Keeley Haftner – Canadian b. 1985
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, IL:
2014-2016, Fiber and Material Studies Department
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Mount Allison University (MTA), Sackville, NB: 2007-2011
Magna cum laude. Triple Major: Sculpture, Printmaking and Painting
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(*indicates juried)
2024-Ongoing: Art Collective Member, Stichting Ruimtevaart, De Helena Building, The Hague, NL
2024: Stage Work Placement Mentorship, Mercurius College, The Hague/Delft (NL)
*2018-2024: Haagse Kunstenaar, Stroom, The Hague, NL
2021-2023: Member, Artist Support Group, founded by Michael Shaw (The Conversation Art Podcast, Los Angeles, USA)
2021-2023: Writer in Residence, Bad at Sports, Chicago, USA
2018-2020: Member, Makerspace Leiden, Leiden, NL
2017-2020: Writer/Production Assistant, Bad at Sports, Chicago, USA
2013-2018: Studio Assistant: Cauleen Smith (2017 Whitney Biennial), Tammi Campbell, Frances Whitehead
2016-2017: Co-Curator/Founder, Public Access Gallery, Chicago, USA
2015-2016: Sustainability Student Coordinator, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Chicago, USA
2015-2016: Research Assistant, Textile Resource Center (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Anne Wilson, Chicago, USA
2014-16: Teaching Assistant: “Designed Objects: Milan” (Helen Maria Nugent & Jim TerMeer); “Papermaking” (Andrea Peterson); “Oil Painting” (Magalie Guerin); “Politics of Knitting” (Karolina “kg” Gnatowski); “Hardcore Repeat” (Christine Tarkowksi)
SAIC, Chicago, USA
2013: Docent, Mendel Art Gallery (now rRemai Modern), Saskatoon, CA
2012-2014: Director/Founder/Curator, “Street Meet: Saskatoon’s Annual Street, Public and Graffiti Art Festival,” Saskatoon, CA
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof (Ceramic Museum of the Netherlands) / Carbon Copies / curated: Wendy Gers (EKWC@Princessehof) / Leeuwarden, NL (2023)
Compound Yellow Gallery / Tesselescence (Compound Yellow) / curated: Laura Shaeffer / Chicago, USA (2023)
Paris London Hong Kong / limitless future, limited reflection / curated: Sibylle Friche / Chicago, USA (2017)
*Struts Gallery Inc / Tesselescence (Struts) / residency/installation / Sackville, CA (2017)
*Third Space Gallery / Reasonable Grounds / Saint John, CA (2017)
HAUNT Gallery / Potsherds / curated: Lucien Durey / Various Sites (Iceland) (2014)
Satchel Gallery / Potsherds / curated: Anitra Hamilton / Various Sites (Canada) (2014)
The Vault Gallery / 7 Propositions / Bruno Arts Bank / Bruno, CA (2013)
The Vault Gallery / Waste Warrior Women of the Post-Saskatchewan Apocalypse / Bruno Arts Bank / Bruno, CA
*Struts Gallery Inc / Becoming / The Living Is Easy / Sackville, CA (2011)
GROUP
* Chicago Cultural Center (DCASE) / Not a Soft Thing / Space for Parenting Artists & Radical Creativity (SPARC) / Chicago, USA (2025)
DeVos Art Museum / Murmurations / curated: Emily Lanctot / Marquette, USA (2025)
*Noyes Cultural Arts Center / What we carry / invitational / Evanston, USA (2025)
*Heaven Gallery / Let’s be Real / invitational / Chicago, USA (2025)
Arti en Armicitiae / 1en1is1 / curated: A&J (Anne Verhoijsen and Jos Houweling), Amsterdam, NL (2024)
Museum Prinsenhof Delft / Expositie Keramiekprijs De Kei 2023 / Delft, NL (2023)
