Vinhay Keo

b. Battambang, Cambodia

Lives & Works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

EDUCATION

2020 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2016 BFA Kentucky College of Art + Design at Spalding University, Louisville, KY

2015 Yale University at Norfolk Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 to carve a constellation, Moremen Gallery, Louisville, KY

2020 OH! i WILL ALWAYS feel love, (virtual) California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2019 Dancing in Darkness, Louisville Photo Biennial, Moremen Gallery, Louisville, KY

American Appetite, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

2017 Confront, Moremen Gallery, Louisville, KY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Joshua Treenial, Joshua Tree, CA (forthcoming)

The Reef Residency, Fall Exhibition 2023, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

2022 Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas, ONE Archives at USC Libraries, 

Los Angeles, CA

2021 How to Gently Unpack an Empire, Contemporary Arts Center Gallery at UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

同乡会/同鄉會/ Tong Xiang Hui / 동창회/ Reunion, Los Angeles, CA

2020 Time is Out of Joint, MAK Center at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles, CA

2019 Nomad Pavilion, Nomad Pavilion, Venice, Los Angeles, CA

Crown of Rays, KMAC Museum Triennial, Louisville, KY

Well Born, Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA

Tropical Lab 13: Erase, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore

The Lands Of, The Reef, Los Angeles, CA

2018 Dress Up, Speak Up: Costume and Confrontation, 21c Museum Hotel, Louisville, KY

Nude: Brutal Beauty, The Loudoun House, Lexington, KY

2016 Thesis Exhibition, Huff Gallery, Louisville, KY

2015 Yale Norfolk Summer Show, Yale University School of Art, Norfolk, CT

Convergent Boundaries, Huff Gallery, Louisville, KY

KyCAD's Gala Show, 849 Gallery, KyCAD, Louisville, KY

AWARDS & HONORS

2023 The Reef, Residency Program

2021 Fellows of Contemporary Art Curators LAB

2020 Emergency Response Program Award, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

2019 California Institute of the Arts Diversity Grant

California Institute of the Arts Dean’s Grant

2018 - 2020 Lillian Disney Scholarship, California Institute of the Arts

2018 Rising Star Award, Louisville Visual Art

Robert Giard Fellowship Finalist

2017 Great Meadows Foundation Grant

2015 Yale at Norfolk, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship

Anderson Ranch Art Center, Workshop Grant

Silver ADDY Award for Design

2012 - 2016 Jean McCauley Brown Scholarship

2012 - 2016 Presidential Scholarship, Spalding University 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 

2022 Existing is Resisting: AAPI Artists at Work, https://contemporaryartreview.la/existing-is-resisting/

2019 Crown of Rays, https://ruckuslouisville.com/Crown-of-Rays

2019 Dancing In Darkness,  https://ruckuslouisville.com/Dancing-in-Darkness

2017 5 Must-See Shows, Louisville Photo Biennial, Courier-Journal