MARGARET KELLER
With interdisciplinary series including installation, painting, drawing, prints, digital media, and sculpture, I examine the relationship between contemporary culture, nature, and technology. Current series include looking at the pervasiveness of surveillance, the range of natural disasters, and our filtered experiences of nature in this digital age (The Space Between series). I also focus on the curatorial and critical aspects of contemporary art with published reviews in Art in America,All the Art, The Delicious Line and temporaryartreview.
Exhibits include Quadratfuß-NX2-Annex Art /Berlin, Cedarhurst Museum, The Arkansas Art Center Museum, The Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago, The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery in Annapolis, The Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University, The Wichita Art Museum, The Neville Museum in Green Bay, The Tweed Museum in Duluth, The Riverside Museum and The Brea Cultural Center in California, The Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, and The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, among others.
EDUCATION
Post-Graduate Study, Experimental Electronic Media (video game design, animation, digital drawing and video), Webster University, 2007
Master of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis,
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, 1989 and Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Curator’s Scholarship, Drawing, Painting, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia
SELECTED GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS
2019 $20,000 Fellowship Award in Visual Arts, Regional Arts Commission
2019 William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum,Belleville, IL,
The Space Between Series
2019 Brooklyn Art Library, New York
2019 Artist in Residence, Forsyth School, St. Louis
2018 Artist Commission for Critical Mass Public Works, Gateway Arch site
installation, Riverbend, aluminum substrate, 105’ x 66’ x 72’’
2018 Springfield Art Museum,Collections, Springfield, MO
2017 Gallery 210,St. Louis, Surveillance Series
2017 Center of Contemporary Art (COCA),St. Louis
2017 Cedarhurst Mitchell Museum Biennial,Mt. Vernon, IL
2016 Quadratfuß, NX2, Annex Art,Berlin
2016 Contemporary Art Museum Open Studios,St. Louis
2016 - 2010, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery,St. Louis
2015 Arkansas Art Center Museum,Little Rock
2015 OA Gallery,St. Louis
2015 Regional Arts Commission,St. Louis
2015 -2010, Addington Gallery,Chicago
2009 - 2006, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,Flat Files
2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology,Rolla
2008 Ellen Curlee Gallery,St. Louis
2006 Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin,
SUPERvision/Surveillance Technologies
2006 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,Selections from the
Flat FilesExhibition
2006 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery,From Nature, Chicago
2006 International Invitational,Lyon, France
2006 Contemporary Art Museum Open Studios, St. Louis
2005-2003,Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery,Chicago
2005 Springfield Art Museum,Springfield, MO
2005 University of Missouri - Rolla
2005-2003, Aliya Gallery,Atlanta
2003 Schoharie 21stNational Juried Exhibit,New York
2000 Contemporary Art Workshop,Chicago
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Art, St. Louis Community College-Meramec, 1993 to 2018
Visiting Associate Professor of Art, Webster University, St. Louis,
Advanced Painting Program, 2007
Associate Professor of Art, Visiting, Santa Reparata International School of
Art, Florence, Italy, 2003
Associate Professor of Art, Visiting, Washington University,
St. Louis, 2002-2003
Gallery Co-director, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis
Community College. Curatorof over fifty exhibitions including
Everywhere and Elsewhere ll: Painting,2016, regional and NYC artists;
Everywhere and Elsewhere l: Painting2015, regional and NYC artists
SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Yale Radio, February 2019
STLCity.com,October 2018
Critical Mass Podcast: Five Questions,October 2018
HECTV, September 2018
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 2018
St. Louis Magazine,September 2018
STLToday,September 2018
South40news,August 2018
Alive Magazine, July 2018
Delicious Line,Amy Sherald, June 2018
All the Art,review of Surveillance Series, SarahWeinman, Winter 2018 issue
Surveillance Series,temporaryartreview, Joe Kohlburn, October 2017
Surveillance Series,Gallery 210 Catalog, Terry Suhre and
Joe Kohlburn, 2017, 16pp
Temporaryartreview,interview Angelina Gualdoni, NYC artist, 2016
Temporaryartreview, review fort gondo compound for the arts, 2016
All the Art, feature article, Fiber, Winter 2016 issue
All the Art, Ron Laboray, Suburban Gallery, Chicago, Fall 2015 issue
Art in America, “Channelbone”, White Flag Projects, November 2007
Review Magazine, “Ruby Osorio”, “Dzine: Punk/Funk”, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Summer 2005 issue
New Art Examiner, “Against Design”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, November/December issue, 2001
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Staging”, Forum for Contemporary Art, 4-21-02
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Strandell’s Polygots”, Elliot Smith
Contemporary Art, 11-25-01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Leibman’s Music-Inspired Art”, William Shearburn Gallery, 11-18-01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Raedeke’s Innovative Work”, 10-21-01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Absence and Presence Strike a Balance in Worley’s Landscapes”,Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, 9-30-01
Art St. Louis Magazine, “Ken Worley”, Volume 14, Issue 1, Fall 2000
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Unexpected Discoveries”, Jeff Daniel, 7-23-06
West End World,7- 06
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“From River City to River North”, Jeff Daniel, 9-27-02
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“Landscapes… As Far as The Eye Can See”, Jeff Daniel, 7-9-00
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“Keller’s Exhibit Worth a Visit
To Maryville University”, Brian Smith, 6-4-00
New Art Examiner,“Recent Work”, Dan Reich, April 1995
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“Margaret Keller’s Variations on Themes”, Carol Ferring Shepley, 3-16-95
PUBLIC LECTURES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS-SELECTED
$20,000 Fellowship Award in Visual Arts, Regional Arts Commission, 2019
The Space Between, artist lecture, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, January 2019
St. Louis Art Museum, lecture, February 2019
Riverbend Talk: St. Louis Art Museum Docents, Gateway Arch Park Foundation, 2018
Surveillance Series: Artist Talk, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, 2018
Surveillance Series: Gallery 210, artist’s lecture, 2017
Surveillance Series: Noon Lecture Series, UMSL, 2017
$3,000 Artists’ Support Grant, Regional Arts Commission, 2017
Professional Development Award: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
research, 2017
Professional Development Award: Whitney Biennial research, NYC, 2017
Sabbatical Award: Fresco research and fabrication, 2016
Curatorial panel: Intimate/Inti-mate, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis
The Body in Question-Gender Gaze, Art St. Louis
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960-1990, University of Missouri-STL
Contemporary American Art, Fall Honors Lecture, University of Missouri-Rolla
Applebroog and Abakanowicz: Art with an Agenda, Washington University and the University of Missouri-STL
Islamic Art and Patronage, The Saint Louis Art Museum
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
University of Missouri
Mark Twain Banks Corporate Collection
William Woods College
The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum, Belleville, IL
Dominic’s In Clayton
McCallum Place
Numerous private collections in St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Berlin and Baltimore
http://www.margaretkellerstudio.com
With interdisciplinary series including installation, painting, drawing, prints, digital media, and sculpture, I examine the relationship between contemporary culture, nature, and technology. Current series include looking at the pervasiveness of surveillance, the range of natural disasters, and our filtered experiences of nature in this digital age (The Space Between series). I also focus on the curatorial and critical aspects of contemporary art with published reviews in Art in America,All the Art, The Delicious Line and temporaryartreview.
Exhibits include Quadratfuß-NX2-Annex Art /Berlin, Cedarhurst Museum, The Arkansas Art Center Museum, The Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago, The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery in Annapolis, The Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University, The Wichita Art Museum, The Neville Museum in Green Bay, The Tweed Museum in Duluth, The Riverside Museum and The Brea Cultural Center in California, The Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, and The Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio, among others.
EDUCATION
Post-Graduate Study, Experimental Electronic Media (video game design, animation, digital drawing and video), Webster University, 2007
Master of Fine Arts, Washington University, St. Louis,
Painting, Drawing, Printmaking, 1989 and Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Curator’s Scholarship, Drawing, Painting, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia
SELECTED GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS
2019 $20,000 Fellowship Award in Visual Arts, Regional Arts Commission
2019 William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum,Belleville, IL,
The Space Between Series
2019 Brooklyn Art Library, New York
2019 Artist in Residence, Forsyth School, St. Louis
2018 Artist Commission for Critical Mass Public Works, Gateway Arch site
installation, Riverbend, aluminum substrate, 105’ x 66’ x 72’’
2018 Springfield Art Museum,Collections, Springfield, MO
2017 Gallery 210,St. Louis, Surveillance Series
2017 Center of Contemporary Art (COCA),St. Louis
2017 Cedarhurst Mitchell Museum Biennial,Mt. Vernon, IL
2016 Quadratfuß, NX2, Annex Art,Berlin
2016 Contemporary Art Museum Open Studios,St. Louis
2016 - 2010, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery,St. Louis
2015 Arkansas Art Center Museum,Little Rock
2015 OA Gallery,St. Louis
2015 Regional Arts Commission,St. Louis
2015 -2010, Addington Gallery,Chicago
2009 - 2006, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,Flat Files
2008 Missouri University of Science and Technology,Rolla
2008 Ellen Curlee Gallery,St. Louis
2006 Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin,
SUPERvision/Surveillance Technologies
2006 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis,Selections from the
Flat FilesExhibition
2006 Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery,From Nature, Chicago
2006 International Invitational,Lyon, France
2006 Contemporary Art Museum Open Studios, St. Louis
2005-2003,Gwenda Jay/Addington Gallery,Chicago
2005 Springfield Art Museum,Springfield, MO
2005 University of Missouri - Rolla
2005-2003, Aliya Gallery,Atlanta
2003 Schoharie 21stNational Juried Exhibit,New York
2000 Contemporary Art Workshop,Chicago
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Professor of Art, St. Louis Community College-Meramec, 1993 to 2018
Visiting Associate Professor of Art, Webster University, St. Louis,
Advanced Painting Program, 2007
Associate Professor of Art, Visiting, Santa Reparata International School of
Art, Florence, Italy, 2003
Associate Professor of Art, Visiting, Washington University,
St. Louis, 2002-2003
Gallery Co-director, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis
Community College. Curatorof over fifty exhibitions including
Everywhere and Elsewhere ll: Painting,2016, regional and NYC artists;
Everywhere and Elsewhere l: Painting2015, regional and NYC artists
SELECTED PUBLISHED ARTICLES, REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Yale Radio, February 2019
STLCity.com,October 2018
Critical Mass Podcast: Five Questions,October 2018
HECTV, September 2018
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 2018
St. Louis Magazine,September 2018
STLToday,September 2018
South40news,August 2018
Alive Magazine, July 2018
Delicious Line,Amy Sherald, June 2018
All the Art,review of Surveillance Series, SarahWeinman, Winter 2018 issue
Surveillance Series,temporaryartreview, Joe Kohlburn, October 2017
Surveillance Series,Gallery 210 Catalog, Terry Suhre and
Joe Kohlburn, 2017, 16pp
Temporaryartreview,interview Angelina Gualdoni, NYC artist, 2016
Temporaryartreview, review fort gondo compound for the arts, 2016
All the Art, feature article, Fiber, Winter 2016 issue
All the Art, Ron Laboray, Suburban Gallery, Chicago, Fall 2015 issue
Art in America, “Channelbone”, White Flag Projects, November 2007
Review Magazine, “Ruby Osorio”, “Dzine: Punk/Funk”, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Summer 2005 issue
New Art Examiner, “Against Design”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, November/December issue, 2001
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Staging”, Forum for Contemporary Art, 4-21-02
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Strandell’s Polygots”, Elliot Smith
Contemporary Art, 11-25-01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Leibman’s Music-Inspired Art”, William Shearburn Gallery, 11-18-01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Raedeke’s Innovative Work”, 10-21-01
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Absence and Presence Strike a Balance in Worley’s Landscapes”,Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, 9-30-01
Art St. Louis Magazine, “Ken Worley”, Volume 14, Issue 1, Fall 2000
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Unexpected Discoveries”, Jeff Daniel, 7-23-06
West End World,7- 06
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“From River City to River North”, Jeff Daniel, 9-27-02
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“Landscapes… As Far as The Eye Can See”, Jeff Daniel, 7-9-00
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“Keller’s Exhibit Worth a Visit
To Maryville University”, Brian Smith, 6-4-00
New Art Examiner,“Recent Work”, Dan Reich, April 1995
St. Louis Post-Dispatch,“Margaret Keller’s Variations on Themes”, Carol Ferring Shepley, 3-16-95
PUBLIC LECTURES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS-SELECTED
$20,000 Fellowship Award in Visual Arts, Regional Arts Commission, 2019
The Space Between, artist lecture, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, January 2019
St. Louis Art Museum, lecture, February 2019
Riverbend Talk: St. Louis Art Museum Docents, Gateway Arch Park Foundation, 2018
Surveillance Series: Artist Talk, St. Louis Artists’ Guild, 2018
Surveillance Series: Gallery 210, artist’s lecture, 2017
Surveillance Series: Noon Lecture Series, UMSL, 2017
$3,000 Artists’ Support Grant, Regional Arts Commission, 2017
Professional Development Award: Boston Museum of Fine Arts
research, 2017
Professional Development Award: Whitney Biennial research, NYC, 2017
Sabbatical Award: Fresco research and fabrication, 2016
Curatorial panel: Intimate/Inti-mate, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis
The Body in Question-Gender Gaze, Art St. Louis
Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960-1990, University of Missouri-STL
Contemporary American Art, Fall Honors Lecture, University of Missouri-Rolla
Applebroog and Abakanowicz: Art with an Agenda, Washington University and the University of Missouri-STL
Islamic Art and Patronage, The Saint Louis Art Museum
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
University of Missouri
Mark Twain Banks Corporate Collection
William Woods College
The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum, Belleville, IL
Dominic’s In Clayton
McCallum Place
Numerous private collections in St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Berlin and Baltimore
http://www.margaretkellerstudio.com
