Matt Keegan

Over the course of his career, Matt Keegan has worked fluidly across mediums, creating sculptures, photographs, videos, and text-based works that probe the myriad ways in which art and language mediate the personal experience of physical space as well as historical, social, and political events.

Keegan’s artistic practice often parallels contemporaneous publishing projects, and at times a confluence of the two modes of production has compelled the artist to develop new arenas for artistic discourse and collaboration. In 2008 Keegan published AMERICAMERICA, an artist book commissioned and published by Printed Matter, NY, which focuses on the year 1986 and its correspondence with 2008. The book opens with documentation of a 2007 road trip, inspired by Hands Across America, in which Keegan cast the hands of mayors located between New York and New Mexico. In 2003 Keegan co-founded the annual publication North Drive Press with Lizzy Lee, a childhood friend. Numbering five issues between 2004 and 2010, the unconventional project operated as an alternative space for artist-to-artist interviews and art multiples. North Drive Press is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New York Public Library, The Library at the Hessel Museum and Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and the Beinecke Library at Yale University, among others.

Matt Keegan’s work has been exhibited at museums such as the Athenaeum at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX: Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, AT;, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, Bilbao, ES, and Berlin, DE; The Kitchen, New York, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

Keegan’s work is represented in numerous museum and private collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, among others. He received his MFA from Columbia University in 2004, attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2001, and his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1998. Keegan is currently a Senior Critic in the Painting & Printmaking Department at Yale University.

Born in 1976, Manhasset, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

2004

MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY

1998

BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2025

Magenta Plains, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Realia, The Athenaeum, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2020

Recycle, Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT

2019

Matt Keegan: what was & what is, Public Process commission, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
USE YOUR WORDS, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
I wish to communicate with you: Corita Kent & Matt Keegan, Potts, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Replicate, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Generation, Participant Inc., New York, NY

2016

Purple, Meyer Riegger, Berlin, Germany
LL|EE, with Rachel Foullon, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, Portugal
A Traveling Show, with Kay Rosen, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

2015

Portable Document Format, Rogaland Kunstcenter, Stavanger, NO
And, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA

2014

Matt Keegan and Anne Truitt, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY

2013

Horizon, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisboa, PT

2012

Y? O! G... A., Matt Keegan and Eileen Quinlan, curated by Matthew Lyons, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2011

Lengua, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
I Apple NY, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2010

The Story of a Window, with Dane Mitchell, Neon Parc, Melbourne, AU

2009

Postcards & Calendars, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Windows, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2008

Now’s the Time, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2007

Any Day Now, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

2006

From You to Me and Back Again, with Leslie Hewitt, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
How to Make a Portrait, Nicole Klagsbrun (Project Room), New York, NY; White Columns (Bulletin Board), New York, NY

1997

Thank You Auckland and Goodnight, rm. 3, Auckland, NZ

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Group exhibition, Museu de Arte Contemporânea Armando Martins, Lisbon, PT (forthcoming)

2024

Art Basel Miami Beach with Ken Lum, Jennifer Bolande, Tina Girouard and Liza Lacroix, Magenta Plains, Miami, FL
Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja, Nee, Nee, Nee, Nee, Nee curated by Florian Meisenberg, Berthold Pott, Cologne, DE
I’ll Be Your Mirror, Mighty Real /Queer Detroit biennial, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Butterflies, David Peter Frances, New York, NY
Orbit, Organized by Jamie Isenstein, Marcelo Fontana, and Chris Ticas, Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
One More Thing, Curated by Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Triangle Gallery, Purchase College, NY.
An Expanded Lens, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

2023

Photography and Language, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Voicings, Artspace New Haven, New Haven, CT

2021

Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation, organized by Soft Network, S&S Corner Shop, The Art Building, Springs, NY

2019

Allan Krapow/Words, Converso.online, Milan, IT
La terra piatta e la dimensione lirica di un luogo come se regredire fosse inventore, Maroncelli 12, Milan, IT
Thresholds, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, CH
Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center New York, NY

2018

Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
How It’s Made, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, SE (2017-2018)

2017

Cut Here, Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY

2016

Will and Be Going To, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
The Artist’s Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, OH
We Are the Center for Curatorial Studies, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
In search of Vedaland, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
C.Ar.D. Contemporary Art & Design Biennial, Consorzio Agrario Provinciale, Piacenza, IT

2015

Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2015-2016)
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Over & Under, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York, NY

2014

Rencontre, curated by Janneke deVries, Autocenter, Berlin, DE
No Games Inside the Labyrinth, curated by John Miller, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, DE
Fixed Variable, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY

2013

Art at the Core, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
The Cat Show, curated by Ronda Lieberman, White Columns, New York, NY
Transmissions, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Tenth Anniversary Show, Wallspace, New York, NY
Yes, I Will Yes, American Contemporary, New York, NY
It’s Over There, Matt Keegan and James Richards, Marie Lund, Rose Marcus, Emily Mast, Lucy Skaer, Viola Yesiltac, Simon Subal Gallery, New York, NY

