Pamela Keravuori is an American artist whose mixed-media paintings combine expressive markmaking and controlled but colorful energy to explore visual metaphors from a long, passionate and only sometimes comprehensible life. 

With a fluid abstraction, Keravuori allows legibility and ambiguity to teeter across pictorial space.  Memories and impressions emerge and coalesce, investigating the contradictions of a peripatetic life through the lens of reflex and recall. These paintings are delicate unhurried responses to a memory, a place, an experience that has become abstract with time but still reveals a story.

Keravuori currently works from her new light-filled studio in the Virginia treetops.  Until her last solo show in 1989, she regularly exhibited in the U.S. and Germany.  Her Athenaeum solo exhibit in 2020 marked her happily renewed relationship with painting.

Her works are in private and public collections in the US, Germany and France.  For information on available pieces or to arrange for a studio visit, please enquire.


SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • Oct - Nov 2020 Painting While Barefoot, The Athenaeum, Alexandria, VA

  • May - Jun 1989 Pamela Keravuori, The Art League, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria, VA

  • Feb - Mar 1982 Pamela Keravuori Mischtechniken, Atelier Moering, Wiesbaden, Germany

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2023 Not Strictly Painting 14, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA; curator Tim Brown, Director of IA&A at Hillyer

  • 2023 Volume Up: Artists Responding to Music and Sound, The Painting Center, New York City, NY; curator Monica King

  • 2023 Spring to Life, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC

  • 2022 You don't remember me but I remember you, Studio 9D, New York City, NY

  • 2022 Body Autonomy, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC; curator Marta Staudinger

  • 2022 Invasion, IA&A at Hillyer Gallery, Washington DC

  • 2021 Women in the Arts 2021, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC; curator Marta Staudinger

  • 2021 Garden Party, Latela Curatorial, Washington, DC

  • 2021 All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC

  • 2020 Moments in Time, Athenaeum Annual Invitational, Alexandria, VA; curator Twig Murray

  • 2019 Board Games, Athenaeum Annual Invitational, Alexandria, VA; curator Twig Murray

  • 1981 Amerikanische Künstler in Berlin (American Artists in Berlin): Lynn Bowers, Jimmy Clark, Pamela Keravuori, John Schuetz, Gary Rieveschl, Christine Viera; group exhibit at Amerika Haus, Berlin; curator J. W. Ludwig

  • 1980 The Swans of Tuonela, Kunstamt Neukölln Rathaus Galerie, Berlin

SELECT FELLOWSHIPS/RESIDENCIES

  • 2023 Vermont Studio Center residency

  • 2022 Painting Marathon, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

  • 1976 Rhode Island School of Design, President's Fellow

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

  • 2020 In the Galleries: Pamela Keravuori: Painting While Barefoot, by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post review  (https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/art-shows-dc-galleries/2020/11/19/7383102c-2835-11eb-9b14-ad872157ebc9_story.html)

  • 2013 Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris, by Ann Mah, Penguin Books, cover photo by Pamela Keravuori

  • 1989 Pamela Keravuori at the Torpedo Factory, Washington Post review

  • 1982 Zwei Seiten der Energie: Pamela Keravuori und A.M. Graselli, by Verena Flick, Wiesbadener Kurier, März 1982

  • 1981 Amerikanische Künstler in Berlin (American Artists in Berlin): Lynn Bowers, Jimmy Clark, Pamela Keravuori, John Schuetz, Gary Rieveschl, Christine Viera, by Ludwig, J.W., Berlin, Amerika Haus, exhibition catalog

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • US State Department, Berlin

EDUCATION

  • Freie Universität Berlin/Boston University, International Relations

  • Rhode Island School of Design, President's Fellow

  • American University of Beirut, Fine Arts/Sculpture

  • University of Kentucky, Behavioral Psychology

  • University College London

  • Oxford University, Heinz Scholarship

  • Universités des Toulouse et Bordeaux

  • Arcadia University, French Literature