Lois Keller
Education
BA University of Wisconsin-Madison-Art, 1990
Elmhurst College
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Residencies
Château Orquevaux, France 2023
The Residency Project @880- Pasadena, CA 2019
Solo Exhibitions
“The Contenders” Director's Guild, Hollywood, CA 2017
“Feminist Bags” M Street, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
“Quiddity” Chicago School of Professional Psychology, IL 2001
“Quiddity” University of Illinois, IL 2001
“Inside an Artist” Chicago Public Library, IL 2001
“Conversations in Painting” Women Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000
Group Shows
James May Gallery-The Art of Water, 2023
The Arthouse Hotel- New York, New York, 2023
860 Dorado- Forage 2023
Blue Line Arts- Lore and Legend, 2023
The Vanner Gallery, Roofless Painters, Salisbury, England, 2022
Leimert Space, Painted in Time, Los Angeles 2020
The Coaster Show- Gallery 30 South, Pasadena, CA 2018
We Choose Art- Feminist Perspective @ Montalban Gallery 2019
Labor of Love- Art Share LA, CA 2018
No Restraint- ARK Gallery, CA, 2017
Goddesses - Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA 2016
From Her – Pico House Gallery. Los Angeles, CA 2015 & 2016
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN 2001
Artist’s Space, New York, NY 2001
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Chicago
Art Open, Chicago, IL 1998-2003
Public Art Projects
Little Art Gallery, Mercer Island, Washington, 2023
Lawn Ornaments, MaidenLA 2020
Women’s March Artivist 2018-2020
Dia de los Muertos Altar, Hollywood Forever Cemetery 2018
Portland Max- Art Share LA, Los Angeles 2017
Save Art Space- Billboard Mural in Los Angeles, 2017
Cows on Parade- San Luis Obispo, 2016
Metro Through the Eyes of Artists Neighborhood Poster- El Monte for LA Metro 2007
Suite Home Chicago- Chicago , 2001
Project A- National Conference on Adoption- San Diego 2000
Artist Statement
I am an interdisciplinary artist. The medium I engage in reflects my reaction to what is happening around me and my response to it. Whether it's a collage made out of Trader Joe's Bags to describe a domestic life, digital political portraits that engage a response, my work will always attempt to honestly express the time and state of being I am living in. My most recent work combines painting and drawing to illustrate both an interior and exterior life. Adopted as a baby and not knowing my birth parents, the mystery of the unknown influenced me, I use familiar shapes to make the unknown more comfortable.
Biography
Lois Keller (b. 1968, Greenbay, USA) Keller earned a BA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison after attending Elmhurst College and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lois had a long career painting for Opera, Ballet, and Theatre as a scenic artist and restoring historic painted architecture like The Colonial Theatre in Boston until finally settling in Los Angeles to raise a family. A prolific artist at home, her family had taken precedence over engaging her art publicly but has now been actively showing her work again. Solo shows include the UIC Gallery, Chicago, and The Chicago School of Psychology and she has participated in group exhibitions around the world at The ArtHouse Hotel, NY, NY, James May Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, Pico House Gallery, Los Angeles CA, and in Salisbury, England. Most recently, her Los Angeles Metro Neighborhood Poster Series is being reissued, signed with Off the Walls a gallery that places art in TV and film productions, and completed a Residency at Chateau Orquevaux in France. She lives and works in Los Angeles, and is currently painting in protest with the Entertainment Industry Strike.