2012

Books, Matt Keegan, Adam Pendleton, Ricardo Valentim, Galeria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear Matt Keegan and Dane Mitchell, Zak Kitnick, Matt Sheridan Smith, Josh Tonsfeldt, curated by Matt Moravec and Kyle Thurman, Volker Bradtke, Dusseldorf, DE
Yeah We Friends and Shit, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
Found in Translation, curated by Nat Troutman, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, DE

2011

Circulate, Fotografie Museum Amsterdam, NL
Short Stories, curated by Isla Leaver-Yap, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Exposure: Matt Keegan, Katie Paterson, Heather Rasmussen, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Air We Breathe, curated by Apsara DiQunizio, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Anxiety of Photography, curated by Matthew Thompson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
We Are Grammar, curated by Dave Beech and Paul O’Neill, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
No More Presence, Hunter College / The Artist’s Institute, New York, NY
Chris Johanson, Charley Harper & Matt Keegan, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Open Sesame (The Blue Floor Show), curated by Tim Barber, A.S.S. Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, ES
S, M, L, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
Image Transfer, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
Christmas in July, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY
The Summer Bazaar, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
…And Then There Was X, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth, New York, NY
American Spirit, Crone Galerie, Berlin, DE
\ (Lean), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
They Knew What They Wanted, John Bergreunn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pictures & Statues, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH

2009

Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York, NY
Reach of Realism, MOCA Miami, Miami, FL
Interim in Three Rounds, curated by Jason Murison, Friedrich Petzel, New York, NY
Picturing the Studio, School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, IL
Phot(o)bjects, Presentation House, Vancouver, B.C
A Wild Night and a New Road, Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA
Separate Entities, Museum 52, New York, NY
The Garden of Forking Paths, Maisterravalbuena, Madrid, ES

2008

Optimism, Westport Art Center, Westport, CT
Democracy in America: The National Campaign, organized by Creative Time, New York, NY
Communication Breakdown, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY and Galerie Impaire, Paris, FR
Catawampus (for H.D.), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Intimacy, curated by Anne Pasternak, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Imaginary Thing, curated by Peter Eleey, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Rental, curated by Haley Mellin, New York, NY
Not so subtle subtitle, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY
Bendover/Hangover: An Evening with Cinema Zero, curated by Amy Granat, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO,
11 Sessions, with Karin Schneider and John Miller, Orchard, New York, NY
Pawnshop, organized by e-flux, New York, NY, traveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL and Beijing, CH
The Leisure Suite, curated by Martin Basher, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2007

I AM Eyebeam, curated by Melanie Schiff and Lorelei Stewart, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
Catawampus (for H.D.), Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL
NeoIntegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Funny Shadows, Daphne Fitzpatrick, Matt Keegan, Adam Putnam, and Allison Smith, curated by Dinaburg Arts, Clifford Chance US, New York, NY
Elastic Paintings and Transparent Partition: An exhibition by Karin Schneider, Forde, L’Usine, Geneva, Switzerland, curated by Sarina Basta Alabama, in collaboration with Leslie Hewitt, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, BE

2006

Please Love Me, curated by Santiago Cucullu and Nicholas Frank Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
How I Finally Accepted Fate, curated by Jason Murison, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
Bring the War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY and QED, Los Angeles, CA
A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Mystic River, SouthFirst:ART, Brooklyn, NY, travels to: Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Supports, Roger Bjorkholmen Galleri, Stockholm, SE

2005

Shape Shifters, curated by Amy Yao, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
A Walk in the Park, curated by Anthony Huberman, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Bebe Le Strange, curated by Rachel Uffner and Barb Choit, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY
lesser new york, a Fia Backström production, Brooklyn, NY
Log Cabin, curated Jeffrey Uslip , Artists Space, New York, NY

2004

A/C, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
LTTR Explosion! , organized by Emily Roysdon, Art in General (in collaboration with Xylor Jane),K8 Hardy, and Ginger Takahashi, New York, NY
Hung, Drawn, and Quartered, curated by Miriam Katzeff, Team Gallery, New York, NY
Silhouette, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
Columbia University’s MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Ali Subotnick, Studebaker Building, New York, NY

2003

The Outlaw Series, organized by Lisa Kirk, Fortunato Brother’s Bakery, Brooklyn, NY
Catholic Cat Show, curated by Jesse Pearson and Glynnis McDaris, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
24/7, curated by Raimundas Malasauskas and Dean Daderko , Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, LT(catalogue)
NFS, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents and Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY
and Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Rundgang, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, DE (catalogue)
Columbia First Year MFA Exhibition, curated by Lia Gangitano,, Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Process/ion, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, curated by Eva Respini, New York, NY

2001

Biting Style, Spitting Image, Bass Museum, curated by Denise Delgado, Miami, FL

2000

Superduper NY, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

1999

Exposed, Islip Art Museum, curated by Janie M. Walker, East Islip, NY

Public and Private Collections

Annette and Peter Nobel Collection, Zurich, CH
The Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, LB
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY