Erin O'KEEFE

Born in 1962 in Bronxville, NY

Lives and works in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada.

EDUCATION

  • 1988: Master of Architecture, Columbia University, New York
  • 1984: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca

AWARDS

  • 2019: NYFA Fellowship in Photography 
  • 2017: Santo Foundation Individual Artist Prize 
  • 2015: PDN 30 Named one of Photo District News 30 Photographers to Watch 
  • 2013: NYFA Finalist Fellow in Photography 
  • 2013: Hey Hot Shot winner 
  • 2010: CCNY Photography Competition

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2021

Frieze London solo booth, London, UK (Coming Soon)
Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain 

  • 2020

Certain Things, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK

  • 2019

Seeing Things, Denny Dimin Gallery, New York, NY
Erin O’Keffe and Matt Mignanelli, Denny Dimin Gallery, Hong Kong

  • 2017

Book of Days, Denny Gallery, New York, NY

  • 2015

Things as They Are, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
Natural Disasters, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2021
    • CAR DRDE, Bolonia, Italy (Coming Soon)
    • The Armory Show, Denny Dimin Gallery, NY
    •  ARCO Madrid, con Galería Leyendecker, Madrid, Spain
    •  “Ways of Seeing Abstraction – Works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, PalaisPopulaire, Berlin, DE
  • 2020
    • “Años Luz”, Centro de Arte La Recova y Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Tenerife, Canary Islands
    • “AND/ALSO»: Photography (Mis)represented, Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY curated by Chandler Allen
    • Triple Play Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Paolo Arao, Rhys Coren and Erin O’Keefe
    • Conversations in Colour, Cooke Latham Gallery, London, UK, Erin O’Keefe, Rose Davey and Leah Guadagnoli
  • 2019
    • Joy Before the Object, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK, curated by Richard Paul
    • Paperworks, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
    • 20 x16 Biennial, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Geoffrey Young
  • 2018
    • Invariants, Ampersand Gallery, Portland, OR
    • Ecstatic Vernacular, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, Erin O’Keefe and Matt Kleberg
  • 2017
    • NEW YORK, NEW WORK, Albada Jelgersma Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
    • Painters and Photographers, Providence College Galleries, Providence, RI curated by Jamilee Lacy
    • Press One For Show, Lorimoto Gallery, Ridgewood, NY, curated by Robert Otto Epstein
    • Photo II, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Carl Gunhouse
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  • 2016
    • Inside Out/Upside Down, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK, curated by Wandering Bears
    • The City and The City, Denny Gallery Pop Up, New York, NY
    • Construction Site, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
    • Big Nothing, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Richard Caldicott
    • PASS/FAIL, Ortega Y Gassett Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Will Hutnick
    • Not So Still Life, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, curated by Jennifer McGregor and Gabriel de GuzmaN
  • 2015
    • Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA, selections from PDN 30 from 1999 – 2015
    • COMMAND-Z, Improvised Show Boat #7, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting
    • 20 x16, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Geoffrey Young
    • It’s All Been Done Before, Forum Art Space, Cleveland, Ohio, curated by Brandon Juhasz
  • 2014
    • Vice Photography Issue Exhibition, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Matthew Leifheit
    • Frameshift, Denny Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Useful Pictures
    • Photographs 2, Silver Projects, Brooklyn, NY, curated by James Reeder
    • Estuary, NYFA Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by David Terry.
  • 2013
    • Lightplay, Gallery 21, Moscow, Russia, curated by Kate Greenberg
    • Blog/REblog, Signal Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Max Marshall and Paul Paper
    • Hey Hot Shot, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2012
    • More Photographs about Buildings and Food, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA
    • 31 Women in Art Photography, Hasted Krautler Gallery, New York, NY curated by Jon Feinstein and Natalia Sacasa
  • 2011
    • Remasters, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
  • 2010
    • Photography Competition Exhibition, Camera Club of NY, juried by James Casebere