Jayson Keeling

Jayson Keeling (1966–2022) was an artist who worked in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Keeling's work challenges conventional norms surrounding sex, gender, race, and religion. Keeling often reconfigured popular iconography, to explore notions of masculinity, and cultural ritual.

Early life and education

Jayson Keeling was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, New York to Jamaican parents. Keeling's grew up between Jamaica and the Bronx, New York. His bi-cultural upbringing would later influence his work. Keeling graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1986 with an AA in Fashion Illustration and Art History. Keeling started off by working as a photographer and film director in fashion, music, film, and the pornography industry.

Art

Jayson Keeling mines popular culture, and mythology to create artworks that question and deconstruct accepted politics of sex, gender, race, and religion. Keeling works in photography, video, sculpture, and installation.

His work often pulls from different visual cultures and then "jams them all into the same frame." Keeling often works in the realms in-between cultures, creating work that is "neither here nor there." He often uses performative gestures to explore ritual and masculinity.

Jayson Keeling's photographs have been described as violent, sexy, glam and grotesque.

A work by Keeling, a diptych of photographs of legendary dancer and choreographer, Willi Ninja, exhibited at the 2008 "The B Sides" show at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art was described by art critic Benjamin Genocchio as "one of the show's most arresting exhibits" in The New York Times.

Selected exhibitions

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

References

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  8. ↑ "Utopian Vision Born of a Harsh Truth". The New York Times. 2014-04-11. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
  9. ↑ "Aljira at 30, Dream and Reality «  Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art". aljira.org. Retrieved 2018-04-09.
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  12. ↑ "The Studio Museum in Harlem". www.studiomuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-04-09.