Jayson Keeling

Jayson Keeling (1966–2022) was an artist who worked in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. Keeling's work challenges conventional norms surrounding sex, gender, race, and religion.

Early life and education Jayson Keeling was born in 1966 in Brooklyn, New York to Jamaican parents. His bi-cultural upbringing would later influence his work.

Art Jayson Keeling mines popular culture, and mythology to create artworks that question and deconstruct accepted politics of sex, gender, race, and religion.

Selected exhibitions

2014

Aljira at 30: Dream and Reality, New Jersey State Museum The First Sweet Music at John and June Allcott Gallery TEN at Cindy Rucker Gallery

2013

Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Curated by Jayson Keeling at the Lower East Side Printshop. Another New York at Barclays Center Psychosexual at Andrew Rafacz Gallery Seoul Food: apexart Outbound Residents Talk Shop at Apexart "Red badge of courage revisited" at Newark Arts Council, Strangers at Privateer “Homecoming” at ABC NO RIO Summer Mixed Tape Volume 1: the Get Smart Edition at Exit Art Intransit at Moti Hasson DEADLIEST CATCH: Hamptons at CORE : Hamptons

2007

Sex in the City at The DUMBO Arts Center (DAC) The Wu-Tang / googolplex Show (Congress) at GBE@passerby Six Degrees of Separation at Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art AIM27 “Here and Elsewhere” at Bronx Museum of the Arts