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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Keith Cottingham ![Cottingham Hero Image](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/2566/cottingham-hero-image.jpg) Keith Cottingham Coalesce, 2016 Biography Creating works that belie or falsify the conditions of their making, Keith Cottingham uses technology to cast a suspicious eye on art, and on photography in particular. He does this in works that include a series of detailed “portraits” created without actual models; they are actually based on sculptures created by the artist, which he scanned and digitally embellished. For another project, he used albumen prints to create historical documents of imaginary people, places, and events. His interest in this uncertainty of the document has also extended to the future, in detailed 3-D renderings of places—both natural and man-made—that have never existed. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/Cottingham-new-bio-letterhead_2023-08-09-173125_ooip.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Packet ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Cottingham_Selected-Press.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) Artist Website ](http://www.keithcottingham.com/) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Burden-Doorway-to-Heaven-1973_2025-08-26-193130_lpzr.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) Sep 2025 – Jan 2026 Group Show [ Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/352-group-exhibition-performance-activist-and-existential-photographs) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Salavon-Class-of-88-Diptych_190606_204821.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/344-group-show-summer-2019) Jun 18 – Jul 18, 2019 Group Show [ Summer 2019 ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/344-group-show-summer-2019) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham-Coalesce-detail-2016.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/323-biology-and-cosmology-below-the-visible-cottingham-2-13-3-28-2016) Feb 12 – Mar 27, 2016 Keith Cottingham [ Biology and Cosmology: Below the Visible ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/323-biology-and-cosmology-below-the-visible-cottingham-2-13-3-28-2016) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Group/2012-Have-We-Met-Before/Yefman-R-The-Martha-Bouke-Modeling-Portfolio-2002-2009.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/301-have-we-met-before-group-2-18-4-28-2013) Feb 17 – Apr 27, 2012 Group Show [ Have We Met Before? ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/301-have-we-met-before-group-2-18-4-28-2013) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/keith-cottingham) ![Cottingham Flare 2016](/assets/artist_images/Cottingham-Flare-2016.JPG) Keith Conttingham Flare, 2016 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Cottingham Flare 2016]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Conttingham Flare, 2016 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Coalesce 2016]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Coalesce, 2016 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Chill 2016]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Chill, 2016 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Untitled Single Female 2004]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Untitled (Single Female), 2004 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Untitled Skylight]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Untitled (Skylight), 2004 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Untitled Interior Columns]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Untitled (Interior Columns), 2004 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Exploration Junk 1999]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Exploration (Junk), 1999 constructed photograph, platinum/palladium print ![Cottingham Landscaples Animal Sculpture 1999]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Landscapes (Animal Sculpture), 1999 constructed photograph ![Cottingham Fictitious Portrait Triple 1993]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham Fictitious Portrait (Triple), 1993 digitally constructed photograph ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 06](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham-Biology-and-Cosmology-Below-the-Visible-Installation-View-2016_06.JPG) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 06]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 01]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 05]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 07]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham North Gallery Installation View 2007]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham, 2007 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 06](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham-Biology-and-Cosmology-Below-the-Visible-Installation-View-2016_06.JPG) ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 01](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham-Biology-and-Cosmology-Below-the-Visible-Installation-View-2016_01.JPG) ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 05](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham-Biology-and-Cosmology-Below-the-Visible-Installation-View-2016_05.JPG) ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 07](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham/2016-Biology-and-Cosmology/Cottingham-Biology-and-Cosmology-Below-the-Visible-Installation-View-2016_07.JPG) ![Cottingham North Gallery Installation View 2007](/assets/exhibition_images/Cottingham-North-Gallery-Installation-view-2007.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 06]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 01]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 05]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham Biology And Cosmology Below The Visible Installation View 2016 07]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Biology and Cosmology, 2016 installation view ![Cottingham North Gallery Installation View 2007]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Keith Cottingham, 2007 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art 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