1965 Born in Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in San Francisco, California

Education

1989
Computer Arts Institute, San Francisco, California
1988
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts - Center for Interdisciplinary Arts
1987-88
Suite 3D - Center for Computer Art, San Francisco, California
(concentration: digital photographic painting/montage)
1983-85
San Luis Obispo Polytechnic, San Luis Obispo, California
(concentration: drawing and photography)

Solo Exhibitions

2004
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Constructed Photographs,
March 20 - April 17.

2000
Espace d' Art- Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France, Keith Cottingham.

Rudolf Mangisch Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, Keith Cottingham,
April 28-May 28.

1999
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Keith Cottingham,
February 27-April 3.

Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria, Tomorrow Forever, Photography as Ruin,
March 14 - May 16. (catalogue)

1998
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Keith Cottingham,
March 14 - April 11.

1994
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Keith Cottingham,
March 25 - April 23.

1992
Gallery LaGreca, San Francisco, CA, Fictitious Self-Portraits,
August 6 - September 13.

1988
Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA,
The Self and its Other; the Beautiful; the Erotic; the Artificial.

Group Exhibitions

2004
Stadtische Museen Heilbronn, Germany, Exposed: The Nude in 20th Century Photography, April 24 - July 4.

2003
JG Contemporary, New York, NY, Nature Photography, July 11-August 7.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Ameri©an Dre@m, February 22-April 5.

2002
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Purnell Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, August 15 - December 30, and travel to Newcomb Gallery of Art, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans, LA, February 15 - June 15, 2003; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, July 26 - September 28, 2003; Center for Art and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, January 15 - March 15, 2004.

2001
Guild Hall of East Hampton, East Hampton, NY, The Reality- Effect: Portraiture and the Figure in Contemporary Photography, August 10- October 7. (catalogue)

Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Lifelike, May 11- July 22.

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, Identities: Contemporary Portraiture, March 25 - May 20.

2000
Plaza Gallery, Lowenstein Hall at Lincoln Center, Fordam University, New York, NY, Somewhat Corrupt=Computer Art Show, December 7- January 31, 2001.

Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, ID/Y2K: Identity at the Millennium, January 30 - March 24.

Exit Art, New York, NY, Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution,
September 9- October 28.

Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj, Denmark, Body & Existence / Krop & Eksistens, September 15 - January 15, 2001.

1999
Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, CA, Bay Area Now 2,
November 20-February 13, 2000.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles , CA
Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850–2000*
October 24, 1999–January 16, 2000.

S.F. Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999, October 15 - November 20.

Neue Galerie Graz, Austria, The Anagrammatical Body: The Body and its Media Construction, October 9, 1999 - February 29, 2000; and travel to: ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany, April 7- June 18, 2000. (catalogue)

1998
Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Presumed Innocence, January 17 - March 1, 1998. Travel to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH,
April 4 - June 14, 1998.

Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA, The Unreal Person: Portraiture in the Digital Age, April 26-June 14. (catalogue)

1997
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century.

Siemans AG, Munich, Germany, Photography After Photography.

1996
Arles, France, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie.

Basel, Espace d' Art - Yvonamor Palix, Paris, Art 27.

Cartier Foundation, Paris, France, Double Vie, Double Vue.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles , CA, Hidden in Plain Sight.

Madrid, Espace d' Art - Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France, ARCO 96.

Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Persona,
February 26 - May 3, tour to follow: Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland.

Rotterdam, Espace d' Art - Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France, Paradox.

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose , CA,
Pixel Perfect: Digital Photography in the Bay Area.

Washington Center for Photography, Washington DC, trace,
January 19 - February 29.

1995
Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany, Fotografie nach der Fotografie, organized by Stadtische Galerie Erlangen amd Siemens Kultur Programm, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, and tour to follow: Kunsthalle Krems, February 17-March 24; Stadtische Galerie Erlangen, April 2-May 12; Brandenburgische Kunstsammulungen Cottbus, May 28-July 14; Museet for Fotokunst, Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark, August 10-September 22; Fotomuseum, Winterhur,
November 10-January 7, 1997. (catalogue)

Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, Fact, Fiction and Truth: Contemporary Portraits, September 19 - December 16.

University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA, We Look and See.

Espace d' Art - Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France, In Corpus Machina,
June 1 - July 28.

Contemporary Arts Council, Chicago, IL, Youth Culture Killed My Dog (But I Don't Really Mind),
April 8 - May 20.

Madrid, Espace d' Art, Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France, ARCO 95.

1994
Ansel Adams Center of Photography, San Francisco, CA, Second Nature,
December 8 - January 8, 1995.

TARt Foundation, Technical University of Twente, Holland, Archpolis,
November 24 - December 11.

List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, The Ghost in the Machine, October 8 - December 18. (catalogue)

Espace Tour Eiffel Paris, Paris, France, FIAC 94, October 8 - October 16.

Landes Galerie, Linz, Austria, 15 Years of Ars Electronica, June 10. (catalogue).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions #2: Photography from the Collection, April 28 - July 10.

Seafirst Gallery, Seattle, WA, Stealth: The Fine Art of Making Things Invisible,
January 21 - March 11.

Espace d'Art - Yvonamor Palix, Paris, France, Le Mois de la Photo.

1993
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, UNTITLED (14),
November 13 - December 23.

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Mr. Serlings Neighborhood,
July 10 - September 4.

Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Gesture and Nuance: the photographic portrait, June 17 - July 17.

1992
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, New works in Photography,
December 12 - January 15, 1993.

1991
Fillmore Center Arts Intervention, San Francisco, CA, Anonymous Portraits.

1989
Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Directions in Photography.

1988
The Lab, San Francisco, CA, Benefit for the Lab.

San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Symposium on Virtual Space, (Live slow scan video with Toronto, Canada, Los Angeles, CA, and San Francisco, CA.

Bibliography

Selected Periodicals

2003
Cohen, David. "Gallery Going." The New York Sun, July 31, 2003.

Knight, Christopher. "A Look into the Genetic Future." The Los Angeles Times, August 8, 2003, p. E24.

Levin, Kim. "Nature Photography." The Village Voice, July 10 - August 5, 2003.

MacCash, Doug. "Art or Science?" The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, April 2, 2003, p. E1.

2001
"American Views." Rockford Art Museum Members' Magazine (Spring 2001): 4-5.

Bischoff, Dan. "Face-to-face with some startling visages." Star-Ledger, April 8, 2001, sec. 4, pp. 1-2.

Brea, José Luis. "All the parties of the future culture and youth (21st c)." Exit 4 (November 2001): 114-135.

Jaeger, William. "Genetic Code." Times Union (Albany, NY), September 30, 2001.

Temin, Christine. "Exploring the ties that bind." The Boston Globe,
October 24, 2001.

2000
DeCarlo, Tessa. "'Bay Area Now': MFAs in Toyland." The Wall Street Journal, January 27, 2000, p. A20.

Muscionico, Daniele. "Wahltaste Vergangenheit." Neue Bürdher Beitung May 7, 2000.

"Paradise Now." Flash Art XXXIII, no. 214 (October 2000): 41.

Schjeldahl, Peter. "DNART." The New Yorker (October 2, 2000): 144-46.

"Tipp Der Woche." Züritipp [Germany] May 12-18, 2000.

Winship, Frederick. "Artists portray genetic concerns." United Press International, November 22, 2000.

1999
Albrecht, Jörg. "Die Guten ins Töpfchen." Die Zeit [Germany] 38, September 16, 1999, 16.

Dworkin, Ronald. . "Regeln für den Menschenpark." Die Zeit [Germany] 38, September 16, 1999, 15,17.

"Rattling the Frame: The Photographic Space 1974-1999." Camerawork 26.2(Fall/Winter 1999):12.

Schnabel, Ulrich. "Klone zu Discountpreisen: Interview mit dem Biothiker und Medizinhistoriker Axel W. Bauer." Die Zeit [Germany] 38, September 16, 1999, 15, 18-21.

Sloterdijk, Peter. "Regeln für den Menschenpark." Die Zeit [Germany] 38, September 16, 1999, 15, 18-21.

Smith, Roberta. "Keith Cottingham." New York Times, March 20, 1999, E37.

1997
Curtis, Cathy. "Something to Smile About," Los Angeles Times, April 22, 1997, pp. F1, F4-5.

Lowry, Joanna. "Books: Photography After Photography: Memory and Representation in the Digital Age," Contemporary Visual Arts. no. 16 (Fall 1997): 84-85.

Pincus, Robert L, "Fabricated Faces are signs of Times in Art History," The San Diego Union Tribune, March 10, 1997.

Thijsen, Mirelle, "Digital Territories, " Flash Art, XXX, no 192 (January/February 1997): 63.

Walsh, Daniella B, "Another Perspective on the Face," The Orange County Register, April 27, 1997, p. 26.

1996
Artner, Alan G, "Persona non grata". Chicago Tribune, March 17, section 7.

Melchart, Erwin. "Vorsicht: Photo: Krems: 'Fotografie nach der Fotografie.'" Kronen-Zeitung (Germany), Saturday, February 17, 1996, p. 48.

"Diggin'; Digital Territories," Flash Art, XXIX, no. 190 (October 1996): 45.

"Photography after Photography at Aktionsform," Flash Art, XXIX, no. 186 (January-February 1996): 39.

Melchart, Erwin, "Vorsicht: Photo: Krems: Fotografie," Kronen-Zeitung (Germany), Saturday, Feb. 17, p. 48

"Richtig Falsch," ZEITmagazine, no. 11, (March 8, 1996) (Germany): 28 -34.

"Sinnbilder einer unsinnlichen Welt," Kurler (Germany), February 19, 1996.

Encyclopaedia Universalis, 1996, "Photographie - La photographie face aux mutations technologiques" p. 276

1995
Zimmer, William, "Portraits That Use Absence As a Vehicle of Expression." The New York Times, Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, p. 16.

Grundberg, Andy. "me (you)." See: a journal of visual culture 1:1 (Winter 1995): 50-51.

Platt, Ron. "Believing is Seeing." Wired 3, no. 10 (October 1995): 142-43.

Connors, Thomas, "Youth Culture Killed My Dog (But I don't really mind)." The New Art Examiner (September 1995): 41-2.

Sonna, Birgit, "Das Furchten lehren," Suddeutsche Zeitung, December 20, 1995.

Wilk, Deborah, "Youth Culture Killed My Dog (but I don't really Mind)" Flash Art, XXVIII, no. 183 (Summer 1995): 76.

Ziegler, Ulf Erdmann, "Kleiner Hang zur Falschung: Auf ins digitale Zeitalter: Zwei Munchner Ausstellungen suchen ein neues Konzept der Photografie." Die Tageszeitung, December 29, 1995.

Gaessler, Dominique, Photographies Magazine (May1995): 58-59.

1994
Bonetti, David. "Bonding art with the new technology." San Francisco Art Examiner, (December 23): p. D9.

Corbu, Michel. "Le mariage de l'art et de la technologie." Enjeux les Echos, no. 93 (June): 89-91.

Fujimori, Manami. "From Abroad." Bijutso Techo 46, no. 683 (February): 121-122.

Onorato, Ronald J. "The Ghost in the Machine." The New England Journal of Photography, vol 14, no. 3, (Fall).

Norman, Sally Jane."Art/Photography/Digital technology." Artpress, (June):
20-21.

Sherman, Mary. "Photos put eerie twist on reality." Boston Herald, (October 28)

Temin, Christine. "A Concern with Humanity Unifies Trio of Shows at MIT." Boston Sunday Globe, (October 30): p. B2.

1993
Bonetti, David. "Rena Bransten Gallery." San Francisco Art Examiner, (July 9): p. D7.
Maslon, Laura. Art-Talk, (October): 36.

Selected Books & Exhibition Catalogues

Bay Area Now 2. San Francisco, CA: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1999.

Brauchitsch, Boris Von. Kleine Geschichte der Fotografie. Stuttgart, Germany: Philipp Reclam, 2002, pp. 253-254.

Identities: Contemporary Portraiture. Essay by Marion Dillon. Summit, NJ: New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, 2001.

Marien, Mary Warner. Photography: A Cultural History. London, England: Laurence King Publishing, 2002, 474-475.

Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution. Essays by Mike Fortun, Frank Moore, Ricki Lewis, and Bernard Possidente. Saratoga Springs, NY: Tang Teaching Museumand Art Museum at Skidmore College, 2001, pp. 50-51.

The Reality Effect: Contemporary American Photography. East Hampton, New York: Guild Hall of East Hampton, 2001.

Archipolis: Virtual Reality in Cyberspace. Holland: Tart '94, 1994.

Der Anagrammatische der Körper und seine mediale Konstruktion. Karlsruhe, Germany: ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe), 2000.

Ghost in the Machine. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994.

Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century. Essays by Dean Sobel and Marc J. Ackerman, Ph.D. Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1997.

Man- Body in Art from 1950 to 2000. Essay by Christian Gether. Ishøj, Denmark: Arken Museum for Modern Art, 2000.

Missing Link: Menschen- Bilder in der Fotograpfie. Essays by Christoph Doswald. Bern: KunstMusuem Bern, 1999

Persona. Basel, Swizerland: Schwabe & Co. AG., 1996.

Photography After Photography. Cassel, Germany: Verlag der Kunst, 1995.

Presumed Innocence. Essays by Kathryn Hixson and Robert Hobbs. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1998.

Prix 94 Arx Electronica. Linz, Austria: International Compendium of the Computer Arts, 1994, pp. 38-41.

Parallaxis. A Conversation with Lucy R. Lippard and Rina Swentzell. Artist Notes by Kathleen Shields. Denver, CO: Western States Arts Federation, 1997.

Rush, Michael. New Media in Late 20th - Century Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999.

Unreal Person: Portraiture in the Digital Age, The. Huntington Beach, CA: Huntington Beach Art Center, 1998.

Youth Culture Killed My Dog. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Arts Council, 1995.

Awards

1995
WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowship-Visual Artists Photography, Santa Fe, NM, 1995.

Art Matters Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, 1995.

1994
Prix Ars Electronica, Distinction for Computer Graphics, Linz, Austria, 1994.

Public Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Paris Audio-Visuel, Paris, France