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Keith Carter is an internationally recognized photographer and educator. Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1948, he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas. He is the recipient of two National Endowments for the Arts Regional Survey Grants and the Lange-Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In addition, Mr. Carter was the subject of an arts profile on the national television program, CBS Sunday Morning. In 1998, he received his University’s highest teaching honors, the University Professor Award and was named University Distinguished Lecturer.
Eight monographs of his black and white photographs have been published: From Uncertain To Blue, 1988; The Blue Man, 1990; Mojo, 1992; Heaven of Animals, 1995; Bones, 1996; a mid-career survey, Keith Carter Photographs-Twenty Five Years, 1997; Holding Venus and Ezekiel’s Horse were both published in 2000.
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Called "a poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, Mr. Carter’s haunting, enigmatic photographs have been shown in over seventy solo exhibitions in nine countries. They are included in numerous permanent collection, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the George Eastman House; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography at Southwest Texas State University.
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