A.R. Keiner (Alexis Roberts Keiner)
b. Anchorage, Alaska, Living in Los Angeles, California
Education
2020 MFA, Fine Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2002 BA, Art Studio, Minor in Dance, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Solo Exhibitions
2020 The Entropy Cliché, Paper Gallery, www.issuu.com/arkeiner *Physical exhibition postponed due to COVID-19
2016 Coastal Journal: 37 Small Paintings 2005-2015, Canon Club, Beverly Hills, CA
2013 Work, Alaska Robotics Gallery, Juneau, Alaska.
2012 Unshown Works, The Lost Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2008 6/30/07 — 7/17/07, curated by Sarah Asper-Smith, Ruby Room Exhibition Space in Juneau, Alaska (catalogue)
2002 My Sister's Couch: Interior Landscapes, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Armstrong Hall, Colorado Springs, CO
Group Exhibitions
2021 Stillwell, (featured artist) Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Quarantine, Martin Wong Gallery, curated by Yami Perez, San Francisco, CA
2020 MFA 2020 THESIS EXHIBITION, curated by Kevin B. Chen and Sharon Bliss, Hosted by Kunstmartrix (online), Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 (Curation) DRAWING WON! Curated by A. R. Keiner, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, California
2018 Confessions and Declarations, Martin Wong Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 ART WEEK: Alumni Artist Showcase, Cornerstone Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO (catalogue)
2017 Café Sketches: Artist’s Travel Drawings & Painting, Perry Carlson Gallery, Mt Vernon, WA
2016 All Saints Charity Auction, Beverly Hills, CA
2014 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Benefit Auction, Santa Monica, CA
2011 Two-Person Show, Ebb and Flow: A Conversation Between Two Artists, curated by Sarah Asper-Smith Ruby Room, Juneau, AK. (in collaboration with Suzanne Peck)
2010 2002-2010: Emotional Quality of Light, from the students of Diana Tillion Cove Gallery, Halibut Cove, AK
Awards/Grants/Fellowships
2023 (upcoming) Denis Diderot (A-i-R) Grant, Chateau d’Orquevaux Artist in Residence, Champagne-Ardenne, France
2021-2022 Emerging Artist Fellow, Individual Artist Grant, California Arts Council, State of California
2019-2020 Graduate Teaching Associate, San Francisco State University School of Art, California
2017 Emerging Leader Program (ELP), Stanford Medicine X, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Summer 2017
Lectures, Presentations, Workshops, (Critiques/Conferences/Symposia, etc.)
2021 “Between Surfaces: Grieving and The Entropy Cliche in the Pandemic Year” panelist; SMART Museum of Art’s Health Humanities in Times of Crisis Symposium, University of Chicago, April 2021
2020 “Artist/Advocate: Patient Narrative, Social Media, and the ePatient Artist in the Era of Zoom” Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute, Stanford University Medical School, Palo Alto, CA July 2020 2019 Undergraduate Salon Series: Fearlessness, Collaboration, Portfolio, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA Fall/Winter 2019-2020
2019 “ARTIST/ePATIENT: Expression, Advocacy, and the Patient Narrative,” lecturer, Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Summer 2019
2018 “ARTIST/ePATIENT: Expression, Advocacy, and the Patient Narrative,” lecturer, Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Summer 2020
2018 “Miscarriage and Infant Loss,” panelist, ReImagine End of Life, San Francisco April 2018
2017 “Death And Bereavement in the Digital Age,” panelist, Stanford Medicine X, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, September 2017 2015 “Emotional Quality of Light” 6-day workshop leader, private residence, Los Angeles, California, 2015 “Octopus and its Ink!” Visiting Artist and Workshop, Carthay Environmental Studies Magnet Elementary School (Title 1), LAUSD, Los Angeles, California, Spring 2015
Professional Experience
2022 Part Time Lecturer, Department of Art, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (ART4626-03 and ART4626-04 Senior Capstone Studio Arts)
2021 Visiting Artist, MFA Program in Glass and the Expanded Practice, Rochester Institute of Technology, Department of Glass, February, 2021
2020-Present Independent Drawing/ Painting Instructor + Artist Writing Consultant, In-Person/Online 2020 Professor of Record, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (ART433 Figure Drawing) 2019 Professor of Record, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (ART231 Drawing 1) 2019 Teaching Assistant, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (Language of Observational Painting [Foundations in Painting], Fall 2019)
2019 Teaching Assistant, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (ART433 Color Workshop, Spring 2019) 2019 Teaching Assistant, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (ART600 Professional Practices, SP 2019)
2018-Present ePatient Faculty, Stanford Anesthesiology Summer Institute: Clinical Science, Technology and Medicine Summer Internships, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
Bibliography
2020/June 18 ‘On A.R. Keiner’s The Entropy Cliché’, Roula Seikaly, MFA 2020 Exhibition Catalogue Fine Arts Gallery San Francisco State University
2017/October 3 ‘Medicine X 2017: Community, Connection, Storytelling’, Katie McCurdy, medium.com 2017/September 18 ‘Grief in the Time of Social Media’, Angela Gargano, Scope Blog, Stanford University
2017/September 16 ‘Panel: “Death and Bereavement in the Digital Age” Stanford Medicine X’, Marla Wexler, WeGoHealth 2011/June 30 ‘Diana Tillion Student Offers Painting Class In Cove', Michael Armstrong, Homer News
Collections
Office of the Dean of Liberal and Creative Arts, San Francisco State University
Lt Governor Mead Treadwell, Anchorage, Alaska
References
Mark Dean Johnson, Professor of Art - Painting and Drawing Area, San Francisco State University School of Art, San Francisco, California Mike Arcega, Assoc. Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Practice, SFSU School of Art, San Francisco, California
Libby Black, Assoc. Professor of Drawing and Painting, SFSU School of Art, San Francisco, California Suzanne Peck, Lecturer of Glass and Expanded Practice, School of Art, College of Art and Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York