Richard Killeen

Killeen was educated at the Elam School of Fine Arts, where his lecturers included Colin McCahon, before graduating in 1966. He has won a number of awards, including the QE2 Arts Fellowship, and has been the subject of several major exhibitions. He is particularly known for his arranged collections of aluminium 'cut outs' hung on walls, from 1978 onwards, and has continued arrangements of objects in this style.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Richard Killeen|url=http://mcleaveygallery.com/artists/richard-killeen/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2021-01-14|website=McLeavey Gallery}} In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to painting.{{cite web |url=https://dpmc.govt.nz/publications/queens-birthday-and-golden-jubilee-honours-list-2002 |title=Queen's Birthday and Golden Jubilee honours list 2002 |date=3 June 2002 |publisher=Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet |accessdate=25 June 2020}}

His early cut-outs reflected Killeen's "discontent with the compression caused by the four static points of the frame," and an answer was found in their "off-stretcher presentation."{{Cite book|title=New Zealand Art: a modern perspective|last=Bett|first=Elva|publisher=Reed Methuen Publishers Ltd|year=1986|isbn=0-474-00063-X|location=39 Rawene Road, Auckland|pages=57}} These are created from cardboard templates, which he uses to cut aluminium sheeting, lacquer, and paint.

1967

• The Group Show  68 Christchurch, Durham St. Art Gallery. Killeen had five works in the exhibition. (group){{Cite web |title=The Group 1967 |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Publications/Art/TheGroup/pdfs/1967.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}} and two works Soldier and Microphone Man in the 1968 Group Show.{{Cite web |title=The Group 1968 |url=https://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Heritage/Publications/Art/TheGroup/pdfs/1968.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}}

1968

• This Land  Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland. (group)

1969

• Manawatu Prize for Contemporary Art  Palmerston North Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=Manawatu Prize for Contemporary Art |url=https://manawatuheritage.pncc.govt.nz/item/cd6d5883-5b0b-46be-82ea-3076ceb6c6f5/pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}} 

1970

• Paintings April 1969-April 1970 Barry Lett Galleries, Auckland.
• New Zealand Art of the Sixties: a Royal Visit Exhibition Auckland City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=New Zealand Art of the Sixties |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/new-zealand-art-of-the-60s |access-date=20 May 2024}}

1972

• Richard Killeen Petar James Gallery, Auckland. Along with being part of the opening group exhibition with Don Driver, Rudi Gopas, Milan Mrkusich, Philip Trusttum and Gordon Walters earlier in the year Killeen was also represented by a solo exhibition in 1972 along with solo shows in 1973 and 1974.{{Cite book |title=Vuletic and his circle: the Gus Fisher Gallery, the University of Auckland, 10.05. - 28.06.2003 |date=2003 |isbn=978-0-473-09528-4 |editor-last=Hanfling |editor-first=Edward |location=Auckland}}

1975

• Richard Killeen: Recent Paintings Peter McLeavey Gallery (later McLeavey Gallery), Wellington. Killeen’s first solo exhibition with Peter McLeavey will be the first of fifty held up to 2024.{{Cite book |last=Trevelyan |first=Jill |title=Peter McLeavey: the life and times of a New Zealand art dealer |date=2013 |publisher=Te Papa Press |isbn=978-0-9876688-4-4 |location=Wellington, New Zealand}}

1976

• New Zealand Drawing 1976 Auckland City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=New Zealand Drawing 1976 |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1976-new-zealand-drawing-catalogue.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}}

1977

• Young Contemporaries Auckland City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=Young Conntemporaries |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1977-young-contemporaries-exhibition-catalogue.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}} Killeen was represented with Frog Shooter{{Cite web |title=Frog Shooter |url=https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/4476 |access-date=20 May 2024}} a painting purchased at the time of the exhibition by the Auckland Art Gallery.

1979

• Richard Killeen Peter Webb Galleries, Auckland. From 1979 to 1981 Killeen would have 14 exhibitions with Peter Webb.{{Cite book |last=Pound |first=Francis |title=Stories we tell ourselves: the paintings of Richard Killeen |date=1999 |publisher=Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki [u.a.] |isbn=978-1-86953-431-8 |edition=1st publ |location=Auckland}}

1981

Richard Killeen Brooke/Gifford Gallery, Christchurch. The first of ten solo exhibitions Killeen would have with the gallery.{{Cite journal |last=Riley |first=Brett |date=Spring 1983 |title=The Brooke/Gifford Gallery |url=https://art-newzealand.com/28-brooke/ |journal=Art New Zealand |issue=28}}