ICA + The Poor Farm Experiment (Living In The Play: nido II) / Material Girl / curated: Annie Wischmeyer / Monte Castello di Vibio, IT (2023)
University of Manitoba School of Art Gallery / Indeterminate Limits / curated: Scotland Cook / Winnipeg, CA (2023)
GG3 Gallery & Werkstadt Berlin / CrisisFEST / curated: Maria Korporal / Berlin, DE (2022)
The Franklin Outdoor / Still Life / curated: Edra Soto / Chicago, USA (2021-22)
Garden Apartment Gallery / Tesselescence (Garden Apartment Gallery) / curated: Marlene Krygowski / Chicago, USA (2021)
*The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery / 2020 Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics Digital Exhibition / Kitchener, CA (2020)
*InterAccess Gallery / Life as we know it / curated: Megan MacLaurin / Toronto, CA
A.I.R. Gallery / Fe*Mail*Art / New York, USA (2020)
CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions / ART-IN-PLACE / Invitational / Chicago, USA / The Hague, NL (2020)
*The Robert McLaughlin Gallery / RMG Exposed Online Exhibition / Oshawa, CA (2020)
*Global 3000 / Artists for Future / Berlin, DE (2019)
Parallel Studios Inc / Currents 826 / curated: Mariannah Amster/Frank Ragano / Santa Fe, USA (2019)
Sugar Space / Role Call / curated: Bryn Jackson/Jenn Cooper / Indianapolis, USA (2018)
*IPCNY / Edging Forward / New York, USA (2018)
*Chicago Artists Coalition / Beyond Words / curated: Danny Floyd / Chicago, USA (2018)
*Chicago Artists Coalition / In Your Head / curated: Meg Noe / Chicago, USA (2017)
Randy Alexander Gallery / Drawing / curated: Randy Alexander / Chicago, USA (2017)
*Roman Susan / Property / Rogers Park-West Ridge Historical Society / Chicago, USA (2017)
Petzel Gallery / We need to talk… / open entry / New York, USA (2017)
Schering Stiftung / On the Far Side of the Marchlands / curated: Morehshin Allahyari & Daniel Rourke / Berlin, DE (2017)
Estevan Art Gallery & Museum / Plastic Rhymes / curated: Ali King, Estevan, CA (2017)
*Studio XX (now Ada X!) / Occupation(s) / Montréal, CA (2016)
*form & concept / Virtual Object / curated: Frank Rose / Santa Fe, USA (2016)
*Art Institute of Chicago / 150th Gala / Chicago, USA (2016)
Sullivan Galleries / MFA Show 2016 / curated: Kelly Schindler / Chicago, USA (2016)
Travelling Exhibition / Repetition / Ink Slab Printmakers / Saskatchewan, CA (2014-2016)
Travelling Exhibition / Under New Management / curated: Suzanne Carte/Su-Ying Lee / CA (2013-16)
Purdy Crawford Centre for the Arts / Alumni Exhibition / Sackville, CA (2014)
*SÍM Gallery / EYJA / Reykjavík, IS (2014)
Communication Art Gallery / RePRO:2014 / curated: Kimberley Rush / Toronto, CA
Powwow / PAL / Seoul, KR (2014)
aka artist-run / aka Members Show / curated: Lisa Baldissera / Saskatoon, CA (2012)
MOCA Gallery / BMO 1st ART! / curated: Dawn Cain / Toronto, CA (2011)
*Hamilton Artists Inc / The Archive and Everyday Life / Hamilton, CA (2010)
GRANTS/AWARDS/HONOURS
*Sobey Art Award, longlist (Prairies and the North), Canada (2023)
Ceramic Award De Kei, nominator: KABK director Ranti Tjan, Finalist (2023)
*Stroom PRO Onderzoek Grant, The Hague, NL (2023)
*Stroom SPOT Individuele Tentoonstelling Grant, The Hague, NL (2022)
Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramics, Finalist, The Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Kitchener, CA (2021)
*Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant (2021/2018)
