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Gerry Keon was born in Dorset in 1942.  He and his family moved back to London in 1945.

He studied painting at Hornsey College of Art 1959-1962, and Byam Shaw College of Art 1962-1963.

In 1966 he moved to Leeds, and taught on the Foundation Course at Jacob Kramer College, returning to London in 1984, where he currently lives.

Contact: gerrykeon@icloud.com

Exhibitions include...

Leeds 1967-78

  • Yorkshire Artists, City Art Gallery
  • City Institute Gallery
  • Leeds Polytechnic Gallery
  • Leeds University Senior Common Room
  • Jacob Kramer College

London

  • Air Gallery 1978
  • Francis Kyle Gallery – solo shows in 1991, 1994, 1996 and 1998, and contributed to three group shows
  • The Living Room Gallery, Greenwich: “Kerb Scrawlers” 1994
  • Singer – Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Exhibition -2002, 2003, 2009, and 2010
  • The Discerning Eye, 2003, 2005, 2009
  • Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2010
  • SE1 Gallery, 2007
  • Old Contemporaries, Islington Arts Centre, March 2011
  • Mixed show at Jewish Centre of the Arts, Hampstead 2012

Whitstable

  • Granger Gallery, solo show 2008 and mixed shows
  • Three Artists 2009: Gerry Keon, Arthur Neal NEAC, William Packer NEAC

New York

  • OK Harris Gallery, solo show 2009
  • OK Harris Gallery, solo show 2012

Normandy, France

  • Château de Regnéville-sur-Mer, 2014

Permanent collections include...

  • The Guildhall Gallery, London
  • The Arts Council of England
  • The Edward F. Albee Foundation, New York
  • Ivan and Marilynn Karp, New York