Keith Milow

Keith Milow (* 1945 in London) is an abstract painter, engraver and sculptor. He lived from 1980 to 2002 in New York and has lived in Amsterdam since 2002.

His work has been described as architectural, monumental, and ( post-) minimalist. In the seventies he was a member, along with Richard Long, Mark Lancaster, Tim Head, Nicholas Pope, Michael Craig- Martin, John Walker, Barry Flanagan, Gilbert & George and Derek Jarman, the best-known exponents of the British avant-garde art. Very early in his career was Milow, on a non-religious nature fascinated by the shape of the Latin cross. An important influence on his work had the abstract art of Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan. During the last decade of the 20th century Milow worked on a series of paintings and sculptures ( ' Tondi '), which formed a homage to the great artists of the 20th century. Some recent paintings and drawings are mathematically designed so that they almost look like computer generated.

Keith Milow got his artistic education at the Camberwell School of Art (1962-1967) and the Royal College of Art (1967-1968), both in London. In 1970 he got a Gregory Fellowship from the University of Leeds and 1972 the important Harkness Fellowship to New York. More prices he got from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation ( 1976), by the Arts Council of Great Britain (1979) and by the Edward Albee Foundation ( 1983).

Works by Keith Milow are, inter alia, to museums in the Netherlands ( the Rijksmuseum Twenthe ), Hungary ( Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest ), in the U.S. ( Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Walker Art Center, Dallas Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum ), in Great Britain ( Tate Gallery, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds City Art Gallery ) and Australia ( National Gallery of Australia, Art Gallery of South Australia ).