Andrew Paul Keiper is a sound artist, sound designer and musician based in Baltimore, Maryland, where he received his MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Photographic and Electronic Media program in 2016. His recent work explores listening and noise, the legacy of atomic weaponry and the frontier between sound art and experimental music. He teaches in the in the Animation, Film & Video and other programs at MICA.
Keiper received his BFA in painting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts in 2002. He has exhibited in Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, New Jersey and Washington DC. In 2016 and 2019 he was a Sondheim Prize semi-finalist, and in 2016 won a Rubys Artist Grant along with collaborator Kei Ito to produce a large scale project.
In January of 2018 Keiper and Ito presented their Rubys project, Afterimage Requiem at the Baltimore War Memorial. The exhibition received coverage by the Washington Post Magazine, the BBC, the Baltimore Sun and others. In 2016, they brought this work, along with others to the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where they exhibited their first large-scale art museum exhibition, Archives Aflame.
Contact Andrew via email at akeiper@mica.edu
Follow him on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/shudderingnoisemachine/