Lois Keller | Artist
BIO
Has worked as an artist for over 30 years. Her art reflects the time and space where she resides. Originally from Chicago she has chosen Los Angeles as her home to raise a family and care for her mother. The projects she participates in are all a reflection of her art.
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
Lawn Ornaments, 2020 MaidenLA
Women’s March Artivist
Dia de los Muertos, Altar, Hollywood Forever Cemetery 2018
Roofless Painters, 2017-current
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 Neighborhood Poster Artist- El Monte for Los Angeles Metro, 2007
Suite Home Chicago- Chicago , 2001
Project A- National Conference on Adoption- San Diego 2000
RESIDENCY
The Residency Project @880- Pasadena, CA 2019
EDUCATION
BA University of Wisconsin-Madison-Art, 1990
Elmhurst College,
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Early College Program
SKILL AND WORK EXPERIENCE
Art teacher- Art and Play LA- 2021-present, Carpenter Community Charter, Kindergarten 2017-2020, Sunnyside Preschool 2010-2014
Scenic Artist: Skylight Opera, Goodspeed Opera, Madison Opera, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati Ballet, Medinah Country Club, Colonial Theatre, Six Flags over Great America, Milwaukee Ballet, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, and many more.
Children’s Book Author/Illustrator
What’s Your Name Again?
Mira, Mira
The Seahorse Songbook
The Ghoster Coaster
Freelance Illustrator
Women’s March, Peter Buffett, Tree People, Falling Wallendas, Old Town School of Folk Music, Happiless, Mike Benign Compulsion, Chicago Barks, Marymount College, Happiless.
Muralist
Carpenter Community Charter, Sherman Oaks Elementary School, Creation Station Dance Studios, Big Sunday, 3rd Street Elementary, Sunnyside Preschool, Cantura Street
Climate Reality Leader, trained by Al Gore 2017, Marketing Team 2020
Activist Women’s March, Blue Wave, Indivisible, March 4 Our Lives, Climate Change
Caregiver- parent of 2 girls, and caregiver for 14 years + parents.
Volunteer- LAUSD, Food Pantry, Tree People, Climate Reality, SFV Indivisible, Sierra Club
MEDIA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Laemmle Theatre- 2018 & 2019
Leimert Space, Painted in Time, Los Angeles 2020
The Coaster Show- Gallery 30 South, Pasadena, CA 2018
We Choose Art- Feminist Perspective @ Montalban Gallery 2018, 2019,2022
Labor of Love- Art Share LA, CA 2018
No Restraint- ARK Gallery, CA, 2017
Shark! & Off With Their Heads Shock Boxx Projects, 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
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“The Contenders” Hollywood, CA 2017
“Feminist Bags” M Street Cafe, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
“Birds” M Street Cafe, Los Angeles, CA 2012
“Flower Girls” Aroma Cafe, Los Angeles, CA 2010
“Quiddity” Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago,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