Ohio

as part of Interventions, curated by the Fuse Factory, Columbus, OH

2014:

• On Form, Paintings In Volo and Loop- Drawing Projects, Gallery Arte Giani, Frankfurt

• 'Unmonumental', Public Arts Project, Columbia, MO, CAT

2013:

• Curation of On Big Drawings | extensive studio work: In Volo/Flow Painting Cycle

2012:

• Friction - Intaglio, Print Installation, Process and Purpose, Contemporary Printmaking,

         Olive Branch, Ithaca, NY, CAT

• Retrospect, Selected Works from Gallery Artists, Arte Giani Gallery, Frankfurt

• Art Fairs, Arte Giani

2011:

• 'Quantum Ice', Arte Giani Gallery, and Frankfurt Zurich Art Fair, OMS

2010:

• 'Tumble', Gallery Guillaume Daeppen, Basel, OMS, CAT

• 'Loop', Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, OMS, CAT

• 'D'Offay Miniatures', Murphy Hill Gallery, Chicago

• 'Von Anfang An', Arte Giani Gallery , Frankfurt

2008-2013:

• 'Pillar Wrap', public art installation

Commissioned by Chicago CTA and Columbia College, installed August 2008

2008:

• 'Flower Cast', Human Nature Exhibition, A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, CAT

• Curator of 'Multiply', Alyson Shotz, Robert Krawczick, Jesse Seay, A+D Gallery, Chicago, CAT

• Cascade-Shatter-Flow', Caro DOffay Gallery, Chicago, OMS

2007:

• Deva-Veda, Digital Print Installation, Castle Park Arts Center, Frodsham, UK, January - February 2007

• Co-curator with Jennifer Kiekeben of Multiply (UK) printed works by Columbia College students, Castle Park Arts Centre, UK, January - February 2007

• Work in Process, A+D Gallery, Chicago, CAT

• Friction - installation for Eye Tricks, Walsh Gallery, South Orange, NJ

2006:

• Cascade, installation, (OMS) at Ahlbergshallen Museum, Ostersund, CAT

• Publication of Cascade, New Work, Friedhard Kiekeben; Catalogue with introductory essay by Sabina Ott, CAT

• Flow installation for International Invitational, Christel DeHaan Arts Center, University of Indianapolis

• Curator: Two Halves, International Exchange Exhibition, RIT, NY / University of Chester / Frodsham Arts Center

2005:

• Transit, Retrospective Exhibition 1990-2006 OMS, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax UK

• Deva, digital installation with additional prints, OMS at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester UK

2004:

• Representation at Art Frankfurt by Gallery Giani

• Contributor in International Mini Print Exhibition TS, CAT

2003:

• Beyond Steps, installation for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston UK

• Shatter, OME, Gallery Arte Giani, Frankfurt

2002:

• Aphelion, Art.tm, Inverness

• Represented at Glasgow Art Fair by Art.tm

• Howard Gardens Gallery TS, Cardiff

• Represented at Art Frankfurt, Arte Giani, CAT

• Wrexham City Art Centre

2001:

• Tinflowers, installation, OMS, Gallery Giani, Frankfurt

• Friction installation and TS, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY, CAT

• In-Print, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull UK, CAT

• Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries

2000:

• Field of Vision, installation, OMS, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden

• New Attitudes, Gallery Daeppen, Art Frankfurt, CAT

1999:

• Cluster, installation OMS, Gallery Guillaume Daeppen, Basel

• Cluster, installation, Kunst Zrich, CAT

• New Attitudes, Gallery Daeppen, Art Frankfurt, CAT

• University of Illinois

1998:

• Bilder sind staerker als Worte, installation, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• Crystal Yellow, installation, OMS, Art Frankfurt

Installation for Gallery Daeppen, Art Zurich, CAT

• Crystal Black, installation, OMS, Citizens Studios, Edinburgh

1997:

• Crystal-Red, installation, OMS, Kunstverein Friedberg, CAT

• Publication of Crystal catalogue with essay by Johannes Kogler, CAT

• Installation, Objekte, Graphik, Arte Giani, Frankfurt, CAT

• Art Frankfurt, Arte Giani, CAT

• Art Cologne, Gallery Guillaume Daeppen, CAT

• AWARD: First Media Art Prize, Deutsche Telekom

1993-96:

• In Print, Castle Museum, Nottingham, CAT

• In Print, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, CAT

• ArCade - Digital Art TS, University of Brighton, CAT

• La folie du voir, installation, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• Friction, installation, Art Cologne, Gallery Daeppen, CAT

• Transit, installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• Publication of Friedhard Kiekeben Selected Works - with essay by Charle Esche (Van Abbemuseum), CAT

• Artists' Impressions, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, CAT

• Depot - Public Warehouse, Art Cologne, CAT

• Durhammer Gallery, Frankfurt

• Installation for American and European Works on Paper, Gallery 86, Trier, CAT

• Transit installation, Royal College of Art, London, CAT

• AWARD: OSARCA Prize 1993, Royal College of Art, London

1992:

• Fusion Projects, Royal College of Art, London

• Square Progression, Installation OMS, Gallery 86, Trier

• Art Book, Hebbel - diaries?, Edition Tiessen

• Matrix, installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• AWARD: Mathews Wrightson Trust Award, RCA, London

1991:

• Domacinovic, Uliczka, Kiekeben installation, Kunstverein Offenbach, CAT

• Square Progression, installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• Square 33, installation, OMS, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr

• AWARD: Artist Award Johannes Mosbach Stiftung, OF

1990:

• Square 33, installation, Hochschule fr Gestaltung, OF

• Kunststudenten stellen aus, Kunsthalle, Bonn, CAT

• Sequence 52, installation OMS, Galerie im Kreishaus, Hofheim

1986-89:

• Media, installation, Gallery G. Daeppen, Frankfurt

• Roepke-Kiekeben, Epiphanias Gallery, OMS, Frankfurt

• 22nd Arnoldshainer Ausstellung, OMS

• Project David, installation, OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Frankfurt

• Totem, Dreieich Gallery

• Selected Works, Main-Taunus Arts Trust

• AWARD: Studio Scholarship, Frankfurter Sparkasse

• AWARD: First Prize, Kunstsammlung Main-Taunus, Hofheim

Work Held in Collections

Douro Museum, Douro, Portugal

Collection Alte/Klinger, Frankfurt

Collection Raff, Frankfurt

Collection Schlosser, Bad Homburg

Motion PR, Chicago

Collection Riedl

Collection Guillaume Daeppen, Basel

Columbia College Chicago

Royal College of Art, London

Collection Reeves, UK

Collection Shaw, Scotland

Grosvenor Museum, Chester, UK

Ostersund Municipal Collection, Sweden

University of Indianapolis

Rochester Institute of Technology, NY

Gracefield Arts Centre, UK

Kunstsammlung Main-Taunus

Warwick Arts Trust, London

Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach

Frankfurter Sparkasse, Offenbach

Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt/Darmstadt 

Collection Schirmer, Trier

Europaeische Akademie fuer Bildende Kunst, Trier

Collection Giani-Leber, Frankfurt

Kunstsammlung der Deutschen Telekom, Suhl / Berlin

GAP, Frankfurt,

Other Private Collections