About
Keli Anaya is a multimedia artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He explores his intersectional Queer and Mexican American identity through a variety of materials. His work centers around LGBTQIA+ culture, Mexican American heritage, waste and consumerism, and technological identity.
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Solo Exhibitions
2014 Bushwick Open Studios, New York, NY
2007 Smith Gallery, The George Washington University, Washington DC
Group Exhibitions
2021 The Unknowable Present, Online
2017 Potters in Protest Fundraiser, New York, NY | Curated by Helen Levi and Erin Clancy
2017 Fundraiser for the Victims of the Mexico City Earthquake, New York, NY | Curated by Keli Anaya
2016 Cup a Day Fundraiser, New York, NY | Contributing Curator
2013 Choplet Ceramic Studio Holiday Show, Choplet Gallery, Brooklyn NY
ArtsBrookField25, Online Gallery
2011 But Is It Art Fair, Wonderbox Studio and Gallery, Washington DC
Power Shift Art Fair, Washington Convention Center,Washington DC
Contributing artist to Project Dispatch, Washington DC
“SOLIPSISSY”, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC
2010 Wish Come Happen’s Piggy Bank Oinktion to benefit the DCAC, Washington DC
2007 Student Awards Show, Luther W. Brady Gallery, Washington DC | Juried by Renee Stout
The Faun, the Chick, and the Kegstand, Dimmock Gallery, Washington
2006 The B-Sides, Dimmock Gallery, Washington DC | Juried by Alexander Dumbadze and Lisa Blas
2005 Fear, Dimmock Gallery, Washington DC
2004 Printmaking Exhibit, Smith Gallery, Washington DC
Awards
2007 Fine Arts and Art History Prize in Painting/Drawing, Annual Student’s Awards Show, Washington DC
2006 Third Place, The B-Sides, Washington DC
2004 Juror’s award, Texas Visual Arts Association Student Awards Show, Arlington Texas
Activities
2021 Contributing Artist to The Unknowable Present, Online
2013 Studio Tech, Choplet Ceramics, New York, NY
Menurkey Production Ceramicist, New York, NY
Member of Con Artist Art Collective
2011 Contributing Artist for Project Dispatch
Creative Director for Wildlife, the official closing Capitol Pride Party
2010 Creative Director for Homo Erectus, the official closing Capitol Pride
Contributing Arts writer for the Washington City Paper
2009 Contributor to The Microwave Project
Interviewer for We Make It Art
Grants
2006 Lewis Cotlow Grant for Ethnographic Study, George Washington
Education
2015 Social Media for Creatives, General Assembly, New York NY
2007 BA in Anthropology/Fine Arts, The George Washington University, Washington DC
2006 Study Abroad Program, Center for International Educational Exchange, Sevilla, Spain
2005 Meso American Archaeological Dig, University of Texas, Austin TX