November 21–December 23, 2020
Steve Turner is pleased to present Triple Play, a three-person exhibition featuring new abstract works by Paolo Arao, Rhys Coren and Erin O’Keefe. While figuration has eclipsed non-objective work during the last few years, these three artists demonstrate that the field of abstract painting is also expanding in interesting ways. Bold in color and composition, made of atypical materials and using innovative processes, their works convey joy, play and experimentation while presenting visual conundrums that are not easily solved.
Paolo Arao presents sewn paintings that incorporate patterns and colors of Philippine textiles. Made with commercial fabrics, hand woven fibers, and repurposed clothing, a personal history and intimacy is conveyed. Centered from a queer perspective, they relate to lineages of Hard Edge Painting, Op Art, Pattern + Decoration and quilt making traditions. Arao uses the triangular format to suggest a torso or a shield. Honoring the textile traditions of his heritage, he uses dizzying patterns, believed to ward off evil spirits, and imbues each painting with a lucky charm in the form of a chromatic diamond to symbolize a protective and watchful eye.
Rhys Coren is presenting paintings that can best be described as painted marquetry. They consist of numerous pieces of MDF board that he paints separately and then fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. Because of his meticulous process, there is only a hairline of space between the pieces. His textured surfaces are achieved by a variety of spray-painting techniques–he varies the distance of paint spray, the temperature and the pressure. Once everything is painted, he assembles the pieces in a tray frame and glues them together. His titles (Forty-five Played at Thirty-three and I Turned Around When I Heard The Sound) connote the link to sound in his images.
Erin O’Keefe is presenting colorful abstractions that encompass painting, sculpture and photography. She creates objects in order to photograph them, including wood-blocks and panels painted in bright colors that she arranges under various lighting conditions so that brush strokes are visible and so that the resulting shadows create geometric forms. With skillful lighting and photography, serendipity and chaos, O’Keefe transforms real objects into brightly colored two-dimensional geometric abstractions. Her final output is a unique archival pigment print, that, by being unique, bolsters her connection to painting.
Paolo Arao (b. 1977, Manilla) earned a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University (1999) and later attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000). He has had solo exhibitions in 2020 at Bemis Center, Omaha and David B. Smith Gallery, Denver and will have a solo exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia in 2021. Arao lives and works in Brooklyn.
Rhys Coren (b. 1983, Plymouth, England) completed a Postgraduate Diploma at the Royal College of Art, London (2016) and has had recent solo exhibitions at Seventeen Gallery, London and Grimm Gallery, New York. Coren lives and works in London.
Erin O’Keefe (b. 1962, Bronxville, New York) earned a BFA at Cornell University and a Masters of Architecture at Columbia University. She has had solo or two-person exhibitions at Denny Dimin Gallery, New York; Seventeen Gallery, London and Cooke Latham, London. O’Keefe lives and works in New York.
Paolo Arao creates sewn paintings that incorporate the patterns and colors of Philippine textiles from a queer perspective. They relate to Hard Edge Painting, Op Art, Pattern and Decoration, Supports/Surfaces and American quilt making. Made with commercial fabrics, repurposed clothing, hand woven fibers and weathered canvas, they convey history and intimacy. They are distinctive as textiles because Arao frequently stretches them as one would a painting. He also takes special effort to present them as three-dimensional work–their sides have as much visual information as do their front surfaces.
Born 1977, Manila, Philippines
Lives and works in Brooklyn
Education
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting + Sculpture, Maine
1999
BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
1998
Loughborough College of Art + Design, Loughborough, United Kingdom
Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute of Florence, Italy
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2020
Never Too Much, David B. Smith Gallery, Project Room, Denver
2019
Here or There, RATA Projects at 1 Rivington, New York
Key Change, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle
2018
Night Throbs, Western Exhibitions, Gallery 2, Chicago
52 Weeks, Barney Savage Gallery, New York
Flagettes, Picture Room, Brooklyn
Project 14, c2c project space, San Francisco
2010
Between the Lights, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2008
Fornever, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2006
Intermission, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2004
Make Them Love You, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2020
Triple Play, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Cut + Color, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, New York
A Feeling Falls Apart, Geary Contemporary, New York
2019
Queer Abstraction, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Shift, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Maine
All We Want Is To See Ourselves, FLXST Contemporary, Chicago
Shape Rattle & Roll, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, New York
The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Like Mercury in the Wind, Oneoneone, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Here: A Bit of Everywhere and Everyone They’ve Been, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn
Woven Walls, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
After & Because Of, Marsh Gallery at Herron School of Art + Design, Indianapolis
Quiet March to a Warring Song, The Shaker Museum, New Lebanon, New York
Ad Astra Per Aspera, The Wassaic Project: Maxon Mills, Wassaic, New York
The Whole and It’s Parts Through an Urbanistic Lens, Space 52, Athens, Greece
New York is Now, IS-Projects at Platforms Projects, Athens, Greece
Zina Al-Shukri, Paolo Arao, Anthony Sonnenberg, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco
An Idea, Maybe, Foyer Gallery, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
2018
Rhythm, Stress, and Pausing, Super Dutchess, New York
Afterimage, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn
Good Vibrations, Mother Gallery, Beacon, New York
Three Squared, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Conveyor, Morgan Fine Arts Building, Brooklyn
Half a Wave, Pfizer Building Gallery, Brooklyn
Site Menagerie, 86 Main Street, Yonkers, New York
The Cruelest Month, Mother Gallery, Beacon, New York
Squaring the Sun, Far x Wide, Brooklyn
Somewhere Nearby, Bridge Productions, Seattle
2017
The Flat Files: Year Five, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn
Painting Not Painting, Sindikit, Baltimore
Western Decoy, No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Broad Stripes + Bright Stars, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Common Ground, Ana Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
All Things Great and Small, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Overlaid and Underpinned, Curating Contemporary
Steady Mess, Bureau of General Services, Queer Division, New York
Postcards from the Edge, Metro Pictures, New York
Object and Influence, Hygienic Gallery, New London, Connecticut
2016
Casheesh, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Our City, The New School, New York
Common Ground, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center, New York
Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn
2015
The Flat File: Year Three, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn
Remains to be Seen, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
2012
Grey Full, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2011
Contemporary Drawings, Barton Art Galleries, Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina
2010
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Observant, ISE Foundation, New York
2009
Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn
Whitey on the Moon, 106 Green, Brooklyn
Room Tones, St. Cecilia Convent, Brooklyn
Give Them What They Never Knew They Wanted, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
Intus Tensio, or Appropriated Special, Centotto, Brooklyn
2008
Monsters, RENTAL, New York
Making History, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2007
Hard Times, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2005
Introspective Men, Madder 139 Gallery, London
Fresh Direct, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York
2004
Sunday Afternoon, Match-Art, Brooklyn
Pencil Me In, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Cleanliness, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
Playpen, The Drawing Center, New York
2002
Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
Lucky Draw, Deitch Projects, New York
Made in New York, Arno Maris Gallery, Westfield, Massachusetts
SNAPSHOT, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2001
Interval: New Art for a New Space, SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York
Mitochondria Emancipation, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
All Hands, Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York
AIM 21/ Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
2000
SNAPSHOT, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore
Fresh, Butler’s Laundromat, Skowhegan, Maine
