Callum Innes

1962 Born in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland and Oslo, Norway

Education

1980 – 1984 Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen

1984 – 1985 Edinburgh College of Art, Post Graduate DIP

Grants/Awards

2002
Jerwood Prize

1998
NatWest Art Prize

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

2024
Cadmium Orange, Red Violet, Lamp Black, Lysverket Building Kode, Bergen, Norway
Callum Innes, Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
Turn, Sean Kelly, Los Angeles, California, USA
Present Perfect, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway 

2023
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain
Callum Innes: Between, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Switzerland
St Sebastian, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2022
Tondos, Sean Kelly, New York, USA 

2021
a pure land, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway; i8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
Orange & Black, Cairn Gallery, Pittenweem, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland 

2019
Keeping Time, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
Callum Innes: Prints 2005 – 2019. Edinburgh Printmakers, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2018
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Callum Innes, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Byzantine Blue, Delft Blue, Paris Blue, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Tape, Loock Gallery, Berlin, Germany
In Position, Chateau La Coste, Aix-en-Provence, France 

2017
Callum Innes, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Callum Innes: In Two, Ivorypress, Madrid, Spain
Callum Innes: With Curve, Sean Kelly, New York, USA 

2016
Callum Innes: On Ground, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Callum Innes: I’ll Close my Eyes, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Callum Innes, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland 

2015
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, OSL Contemporary, Oslo, Norway

2014
Callum Innes, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2013
Callum Innes: Liminal, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Callum Innes, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Callum Innes: Malerei als Prozess, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany
Callum Innes, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
Callum Innes: Watercolours, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

2012
The Regent Bridge (permanent commission for Edinburgh Art Festival), Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Callum Innes: Works on Paper, 1989–2012, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong
Unforeseen, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2011
Callum Innes: New Paintings and Watercolours, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
New Paintings, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia 

2010
callum innes | colm tóibín: water | colour, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
At One Remove, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Callum Innes, Loock Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Callum Innes: an installation, Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Callum Innes: Untitled, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain 

2009
I Look to You, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2008
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Callum Innes, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
From Memory, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland  (with monograph), travelled to Modern Art, Oxford, England; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia   

2007
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland 

2006
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

2005
Callum Innes, Tate St Ives, St. Ives, United Kingdom

2004
Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Callum Innes, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Callum Innes, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2003
Callum Innes: Scheveningen Black, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

2002
Callum Innes, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Callum Innes, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland

2001
Callum Innes: Exposed Paintings, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2000
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Callum Innes, The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Callum Innes, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1999
Callum Innes, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Callum Innes, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

1998
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Callum Innes, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Brownstone & Corréard, Paris, France

1997
Callum Innes, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Callum Innes, Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
Callum Innes, Galerie M. + R. Fricke, Düsseldorf and Berlin, Germany     

1996
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Callum Innes, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, 50th Edinburgh International Festival (1990–1996), United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995
The Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Mackintosh Gallery, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Callum Innes, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone and Cie, Paris, France
Callum Innes, Galerie M. + R. Fricke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Callum Innes, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
Callum Innes, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galleria Paolo Gentili, Florence, Italy

1994
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom (with Juan Uslé)

1993
Callum Innes, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich, Switzerland
Callum Innes, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Callum Innes, Galerie Patrick De Brock, Antwerp, Belgium

1992
Callum Innes, ICA, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria
Callum Innes, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1991
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Galerie Patrick De Brock, Antwerp, Belgium

1990
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Callum Innes, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1988
Callum Innes, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

1986
Callum Innes, Artspace Gallery, Aberdeen, United Kingdom

 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2024
Wittgenstein’s Paradox, Parra & Romero, Ibiza, Spain 

2023
Light is Therefore Colour, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switerland
Beautiful Vivid, Self-Contained, Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA
25 Years, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Something old, something new, something swapped, something blue, and a silver penny in a shoe, The Antonyme Salon, Berlin, Germany 

2022
A Family Story, Collection(s) Robelin, Musuem of Contemporary Art Lyon, Lyon, France
Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu, Maison de Balzac, Paris, France
Line Up, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich, Switzerland
Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Chichester
Belonging, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland  

2021
A Very Special Place: Ikon in the 1990s, IKON, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Donation Florence et Daniel Guerlain, Musée Nacional d’Art Moderne Cci
Centre Pompidou, Pushkin State Museum, Moscow
Body – gesture – space, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Mainly Painting: Works from the Hilti Art Foundation, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

2019
Absolutely Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman, Inc. New York
Shadowplay, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
Beyond Borders, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Beneath the Surface, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Abstract by Nature, Sean Kelly, New York, USA
Limits, Edges, and Frontiers, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, Belgium 

2018
TWENTY, Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Actions. The image of the world can be different, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, United Kingdom                 
Testbild: Werke aus der Sammlung Martin, Neues Museum, Nürnberg, Germany
True Colors, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, USA  2017
and per se and: part IX – Callum Innes & Agnes Martin, Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
and per se and: part VIII – Richard Forster & Callum Innes, Ingleby, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Selected, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Ages of Wonder, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Summer Breeze: An Ensemble of Gallery Artists, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Park, Guangzhou, Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou, China
Works by Richard Long, Andrea Büttner, Callum Innes, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

2016
Cher(es) Ami(e)s: Hommage aux donateurs des collections contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Park, Guangzhou, Holly’s Gallery, Guangzhou, China

2015
30 Years, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Chromophobia, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Pattern of Abstraction, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Absent Presence, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England 2014
GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Transgression, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf, Germany
Silver, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Within/Beyond Borders: Art from the European Investment Bank Collection, Banco de Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
Recent Acquisitions, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands

2013
A Parliament of Lines, Pier Arts Centre, Orkney, Scotland Moving, Norman Foster on Art, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
HAUPTSACHE GRAU #03 Farbiges Grau, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin, Germany 

2012
10 Years in Zuoz, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland

2011
Beholder, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Conversations, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Watercolour, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom 

2010
La Pesanteur et la Grâce: Emanuele Becheri, Callum Innes, Georges Tony Stoll, Emmanuel Van der Meulen, Villa Medici, Académie de France, Rome, Italy
La Pesanteur et la Grâce: Emanuele Becheri, Callum Innes, Georges Tony Stoll, Emmanuel Van der Meulen, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
25 Jahre Galerie Tschudi, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Cimmerian Shade, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2008
Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Ressonância, Resonance, Resonanz: Iran do Espírito Santo, Callum Innes, Wolfgang Laib, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Cancelled, Erased, & Removed, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Callum Innes and Hiroshi Sugimoto, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

2007
Poul Kjærholm: Structures and Surfaces, Sean Kelly Gallery and R Gallery, New York, New York, USA
Three: 3 Artists in solo displays, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, New York, USA

2006
Helga de Alvear – Concepts for a Collection, Exhibition Centre of Centro Cultural de Belém, Brazil
Less is More, More or Less, Martin Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2005
Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Martin Gerwers: Neue Arbeiten und Werke von Balthasar Burkhard, Hamish Fulton, Bethan Huws, Callum Innes, Richard Long, Ulrich Rückriem, Not Vital, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Melancholia, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Miradas Y Conceptos En La Colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz, Spain
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 

2004
WOW (The Work of the Work), South Galleries, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, USA
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, USA

2003
White, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Reflections: Bernard Frize, Prudencio Irazabal and Callum Innes, Galería Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Exodus, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, England Bernard Frize
Callum Innes, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom

2002
Sphere (Loans from nvisible Museum), Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, United Kingdom

2001
Fusion, G Fine Art, Washington D.C., USA
FRESH: Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Six Degrees of Separation, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Heads and Hands, Loans from the nvisible Museum, Washington Project for the Arts, Corcoran, Washington D.C., USA

2000
Kevin Appel, Jeremy Dickenson, Callum Innes, Tom LaDuke, Linda Stark, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
On The Edge Of The Western World, nvisible Museum, London, travels to Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Blue: borrowed and new, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, United Kingdom
The Tao of Painting: Principles of Monochrome, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA
Expressions: Scottish Art 1976–1989, Dundee Contemporary Arts Center, Dundee, United Kingdom
A Century of Innocence – the history of the white monochrome, Rooseum Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

1999
Prime, Dundee Contemporary Arts Center, Dundee, United Kingdom
New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

1998
NatWest Art Prize – Prize Winner, Lothbury Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Abstract Painting, Once Removed, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, travelled to Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Family, Invisible Museum at Inverleith House in the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland; Galerie Slewe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands         
Inner Eye – Contemporary Art, Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Baltimore Collects, Four Corners Selections from the Collection of Michael and Ilene Salcman. Stevenson, Maryland, USA
Infra-Slim Spaces, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

1997
Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA
Abstraction / Abstractions: géométries provisoires, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, Saint-Étienne, France
Magnetic – Drawings in Dialogue, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA
Seattle Collects Paintings, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
Absolut Vision: British Painting in the 90s, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom

1996
Kleine Welten, Galerie M.+R. Fricke, Düsseldorf, Germany
Leoncavallo, Milan, Italy
Absolut Vision: British Painting in the 90s, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom

1995
Jerwood Award for Painting, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh; Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
The Mutated Painting, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany
From Here, Karsten Schubert Gallery and Waddington Galleries, London, United Kingdom
Architecture of the Mind, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
New Abstraction, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
The Punter’s Art Show, BBC Project, The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland  

1994
New Voices, Centre d’Art Santa M nica, Barcelona, travelled to Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, and Madrid, Spain
Delit d’initiés, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone and Cie, Paris, France
Lead and Follow, The Continuity of Abstraction, (Robert Loder Collection) Atlantis Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, travelled to City Art Gallery, Southampton, and Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Collezione Agostino e Patrizia Re Rebaudengo, Turin; La Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy
Idea Europe, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena, Italy
Seeing the Unseen, nvisible Museum, Peter Fleissig Collection, London, United Kingdom
The Curator’s Egg, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1993
Works on Paper, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Prospect ’93, Frankfurter Kunstverein und Schirnhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
New Voices, Arts Council of England World Touring Exhibition, (travelled:Centre de Conférences Albert Borschette, Brussels, Belgium; Musée Nationale d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg; Taksim Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey; State Fine   Arts Gallery, Ankara, Turkey; State Painting and Sculpture Museum, Izmir, Turkey)
Moving into View – Recent British Painting, Arts Council of England, touring exhibitionJohn Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Coalition, Center for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Callum Innes / Perry Roberts: Works on Paper, Frith Street Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Wonderful Life, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1992
Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und Synthese, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Pittura e Procedimento, Galleria L’ Attico, Italy
Hablützel, Innes, Wasmuth, Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

1991
Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Kunst Europa, Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Artisti Invitati Al Premio Internazionale, (First Prize), Milan, Rome, London, USA
Busche Galerie, Cologne, Germany

1990
The British Art Show, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, travelled to Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, and the Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom

1989
369 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Smith Biennial, Stirling, United Kingdom
Scatter, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Fruitmarket Open, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Selected Collections 
Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Arts Council England, United Kingdom
Birmingham City Museum & Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Bohen Foundation, New York, New York, USA
British Council, London, United Kingdom
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão –Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, USA
Contemporary Art Society, London, United Kingdom
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Deutsche Bank, London, United Kingdom
Deutsche Bank, Sydney, Australia
European Parliament Art Collection
Fondation d’art contemporain Daniel & Florence Guerlain, Paris, France Government Art Collection, United Kingdom
Hilti Art Foundation, Liechtenstein
HypoVereinsbank, Munich, Germany Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Nürnberg, Germany
Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds, United Kingdom
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
National Galleries of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Neuberger Berman, New York, New York, USA
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., USA
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York , USA