Kathryn Keller is an American visual artist who is best known for her oil paintings of landscapes and watercolors of interiors and paintings from life. Keller was born in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1952. She received her BA in 1974 from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where she majored in Fine Art and English. She has had subsequent studies at The Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, The Arts Student League of New York in New York, NY, and The New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Kathryn Keller's early work could be classified as narrative in nature, focusing on myth, family life, birth, and death. In her late forties, she began working almost exclusively from life, drawing inspiration from her surroundings, family, and location. Over the past thirty years, she has focused almost exclusively on landscapes, cityscapes, and interiors painting from life, working solely in Oil and Watercolors.
She has become well known in the south and widely collected for her beautiful landscapes of rural Louisiana and vibrant and colorful watercolors that depict the magical interior of various southern homes. Her work is currently represented by LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. Kathryn's work is also represented by Spalding Nix Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta and the state of Georgia AND GALLERY 71 IN NEW YORK CITY AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
In addition to representation, she has shown throughout the south in Dallas, Texas, Charlotte, North Carolina, Louisville, Kentucky, Lafayette, Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, Alexandria, Louisiana, El Dorado, Arkansas, Savannah, Georgia, and Bay St Louis, Mississippi. Kathryn's work has also been included in shows out west in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in the northeast in New York City.
Over the past five years, Kathryn's work has also become highly sought after by Museums. As of early 2025 her work has been added to 12 different museums permanent collections. The Morris Museum of Southern Art and The LSU Museum of Art were two of the most recent museums to acquire her work.
Kathryn was recently in a two person show at The LSU Museum of Art that from September 12th 2024 to March 23rd 2025 with recently the recently deceased legendary Louisiana Artist, Shirley Rabe Masinter. Her work was also in a solo Show at the The Morris Museum of Southern Art in Augusta, Georgia that ran From October 5th 2024 until February 16th 2025. This show is slated to travel to different museums throughout the south from 2025 to 2028.
Kathryn presently resides in Alexandria, Louisiana, and New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband, Scott Anderson. She has three children, Rachel, Jesse, and Hannah. Kathryn continues to paint every day from wherever she is in the world.