Vermont Studio Center Resident Artists, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont
Residencies
2020
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
2019
Museum of Arts and Design, New York
NARS Foundation Residency, Brooklyn
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
2018
BRIC Workspace Residency, Brooklyn
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
The Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, New York
The Studios at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Keyholder Residency, Lower East Side Printshop, New York
2016
Fire Island Artist Residency, Cherry Grove, Fire Island, New York
2008
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio, New York
2005
NYFA Artist Fellowship (Drawing) New York Foundation for the Arts
2002
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2001
Artist in the Marketplace Fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts
2000
Skowhegan School of Painting + Sculpture Scholarship
1999
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson
Bibliography
2019
Langevin, Julien. “Plastic Expressions in Particularity: Nature Moves in Tracy McKenna’s Shift at Able Baker Contemporary,” Art Spiel, November 21
“TxP (Textiel Plus),” Issue 249, COLOR, August
Barcio, Phillip. “Richard Kalina Curates an Abstract Art Show at DC Moore Gallery,” IdeelArtMagazine, July 3
Arnold, Sharon. “Color, Conduits & Connectivity,” Bridge Productions, June
Couzens, Julia. “Legacy of the Hand: Paolo Arao’s Textile Paintings,” Two Coats of Paint, May 11
2018
“Pictures at an Exhibition: Afterimage at Paradice Palase,” ArtNews.com, November 30
Strumfield, Zan. “On the Cover,” Chronogram, July (plus cover image)
Fontaine, Pearl. “Must See New York: Nick Cave, Justine Kurland, Paolo Arao and More,” Whitewall, June
“New American Paintings, North Eastern Ed., Vol. 134,” Open Studio Press
Issue 25, Esopus, Spring
Hancock, Eric. “Interview with Paulo Arao,” Issue 6, Maake Magazine
2017
“Profile: Paolo Arao,” The Coastal Post, December
Murphy, Olivia. “Paolo Arao – Yearbook 2016, Yearbook Paintings: Queering Abstraction”
Hannum, Terence. “Painting Not Painting,” B-More Art, August, 14
ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 02, April
Terra Firma Magazine, Issue 04, February
2016
Artist Interview, FLOORR Magazine, Issue No. 5, August 12
Stone, Bryony. “The Queer Artists of Fire Island,” i-D Magazine, July 14
2011
“100 Artists to Watch,” Modern Painters, December 1
2008
Fusco, Maria. “The Happy Hypocrite: Issue 1 – Linguistic Hardcore,” Bookworks
Fisher, Matthew. “The Distance of Drawing,” Matthews the Younger blogspot
2006
Risemberg, Rafael. “A Weekend in the Country,” The New York Blade, April 3
2005
“New American Paintings, North Eastern Ed., Vol. 56,” Open Studio Press
“Readings,” Harper’s Magazine, January
Orden, Abraham. “Circus Without a Tent,” Artnet.com, February 11
2004
VOGUE (Portugal), November
Calendar, The New York Sun, October 19
Hitomi, Iwasaki. “Robert Lee and Timothy Liu. Mitochondria Emancipation,” Asian American Arts Centre
2001
Smith, Roberta. “Funky Digs with Lots of Space for Performance-Oriented Hipsters,” The New York Times, September 28
Ramoran, Edwin, and Lydia Yee. “Artist in the Market Place: 21st Annual Exhibition,” Bronx Museum of the Arts
Rhys Coren creates paintings that can best be described as painted marquetry. They consist of numerous pieces of MDF board that he paints separately and then fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. Because of his meticulous process, there is only a hairline of space between the pieces. He develops unusual textured surfaces by using a variety of spray-painting techniques–he varies the distance of paint spray, the temperature and the pressure. Once everything is painted, he assembles the pieces in a tray frame and glues them together for posterity. His images have a pop sensibility and many represent sound.
Born 1983, Plymouth, United Kingdom
Lives and works in London
Education
2016
Post Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy Schools, London
2006
BA, UWE, Bristol, United Kingdom
2002
Foundation Diploma, Plymouth College of Art, United Kingdom
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2019
Shape of Story, Seventeen, London
2018
Rock-hard Aura and the Lost Explorer, Grimm Gallery, New York
Main Street Video, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Love Motion, Royal Academy of Arts Courtyard / Lumiere Festival, London
2017
Whistle Bump Super Strut, Seventeen, London
2016
click, click, click-clap-click, galeriepcp, Paris
2014
If We Can Dance Together, Jerwood Project Space, London
Four to the Floor, Horatio Jr., London
2013
Beat the Box, Corfu, London
Apparel & Ornament, SPACE, London
2012
The Man Who Knew Too Little, Seventeen, London
Group Exhibitions
2020
Triple Play, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Summer Exhibition, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
2019
FUTBOLKA, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham, United Kingdom
Drawing Biennial 2019, Drawing Room, London
Colour Snap, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Football is Art, The National Football Museum, Manchester, United Kingdom
2018
Rhythm, Stress, and Pausing, Super Dutchess, New York
Doors of Paradise, Union Pacific, London
New Editions, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London
EDDYSROOM@GALLERITHOMASSEN, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg, Sweden
Cerrajeria, Lock Up International, Mexico City
Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation, Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn, Estonia
2017
Dead Heat, Kunstraum Ortloff, Leipzig, Germany
Fickle Food Upon A Shifting Plate, Studio Leigh, London
Animate!, Screen City Biennial, MS Sandnes Boat, Stavanger, Norway
You see me like a UFO, Marcelle Joseph Projects, Ascott, United Kingdom
Look Me In The Eye Sister, Galeria Layendecker, Tenerife, Spain
Abacus, Bluecoat, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Form and Volume, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Video for Kids, Kunstall Stavanger, Norway
Drawing Biennial 2017, Drawing Room, London
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight), J Hammond Projects, London
Walled Gardens in an Insane Eden, Marcelle Joseph @ Sara Zanin, Rome
2016
Beyond the Cartoon, Cassina Projects w/Artuner, New York
Cuts, Shapes, Breaks and Scrapes, Seventeen, London
Royal Academy Schools Degree Show, Royal Academy, London
2015
Studio Leigh, London
VIDEO VIDEO, CHART Art Fair, Copenhagen
Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London
Dearth, Boiler Room, London
From Centre, Slate Projects, London
Premiums Interim Projects, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2014
A Union of Voices, Horatio Jr., London
E-Vapor-8, Site Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Symbolic Logic, Identity Gallery, Hong Kong
Welcome to Corfu, The Depot, London
2013
Action! Moving Image Abstraction, Soho House, Miami
Stop / Action, Test Space, Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
A Show in an Apartment, Apartment 4, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Vestige, Design Museum, London
Young London, V22, London
Magic 8 Ball, FOLD, London
Leeds! Leeds! Leeds!, blip blip blip, Leeds, United Kingdom
Lot N°, Lionel Dobie / Capes Dunn Auction House, Manchester, United Kingdom
SUCCESONE, CREATE London website take-over
Like A Monkey With A Miniature Symbol, Aid & Abet, Cambridge, United Kingdom
BYOB, Boiler Room, London
A3 Works, A3 Project Space, Birmingham, United Kingdom
A Guide To The Galaxy, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan
The Shortest Video Art Ever Sold, Moving Image Art Fair, New York
Decenter, decenterarmory.com / Abrons Arts Center, New York
2012
ZOMBIE MODERNISM, Malgras|Naudet, Manchester, United Kingdom
Hashfail as part of Open File III, Grand Union, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Zerrissenheit, RISE, Berlin
Stelle Negli Occhi, Art Licks website take-over
Happy Accident, Wandering Around Wandering, New York
The Response, The Sunday Painter, London
Accidental Purpose, accidentalpurpose.net
E-Vapor-8, 319 Scholes, New York
Energia Della Danza, Trade Gallery website take-over
Big Love, Catch, London
2011
One Night Stand, Peckham Hotel, London
Anti-Library, SPACE, London
Space Exchange, Aid & Abet, Cambridge, United Kingdom
ICML PRSNT… No Woman No Cry, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, United Kingdom
# 4, Fort, London
Animate Everything, Hewitt Street, London
Friendship of the Peoples, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London
my friend speak HTML, NRMAL FESTIVAL, Monterrey, Mexico
ICML PRSNT… Duck Hunt, Rhubaba, Edinburgh, Scotland
2010
Something is Coming, Godspeeeeed Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Techno-Thriller, The Newbridge Project, Newcastle, United Kingdom
VIDEO PROGETTO, Grand Union, Birmingham UK and 26CC, Rome
Paintings From England & America, CRISP, London
2009
ICML PRSNT… Black Rainbow, Motorcade / FlashParade, Bristol, United Kingdom
Building Up Not Tearing Down, tactileBOSCHE, Cardiff, Wales
NEVERandagain, ISCP, New York
I haven’t seen the place I’ve looked at, Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg, France
Picture Parlour: Pecha Kucha Freestyle, ISCP, New York
Climate For Change, FACT, Liverpool, United Kingdom
SALE, The Royal Standard, Liverpool, United Kingdom
2008
chinco minutes depois/5 minutes later, A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto, Portugal
Consequence Aside, Control, Newcastle, United Kingdom
O P E N E N D E D, Rogue, Manchester, United Kingdom
meet me round the corner (in five minutes), Spike Island, Bristol, United Kingdom
2007
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom, Club Rowe, London; New Art Gallery, Walsall, United Kingdom
Residencies and Awards
2011
Project Space 11 Artist Residency, Plymouth, United Kingdom
2010
TactileBOSCHE Artist Residency, Cardiff, Wales
2009
International Studio Curatorial Program Residency, New York
Room13 Residency – Harclive Primary School, Bristol, United Kingdom
Venice Agendas, Italy
Bibliography
2019
Frankel, Eddy. “Rhys Coren: Shape of Story review,” Time Out
“Putting The “You” in Color: Rhys Coren’s Fuzy Familiarity,” Juxtapoz, February 21
2017
Treagus, Phil. “Rhys Coren: Think About It Later,” The Reading Lists
Joseph, Marcelle. “Marcelle Joseph Interviews Artist Rhys Coren,” FAD Magazine, March 23
Stone, Bryony. ““Music almost always fuels the work”: multidisciplinary artist Rhys Coren on his latest show,” It’s Nice That, March 14
Douglas, Caroline. “Rhys Coren: Whistle Bump Super Strut at Seventeen Gallery, London,” Contemporary Art Society, March 10
Erin O’Keefe produces colorful abstractions that encompass painting, sculpture and photography. She creates objects to photograph them–wood blocks and panels painted in bright colors get arranged under various lighting conditions so that brush strokes are visible and shadows create geometric forms. With skillful lighting and photography, serendipity and chaos, O’Keefe transforms real objects into brightly colored two dimensional geometric abstractions. While her final output is an archival pigment print, because she produces but one unique print, O’Keefe bolsters her connection to painting.
