Terra Keck / b. 1991

Terra is an artist and performer based out of the United States. She received her MFA in Printmaking from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa in 2018, and her BFA in Drawing from Ball State University in 2013. She moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 2018 and maintains a studio practice in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Terra is part of permanent collections in Italy, Japan, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Hawai’i, as well as several university collections in the U.S.  She is a founding member of the international artist collective GRRIC Contemporary, an experimental art space, happening, omnipotence. In 2017 she co-curated the show “Afterschool Special” at the Honolulu Museum of Art and several shows through the GRRIC Contemporary Art Gallery in Honolulu.

Terra also co-hosts the comedy podcast “Witch, Yes!” which seeks the humor and humanity of mythology, folklore and witchcraft in its relationship to history, identity and contemporary politics.

Keck’s art practice is not limited to material or topic. She has parallel avenues of research that include printmaking, drawing, performance, space making, sound, light, soft sculpture, video and social media manipulation.

In her recent solo show, WRETCHED, she explored the cultural phenomena of folklore, magic, and the demonic feminine. She paired traditional printmaking techniques with materials and aesthetics of mystics from the late 1800s. Her work was informed by the performative and psychological nature of mediumship, the greying edges of “Mira and Miracula” (divine miracles and demonic mirages), and what the cyclical interest in witchcraft following catastrophes says about human nature.

Inquires can be sent to TerraKeck@Gmail.com

Exhibition and Publication List

2024

Cult of the Comet Eaters (Juried) Ice Cream Social (New York, NY) (Future Exhibition)

2023

The Other Art Fair: Brooklyn (Juried Art Fair) The Other Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY)

The Other Art Fair: Dallas (Juried Art Fair) The Other Art Fair (Dallas, TX)

First Come, First Hung (Group Show) B Dry Goods (Brooklyn, NY)

Retrospective: Decommissioned Works (Juried) Lodger Gallery (New York, NY)

ECOTONE 1 (publication) ECOTONE (New York, NY)

2022

Zoonotic Hex (Juried) Field Projects Gallery (New York, NY)

Untitled (Juried) Flat Rate Contemporary (New York, NY)

2021

Together We Rise (Juried) Visionary Art Collective (New York, NY)

NOTACATBUTALLAMA (Juried) Ivy League Gallery (Minneapolis, MN)

Wretched (Solo Show) Sweet Lorraine (Brooklyn, NY)

Conjuring Drawings (Publication) Vantage Art Projects (Online)

Normal (Juried Art Fair) Art in Odd Places (New York, Y)

2019

Womxn in Art (Group Show) Trust Womxn Art Festival (Lafayette IN)

Drawing (Group Show) Kailua Gallery (Kailua, HI)

Postcards (Group Show) (New York, NY)

2018

Atlantic Ave Winter Art Walk (Group Show) Atlantic Ave (Brooklyn, NY) 3rd Place Award Recipient

Second Hand Smoke  (Thesis Show)  University of Hawai'i Art Gallery(Honolulu, HI)

Vie Du Pacifique II (Group Show)  Honolulu Museum of Art at Linekona (Honolulu, HI)

2017

Pecha Kucha (Publication) Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, HI)

The Pink Machine  (Solo Show)  Honolulu Museum of Art at Linekona's Nano Gallery (Honolulu, HI)

Not Much to See  (Group Show)  GRRIC Contemporary Gallery (Honolulu, HI)

Japanese Chamber of Commerce  (Juried Exhibition)  Honolulu Museum of Art at Linekona (Honolulu, HI)

An After School Special  (Group Show)  Honolulu Museum of Art at Linekona (Honolulu, HI)

GOODGIRL  (Solo Show)  Commons Gallery(Honolulu, HI)

Vie Du Pacifique II  (Group Show)  TAMA University of Art (Tokyo, JP)  Permanent Collection

Vie Du Pacifique II (Group Show)  Wangarei Art Museum (New Zealand)  Permanent Collection

Vie Du Pacifique II  (Group Show)  Alliance Francais Gallery (Vanuatu)  Permanent Collection

Vie Du Pacifique II (Group Show)  California State University (Long Beach, CA)  Permanent Collection

Vie Du Pacifique II  (Group Show)  Gladstone Regional Gallery (Gladstone, AU)  Permanent Collection

2016

Vie Du Pacifique II  (Group Show)  Impress Printmakers Studio (Brisbane, AU)

SGCI (Group Show) Flight 64 (Portland, OR)

SGCI (Group Show) Portland State University (Portland, OR) 

2015

Printmaking Exhibition (Group Show) (Melbourne, AU)

2014

Attraction and Doubt (Group Show)  Gallery 35 (Muncie, IN)

2013

Permanent Collection at the La Romita School of Art (Terni, Italy)

Annual White Water Exhibition (Juried)  Minnetrista Art Gallery (Muncie, IN)

Fragments (Group Show)  Atrium Gallery (Muncie, IN)

YMIR (Thesis Show)  Ball State University (Muncie, IN)

Women's Show (Group Show) Atrium Gallery (Muncie, IN)

2012

Black and White (Group Show) Blue Bottle Gallery (Muncie, IN)

Love (Solo Show) Glue and Scissors (Muncie, IN)