EDUCATION:
2018 MA, Brooklyn College, Art History
2005 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Drawing
2003 BFA, State University of New York at Purchase, Painting
EXHIBITIONS:
2025:
“A Mysterious Vision” (part 2), Robilant & Voena, Milan, Italy
“West Village Salon”, Visionary Projects, New York, NY.
“A Mysterious Vision”, Robilant & Voena, New York, NY
“Ethereal”, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2024:
“Holiday”, Harper’s Chelsea 512, New York, NY.
“Group Show Part 01”, Untitled Void Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
“Fruit and Fruition” (Curated by Angela Heisch), Grimm Gallery, New York, NY
2023:
“Art Macao: Macao International Art Biennale 2023”, Macao Museum of Art, Macau, China.
“After the Rain”, Modern Fine Art formerly Waterhouse and Dodd, New York, NY. (Solo show)
Art Palm Beach, Modern Fine Art formerly Waterhouse and Dodd, West Palm Beach, FL
Splendor of the Sun, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2022:
Art Miami, Modern Fine Art formerly Waterhouse and Dodd, Miami, FL
Creative Spirits, The College of Psychic Studies, London, UK
Beam Me Up, 5-50 Gallery, Queens, NY
A Window Scrubbed for the Moon, Asya Geisberg Gallery, New York, NY
Alpha 60, Cyberarts Gallery, Boston, MA
Vanguards, Unit London, London, UK
Cabinet of the Solar Plexus: The Liminal and the Marvelous, Gallery X, Dublin, Ireland
That Wilderness Inside, Prior Art Space, Barcelona, Spain
Matches Struck Unexpectedly in the Dark, Oneroom Gallery, London, UK
2021:
Vigils/ Low Tides, Historic Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY
2020:
Equilibrium of Energies, Mother Gallery (online exhibit), New York, NY
Solitaire, PROTO Gallery (online exhibit), Hoboken, NY
2019:
Heed, (two person show with Angela Heisch), Transmitter, Brooklyn, NY
Fractal Labyrinth, Rosenberg Gallery of New York University, New York, NY
Tools, Totems and Traps, Mother Gallery, Beacon, NY
2018:
In Form, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
Gungywamp, 42 Social Club, Lyme, CT
Mist Wreathed, Spring/ Break Art Show 2018, New York, NY
In The Studio, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York NY
2017:
Bleeding Black Noise (Part 2), Locatie Z, The Hague,Netherlands
2016:
Geo Necro, ADA Gallery, Richmond VA
Bleeding Black Noise (Part 1), Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2015:
On the Inner and Outer Self, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York NY
Lesser Deities of Summer, Underdonk, Brooklyn NY
Ray-Jewel, Pioneers of Inspiration, Brooklyn NY
The Palace, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia PA
CURATED EXHIBITS:
2014 Poems in a Room, Magic Pictures, Philadelphia PA
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2025: New American Paintings, Issue 176; cover and pages 191-194.
Kuspit, Donald. “Donald Kuspit on the New Surrealism.” Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, whitehotmagazine.com/articles/donald-kuspit-on-new-surrealism/7060. Accessed 26 July 2025.
Zeller, Robert. A Mysterious Vision: The Uncanny and Lingering Influences of Surrealism in Contemporary Art. Robilant+Voena, 2025.
2023: Ebert, Grace. “A Trippy New Book Surveys 100 Years of Art since the Birth of the Surrealist Movement.” Colossal, 7 Dec. 2023, www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/12/new-surrealism-robert-zeller/
Zeller, Robert, “New Surrealism: The Uncanny in Contemporary Painting”, Monacelli Press/Phaidon International. December 2023.
Stone, Amelia. “Want a Solo Gallery Show? These Artists Will Tell You How.” Cutlured Mag, www.culturedmag.com/article/2023/06/22/almendra-bertoni-tiffany-wellington-yo-chow-alessandro-keegan. Accessed 24 Dec. 2023.
Rhodes, Colin. “Creative Spirits”, Raw Vision, Winter 2022/2023, p.113. South Hackensack, NJ, USA, print.
2022: ArtMaze Magazine, Editorial Selection, Issue 27, 2022. Print.
2020: Fulleylove, Rebecca. "These Jewel-Like Compositions Celebrate the Organic 'Aliveness' of Oil Paint." Elephant Magazine, June 2020. https://elephant.art/alessandro-keegan-oil-paint-geometric-interview-10062020/
2019 Masthead Op-Ed, "Alessandro Keegan." Masthead Magazine, 2019. https://www.mastheadmagazine.com/op-ed/alessandro-keegan
Shoenberger, Elisa. "Conjuring up Spirit Photography: Magic in Photography." Books and Paper Fairs, October 2019. https://www.bookandpaperfairs.com/blog/2019/10/3/conjuring-up-spirit-photography-magic-in-photography
Chidester, Brian. "Alessandro Keegan." Ephemera NYC, February 2019. http://nyc.ephemera-art.com/alessandro-keegan-2/
Sasha Frere-Jones, "Angela Heisch and Alessandro Keegan At Transmitter" Artforum, January 2019. https://www.artforum.com/picks/angela-heisch-and-alessandro-keegan-78438
2017 Lange, Ugo. "Alessandro Keegan: Peinture, Magie et Potential," Master's Thesis/ Monograph, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art de Bourges, France, January 2017.
2016 Ishmael, Amelia. "Bleeding Black Noise" Helvete: Issue 3 (Punctum Books, Brooklyn)
2015 Chidester, Brian. "Alessandro Keegan" (blog post). Ephemera NYC, October 2015.
2014 Boije af Gennas, Staffan and Amelia Ishmael "Mediating Darkness" J'ai Froid May/August, no.4: 16-17. (Castillo/ Corrales, Paris)
2013 Ishmael, Amelia "The night is no longer dead; it has a life of its own" Helvete: Issue 1 (Punctum Books, Brooklyn)
2005 Faumberg, Jason The Contemporary Baroque, Exhibition Catalog, Gallery X, Chicago IL
RELATED WORK:
2020: Guest Lecturer at the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, presenting "Messages from the Outside: An Introduction to Mediumistic Art" (available on YouTube, see News section of this website).
2019: Guest Lecturer at the Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, presenting "William Mumler: Between Art and Humbug"
Fall 2018-2021: Adjunct Professor of Art History, Brooklyn College
Spring 2015-Present: Adjunct Professor of Art History, Borough of Manhattan Community College
2016-Present: Art Writer and Editor for Ephemera NYC (http://nyc.ephemera-art.com)
Spring 2014-Fall 2015: Teaching Assistant at Brooklyn College, Art History
2011-2013: Diamond Grader at the Gemological Institute of America
2004-2005: Teaching Assistant and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago