Alastair MacKinven is an artist based in London

London

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MacKinven was born in the Wirral

Wirral Peninsula

Wirral or the Wirral is a peninsula in North West England. It is bounded by three bodies of water: to the west by the River Dee, forming a boundary with Wales, to the east by the River Mersey and to the north by the Irish Sea. Both terms "Wirral" and "the Wirral" are used locally , although the...

. His practice encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, audio and photography.

He received his MFA

Master of Fine Arts

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 from Goldsmiths in 1996.

Selected exhibitions

2007

Liste 07, Basel

2006

Take One, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Jerking Off The Dog To Feed The Cat, HOTEL Gallery, London

2005

Islands of Glory in Streets Caked With the Faeces of Decadence, NANG Gallery, London

2004

I Love Music, Creative Growth, Oakland, California

Cünst - Haunted by the Future, Tropicana Cinema, part of the Raindance Film Festival, London

1998

No Budget Film Festival, MWMWM Gallery, New York

1997

Sentimental Education, Cabinet Gallery, London

Popoccultural 2, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton

Alastair Mackinven, New Gallery, Calgary, Canada

1995

See Through Brain, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

If you Could Lick my Heart Surely it Would Poison You, Galleri Campbells Occasionally, Copenhagen

External links

• Images, text and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
• Further information at Hotel Gallery
• Alastair MacKinven on ArtFacts.net