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''''Stephen McKenna''' (sometimes signing as ''SMCK'') (born [[London]], [[1939]]<ref name=kerlin>{{cite web|title=Stephen McKenna|url=http://www.kerlin.ie/artists/stephen-mckenna/selected-works|work=Kerlin Gallery|accessdate=28 January 2014}}</ref>) is a visual artist known for his [[postmodern]] [[figurative painting]]s. He was shortlisted for the [[Turner Prize]] in 1986. His works can be seen in the collections of the [[Tate|Tate Galleries]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen McKenna|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/stephen-mckenna-2194|work=Tate|accessdate=28 January 2014}}</ref> the [[British Council]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen McKenna|url=http://visualarts.britishcouncil.org/artist/artist/30783/18452|work=British Council|accessdate=28 January 2014}}</ref> and the [[Imperial War Museum]], London,<ref>{{cite web|title=City of Derry I by Stephen McKenna|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/city-of-derry-i-6099|work=BBC Your Paintings|accessdate=28 January 2014}}</ref> and has been shown at various galleries including the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]], [[Dublin]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Leach|first=Cristin|title=Art: Stephen McKenna|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/culture/article149182.ece|accessdate=28 January 2014|newspaper=Sunday Times|date=25 September 2005}}</ref> and the [[Irish Museum of Modern Art]]. He is a member of the [[Royal Hibernian Academy]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen McKenna PPRHA|url=http://www.rhagallery.ie/about/members/academy-member-9/|work=Royal Hibernian Academy|accessdate=28 January 2014}}</ref> ==Life== Born in London, he studied there at [[Slade School of Art]] (affiliated to the [[University College London]]). In 1973 he moved to [[Donegal]], Ireland. He has also lived in Belgium, Germany, and Italy. He was a guest professor at [[Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig]] (Brunswick, Germany) from 1995 to 1996.<ref>{{cite web|title=Stephen McKenna|url=http://aosdana.artscouncil.ie/Members/Visual-Arts/McKenna.aspx|work=Irish Arts Council|accessdate=28 January 2014}}</ref> In 1997 he curated the exhibition ''The Pursuit of Painting'' at the [[Irish Museum of Modern Art]]. He became an associate member of the RHA in 2001 and a full member in 2002 and was the president of this association from 2005 till 2009. ==Notable works== ''O, Ilium!'' (1982) is an example of postmodern [[pastiche]], combining imagery from classical art and sculpture, [[Max Ernst]], [[Constantin Brâncuși]], and archaic [[Greek pottery]]. According to an Ingeborg Hoesterey, it throws together images from the cultural memory of western civilisation, showing them to constitute only a "wasteland".<ref>{{cite book|last=Hoesterey|first=Ingeborg|title=Pastiche: Cultural Memory in Art, Film, Literature|year=2001|publisher=Indiana University Press|pages=19–21|url=http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AfpcjdU5fD8C&lpg=PA19&dq=Stephen%20McKenna%20artist&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q=Stephen%20McKenna%20artist&f=false}}</ref> ==Exhibitions== Solo exhibitions of his work include: * [[Museum of Modern Art, Oxford]] (1983) * [[Van Abbemuseum|Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven]] (1983) * ''Stephen McKenna Paintings 1985–1993'', Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (1993) ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== *[http://images.kerlin.ie/www_kerlin_ie/SMcK_CV_13.pdf CV from Kerlin Gallery, includes bibliography][BROKEN LINK] {{Authority control}} {{Persondata | NAME = McKenna, Stephen | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = SMCK | SHORT DESCRIPTION = British artist | DATE OF BIRTH = 1939 | PLACE OF BIRTH = London | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = }} {{DEFAULTSORT:McKenna, Stephen}} [[Category:Artists from London]] [[Category:1939 births]] [[Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Art]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:English contemporary artists]] [[Category:British contemporary artists]]'