PAST EXHIBITIONS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
PAST EXHIBITIONS
About
My name is Hannah Keats
I am a painter, new media, and installation artist, based in Tallahasse, Florida.
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Through my practice I explore Florida ecosystems and highlight ecological problems through abstract painting and pattern making.
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Besides creating art, I am an art educator and have been teaching art since 2019.
Education
2025 MFA (candidate) in Studio Art, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
(expected graduation: May 2025)
2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Art, Concentration: Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
Awards/Residencies/Grants
2024 Institut für Alles Mögliche, June 2024, Berlin, Germany
SECAC Gulnar Bosch Travel Award, SECAC 2024, Atlanta Georgia
Congress of Graduate Students Presentation Grant, Congress of Graduate Students,
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Third Place, Thom Collective Exhibition, Thomasville Art Center, Thomasville, Georgia
UROP Mentor Research Grant, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
College of Fine Arts Student Research and Career Preparation Awards Grant, Spring
2024, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2023 Mary Ola Miller Reynolds Award, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
College of Fine Arts Student Research and Career Preparation Awards Grant Fall 2023, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
First Place, Nature Inspires Art Contest, The Nature Conservancy, Blowing Rocks
Preserve, Hobe Sound, Florida
College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance General Development Scholarship, Florida
State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Excellence in the Visual Arts Award, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2022 Best of Show in the Emerging Artist Category, Ocala Arts Festival, Ocala, Florida
2020 Outstanding Graduate in Fine Art Award, Class of 2020, University of North
Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
Artist in Residence at Emma Love Elementary, Fernandina Beach, Florida
Artist in Residence at Elephant Butte Reserve, Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Honorable Mention at Abstraction and the Surreal, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Honorable Mention at Pre[serve] 2020, Lufrano Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
2019 Radius Workshops Study Abroad Scholarship ($4,000), Jacksonville, Florida
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Membranes/Membranen, Das Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, Germany
2023 Open, Wallspace at Grassroots Coffee, Thomasville, Georgia
Group Exhibitions
2024 Little Things 2024, Swan Couch House, Atlanta, Georgia
Stay Curious, Omi Gallery, London, England
Pattern Recognition, Share Art Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
Her Temple, LeMoyne Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
Nature Inspires, Lighthouse Art Center, The Nature Conservancy, Hope Sound, Florida
Good Vibrations, ARTS Southeast+ Sulfur Studios, Savannah, Georgia
Thom Collective Exhibition, Thomasville Art Center, Thomasville, Georgia
Pensecola Museum of Art Members Show, Pensecola Museum of Art, Pensecola,
Florida
And Justice for All, Women Writing for (a) Change, Florida State College, Jacksonville,
Florida
Flora and Fauna, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida
Escapism, Florida Emerging Art, Online Exhibition, Florida
My Job is Art, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
Continuous Cycles, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
2023 Excellence in the Visual Arts Exhibition, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Haunted, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
Level 2, Working Method Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
Abstracto: Land of Dreams, featuring: Leslie Anderson, Lemoyne Arts, Tallahassee,
Florida
Thom Collective Exhibition, Thomasville Center for the Arts, Thomasville, Georgia
Eden Altered, featuring: Linda Hall & Dimelza Broche, Lemoyne Arts, Tallahassee,
Florida
Rivers and Oceans, Florida State College, Jacksonville, Florida
Rites & Passages, Working Methods Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
2022 Between the Lines, William Johnston Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee,
Florida
Fifty: An Alumni Exhibition, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
Aqua Art Miami, Miami Beach, Florida
Some Things I’ll Never Forget, Working Methods Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee,
Florida
Size Matters, Working Methods Contemporary Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida
55th Annual Ocala Arts Festival, Emerging Artists Program, Ocala, Florida
Gallery 621 Member Showcase, Tallahassee, Florida
A New Renaissance: Featuring Jason John & Amy Bennion, Lemoyne Arts,
Tallahassee, Florida
OPA Online Showcase Spring 2022, Oil Painters of America, Crystal Lake, Illinois
Stories I Tell Myself, Visionary Art Collective, Brooklyn, New York
Gasparilla Festival of the Arts, Emerging Artists Program, Julian B. Lane Riverfront
Park, Tampa, Florida
Pre[serve] 2022, Lufrano Gallery, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
2021
Art on BRiC Walls: A Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca
Raton, Florida
Rivers, Women Writing for (a) Change, Jacksonville, Florida
Escalante Canyon Art Festival, Escalante, Utah
Oil Painters of America Convention 2021, Hilton Sante Fe Historic Plaza Hotel, Santa
Fe, New Mexico
Empowered, Rivre Gallerie, St. Petersburg, Florida
Inside Out City, A Public Art Project, Jacksonville, Florida
Untethered Thoughts, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Imagination Squared10, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
Branches, Women Writing for (a) Change, Jacksonville, Florida
Genesis 2021, CoCurate 244, Leepa-Ratnew Museum of Art, St. Petersburg College, St.
