KIM KEEVER

Kim Keever was born in New York City in 1955. After living in an idyllic natural environment with ocean waves, pine trees and glorious sunsets until the age of nine, he moved from the Eastern Shore of Virginia with his mother and sister to the cold streets of Chicago. In the first grade he discovered there was something he could do very well ─ make art. Though he studied art throughout high school, it was not until he was working on a graduate degree in thermal engineering that he realized creating art was the true love of his life.

In 1980 he knew that he must be in New York City and has been there ever since. Keever’s signature work was not realized until 1995, when he began utilizing the technique of setup photography. He built landscapes out of plaster, submerging these creations under water, eventually utilizing a 200 gallon glass tank. These panoramic light-filled spaces were fabricated with many materials including multiple colored paints suspended in the water and reflective Mylar. Constructing additions both in front of and behind the tank added an even greater depth to his work. With these methods he created exceptional worlds, which he then photographed and videoed. The diffused glow in the water is the signature of his complex and unconventional creations.

In the past two years, he has added to his repertoire of landscape ideas by exploring other subjects inside the tank, including a series of abstractions, an eroding dog, a series of heads and a series of birds. His most recent landscapes reflect his love of the earth and sea, in a beautiful homage to Hawaii.

He has exhibited throughout the United States as well as abroad. He lives in New York and works in The East Village.

2019 – “Kim Keever: Three Dimensional Rorschach,” Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, Washington

2018 – “Water Colors,” Waterhouse & Dodd

2015 – “Kim Keever: Random Events,” Waterhouse & Dodd

2014 – “Kim Keever,” METHOD & CONCEPT, Naples, Florida

2013 – “Land & Sea,” Waterhouse & Dodd, New York, New York

2012 – Tillou Gallery, Litchfield, Connecticut

2012 – Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania

2011 – Charles Bank Gallery, New York, New York

2011 – Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia

2011 – David B Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado

2009 – Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2008 – Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, New York, New York

2008 – Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2007  – “Kinz”, Tillou + Feigen, New York, New York

2006  – “Kim Keever”, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2005 – “Suspended States”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisonsin

2005 – FeigenContemporary, New York, New York

2004 – “All I Ever Knew”, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

2003 – “New Work”, Cornell Dewitt Gallery, New York, New York

2002 – “A Raining Day”, Fotogalerie Wein, Vienna, Austria

2002 – “Photographs,” Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois

2001 – De Chiara/Stewart, New York, New York

1999 – De Chiara/Stewart, New York, New York

1999 – Fassbender Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois

1997 – Art Space, Raleigh, North Carolina

1992 – Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York

1989 – M-13 Gallery/Howard Scott, New York, New York

1988 – Brody Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1987 – M-13 Gallery/Howard Scott, New York, New York

1987 – Davies Long Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1986 – Brody Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1985 – M-13 Gallery/Howard Scott, New York, New York

1984 – Sensory Evolution Gallery, New York, New York

1984 – Virginia Beach Arts Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia

1983 – Kathleen Meyer Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky

1982 – Gunnar Kaldewey Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany

1980 – Ian Birksted Gallery, New York, New York