Keisha Scarville (b. Brooklyn, NY; lives Brooklyn, NY) weaves together themes dealing with loss, latencies and the elusive body. Her work has been widely exhibited, including the Studio Museum of Harlem, Huxley-Parlour in London, ICA Philadelphia, Contact Gallery in Toronto, The Caribbean Cultural Center, Lightwork, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Higher Pictures. Recent group exhibitions include The Rose at the lumber room, Portland, Oregon (curated by Justine Kurland); If I Had a Hammer - Fotofest Biennial, Houston (2022); and All of Them Witches, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles (2020, curated by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons). Her work is held in the collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Yale University Art Gallery, the George Eastman House, Denver Museum of Art, and the Detroit Institute of Arts. She has participated in residencies at Lightwork, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, WOPHA, Baxter Street CCNY, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In addition, her work has appeared in publications including Vice, Small Axe, and The New York Times where her work has also received critical review. She is a recipient of the 2023 Creator Lab Photo Fund and awarded the inaugural Saltzman Prize in Photography earlier this year. She is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University and a faculty member at Parsons School of Design in New York. Her first book, lick of tongue rub of finger on soft wound, was published by MACK and shortlisted in the 2023 Aperture/Paris Photobook Awards.

To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography
International Center of Photography
January 23 – May 05, 2025
Co-curated by Elisabeth Sherman, Sara Ickow, Keisha Scarville

Recess
CPW
January 18 – May 4, 2025
Curated by Marina Chao

BOOK RELEASE WITH MACK BOOKS
lick of tongue rub of finger on soft wound
www.mackbooks.us/collections/coming-soo…

The Rose
lumber room
July 29th - October 28, 2023
Curated by Justine Kurland

If I Had a Hammer
Fotofest Biennial 2022, Houston
September 24 2022 - November 6 2022

Hot/Slow/Step
Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London
September 20 2022 - October 11 2022

Picture Gallery of the Soul
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
September 13 2022 - December 10 2022

Li/mb
Higher Pictures Generation
December 4 2021 - February 5 2022


SeenUNseen
LA Louver
November 11 2021 - January 8 2022
Curated by Alison Saar


Systems Entwined
Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space
Apr 2 - May 29 2021
Curated by Christie Neptune

We Wear the Mask
Higher Pictures Generation Gallery
December 2020 - February 2021
Curated by D'Angelo Lovell Williams

Body/Split Trick
Essex Flowers Gallery
October 2020
Curated by Melissa Brown

ALL THEM WITCHES
Jeffery Deitch, LA
February 8th - April 11th (reception Saturday, February 8th, 6pm-8pm)
Curated by Dan Nadel and Laurie Simmons

Art Summit Nigeria
October 30-31, 2019
Lagos, Nigeria

Bamako Encounters 2019: Streams of Consciousness
November 30–December 3, 2019
Bamako, Mali

Alma
November 1st - December 13th 2018 (artist talk November 1st 6pm)
Lightwork, Syracuse

Placelessness of Echoes (and kinship of shadows)
June 7 – July 7, 2018
Baxter Street CCNY

The Last Place They Thought Of
April 27th - August 12th, 2018 (reception April 27th 6pm-8pm)
Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia

Elegy: Selections from Mama's Clothes
April 20th - May 20th, 2018 (reception April 20th, 6pm-8pm)
Lesley Heller Gallery

Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration
April 4th - June 6th, 2018 (reception April 4, 6:30pm-9:30pm)
Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos

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Artist-led Talk & Tour
Longwood Art Gallery @Hostos
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 6:00 - 8:00pm

Artist Talk with curator, Daniella Rose King
Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia
Wednesday, May 9th 6pm