MARGARET KELLER
With multiple, interdisciplinary series including installation, painting, drawing, prints, digital media, and sculpture, I examine the relationship between contemporary culture, nature, and technology. Current series investigate environmental crisis, the pervasiveness of surveillance, the range of natural disasters, and our filtered experiences of nature in this digital age. I also focus on the curatorial and critical aspects of contemporary art with published reviews in Art in America, All the Art, delicious line and temporaryartreview.
Group exhibits include Quadratfuß-NX2-Annex Art /Berlin, The Mitchell Museum, IL, The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, MO, The Wichita Art Center/Mark Arts, The Arkansas Art Center Museum, The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery, The Wichita Art Museum, The Neville Museum in Green Bay, The Tweed Museum in Duluth, The Riverside Museum, CA, The Brea Cultural Center, CA, The Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, and The Butler Institute of American Art, OH. Selected one person exhibits include The Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University, The Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago, Gallery 210 at The University of Missouri-St. Louis, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum, IL, and The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, IL.
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
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Curator’s Scholarship, Drawing, Painting, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia
SELECTED GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS
2025 Lambert Field International Airport, Public art installation St. Louis, MO
2024 The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Feast, Sedalia, MO
2024 First Congregational Church, Link, Public art collection, St. Louis MO
2024 The Red Gate Gallery, ID Please, St. Louis, MO
2023 The Wichita Art Center-Mark Arts, Studio Window Disaster Series:
Slow Roast, Wichita, KS
2022 The Knowhow Bookshop @ The Luminary, Seed as Idea, Seed Library,
Collaboration with Bergman Salinas, St. Louis, MO
2022 Square/Block Headquarters, Publc art collection, St. Louis, MO
2022 Wayne State University, Visiting Artist, Detroit, MI
2021 Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Luminescence,
Botanica absentia, through July 2022
2021 STNDRD Gallery, Opticon: Surveillance Series, G-CADD, Granite City, IL
2020 The Mitchel Museum, Leaning on Nature, one-person exhibit,
Mt. Vernon, IL
2020 Wayfarers Gallery, Ransom ll, Brooklyn, New York
2020 The Mitchel Museum, Art of the Message, Mt. Vernon, IL
2020 Brooklyn Art Library, Botanica absentia, New York
2020 The Kranzberg Art Foundation, Eyes Wide Open: Surveillance Series,
St. Louis, MO
2019 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Botanica absentia, 2019
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 Artist in Residence, Forsyth School, St. Louis, 2019-2020
2018 The St. Louis Artists Guild, The State of Our Shared Land, St. Louis
2018 Critical Mass Public Art, Gateway Arch large-scale site commission and
installation, Riverbend
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 Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis
2015 Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock
2015 OA Gallery, St. Louis
2015 Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis
2010 -2015, 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, Exhibition: Selections from the
Flat Files
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
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Artist, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Artist in Residence, Forsyth School, St. Louis, 2019-2020
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, Santa Reparata International School of
Art, Florence, Italy, 2003
Associate Professor of Art, Washington University,
St. Louis, 2002-2003
Gallery Co-director, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis
Community College. Curator, 1993-2018
SELECTED REVIEWS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
BOMB Magazine, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/seed-as-idea-aeron-bergman-and-alejandra-salinas-interviewed/
The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Leaning on Nature, catalog with essay by Director of Visual Art Rusty Freeman, 16pp, 2020, https://issuu.com/cedarhurstarts/docs/leaning_on_nature_catalog
All the Art magazine, review of Botanica absentia, Alexis Rivierre, 2020, https://issuu.com/alltheartstl/docs/spring2019finalupload_87d3200eb88e2a
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Botanica absentia, September 2019, https://camstl.org/exhibitions/teen-museum-studies-presents-margaret-keller-botanica-absentia/
delicious line, review of Botanica absentia by Alexis Rivierre, 2020, https://deliciousline.org/review/431
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Audio guide, Botanica absentia, September 2019, https://soundcloud.com/user-469652853/inspiration-for-the-project
St. Louis Magazine, September 2019 https://www.stlmag.com/culture/visual-arts/st-louis-artist-creates-memorial-contemporary/
Webster-Kirkwood Time, review of Botanica absentia by Will Frank, November 2019, https://www.timesnewspapers.com/webster-kirkwoodtimes/botanica-absentia/article_4db83ee0-0c74-11ea-af97-c32daea586c0.htm
Alive Magazine, July 2019 http://alivemag.com/extreme-curiosity-the-contagious-nature-of-possibility-in-margaret-kellers-art/
Ladue News, April 2019
Yale Radio, Margaret Keller, February 2019 https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/margaret-keller/
STLCity.com, October 2018
Critical Mass Podcast: Five Questions, October 2018
https://criticalmassart.org/2018/10/02/5-questions-margaret-keller/
HECTV, September 2018 https://www.hecmedia.org/posts/new-public-art-display-adds-play-to-the-gateway-arch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 2018 https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/st-louis-gets-a-shiny-new-river-at-the-gateway/article_9ec6467b-a956-5bf2-a53d-4a22cec15630.html
St. Louis Magazine, September 2018 https://www.stlmag.com/culture/visual-arts/riverbend-artist-margaret-keller-opening-gateway-arch-national-park/
STLToday, September 2018 https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/st-louis-gets-a-shiny-new-river-at-the-gateway/article_9ec6467b-a956-5bf2-a53d-4a22cec15630.html
South40news, August 2018 http://40southnews.com/maplewood-artists-work-selected-for-gateway-arch-grounds/
Alive Magazine, July 2018 http://alivemag.com/public-art-installation-coming-to-the-new-gateway-arch-national-park-grounds/
Delicious Line, Amy Sherald, June 2018
All the Art, review of Surveillance Series, Sarah Weinman, Winter 2018 issue
Surveillance Series, temporaryartreview, Joe Kohlburn, October 2017
Surveillance Series, Gallery 210 Catalog, Terry Suhre, J. 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
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Staging”, Forum for Contemporary Art, 4-21-02
New Art Examiner, “Against Design”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, November/December issue, 2001
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Leaning on Nature, Lecture, 2020
Yale Radio, interview, January 2020,
https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/margaret-keller-2/
Contemporary Art Museum, Open Studios Guest Artist, St. Louis,
October, 2019
Contemporary Art Museum, Botanica absentia, lecture, St. Louis,
September, 2019
The Space Between, artist lecture, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, January 2019
G-CADD, Granite City Art and Design District, Site-Specificity Roundtable, 2019
Saint Louis Art Museum, lecture, February 2019
Riverbend Talk: Saint 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
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
First Congregational Church, UCC, St. Louis
Square - Block Corporate Headquarters, St. Louis
Forsyth School, St. Louis, MO
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
BJC Hospital West
Numerous private collections in St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Berlin and Baltimore
http://www.margaretkellerstudio.com @margaretkellerstudio
@missouri_riverbend
With multiple, interdisciplinary series including installation, painting, drawing, prints, digital media, and sculpture, I examine the relationship between contemporary culture, nature, and technology. Current series investigate environmental crisis, the pervasiveness of surveillance, the range of natural disasters, and our filtered experiences of nature in this digital age. I also focus on the curatorial and critical aspects of contemporary art with published reviews in Art in America, All the Art, delicious line and temporaryartreview.
Group exhibits include Quadratfuß-NX2-Annex Art /Berlin, The Mitchell Museum, IL, The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, MO, The Wichita Art Center/Mark Arts, The Arkansas Art Center Museum, The Maryland Federation of Art Gallery, The Wichita Art Museum, The Neville Museum in Green Bay, The Tweed Museum in Duluth, The Riverside Museum, CA, The Brea Cultural Center, CA, The Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, and The Butler Institute of American Art, OH. Selected one person exhibits include The Crisp Museum at Southeast Missouri State University, The Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago, Gallery 210 at The University of Missouri-St. Louis, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center Museum, IL, and The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mt. Vernon, IL.
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
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Curator’s Scholarship, Drawing, Painting, Art History, University of Missouri-Columbia
SELECTED GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS
2025 Lambert Field International Airport, Public art installation St. Louis, MO
2024 The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Feast, Sedalia, MO
2024 First Congregational Church, Link, Public art collection, St. Louis MO
2024 The Red Gate Gallery, ID Please, St. Louis, MO
2023 The Wichita Art Center-Mark Arts, Studio Window Disaster Series:
Slow Roast, Wichita, KS
2022 The Knowhow Bookshop @ The Luminary, Seed as Idea, Seed Library,
Collaboration with Bergman Salinas, St. Louis, MO
2022 Square/Block Headquarters, Publc art collection, St. Louis, MO
2022 Wayne State University, Visiting Artist, Detroit, MI
2021 Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, Luminescence,
Botanica absentia, through July 2022
2021 STNDRD Gallery, Opticon: Surveillance Series, G-CADD, Granite City, IL
2020 The Mitchel Museum, Leaning on Nature, one-person exhibit,
Mt. Vernon, IL
2020 Wayfarers Gallery, Ransom ll, Brooklyn, New York
2020 The Mitchel Museum, Art of the Message, Mt. Vernon, IL
2020 Brooklyn Art Library, Botanica absentia, New York
2020 The Kranzberg Art Foundation, Eyes Wide Open: Surveillance Series,
St. Louis, MO
2019 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Botanica absentia, 2019
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 Artist in Residence, Forsyth School, St. Louis, 2019-2020
2018 The St. Louis Artists Guild, The State of Our Shared Land, St. Louis
2018 Critical Mass Public Art, Gateway Arch large-scale site commission and
installation, Riverbend
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 Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis
2015 Arkansas Art Center Museum, Little Rock
2015 OA Gallery, St. Louis
2015 Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis
2010 -2015, 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, Exhibition: Selections from the
Flat Files
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
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Visiting Artist, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Artist in Residence, Forsyth School, St. Louis, 2019-2020
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, Santa Reparata International School of
Art, Florence, Italy, 2003
Associate Professor of Art, Washington University,
St. Louis, 2002-2003
Gallery Co-director, Meramec Contemporary Art Gallery, St. Louis
Community College. Curator, 1993-2018
SELECTED REVIEWS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
BOMB Magazine, https://bombmagazine.org/articles/seed-as-idea-aeron-bergman-and-alejandra-salinas-interviewed/
The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Leaning on Nature, catalog with essay by Director of Visual Art Rusty Freeman, 16pp, 2020, https://issuu.com/cedarhurstarts/docs/leaning_on_nature_catalog
All the Art magazine, review of Botanica absentia, Alexis Rivierre, 2020, https://issuu.com/alltheartstl/docs/spring2019finalupload_87d3200eb88e2a
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Botanica absentia, September 2019, https://camstl.org/exhibitions/teen-museum-studies-presents-margaret-keller-botanica-absentia/
delicious line, review of Botanica absentia by Alexis Rivierre, 2020, https://deliciousline.org/review/431
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Audio guide, Botanica absentia, September 2019, https://soundcloud.com/user-469652853/inspiration-for-the-project
St. Louis Magazine, September 2019 https://www.stlmag.com/culture/visual-arts/st-louis-artist-creates-memorial-contemporary/
Webster-Kirkwood Time, review of Botanica absentia by Will Frank, November 2019, https://www.timesnewspapers.com/webster-kirkwoodtimes/botanica-absentia/article_4db83ee0-0c74-11ea-af97-c32daea586c0.htm
Alive Magazine, July 2019 http://alivemag.com/extreme-curiosity-the-contagious-nature-of-possibility-in-margaret-kellers-art/
Ladue News, April 2019
Yale Radio, Margaret Keller, February 2019 https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/margaret-keller/
STLCity.com, October 2018
Critical Mass Podcast: Five Questions, October 2018
https://criticalmassart.org/2018/10/02/5-questions-margaret-keller/
HECTV, September 2018 https://www.hecmedia.org/posts/new-public-art-display-adds-play-to-the-gateway-arch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 2018 https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/st-louis-gets-a-shiny-new-river-at-the-gateway/article_9ec6467b-a956-5bf2-a53d-4a22cec15630.html
St. Louis Magazine, September 2018 https://www.stlmag.com/culture/visual-arts/riverbend-artist-margaret-keller-opening-gateway-arch-national-park/
STLToday, September 2018 https://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/st-louis-gets-a-shiny-new-river-at-the-gateway/article_9ec6467b-a956-5bf2-a53d-4a22cec15630.html
South40news, August 2018 http://40southnews.com/maplewood-artists-work-selected-for-gateway-arch-grounds/
Alive Magazine, July 2018 http://alivemag.com/public-art-installation-coming-to-the-new-gateway-arch-national-park-grounds/
Delicious Line, Amy Sherald, June 2018
All the Art, review of Surveillance Series, Sarah Weinman, Winter 2018 issue
Surveillance Series, temporaryartreview, Joe Kohlburn, October 2017
Surveillance Series, Gallery 210 Catalog, Terry Suhre, J. 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
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, “Staging”, Forum for Contemporary Art, 4-21-02
New Art Examiner, “Against Design”, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, November/December issue, 2001
SELECTED PUBLIC LECTURES, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Leaning on Nature, Lecture, 2020
Yale Radio, interview, January 2020,
https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/margaret-keller-2/
Contemporary Art Museum, Open Studios Guest Artist, St. Louis,
October, 2019
Contemporary Art Museum, Botanica absentia, lecture, St. Louis,
September, 2019
The Space Between, artist lecture, The William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, January 2019
G-CADD, Granite City Art and Design District, Site-Specificity Roundtable, 2019
Saint Louis Art Museum, lecture, February 2019
Riverbend Talk: Saint 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
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
First Congregational Church, UCC, St. Louis
Square - Block Corporate Headquarters, St. Louis
Forsyth School, St. Louis, MO
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
BJC Hospital West
Numerous private collections in St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Boston, Berlin and Baltimore
http://www.margaretkellerstudio.com @margaretkellerstudio
@missouri_riverbend
