Keaton Fox is an artist from Florida.
Her works consistently invite viewers to collectively question the aesthetics shaping the fever dream that is 21st century life.
Focusing on the intersection of memory, media, and manipulation, these works take on different forms. Video art, written texts, community events, art education reform, immersive installations, curatorial collaborations, multi media collage, and large scale projections are mediums she employs to map out the surreal effects of modern dissonance.
Fox’s award-winning projects have been exhibited and acquired through galleries, institutions, festivals and museums, locally and internationally, since 2011.
EDUCATION
2022 MFA Moving Image _ University of Illinois at Chicago
2014 BFA Art Video with a Minor in Anthropology _ Syracuse University
AWARDS + HONORS
2024 - The FloridaRAMA Fund Artist (Grant Recipient) / Creative Pinellas, Pinellas County, and the Floridarama Fund
2022 - Award for Graduate Research (Grant Recipient) / University of Illinois at Chicago
2022 - Florida Fever Dream / Special Recognition Award / Digital Graffiti Festival
2021 - Teaching Assistantship / University of Illinois at Chicago
2020 - Board of Trustees Waiver Award / University of Illinois at Chicago
2020 - Art Department Scholarship / University of Illinois at Chicago
2017 - Proofs / Regional Film Award Winner / Media City Film Festival
2015 - Proofs / Honorable Mention / Digital Graffiti Festival
2015 - Proofs / Shortlist Selection / Channels Video Art Festival
2011 - A Robin’s Nest / Editor’s Pick / www.videoart.net
LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS
2024 - The Poetics of Uncertainty: Art, Technology, and Futility / Artist Talk @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee / Online
2023 - Artist as Archivist / Artist Talk @ Georgia State University / Online
2022 - Color as Portal / Artist Talk @ University of Illinois at Chicago / Chicago, IL
2020 - Ouroboros Artist Talk with Grace Boss, Keaton Fox, Pushpakanthan Pakkiyaraja, Amanda Taves /Schmidt @ Gallery 400 / Chicago, IL
2019 - Human Connections in a Digital World Artist Talk with Lani Asuncion, Christina Balch, and Keaton Fox @ Artisan’s Asylum / Somerville, MA
2018 - Artist Talk - Keaton Fox @ The Summer Media Institute / Cambridge, MA
2018 - Keaton Fox and Cheyenne Harvey on Video and Installation @ Cambridge Community Television/ Cambridge, MA
2017 - Artist Lecture - Keaton Fox @ University of Missouri / Columbia, MO
COMMISSIONS
2020 - Shareholder Daydream / Public Video Artwork @ The Exchange at 100 Federal Street / Boston, MA
2018 - Duotang / Digital Projection Work @ The Institute of the Humanities at University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI
2015 - I Don't Speak / Digital Projection Work @ The Institute of the Humanities at University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI
CURATION
2023 - George (co-curated with Autumn Ahn) / Boston Cyberarts Gallery / Boston, MA
2020 - HOT STEAM 03: A Science/Art/Video Festival (co-curated with Caroline Castro and Isabella Achenbach) with the Cambridge Science Festival and Cambridge Community Television / Online
2020 - Nostalgia Tech (co-curated with George Fifield and Mark Favermann) @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery / Boston, MA
2019 - Body Mass @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery / Boston, MA
2019 - HOT STEAM 02 : A Science/Video/Art Festival (co-curated with Caroline Castro) with the Cambridge Science Festival and Cambridge Community Television @ The MIT Museum / Cambridge, MA
2018 - Art & Tech // Show & Tell - An Artist Talk Series @ Cambridge Community Television / Cambridge, MA
2018 - Archiving the Past, Present, and Future @ The Institute of the Humanities at University of Michigan / Ann Arbor, MI
2018 - HOT STEAM : A Science/Video/Art Screening with the Cambridge Science Festival and Cambridge Community Television @ Cambridge Community Television / Cambridge, MA
2013 - Ego Libido @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, NY
RESIDENCIES
2016 - The Visiting Artist Series with Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, FL
2015 - The Center for Forgetting / Detroit, MI
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
2013- Present - Freelance Video Editor
2020-2021 - Instructor of Record for ART 170 - Intro to Moving Image @ University of Illinois at Chicago
2015-2020 - Teaching Media Artist @ Cambridge Community Television
2018-2020 - Assistant Director @ Boston Cyberarts
2018 - Host of Obsolete Media Miami’s Friend-a-thon Fundraiser
2017-2018 - Host of 27 Minutes of Friendship - A Public Access TV Program
2017-2019 - Media and Technology Education Coordinator @ Cambridge Community Television
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023_Morphing Memories @ Niio Art
2019_Green Screen Dreams at The Karen Aqua Gallery / Cambridge, Massachusetts
2015_For Nancy @ Bakehouse Art Complex / Miami, Florida
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS
2024_One More Night @ Heiress Gallery / Saint Petersburg, FL
2023_The Sidewalk Video Gallery @ Fountain Street Fine Art / Boston, MA
2023_Summer Breeze @ Niio Art
2023_Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, FL
2023_Finger Mullet Film Festival / Saint Augustine, FL
2023_GUI/GOOEY @ Plexus Projects
2022_Art After Dark @ Vero Beach Museum of Art / Vero Beach, FL
2022_MdW Fair with Flatland @ Mana Contemporary / Chicago, IL
2022_Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, Florida
2022_Ouroboros @ Gallery 400 / Chicago, Illinois
2021_This is Like Art Sometimes @ Le Dojo @ Ovni Festival / Nice, France
2021_Concrete Cloud @ Hyde Park Art Center with Nightingale Cinema / Chicago, Illinois
2021_Performance for Lauren Sudbrink’s Full of Subtlety, If You Believe Me / Co-Prosperity / Chicago, Illinois
2021_The 'Dealers Choice' Exhibition with Expo Chicago / Online
2021_Tiny Performances in Empty Rooms @ The Arts Club of Chicago / Chicago, Illinois
2021_Old Future’s Almanac - Flatland / Online
2021_Union Square Video Projection Series / Somerville, Massachusetts
2020_Area Code Art Fair / Boston, Massachusetts
2020_Adjusting the Lens: Experimental Film & Video Fest @ Unrequited Leisure Gallery / Online + Nashville, Tennessee
2020_Fact vs Fiction @ Gallery 263 / Cambridge, Massachusetts
2019_Available Now! @ Instant Museum / The Wrong Biennale
2019_The Illusion Layer @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery / Boston, Massachusetts
2019_Sectional @ Dorchester Art Project / Dorchester, Massachusetts
2019_Green Screen Dreams [Solo Show} @ The Karen Aqua Gallery / Cambridge, Massachusetts
2018_Video Wall for Art on the Marquee @ The Boston Convention and Exhibition Center / Boston, Massachusetts
2018_The Golden Record @ Athens Institute for Contemporary Art / Athens, Georgia
2018_History of the Future @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery / Boston, Massachusetts
2018_Singularity Now @ Athens Digital Art Festival / Athens, Greece
2018_Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, Florida
2018_The Cube Art Project / Lincoln, Nebraska
2018_Future Artifact @ Plexus Projects with Creative Tech Week / Brooklyn, New York
2018_Title of Project @ Make8elieve / Online
2018_Archiving the Past, Present, and Future @ The Institute for the Humanities / Ann Arbor, Michigan
2018_The Sister Show @ The Hosting / Ann Arbor, Michigan
2017_Art on the Marquee @ The Boston Convention & Exhibition Center / Boston, Massachusetts
2017_Phosphors Digital Art Installation @ Citizen Jane Film Festival / Columbia, Missouri
2017_A Thousand Words @ Scaffold Gallery / Manchester, United Kingdom
2017_Science Art Cinema @ Frost Science / Miami, Florida
2017_Media City Film Festival / Detroit, Michigan & Windsor, Canada
2017_Another Space @ Testing Grounds / Melbourne, Australia
2017_Online All Summer @ LACDA / Los Angeles, California
2017_www.netcult.net / ONLINE
2017_Global Graffiti @ Institute of the Humanities / Ann Arbor, Michigan
2017_Prints Without Presses @ Public Pool / Detroit, Michigan
2017_Wateration (with The SCIN Gallery / London, United Kingdom
2017_Body Preservation @ ISTHISIT? Gallery / Online
2017_Nasty Women: Binders of Them @ Cave Gallery / Detroit, Michigan
2016_Detroit Reruns @ Girl Girl Girl / Detroit, Michigan
2016_Artist and Location @ Czong Institute of Contemporary Art / Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
2016_Not for Sale @ Art Slope Festival / Brooklyn, New York
2016_N01 KNOWS UR A DOG: A Female Video Art Exhibition@ Think Tank GalleryT / Los Angeles, California
2016_First Kiss @ Junior High / Los Angeles, California
2016_Traces of the Absent @ Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival / Chicago, Illinois
2016_What Happens When... @ Powrplnt / Brooklyn, New York
2016_Writ Large (A Festival of Text) / UC Santa Cruz, California
2016_Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, Florida
2016_Them @ Lemonade Gallery / Online
2016_Phantom Horizons @ Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin, Germany
2016_Sex-Ed @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York
2016_Small Motors: Real Fans, Replicas, and Robots @ Gallery Kayafas / Boston, Massachusetts
2016_Loosey’s @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York
2015_Social Medium @ Neighbor Gallery / Grand Rapids, Michigan
2015_Fact & Channels Australian Video Art Festival / Online
2015_Detroit Design Festival @ Northend Studios / Detroit, Michigan
2015_flat/flattening/anti-flat/flattened @ Milkhaus / Boston, Massachusetts
2015_Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, Florida
2015_#SadGirlsClub @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York
2015_Slideluck Miami II @ The Bass Museum / Miami, Florida
2014_Sadie Hawkins @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York
2014_Un-existing Body @ Rialto Sant’Ambrogio / Rome, Italy
2014_Free Drinks @ The Ocean Towers / Miami, Florida
2014_Compounds @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York
2014_Video Now @ Shaffer Art Building / Syracuse, New York
2014_Wellington Underground Film Festival @ New Zealand Film Archive / Wellington, New Zealand
2014_. with the extensible @ Salt Quarters / Syracuse, New York
2013_17 days @ The Bret Llewllyn Art Gallery / Alfred, New York
2013_Ego Libido @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York
2013_Decode Project @ Elsewhere Factory / Rome, Italy
2013_Nostalgia Anagnorisis @ The Bundy Museum / Binghamton, New York
2013_Interim Identity @ SEFF Binghamton / Binghamton, New York
2013_Ladyfest 2013 @ Ladyfest / Copenhagen, Denmark
2013_A Very Personal Message @ FKX Student Media Arts Festival / Stuttgart-Fellbach, Germany
2012_Reel Feelings @ SEFF Binghamtom / Binghamton, New York
2012_Tendencies of Existence @ SEFF Binghamton / Binghamton, New York
2012_streetvideOart @ White Project Gallery / Paris, France
2012_Video Now @ The Everson Museum / Syracuse, New York
2012_Spark Video @ Spark Contemporary Art Space / Syracuse, New York