JAYSON KEELING
Lives and works in New York City

AWARDS

2009
Swing Space Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC, New York, NY
Apexart Outbound Residency, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2008
Smack Mellon Hot Picks, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

2007
LMCC Workspace Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY

2006
AIM 27, Artists in The Marketplace Professional Development Fellowship, New York, NY (cat.)
Harlem Portrait Commission Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (published)
Emerge 8, Creative Capitol Professional Development Fellowship, @ Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (cat.)


SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009
Behind The Green Door, Abrons Art Center Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
99 44/100% Pure, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (brochure)

2008
Jayson Keeling and Fredrick Hayes, Number 35 Gallery, New York, NY


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
The Caribbean Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (cat.)
Racism: An American Family Value, The Center For Book Arts, New York, NY (cat.)
Lips Like Sugar Walls, Dixon Place, New York, NY
Ligne Roset, Ligne Roset, New York, NY
Everyman’s an Angel, NY Studio Gallery, New York, NY
Pulse, Taller Bourica, New York, NY
Perception as Object, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Queens International 4, The Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (cat.)

2008
The Labyrinth Wall: From Mythology to Reality, Exit Art, New York
VIDEOSTUDIO, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (brochure)
The B-Sides, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (cat.)
The Red Badge of Courage Revisited, The Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ (cat.)
Straight Ahead, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY
The Stranger, Privateer Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Homecoming, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
Summer Mix tape Volume 1: The Get Smart Edition, Exit Art, New York, NY
In Transit, Moti Hasson Gallery, New York, NY
Deadliest Catch: Hamptons, South Hampton, NY
The Beautiful Ones, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
Open Studios, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC, New York, NY
Slide Slam, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Garveyism, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY (brochure)

2007
Exposure, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Wu-tang / Googoplex Show (Congress) Gavin Brown’s Enterprise
At Passerby, New York, NY
Sex in The City, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
The Red Carpet Treatment, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
Louder Than Love, Club Social Vida, Bronx, NY
Six Degrees of Separation, Paul Sharpe Contemporary, New York,
NY
AIM 27, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (cat.)
EMERGE 8, Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ (cat.)

2006
Beauty Shop, Soul Gallery, Miami FL
3rd Wave: The Planet of Brooklyn Transitions, Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
10 Curatorial Perspectives, Haven Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
Harlem Postcards, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
If A Cat Gives Birth to Kittens in an Oven Are They Kittens or Biscuits, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY
Do You Think I’m Disco, Longwood Arts Gallery @ Hostos, Bronx, NY

2005
Crossroads, Jayson Keeling, Cass Bird and Marco Tawil, Jan Larsen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Personal Paradise, Animal Gallery, New York, NY

2003 – 2006
Up Your Sleeve, The Dub lab Covers Project, los Angeles, CA; San Francisco, CA; San Diego, CA; Kyoto, Japan; Ghent Belgium; Amsterdam, Holland; New York, NY; Chicago, IL; London, UK; Barcelona, Spain

2001
Bigger Than Hip-Hop, Rush Arts Gallery, NY


LECTURES AND PANELS

2009
Artists Talk, Racism: An American Family Value, The Center For Book Arts, New York, NY
Artists Talk, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Resident/Alien Artists Talk, Sonfija Grandakovska, Jayson Keeling, Edwin Ramoran, Apex Art, New York, NY
Artist Talk, Goethe-Institute, Gebre Kristos Desta Modern Art Museum in conjunction with The Asni Gallery, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009
Day Trips to Satisfy Your Art and Travel Bugs, T.J. Carlin, Time Out New York, July 23-29 2009 (ill.)
All That Glitters, Roger Catlin, The Hartford Courant, June 18 2009 (ill.)
Queens International 4, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 9, 2009
Queens International 4, Claire Luna, Arte al dia, May 2009.

2008
The House Party Spirit in All Its Glory, Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, NY, December 26, 2008
House Party Environment Captured in New Exhibition, Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, Newark NJ, December 13, 2008
Interview: Jayson Keeling, Jeanne Gerrity, The Y Issue, Beautiful/Decay magazine, (ill.)
Visions of Life and Death, Dan Bischoff, The Star Ledger, Newark, NJ (ill.)

2007
Brooklyn Dispatches, James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn, NY
Festival Di Dumbo a Brooklyn, Amalia Piccinini, FlashArt online.it (ill.)
From Young Story Tellers, A Playful Tone, Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, August 26, 2007 (ill.)
From Simple Snapshots to High Concepts, Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, April, 2, 2007

2006
More, More, More: Susan Ross Asks “Do You Think I’m Disco”, NY Arts Magazine, May/June 2006, Vol. 11 No. 5/6
Exploring Disco’s Beat, Benjamin, Genocchio, the New York Times, February 19,

2006
Do You Think I’m Disco, Claire Barilant, Artforum.com, Critics Pick, week of February 6, 2006 (ill.)
Do You Think I’m Disco, Holland Cotter, The New York Times, February 3, 2006
2005
Portrayal of segments of Jamaican Society at a Crossroad, Caribbean
Life, July26, 2005 (ill.)