bio

Marilee Keys has created a body of work that includes site-specific installations and intimate studio works. Her art evolves from her immediate environment – recycling common materials. Marilee grew up in Idaho and has lived in LA, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Auburn, AL and St. Louis MO.

Recent exhibitions include 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA; Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, Auburn, AL; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; The Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, FL; Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL; and Space 301 / centre for the living arts, Mobile, AL.

Her work has been featured in many publications including New Art Examiner, Art Papers, Architectural Record, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In 2004 she received an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

Keys lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.