Ash Keating
Ash Keating (born 1980) is an Australian contemporary visual artist.

Keating works within an expanded contemporary field, through painting, performance, sculpture, video and intervention. His large outdoor murals, created with paint-filled fire extinguishers, can be found across Melbourne.

His practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from site-specific installations, outdoor murals and performances, to large-scale and domestic-scale canvases.

Since 2004, he has exhibited extensively in galleries and undertaken large scale, site-responsive public art projects across Australia and internationally.

Biography
Ash Keating was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1980. He studied Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Monash University in 2004 , followed by a Bachelors of Fine Arts, First Class Honours (Painting) at Victorian College of the Arts in 2006.

Collections
Keating's works are held in numerous public and private collections including:
 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
 Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney
 Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
 Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
 Artbank, Melbourne

Selected exhibitions and projects

Selected solo exhibitions and projects
 2023 Pressure, Bunjil Place Gallery, Narre Warren VIC (forthcoming)
 2023 Ice Floes Response, At The Above, Fitzroy, VIC (forthcoming)
 2023 Gravity System Response, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland 
 2023 Perceptual Fields, Colector Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
 2023 ELEVATION, Shepparton Art Museum, Shepparton, VIC
 2022 Gravity System Response, A.M. BJIERE, New York, New York, USA
 2021 Duality, Linden New Art, St Kilda, VIC
 2021 Gravity System Response, TW Fine Art, Brisbane QLD
 2019 Hume Response Paintings, Ash Keating Studio, Coburg North, VIC
 2018 Gravity System Response #81, commission for 2 Southbank Boulevard, Melbourne, VIC 
 2018 Gravity System Response, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand
 2017 Gravity System Response, Blackartprojects, Melbourne, VIC
 2016 Response Paintings, Latrobe VAC, Bendigo, VIC

Selected group exhibitions and projects
 2021 Floating Land Biennale, Noosa National Park for Noosa Regional Gallery, Noosa, QLD 
 2018 ART21 and VOLTA Art Fairs with Yavuz Gallery, Basel, Switzerland and Shanghai, China 
 2018 Sydney Contemporary (2018 and 2017) with Blackartprojects, Sydney, NSW 
 2017 Ramsay Art Prize 2017, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA  
 2016 Occupied, RMIT Design Hub, Melbourne, VIC  
 2013 Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC  
 2012 Artist’s Proof #1, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield, VIC

Selected site specific solo art projects
 2023 Painting of Haus Germann, Museum Langmatt, Baden, Switzerland
 2022 Gravity System Response Wall Painting for NAP Contemporary Mildura, VIC 
 2022 Gravity System Response, (for Kaleidoscope) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC
 2021 Sunset Response, wall painting on the facade of Warrnambool Art Gallery, VIC 
 2019 TarraWarra Response Painting, TarraWarra Museum of Art, Healesville, VIC 
 2018 Gravity System Response, City of Sydney’s Domain, Sydney, NSW 
 2016 Coastal Horizon Response, Lorne Sculpture Biennale, VIC
 2016 Arch Tunnel Response, North Byron Parklands, Splendour Arts, NSW 
 2015 The Facade Project, Latrobe Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo, VIC 
 2015 Adelaide Festival Centre, presented by CACSA, Adelaide, SA  
 2014 RMIT A’Beckett Urban Square, Melbourne, VIC
 2013 National Gallery of Victoria International Billboard for Melbourne Now, Melbourne, VIC

Awards

Winner
 2015 Incinerator Art Prize
 2013 Guirguis New Art Prize
 2012 Substation Contemporary Art Prize
 2011 Qantas Visual Arts Award
 2008 ANZ Art and Australia RIPE award .

Finalist
 2017 Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia
 2011 Blake Prize 
 2011 Substation Contemporary Art Award 
 2009 Qantas SOYA awards 
 2009 RBS Australian emerging artist awards

Publications

 Spirits in the Bush – The Art of Gippsland. Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2019. By Simon Gregg. ISBN 9781925801699.

 Art + Climate = Change. Melbourne University Publishing, 2016. By Guy Abrahams, Kelly Gellatly, and Bronwyn Johnson. ISBN 9780522869576.

 Performance Ritual Document. Macmillan Art Publishing, 2014. By Anne Marsh. ISBN 9781921394973.

 Curating Sydney: Imagining the City's Future. NewSouth Publishing, 2014. By Jill Bennett and Saskia Beudel. ISBN 9781742247106.

 Video Void – Australian Video Art. Australian Scholarly Pub, 2014. Edited by Matthew Perkins. ISBN 9781925003796.

 Artists' Proof #1. Monash University Museum of Art I MUMA, 2012. By Geraldine Barlow, Max Delany, Shelley McSpedden, Francis Parker, Patrice Sharkey. ISBN 9780987295231.

 Making the University Matter. Taylor & Francis, 2012. Edited by Barbie Zelizer. ISBN 9781136696930.

 Time shrines: mourning and melancholia in the work of Ash Keating. Discipline Journal, 2012. By Amelia Barikin. ISSN 1839082X.

 The Art of Engagement: Culture, collaboration, innovation. University of Western Australia, 2011. By Elaine Lally, Ien Ang, and Kay Anderson. ISBN 9781742582870.

 Junk - Art and the Politics of Trash. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. BY Gillian Whiteley. ISBN 9780857720214.

 Space Invaders - Australian Street Stencils, Posters, Paste-ups, Zines, Stickers. National Gallery of Australia, 2010. By Jaklyn Babington and Roger Butler. ISBN 9780642334114.

 Harmonic Tremors - Aesthetic Interventions in the Public Sphere. Gasworks Arts Park, 2009. Edited by Sarah Rainbird. ISBN 9780646503356.

Further reading

 Shepparton News, A window into the mind of an artist: Ash Keating’s Elevation by Jay Brice, 2023
 In Design Live, Sky’s the limit: Ash Keating turns future gallery site into an artwork by Jan Henderson, 2022
 The Local Project Issue 6, The Science of Art – Ash Keating by James Lyall Smith, 2021 
 Observer, Ash Keating’s ‘Duality’ Evokes the Passage of Time by Cat Woods, 2021
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Art Created by a Lawn Spreader and Fire Hydrant Aims to Evoke Nature by Cat Woods, 2021
 Where they Create, Ash Keating by Ray Barbara, 2020
 The Design Files,  by Sally Tabart, 2019
 The Design Files, Studio Visit Ash Keating, by Lucy Feagins, 2017
 Broadsheet, In the Artist’s Studio: Ash Keating, by Will Cox, 2017
 Catalogue essay for Ash Keating Selected Video Works 2006—2014, Ash Keating — Selected Video Works 2006–2014 by Din Heagney, 2015
 The Conversation, Nature makes abstract visual art more captivating by Misha Ketchell, 2014
 un Magazine, 7.1, No creation but through submission by Justin Clemens, 2013
 Discipline Contemporary Art Journal, Issue 2, Time Shrines: Mourning and Melancholia in the Work of Ash Keating by Amelia Barikin, 2013
 Monash University Museum of Art, Artists Proof #1, by Max Delany, 2012
 Artlink, Taking Care of Business: Ash Keating, by Anthony Gardner, 2007

References 

Living people
1980 births
Artists from Melbourne
21st-century Australian artists
Australian contemporary artists
Australian muralists
Abstract painters