Colin Keefe

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Born: Boston, MA USA
Lives: Brooklyn, NY USA

Education
BFA Sculpture 1990 Washington University
MFA Sculputre 1994 Cranbrook Academy of Art

Solo Exhibitions
2001 ROME Arts, Brooklyn NY

Group Exhibitions
2007

"Overlapped Sensibility", Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles CA

2006

"Art of the Neighborhood 2", Tastes Like Chicken, Brooklyn NY
"Out of the Blue", Abington Arts Center, Jenkintown PA
"Critical Mass", Kentler Int'l Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY (cur. Lisa Hatchadoorian)

2005

"Within Limits", Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles CA
"Affordable Art Fair", Sabina Lee Gallery, New York NY
"ArtLA", Sabina Lee Galllery, Los Angeles, CA

2004

"House Bound", Sabina Lee Gallery, Los Angeles CA
"Colin Keefe and Aaron Wexler", P.S. 122 Gallery, NY NY
"Freehand", Marvelli Lab, Brooklyn NY
"Plane and Elevation" Art in General, NY NY
"All About Drawing" Eisentrager•Howard Gallery, Lincoln NE

2003

"Far Away, Up Close" ROME Arts, Brooklyn NY
"Daniel Carello and Colin Keefe" ROME Arts, Brooklyn NY
"Paradise/Paradox", Castle Gallery, New Rochelle NY (curated by Sue Canning)

2002

"The Brewster Project", Brewster NY
"Never-Never Land", Stedman Gallery, Camden NJ (traveling exhibition)

2001

"Never-Never Land", Museum of Contemporary Art, Tampa FL (traveling exhibition)
"Archipod", Star 67, Brooklyn NY
"2001 Benefit Raffle", Momenta, Brooklyn NY
"(un)Planned", Walden, NY NY
"forms", Project, Toronto Ontario Canada

2000

"Never-Never Land", Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL (traveling exhibition)
(curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud)
"Meat Market Art Fair", White Columns, NY NY
"Utopiaries", Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
(curated by Kevin Melchionne)
"Transporter", About Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
(curated by Laurie DeChiara and Naomi Urabe)
"Me & My Friends", 57hope, Brooklyn NY
"Urban Landscapes", www.artnet.com
"A Collision of Cool", Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills MI
"White Columns Annual Auction Benefit", White Columns, NY NY

1999

"ArchiTORTURE", White Columns, NY NY
"Where’s Walden", Walden, NY NY
"Outer Boroughs", White Columns, NY NY
"Netherland NY", TZ’Art (collab. w. Het Observatorium), NY NY
"NATO Conference Exhibition", NATOarts, Virginia Beach, VA

1998

"Utopia", Roebling Hall, Brooklyn NY
"The Art Exchange Show", DeChiara-Stewart Gallery, NY NY
"Shake: An Exhibition of Snow Domes", P.S.122, NY NY
"Stirring Space: Site Installations at the Brooklyn Brewery", Brooklyn Brewery, Brooklyn NY

1997

"The Art Exchange Show", 57hope, Brooklyn NY

Bibliography
"Critical Mass" Exhibition Catalogue, March 2006
"Paradise/Paradox" Exhibition Catalogue, March 2003
"Transporter" Exhibition Catalogue, January 2000

Grants/Awards
2004 LMCC Downtown Residency Program, Equitable Building

Projects
1994-1997 Co-founder, 57hope alternative space, Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

Publications
Holly Myers, "The Value of Having Some Space, LA Times, 12.24.2004
Tom Moody, "Paradise/Paradox", Sculpture Magazine March 2004
Holland Cotter, "Colin Keefe at ROME Arts", New York Times Art In Review, 12.3.2001
Kim Levin, "(un)Planned", Recommended Pick, Village Voice Jan 2001
Gary Michael Dault, "Adrian Blackwell, Colin Keefe, Rupen at Project" Toronto Globe and Mail 1.20.2001
Roberta Fallon "Worlds of Possibility" Philadelphia Weekly 2.23.2000
Edward J. Sozanski "Dream Gardens" The Philadelphia Inquirer 2.25.2000
Rachel Youens "Utopia" Cover Magazine 1999
Roberta Smith "Brooklyn Haven for Art Heats Up" New York Times 11.6.1998
Jennifer Dalton "Shake" Review Magazine 6.15.1998