About

Elizabeth Keithline’s work focuses on human self-extension in many forms. A weaver since the age of 14, in 1996 she invented a sculpture technique called “Lost Box.” She weaves wire around objects, then burns them out or peels them off, creating a wire memory.

Wheel Arts Administration

Wheel Arts Administration is accepting clients on a limited basis. Review the history of Wheel’s work in curating and public art:

Wheel Arts Projects

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