Born 1962, Bronxville, New York
Lives and works in New York
Education
1988
MA, Columbia University, New York
1984
BFA, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2020
Certain Things, Seventeen, London
2019
Seeing Things, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York
Erin O’Keefe and Matt Mignanelli, Denny Dimin Gallery Hong Kong
2018
Ecstatic Vernacular, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
2017
Book of Days, Denny Gallery, New York
2016
Things as They Are, Gallery Jones, Vancouver
2015
Things as They Are, Denny Gallery, New York
Natural Disasters, Platform Gallery, Seattle
Group Exhibitions
2020
Triple Play, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Conversations in Colour, Cooke Latham Gallery, London
AND/ALSO: Photography (mis)represented, Kasmin Gallery, New York
2019
Joy Before the Object, Seventeen, London
Paperworks, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam
20 x 16 Biennial, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
2018
Invariants, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2017
NEW YORK, NEW WORK, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam
Translucent, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
SPRING/BREAK Art Show (with Rob de Oude), New York
UNTITLED, Denny Gallery, San Francisco
Painters and Photographers, Providence College Galleries, Rhode Island
Press One For Show, Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, New York
Photo II, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn
2016
Inside Out/Upside Down, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York
Treading Water, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn
The City and The City, Denny Gallery Pop Up, New York
Construction Site, McKenzie Fine Art, New York
Big Nothing, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York
PASS/FAIL, Ortega Y Gassett Projects, Brooklyn
(Not So) Still Life, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx
2015
Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles
COMMAND-Z, Improvised Show Boat #7, Brooklyn
20 x 16, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
The Avoidance of the Real, Gallery Jones, Vancouver
It’s All Been Done Before, Forum Art Space, Cleveland
2014
Konstellation, Galerie f56, Munich
Strategies for Flatness in Photography, QueenSpecific, Toronto
Vice Photography Issue Exhibition Pioneer Works, Brooklyn
Frameshift, Denny Gallery, New York
Photographs 2, Silver Projects, Brooklyn
Estuary, NYFA Gallery, Brooklyn
2013
Lightplay, Gallery 21, Moscow
Blog/REblog, Signal Gallery, New York
Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York
2012
More Photographs about Buildings and Food, Gallery 339, Philadelphia
31 Women in Art Photography, Hasted Krautler Gallery, New York
3rd Annual Photography Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
make_space_copy.jpg, The Plaines Project, Chicago
2011
Remasters, Plug Projects Kansas City, Missouri
2010
2010 Photography Competition Exhibition, The Camera Club of New York
Awards
2019
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography
2017
Santo Foundation Individual Artist Prize
2015
Named one of Photo District News 30 Photographers to Watch
2013
NYFA Finalist Fellow in Photography
Hey Hot Shot winner (Jen Bekman Gallery)
2010
First in Camera Club of New York (CCNY) Photography Competition, juried by James Casebere
Bibliography
2020
Tarker, Kate. “New and Recent Photographs,” The Paris Review, Issue 235, Winter
Knoblauch, Loring. “Review of AND/ALSO: Photography (mis)represented at Kasmin Gallery,” Collector Daily, August 3
2019
Cash, Stephanie. “Erin O’Keefe: Seeing Things,” photograph, November 5
“Seeing Things by Erin O’Keefe,” UNSEEN Platform, October 23
Pfarrer, Steve. “The newest additions: Mead Art Museum exhibit features treasure trove of contemporary art,” Daily Hampshire Gazette, October 16
Knoblauch, Loring. “Erin O’Keefe, Seeing Things @Denny Dimin,” Collector Daily, October 16
“Interaction of Space,” Less Than Half, October 14
Keh, Pei-Ru. “There’s more to Erin O’Keefe’s still lifes than meets the eye,” Wallpaper Magazine, September 11
Singer, Jill. “A New Body of Work By Erin O’Keefe Asks What Makes a Space “Real”,” Sight Unseen, September 4
Cascone, Sarah and Caroline Goldstein. “21 Gallery Shows You Won’t Want to Miss in New York
This Fall, From Amy Sherald’s Star Turn to a Historic Cuban Artist’s US Debut,” artnet news, September 3
Block, Annie. “Happenings: A master’s in architecture…,” Interior Design Homes, August
Angelos, Ayla. “Erin O’Keefe continues to trick the eye with her bewildering photography,” It’s Nice That, July 2
Brara, Noor. “5 Artists Whose Instagram Accounts Are Just as Vivid, Colorful, and Bold as Their Artworks,” artnet news, June 26
2018
Cohen, Alina. “The Artists Everyone Talked about during Art Basel in Miami Beach,” Artsy, December 7
Baker, R.C. “A Painter’s Photographer: Erin O’Keefe’s Bewitching Shapes,” Village Voice, May 15 Hall, Carmen Rosy. “Before Bed: The Wing’s Curator Falls Asleep to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Dreams of Rearranging Art,” Vogue, May 15
2017
Gibson, Jeff. “Review of Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery,” Artforum, Vol. 55, No. 10. pp. 363-4, Summer
Knoblauch, Loring. “Erin O’Keefe, Book of Days @Denny,” Collector Daily, May 1
Dafoe, Taylor. “The Phenomenon of Light and Shadow: A Q&A with Erin O’Keefe,” Blouin Artinfo, April 24
Sanger, Jill. “Saturday Selects,” Sight Unseen, March 25
Knoblauch, Loring. “Photo II @ Transmitter Gallery,” Collector Daily, February 7
Forrest, Nicholas. “Sneak Peek: Untitled, San Francisco 2017,” Blouin Artinfo, January 11
2016
Allison, Genevieve. “5 Photography Exhibitions to See This Summer,” Aperture Blog, July 5
“Big Nothing: Sous les Etoiles,” listed in The New Yorker, Goings on about Town, July 11 & 18
Shen, Danni. “Things As They Are: An Interview with Erin O’Keefe,” Wave Hill Blog, May 31
Plantation Journal 5: Sculptural Corners, May
Churchill, Jessie. Looking at Painting, Volume 2
Rosenberg, Karen. “Meet the Artist: A Few Questions for Architect-Photographer Erin O’Keefe, on Creating “Cubist Space” With the Camera,” Artspace, April 27
“(Not So) Still Life at Wave Hill,” Musée Magazine, April 23
Brown, Hudson. “The Flatness,” Paper Sea, Volume 3, Issue 4
2015
“Goings On About Town: Erin O’Keefe,” The New Yorker, October 5 Issue
Zelony-Mindell, Efrem. “Holy Shit! Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery,” Style.No.Chaser, October 4
Keeting, Zachary. “Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery,” (video) Gorky’s Granddaughter, September 25
Knoblauch, Loring. “Erin O’Keefe’s Things as They Are @ Denny,” Collector Daily, September 15
Leifheit, Matthew. “Studio Visit: Erin O’Keefe,” Paper Journal, September 9
Strand, David. “Closing Soon: Kristin Cammermeyer & Erin O’Keefe,” Vanguard Seattle, June 23
Hegert, Natalie. “Barbara Kasten: New Peers in Contemporary Photography,” The Huffington Post, April 22
“PDN’s 30 2015,” Photo District News (PDN), April 30
Feinstein, Jon. “Erin O’Keefe’s Multidimensional Photographs Might Melt Your Brain,” Humble Art Foundation, March 26
“Backstory: Erin O’Keefe,” Tilted Arc, March 16
WIRED Japan #15
Quiet Lunch Magazine, Issue #2
2014
Schiller, Jakob. “Mind-Bending Dioramas That Distort How Your See Reality,” WIRED, November 25
Frame Magazine, issue #101, November/December
VICE Magazine, Photography Issue
Knoblauch, Loring. “Frameshift @ Denny Gallery,” Collector Daily, June 27
Vartanian, Hrag. “Your Concise Guide to the 2014 Bushwick Open Studios,” Hyperallergic, May 28
WAX Magazine, Issue #5, Summer
Campion, Darren. “Erin O’Keefe: Surface and Depth,” Prism Photography Magazine, Issue #16, May/June
A/Topic Magazine, Issue #2
2013
“Snapshot: ‘Silver Paper #6’ (2012), by Erin O’Keefe,” Financial Times, November 15
The Paris Review: New and Recent Photographs
