Keith Johnson
Keith Johnson has been involved in photography since the early 70's. He graduated in 1975 form RISD with an MFA and studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind after spending a year at Visual Studies Workshop with Nathan Lyons. Ten years of teaching led to a move to the business side of photography achieving an MBA in 1987. He supports his fine art making as a Manufacturers' Representative in the northeast.
He has exhibited throughout the United States most recently in solo shows at George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI, the Art Institute of Boston, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, CEPA in Buffalo, NY. His work is included in collections at RISD, George Eastman House, and Visual Studies Workshop. He is a recipient of a Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowship grant for 2002 and Artist in Residence at Light Work in Syracuse, NY in 2005. He is on the summer faculty for Maine Photographic Workshops and Visual Studies Workshop, and Penland School of Crafts. He is currently at work on two book projects and a new body of work entitled Ground/Cover. He lives in Hamden, CT, home for the past 28 years with his wife Becky for the past 33 years. [website]
