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British artist (1971–2025)

Alastair MacKinven
Born1971 (1971)
Clatterbridge, England
DiedJanuary 2025 (aged 53)
NationalityBritish
EducationBFA Alberta College of Art, Calgary
MFA Goldsmiths College, London
Known forPainting], performance art

Alastair MacKinven (1971 – January 2025) was a British visual artist based in London working on figurative painting and portraiture, film, and performance. He was a lecturer in painting at the University College of London's Slade School of Art and professor of the Figurative Painting Class in the Viennese Academy of Fine Art until his death in 2025. He held a BFA from Alberta College of Art, Calgary, in Canada (1994); and an MFA from Goldsmiths College, London (1996).

Life and career

Alastair MacKinven's paintings touch on figuration, mythology, the physical and natural worlds depicting ethereal color combinations to present human and non human bodies and objects.

His first performance film work, All the Things You Could Be by Now If Robert Smithson's Wife Was Your Mother, which depicted the artist in nude, was exhibited in London in 2007.

In 2008, his solo show Alastair MacKinven at ICA London paid homage to Dutch designer and illustrator M. C. Escher. His performance Cut Off My Hand to Spite My Cock, in which he glued his own hand to the gallery floor, was too shown in 2008 at Camden Art Centre, London.

In 2009 MacKinven started working on the Abstract Capitalist Realism painting series and body of work about dualisms such as life and death, happiness and sadness, among others.

In the summer of 2020, his work was featured in the cover and content of Frontrunner, an arts journal edited by art critic Shana Beth Mason.

MacKinven's work was on view in Room by Room: Concepts, Themes, and Artists in the Rachofsky Collection, presented in 2023 at Warehouse Dallas. His work is included in the collection of Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida.

On 8 January 2025, it was announced that MacKinven had died following a long illness. He was 53.

References

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  2. Hunt, Andrew (1 May 2019). "Alastair Mackinven and Behrang Karimi". Artforum. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  3. "Slade School of Fine Art - Mackinven". Slade School of Fine Art. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  4. "Maureen Paley – Alastair Mackinven". www.maureenpaley.com. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  5. Schwabsky, Barry (1 May 2021). "Alastair Mackinven". Artforum. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  6. Block, Louis (9 March 2021). "Alastair MacKinven: Dlnrg [oeeey]". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Abstract Capitalist Realism". MAP Magazine. 1 November 2009. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  8. "Back Matter". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry (15). 2007. ISSN 1465-4253.
  9. "Alastair MacKinven". archive.ica.art. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  10. ^ Mason, Shana Beth (8 September 2020). "FRONTRUNNER Meets Alastair Mackinven". FRONTRUNNER. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  11. "Back Matter". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry (20). 2009. ISSN 1465-4253.
  12. "The Warehouse Dallas | Alastair Mackinven". The Warehouse Dallas. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
  13. "Alastair Mackinven Has Died, Aged 53". The Quietus. 10 January 2025. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
  14. "It is with huge respect and sadness that we announce the passing, after a long illness, of Alastair Mackinven artist, painter, musician, writer, teacher and wonderful person who will be greatly missed by all who knew and appreciated him and his work". Maureen Paley on Instagram. Retrieved 8 January 2025.

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