KEITH NELSON / WORKS / CV
EDUCATION
2000 BFA Painting, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Keith Nelson: Ordinary Display, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI. February 2-March 10, 2018
2017
Sammansättning, The Mausoleum @ Zeihersmith, New York, NY. April 2017
2014
New Work, Bubbler/Madison Public Library, Madison, WI
Arrangements, Portrait Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2011
Mandy and Keef, Green Gallery West, Milwaukee, WI
2008
Functions, Founder’s Hall, UW-Manitowoc, Manitowoc, WI
2007
Project Space, Brooks Barrow Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Experiments, Temporary Contemporary, Milwaukee, WI
2004
New Work, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2003
New Work, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Prologue, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI. June 16-July 15, 2017
The Shape of Things to Come, Galerie Kenilworth, Milwaukee, WI. November 10-December 31, 2017
Art of Sight, Sense of Feeling, The Franklin, Chicago, IL. December 2017
2016
Presentation, Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria. August 2016
2015
Current Tendencies, Haggerty Museum of Art/Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
2014
OOOOO Ghoost Show V, Borderline, Milwaukee, WI
45 North, Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts, Fond du Lac, WI
(Re)Motivated, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
2012
Winter Chapel (w/Paula Schultz), Portrait Society, Milwaukee, WI
2010
Big Bangs/Small Bucks III, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Harvest Tools, Project Lodge, Madison, WI
Inaugural Exhibit, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Spring Painting Show, Cedar Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Forward: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now, Charles Allis Museum, Milwaukee, WI
71st Rockford Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
2009
Big Bangs, Small Bucks II, Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2008
Inaugural Exhibit, The Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2007
Total Tonality, Lobby Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
3 from 7, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2006
49th Annual Juried Exhibit, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit, WI
2005
Work From the 7th Floor, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2003
New Modernists, Frederick Layton Gallery, MIAD, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
AWARDS
2013
Finalist, Mary Nohl Fellowship, Established Artist
2012
Finalist, Mary Nohl Fellowship, Established Artist
2011
Finalist, Mary Nohl Fellowship, Established Artist
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
K. Murrel, Shepherd Express, “What’s on your Shelf?”
P. Hartigan, “A View From the Easel,” Hyperallergic, http://hyperallergic.com/118193/a-view-from-the-easel-48/
2013
L. Waxman, “60wrd/min Critic”(INOVA), http://www.60wrd/min.org/artwork/3181866/Keith_Nelson.html
S. McAdams, “From the Curb in Milwaukee: Usable Space,” Bad at Sports, http://badatsports.com/2013/from-the-curb-in-milwaukee-usable-space/
T. Folliard, MMagazine, “Scanning the Artscape: Five Artist’s to Watch…”
2012
A. Schindler, “Keith C. Nelson,” Kooye(blog) http://www.kooye.de/keithnelson
C. Smith, “Keith Nelson,” Fine Line http://www.finelinemagazine.tumbler.com/post/33162889069/keithnelson
2005
M. Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Common Ground,”
2003
M. Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, “Confirmed…,”
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Private
Leigh Albritton, Chief Registrar, Harley Davidson Museum
Maggie & David Gordon, former Director, Milwaukee Art Museum
Melinda & Ken Krei, Board President, Milwaukee Art Museum/CEO Third Ward Records
Mark Lawson, Director of Galleries, MIAD
Mary Louise Mussoline, Director, 88.9 Radio Milwaukee
John Stewart, Principal, Food Services, Inc.
Corporate
International Financial Data Services, Toronto
Adelman Travel Group, Milwaukee
Ameristar, Casino Corp., Reno, NV
Third Ward Records, St. Francis, WI
Whyte, Hirschboeck, & Dudek, SC, Milwaukee, WI