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Hilja Keading is an American artist best known for her work in video art installation.

Early life and education
Hilja Keading was born on May 16, 1960 in Berkeley, California. Keading earned a B.F.A. in 1982 and an M.F.A. in 1986 in Sculpture and New Genres from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Career
Hilja Keading is an artist best known for her multi-channel video installations. Keading exhibits nationally and internationally, and along with solo exhibitions she has been included in substantial exhibitions such as Unnatural at The Bass Museum, Miami Beach (2012), California Video at The Getty Museum (2008), C.O.L.A. Exhibition, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles (2002), Made in California at Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum (2000), American '90's Video, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (1997), the Third Biennale of Contemporary Art Lyon, France (1996), and Avant Garde Video, the First 25 Years at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1994).

Her four-channel video installation The Bonkers Devotional depicts the artist spending time with a live black bear named Bonkers inside a small room. The Bonkers Devotional premiered in at La Tôlerie in Video Formes, Clermont-Ferrand, France (2007). Appearing on the MOCAtv YouTube channel, Keading is interviewed preceding a video document of The Bonkers Devotional installation. Exhibited in numerous venues including Intelligent Design: Interspecies Art at the Sweeny Gallery, U.C.R. (Riverside 2009), Angles Gallery (Los Angeles 2010), and The Bass Museum (Miami Beach 2012), The Bonkers Devotional has received extensive critical acclaim. Los Angeles Times art critic David Pagel describes Keading's work as "a powerful piece". Micol Hebron authored a favorable article on The Bonkers Devotional for Art Forum, writing that "As Keading and the bear tolerate and negotiate each other's presence without resolution or capitulation, we are reminded of the profound complexities of the worlds we inhabit". In addition Keading received critical praise from Frieze magazine by Ian Chang, noting that "the natural and the human are returned to one, and she is both innocent and culpable for our own worry and our thrill".

A commissioned 28-channel video filmstrip entitled SPLASH is on permanent view at the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX Los Angeles, and the artist was interviewed by Katie O'Brien for the article Digital Art at LAX on Aerochannel (2010).

Keading is a recipient of numerous awards and grants including the Anonymous Was A Woman Award (2014), and the FOCA Fellowship (2013) granted by Fellows of Contemporary Art 'to mid-career artists in recognition of their significant contributions to the California art scene'. In 2012 Keading received an ARC (Artists Resource for Completion) grant through the Durfee Foundation administered by CCI (Center for Cultural Innovation) in support of her project The Gospel According to This Moment, a multi-room installation of projected video and sound. Keading is included in the printed catalog California Video: Artists and Histories published by The Getty Research Institute. The catalog highlights the work and profiles of notable video artists who developed the medium, experimented in approaches and variety of technologies and methods, and influenced culture and the history of video art in California.

Hilja Keading is currently a faculty member teaching at University of California Riverside, Department of Art.

Major works
1) The Bonkers Devotional: In this video installation, large projections of quaking Aspen trees wrap around a small room, in which two separate life-sized projections of Keading interacting with a live trained bear named Bonkers, play at right angles.

(2) Backdrop: A 9-channel video installation, in which footage of Keading patching a severly leaking water hose with Post-it® papers, is edited with multiple crashing backdrops and selected content, projected on two walls and redistributed across 6 monitors on the floor.

(3) Backbrace: A 4-channel video based on a poem titled The Dressing Room by Ramona McCallum which documents an unscripted interaction between a mother and daughter.

(4) Amazing Grace: Keading's first series of short, single-channel videos consisting of unscripted performative content.

(5) The Gospel According To This Moment*: Produced in part with funds from a C.C.I. Artistic Innovation Grant, Anonymous Was A Woman, U.C.R. Fieldwork Research Grant, and a F.O.C.A Fellowship, this multi room installation was recorded over two consecutive years in the Pawnee National Grasslands, the Colorado plains, Garden City Kansas, and Scott City Kansas and features resident youths from Garden City Kansas. * Title inspired by the essay Walking, by David Henry Thoreau, 1862.

Notes and references
Category:American artists Category:Video art Category:Video artists Category:American women artists Category:Installation art Category:Installation artists Category:People from Berkeley, California