Material Matters and Relationships from the Side of the Road

Catherine Telford Keogh is an Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture whose work is concerned with the fantasies and promises embedded in objects that breakdown through an amalgam of material relations and biological processes. Drawing on fields such as biology, earth science, feminist theory and science fiction, she uses open-ended processes that involve decomposition, scent, chemicals, and metabolism, to transform commodity objects that circulate through deferred possibility.

Telford Keogh received an MFA in Sculpture from the Yale School of Art and an MAR in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University. Selected solo exhibitions include Shelf Life at Helena Anrather (New York) Circuit Trouble at Erin Stump Projects (Toronto); Nervous System at Helena Anrather (New York City); Dental Dam at University of Waterloo Art Gallery (Waterloo, ON); and FLAT FOOD, Roberta Pelan (Toronto). Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Galeria Fidelidade Arte, Lisbon; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris; Bronx Museum, New York; Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran, Montreal; Seattle Art Museum, Washington; Thkio Ppalies, Cyprus; and Interstate, New York, among others.