Jonathon Keats

About Jonathon

Jonathon Keats is an experimental philosopher, artist and writer based in San Francisco. Over the past two decades, his conceptually-driven interdisciplinary art-and-technology projects have been hosted by institutions ranging from Arizona State University and Bucknell University to the Crocker Art Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which awarded him a 2015-16 Art + Technology Lab Grant. Keats's projects have been documented by PBS, Reuters, and the BBC World Service, garnering favorable attention in periodicals ranging from Science to Flash Art to The Economist. He has lectured at dozens of institutions worldwide including Stanford University, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the Bosphorus Summit, and SXSW. He is the author of six books, most recently You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future, published by Oxford University Press, and was awarded the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for his fiction. The recipient of numerous Yaddo, MacDowell, Ucross, MacNamara, and Djerassi Fellowships, he was recently the Black Mountain College Legacy Fellow at the University of North Carolina - Asheville, and is currently a research fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art's Center for Art + Environment, a Polar Lab artist at the Anchorage Museum, and an artist-in-residence at both the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany and UC Berkeley's Sagehen Creek Field Station in California. Keats is represented by Modernism Gallery, San Francisco. A monograph about his art is forthcoming from the Anchorage Museum and Hirmer Verlag. He graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College with a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and interdisciplinary studies.

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