Keith Walsh-ART
ONE ARTIST EXHIBITIONS & ACTIONS
2024 James P. Cannon May Day Action, Hollywood, CA
2023 RDFA, Los Angeles CA
2021 RDFA Los Angeles Ca
2020 Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach CA
2015 Elephant, Los Angeles
2015 Vote SNCC, Greyhound Station, McComb, MS
2015 Long Beach City College, Long Beach CA
2011 Weekend, Hollywood, CA
2008 Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Head On Collision, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
2004 Antai Projects. Los Angeles
2002 Warhol Rejuvenation Action, MoCA Los Angeles
2002 May Day 2.3 Mile Action, Chinatown, Los Angeles
2001 Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles
FELLOWSHIPS, RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2021 City of Los Angeles, Cultural Trailblazers Award 2021-2022
2015 SMFA, Boston: Alumni Traveling Fellowship
2015 Pike School of Art: Residency, McComb, MS
2007 Woodbury University: Faculty Sculpture Grant
2000 California Polytechnic University Pomona: Collection Award
TWO-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Keith Walsh and Kent M. Young, PRJCTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Adelman & Walsh, 2A Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Office of Soul Transport and Social Effectiveness with Extra Large
Pixel, (with Jim Ovelmen) The Stray Show, Chicago
2003 Office of Soul Transport Posters (with Jim Ovelmen),
Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 Assimilations (with Catherine Bennaton), One Colorado Art Space,
Pasadena, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2025
Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection 2024-25 Exhibition, Bunker Artspace,
West Palm Beach, FL
In Response To, Cornelius Projects, San Pedro
2024
INTO ACTION 2024, Taskforce, Chicago, curated by Evan Cerisoli
Slow Horses,The Clinic Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Allen Tombello
Topia, NeoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Tetsuji Aono
2023
Sociality, LA Tate, Los Angeles. Curated by Keith Walsh
Angela Davis: Seize the Time, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Awol, SWAB Seed Fair, Barcelona, Spain
Awol, TRYST Fair, Torrance, CA
Medical Aid for Palestinians, 515 Bendix, Los Angeles
2022
UnCivil War, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Dance Pole Picket Line, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA
The Magnificent Seven, LA Tate, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Resilience, Mirus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Angela Davis: Seize the Time, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, NJ
Fummer Sun, RDFA, Los Angeles
2020
Dallas Biennial, Permanent Research Project, West Dallas TX
Archive Machines, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Protest in Place, SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Type, Golden West College, Huntington Beach CA
Super Moon Transmission 2, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA
SoLA Contemporary Winter Auction, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Dream House vs Punk House, Serious Topics, Inglewood CA
Parlor Papers, Parlor Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Ephemeral, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Redemption, Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
Artist Couples, Long Beach City College, CA
2018
Tomorrowland, CB1, Los Angeles, CA
The Great Experiment Volume 1, Cubist Spinoff, Inglewood CA
2017
Iconic Black Panther Party, Gregorio Escalante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Inglewood Open Studios, Inglewood, CA
PØST Gallery Auction, Los Angeles, CA
2016
In Our Time, Liberty-White Depot, Summit, MS
Here and Elsewhere, Industrial Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
David Bowie Tribute Wall, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Up To & Including The Horizon, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Living Together, Eastside International, Los Angeles, CA
2014
You Can’t Get There From Here (music for Rory Devine), CB1 Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Thanks For the Mammaries, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
8th + Hubby + Hope, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Artist’s Books and Cookies, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dig the Dig, LA Mart, Los Angeles, and The Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2012
The Monster Drawing Rally, The Armory, Pasadena, CA
The Eagle Rock Shop, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Weekend, Artra Fair, LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA
Hanging Gardens, 1019 West Manchester, Inglewood CA
The Optimist’s Parking Lot, Beacon Arts Building, Inglewood CA
Works on Paper, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
The Open Daybook, LACE, Hollywood, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2010
I Have A Light, S1F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Anarchy, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
Mannlicher Carcanoplex Mach 01, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
Fuckheads, Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Power to the People, Feature, Inc., NY
From My Universe, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2009
Bakers Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Newman’s Subconscious, West LA College, Culver City CA
Clutter, Andrew Shire Galley, Los Angeles, CA
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art CA
2008
Gravity & Transformation, Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Analytic & Synthetic Pile-Up, Woodbury University Gallery, Hollywood, CA
2007
Electric Bone, Glendale College, Glendale CA
Public Park, Antai Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Gone Wild Project, Los Angeles & New York, NY
2004
Welcome to Wonderland, 1R Gallery, Chicago, IL
Farewell, London Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Re-Location, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
Momenta Benefit, Momenta Art and White Columns, New York, NY
Redefining Drawing, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Fluxus Necessarius, Roth Horowitz Anderson, Los Angeles
Being Ernest Shackleton, London Street Projects, Los Angeles
2001
Chicago Project Room, MiArt Fair, Milan, Italy
Chicago Project Room, Art-Chicago Fair, Chicago, IL
2000
Community Artists, Occidental College,Los Angeles, CA
American Drawing Biennial, Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
One Night Stand, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, Los Angeles, CA
Threshold of Perception, Avatar Gallery, Pomona, CA
U-Haul Show, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, Los Angeles, CA
U-Haul Show, Patricia Correa Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
Unerotic, Lime Gallery, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
Grid Locked, Occidental College, Los Angeles
1998
Found/Stolen Videos, Mobius Boston MA and The Rhode Island School of Design, RI
Parallel Universes, Mint Gallery, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
1997
The Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025
Science Painted, Keith Walsh: Weapons of Mass Instruction, zine, March 15
2024
Critical Literacy in Activism: Artist Keith Walsh's Political Infographics,
Prof. Mike Olson, Univ. of WI at LaCrosse, International Visual Literacy Conference, November 4
The Locust Review #11, Carbondale IL, May 1
2023
Meet Keith Walsh, VoyageLA.com, January 2
2022
TAMA Artist Talks,Torrance Art Museum (YouTube)
The Locust Review #8, Carbondale IL
Seize the Time at Zimmerli, Jerseyartsfeature.com, January 24
2021
Keith Walsh at Rory Devine Fine Art, Artillery Magazine, by Jody Zellen, November 2
12 Must-See Exhibitions this Season, LA Weekly, by Shana Nys Drambot, September 9
The Locust Review #5, Carbondale IL
Keith Walsh + Zamani, Young & Miniucci, Lessart.wordpress.com,
by Doug Harvey, May 7
The Archivist and the Activist, KQED.org, by Pendarvis Harshaw,
January 21
2020
Keep on Keeping on: At Dallas Biennial, Dallas Morning News, by Benjamin Lima, November 6
Artist's Charts,Visual Art Source, by David S. Rubin, August 22
Covid-19 and Anti-Racism Movements Create New Urgency for Working Artists, KCET.org, by Sharon Mizota, July 10
Keith Walsh Converges Art and Politics in Trotsky Dialectics, Daily 49er, by Julissa Villalobos, February 12
Angela Davis: Seize the Time catalogue, Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University NJ
Keith Walsh, All Good Pictures Are About the Future, catalogue
2019
Dollhouses in the Age of Social Networks, ArtandCake.com, by Lorraine Heitzman, June 10
Parlor Papers, Vol. 1 Issue 1, Parlor Projects, April 28
2018
Slag Mag, Vol. 3 Issue 4, October 25
Werks Magazine, Volume 1: Chicago, May 23.
https://woodbury.edu/news/two-faculty-artists-take-part-in-tomorrowland-exhibit/ April
2017
10 L.A. Artists Whose Work You Probably Don't Know But Should, Artsy.net, by Doug Harvey
Iconic Black Panther at Gregorio Escalante, ArtandCake.com,Amy Kaeser May 5
Dynamism Magazine, Vol. 1, Summer 2017
2016
Modern Art Blitz with Mat Gleason. Episode #47 Part 1, November 27, YouTube.
