Edward Kay


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b. 1980, Chester
lives and works in London

Education
2002-2005 The Royal Academy Schools, London
1999 – 2002 The Ruskin School of Drawing and of Fine Art, Oxford University

Solo Exhibitions

2025 Miart Milan with Roland Ross
2023  The Private Life of Paintings, Rob Tufnell, London 
2022  Cavalier, Rob Tufnell, Venice
Touching Cloth, Roland Ross, Margate
2018 Art Cologne with Rob Tufnell
2017 Frieze London with Rob Tufnell
2010  Working Mum, Studio Voltaire
2008  The Hidden Network, Dicksmith Gallery, London
Surfaced (with Nayland Blake), the Royal Academy Schools, London 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Domestic (1): A Shaggy Dog, Laurel Gitlen, New York,
2022 Patternicity, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter
Patternicity, ASC Gallery, London
2017 Pharmacy for Idiots, Rob Tufnell & Tanya Leighton, Cologne
Call Me, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm
Nature Morte, National Museum Wroclaw, Warsaw
2016 Nature Morte, Konstahallen Bohuslans Museum,
2015 Nature Morte, Ha Gamle Prestegard, Stravanger
2014 I love you me either, Project Native Informant, London
2012 The Curators’ Egg, Anthony Reynolds, London
2011 Secret Societies, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2010 British Art Now, Saatchi Gallery, London
2009 Being and Nothingness, Light and Sie Gallery, Dallas
2007 Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna
2006 Icons, Chung King Project, Los Angeles
Celeste Art Prize. Old Truman Brewery, London
2005 MABA Art Fortnight, London
New paintings, Dicksmith Gallery, London
2004 Loved, Feared, Endangered, A. T. Kearney, London
Lexmark Prize, Air Gallery, London
Premiums, Royal Academy Sackler Galleries, London
Art School, Bloomberg, London
2003 Pastoral, Dicksmith Gallery, London
2001 The Drawing Show, Mary Ogilvy Gallery, Oxford
2000 The Royal Society of Portrait painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London