Keavy (pronounced like heavy) is a photographer, writer, and educator living in Brooklyn, NY.


Education
MFA, Photography
Rhode Island School of Design
with a certificate in collegiate teaching, 2020

BFA, Photography
Purchase College, SUNY
Magna Cum Laude, 2013

email | instagram


Exhibitions/Events

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New Realities, Steinberg Gallery at Washington University | St. Louis, MO

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Picturing Plurality, Full Circle Fine Art | Baltimore, MD
We Are Multitudes, PhotoReview | Virtual Exhibition
Together We Will..., ArtsGowanus | Brooklyn, NY
Breaking More Boundaries, Culture Lab LIC | Long Island City, NY
Homecoming, RMCAD Rotunda Gallery, Lakewood, CO

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The Neon Heater | Findlay, OH
Texas Tech University | Lubbock, TX
Visions of Love, The Luupe | Virtual Exhibition

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RISD Faculty Exhibition, RISD Museum | Providence, RI
Four Degrees: Eco Anxiety and Climate Change* at SFC / HAF | Virtual Exhibition
Pride, Plaxall Gallery/CultureLab LIC | Long Island City, NY
Late//Refusals, Oranbeg Press | Virtual Exhibition
Untitled, Darkside Collective | Virtual Exhibition
Emergence, Beacon Artist Union | Beacon, NY
A Show of Hands, Don’t Take Pictures Mag | Virtual Exhibition

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RISD Grad Show, RISD Museum | Virtual & Providence, RI
When I See The Left Ear I Think He Had Heard Me, ClampArt | New York, NY
Moonsoaked | Virtual Exhibition
Distinction, Photographic Center Northwest | Seattle, WA

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Black: color | context | meaning, Gelman Gallery | Providence, RI
Photography Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery | Providence, RI
SPE NE Juried Exhibition, Red Eye Gallery | Providence, RI
I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore, Sol Koffler Gallery | Providence, RI
@ ME, Paradice Palase | Brooklyn, NY
Residency Exhibition, School of Visual Arts | New York, NY
Twist & Twine, ChaShaMa/Paradice Palase | LIC, NY
Place Setting, The Yards Collective | Rochester, NY

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Survey: Photography, The Waterman Gallery | Providence, RI
Empathy, UNC Pembroke A.D. Gallery | Pembroke, NC
SPECTRUM, MCLA Gallery North Adams, MA
Survived Arrival, Red Eye Gallery | Providence, RI

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Spring Grand Salon, Greenpoint Gallery | Brooklyn, NY

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Spring Exhibition, V.A., Purchase College | Purchase, NY
Beats Per Minute, V.A., Purchase College | Purchase, NY

* Indicates curatorial role


Honors & Features

Grants, Residencies & Honors
2020 Crisis Residency
2019  13th Annual Pollux Awards | Honorable Mention
2019  Photography & Video Residency | School of Visual Arts
2019  T.C. Colley Scholarship Award for Excellence in Photography
2019  Research Assistant | The Winter Garden Photograph Project
2018  Graduate Fellowship | Rhode Island School of Design
2013  Magna Cum Laude | Purchase College, SUNY


Publications

Regular Contributor to Strange Fire Collective and Photo-Spark Magazine

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JRNL12, Fotofilmic

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Hazey, Fifth Wheel Press

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Soft Lightning Vol. 2: Connection, Soft Lightning Studio
Issue #1, Goldenrod Editions
Moonsoaked, Fifth Wheel Press
On Walking When Walking is Advised Against, Volume-1.org
ContinuED, School of Visual Arts

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Small Magics, self-published (sold out)

Online Features
Stayathome.Photo with Chance DeVille [x]
A New Nothing with Jessina Leonard [x]
A New Nothing with Jody Poorwill  [x]


Visiting Artist

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Visiting artist, Simmons University
Visiting artist, FotoFika
Visiting artist, Rhode Island School of Design

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Visiting critic, Endicott College
Visiting artist, University of Arkansas
Speaker, SPE Northeast Chapter Conference
Visiting artist, Study Hall Gallery, PrattMWP
Moderator, Strange Fire Collective 5th Anniversary Talk
Visiting artist, SUNY Purchase
Panelist, Keeper of the Hearth book launch
Visiting artist, RISD, Experimental Photography & Feminism
Visiting critic, RISD, Introduction to Darkroom Photography

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Speaker, MFA Boston, How We See: Photobooks by Women
Visiting artist, RISD, Introduction to Darkroom
Visiting artist, RISD, Junior Studio
Visiting critic, RISD, Sophomore Studio