2015
Q & A with Keith Walsh, Ochi Projects Los Angeles, CA
Artistic Explorations, McComb Enterprise-Journal, by Rhonda Dunaway, November 1
Fern Crossley. WAKK 980 AM Radio, MS, October 13 and 23 interviews.
Abeles & Walsh at LBCC Gallery, Long Beach City College Viking, by Darel James, February 26
2014
Tragic Kingdom, Whitehot Magazine,by Angel Chen, March 15
Tragic Kingdom, Artweek.LA.com, February 17
2013
Keith Walsh on KChung Radio, Doug Harvey. http://dougharvey.blogspot.com December 21
2012
25 Alternative LA Art Spaces to Check Out Now, LAWeekly,, by Carol Cheh, May 3
2011
Artforum Critic’s Picks, Artforum.com, by Annie Buckley, August 23
The Optimist’s Parking Lot, LAWeekly.com, by Carol Cheh, August 29
Stealth Space Interview with Brad Spence, www.weekendspace.org
2010
The Open Daybook, Random House, Edited by David P. Earle
Jet Set Saturdays, Artlurker.com, by Mary Anna Pomonis, February 20
2009
Baker's Dozen, LA Times, by David Pagel, October 9
Baker’s Dozen catalogue, Torrance Art Museum
Keith Walsh at Kristi Engle Gallery, Artillery Magazine,by Darrin Little, January
2008
Furnishing Form essay by Catherine Taft, Kristi Engle Gallery Los Angeles
Best of Los Angeles, www.saatchi.uk, by Catherine Taft, November
Gravity & Transformation at Kristi Engle Gallery, Artweek Magazine, by Josef Woodard, September
2007
Architectural Exhibition, Glendale College, El Vaquero, by Olga Ramaz
2006
Gone Wild Project. www.houseoflazyj.org
2003
Re-Location catalogue, Bliss, Pasadena, CA, essay by Daniel Adler
2000
Ink & Clay on Different Paths, Press Enterprise Riverside, CA, by Deborah L. Knaff, February 1
Ink & Clay, Poly Post, CSU Pomona, Pomona, CA
1999
Grid Locked at Occidental College, Artscenecal.com, November
1998
Mills Gallery Drawing Show, artsMEDIA, by Matt Murphy, January
The Drawing Show, Art New England, by Miles Unger" February
Video Pirates Emerge As Artists, Boston Globe, by David Wildman, February 15
CURATION
2023 Sociality, LA Tate, Los Angeles, CA
2018- Solo Exhibitions, Cubist Spinoff Projects, Inglewood CA
2011 The Optimist’s Parking Lot (with Suzanne Adelman),
Beacon Arts Building, Inglewood, CA
2009 Newman’s Subconscious (with Suzanne Adelman),
West LA College, Culver City, CA
2003 Re-Location (with Suzanne Adelman), Bliss, Pasadena, CA
PRESENTATIONS & PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2023 RDFA, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Panelist, UnCivil War, Torrance Art Museum CA
2021 RDFA, Los Angeles, CA
2021. Cal State University, San Bernardino
2020 Chapman University, Orange CA
2020 Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, Long Beach CA
2018 Prison Arts Collective, Cal. Institute for Men, Chino CA
2016 Cal State University San Bernardino
2015 Long Beach City College CA
2014 Eastside International, Los Angeles
2011 Beacon Arts Building, Inglewood, CA
2009 Panelist, Critiquing the Critic, Los Angeles Art Show
2008 Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles
2008 Woodbury University, Burbank, CA
2001 The Windward School, Culver City, CA
2001 California State University at Long Beach CA
EDUCATION:
MFA, Tufts University, USA
BFA, University of Hartford, USA