KEITH CARTER

Keith Carter was born in 1948, in Madison, Wisconsin and holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Performing and Visual Arts at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of the Texas Medal of Arts, Artist of the Year, Art League Houston, and the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Carter’s work has been exhibited widely in over 100 solo exhibitions in 13 countries. Keith Carter's work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.