For inquiries regarding exhibitions, available work, or studio visits, please contact me @

michaelketh@gmail.com

(314) 920-5665

Artist Bio

Michael Keth is an artist whose work explores psychological tension, solitude, and moments of emotional suspension within urban life. Working primarily from photographic source material, his paintings focus on figures caught in transitional spaces where anticipation and isolation intersect. Light, architecture, and spatial distance shape the emotional atmosphere of each work, with the surrounding environment carrying equal weight to the figure itself.

Keth studied studio art at Lindenwood University under Grant Hargate and Elaine Tillinger. Influenced by American painters such as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, he has worked in figurative painting for more than thirty-five years. His work has been exhibited with Art Saint Louis, the Saint Louis Artists' Guild, and Soulard Art Gallery. He currently lives and maintains a studio in Edwardsville, Illinois.