BIO

Keith Sklar (b. New York) currently lives and works in Chicago. He earned an MA from NYU Steinhardt School in New York and a BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He has lived and worked in New York, Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and these communities have helped shape his path as an artist. His solo exhibitions include: P.P.O.W, (NY); Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica; Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, (LA); Dorsch Gallery, Miami; and Giampietro Gallery, New Haven. Notable group exhibitions include: Suffering From Realness at Mass MoCA (2019); Strange at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2019); Wallpainting at University of Texas at San Antonio (2005); LA at Kaus at Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2005); SouthwestNET: PHX/LA at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2004); Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, at LA County Museum of Art, CA (2001), and LA: Post Cool at San Jose Museum of Art (2001). His works are in the collections of SFMoMA, Oakland Museum of California and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Sklar’s grants and awards include: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency on Captiva (2014), Brooklyn Arts Council, Arts in Education grant. (2012);.California Arts Council (CAC) Fellowship in Visual Arts (Painting) and multiple CAC Artist-in-Communities Grants. Early in his career, Sklar focused on creating public murals in Oakland and San Francisco. Two of these projects, Mitzvah and Grand Performance (co-created with Daniel Galvez), were declared Oakland City Landmarks. Selected Press and media include: LA Times, NY Times, Gorky’s Granddaughter, Boston Globe, SF Chronicle, Arizona Republic, San Diego Union Tribune, LA Weekly, Art in America and ARTnews.

An educator as well as an artist, Sklar has taught art to people across the spectrum of age, learning styles, identities and backgrounds; from 6th-12th grades through undergrad and grad levels, in public and independent schools and museums and community-based settings, including Otis College of Art and Design (LA), LA County High School for the Arts, Wesleyan University (CT), MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, North Shore Country Day (IL) and Opportunities for All, Chicago. Currently he is a Teaching Artist with After School Matters, Chicago.