Keris Salmon. Born, NYC, 1959
After a quarter century as an award-winning broadcast journalist at major networks including ABC, NBC, the National Geographic Channel and PBS, I have spent the past several years in a multi-media artistic practice focusing on family histories and their links to the present. We Have Made These Lands What They Are: The Architecture of Slavery was born out of a visit to a Tennessee tobacco plantation that until the late 20th century belonged to my husband’s ancestors and their descendants. That visit transformed my life.
Career Highlights
Member of Directors Advisory Council, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Former Trustee, MassMOCA, 2020–2023
Visiting Artist, Boston University, Fall 2020
Visiting Artist, MassART, Summer 2020
Juror for International Print Center’s New Prints Exhibit, Fall 2019
Columbia-DuPont Awards Review Committee Juror - 2014-2016
Solo Exhibitions
Mar 2024, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Nov 2019, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Jun 2018, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA
Feb 2018, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA
Feb 2018, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Altanta
Oct 2017, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, FR
Dec 2014, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC
Artist’s Talks
Feb 2020, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Nov 2019, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
May 2018, Lehman College, NY
May 2018, UC Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 2018, Original Thinkers Festival, Telluride, CO
Oct 2016, UC Berkeley Narrative Journalism Conference panelist and presenter
Selected Group Exhibitions
April 2024, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
May 2022, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
April 2022, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
February 2022, Arnika Dawkins Gallery, Atlanta, GA
September 2021 Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NYC
April 2021, Arnika Dawkins Gallery at AIPAD NYC
November 2020, The Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer 2019, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
April 2019 Pulled in Brooklyn, International Print Center, NYC
Dec 2018, A Concentration of Power, Joost Van Den Bergh Gallery, London, UK
Oct 2018, Original Thinkers Festival, Telluride, CO
Jun 2018, Emerging Visions: Creative Practice at the Nexus of Freedom and Justice, Smith Gallery , Santa Cruz, CA
Oct 2017, What the World Needs Now, B-Complex Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Jun 2017, Black and Brown People/White Problems SAMSON Projects, Boston, MA
Oct 2016, Tell Me a Story, B-Complex Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Private collections: New York, Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco
Smith College Museum of Art
Tennessee State Museum
Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Education
Stanford University (BS ’81)
UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (exMJ-85)