Adam McEwen

Adam McEwen (born 1965, London) is a British artist whose practice engages the deadpan, the institutional, and the residual. Working across sculpture, installation, and printed matter, McEwen produces objects that rework ordinary materials — graphite, chewing gum, industrial fittings — and cultural signs — obituaries, newspaper language, public announcements — into propositions that sit between use-value and art object, between document and monument.

McEwen studied at Oxford and worked as an obituary writer for the Daily Telegraph before turning to art full-time, a background that inflects his practice’s sustained interest in public language, institutional form, and the afterlife of objects. He has exhibited internationally, with solo exhibitions at Galerie Art : Concept, Paris, and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, among others.

This collection brings together exhibition ephemera and printed matter connected to McEwen’s practice and institutional presentations.

  • Original 2014 Adam McEwen Non-Alignment Pact exhibition opening card, Art : Concept, Paris, recto showing a colour photograph of a chestnut horse standing on a concrete yard surface with its legs placed in three plastic buckets — blue, yellow, and red — with a rural landscape and metal fencing visible in the background. Reverse of 2014 Adam McEwen Non-Alignment Pact exhibition card showing white ground with black type in two registers: upper section with date '24 oct – 6 déc 2014' in small type at left, 'Adam McEwen' in large bold sans-serif at right, 'Vernissage / jeudi 23 octobre / 18:00–22:00' centred below, and gallery details 'Art : Concept / 13 rue des Arquebusiers–75003 Paris' with website, email, and telephone; lower section with 'Non-Alignment Pact' in large bold type and a small colon-dot logotype bottom left."

    Adam McEwen — Non-Alignment Pact — Exhibition Opening Card, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014

    Adam McEwen — Non-Alignment Pact — Exhibition Opening Card, Art : Concept, Paris, 2014