Claudia Keep

Working from both life and personal photographs, Keep illuminates the intricacies of simple scenes: light falling in a quiet room, the shapes that a modest object casts onto the sidewalk, infinite beads of water resting in a spiderweb.

Claudia Keep’s paintings reveal the intimate complexity of everyday moments. Composed of soft lines and shapes, they convey impressions of the ordinary that are curiously lucid. Ranging from scenes passing by like the somber warmth of a bedroom light, crumpled sheets rippled in the form of an avalanche, or the mesmerizing glare of a butterfly's wings, Keep renders these moments sacred. This record of detail rescues the humblest of beauty from invisibility, by its nature an invitation to look more closely.

Claudia Keep was born in 1993 in Low Moor, Virginia and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.

Her recent exhibitions include Shimmering Waves, LMDS, Shanghai (2024, solo); Une Chambre à Soi, Château La Coste, FR (2024, group); Somehow, Somewhere, Someway, Galerie Marguo, Paris, FR (2024, solo); In Bed, 1226 Gallery, Dallas, TX (2024, solo); Almanac, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023, solo) and Aubade, MARCH, New York, NY (2023, solo). Keep has also exhibited at Blum & Poe (Los Angeles, CA), Venus Over Manhattan (New York, NY), Fortnight Institute (New York, NY), and The Painting Center (New York, NY). Keep’s work has been featured in The Paris Review, Plant Magazine, and Harper’s Magazine, among others.

Download Artist's CV

Born 1993 in Low Moor, Virginia, US. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Education

2015	Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, BA

Solo Exhibitions

2024	LMDS Shanghai, Shimmering Waves, Shanghai
	Galerie Marguo, Somehow, Somewhere, Someway, Paris
	1226 Gallery, In Bed, Dallas, TX
2023	Parker Gallery, Almanac, Los Angeles, CA
2022	March Gallery, Aubade, New York, NY
	Tif Sigfrids, Day In, Day Out, Athens, GA
2021	Tops Gallery, Claudia Keep, Memphis, TN
	March Gallery, Night Moves, New York, NY
2019	Galerie Ulysses, Johns Friends, Vienna, Austria
	UK Medical Center Gallery, Day in Maine, Lexington, KY

Group Exhibitions

2024	Château La Coste, Une chambre à soi, Aix-en-Provence, France
	Margot Samel, New York, NY
2023	Galerie Marguo, ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Shanghai, China
	Galerie Marguo, Art Paris 2023, Paris, France
	Cob Gallery, Night light, London, UK
2022	Scroll / The Hole, The Midnight Hour, New York, NY
	Blum & Poe, When the Sun Loses Its Light, Los Angeles, LA
	Tif Sigfrids, Speed to Roam, Athens, GA
2021	LAUNCH F18, Stonebreakers, New York, NY
	March, Pre-Renovation, New York, NY
	Reyes Finn, The Language of Flowers curated by Phillip March Jones, Detroit, MI
	Fortnight Institute, The Lonely Ones, New York, NY
2020	The Painting Center, The Blues, New York, NY
	Auxier Kline, Lean Out the Window, New York, NY
2019	Ablebaker Contemporary, The Missing Half-Second, Portland, ME
2015	New York Studio School, Living Threads, New York, NY
2014	The Painting Center, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, New York, NY

Public Collections

Fidelity Investments Collection, USA

Progressive Collection, USA

University of Kentucky, USA

Claudia Keep: Somehow, Somewhere, Someway

Paris Exhibition Full Film

28 Aug 2024

Galerie Marguo is pleased to present Somehow, Somewhere, Someway, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist Claudia Keep, on view from 13 September to 12 October 2024. Working from a catalog of her own photos, Claudia Keep paints fleeting moments excised from everyday life, rescuing their emotional charge from the stream of time. Keep’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and in Paris features small-format paintings of everyday moments. Lean more about the exhibition →

Welcoming Claudia Keep to Galerie Marguo

20 Mar 2025

Galerie Marguo is thrilled to announce its representation of American artist Claudia Keep, in close collaboration with March Gallery, New York. Renowned for her intimate,...