About

Artist Elizabeth Keithline’s work focuses on human self-extension and its effects. In 1996, she invented a sculpture technique wherein wire is woven around an object and then burned out, leaving behind a wire “memory.” Her interest in how far an abstraction can go, how many iterations of a thought can be manifested, is ongoing.

Keithline has curated exhibits and shown her own artwork through ChaShaMa NYC, the New York Department of Parks & Recreation, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Danforth Museum, Wheaton College, Real Art Ways, Craft Alliance St. Louis, the Newport Art Museum, the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, New York University, Mark Miller Gallery, Governors Island NY, Mobius Boston, the Fuller Museum.

Her work has been well-reviewed in the New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant and others.

Wheel Arts Administration

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Fine Art Resume

Elizabeth Keithline
elizabethkeithline@gmail.com
401/578-4313

Select One or Two Person Shows

2026: New Work at Wallkill River Arts Center, Montgomery, NY; Installation at Convey/ER/OR, Poughkeepsie, NY
2025: Breaking Broken, Unison Art Center, New Paltz, NY
2024: Breaking Broken, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2023: Through Line, Chashama, New York, NY
2022: Welcome Home/Shadow Home, Chashama, New York, NY
2021: Shadow Paintings, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2019: Shadow Tree, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA; (The Air), As It Moves, UMass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2016: Dreamtown, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2014: Only The Strong Survive, Hampden Gallery, UMass Amherst, MA
2013: Smarter, Faster, Higher, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX; Atmosphere, Governors Island Art Fair, NY
2012: Only The Strong Survive, Governors Island, NY; Paradox/Survival, Bozarts Gallery, Water Valley, MS
2011: Smarter, Faster, Higher, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA; Smarter, Faster, Higher, Governor’s Island, New York, NY; Gatescapes, Mediacy, New York, NY
2010: Smarter, Faster, Higher, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO
2008: The Lost House Project, Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, MI
2006: Ourchitecture, Rhode Island Housing, Providence, RI
2005: The Lost House Project and Ourchitecture, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
2004: On The Third, DeBlois Gallery, Newport, RI
2001: Wire & Paint, The Waiting Room Gallery, New Orleans, LA; RI Women In the Visual Arts, Gallery Agniel, Providence, RI
2000: Haywire, Island Arts, Newport, RI
1999: Selected Work, TF Green Airport, Providence, RI,; Art & Artists: True or False, AS220, Providence, RI
1998: Uncommon Ground, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
1997: New Work, Native Gallery, Providence, RI

Public Art Projects

2025: Earthy, North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bennington Museum, Bennington, VT; Vault Installation, Expressions In Every Form, Newburgh, NY; curated by Shirley Noto
2023: Made In The Shade, New York Parks & Recreation/Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Elizabeth Masella; Through Line, Newberry Artisan Market, Saugerties, NY
2018: Two Boats: One For You, One For Me, North Bennington Outdoor Sculpture Show, North Bennington, VT; Hot, Hot, Hot and Three Arches, Art In the Yard, Oxford Free Public Library, Oxford, MA
2017: Two Boats: One For You, One For Me, Art In the Park, Worcester; Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA; Dreamtown, ArtPrize, Grand Rapids, MI
2016: Downtown Dreamtown, 1 Summer Street, Boston, MA
2015: Isle Arts Initiative, Georges Island, Boston
2011: Gatescapes, New York, NY
Multi-year: WindSeaSky, Convergence Sculpture Festival, Newport, RI
2006-07: Ourchitecture, Newport Art Museum and RI Housing Authority, Providence

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026: Trash Show, Jane Street Art Center, Saugerties, NY
2025: Telephone, worldwide, curated by Nathan Langston
2024: Among Friends, New York, NY; Calicornucopia 13, Calico Gallery, Woodstock, NY
2023: Worry, Soft Machine Gallery, Allentown, PA; Feminine Agenda, New York, NY; curated by Atim Annette Oton
2022: December, Artists Equity Gallery New York, NY
2020: Telephone, Worldwide, Curator Nathan Langston; USPSartproject.org, Worldwide; Organized by Christina Massey
2019: Rebirth, Worcester Windows, Worcester City Hall, MA
2018: Call For Chelsea, New York, NY
2016: Don’t Stop Me Now, Call For Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY; Only The Strong Survive, Governors Island, New York, NY
2015: Nuanced, DeeDee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA; curator Judith Tolnick Champa; Eyewitness, Umass Amherst, Amherst, MA; curator Anne LaPrade Seuthe & Sally Curcio
2014: Nature Talks Back, Wheaton College, Norton, Ma
2013: Drawing Out Of Bounds, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; curator, Judith Tannenbaum; Portland Museum of Art Biennial, (with Rahul Mitra); Transmission, (with Nathan Langston, Satellite Collective); Nature Talks Back, Wheaton College, Norton, MA; Curator, Michele L’Heureux
2012: Actual Size, Contemporary Art Institute, Detroit, MI
2011: Chain Mail, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2010: Where There’s Smoke, Umass Amherst, Amherst, MA; E32, 5C Cultural Center, New York, NY; The Perfect Fit, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY & Kimball Art Center, Park City, UT
2009: The Perfect Fit, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA & Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2008: Annual Juried Member’s Show, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA; Curator, Carole Anne Meehan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; In Faith Of Graffiti, List Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
2007: The Shadow Show, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; Raphael Prize Show, Houston Center For Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX and The Art Association, Jackson, WY
2006: 29th Annual Small Works Exhibition, NY University, New York, NY; Trashformations East, Copia, Napa, CA and Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA
2005: Raphael Prize Show, Society For Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA; Deliverance, Holden Street Gallery, Providence, RI; Trashformations, Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; Juror: Lloyd Herman, Smithsonian, Washington, DC
2004: Transformation, RI Foundation, Providence, RI; Curator: J. Hogue, ArtInRuins.com, Providence, RI
2003: 26th Annual Small Works Exhibition, NY University, New York; Juror: Tatyana Okshteyn, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Side Kicks: Works By Adjunct Art Faculty, Bannister Gallery, RI College, Providence, RI
2002: 1st Prize, Sculpture, 15th Annual Exhibition, Newport Art Museum; Juror: Judith Tannenbaum, RISD Museum; Spark Selects, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO; WindSeaSky, Convergence Sculpture Festival, Newport, RI; Babylon Lexicon, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA