About

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.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

[solo]

2023 現 - Utsutsu / YAK Kyoto / Kyoto

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