Painter, Photographer
· Born in 1976
- Germany
Casey McKee
- Materials
- Oil
- Themes
- Conceptual, Provocative, Fantasy, Historical and Political, Landscape Portrait, Marine, Urban, Nature, Religion
- Biography
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Casey McKee paints the uneasy theatre of contemporary life. An American painter based in Germany, McKee works primarily in oil on canvas, using humour, exaggeration, and theatrical imagery to explore power, status, and social behaviour. His strange…
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Casey McKee
Germany
« My themes tend to be about society and systems of power. I hope to instigate a conversation without providing clear answers so that the works can be approached through individual experiences. »
Casey McKee paints the uneasy theatre of contemporary life.
An American painter based in Germany, McKee works primarily in oil on canvas, using humour, exaggeration, and theatrical imagery to explore power, status, and social behaviour. His strange figures and absurd scenarios invite viewers to consider the systems we live within, the roles we perform, and the discomforts we learn to ignore.
His work has been exhibited internationally at Space K Museum in Seoul, the Moscow Biennale, and the National Arts Club in New York, and featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Financial Times, and The Upset, published by Die Gestalten Verlag. He has been artist-in-residence at The Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida and the Arctic Hideaway in Norway.
After many years in Berlin, McKee now lives and works in a small village in the German countryside, where distance from city life offers space to observe its rituals, contradictions, and absurdities.
An American painter based in Germany, McKee works primarily in oil on canvas, using humour, exaggeration, and theatrical imagery to explore power, status, and social behaviour. His strange figures and absurd scenarios invite viewers to consider the systems we live within, the roles we perform, and the discomforts we learn to ignore.
His work has been exhibited internationally at Space K Museum in Seoul, the Moscow Biennale, and the National Arts Club in New York, and featured in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Financial Times, and The Upset, published by Die Gestalten Verlag. He has been artist-in-residence at The Fountainhead Residency in Miami, Florida and the Arctic Hideaway in Norway.
After many years in Berlin, McKee now lives and works in a small village in the German countryside, where distance from city life offers space to observe its rituals, contradictions, and absurdities.
Credentials
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
- Nationality
- Germany
- Born
- 1976
- Mediums
- Painter, Photographer
Disaster Selfie / The National Arts Club NY - New York, United States
The Aristocracy of the Imperishables / Projekt Övelgönne 106 - Hamburg, Germany
An Unscratchable Itch / Artloft Berlin - Berlin, Germany
Antimatter / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Unpacking Ego / Space K_Seoul/ Space K Gwangju/ Space K Gwacheon - Seoul, South Korea
Unpacking Ego / Space K_Seoul/ Space K Gwangju/ Space K Gwacheon - Seoul, South Korea
The Machine Stops / W+S Gallery - Berlin, Germany
Anthropocene – Contemporary Art Ruhe / Contemporary Art Ruhe - Essen, Germany
Biomass / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Robber Barons / Artfein Gallery - Berlin, Germany
Continental Drift / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Cultural Devolution / Artfein Gallery - Berlin, Germany
From the Permanent Collection: Casey McKee - Corporate Warfare / The National Arts Club NY - New York, United States
The Edge of Forever / Kunst Zürich - Zürich, Switzerland
From the Permanent Collection: Casey McKee - Corporate Warfare / The National Arts Club NY - New York, United States
Corporate Warfare / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Uncertainty Principle / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Robber Barons / Stadtbibliothek Bremen - Bremen, Germany
Mistakes Were Made / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Greenwash / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
End of Reason / heliumcowboy artspace gallery - Hamburg, Germany
Everything Must Go! / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Milking the Cashcow / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
9 to 5 / heliumcowboy artspace gallery - Hamburg, Germany
Corporate Warfare / Galerie Greulich - Frankfurt am Main, Germany
No Exit / The Larsen Gallery - Scottsdale, Arizona, Germany
Corporate Warfare / heliumcowboy artspace gallery - Hamburg, Germany
The Berlin Series / The Cultural Exchange Gallery - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Iconoclast / The Cultural Exchange Gallery - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Casey McKee: New Works / Van de Griff / Mar Gallery - Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Study from a Portrait by Bacon after Velazquez / The Cultural Exchange Gallery - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
Study from a Portrait by Bacon after Velazquez / Raymond Lawrence Gallery - Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Scout / Galleri Heike Arndt DK - Kettinge, Denmark
Openart Lausitz Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst / Kunsthalle Lausitz - Cottbus, Germany
OSTRALE Biennale O25 15. International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts / robotron-Kantine - Dresden, Germany
The Value / CICA Museum, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art - Gimpo, South Korea
OSTRALE Biennale O23 14. International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts / robotron-Kantine - Dresden, Germany
OSTRALE Biennale O21 13. International Exhibition of Contemporary Arts / robotron-Kantine - Dresden, Germany
NordArt – International Juried Art Exhibition / Kunstwerk Karlshütte - Büdelsdorf, Germany
Distorted Portrait / Space K_Seoul/ Space K Gwangju/ Space K Gwacheon - Seoul, South Korea
NordArt – International Juried Art Exhibition / Kunstwerk Carlshütte - Rendsberg, Germany
NordArt – International Juried Art Exhibition / Kunstwerk Carlshütte - Rendsburg, Germany
Body Language: Trends in Contemporary Figurative Art / Tucson Museum of Art - Tucson, Arizona, United States
Gute Kunst? Wollen - SØR Rusche Sammlung Oelde/Berlin / Offen auf AEG - Nurenberg, Germany
Tierstücke - der Sammlung SØR Rusche Oelde/Berlin / Museum Abtei Liesborn - Wadersloh, Germany
Schöne Landschaft/Bedrohte Natur - Alte Meister im Dialog mit zeitgenössischer Kunst / Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche - Osnabrück, Germany
Transformed Human / Space K_Seoul/ Space K Gwangju/ Space K Gwacheon - Seoul, South Korea
The Fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art / TSUM - Moscow, Russia
Die Kunst der Krise / Künstlerhaus Bethanien - Berlin, Germany
Von Liebeslust und Lebenslast - der inszenierte Alltag / Museum Höxter-Corvey - Höxter, Germany
Un/Fair Trade – Die Kunst der Gerechtigkeit / Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum - Graz, Austria
Human Conditions: selections from the permanent collection / Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
New Acquisitions / Phoenix Art Museum - Phoenix, Arizona, United States
New Acquisitions / Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
New Acquisitions / Tucson Museum of Art - Tucson, Arizona, United States
Projekt Övelgönne 106 - Hamburg, Germany
The Arctic Hideaway - Fleinvaer, Norway
The Arctic Hideaway - Fleinvaer, Norway
Schloss Wolkenburg - Wolkenburg, Germany
The Fountainhead Residency Program - Miami, Florida, Germany
West Valley Art Museum, United States
The University of Texas at Austin, United States
Tucson Museum of art, United States
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, United States
Space K Museum, South Korea
The Phoenix Art Museum, United States
Projekt Övelgönne 106, Germany
Ömer Koç Collection, Türkiye
The National Arts Club - New York, United States
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, United States
Kolon Industries, South Korea
Georgia Dome Owner’s Club , United States
FountainHead Equity Partners, United States
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