Julia Keenan is a contemporary visual artist whose practice operates at the intersection of installation art, photo-conceptualism, and speculative fiction. Utilizing human-scale imagery and site-specific presentation methods, Keenan investigates the structural anxieties of the Anthropocene, bio-capitalism, and bodily agency. Their work frequently incorporates visceral, found, and archival imagery to dissect how systems of power intervene in evolutionary biology and organic nature. By subverting traditional gallery modes and presenting works as diagnostic archives, Keenan challenges the viewer’s physical and psychological relationship to contemporary cultural crises. Keenan holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. They have exhibited widely across prestigious cultural institutions, project spaces, and grassroots networks, notably at Tate Modern [Tate L, Cambridge University Museums, Jane Austen’s House, Shanghai Museum of Glass and various London art projects, alongside international artist-run spaces. They live and work in the UK. https://linktr.ee/juliakeenan
Biography
Julia Keenan is a UK-based artist whose multi-disciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, and film to explore the friction between physical materiality and post-digital infrastructure. Initially selected by Gustav Metzger to collaborate on his foundational Remember Nature environmental project, Keenan has since exhibited at institutions including Tate Modern, the Whipple Museum, and Ha.aH Barcelona. Utilizing processes ranging from lost-wax bronze casting to painting on loose canvas, she translates fleeting digital screenshots into tactile installations. Her work addresses how ecological narratives are consumed through modern media, confronting urgent themes of permanence, industrialisation, and systemic thermal change.