MK Gallery
MK Gallery is the municipal art gallery of Milton Keynes, a city in Buckinghamshire about 50 miles northwest of London. The gallery was extended and remodelled in 2018/19 and includes an art-house cinema. It does not have a permanent collection.
History
The gallery was founded in 1999 under the management of the Milton Keynes Theatre and Gallery Company.The Gallery partially closed from 2015 to 2019 for a substantial expansion and renovation. The building now has five exhibition galleries, an auditorium/cinema and a studio.
Exhibitions
The more notable exhibitions presented by the gallery include:1990s
- Gilbert & George: The Rudimentary Pictures
- Mark Francis: Elements
- Richard Hamilton: New Technology and Printmaking
- Printers inc.: Recent British Prints from the Arts Council and British Council Collections
- Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2000
- Alison Turnbull: Houses into Flats
- Layla Curtis
- Richard Wright
- Conversation: An Exhibition of Figurative Sculpture
- Richard Ross: Gathering Light
- Jan Dibbets: Ten Cupolas
- John Riddy: Recent Work
- FaceOn
- Mark Wallinger: Cave
- Marta Marcé: New Work
- Abigail Lane: Tomorrow’s World, Yesterday’s Fever
- Andy Warhol: Cars
- The Silbury Group: 10th Anniversary Exhibition
- Art Crazy Nation Show, Curated by Matthew Collings
- Dalziel + Scullion: Home
- Tim Noble & Sue Webster: Ghastly Arrangements
- Air Guitar: Art Reconsidering Rock Music
- Jiri Georg Dokoupil: Every Cloud is a Way
- Boyd Webb: Horse & Dog
- Georgie Hopton: Laughed – I Could Have Cried
- Sarah Lucas, Colin Lowe & Roddy Thomson: Temple of Bacchus
- Boyd & Evans: Landmarks
- The Lie of the Land
- Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance
- MK Calling 2020
- Memphis: Plastic Field
- Laura Knight: A Panoramic View
- Ingrid Pollard: Carbon Slowly Turning
- Vivian Maier: Anthology
- Larry Achiampong: Wayfinder
- Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body
- Boyd & Evans: High Time
- Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
- Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World
- Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
Current and former directors
- Stephen Snoddy
- Michael Stanley
- Anthony Spira