1982

• Artist Project No.1. Chance and Inevitability Auckland City Art Gallery. Curator of the project Alexa Johnston explained in the catalogue how Killeen allowed people attending the projects opening were allowed to take one of the cut-out pieces and hang them anywhere they chose on the wall. The final work she noted, ‘took shape gradually with the involvement of a large number of people'.{{Cite web |title=Artist Project No.1. Chance and Inevitability |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1982-richard-killeen.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}}
• Vision in Disbelief: The 4th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (group){{Cite journal |last=Taylor |first=Paul |date=October 1982 |title=Vision in Disbelief: The 4th Biennale of Sydney |url=https://www.artforum.com/events/vision-in-disbelief-the-4th-sydney-biennale-227239/ |journal=Artforum |volume=21 |issue=2}}
• Seven Painters/The Eighties Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui. (group)

1983

• Chance and Inevitability Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch. The installation, also shown at the Peter McLeavey Gallery in Wellington followed the same format as the Auckland exhibition the previous year.{{Cite web |title=Chance and Inevitability |url=https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/exhibitions/chance-and-inevitability |access-date=20 May 2024}}
• New Image, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art Auckland City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=New Image: Aspects of New Zealand Art |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1983-new-image-aspects-of-recent-new-zealand-art.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}}
• The Grid, Lattice and Network, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art Auckland City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=The Grid, Lattice and Network, Aspects of Recent N.Z. Art |url=https://cdn.aucklandunlimited.com/artgallery/assets/media/1983-the-grid-lattice-and-network.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}} 

1984

• Richard Killeen Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane
• Richard Killeen New Vision Gallery, Auckland
• Richard Killeen Bertha Urdang Gallery, New York

1985

• Richard Killeen, Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland
• Origins originality & beyond: the Sixth Biennale of Sydney Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. (group) The exhibition was curated by Nick Waterlow.{{Cite book |title=Origins originality + beyond: 16 May-6 July 1986, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery Road, Sydney, PIER 2/3 Walsh Bay, Sydney |date=1986 |publisher=Sixth Biennale of Sydney |isbn=978-0-9596619-5-8 |editor-last=Art Gallery of New South Wales |location=Sydney, N.S.W., Australia}}
• Content/Context National Gallery, Wellington. (group){{Cite book |title=Content / Context |date=1986 |publisher=National Art Gallery |isbn= |location=Wellington |pages=50-51}}

1988

• NZXI Auckland City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite journal |last=Bell |first=Leonard |date=Spring 1988 |title=NZXI: A Commentary |journal=Art New Zealand |issue=48}} 

1989

• Lessons in Lightness Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney

1990

• Richard Killeen, Sampler 1967-1990 Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland. Curated by Francis Pound.{{Cite book |last=Pound |first=Francis |title=Sampler 1967-1990 |last2=Killeen |first2=Richard |date=1990 |publisher=Workshop Press}}

1991

• Signatures of Place Govett Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth.
• Cross Currents: Contemporary New Zealand and Australian Art from the Chartwell Collection Waikato Museum of Art and History, Hamilton. (group){{Cite web |title=History |url=https://chartwell.org.nz/being/history/ |access-date=20 May 2024}}
• Home Made Home Wellington City Art Gallery. (group){{Cite web |title=Home-made Home |url=https://citygallery.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Home-Made-Home.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}}

1992

Headlands: Thinking Through New Zealand Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.{{Cite book |title=Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art |date=1992 |publisher=The Museum of contemporary Art [u.a.] |isbn=978-1-875632-04-6 |editor-last=Whiting |editor-first=Cliff |location=Sydney |editor-last2=Murphy |editor-first2=Bernice |editor-last3=McCormack |editor-first3=John |editor-last4=Sotheran |editor-first4=Cheryll}}

1995

• A Very Peculiar practice, Aspects of Recent New Zealand Painting City Art Gallery, Wellington. (group){{Cite web |title=A Very Peculiar Practise |url=https://citygallery.org.nz/exhibitions/a-very-peculiar-practice-aspects-of-recent-new-zealand-painting/ |access-date=20 May 2024}} 

1996

• The Dreaming of Gordon Walters{{Cite web |title=The Dreaming of Gordon Walters |url=https://digitalnz.org/records/175634 |access-date=20 May 2024}} Sue Crockford Gallery, Auckland.

