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About the artist
Friedhard Kiekeben, b. 1963, studied at the Royal College of Art, London, and in Frankfurt, Germany.
After fifteen years working as an artist and teaching printmaking in the UK, he relocated to the USA.
He is currently Professor of Printmaking at Columbia College Chicago.
Kiekeben's artworks take form as digital wall drawings, etched and printed metal friezes and sculpture,
and sequences of original prints. His projects often include site specific installations - such as the
Two Pillars in downtown Chicago - and are exhibited internationally in public spaces, art museums and
commercial galleries. He is the author of NontoxicPrint.com.

For more go to www.FriedhardKiekeben.com

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• Two Pillars, public art installation commissioned by Chicago CTA and Columbia College, installed August 2008
  

• Flower Cast (Fool's Gold) for 'Human Nature', A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago, August-September CAT       

• Curator of 'Multiply' featuring Alyson Shotz, Robert Krawczick, Jesse Seay, A+D Gallery Chicago, March-April 2008 CAT
  

• 'Friedhard Kiekeben: Cascade-Shatter-Flow', OMS at Caro D’Offay Gallery Chicago, April-June 2008
  

• Deva-Veda, Digital Print Installation, Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, UK, January-February 2007
  

• Co-curator with Jennifer Kiekeben of  'Multiply' (UK): printed works by Columbia College students, Castle Park Arts Centre, UK, January-February 2007
  

• 'Work in Process', A+D Gallery, Chicago, CAT

•  Friction installation for 'Eye Tricks', Walsh Gallery, South Orange, NJ

• Cascade installation, OMS at Ahlbergshallen Museum, S – Östersund, CAT
  

• Publication of  Cascade, New Work, Friedhard Kiekeben; Catalog with introductory essay by Sabina Ott, CAT
  

• Flow installation for International Invitational, Christel DeHaan Arts Center, University of Indianapolis
  

• Curator 'Two Halves', International Exchange Exhibition, RIT and University of Chester, Castle Park Arts Centre

• 'Transit' Retrospective Exhibition 1990-2006 OMS, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax UK
  

• Deva digital installation with additional prints, OMS at the Grosvenor Museum, Chester UK
  

• Representation at Art Frankfurt by Gallery Giani              
  

• Contributor in International 'Mini Print' Exhibition TS, CAT            
  

• Beyond Steps installation for the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston  UK
  

• Shatter OME, Gallery Arte Giani, Frankfurt
  

• Aphelion TS at Art.tm, Inverness         
  

• Represented by Art.tm, Glasgow Art Fair
  

• Howard Gardens Gallery TS, Cardiff     
  

• Represented by Arte Giani, Art Frankfurt, CAT              

• Wrexham City Art Centre                

• Tinflowers installation OMS, Gallery Giani, Frankfurt        

• Friction installation and TS, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, NY, CAT    
  

• 'In-Print' TS, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull  UK, CAT  

•  Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries                

• Field of Vision installation OMS, Kunsthaus Wiesbaden

• New Attitudes, Gallery Daeppen, Art Frankfurt,  CAT

• Cluster installation  OMS, Gallery Guillaume Daeppen, Basel             

• Cluster installation, Kunst Zürich, CAT      

• New Attitudes, Gallery Daeppen, Art Frankfurt,  CAT         

• University of Illinois  TS

• Bilder sind stärker als Worte installation, Gallery Daeppen, Basel        

• Crystal Yellow installation OMS, Art Frankfurt

• Installation for Gallery Daeppen, Art Zurich, CAT                         

• Crystal Black installation OMS, Citizens Studios, Edinburgh

• Crystal installation OMS, Kunstverein Friedberg, CAT

• Publication of Crystal catalog with essay by Johannes Kogler, CAT              

• Installation, Objekte, Graphik, Arte Giani, Frankfurt, CAT   

• Art Frankfurt, Arte Giani, CAT                    

• Art Cologne, Gallery Guillaume Daeppen, CAT

• AWARD: First Media Art Prize, Deutsche Telekom

• Castle Museum, Nottingham, CAT                    

• Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, CAT                    

• ArCade - Digital Art TS, University of Brighton, CAT

• La folie du voir installation, Gallery Daeppen, Basel                       

• Friction installation, Art Cologne, Gallery Daeppen, CAT         

• Transit installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Basel
  

• Publication of  Friedhard Kiekeben - Selected Works with essay by Charles Esche (Van Abbemuseum), CAT

• 'Artists' Impressions' TS, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, CAT  

• Depot - Public Warehouse, Art Cologne, CAT

• Durhammer Gallery, Frankfurt            

• Castle Museum TS, Nottingham, CAT           

• Walsall Museum and Art Gallery TS, CAT

• Installation for American and European Works on Paper, Gallery 86, Trier, CAT

• Transit installation, Royal College of Art, London, CAT        

• AWARD: OSARCA Prize 1993, Royal College of Art, London

• Fusion Projects, Royal College of Art, London                

• Square Progression Installation OMS, Gallery 86, Trier

• Art Book Hebbel - diaries, Edition Tiessen

• Matrix installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• AWARD: Mathews Wrightson Trust Award, RCA, London

• Domacinovic, Uliczka, Kiekeben installation, Kunstverein Offenbach, CAT

• Square Progression installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Basel

• Square 33 installation OMS, Maclaurin Gallery, Ayr

• AWARD: Artist Award Johannes Mosbach Stiftung, OF 

• Square 33 installation, Hochschule für Gestaltung, OF     

• Kunststudenten stellen aus, Kunsthalle, Bonn, CAT   

• Sequence 52 installation OMS, Galerie im Kreishaus, Hofheim   

• Media installation, Gallery G. Daeppen, Frankfurt             

• Epiphanias Gallery OMS, Frankfurt

• 22nd Arnoldshainer Ausstellung OMS  

• Project David installation OMS, Gallery Daeppen, Frankfurt

• Totem, Dreieich Gallery  

• Selected Works, Main-Taunus Arts Trust    

• AWARD: Studio Scholarship, Frankfurter Sparkasse

• AWARD: First Prize, Kunstsammlung Main-Taunus, Hofheim

• Professor of Printmaking, Columbia College Chicago, August 2006 - present

• Senior Lecturer Fine Art (Innovative Printmaking), University of Chester, 2002-2006                                          
  

• Visiting Artist / Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 2000-2007

• Visiting Artist/ Professor; University of Indianapolis, 2005

• Visiting Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, 1999-2003

• Visiting Lecturer / Tutor in Fine Art, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2000-2002

• Lecturer, Printmaking Consultant for Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries 
  

• Innovative Intaglio, International Summer School, Project Manager 1999-2006

• Researcher, Lecturer and Technician, Edinburgh Printmakers, 1994-1998

•  Visiting Lecturer at the School of Art, University of Maine, Orono, USA,  1998

• Lecturer at Canadian School for  Non-Toxic Printmaking, 1998, 1999

• Printmaking consultant for Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Art, 1998

• www.nontoxicprint.com

• Referenced in Intaglio: Acrylic-Resist Etching, Collagraphy, Engraving, Drypoint, Mezzotint by Robert Adam and Carol Robertson, Thames and Hudson, London, 2007

• Article in Grafisk Nuhet Swedish magazine for graphic arts

• F Kiekeben’s etching innovations referenced in Advanced Applied Science - Finding out about substances Volume 1; produced by 4Science (www.4science.org.uk); publisher Ken Gadd Associates Limited.

• F Kiekeben's etching innovations published in Spanish text book and DVD El grabado no toxico: nuevos procedimentos y materiales by Eva Figueras, University of Barcelona Press, 2004

• Web based research resource established, University of Chester: www.Safeprintmaking.com (now  www.nontoxicprint.com)

• Extensive contribution to major publication on printmaking innovation: The Contemporary Printmaker,  Keith Howard, Write-Cross Press, NY

• Contribution to new edition of a handbook on printmaking innovation: Handbook of Non-toxic Intaglio, Henrik Boegh, Forlaget Boegh, Copenhagen

• Innovative Intaglio Fact Sheets: © FK for Gracefield Arts Centre and the University of Chester

• Contribution in Digital Printmaking, Paul Coldwell & George Whale /  London,  A&C Black publishers

• Referenced in Danish publication on printmaking innovation: Handbok I Non-toxic Dybtryk, Henrik Boegh, Forlaget Boegh, Copenhagen

• Extensive contribution to major publication on printmaking innovation: Non-toxic Intaglio Printmaking, Keith Howard

• Original research into nontoxic possibilities in printmaking resulting in Innovative Intaglio Fact Sheets  © Friedhard Kiekeben for Edinburgh Printmakers.
  

• "Fifteen Years of Innovative Printmaking" at Harke Konstcentrum; Ostersund, Sweden (2006)

• Speaker & Organizer: "What’s In The Tin," Research Symposium, UCC, Chester (2004)

• Public Lecture: "Art and Matrix," Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (2004)

• Public Lecture: "A New Aesthetic for Printmaking," UCLAN, Preston (2004)

• Conference Speaker: "Non-Toxic Printmaking in Spain: Etching without acid," University of Barcelona & Granollers Museum (2003)

• Conference Speaker: "Non-Toxic Printmaking in Europe" International Conference on Non-Toxic Printmaking, RIT, New York (2001)

• Public Lecture: "New Solutions for Printmaking," In-Print Conference, Quay Art & Ferens Gallery, Hull (2001)   
  

• Public Slide Lecture: "Digital Explorations and Printed Art," Edinburgh College of Art (1999) 
  

• Speaker and Workshop Leader: "Non-toxic Printmaking in Scandinavia," Copenhagen, Denmark (1998)

• Lecture: "Simulated Realities," University of Maine, Orono, USA (1998)