Caitlin Keogh
°1982, Anchorage, Alaska (US) – lives and works in New York (US)
Caitlin Keogh’s work explores questions of gender and representation, articulations of personal style, and the construction of artistic identity. Her vivid, seductive paintings combine the graphic lines of hand-drawn commercial illustration with the bold matte colours of the applied arts to reimagine fragments of female bodies, natural motifs, patterns, and ornamentation.
Drawing from clothing design, illustration, and interior decoration as much as art history, Keogh’s large-scale canvases dissect elements of representations of femininity with considerable wit, pointing to the underlying conditions of the production of images of women. Natural forms recur throughout her work as a means of depicting artistic style, and for the way that these different depictions speak to specific political and cultural contexts, such as her examination of the naturalistic designs of the 19th-century British textile designer William Morris and how they relate to his utopian politics.
(courtesy of ICA, Boston)
Caitlin Keogh – Sisters, 2018
Caitlin Keogh – Features Fell, 2017
Caitlin Keogh – Repeating Autobiography, 2016
Caitlin Keogh – Interiors, 2016
Caitlin Keogh – Untitled, 2020
Caitlin Keogh – Playing a Song, 2018
Keogh’s ecent solo exhibitions include ICA Boston; Bortolami, New York; Mary Boone Gallery, New York;and MoMA PS1, New York. Group exhibitions include Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and Koenig Galerie, Berlin. Keogh’s work is in the collection of ICA Boston, Boston; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Arts, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL.
Caitlin Keogh is represented by the following galleries;
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Caitlin Keogh – Alphabet and Daggers, installation view at The Approach gallery, London in 2018
Caitlin Keogh – Alphabet and Daggers, installation view at The Approach gallery, London in 2018
Caitlin Keogh – Loose Ankles, exhibition view at Bortolami, New York in 2016
Caitlin Keogh – Blank Melody, installation view at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, in 2018 (Photo by Charles Mayer Photography
Caitlin Keogh – Blank Melody, installation view at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, in 2018 (Photo by Charles Mayer Photography
Caitlin Keogh – Blank Melody, installation view at The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, in 2018 (Photo by Charles Mayer Photography
Caitlin Keogh – Waxing Year, installation view at Overduin & CO., Los Angeles in 2021 2
