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Chris KennyChris Kenny is a British artist known particularly for his three-dimensional 'drawings' and collage constructions. Exhibitions include: Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Art & Design, New York; Mappa Mundi at the Berardo Museum Foundation, Lisbon; First Cut at Manchester Art Gallery and touring; and Mappamundi, Hotel des Arts, Centre d'Art du Conseil General du Var, Toulon. Public and corporate collections that have acquired his works from England & Co include the Museum of London; Penguin Books Ltd; Deutche Bank Collection; the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the British Museum.
Kenny has had six solo exhibitions with England & Co and participated in many of the gallery's group exhibitions, including The Map Is Not the Territory series, After a Fashion, Literary Constructs, Persistent Obsessions and City X. He has also made site-specific works for House of Words at Dr Johnson's House, London; and for The East Wing Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Selected archive works are displayed on this page.
BIOGRAPHY
Constructions and mixed media
Found text, scanned and enlarged, size variable
Site-specific installation at England & Co
as part of the Literary Constructs exhibition, 2006
Found text, scanned and enlarged x 8, size variable
Installation at England & Co
as part of the artist's solo exhibition The matter of facts