the Mona Lisa Project
Germaine Keller
Germaine Keller was born in Detroit and earned a BFA in painting and interior architecture at the University of Michigan and an MFA in sculpture at Wayne State University. In 1977 she moved to New York with her three children, where she completed a 75 foot mural in the World trade Center. After teaching at Parson's School of Design she became an art director at the Wall Street Journal.
Ms. Keller has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and abroad, including Gallery OneTwentyEight and P.S. 1 in New York City, the Kunstverein Firma Paradigma, in Linz, Austria, and the Natalie Knight Gallery in Johannesburg, S. Africa.
Upon moving to Austin in 2005, she created an outdoor installation for Women & Their Work at Barton Springs Pool. She has also exhibited at the Laguna Gloria Museum, Marfa and Austin’s People's Gallery, City Hall.
Ms. Keller is also the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships including the National Endowment of the Arts, the Athena Foundation and a residency from The MacDowell Colony. Recently, she participated in a group show, On Language–Text and Beyond, with On Kawara, Glen Ligon and others at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, Mich.
The Book of Scores, a collection of her drawings, was published in 2000 by St Marks Position Press, with an essay by Joseph Masheck.
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