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.
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 & Anthropology _ Syracuse University
LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS
2023 - Artist as Archivist / Artist Talk @ Georgia State University / Online
2022 - Color as Portal / Artist Lecture @ University of Illinois at Chicago / Chicago, IL
2020 - Ouroboros Artist Talk with Pushpakanthan Pakkiyaraja, Amanda Taves, and Grace Boss/Schmidt @ Gallery 400 / Chicago, IL
2019 - Human Connections in a Digital World Artist Talk with Lani Asuncion & Christina Balch @ Artisan’s Asylum / Somerville, MA
2018 - Keaton Fox Artist Talk @ The Summer Media Institute / Cambridge, MA
2018 - Keaton Fox & Cheyenne Harvey on Video & Installation @ Cambridge Community Television/ Cambridge, MA
2017 - Keaton Fox - Artist Lecture @ University of Missouri / Columbia, MO
AWARDS + HONORS
2022 - Florida Fever Dream / Special Recognition Award / Digital Graffiti Festival
2022 - Award for Graduate Research / University of Illinois at Chicago
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
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 - 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
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
RESIDENCIES
2016 - The Visiting Artist Series with Digital Graffiti Festival / Alys Beach, FL
2015 - The Center for Forgetting / Detroit, MI
RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
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
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