*Sunday Morning Grant, European Ceramic Workcentre, Oisterwijk, NL (2021)
*Stroom PRO Deo Studio Visit Subsidy, The Hague, NL (2019-20)
Jeu de Paume (Transmediale), Paris, FR (2017)
Schering Foundation, Berlin, DE (2017)
*Arts, Science & Culture Collaboration Initiative Grant with PhD candidate in microbiology (Will McFadden), Chicago, USA (2015-2016)
*SAIC Second Year International Graduate Scholarship, Chicago, USA (2015)
*SAIC Graduate Studies Travel Grant, Chicago, USA (2015)
Fiber and Material Studies Haystack Conference Fellowship, Chicago, USA (2015)
*Ox-Bow Merit Scholarship, Saugatuck, USA (2015)
*SaskFestivals Project Grant, Saskatoon, CA (2014)
*2013-14: Placemaker Program, Saskatoon, CA (2014)
*SaskCulture Capacity Building Grant (w/aka artist-run), Saskatoon, CA (2013)
*Winter 2013 Member's Production Fund, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, CA (2013)
Saskatchewan Arts Board Travel Grant, Regina, CA (2012)
*BMO Financial Group’s 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition, New Brunswick representative, Toronto, CA (2011)
Fine Art Departmental Award, Mount Allison University, Sackville, CA (2011)
*Marjorie Young Bell Fine Art and Music Award, Sackville, CA (2010-2011)
*John P. Asimakos Award in Painting, Sackville, CA (2010-2011)
University Scholarship (Dean’s List), Sackville, CA (2007-2011)
*Crake Junior Research Fellowship, Sackville, CA (2010)
*J.E.A. Crake Foundation Scholarship, Sackville, CA (2008-10)
*Mary K McKean Scholarship, Sackville, CA (2008-2009)
E.B. Pulford Scholarship (Top Incoming B.F.A. Portfolio), Sackville, CA (2007)
CATALOGUES/PRINT
Mia Paduraru. “Keeley Haftner, Carbon Copies (Francis Whitehead) 2020-21 [sic].” Metropolis M. No. 6. (2023/24). (Nieuwe Collectie – Aanwinsten 25 musea) p. 36.
Moerman, Janelle et al. Keramiekprijs De Kei 2023 (exhibition catalogue). Museum Prinsenhof Delft/SKPD. Colofon, NL (2023). p. 10.
Bos, Jeroen. “Circulaire Kunst” (review). Het Financiaal Dagblad. Amsterdam, NL. (April 30th, 2023). p 14.
Van Meeuwen, Judith et al., BAKSTEEN | BRICK (exhibition catalogue). Kunsthal KAdE. Amersfoort, NL. (2022). p. 128.
Buckley, Kathleen et. al. Galleryfill (publication). Third Space Gallery. Saint John, NB. (2022).
MacLaurin, Megan (curation/essay). Life as We Know It (exhibition catalogue). Inter/Access. Toronto, CA (2020).
Churchill, Abbye. et al., “Public Access”. Lumpen Magazine – Artist-Run Edition. (Issue 137 Volume 39 No 02, Fall 2020). p. 57-59.
Fauteaux, Amanda et al. Open Studio (05-2017 – 12/2018) (publication), “Tesselescence and the Rhombillion Effect” (essay). Struts Gallery Inc. Sackville, CA. (2019). p. 86-105.
Guimarães, Sandra et al., Thomas Hirschhorn: What Can I Learn from You. What Can You Learn From Me (Critical Workshop). rRemai Modern. “Crocheting with Plastic Bags” (images). Saskatoon, CA. (2018). p. 218-219.
Floyd, Danny (curation/essay). Beyond Words (exhibition catalogue). Chicago Artists Coalition. Chicago, USA (2018).
Miller, Geordie. “Art, Waste, and the Hyperobject: Keeley Haftner’s Landfill of Unwanted Art.” Visual Arts News. (Fall 2017). p. 31-32.
King, Alex (curation/essay). Plastic Rhymes (exhibition catalogue). Estevan Art Gallery and Museum. Estevan, CA (2017).
Noe, Meg T. (curation/essay). In Your Head (exhibition catalogue). Chicago Artists Coalition. Chicago, USA (2017).
“Property.” Rogers Park/West Ridge Historical Society and Roman Susan Art Foundation (publication). (April 30, 2017). p. 72.
Allahyari, Morehshin et al., The 3D Additivist Cookbook, Amsterdam, NL: The Institute of Network Cultures, 2016, p. 247-252 ed.
Rhodes, Richard (Ed.). “Hot Jobs: Keeley Hafner [sic].” Canadian Art Magazine. Volume 30, No. 4. (Winter, 2014). p. 78.
Rhodes, Richard (Ed.). “BMO 1st Art! International Art Competition.” Canadian Art Magazine. Special Issue: Ideas of North. (Fall, 2011). P. 169.
Cain, Dawn (curation). BMO 1st Art! 2011 (exhibition catalogue). MOCA Gallery. Flash Reproductions. Toronto, CA. (2011). p. 12-13.
Murchie, John (essay). XX (Graduating exhibition catalogue). Owens Art Gallery. Sackville, CA. (2011)
Ruypers, John (et. al.). “Art and Politics: The Art of Involvement and butterfly 208.” Canadian and World Politics, Toronto, CA: Edmond Montgomery Publications Limited. (2005). p. 308
Chabai, Barbara (Ed.). “Papillon Butterfly 208: Individual Art Grand Prize Winner.” What Magazine. Volume 18, No. 4. (Back to School, 2004). p.16-17.
ONLINE/PRESS
Jonathan Horowitz, “Daily Trumpet” Instagram Project, (February 20, 2020).
“Episode 631: Keeley Haftner.” Bad at Sports, podcast interview. (May 25, 2018).
“Artist of the Week: Keeley Haftner.” LVL3 Gallery. (October 3, 2017).
“Akimbo Hit List: Keeley Haftner.” Akimbo. (June 21, 2017).
“20 Shows We Want to See in 2017.” Canadian Art Magazine. (January 2, 2017).
Haws, Emily. “Tin Can Beach Turns to Waste for Art’s Sake.” Saint John, NB: Telegraph-Journal. (July 3, 2017).
Elliott, Eric. “Why bury art? That’s a good question.” Saint John, NB: Telegraph Journal. (May 30, 2017).
“Alumni Story: Keeley Haftner ’11.” Mount Allison University (website), (October, 2017).
“Documented Dialogues No. 2: Keeley Haftner & Mark Booth.” Chicago Artists Resource. (May, 2017).
“Filament Findings.” Arts, Science & Culture Initiative Graduate Collaboration Grants, UChicago. YouTube. (August 8, 2016).
Zahara, Alex. “Bringing Waste to Public Spaces: A Discussion with Saskatoon Visual Artist Keeley Haftner.” Discard Studies. (April 29, 2014).
Charlton, Jonathan. “Artist Hopes to Spark Discussion with Piles of Plastic.” Saskatoon, SK: The StarPhoenix. (October 12, 2013). A3.
