Whitney McVeigh

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Whitney McVeigh
Born
Whitney Osborn McVeigh

1968 (age 54–55)
New York City, U.S.
Education Bedales School
Edinburgh College of Art
Spouse
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(sep. 2001)​
Children2

Whitney Osborn McVeigh (born 1968) is an American multimedia artist living and working in London. Born in New York City, she grew up in London from the age of seven.

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Early life

McVeigh is the daughter of Pamela Osborn and Charles McVeigh III, an American banker. [1] She attended Bedales School from 1980 to 1985. Whilst studying for a BA at Edinburgh College of Art from 1995 to 1998, McVeigh ran a funk, reggae, and rare groove night club named 'Chocolate City' with her then boyfriend Jamie Byng, [2] publisher and managing director of Canongate Books, whom she married in 1996 and with whom she has two children, Leo and Marley. [3] Byng and McVeigh separated in 2001.

Exhibitions

She has travelled extensively to carry out her practice and has held residencies in India, Mexico, China and the Nirox Foundation in South Africa. [4] McVeigh considers herself an autobiographical artist. [5] Exhibitions include Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists' Visions at the Getty Villa, Los Angeles [6] Inventory: Invisible Companion at St Peter's Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge., [7] solo project at the Gervasuti Foundation for the 55th Venice Biennale Hunting Song. [8] and New Work at the A Foundation, London (2009). [9]

McVeigh made a film-based artwork during a trip to Syria to create Sight of Memory, screened in Icastica Arezzo 2013. [10] In 2015, she produced a film in collaboration with Pulse Films. [11] 'Birth': Origins at the end of life' shown at the Reynolds Room at Royal Academy [12] as part of an annual event with St Christopher's. McVeigh exhibited Language of Memory at Summerhall Arts Centre, Edinburgh in 2015–16. [13] In 2009 she was featured in BBC Four Where is Modern Art Now. [14] From 2014-2019, McVeigh was Fellow in Creative Practice at London College of Fashion. [15]

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References

  1. ↑ Charles McVeigh III
  2. ↑ "The real Byng". www.scotsman.com. 2 June 2006. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. ↑ "Canongate...I liked it so much I bought the Company". www.scotsman.com. 23 September 2003. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "Whitney McVeigh". 25 April 2013.
  5. ↑ ""NAKED TALENT; Whitney McVeigh May Have Social Cachet and an Illustrious Client List, but There's Nothing Superficial about Her Commitment to Self-Exposure on Canvas". Evening Standard. Emily Bearn. Oct 16 2009". Archived from the original on 15 December 2014. Retrieved 15 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "Plato in L.A.: Contemporary Artists' Visions, Getty Villa, Los Angeles"
  7. ↑ Kettle's Yard
  8. ↑ "Whitney McVeigh. Hunting Song". Wall Street International. 2014. Retrieved 24 October 2014.
  9. ↑ Skye, Sherwin (16 October 2009). "Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 May 2013.
  10. ↑ "Icastica, 2013".
  11. ↑ McVeigh, Whitney; Pimlott, Oskar; Riddell, Juliet; Susman, Dan; theguardian.com (30 November 2015). "Life, birth and motherhood: women at the end of their life reflect – video". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077.
  12. ↑ Royal Academy of Arts
  13. ↑ Lost Objects find a Universal Message - The Times (Scotland), December, 2015
  14. ↑ "BBC - Press Office - The Modern Beauty Season on BBC Two and BBC Four". www.bbc.co.uk. 2 November 2009.
  15. ↑ "UAL.
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