Rita Keegan was born in 1949 in the Bronx, New York, USA, to a Dominican mother and a Canadian father. She moved to the UK in 1980, settling in London, where she co-founded the Brixton Art Gallery and became an important figure in the Black Arts Movement.
Rita works across print, photography, film, sound, textiles and installation. Her work considers the representation of Black communities historically and acts of self-fashioning in relation to the experience of Black women, often through self-portraiture.
In 1984 Rita co-founded Community CopyArt, a resource centre set up to facilitate activist workshops and produce print materials, and in 1985 she established the Women Artists of Colour Index, to catalogue, document and remember the work of Black women artists. Rita’s contributions to archival practice were explored by X Marks the Spot in the 2015 publication Human Endeavour: a creative finding aid for the Women of Colour Index .
Works shown courtesy of South London Gallery
Rita Keegan was born in 1949 in the Bronx, New York, USA, to a Dominican mother and a Canadian father. She moved to the UK in 1980, settling in London, where she co-founded the Brixton Art Gallery and became an important figure in the Black Arts Movement.
Rita works across print, photography, film, sound, textiles and installation. Her work considers the representation of Black communities historically and acts of self-fashioning in relation to the experience of Black women, often through self-portraiture.
In 1984 Rita co-founded Community CopyArt, a resource centre set up to facilitate activist workshops and produce print materials, and in 1985 she established the Women Artists of Colour Index, to catalogue, document and remember the work of Black women artists. Rita’s contributions to archival practice were explored by X Marks the Spot in the 2015 publication Human Endeavour: a creative finding aid for the Women of Colour Index .
Works shown courtesy of South London Gallery