Rosy Keyser

Born in 1974, Baltimore, MD

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and Medusa, NY


EDUCATION 


2013 M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, I


1997 B.F.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY



PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark


The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, MI


Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR


Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN


The Zabludowicz Collection, London, The United Kingdom

Rosy Keyser (b. 1974, Baltimore, MD) grew up in rural Maryland where she developed an awareness of tools and materials in the outdoors. She earned her BFA at Cornell University in 1997 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003. Keyser has shown extensively throughout the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions at Maccarone (New York and Los Angeles), Peter Blum Gallery (New York), and Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin, Germany). Group exhibitions include: Rosy Keyser & Eleanor Mikus, Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY; Painter Painter at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and Pink Caviar at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Keyser’s work is held in the permanent collections of: the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; and Zabludowicz Collection, London, England. Rosy Keyser was a Fall 2017 artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX).

Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
Wrecked Angle, New York
June 18 - July 30, 2021


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 


2019

Distal’s Musk, UMBC CADVC, Baltimore, MD

Rosy Keyser: Works on Paper, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX


2018

Catapult Chuparosa, Variable Edition of 100 for Chinati members, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX


2017

The OtherOther, Maccarone, Los Angeles, CA

Rosy Keyser: The Insensate Foot, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX


2016 

Half-Light Periscope, Austin, TX


2015 

We Sing Sin, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Lap of the High Plains, Freddy, Baltimore, MD

The Hell Bitch, Maccarone, New York, NY


2014

My Heads Are My Hands, Karma, New York, NY


2013

Medusa Pie Country, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY


2011

Promethean Dub, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY


2009

The Moon Ate Me, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY


2008

Rivers Burn and Run Backward, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 


2021

Wrecked Angle: Rosy Keyser & Joseph Montgomery (forthcoming in June), Ceysson & Bénétière, NY


2020 

Sympathetic Magic, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2019 

Twilight Zone, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalbog, Denmark

Rosy Keyser and Eleanore Mikus, Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY

Listening Closely, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY


2018

Somatic Gesture, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

Off the Wall, The ICA at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME

Featured Works, Marguiles Collection, Miami, FL

The Way Things Go, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN


2017 

MIDTOWN, Lever House, New York, NY

In the Abstract, MASS MoCa, North Adams, MA

Witches, September Gallery, Hudson, NY

Squid Ink, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA


2016

Your Face In The Mirror Isn’t Your Face, Similar To Plastic Silverware, curated by Torey

Thornton, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA 


2015

Object Painting – Painting Object, Jonathan Viner Gallery, London, United Kingdom 

Community of Influence, Vermont Studio Center Alumni Show, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY


2014

Maximalism, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2014 White Columns Benefit Auction and Exhibition, White Columns, New York, NY

Women, G Gallery, Houston, TX

The Space Where I Am, Blain Southern, London, United Kingdom 


2013 

The New Sincerity, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX

Painter Painter, curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection: Part II, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK


2012 

Hue and Cry, Sotheby’s S2 Gallery, New York, NY

Heat Waves, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY Pink

Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark

Science on the back end, curated by Matthew Day Jackson, Hauser and Wirth, New York, NY

Luis Camnitzer, Rosy Keyser, Robert Kinmot, and Linda Matalon, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY

Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI


2011 

Miriam Bohm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY

A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY

 

2010

I Can’t Forget, But I Don’t Remember What, Freymond Guth Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland

Black and White, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY

Spray, D’Amelio Terras, New York, NY

Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX,

Reflection, Peter Blum Soho, New York, NY


2009 

Almost, curated by Lance Goldsmith, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, NY

New Work, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA

Hi, low and in between, Grimm Fine Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


2008 

Converter, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Sack of Bones, Peres Project, Los Angeles, CA

Zero Zone, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY


2007 

Stubborn Materials, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY


2006

Durer Reenactment, Laeso, Denmark; Baltimore, MD


2005

Family Portraits and Energetic Blueprints, Rensselaerville, New York, NY

7-Year Installation, Track House (Remote Back Side),Marble, CO


2004

The Stray Show, Track House, Chicago, IL

On A Wave, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

Yard Sale, Track House, Chicago, IL


2003

Sulcata Solves, Track House, Chicago, IL

Depiction, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Impotent Landscape, The Pond, Chicago, IL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY


2020

Maine, Stephen. “Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections.” Hyperallergic, May 2, 2020.


2017 

Buhe, Elizabeth. “Rosy Keyser.” Art in America, September 26, 2017.


2016 

Elderton, Louisa. “Reviews: Rosy Keyser CFA/Berlin.” Flash Art, January - February 2016.

Nueuendorf, Henri. “Top 10 Shows on the LES and Surrounding Neighborhoods This

Summer.” Artnet, July 4, 2016.


2015 

Mac Adam, Alfred. “REVIEWS: NEW YORK.” Artnews, Summer 2015.

Smith, Roberta. “Review: Rosy Keyser, “The Hell Bitch.” The New York Times, May 2015.

Munro, Cait. “10 Killer Quotes on Feminism and Painting.” Artnet, June 4, 2015.


2014 

MacAdam, Barbara A. “Rosy Keyser’s Sculptures Create Stories That Never End.” Artnews, March 24, 2014.