
kim keever
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Kim Keever studied Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and was briefly a thermal engineer working primarily on NASA projects. While Keever changed careers in the late 1970s to become a full-time artist, he has always drawn on his original vocation by retaining a scientific and investigative process in his work, while simultaneously displaying an astute awareness of historical landscape art.
Keever’s landscapes – at first glance redolent of the Hudson River School and the German Romantic painters– are detailed miniature scenes that he builds himself, placed in a 200-gallon tank and submerged in water, then photographed. The landscape and the abstract images all have paint dispersing through the water adding a certain character to the constructed landscape in the tank and a high degree of randomness to the abstract images.
Keever lives and works in New York City. His work is in numerous collections including
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Hirsh- horn Museum, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York; Patterson Museum, Patterson, New Jersey; George Washington University Gallery, Washington DC; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri and Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois.

Kim Keever
REPRESENTED ARTIST
Kim Keever studied Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and was briefly a thermal engineer working primarily on NASA projects. While Keever changed careers in the late 1970s to become a full-time artist, he has always drawn on his original vocation by retaining a scientific and investigative process in his work, while simultaneously displaying an astute awareness of historical landscape art.
Keever’s landscapes – at first glance redolent of the Hudson River School and the German Romantic painters– are detailed miniature scenes that he builds himself, placed in a 200-gallon tank and submerged in water, then photographed. The landscape and the abstract images all have paint dispersing through the water adding a certain character to the constructed landscape in the tank and a high degree of randomness to the abstract images.
Keever lives and works in New York City. His work is in numerous collections including
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; Hirsh- horn Museum, Washington, DC; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York; Patterson Museum, Patterson, New Jersey; George Washington University Gallery, Washington DC; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri and Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois.
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BS in Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA
Award
2008 NYFA grant
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Art Through a Wall, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2015 Random Events, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Abstracts, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Kinz Tillou Fine Art, New York, NY
2012 Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2012 Underwater-Scapes, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
2011 Charles Bank Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, VA
2011 David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC 2008 Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, NY
2008 Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, NY
2006 Kim Keever, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Suspended States, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2005 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2004 All I Ever Knew, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
2003 New Work, Cornell Dewitt Gallery, New York, NY
2002 A Raining Day, Fotogalerie Wein, Vienna, Austria
2002 Photographs, Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, IL
2001 De Chiara/Stewart, New York, NY
1999 De Chiara/Stewart, New York, NY
1999 Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, IL
1997 Art Space, Raleigh, NC
1992 Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 “Group Show”, Lichtundfire Gallery, NYC 2016 “Et In Arcadia Ego”, curated by David Molesky, New Museum Los Gatos, CA
2015 “Contemporary Perspectives on Landscape”, University of Richmond Museum, VA
2015 The Road to Elysium”, Heist Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014 “Altering Space”, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2014 “Winter Show”, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, NYC
2013 “Land & Sea”, curated by Tim Strazza, Waterhouse & Dodd Gallery, NYC
2013 “The Land Before & After Time”, Acola Griefen Gallery, NYC
2013 “Semblance & Guised”, Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
2013 “Six Artists, curated by Jacquie Littlejohn, Littlejohn Contemporary, NYC
2012 “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions…”, Museum of Tourcoing, Lille, France
2012 “Beyond Bling”, curated by Claire Oliver, Clare Oliver Gallery, NYC
2012 “The Perfect Storm”, curated by Edna Cardinale, Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
2012 “Earthly Delights”, curated by Katharine Mulherin, Mulherin + Pollard, NYC
2011 “Bling”, curated by Dru Arstark, Jim Kempner Fine Art, NYC
2011 “Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities”, curated by David McFadden,
2011 “American Chambers: Post 90s American Art ”, curated by Inhee Iris Moon,
Gyeong Nam Museum of Art, Chawon, South Korea
2011 “Deconstructing Nature”, curated by J. Greene, Hunterdon Museum, Clinton, NJ
2011 “Indexing the World: invention, abstraction and disonance”, curated by Andrew Young,The Art Center, Highland Park, IL
2011 “Bowery Lane”, Charles Bank Gallery, NYC
2010 “More Photographs than Bricks”, Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
2010 “Speak for the Trees,” Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2010 “The Garden,” McNeil Art Group Project Space, NYC
2009 “As we Live and Breathe”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 “The Landscape Reimagined: Photographs by Kim Keever”, Peninsula Fine
Arts Center, Newport News, VA
2009 “Trouble in Paradise”, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson AZ
2008 “Twilight”, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland ME
2008 “The Sublime Landscape”, Project 4, Washington, DC
2008 “The Elements: Earth”, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield CT.
2008 “Gallery Stable”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago Ill.
2008 “10th Anniversary Exhibition”, Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC
2008 “Landscapes for Frankenstein”, Sara Meltzer Gallery, NYC
2007 “Kim Keever and Peter Drake”, curated by Mark Strathy, CCSU, New Britain, CT
2007 “Global Anxieties: Nine Perspectives on a Changing Planet’, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Ebert Art Center, Wooster, OH
2006 ‘Whose Nature? What’s Nature?”, Sun Valley Center For the Arts, Ketchum, ID
2006 “Between Mind and Nature: Exploring Other Realms’, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2006 “The Contemporary Landscape”, Baxter Chang Patri Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2006 “Hedonistic Imperative”, curated by Graham Guerra, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
2005 “Beautiful Dreamer”, curated by David Gibson, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2005 “Everland”, curated by David Gibson, Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC
2005 “Jack the Pelican Presents”, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NYC
2005 “Staging the Real”, Projects at Clifford Chance, NYC
2004 “Multiplicity”, Fota House, Fota Island, Ireland
2004 “Elsewhere”, Feigen Contemporary, NYC
2004 “Enchantment”, curated by Jennifer McGregor, Wave Hill Gallery, Bronx, NY
2004 “Second Nature”, curated by Linda Dennis, Fish Tank Gallery, NYC
2004 “Skies & Scapes”, DFN Gallery, NYC
2004 “Images of Time and Place: Contemporary Views of Landscape”, curated by
Susan Hoetzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2004 “Elaine L. Jacob Gallery”, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
2004 “Nature Photography”, curated by Jay Grimm, JG Contemporary, NYC
2003 “Supranatural”, Mixed Greens Gallery, NYC
2002 “Fake”, curated by Koan-Jeff Baysa, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 “Unreal”, curated by Mel Watkin, Contemporary Museum of Art/St. Louis, St. Louis,MO
2001 “Photography: Here and Now”, Cornell Dewitt Gallery, NYC
2001 “Staging Reality: Photography from the West Collection at SEI”, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2001 “Naples Museum of Art”, Naples, FL, 2004
2001 “Mixed Greens Presents”, at Schroeder Romero, Brooklyn, NY
2001 “Lifelike”, curated by Joe Houston, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2001 “Plaza Exhibition”, curated by Moukthar Kocache, Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC
2001 Mixed Greens at Space 201, Brooklyn, NY 2000 “Kim Keever & Jason Yi, Safety-Kleen Gallery One”, Elgin Community College, Elgin,IL
2000 “Ascension”, curated by Dr. Petra Gilroy, Diozesan Museum, Freising, Germany
2000 “Transporter”, curated by Naomi Urabe, Bangkok, Thailand
2000 “Almost Something”, curated by Andrew Chesler, Catherine Moore Fine Art, NYC
1999 Kunst Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1999 “Culturama”, curated by Vanessa Hattoun, Gen Art, New York, NYC
1999 “Natural World Observed”, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1999 “In View of Nature”, curated by Susan Hoetzel, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx,NY
1999 “Horizontal Verticality”, Rudolph Poissant Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 “Three Painter Photographers”, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 “Artists of the Second District”, Federal Reserve Bank, New York, NYC
1996 “O.D.U. Artist Retrospective”, Norfolk, VA
1994 “Last Picture Show”, Brody’s Gallery, Washington, DC.
1993 “Arachno Sphere”, curated by Robert Mahoney, Ramnarine Gallery, Long Isl. City, NY
1990 “Art Redux”, New England Museum of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
1988 Kaldewey Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYC
1987 Cutting Edge, Patterson Museum of Fine Art, NJ
1987 Recent Acquisitions, Prints & Illustrated Books, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Public Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
New England Museum for Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, CT
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY
Patterson Museum, Patterson, NJ
George Washington University Gallery, Washington DC
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, KS
Elgin Community College, Elgin, IL
Bibliography
2016 Dordfman, John, Art & Antiques, “Fluid Dynamics”, April, P. 48-53, NYC
2016 Lapham’s Quarterly, Abstract image illustrating luck, Summer
2015 Meyer Rus, Architectural Digest, “Perfect Balance”, P.147, NYC
2015 New Yorker, Underwater kelp photo, Nov. 2, P. 42, NYC
2014 Jon Pareles, New York Times, Arts & Leisure, “Clinging to her Every Word”, P. 1, NYC
2014 Photo Plus, “Abstract Art”, P. 34-39, Seoul, South Korea
2014 L. I. Art, “Kim Keever”, P. 40-43, (Cover)
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2014 Courrier International, “La Monde en Bocal”, P. 54
2014 Fahrenheit 0, “Kim Keever”, (Cover)
2014 In The Making Magazine, Interviews with Diego Meijido, P. 92-103
2011 Teresa Annas, “Kim Keever’s Scenes from a Fish Tank”, The Virginian-Pilot, July 22
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Publications
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, Random House, NY, 2015, (Cover)
Hot Street, Hot Street Publishing, Halesite, NY, 2014, (Cover)
Tender Data, Face Out Publishing, Austin, TX (Cover) Blue Earth Review, Minnesota State University, 2015, MN, 2015 (Cover)
Experience Painting, Davis Publications, Worcester, MA, 2015 Haruki Murakami , The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, 2015, (Cover)
Tender Data, Poetry ensemble, New York, NY 2014 Photo + Magazine, Abstract Image, P. 38, Seoul, South Korea Adam Finkelstein, The Hand, P. 13, April 2014 Hot Street, Poetry ensemble, 2014, (cover)
Diego Meijido, In the Making Magazine, University of Vigo, Spain, 2014
- I. Art, Art Kim Keever, P. 40, Moscow Russia, Spring 2014
Theresa Barbaro, Art: Kim Keever, L.I. Art, Moscow, 2014
Julia Kim, Abstract Image, Photo+, Seoul, South Korea, 2014
Fernanda Plancarte, Kim Keever, Fahrenheit Zero (cover), Mexico City, 2014
Emily Amodeo, Volumetric, Hot Street (cover), Halesite, NY, 2014
Diego Meijido, Interview: Kim Keever, In The Making Magazine, Spain, 2014
David Revere McFadden, Otherworldly: Optical Delusions and Small Realities, Otherworldly, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY 2011
Brice Brown and Mark Shortlife, The Sienese Shredder, Sienese Shredder Edi- tions, 2010
Andria Friesen. Speak for the Trees. Marquand Books. Seattle, WA. 2010.
Spring Edition 2010. Earth Island Journal. Berkley, CA
Neruda, Pablo. Twenty Love Poems & a Song of Desperation. New York
Kaldewey Press, 1989. (linocut prints)
East Village 86. New York: Pelham Press, 1986.
East Village 85. New York: Pelham Press, 1985. Yes & No. New York: Kaldewey Press, 1984. (linocut prints)
Corporate Collections
Microsoft
Phillip Morris
Clifford Chance Law Firm
Harvard Library
Bank of America
Healthcare Development Partners
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