RESIDENCIES
· *PAVED Arts Senior Production Residency, PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, CA (2025)
· Artist Residency in Motherhood (ARiM), The Hague, NL (2024)
· Compound Yellow Astral/Takeover Artist Residency, invitational: Laura Shaeffer, Chicago, USA (2023)
· Living in the Play: nido II, invitational: led by Kelly Kaczynski and Mark Jeffery via the Poor Farm Experiment; hosted by ICARTs, Monte Castello Di Vibio, IT (2023)
· Clint Neufeld Artist Residency, Osler, CA (2022)
· The Franklin Outdoor, curated: Edra Soto, Chicago, USA (2021)
· *European Ceramic Workcentre Project Residency, Oisterwijk, NL (2020-21)
· *Medalta International Artists in Residence Program, Medalta, Medicine Hat, CA (2019)
· *HATCH Projects, curated: (Cesáreo Moreno, Claude Isé, Franck Mercurio, Jennifer Scott), Chicago Artist Coalition, USA (2016-17)
· *Open Studio, Struts Gallery Inc, Sackville, CA (2017)
· *”Altered States” led by Claire Sherman/Valerie Hegarty, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, USA (2015)
· *SÍM Residency, Reykjavík, IS (2014)
· *”New Noise” Soi Fischer Thematic Residency, Artscape Gibraltar, Toronto, CA (2013)
· Graven Feather Studio, Toronto, CA (2012)
· *Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, Canning, CA (2012)
· *Bruno Arts Bank, Bruno, CA (2012)
· *Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA (2011)
BIENNIALS/ART FAIRS/PERFORMANCES
Performance: “Tesselescence (Flag Repair)” / Nuit Blanche YXE / Saskatoon, CA (2025)
Performance: “Tesselescence (Stichting Ruimtevaart)” / HOOGTIJ / The Hague, NL (2025)
Collaborative Performance: “Triangulation (Sabine Käppler & Keeley Haftner)” / Amsterdam Art Week / Amsterdam, NL (2024)
*Performative Lecture: ”Tesselescence (Umbrella Flag) World Thrift Day” / Mycelium Connection: Terrain Biennial / Chicago, USA (2023)
Performance: “Carbon Copy (Frances Whitehead) 01” / Keramiekmuseum Princessehof / Leeuwarden, NL (2023)
Solo Booth/Performances: This Art Fair / Amsterdam, NL (2022)
Performance: “Party Balloons” / invitational / Compound Yellow / Keep in Touch: Terrain Biennial / Chicago, USA (2021)
*Public Installation: “Tesselescence (Overton Elementary School)” / Keep in Touch: Terrain Biennial / Chicago, USA (2021)
*Public Installation: “Tesselescence (Garden Apartment Gallery)” / Chicago Architecture Biennial / Chicago, USA (2021)
Performance: This Art Fair / curated: Ronald Bal (Performance Site) / Amsterdam, NL (2021)
Performance: Test Case XXIII / European Ceramic Workcentre / Oisterwijk, NL (2021)
Performance: 5th Annual Symposium of Art: To Face the World on My Own Again / Sackville, CA (2010)
*Performance: OK, Quoi?! Contemporary Arts Festival / Sackville Music Hall / Sackville / CA (2010)
Performance: 4th Annual Symposium of Art: You Gave Me Strength to Stand Alone Again / Sackville, CA (2009)
COLLECTIONS
The Over Holland Collection “Carbon Copy (Frances Whitehead) 17,” Nieuwersluis, NL (2023)
Keramiekmuseum Princessehof, “Carbon Copies (Frances Whitehead)”: 9 sculptures/1 large-scale drawing, Leeuwarden, NL (2023)
The Franklin Collection, “Material Bias in Glass (Broken Bottles, Humboldt Park),” Chicago, IL (2021)
European Ceramic Workcentre (temporary collection), “Carbon Copies (Frances Whitehead)”: sculpture/large-scale drawing, Oisterwijk, NL (2021-2024)
Medalta Contemporary Collection, “Brick for a Wall or a Window”, Medicine Hat, CA (2019)
Stichting Egress Foundation, “What Is?” publication, New York/Amsterdam (2017)
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, “What Is?” Publication, Chicago, USA (2017)
Numerous Private Collections
PUBLIC ART
*Temporary Public Artwork: “Sentences on Palestine,” Billboard @ PAVED Arts/AKA Artist-Run, Saskatoon, CA (2025)
*Permanent Public Artwork: “Galleryfill”, Third Space gallery, Saint John, CA (2017)
*Temporary Public Artwork: “Found Compressions One and Two,” Placemaker Program, Saskatoon, CA (2013)
FUNDRAISERS
Open Studio Fundraiser, support for Palestine via United Nations Population Fund (UNPFA), Stichting Ruimtevaart, The Hague, NL (2024)
U-AID Charity Art Fair (curated), support for Ukraine, Sofiia Bezuhla (Founder/Managing Director), Amsterdam, NL (2022)
Keeping in Touch: Terrain Biennial Fundraiser, Compound Yellow, Chicago, IL (2021)
*RMG Exposed Juried Photography Fundraiser, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, CA (2020)
Works for Workers Fundraiser, support for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, USA (2020)
Sweetest Little Thing, support for Struts Gallery Inc /the Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, CA (2018-2022)
WORKSHOPS/VISITING ARTIST INVITATIONS
Artist Talk: “Keeley Haftner,” PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, CA (2025)
Workshop: “Super Scraps: A Critical Material Workshop,” PAVED Arts, Saskatoon, CA (2025)
Group Artist Talk: “Let’s be Real,” Heaven Gallery, Chicago, USA (2025)
Artist Talk: Ceramic Art (MFA) seminar (Wendy Gers), Alfred University, NY, USA
Visiting Lecturer: Art & Environment BA Art History/Arts (Anna-Rosja Haveman), University of Groningen, NL (2023)
Visiting Lecturer: PROFPRAC 3900: Sustainable Life/Sustainable Practice (Stacia Yeapanis), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2022)
Visiting Artist: Sculpture Dialogues and Studio Visit program (Kelly Kaczynski), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2021)
Presenter: Earthday Presentation (digital), NCECA Green Task Force, Boulder, USA (2021)
*Panel Discussion: ”Life as we know it,” InterAccess gallery, Toronto, CA (2020)
Visiting Lecturer: Transitional Practices (Jeff Prokash), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2020)
Roundtable Discussion: “Role Call,” Sugar Space, Indianapolis, USA (2018)
Workshop: “Crochet with Plastic Bags,” Thomas Hirschhorn’s “What I can learn from you. What you can learn from me.”, rRemai Modern, Saskatoon, CA (2018)
Artist Talk: “Waste Patterns: Transforming Trash, Obsolescing, Tessellating, and Other Related Complexities,” A Handmade Assembly, Sackville, CA (2017)
Artist Talk: Third Space gallery, Saint John, CA (2017)
*Artist Talk: “On Environment,” School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA (2016)
Workshop: “Closed Loop 3D Printing,” Concordia University, Montréal, CA (2016)
Workshop: “Closed Loop 3D Printing”, (Keeley Haftner and Will McFadden), Hack Arts Lab, University of Chicago, USA (2016)
Artist Talk: “Artist-as-Curator,” Gordon Snelgrove Gallery, Saskatoon, CA (2016)
*Presentation: “Closed-Loop 3D Printing,” AASHE 2015 Conference and Expo: Transforming Sustainability Education, Minneapolis, USA (2015)
FESTIVALS/CONFERENCES/SYMPOSIA
Exhibitor: Nuit Blanche NBYXE 2025, Saskatoon, Canada (2025)
Participant: Fundamental Encounters in Art, Design, and Science, CERN, Geneva, CH (2022)
Participant: Rethinking Residencies Symposium, The New School, New York, USA (2021)
Participant: Parallel Ecologies: A Symposium on Art, Media and Environments (2021)
Participant: Workshops for the Whole Earth, Bauhaus Dessau (2021)
Exhibitor (curated): Digital Ephemera's 2019 R-Cade Symposium: Trash, Camden, USA (2019)
*Presenter: “Energy Well Spent: Complexity and Complicity in Ecologic Production,” Open Engagement: Sustainability, Queens Museum, New York, USA (2018)
Exhibitor: A Handmade Assembly, Struts Gallery Inc, Sackville, CA (2017)
*Exhibitor: Photophobia, Hamilton Artists Inc, Hamilton, CA (2017)
Exhibitor: Ever Elusive: 30 Years of Transmediale, Berlin, DE (2017)
*Exhibitor: Currents: The Santa Fe International New Media Festival, USA (2016)
Participant, Ideas on Making, Materials, and Creative Process, Haystack Mountain Conference, Deer Isle, USA (2015)
*Exhibitor: King Street Alt Film Festival, Toronto, CA (2013)
Exhibitor (curated: Shauna McCabe): Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Graven Feather Studio, Toronto, CA (2012)
*Exhibitor: ARTwalk, aka artist-run, Saskatoon, CA (2012)
*Exhibitor: The Archive and Everyday Life, John Douglas Taylor Conference, Hamilton, CA (2010)
WRITING
Haftner, Keeley. “Collective Cuboid Visions Beyond the Fourth Dimension” (essay), NO GRIDS NO MASTERS: a Post-Cartesian Experiment (exhibition/catalogue). Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (MoCA). Arlington, USA (2024).
“A review on Simone Albers’ “Myriad Ways of Being.” Jegens & Tevens. (Dec 12, 2023)
“Funding Art Mountains: An Interview with Angela Bartholomew.” Bad at Sports. (Nov 21, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #9: New Art (M)others.” Bad at Sports. (Sept 27, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #8: Not Retweeting Documenta Fifteen.” Bad at Sports. (June 28, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #7: The Material Immaterial.” Bad at Sports. (May 16, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #6: The Geology of Zen Media.” Bad at Sports. (April 19, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #5: Art From Art.” Bad at Sports. (Mar 22, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #4: Metal as a Foil.” Bad at Sports. (Feb 23, 2022)
“Bad at Art Forum #3: Buckets as Well as Jewels.” Bad at Sports. (January 17, 2022).
“Bad at Art Forum #2: Cosmologies and the Artists Who Build Them.” Bad at Sports. (December 20, 2021).
“Bad at Art Forum #1: Unpaid Intern.” Bad at Sports. (November 15, 2021).
“Review: Institutional Garbage.” Bad at Sports. (December 10, 2019).
“Mirror Around the Corner: An artist’s take on the Venice Biennale, as experienced during Venice’s highest floods in 50 years.” Bad at Sports. (November 22, 2019).
“Fiber Metaphors Weavers Don’t Hate: An Interview with Tim Ingold.” Bad at Sports. (January 30, 2018).
Haftner, Keeley (curation/ed.). “Untruthful Material” (essay), What Is? (exhibition/catalogue). Public Access. Chicago, USA (2017).
Haftner, Keeley (curation/ed.). “Digital Dark” (exhibition/catalogue). Public Access. Chicago, USA (2017).
“On, In, and Around the Line: An Interview with John Murchie.” Bad at Sports. (December 19, 2017).
“One or Three Chairs: Interview with Michael J. Golec.” Bad at Sports. (October 17, 2017).
“Appreciating the Weirdness: An Interview with Ina Blom.” Bad at Sports. (July 25, 2017).
"Taking the Line for a Walk: Interview with Piers Secunda." Bad at Sports. (May 3, 2017).
“Through Either Side: Interview with Simon Anderson.” Bad at Sports. (April 12, 2017).
“Active Sorrow: Interview with Morehshin Allahyari.” Bad at Sports. (March 1, 2017).
Haftner, Keeley. “The Artist Responds” (opinion piece). The Argosy. Vol. 140 Iss. 22. Sackville, CA. (April 7, 2011). P. 7.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
Collaborative Commission: Queer Entomology / Dr. Michael Cavallaro/Ashley Eliza Williams (2023)
Donna Collective / Sunlight in Winter / video screening / New York, USA (2020)
Public Access / What Is? / artists: Tammi Campbell, Felipe Steinberg, Karen Reimer, Ai Weiwei* / essays: Michael Golec, Hannah Pivo, Keeley Haftner / Chicago, USA (2017)
Public Access / Digital Dark / artists: Heather Dewey-Hagborg, !Meddiengruppe Bitnik, Damon Zucconi, Cybertwee / essay: Veronica Sines / Chicago, USA (2016)
*aka artist-run / A specific amalgam of spirit and dirt / Saskatoon, CA (2016)
Street Meet Festival / artists: Indigo (Shallom Johnson), Sirvis (Sean Fawcett), Laura Hale, Roadsworth (Peter Gibson) / Saskatoon, CA (2014)
Street Meet Festival / artists: Akos (Corey Bulpitt), Shelley Miller, Robyn Love, David LaRiviere, Dex Fernendez / Saskatoon, CA (2013)