PHILIPP KEEL
Philipp Keel, artist and author, is also the publisher of Diogenes.
He studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston and at Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen in Munich, before moving to California and working in various artistic disciplines. Keel’s photographs, paintings, drawings, and prints have been exhibited worldwide.
He became internationally known for the bestseller series All About Me (Broadway Books, 1998), for Color (Steidl, 2003) and the book series Simple Diary (TASCHEN). In 2014 Keel published the catalogue State of Mind (Nieves) to accompany his exhibition at Villa Flor in S-chanf, featuring drawings, watercolors, and Silkscreen Editions. In 2017 Steidl published the monography Splash (Steidl, 2017), which presents a rigorous selection of Keel’s photographic work from the past years.
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Solo exhibitions (selection)
State of Mind, Villa Flor, S-chanf, 2014
Splash, Camera Work, Berlin, 2013
Tokyo Photo 5, Tokyo, 2013
AISA – Images of an Imaginary Continent, Galerie Judin, Zurich, 2005
Paintings, Sculptures & Photography, Charim Galerie, Vienna, 2003
Color, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, 2002
Imbue Prints, Art 32 Basel,
Galerie Zur Stockeregg, Zurich, 2001
Group exhibitions (selection)
Empire II, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2017
Photo Shanghai, Schanghai (Camera Work, Berlin), 2014
Paris Photo, Paris (Camera Work, Berlin), 2013
People and Places with No Name, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002
California Dream (group exhibition), Libera Accademia di Vekke Arti, Brescia, 2002
Details, Faces & Abstracts, DJR International Art, New York, 2001
L.A. Nude 5, Photo Impact, Los Angeles, 2000
Publications (selection)
Splash, Steidl, Goettingen, 2017
State of Mind, Nieves, Zurich, 2014
Keel’s Simple Diary – Volume Two, TASCHEN USA, 2011
Keel’s Simple Diary – Volume One, TASCHEN USA, 2009
AISA – Images of an Imaginary Continent, Edition Judin, Zurich/Berlin, 2005
Color, Steidl, Goettingen, 2004
All About Us, Broadway Books, New York, 2000
Look at Me, Edition Stemmle/Abbeville Press, Zurich/New York, 1999
All About Me, Broadway Books, New York, 1999
