Steve Keister
Born 1949, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Education:
1971 B.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia and Rome
1973 M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Rome
One Person Exhibitions:
2023 BATZ, Analog Diary, Beach, NY
BIO MESO, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2022 “BATZ”, Freddy, Harris, NY
2017 Post-Colombian, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2016 Steve Keister: Recent Work, Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
2015 USOs: 1978-1981, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
2010 Ceramic Interactions: Steve Keister, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology
and Anthropology, Philadelphia
2007 Steve Keister: Tollan, Feature, Inc., New York
2006 Shapesifter, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2002 The Shape of Time, Bill Maynes Gallery
1999 Bill Maynes Gallery
1998 Rosenberg Gallery, Hofstra University, New York
1996 Interstitial Archaeology, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art
1991 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago
1990 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1989 Solo Gallery, New York
1988 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York
1986 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York
1984 Carol Taylor Gallery, Dallas
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner,
Cologne
1983 Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
1982 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York
1981 BlumHelman Warehouse, New York
1980 Options 5-Steve Keister, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston
1979 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago
1978 Pam Adler Gallery, New York
1977 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2024 “I was Only Dreaming” Club Rhubarb, New York
2023 “That Seventies Show” Eric Firestone Gallery, New York
“Library”, Tappeto Volante, Brooklyn
2022 “Modular Mosaic” Underdonk, Brooklyn
2021 Glyphadelphia, curated by Carl D’Alvia, Hesse Flatow Gallery , New York City
2021 Making Faces, Steve Keister and Jared Deery, curated by JJ Manford, Underdonk, Brooklyn
2020 Acquired on EBay (and other surrogate sources), Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2019 Norikabe, Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko, Japan
2019 Masterpieces, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2019 New York Gallery Open, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2019 25 Years Part 2- Abstraction, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
2018 Mixed Bag, Real Estate Gallery, Brooklyn
2017 Works on Paper 1813 - 2016, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York City
Necropolitan Aveune, Real Estate Gallery, Brooklyn
2016 Paradise: underground culture in NYC 1978 - 84, New York City
Ways and Means, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery, New York City
The Voyage of the Beagle, Radiator Gallery, Long Island City, New York
2015 The Shadow Is Taken, Algus Greenspon Gallery, New York
2014 Keister Lee Levine, Ille Arts, Amagansett
2014 Feral Objects, Creon Gallery, New York
2013 The Stairs, Algus Greenspon Gallery, New York
2013 Fifty Works for Fifty States: Works from the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
2012 Pillow Talk, Ille Arts, Amagansett
2012 Fifty Works for Fifty States: Works from the Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2011 Paul Clay, Salon 94 Bowery, New York
2011 Building Blocks, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2011 50 Works-50 States, The Vogel Collection, The High Museum, Atlanta
2010 Teacup Show, Rose Burlingham Gallery, New York
2010 Fifty Works for Fifty States: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,
Birmingham Museum of Art
2010 New Work, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
2009 Fifty Works for Fifty States: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,
Milwaukee Art Museum
2009 Objects, Furniture and Patterns, Art Since the Summer of ’69, New York
2009 Modern and Contemporary Ceramics, A. M. Richard Fine Art, Brooklyn
2009 Commune, Black & White Gallery, New York
2009 Mary's Choice, 303 Gallery, New York
2008 Collected Thoughts: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2008 What Makes a Face, Salena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
2008 Angles in America, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
2008 Present Tense, Spanierman Modern, New York
2008 styrofoam, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
2007 Canal Street, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
2007 Corpse of Time, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn
2006 Two Friends And So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
2004 Faculty Exhibition, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
2003 Travelers Islip Art Museum, Long Island, New York
2001 Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Snapshot, Contemporary
Museum, Baltimore
1998 A.R.T., Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Glyphriff 2, New York
Art Exchange
1997 Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York
TIAA/Cref, New York
Across Lines, The Rosenberg
Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Patricia Faure Gallery,
Santa Monica
At the Threshold of the
Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996,
Independent Curators Incorporated
(travels to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University;
Meyerhoff Galleries, Maryland
Institute of Art, Baltimore;Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto;
Art Gallery of Windsor,
Ontario; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts,
Virginia; Santa Monica
Museum of Art, California; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta
1996 30th Anniversary Temple Rome Exhibition, Italy
The Flying Saucer Project,
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Thing, Deven Golden Fine
Art Ltd., New York
In On Through, Morris
Healy Gallery, New York
1995 NYU Faculty Exhibition, Apex Art, New York
Tinkering & Delving,
E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York
Altered and Irrational:
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1994 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
In Context: What is it
about modern life that makes it so . . ., New York University
1993 Modern Post-Modern, SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum, New York
Steve Keister & Leslie
Kamen, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York
Nine Sculptors and their
Printer, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
1992 Zero Gravity, Henry DeFord 3rd Gallery, Citicorp Court Square, Long
Island City
A Marked Difference, Maatschappij
Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
Celebrating Art &
Architecture, LaSalle Partners, NationsBank Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina
1991 Out of Site, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island
City, New York
Working on Edge, Long
Island University, Brooklyn Campus
Fabricators, Grace Borgenicht
Gallery, New York
Steve Keister and Carter
Hodgkins, Berland Hall Gallery, New York
1990 Newer Sculpture, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Painted Metal Sculpture,
The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
1988 A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York
Skulpturen Republik, Kunstraum
Wien, Vienna
1987 From Object to Image, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
BlumHelman Gallery, New York “a Drawing Show”
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida, “The Art of Sculpture”
Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, “Woodwork”
1986 The Barry Lowen Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
BlumHelman Gallery, New York “Group Show”
BlumHelman Gallery, New York, “R. M. Fisher, Steve Keister, Bill Woodrow: Recent Sculpture”
El Bohio Community and Cultural Center, New York, “indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition”
Burnette Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, “Recent Abstraction”
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan, “Structure Abstraction”
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, “The Museum of Contemporary Art: The Barry Lowen Collection”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, “As Sculpture”
Sapporo Art, Park Center Art Lobby, Sapporo, Japan, “New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture- 10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan”
John Weber Gallery, New York, Admired Work”
1985 Laforat Museum Harajuko, Tokyo, “ CORRESPONDENCES: New York Art Now”
Exhibition travelled: Tochigi Perfectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan
Kunstlerwerksatten, Munich, Germany, “Prozess und Konstruktion”
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
“Affiliations: Recent Sculpture and its Antecedents”
1984 Painting and Sculpture Biennial, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Alternative Museum, New York, “Tit for Tatlin”
ART Cologne Internationaler Kunstmarkt, “Szene New York”
Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York”beauties and BEASTS or What makes great art great?”
Exhibition travelled: Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Tangemen Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, “Sculpture from the Ceiling”
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, “Golden Years: Tyler’s 50 th Anniversity”
1983 Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX, “Concepts in Construction: 1910-1980”
Exhibition travelled: Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL,The Bass Museum, Miami, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta,
Norman Mac Kenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Anchorage HIstorical & Fine Art Museum,State University of New York at Purchase
1982 ELAC, Centre d’Exchanges, Lyon, France, “Energie New York”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, “Selected Painting & Sculpture acquired since 1978”
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, “Constructed Color”
The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Dynamix”
Exhibition travelled: Ohio State University Gallery, Columbus; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin OH;Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH;
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington KY;
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB; Doane Hall Art Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, “Art Materialized: Selections from the Fabric Workshop” Exhibition circulated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York:
Gibbed Art Gallery, Charleston, SC,
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; USF Art Galleries; University of South Florida, Tampa, FL;,
Art Museum and Galleries,
California State University at Long Beach; Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Ontario;
Pensacola Museum of Art, FL
Brainard Art Gallery, State University College of Arts and Science, Potsdam, NY “20th Anniversary Exhibition of the Vogel Collection”.
Exhibition travelled: Gallery of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Rapids
1981 Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Bernard Jacobson Ltd., NY “Flying”
Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ “Color on Structure”
John Weber Gallery , NY “Media Relief”
1980 Texas Gallery, Houston “N.Y.Teowz”,
Stefanotti Gallery, New York “Sculpture”
Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris “91e Exposition Societe des Artists Independants”
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska “I 80 Series”
1979 Eight Sculptors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago “Review and Preview”
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York “Canal Street”
John Weber Gallery, New York “Invitational”
1978 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago “Review and Preview”
$100 Gallery, New York “Third Group Show”
Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P. S. 1, Long Island City, NY “Special Projects”
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York “New Work/New York”
Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago “Eebee Geebees”
1977 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago “Review and Preview”
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY “Abstract Objects”
Awards:
2000 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1999 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1986 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship
Public Collections:
CCS Bard Hessel Museum, New York
Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland
Akron Art Museum, Akron
The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock
Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin
Birmingham Museum of Art
Boise Art Museum
Castellani Art Museum, Niagra University, New York
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina
The Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Honolulu Academy of Arts
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia
IMA - Indianapolis Museum of Art
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Miami Art Museum
The Milwaukee Art Museum
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The National Gallery, Washington, D. C.
New Mexico Museum of Art, Musem of New Mexico, Santa Fe
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum, Utah State university, Logan
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Phoenix Art Museum
Plains Art Museum, Fargo
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Rodert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
Saint Louis Art Museum
South Dakota Art Museum, South Dakota State University, Brookings
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, Lawrence
SUNY Plattsburgh Art Museum, New York
University of Alaska Museum of the North, Fairbanks
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale Universit Art Gallery, New Haven
Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings