CARLO KESHISHIAN
Biography
Carlo Keshishian (b.1980) is a visual artist based in London, working primarily with ink and paint. Since 2010, Keshishian has focussed on a series of text-based diary drawings that capture his engagement with what he considers the illusory nature of time. Music has also been intrinsic to Keshishian’s creation process. The pace, rhythm, mood and level of intensity of the music he is listening to while he works affects or can at times in part instruct the outcome regarding its content (text), quality of line and speed with which the work is executed.
His diary drawings have become part of notable collections such as the abcd/Bruno Decharme collection, Antoine de Galbert (La Maison Rouge) collection and the Eternod/Mermod collection, Switzerland.
Photograph courtesy of Andrew Hood
Works
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Selected Exhibitions
2025 Pearlescent, The Handbag Factory, London
2025 Antoine de Galbert at Festival du Dessin, Eglise Saint Anne, Arles, France
2024 In/Between: Process, Practice, Presence, ASC Studios Stockwell, London
2023 Why We Linger, Darbyshire, London
2022 Outsider Art Fair, Paris (with Galerie du Marche)
2021 Chance And Necessity And..., 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
2020 Scrivere Disegnando (Writing by Drawing), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genveva
2019-23 Outsider Art Fair, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York (with Jennifer Lauren Gallery)
2015-19 Outsider Art Fair, Paris (with Galerie du Marche)
2018 Vestiges and Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic, American Folk Art Museum, New York
2013 Portals, The Running Horse, Beirut
2008 STUMP: Art From the Obsessive Mind, The Horse Hospital, London
