Katherine Keltner

Katherine Keltner is a Brooklyn-based artist whose body of work includes paintings; drawings; photo-based, mixed media collages; installations; and an artist’s book. Keltner uses natural elements from her surroundings to produce gestural paintings that question and refigure familiar forms, focusing on topics such as spatiality, the natural world, organic systems, and gridded structures.

Raised in New York, she holds an AB, Dartmouth College, and an MFA, American University, and studied at Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation. Her works have been exhibited in the United States and Europe including at The Katzen Arts Center, American University Museum of Art, Field Projects, Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning, and A.I.R. Gallery among others. Awards include fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale Foundation and the Chautauqua Institution.

Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture
American University, MFA
Dartmouth College, BA