Petersburg, Florida
Techno Gala: Art & Technology, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Stand, Art Fluent, Online Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
2020 Every Color Has a Story, Flagler County Art League, Palm Coast, Florida
University of North Florida Senior Exhibition, University of North Florida Gallery,
Jacksonville, Florida (Lead the installation and curated the exhibition)
Onward and Upward, Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida
Abstraction and the Surreal, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Pre[serve] 2020, The Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, University of NorthFlorida,
Jacksonville, Florida
Fabulous Fauna, Word Revolt Gallery, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach,
Florida
Humanly Possible: Figures & Portraits, St. Augustine Art Association Gallery, St.
Augustine, Florida
2020 Art and Design Juried Student Annual Exhibition, UNF Gallery of Art,
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
“W.A.V.E.”- Women Artists, Haskell Art Gallery, Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville, Florida
2019 Clay & Ink, Figure 8 Studio, Jacksonville, Florida
FemArts: Women in Abstract Art, Fem Arts Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
Italy as a Studio Sketchbook Exhibition, University of North Florida, Thomas G.
Carpenter Library, Jacksonville, Florida
2019 Florida Wild, St. Augustine Art Association Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida
CO2, Word Revolt Gallery, Atlantic Beach, Florida
Radius Workshop’s Croatia Pop-up Exhibition, Istria, Croatia
Printed Collaborators, Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida,
Jacksonville, Florida
Miniature Marvels, St. Augustine Art Association Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida
UNF Painting and Drawing Guild Juried Exhibition 2019, Word Revolt Gallery,
Atlantic Beach, Florida
Pre[serve] 2019, The Lufrano Intercultural Gallery, University of North Florida,
Jacksonville, Florida
2019 Art and Design Juried Student Annual Exhibition, UNF Gallery of Art,
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida
Print Media
2023 Keats' artwork to be displayed in Grassroots, The Thomasville Times- Enterprise,
Thomasville, Georgia, November 6, 2023
(A) River Rising: And Justice For All Anthology, Women Writing for (a) Change,
Oceans and Rivers Anthology, December 2023, Jacksonville, Florida
Six Magazine, June 2023, Florida State University College of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, Florida
Talon Review, Spring 2023, March 2023, Jacksonville, Florida
2022 St. Augustine Entertainer, December Issue, December 2022
Rivers Rising: Oceans and Rivers Anthology, Women Writing for (a) Change, Oceans and Rivers Anthology, December 2022, Jacksonville, Florida
Ocala Gazette, A fine day for the arts, 55th annual Ocala Arts Festival draws thousands to the downtown area., October 26, 2022,
https://www.ocalagazette.com/a-fine-day-for-the-arts/
The Talon Review, Spring 2022, February 2022, Jacksonville, Florida
2021 RadX Magazine, Issue No. 5, Focus, March 2021, Jacksonville, Florida
2020 RadX Magazine, Issue No.2, Inspire, April 2020, Jacksonville, Florida
University of North Florida Digital Commons, Pre[serve] Art, Exhibition 2020, September
2020, Jacksonville, Florida
“First Friday Art Walk begins at 5 p.m,” The St. Augustine Record, October 2020, St. Augustine, Florida
The Talon Review, Fall 2020, December 2020, Jacksonville, Florida
2019 University of North Florida Digital Commons, Pre[serve] Art Exhibition 2019, March 2019, Jacksonville, Florida
Teaching Experience
2024 Instructor of Beginning Painting at Florida State University, Fall 2024, Tallahassee, Florida
2023 Instructor of 2D Design at Florida State University, Fall 2023-Spring 2024, Tallahassee,
-2024 Florida
Related Experience
2024 Studio/Mural Assistant for Jiha Moon at the University of Iowa, Stanley Museum,
Summer 2024, Iowa City, Iowa
2023 Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Mentor, Fall 2023-Spring 2024, Florida
-2024 State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2023- Volunteer at the Thomasville Center for the Arts, November 2023-Present
present
2022- Graduate Assistant at Florida State University, Assistant to Anne Stagg and Liz DiDonna
2024 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
2023 Communications Officer, Fall 2023, Graduate Assistants United/United Faculty of Florida,
Florida State, University, Tallahassee, Florida
Summer Camp Art Instructor, Lemoyne Art Center, Tallahassee, Florida
2020- Gallery Director/Manager at Sweetwater Gallery, St. Augustine, Florida
2022
2019- Elementary School Art Teacher at Emma Love Hardee Elementary School, Fernandina
2020 Beach, Florida
2019 Intern at Art with a Heart, Wolfson’s Childrens Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida
Lectures/Artist Talks
2024 2024 SECAC Conference, Studio Art, MFA Candidates: Surveying the Variety Among
Emerging Artists, Painting in the Expanded Field: A Cyborg Approach to Painting
and Installation
Art and Environmental Activism, Environmental Service Program, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Open, December 1, 2023, Thomasville Center for the Arts, Thomasville, Georgia
2023 Rivers & Oceans Anthology Discussion/Art Talk, March 23, 2023, Florida State College, Jacksonville, Florida
Gallery Affiliation
2024 Florida Mining Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida