Whitney McVeigh

Whitney McVeigh
Whitney McVeigh
Born	1968 New York City, United States
Education	Edinburgh College of Art

Whitney McVeigh (1968) is an American multimedia artist living and working in London. In 2009 she featured in Where is Modern Art Now alongside Sir Anthony Caro, Grayson Perry and Cornelia Parker presented by Gus Casely-Hayford Born in New York, she grew up in London from the age of seven.

McVeigh is the daughter of Pamela Osborn and Charles McVeigh III, an American banker. She attended Bedales School from 1980-1985. Whilst studying for a BA at Edinburgh College of Art from 1995 - 1998, McVeigh ran a funk, reggae and rare groove night club named 'Chocolate City' with her then boyfriend Jamie Byng, publisher and Managing Director of Canongate Books, whom she married in 1996 and with whom she has two children. Byng and McVeigh separated in 2001. She remains a significant shareholder of the company.

McVeigh has travelled extensively to carry out her practice and has held residencies in India, Mexico, China and the Nirox Foundation in South Africa. McVeigh considers herself an autobiographical artist. Exhibitions include Inventory: Invisible Companion at St Peter's Church, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge., solo project at the Gervasuti Foundation for the 55th Venice Biennale Hunting Song. and New Work at the A Foundation, London (2009). McVeigh made a film-based artwork during a trip to Syria to create Sight of Memory, screened in Icastica Arezzo 2013. In 2015, she produced a film in collaboration with Pulse Films. 'Birth': Origins at the end of life' shown at the Reynolds Room at Royal Academy as part of an annual event with St Christopher's. McVeigh exhibited Language of Memory at Summerhall Arts Centre, Edinburgh in 2015-16.

McVeigh is part-time Fellow in Creative Practice at London College of Fashion.

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