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Chris Kenny is a British artist known particularly for his three-dimensional 'drawings' and collage constructions. Exhibitions include: Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the Museum of Art & Design, New York; Mappa Mundi at the Berardo Museum Foundation, Lisbon; First Cut at Manchester Art Gallery and touring; and Mappamundi, Hotel des Arts, Centre d'Art du Conseil General du Var, Toulon. Public and corporate collections that have acquired his works from England & Co include the Museum of London; Penguin Books Ltd; Deutche Bank Collection; the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the British Museum.

Kenny has had six solo exhibitions with England & Co and participated in many of the gallery's group exhibitions, including The Map Is Not the Territory series, After a Fashion, Literary Constructs, Persistent Obsessions and City X. He has also made site-specific works for House of Words at Dr Johnson's House, London; and for The East Wing Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Selected archive works are displayed on this page.

Twig Drawing 2012
22 x 22 x 3 inches
Construction with twigs

Private collection

Road 2013
36 x 36 x 3 inches
Construction with map pieces

Private collection

Philosophy can damp down the hottest flames of lust 2009
29 x 29 x 3 inches
Construction with found text

Acquired from England & Co by the British Museum

Ref: CK378

Capella 2012
36 x 36 x 3 inches
Collage construction with map pieces

Acquired from England & Co by Hotel des Arts, Centre D'Art du Conseil General du Var, Toulon, France

1,329 Children 2009
29 x 29 x 3 inches
Mixed media construction with found photographs

Private collection

Fetish Map of London (detail) 2000
21 x 26.5 x 3.25 inches
Mixed media box construction

Acquired from England & Co by the Museum of London

100 Drawings 2001
33.5 x 33.5 x 3.25 inches
Mixed media construction with twigs

Acquired from England & Co by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Astronomy Is Intense 2006

Found text, scanned and enlarged, size variable
Site-specific installation at England & Co
as part of the Literary Constructs exhibition, 2006

Everything Is Normal 2005

Found text, scanned and enlarged x 8, size variable
Installation at England & Co
as part of the artist's solo exhibition The matter of facts