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Matt Keegan was born in 1976, in Manhasset, New York, and presently lives and works in Brooklyn. He graduated in Fine Arts, with a degree at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, in 2000 (minor in Film and Medieval Studies) and Master’s at Columbia University, 2004. In 2001, he attended the intensive residence program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Somerset, Maine.

His work is focused on the relations between art, language and cognition and on the multiple ways these planes mediate the subjective experience of physical space and the historic, social and political events. Keegan works with different media, including steel sculpture, photography, video and text; furthermore, he is dedicated to the practice of publication, which he views as a tool of exchange and collaboration. He produced various artist’s books and created two publisher companies, North Drive Press, 2004-2010 and ==, 2012-2016.

Keegan has been exhibiting his work on a regular basis since 2000. Among his solo exhibitions, How to make a portrait, Nicole Klagsbrun (Project Room) and White Columns, New York, 2006; Horizon, Pedro Cera Gallery, 2013; Portable Document Format, Rogaland Kunstcenter, Stavanger, Norway, 2015; REPLICATE, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Massachusetts and Generation, Participant Inc., New York, 2017; Matt Keegan: what was & what is, Sculpture Center, New York, 2019. His group exhibitions include, among others: 24/7, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 2003; Pawnshop, Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam and Beijing, 2008; Younger than Jesus, New Museum, New York, 2009; Circulate, Fotografie Museum Amsterdam; Y? O! G, The Kitchen, New York, 2012; The Artist’s Museum, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 2016; I wish to communicate with you (w/ Corita Kent), POTTS, Los Angeles, 2019. His work his represented in various public collections, such as MoMA, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.