EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Painting, 2011
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing, 2004
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
ART EXHIBITIONS (*denotes solo or two-person exhibition////)
2023
*(C)AR(T), Side Bitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Sofie Ramos.
Meanwhile, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio. Curator: Tim Rietenbach.
Chai’n Brai Like a Diamon, Laredo Arts Center, Laredo, Texas. Curators: Los Outsiders Art Collective.
Support System, Side Bitch Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Curator: Sofie Ramos.
2022
You Can Alter Your Algorithm if You Want To, Goodyear Arts, Charlotte, NC. Curator: Fred Smith
Glovebox Car Park Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. Curator: Ronan Dillon
2021
*Mr.Distro, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Curator: Mark Rice
*Nice Fight, Florida International University. Curator: Tom Scicluna
2019
Autobodies: And Other Human Factors, Los Angeles, California. Curator: Jonathan Fletcher Moore
*Find the 2…, Magic Mountain Fun Center, Columbus, Ohio.
Crossing Borders: GLCA Art Exchange, Allegheny College. Director: Paula Burleigh
2018
*NOT HOT, Escalier B, Bordeaux, France. Curator: Greg David
*Me As A Parent, DePauw University, Indiana. Director: Craig Hadley
*Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curator: Jared Dyer
*Jelato Love, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Curator: Ché Zara Blomfield and Javier Esteban
*Find the 2…, Fringe Projects, Miami, Florida. Director/Chief Curator: Amanda Sanfilippo
*Find the 2…, Sheherazade Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky. Founder/Curator: Julie Leidner
Cyclogenesis, 934 Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Curator: Luke Ahern
As if A Field Could Become Some Dream, No Place Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Curator: Brian Scott Campbell
Before Everything Give it Perfume, Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curator: Jared Dyer
Untitled, C for Courtside, Knoxville, Tennessee. Curator: Lynne Ghenov
2017
Builders, Circuit12 Contemporary, Dallas, Texas. Curator: Benjamin Terry
90, Central Park Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curator: Jared Dyer
Find the 2 and You Will Be Kissed Tomorrow 55555… , Peter Piper Pizza, El Paso, Texas
End of the Whirld, Mass Gallery, Austin, Texas. Curator: Mike Calway-Fagen
In 3-D the Basil Never Wilts REMIXED, Castor Gallery, New York, New York. Curator: Michael Pybus.
2016
Thirsty Garten, The Composing Rooms, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Ché Zara Blomfield
*OxGord Economy Auto Cover – 1 Layer Dust Cover – Lowest Price – Ready-Fit / Semi Glove Fit fro SUV, Van, and Truck – Fits up to 206 Inches, w/ OFG.XXX, Curator: Kevin Rubén Jacobs.
*Sent From My Verizon, Samsung Galaxy Smartphone, Pay Fauxn, Brooklyn, New York. Curator: Mary Kosut
*Thank God I Am Not God, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon. Curator: Donald Morgan
Shits & Giggles, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, Ohio, USA. Text by: James Payne.
Group Shadow, Teri Garten, Berlin, Germany. Curator: Paul Sochacki.
Austin Art Fair: Art City Austin w/ Pushkin and Gogol. Curator: Kevin Rubéns Jacobs.
Fine words butter no parsnips however fine parsnips can butter words, Present Company, NYC.
Curator: Alejandro Almanza.
2015
*Share in Two Seconds iF You Love Your Mom, The Composing Rooms, Berlin, Germany.
Curator:Ché Zara Blomfield
Here and Now, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, Texas: Curator: Adrian Zuniga
F ·R ·I ·E ·N ·D ·S ✓Friends, Evelyn Yard Gallery, London, UK: Curator: Michael Pybus
ERRORE, Madrid, Spain (online project: errore.org). Curator: Ignacio Baras
Double Visions, Active Space, Bushwick Open Studios. Brooklyn, New York. Curator: Christian Berman
Pizza Party, Air Lock Gallery, Los Angeles, California. Curator: Mike Whiting
*Boys Do Cry, RE Gallery, Dallas, Texas. Curator/Director: Wanda Dye
Physical Comedy, General Public Collective, Indianapolis, Indiana. Curator: Peter Shear
2014
The Composing Rooms, Berlin, Germany Curator: Ché Zara Blomfield
*Everything Not Saved Will B Lost, Juicys Gallery, Brooklyn, NY -- Curator/Director: Raphael Cohen
*PULSE Art Fair, (Pulse Prize Nominee) w/ PHALANX Gallery, New York, NY.
Curator/Director: Cliff Atkinson
Material Punk, Welcome Screen, London, UK. Curators: Ché Zara Blomfield and Michael Pybus
Not Abstraction, New Galerie @ Yves Klein Archives, Paris, France. Curator: Ché Zara Blomfield
Honeymoon Suite, Simon Oldfield Gallery, London, UK.
Curators: Simon Oldfield, Bruce Ingram, Simon Foxall
Looks on Paper, Ditch Projects, Springfield, Oregon. Curators: Calvin Marcus, Donald Morgan
2013
*Google Search WHAT God Wants For You, Welcome Screen, London, UK -- Curator: Michael Pybus
Transatlantic Texas, BigMedium, Austin, TX. Curator, Studio Manager: Kevin McNamee-Tweed
Madam I’m Adam, Remote-Projects, Bloomington, IN.
Curators: Peter Shear, John Berry, Josh Hoering, Ryan Irvin
2012
*almost Relevant, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, Texas -- Curator: Kevin Rubén Jacobs
Interaction/Immersion, Providence, RI. Curators: Allison Paschke and Lynne Harlow
Micro-Eutopia, RK Projects, Providence, RI. Curators/Operators: Tabitha Piseno and Sam Keller
Tumbleweeds, Sunset Surf Club, Brooklyn, New York. Curator/Founder: Julian A. Jimarez Howard
Mythografia, Bull and Ram, New York, New York. Curators: Eve Lateiner and Yevgeniya Baras
2011
Rocket to Nowhere, Amigos Publishing, Providence, Rhode Island.
