Donald Keefe Resumé
b.1984, Des Moines, Iowa
Education:
MFA 2013 Drawing and Painting, University of Florida,
Gainesville, FL.
BFA 2009 Drawing and Painting, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Graduated Summa Cum Laude. Art History Minor.
2009 Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, France.
Professional Experience:
2015 - Present Associate Professor of Art: Drawing and Painting. School of Visual
Art & Design, Southern Adventist University. Collegedale, TN.
2014 Studio Assistant, Schmidli Backdrops. Culver City, CA.
2010-13 Graduate Assistant, Instructor of Record: Drawing and Painting,
University of Florida. Gainesville, FL.
2010 Flying Armadillo Sign Company. Nicholasville, KY.
Select Exhibitions:
2020 Red Clay Survey. Huntsville Museum of Art. Huntsville, AL.
2019 PAlNTED Biennial. Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Dogwood Arts Regional Exhibition. Emporium Center, Knoxville,
TN. June 7-28.
2018 Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Juried Show 2018.
Chattanooga, TN. Honorable Mention
B18- Wiregrass Biennial. Wiregrass Museum of Art. Dothan, AL.
July 20-September 29.
2018 Dogwood Arts Regional Exhibition. Knoxville, TN. June 1-30.
Leigh Suggs, juror. Honorable Mention
Solo exhibition, Precarious Structures. John C. Williams Gallery.
Southern Adventist University. Jan.18-Feb. 12.
2017 Red Clay Survey. Huntsville Museum of Art. Huntsville, AL. Gerry
Bernstein, juror.
Utopia/Dystopia. Main Street Arts Gallery. Clifton Springs, NY.
John Massier, juror.
DRAWN. Manifest Gallery. Cincinnati, OH.
2016 The Inauspicious Present. Solo Exhibition, Catskill Art Society.
Livingston Manor, NY.
2013 28th Tallahassee International, Florida State University, Museum of
Fine Arts. Tallahassee, FL.
7th Annual MASTER PIECES Exhibition, Manifest Gallery,
Cincinnati, OH.
The Inauspicious Present. MFA Exhibition, University of Florida
Gallery. Gainesville, FL.
Fragmentation. Two-person exhibition, Focus Gallery, University of
Florida. Gainesville, FL.
Natural and Constructed Spaces II. The Painting Center. New
York, NY. Marianne Van Lent, Galen Cheney, jurors.
2011 Quotidian. WARPhaus Gallery. University of Florida, Gainesville,
FL.
University Open, LexArts Downtown Arts Center. Lexington, KY.
Irwin Pickett, juror.
2008 PaintPresent. Loudon House. Lexington Art League, Lexington,
KY. Bobby Campbell, juror.
Select Publications:
2019 International Painting Annual 9. Manifest Creative
Research Gallery and Drawing Center. Cincinnati, OH.
(anticipated Fall 2019).
2018 International Drawing Annual 12. Manifest Creative
Research Gallery and Drawing Center. Cincinnati, OH.
pgs.120-121
Denton, Lisa. “Precarious Structures.” Chattanooga Times Free
Press. Sunday, January 14, 2018: Pg. E8.
2017 Stewart-Sanabria, Denise. Review of Red Clay Survey. Number. An
Independent Arts Journal: Issue Ninety-Two. Fall 2017. Pg.26.
Manifest Gallery Season 13 Exhibition Catalog (Expected early
2018)
Red Clay Survey Exhibition Catalog, 2017. Pg. 35. Huntsville
Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL.
2016 FreshPaint Magazine Issue 15, October 2016. pgs 69-70. Curated
by Jemma Hickman, Founder and Director of bo-lee Gallery,
London, England.
International Drawing Annual 10. 2016. pgs.122-27. Manifest
Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center. Cincinnati,
OH.
2013 7th Annual MASTER PIECES. Exhibition Catalogue, 2013.
Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
28th Tallahassee International. Exhibition Catalogue, 2013.
Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
2012 Natural/Constructed Spaces. Exhibition Catalogue, 2012. The
Painting Center, New York, NY.
2008 PaintPresent. Exhibition Catalogue, 2008. Lexington Art League.
Lexington, KY.
Residencies/ Workshops /Artist Talks:
2016 Artist Talk for The Inauspicious Present. Catskill Art Society.
Livingston Manor, NY. July 30.
2012 Artist-In-Residence, Contemporary Artists Center Woodside, Troy,
NY. June-July
2009 Summer Studio Session, Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art,
May. Pont-Aven, France.
Artist Talk for Paintpresent. Loudon House, Lexington, KY, April 16.
© 2009 - 2020 Donald Keefe
