1961 born in Brunswick, Maine
1962 - 79 North Haven, Connecticut
1985 graduated, S.U.N.Y. Purchase
1985 - 87 New York City
1988 currently lives in Lilla Uppåkra, Sweden

1992 Pictura, Lund
1993 Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg
1994 Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm
1994 Forumgalleriet, Malmö
1995 Art Cologne (Galleri Andreas Brändström), BVDG International Sponsorship Programme (catalogue)
1995 Stockholm Art Hotel - room 512, Lydmar Hotel, Stockholm (Galleri Andreas Brändström)
1996 Jay Jopling/White Cube, London
1996 Galleri Mors Mössa, Göteborg
1996 ”Art is what happens to us while we’re busy making other art”, Krognoshuset, Lund
1996 Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm
1997 C/O, Oslo
1999 Sonnabend Galler, New York
1999 Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm

1993 ”Floor Show”, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund
1994 ”Lägenhet”, 12 vacant apartments (catalogue), Malmö, Göteborg
1994 ”Black and White”, Galerie Anhava, Helsinki
1995 ”Nutopi”, (”Aperto ’95”), (Clay Ketter + Dan Peterman + Yutaka Sone + Rirkrit Tiravanija + Jeffrey Wisniewski + Andrea Zittel) (cur. Lars Nittve) Rooseum (catalogue) Malmö
1995 ”Tilt”, Malmö
1995 ”Shaking Patterns” , ”Lagoon 2”, W 139, Amsterdam
1996 ”Interieurs” (Fischli-Weiss + Clay Ketter + Abigail Lane), Gallerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
1996 ”Abstrakt/Reale” (cur. Lorand Hegyi), Museum moderner Kunst/Stiftung Ludvig (catalogue) Vienna
1996 ”Form Follows Anything” (with Catharina Gabrielsson Åman) Färgfabriken (catalogue), Stockholm
1996 ”På Tiden”, Moderna Museet, (catalogue), Stockholm
1997 ”Thomas Demand + Clay Ketter”, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich
1997 ”Louisiana Udstillingen ’97”, Louisiana (catalogue), Humlebæk, Denmark
1997 ”Stefan Kern + Clay Ketter + Tobias Rehberger”, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne
1997 ”Beau Geste”, Angels Gallery, Santa Monica
1997 ”Deposition”, (cur. Bo Nilsson) IASPIS (catalogue), Venice Biennale XLVII
1998 ”Platser”, Riksarkivet, Statens Konstråd (catalogue) Stockholm
1998 ”Every Day”, 11th Biennale of Sydney (cur. Jonathan Watkins) (catalogue)
1998 ”Every Other Day”, Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
1998 ”Clay Ketter + Jeff Koons + Fischli-Weiss”, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1998 Paul Morris Gallery, New York
1998 ”Speculation” (Stefan Altenburger + Arno Brandlhuber + Clay Ketter + Andreas Roth), Specta (book), Copenhagen
1998 ”Young Americans 2”, Saatchi Gallery (catalogue), London
1998 ”Lebensraum” (cur. Daniel Birnbaum) Nordiska Museet, Arkipelag (catalogue) Stockholm
1999 ”Primary Structures” (Martin Gerwers + Clay Ketter + Gerold Miller + Beat Zoderer) Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig (catalogue)
1999 ”Effulgent” (cur. Sven Lundh) Malmö Museet, Malmö
1999 ”Hvid”, Charlottenborg (catalogue) Copenhagen
1999 ”Carnegie Art Award 1999”, Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Reykjavik, London (catalogue)
2000 ”Against Design”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (…Palm Beach, San Diego, Kansas City…) (catalogue)
2000 ”Work and Information”, Galleri Søren Houmann, Copenhagen

1991, 1995, 1996, 1998 Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfond (Swedish endowment for the Visual Arts)
1997 Lunds Konsthalls Vänner
1997 Ellen Trotzig Stipendiet
1999 Carnegie Art Award for Nordic Painting

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg
Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Malmö Konstmuseet, Malmö
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludvig Wein
Saatchi Collection, London

Lägenhet, Malmö/Göteborg, 1994

Joshua Decter, ”Visionary Pragmatism & the Triumph of Chameleon Aesthetics”, Nutopi, Rooseum, Malmö, 1995

Daniel Birnbaum, ”Before and After Painting”, Clay Ketter, BVDG International Sponsorship Programme, Art Cologne, 1995

Lorand Hegyi, ”Clay Ketter”, Abstrakt/Real, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, 1996

Clay Ketter, Catherina Gabrielsson Åman and Jan Åman, ”There are no clean papers around”, Form Follows Anything, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, 1996

Dan Jönsson, ”Clay Ketter”, På Tiden , Moderna Museet, Stockholm , 1996

Lars Grambye, Åsa Nacking and Tone O. Nielsen, The Louisiana Exhibition - New Art from Denmark and Scania, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, 1997

Sarah Kent, ”Clay Ketter”, Deposition, IASPIS , Venice Biennial XLVII, 1997

Ulrika Levén, ”Clay Ketter - A Self Made Man”, Platser, Statens konstråd, Stockholm, 1998

Simon Grant, ”Clay Ketter”, Every Day, Biennale of Sydney, 1998

Brooks Adams and Lisa Liebmann, ”Nothing Left Undone”, Young Americans 2, Saatchi Gallery, London, 1998

Daniel Birnbaum, ”Lebensraum - eller IKEA vid metafysikens slut”, Arkipelag, Stockholm, 1998

”Lunch”, Hvid, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 1999

Jan Winkelmann, Primary Structures, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig, 1999

Poul Erik Tøjner (interview), Carnegie Art Award, 1999

Lars O. Ericsson, ”Pigment och Spackel”, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 18/02 1994

Maria Lind, ”Galleriet som omkopplingscentral”, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, 26/02 1994

Clemens Altgård, ”Oskuld och arsenik”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Malmö, 11/04 1994

Pontus Kynander, ”Allt kan bli konst”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Malmö, 06/06 1995

Anna Gunnert, ”Nutopi”, Norrländska S.D, 19/06 1995

John Peter Nilsson, ”Nutopi”, Siksi, #3 1995

Daniel Birnbaum, ”Med hänvisning till väggen”, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 16/07 1995

Lars O. Ericsson, ”Med 600 års måleri flåsande i nacken”, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 19/11 1995

Bo Madestrand and Håkan Nilsson, ”Getting Into the Right Stuff”, Material, #28 1996

Lars O. Ericsson, ”Identitetens motsatser”, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 19/01 1996, Mårten Castenfors

”Obrukbara redskap blir gåtfull skulptur”, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, 27/01 1996

Sarah Kent, ”Clay Ketter at White Cube”, Time Out (London), #1330 1996

Sara Arrhenius, ”Clay Ketter at Andreas Brändström”, Flash Art, #189, 1996

Daniel Birnbaum, ”IKEA at the End of Metaphysics”, freize , #31, 1996

Håkan Nilsson, ”Clay Ketter on Finding the Rules”, Material , #30 1996

Susanne Pagold, ”I underläge för formen”, Elle Interiör, #6 1996

Lotta Jonson, ”Clay Ketter”, Form, #5 1996

Jelena Zetterström, ”En konstnär utforskar vardagen”, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Malmö, 30/12 1996

Marika Wachtmeister, ”Clay Ketter - Köksinredningar blir konst”, Femina, #1 1997

Anne Ring Petersen, ”Rundbordskunst”, Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen, 08/06 1998

Daniel Pinchbeck and Ileana Sonnabend, ”Farewell SoHo”, The Art Newspaper, #83 1998

Håkan Nilsson, ”On a Dialogue With the Wall”, Merge, #5 1999

Mårten Castenfors, ”Flytande brytpunkt mellan ting och konst”, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, 04/09 1999

Lars O. Ericsson, ”Imponerande konsekvens”, Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm, 04/09 1999

Stefan Altenburger, Arno Brandlhuber, Clay Ketter and Andreas Roth, Speculation, Specta, Copenhagen, 1998

Daniel Birnbaum and John Peter Nilsson (ed.), Like Virginity, Once Lost. Five Views on Nordic Art Now, Propexus, 1999

The Few, ”The Few”, Criminal Records, 1986

Self Made Man, ”Lust Garden”, Heart Work Records, 1990

The Art Farmer, ”You Left A Song In My Beer”, Barnprogram Records, 1999