Terra Keck / b. 1991
Terra is a US-based artist and performer. 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 the summer of 2018 and maintains a studio practice in East Williamsburg.
You will find Terra’s work featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The Art Newspaper, and Oxford American Arts as well as in permanent institutional collections in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Hawaii, and California. Her work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Spring Break Art Show curated by Field Projects Gallery and she will be having her Mexico City debut this fall at Maia Contemporary Gallery. Keck 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 the occult, folklore, and witchcraft in its relationship to history, identity and contemporary politics.
Terra’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.
Described by the editor-in-chief of Hyperallergic as “sonograms of a world ready to be born… and brimming the optimism of theosophical insight,” Keck’s latest body of work explores the ontology of our universe and consciousness through the metaphor of the UFO. Instead of siphoned through the language of militarism and conspiracy, the work approaches the UFO from the angle that our universe is, at its core, benevolent. The work is created by erasing layers of graphite and watercolor, a reductive process that alludes to the importance of what is left behind and the negative spaces in our cosmic story. Spiritually, the work is generated in response to the broad consensus that the future is canceled. When things feel so uncertain, what are earthlings supposed to do but look up and out at an opaque and glittering emptiness and dream of someone who traveled a thousand lightyears just to catch a glimpse of us?
Inquires can be sent to TerraKeck@Gmail.com
Select Exhibitions List
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Out of Time, SPRING/BREAK Art Show: Field Projects, New York, NY
2021 Wretched, Sweet Lorraine, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Second-Hand Smoke, The Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2017 The Pink Machine, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
2017 GOODGIRL, Commons Gallery, Honolulu, HI
Group Exhibitions
2024 Quintessence, Maia Contemporary, Mexico City, MX
2024 Sickeningly Sweet, Here To Sunday, Brooklyn, NY
2024 September Collection, Collect Bean
2024 Semi-Permeable, Living Skin Space, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Ritual / Reverence, Immaterial Projects, New York, NY
2023 “Best in Show” (Award) Saatchi Art
2022 Zoonotic Hex, Field Projects Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Together We Rise, Visionary Art Collective, New York, NY
2021 NOTACATBUTALLAMA, Ivy League Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Normal, Art in Odd Places, New York, NY
2019 Drawing, Kailua Gallery, Kailua, HI
2017 Not Much to See, GRRIC Contemporary Gallery, Honolulu, HI
2017 Vie Du Pacifique II, TAMA University of Art (Tokyo, JP), Whangarei Art Museum (Whangārei, NZ), Alliance Francais Gallery (Vanuatu), California State University (Long Beach, CA), Gladstone Regional Gallery (Gladstone, AU), Honolulu Museum of Art at Linekona (Honolulu, HI). Impress Printmakers Studio (Brisbane, AU) (Permanent Collection)
2017 An After School Special, Honolulu Museum of Art at Linekona, Honolulu, HI
2016 SGCI, Flight 64 (Portland, OR)
Full Exhibition List Available Upon Request