1998

• Dream Collectors, One Hundred Years of Art in New Zealand Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington. (group) The exhibition was curated by Ian Wedde and John Walsh.{{Cite book |title=Dream collectors: one hundred years of art in New Zealand |date=1998 |publisher=Te Papa Press |isbn=978-0-909010-48-5 |editor-last=Wedde |editor-first=Ian |location=Wellington [N.Z.] |editor-last2=Walsh |editor-first2=John |editor-last3=Johnston |editor-first3=Alexa |editor-last4=Museum of New Zealand |editor-last5=Auckland Art Gallery}}

1999

• Stories We Tell Ourselves, The Paintings of Richard Killeen Auckland Art Gallery. A touring survey of Killeen’s work to-date curated by Francis Pound.{{Cite book |last=Pound |first=Francis |title=Stories we tell ourselves: the paintings of Richard Killeen |last2=Killeen |first2=Richard |date=1999 |publisher=David Bateman |isbn=978-1-86953-431-8 |location=Auckland, N.Z}}

2000

• Wonderlust Ivan Anthony Gallery, Auckland.

2001

• Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand City Gallery, Wellington. (group){{Cite web |title=Prospect 2001: New Art New Zealand |url=https://citygallery.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/E_P_4_Booklet_1_sm.pdf |access-date=20 May 2024}}

2003

• Ladybird Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin. {{Cite web |title=Richard Killeen: Ladybird |url=https://brettmcdowellgallery.com/richard-killeen-ladybird-2003-12th-may-8th-june-2023-2/ |access-date=20 May 2024}}

2005

• Nature Culture Dunedin Public Art Gallery. (group)

2005

• Mixed-up Childhood Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland. (group){{Cite book |title=Mixed-up Childhood |date=2005 |publisher=Auckland Art Gallery |isbn=978-0-86463-262-3 |editor-last=Craw |editor-first=Janita |location=Auckland |editor-last2=Leonhard |editor-first2=Robert |editor-last3=Kincaid |editor-first3=James |editor-last4=May |editor-first4=Helen}}

2007

• Something Old Something New Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts, Manukau City. (group)

2010

• Unnerved, The New Zealand Project Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane. (group){{Cite journal |last=Leonard |first=Robert |date=2011 |title=Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, 2010 |journal=Eyeline |issue=73}}

2021

• Repetition Brett McDowell Gallery, Dunedin.{{Cite web |date=1991 |title=Repetition |url=https://brettmcdowellgallery.com/richard-killeen-repetition-21st-may-10th-june-2021/ |access-date=20 May 2024}}

2024

• Banners McLeavey Gallery, Wellington.{{Cite web |title=Banners |url=https://mcleaveygallery.com/exhibitions/banners/ |access-date=20 May 2024}}

• Man and Window Reflection 1968 [https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/3576/man-and-window-reflection view]
• Street Corner 1969 [https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/69264 view]
• Wind 1971 [https://chartwell.org.nz/seeing/collection/wind/ view]
• Untitled 1975 [https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/23630/untitled view]
• Untitled 1975 [https://chartwell.org.nz/seeing/collection/untitled-138/ view]
• Frog Green 1976 [https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/20001941-253/richard-killeen/book-of-the-hook view]
• Collections from a Japanese Garden 1937  1978 [https://govettbrewster.com/collection?artist=128 view]
• Age of Fishes 1980 [https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/218013 view]
• Living for Today Number 3 1981 [https://fletchercollection.org.nz/artworks/living-for-today-no-3/ view]
• Black Insects, Red Primitives 1981 [https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/81-31/richard-killeen/black-insects-red-primitives view]
• Chance and Inevitability 1982 [https://www.aucklandartgallery.com/explore-art-and-ideas/artwork/20318/chance-and-inevitability view]
• Measuring Tools 1994 [https://fletchercollection.org.nz/artworks/measuring-tools/ view]
• Book of the Hook 1996 [https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/20001941-253/richard-killeen/book-of-the-hook view]
• Jar of Pattern Sky 2001 [https://chartwell.org.nz/seeing/collection/jar-of-pattern-sky/ view]
• Loading 2004 [https://govettbrewster.com/collection/2005-16 view]

{{reflist}}

• [http://www.art-newzealand.com/Issues11to20/killeen.htm Francis Pound, The Escape from the Frame: Richard Killeen's Cut-Outs, in Art New Zealand magazine (No.20: Winter 1981)]
• [http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz/Collection/Infosheets/2000_194.pdf Book of the Hook, Christchurch Art Gallery]

{{commons category|Richard Killeen}}

• [http://www.richardkilleen.com/ Richard Killeen home page]
• [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Party.aspx?irn=1252 Artist page at Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa]
• [http://bowerbankninow.com/richard-killeen Richard Killeen's page on the Bowerbank Ninow artist database]
• [http://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/browse/?filter=&collection_person_id=701 Artist collection page at Christchurch Art Gallery]
• [http://www.ivananthonygallery.com/richard-killeen/ Official artist page for Killeen's Auckland dealer gallery, Ivan Anthony]
• [http://brookegiffordgallery.co.nz/artists/richard-killeen Works shown at Brooke Gifford Gallery]

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