KENNETH G. HAY (2 – 12 October, 2017)

School of Design Leeds University, United Kingdom

Professor Kenneth G. Hay BA, MA, PhD, FRSA, is former Chair of Contemporary Art Practice and Deputy Head of School, in the School of Design. As an artist he works in the fields of painting, photography, print, digital imagery, video, sound and multimedia. As an academic his research interests are in Italian art and philosophical aesthetics, art practice as research, modernism and postmodernism, architecture history and theory, Cubism, Cyberspace, European Art from 1900, and the contemporary world art. He exhibits regularly in the UK and abroad, most recently in Taiwan (January 2007), and the Hope Gallery London (July 2006), work dealing with global tourism, European integration and the EU.

Other recent shows include: “RADAR Infopoint” at the Italia Telecom Future Centre, San Salvador, Rialto, Venice (Sept 2004); in the Galeria ” Pryzmat, Cracow, Poland (July 2004), in London, as part of the “Deptford X” (“Altered States”, June 2004); and simultaneously in Bradford Cartwright Hall and the Brno Gallery, Czech Republic (“Hibrida”, May-June 2005). A photographic commission, “CityLights” for Cracow Public Transport opened in Cracow on Sunday 15th May 2005, followed by a new exhibition of Digital Prints in the Gallery Camelot, Cracow, Poland (June 2005). His video “Miracle” was selected for the “Olympic One Minutes” promotional DVD for the 2008 Olympics in China (July 2005). In January – March 2007 a major retrospective of digital film and photographic work was exhibited in the Art Centre, National Cheng Kung University,Tainan, Taiwan. Solo shows in 2007 include exhibitions in Brno and Malta (forthcoming).

In June 2003 he participated in the 50th Venice Biennale as one of five UK artists selected to represent the UK in the “RADAR Project – Connecting Europe”, at the Centro Civico, Giudecca, Venice (June 2003). The catalogue for this was published in Venice by Marsilio Editori (November 2005). A recent book: “Thinking through Art: reflections on art as research ” (edited by Katy MacLeod and Lin Holdridge): containing his chapter on “Concrete abstractions”, published in the UK in September 2005, has just appeared in Czech, together with an additional chapter on Studio Practice Ph.Ds, published by the Masaryk University, Brno (2007). Two catalogues of his work from 2002-2007 have been published in September 2007.

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