Education

1999 MA Fine Art - University of Brighton
1996 BA Fine Art - Hull School of Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions

2005 The Balance of Being, Touring Exhibition - Margaret Harvey Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum and 20-21 Visual Arts Centre.
  Born Again - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
  Unbecoming - 1,000,000mph Project Space, London
2004 Witness - James Hockey Gallery, Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham
  Moral Fibre - Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby
  Disturbance - The Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, Yorkshire
2003 Touching - The Gallery, Stratford-Upon-Avon
1998 Urban Space - RED Gallery, Hull, E.Yorkshire

Group Exhibitions

2008 Twenty - Dazed and Confused Gallery, London
  One Thing Against Another - Aspex, Portsmouth, UK
  At Home - Voewood Projects, Norfolk, UK
  ARTfutures - Bloomberg Space, London
2007 Members Show (selected by Gavin Turk) - Outpost, Norwich
  RSVP - The Foundling Museum, London (curated by Gill Hedley)
  Obstacle, New UK Sculpture - Spectacle Gallery, Birmingham (curated by Dan Mort)
2006 Off. - Outpost Gallery, Norwich
  10th Planet - Tower Bridge Business Complex, London (curated by Julian Hughes-Watts)
  2-person show (with Paul Becker), Rockwell, London
2005 Introspective men - Madder 139 Gallery, London (curator)
  Origin of Species - Huddersfield Art Gallery, W.Yorkshire
  Future Primitive - One in the Other, London (curated by Paul Johnson)
  Faux Realism - Rockwell, London (curated by Gavin Nolan)
2004 First Assembly - The Ragged School Rooms, London (curated by Mat Humphrey)
  World. B - Flaca Gallery, London (curated by Paul Johnson) (Cat.)
2003 Bursary Exhibition - RBS Gallery, London
  Et Tu Billy Buzman - Nancy Victor Gallery, London (curated by Emma Ridgeway and Sean Parfitt)
  Open Sculpture Triennial - Royal West Of England Academy, Bristol (Cat.)
  ChockerFuckingBlocked - Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London
2002 Mostyn Open 12 - Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
  Kettle's Yard Open - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge (Cat.)
  Drawings for All 2002 - Gainsborough's House, Suffolk (Cat.)
2001 The Jerwood Drawing Prize - Touring Exhibition (Cat.)
1999 Parlour Games - University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton
1998 European Couples and Others - Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

Fellowships and Residencies

2007 Take Over Residency - Pump House gallery, London (selected by David Thorp and Nigel Cooke)
2006 Installing Drawing - Artist-in-Residence (in collaboration with Ansel Krut), The Centre for Drawing, Wimbledon
2005 Artist-in-Residence - Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire
2000 Individual Artist Fellowship - Digswell Arts Trust, Hertfordshire
1999 4-week Artist Residency - Vermont Studio Center, U.S.A

Public Outdoor Commissions

2008 Transport - Site-specific sculpture - Towner Off-site, Eastbourne
2005 All OK 5 - Site-specific Outdoor installation - 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe
2004 Transmutation - Semi-permanent Sculpture, Taxi Gallery, Cambridge,

Awards

2008 Viewing Platform - The Drawing Center, New York
2006 Individual Grants for the Arts, Arts Council England, East
  Escalator Visual Arts - Commissions East and Arts Council England, East
2005 Individual Grants for the Arts - Arts Council England, East
2003 The Roy Noakes Bursary Prize
  Royal British Society of Sculptors Bursary

Bibliography

2007 Good practice for new artists, an magazine. Mark Gubb and Jo Wilson. 2007. Front cover and page 5.
2006 Metro Newspaper - The Balance of Being, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum. Mark Ward. March 2006
2005 Contemporary - News, London. Richard Dyer, Issue 73. Page 12
  Time Out - Faux Realism, Rockwell. Helen Sumpter, April 20th-27th. Page 54
2004 The Guardian Guide - Moral Fibre, Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Robert Clark. August. page 36
  Metro Newspaper - Disturbance, The Dean Clough Galleries, Mickey Noonan, April 2nd. Page 18
2001 a-n Magazine - Stroud House Open, Christopher Brown. September. Page 6
  a-n Magazine - 'Digswell Arts Trust Open studios', Nick Lambrianou. August. Page 26
  a-n Magazine - Signpost, The New Graduates guide to being an Artist, Wendy Mason. May 2001

David Kefford

Born 1972

Lives and works in Cambridgeshire, UK.

davidkefford@hotmail.com

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