Born 1974 in Baltimore, MD
Lives and works in Brooklyn and Medusa, New York
EDUCATION
BFA from Cornell University
MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 The OtherOther, Maccarone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Half-Light Periscope, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 We Sing Sin, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Lap of the High Plains, Freddy, Baltimore, MD
The Hell Bitch, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
Rosy Keyser, Maccarone Gallery, New York NY
2014 My Heads Are My Hands, Karma, New York NY
2013 Medusa Pie Country, Peter Blum Gallery, New York NY
2011 Promethean Dub, Peter Blum Gallery, New York NY
2009 Rosy Keyser: The Moon Ate Me, Peter Blum Gallery, New York NY
2008 Rivers Burn and Run Backward, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Downtown Painting, presented by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman Inc.,
New York, NY
2018 Converter, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Off the Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
Featured Works, Marguiles Collection, Miami FL
The Way Things Go, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2017 MIDTOWN, Lever House, New York, NYIn the Abstract, Mass MoCA
North Adams, MA
Witches, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
Squid Ink, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 Repurposed Realities, Goya Contemporary Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Your Face In The Mirror Isn’t Your Face, Similar To Plastic Silverware, curated by Torey
Thornton, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Object Painting – Painting Object, Johathan Viner Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Community of Influence, Vermont Studio Center Alumni show, Spencer Brownstone
Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Maximalism, Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2013 The New Sincerity, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
Painter Painter, curated by Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, The Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection: Part II, The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2012 Hue and Cry, Sotheby's S2 Gallery, New York, NY
Heat Waves, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Pink Caviar, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Science on the back end, Hauser and Wirth, New York, NY, curated by Matthew Day Jackson
Luis Camnitzer, Rosy Keyser, Robert Kinmont, and Linda Matalon, Simone Subal Gallery,
New York, NY
Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and Invention in Contemporary Painting,
Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2011 Miriam Bohm, Rosy Keyser, Erin Shirreff, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY
A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York, NY
2010 I Can't Forget, But I Don't Remember What, Freymond Guth Fine Art,
Zurich, Switzerland
Black and White, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
Spray, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Immaterial, Ballroom Marfa, TX, curated by Fairfax Drn
Reflection, Peter Blum Soho, New York NY
2008 Zero Zone (curated by David Hunt), Tracy Williams Inc, New York
2007 Stubborn Materials, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York
2006 Durer re-enactment, Laeso, Denmark/ Baltimore, Maryland
2005 Family Portraits and Energetic Blueprints, Rensselaerville, New York
7-Year Installation, Track House (Remote Back Side), Marble, CO
2004 The Stray Show, Track house, Chicago, Illinois
On A Wave, Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Yard Sale, Track House, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Sulcata Solves, Track House, Oak Park, Illinois
Depiction, Gallery 400 at The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Impotent Landscape, The Pond, Chicago, Illinois
12x12: Andreas Fischer, contributing artist, MCA Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Master of Fine Art Exhibition, G2 Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
Precipitation, The PTDW Project Space, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
2002 Out of Nowhere, The Lounge gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois
Graduate Exhibition for National Reaccredidation (curated by Gaylen Gerber), The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,Chicago, Illinois
2000 The Chelsea Art Walk, New York, New York
Postcards From the Edge, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Alumnae Progress, The Art Center at Hargate, St. Paul’s School, Concord, New Hampshire
1999 Honest Lies, 27 Walker Space, New York, New York
1997 Multi-Media Arts Festival, Random Access Realities, New York, NY
Hero, BFA Painting Exhibition, The Willard Straight Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1995 Olive Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1994 The Rio Chama Project Space, Santa Fe, New Mexico
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
The Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation
The Portland Museum of Art
The Zabludowicz Collection
SELECTED PRESS
2008 Hudson, Suzanne, "Rosy Keyser," Artforum, May
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Rosy Keyser, Rivers Burn and Run Backward," The New York
Times, April 11
"Rosy Keyser," The New Yorker, April 14
Maine, Stephen, "A Landslide and a Cocktail Party, The New York Sun, March 202007 Smith,
Roberta, "In These Shows, the Material is the Message," The New York Times, August 10
Maine, Stephen, "Their Dark Materials," The New York Times, July 12
Hudson, Suzanne, "Stubborn Materials," Artforum, November
Neil, Jonathan T.D., "Stubborn Materials," Art Review, September
"Stubborn Materials," The New Yorker, August 27
Clarkson, Lamar, "Stubborn Materials," ArtNews, October
MacAdam, Barbara, "Object Overruled," ArtNews, December
2006 Orden, Abraham, "The Windy Apple," Artnet, May 18
2004 Cotter, Holland, "Sampling Brooklyn, Keeper of Eclectic Flames," The New York Times, January 23