Curators: Jeff K. Hale and Lila Jarzombek
Small Crowd, Mixed Greens, New York, New York. Director/curator: Heather Darcy Bhandari
2010
Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University. Curators: Katherine Bradford, NYC artist;
Jessica Dickenson, NYC artist: Joao Ribas, MIT Visual Arts Center curator
2009
Texas Biennial, Women & Their Work, Austin, TX. Juror: Michael Duncan, Corresponding Editor
for Art in America (catalogue)
2008
New American Paintings: 78, Juried Exhibitions in Print, Curator: Andrea Karnes
Redefining Walls, Union Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso. Curator: Kate Bonansinga, Gallery Director, Gerald and Stan Lee Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso, Texas
New Arte Nuevo: San Antonio 2008, University of Texas at San Antonio.
Jurors: UTSA Dept. of Art and Art History (catalogue)
2006
New American Talent: 20th Exhibition, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX. Juror: Dan Cameron (catalogue)
2005
Regional Invitational, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM. Curator: Mary Anne Redding, Curator,
Photography Palace of the Governors at State of New Mexico DCA (catalogue)
2004
Border Art Residency: Site Project, El Paso, Texas. Curator: Willie Ray Parish, Professor of Art, UTEP
Artists on Art, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX. Curators: Christian Gerstheimer, Curator, EP Art Museum: Ben Fyffe, Arts Education Program Coordinator, MCAD, El Paso, TX
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2021 Drawn Out Conference, online and in person touring exhibit w/ Zoom presentations, (ongoing), www.drawnoutconference.com
2020 Stress Joy Committee, online art exhibition. www.StressJoy.xyz
BIBLIOGRAPHY
TELEVISION/ONLINE STREAM
Erin Drew, “Putty: A Live Art Talk Show”. Columbus, Ohio. Aired October 22, 2018.
http://putty.neocities.org
Jackie Shafer, Broad and High, “The Shed”, Season 5 Episode 2. WOSU Public Media, Columbus, Ohio.
Aired October 10, 2017.
PRINT/ONLINE MEDIA
Little Studio Assistants. Curated by: Hilary Doyle.
https://www.instagram.com/little_studio_assistants/?hl=en. 2020.
Mimi Cabell and Phoebe Stubbs, Good Deeds AKA Suggested Reading. Pink Jacket publishing,
Contributors, Inc., 2018.
Maake Magazine, “Issue 5”. November, 2017. Curated by: Yevgeniya Baras.
http://www.maakemagazine.com/keith-allyn-spencer/
Kevin Rubén Jacobs, Spike Art Magazine. “Dallas Art Scene: Big Oil, Big Hair and Higher Heels.
November, 29, 2017.
https://www.spikeartmagazine.com/en/articles/dallas-art-scene-big-oil-big-hair-and-higher-
heels
James D. Payne, Command Zine, “Is Art Wrong”. January 20, 2017.https://commandzine.com/2017/01/20/is-art-wrong/
Brian Edmonds, Curating Contemporary, “Current Exhibition: Physical Comedy @ General Public
Collective. Indianapolis, Indiana.”
March 24, 2015.http://curatingcontemporary.com/blog/?p=2745
Katy Diamond Hamer, Eyes Towards the Dove, ”Pulse New York, 2014: Diamonds in the Rough”. May 9,
2014.http://eyes-towards-the-dove.com/2014/05/pulse-new-york-2014-diamonds-rough/
Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, “Pulsing pulse, 2014 New York Edition” (blog). May 13, 2014.
www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2014/05/pulsing-pulse-2014-new-york-edition.html
Robert Boyd, The Great God Pan is Dead, “In New York for the Firs Day 1” (blog). May 13, 2014.
www.thegreatgodpanisdead.com/2014/05/in-new-york-for-fairs-day-1-cutlog.html
Peter Shear, Remote Projects, “Artist: Interview”. April 2013. http://remote-projects.com/keith-
allyn-spencer-interview/
Peter Simek , D Magazine: Front Row, “At Oliver Francis Gallery, Dirty Underwear, Lost and Found”.
November 15, 2012.
Joshua Abelow, Art Blog Art Blog. Saturday, October, 2011.
http://joshuaabelow.blogspot.com/2011/10/keith-allyn-spencer.html
Greg Cook, Boston Phoenix, ”New Directions”, July 14, 2010.
Robbins, Christopher. Eyebeam: ReBlog. “Keith Allyn Spencer brings us Framed: Inserts from store-
bought”.May 22, 2010.
Tabitha Piseño, BOMB, “Rotation X: Curating as Academia”, December 9, 2009.
Jordan Breal, Texas Monthly, “Golden Oldies”, March 2009.
Mark Paulda, El Paso Magazine, “On Art”, Spring 2009.
Andrea Karnes, New American Paintings: 78, Juried Exhibitions in Print. 2008.
Shane Wiggs, Newspaper Tree, “Art Criticism: High Contrast at the Shine Gallery”, 2007.
Rachel Koper, Austin Chronicle, “Oh, Give Me a Home”, July 1, 2005.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2005-07-01/277232/
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/CRITIQUES
2021 Lecture/Presentation, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
2020 Lecture/Presentation, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey
2018 Lecture/Presentation, Graduate and Undergraduate critiques, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, Rhode Island
Lecture/Presentation, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
2006 Lecture/Presentation, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2004 Lecture/Presentation, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2018 Escalier B, Bordeaux, France