CV
b. 1962, Bronxville, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1988 Master of Architecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Book of Days, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Things as They Are, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2015 Things as They Are, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Natural Disasters, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 New York, New Work, ALBADA JELGERSMA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (upcoming)
2017 Translucent, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2017 The Self on the Shelf, curated by Rob de Oude, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
2017 UNTITLED., with Denny Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Photo II, Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Inside Out Upside Down, organized by Wandering Bears, The Photographer’s Gallery, London
2016 High Summer, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2016 Treading Water, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The City & The City, Denny Gallery (Pop Up), New York, NY
2016 Construction Site, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2016 Big Nothing, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, New York, NY
2016 PASS/FAIL, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2016 (Not So) Still Life, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
2016 Art Show: Bedford, Bedford, NY
2015 Emerging, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
2015 COMMAND-Z, curated by Lauren Britton and Zachary Keeting, Improvised Show Boat #7, Brooklyn, NY
2015 20 x16, curated by Geoffrey Young, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2015 The Avoidance of the Real, curated by Shane O’Brien, Gallery Jones, Vancouver, Canada
2015 It’s All Been Done Before, curated by Brandon Juhasz, Forum Art Space, Cleveland, OH
2014 Konstellation, Galerie f56, Munich, Germany Strategies for Flatness in Photography, curated by Joy Walker, QueenSpecific, Toronto, Canada
2014 Vice Photography Issue Exhibition, curated by Matthew Leifheit, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Frameshift, curated by Useful Pictures, Denny Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Photographs, curated by James Reeder, 2 Silver Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Blog/REblog, curated by Max Marshall and Paul Paper, Austin Center for Photography Austin, TX Estuary, curated by David Terry of NYFA, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Lightplay, curated by Kate Greenberg, Gallery 21, Moscow, Russia Blog/REblog, curated by Max Marshall and Paul Paper, Signal Gallery, New York, NY
2013 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, curated by Jon Feinstein and Natalia Sacasa, Hasted Krautler Gallery, New York, NY
2012 3rd Annual Photography Exhibition, juried by Natasha Egan and Kathy Ryan, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2012 make_space_copy.jpg, curated by Lynette Miranda, The Plaines Project, Chicago, IL
2011 Remasters, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
2010 Photography Competition Exhibition, Camera Club of NY, New York, NY
HONORS AND AWARDS
2015 Named one of Photo District News 30 Photographers to Watch for 2015
2013 NYFA Finalist Fellow in Photography Hey Hot Shot winner, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2010 First in Camera Club of New York (CCNY) Photography Competition, juried by James Casebere
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2017 Gibson, Jeff. Review of Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery. Artforum. Summer 2017, Vol. 55, No. 10. pp. 363-4
2017 Knoblauch, Loring, “Erin O’Keefe, Book of Days @Denny” Collector Daily, May 1
2017 Dafoe, Taylor, “The Phenomenon of Light and Shadow: A Q&A with Erin O’Keefe,” Blouin Artinfo, April 24
2017 Sanger, Jill, “Saturday Selects,” Sight Unseen, March 25 Loring Knoblauch, “Photo II @ Transmitter Gallery,” Collector Daily, February 7
2017 Forrest, Nicholas, “Sneak Peek: Untitled, San Francisco 2017,” Blouin Artinfo, January 11
2016 Allison, Genevieve, “5 Photography Exhibitions to See This Summer,” Aperture Blog, July 5
2016 “Big Nothing: Sous les Etoiles,” listed in The New Yorker, Goings on about Town, July 11 & 18
2016 Shen, Danni, “Things As They Are: An Interview with Erin O’Keefe,” Wave Hill Blog, May 31
2016 Plantation Journal 5: Sculptural Corners, May Churchill, Jessie, Looking at Painting, Vol. 2
2016 Rosenberg, Karen, “Meet the Artist: A Few Questions for Architect-Photographer Erin O’Keefe, on Creating “Cubist Space” With the Camera,” Artspace, April 27
2016 “(Not So) Still Life at Wave Hill,” Musée Magazine, April 23
2016 Brown, Hudson, “The Flatness,” Paper Sea, Vol. 3 Iss. 4
2015 “Goings On About Town: Erin O’Keefe,” The New Yorker, October 5 Issue
2015 Zelony-Mindell, Efrem, “Holy Shit! Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery,” Style.No.Chaser, October 4
2015 Keeting, Zachary, “Erin O’Keefe at Denny Gallery,” (video) Gorky’s Granddaughter, September 25
2015 Knoblauch, Loring, “Erin O’Keefe’s Things as They Are @ Denny,” Collector Daily, September 15
2015 Leifheit, Matthew, “Studio Visit: Erin O’Keefe,” Paper Journal, September 9
2015 Strand, David, “Closing Soon: Kristin Cammermeyer & Erin O’Keefe,” Vanguard Seattle, June 23
2015 Hegert, Natalie, “Barbara Kasten: New Peers in Contemporary Photography,” The Huffington Post, April 22
2015 “PDN’s 30 2015,” Photo District News (PDN), April 30
2015 Feinstein, Jon, “Erin O’Keefe’s Multidimensional Photographs Might Melt Your Brain,” Humble Art Foundation, March 26
2015 “Backstory: Erin O’Keefe,” Tilted Arc, March 16
2015 WIRED Japan #15 Quiet Lunch Magazine issue #2
2014 Schiller, Jakob, “Mind-Bending Dioramas That Distort How Your See Reality,” WIRED, November 25
2014 Frame Magazine, issue #101, Nov/Dec
2014 VICE Magazine, Photography Issue Knoblauch, Loring, “Frameshift @ Denny Gallery,” Collector Daily, June 27
2014 Vartanian, Hrag, “Your Concise Guide to the 2014 Bushwick Open Studios,” Hyperallergic, May 28
2014 WAX Magazine, Issue #5, Summer
2014 Campion, Darren, “Erin O’Keefe: Surface and Depth,” Prism Photography Magazine, issue #16, May/ June
2014 A/Topic Magazine, issue #2 2013 “Snapshot: ‘Silver Paper #6’ (2012), by Erin O’Keefe,” Financial Times, November 15