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New York artist Marthe Keller has been exhibiting internationally since 1974. Her paintings, collages and prints are represented in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA New York, the Whitney Museum, the British Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and many others. Keller has received grants, awards and residencies from institutions such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, the Chicago Art Institute, Princeton University, Ohio State University, University of Connecticut, Virginia Commonwealth and the Vermont Studio Center.
After her early years in the Hudson River Valley, Keller moved to Rome, Italy. She attended school and found new roots in Italy where she returns annually to paint. She received her B.A. degree from the Maryland Art Institute, attending Boston University and Temple University/Tyler School of Art in Rome as well as the Art Therapy M.A. program at George Washington University. She has an MFA pending in 2013 from Queens College, CUNY.
Keller is an adjunct professor in the Art Department at Hunter College, New York. She directs the BAU Institute Arts Residency in New York and Puglia, Italy, and serves as editor of the American Abstract Arts Journal.
Marthe Keller's most recent solo show was rain kiss on me back, paintings and prints in the Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York (Spring 2012). Her 2011 one-person survey of paintings and assemblages, My Life in the Wake was shown in two concurrent exhibitions at the New Arts Program in Kutztown, Pennsylvania and Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Marthe exhibited Fold Color Replay in FLUID, a traveling three-person installation during Spring/Summer 2011, at Towson University, Baltimore, Maryland, and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art in Wilmington. In 2008-2009 Keller's one-person exhibition, Corso Ricorso, toured Italy and Germany. Contact us to obtain a hardcopy of the Corso Ricorso catalog with essays by Elisabetta Longari and Lilly Wei, (available for $16.00 USD plus shipping and handling), or download a low-resolution version here.
Keller's recent group shows include American Abstract Arts Journal International 75th Anniversary; paris CONCRET, Paris, France; MIC CHECK:Occupy, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York; OK Harris Works of Art, New York; the AAA Exhibition, Splendor of Dynamic Structure, at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York; It's All Good!!, apocalypse now, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, (Brooklyn) New York; American Abstract Artists International, Otranto, Italy; Anonyme Zeichner #10, Berlin; Dialoghi D'Accanto, Viterbo, Italy; and Linked: small works, BIG IDEAS, at the Heskin Contemporary gallery, New York.
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