Matt Keegan
Matt Keegan (Manhasset, NY) is an American artist, curator, and editor. His work combines a variety of disciplines including photography, sculpture, video, writing, and artists' books. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Education
Keegan received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998. In 2001 he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and in 2004 received his MFA from Columbia University.
Work
Keegan's work is conceptual and multi-faceted, and it often involves the intersection of language and image, as well as collaboration.[1] In his 2011 solo exhibition at D'Amelio Terras Gallery in New York, titled "I Apple New York", he collaborated with designer David Reinfurt to recreate the iconic Milton Glaser logo (I ❤ NY), and interviewed Glaser in lieu of a press release.[2] Michael Wilson in ArtForum cited his work as a "...diverse vision of New York as an endlessly captivating mess of designs, compromises, and accidents good and bad." [3]
Exhibitions
Keegan had his first solo exhibition, How to Make a Portrait at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (Project Room) and White Columns in New York in 2006.
His work has appeared in many notable group exhibitions including Found in Translation at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (2012), The Air We Breathe at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011), Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (2010), The Generational: Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum, New York, NY (2009), and The Reach of Realism, curated by Ruba Katrib, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (2009). He participated in a two-person exhibition with Kay Rosen, A Traveling Show, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston in 2014.
Keegan has had solo exhibitions at Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco, CA (2009, 2011, 2015), D'Amelio Terras Gallery in New York, NY (2007, 2009, 2011), Rogaland Kunstcenter in Stavanger, Norway (2015), Galeria Pedro Cera in Lisbon, Portugal (2013), and Anna Helwing Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2008).
He is currently represented by Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco, CA.
Books and Publications
Keegan co-founded North Drive Press with Lizzy Lee in 2003, an annual art publication which produced five editions from 2004-2010.
Artists' Books
- Matt Keegan: OR. New York: Inventory Press (2015).
- Matt Keegan: AMERICAMERICA. New York: Printed Matter (2008).
Public Collections
- Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, Zurich
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York