Keith Spencer is a visual artist and translator from New Mexico. In 2009 he was named a goodwill ambassador for Fukushima prefecture, Japan and in 2016 received The Mary Koga Memorial Grant from the Japan America Society of Chicago. Keith was a 2019 Emily Carr University of Art + Design Teaching Fellow, and a participating artist in Overworld, a 2020 online exhibition organized by the Japan Foundation in Mexico. He currently lives in Kyoto.

About - Keith Spencer

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

[solo]

2023    現 - Utsutsu / YAK Kyoto / Kyoto [artist talk with Japan UNK Radio]

2020    おぼろ月 - The Hazy Moon / Itonowa / Kyoto


[group]

2022    Butterflies of Pascal: Ch2 / Tsurumi Print Studio / Osaka

2020    Overworld / online exhibition / Japan Foundation in Mexico

        When Zen and Art Meet / The Blend Inn / Osaka

        Leaning Out of Windows: Phase 3 / Emily Carr University of Art + Design / Vancouver

2019    Hotel Wall Stew / Kagan Hotel / Kyoto

        Introspection | Extrospection / Michael O’Brian Exhibition Commons / Vancouver

2018    Understory / Ground Floor Art Centre / Vancouver

2017    Netflix and Chill / D&S Gallery / Chicago

2016    Nippon Steel 23 / Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal U.S.A. Office Gallery / Chicago

2015    Bad Painting / MacLean Center / Chicago

2013    Here You See / 3F Project Room / Kyoto


RESIDENCIES

2019   Kagan Hotel - Kyoto


EDUCATION

2019  Emily Carr University of Art + Design - Vancouver
     Master of Fine Arts
2016  School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago
     Post-Baccalaureate
2005  University of New Mexico - Albuquerque
     Bachelor of Arts

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