ARTIST / Artist
ROSY KEYSER
ROSY KEYSER
Born in 1974 in Baltimore, USA, the work of Rosy Keyser invites us to think about the intersections between people and matter around us. Keyser usually carries objects and industrial materials she finds in rural areas of America to her works by tearing, damageing or deforming their structure. The forms thus created become compositions that carry the indelible traces of Keyser’s actions on the one hand and the obscure past each object had on the other. Each large-scale and inevitably tactile work touches different feelings and creates a bodily language of what it means to live in a material world.
Keyser’s work has been exhibited extensively in the United States and Europe, including solo exhibitions at the Maccarone Gallery (New York, Los Angeles), Peter Blum Gallery (New York), and Contemporary Fine Arts (Berlin, Germany). Group exhibits: Rosy Keyser & Eleanor Mikus, Parts & Labor, Beacon, NY; Pink Caviar at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Painter Painter and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Keyser’s work is the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA), Institute for Contemporary Art, (Portland, Maine, USA); It is in various permanent collections, including the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, USA), and the Zabludowicz Collection (London, UK). Rosy Keyser joined the artist residency at the Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX) in the fall of 2017.
Rosy Keyser lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
