Keith Cottingham

Keith Cottingham is an American artist who specializes in creating digitally manipulated photographs to comment on perceived notions of identity and time/space.

EDUCATION

Cottingham attended the Center for Computer Art in San Francisco from 1987-88. In 1988, Cottingham appeared on Artist Television Access in San Francisco for his work entitled “The Self and its Other; the Beautiful, the [...], the Artificial.” In that same year, he received a B.A. from the Center for Interdisciplinary Programs at San Francisco University. In 1989, he attended the Computer Arts Institute of San Francisco. Every year since 1991, he has done a solo or joint exhibition with other artists. Being born in Los Angeles in 1965, he has remained in California by residing in San Francisco and completing his work there. With his training in the science of computers, Cottingham has applied his knowledge of digital technologies to manipulate and create all of his photographic images throughout his twenty-year career as an artist.

TECHNIQUES

Cotting uses traditional art techniques of anatomical drawings and sculpted clay models to create his photographs. He also uses paints digitally and uses montage to create photographs, which appear to be only one layer.