Jonathan Keats is an American critic, journalist, novelist, and artist born in 1971. He is best known as a conceptual, installation, and performance artist. However, he also is the art critic for San Francisco Magazine, writes a weekly art column for Forbes.com, and has contributed art criticism to Art & Antiques, Art + Auction, Art in America, and Salon.com. His writing on the arts and sciences has also appeared in Wired Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Keats has also published several books, fiction and non-fiction, including, Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age (2012), The Pathology of Lies, Lighter Than Vanity, and The Book of the Unknown (2009), among others. His conceptual art has been exhibited at venues worldwide including the Berkeley Art Museum and the Hammer Museum.
At MacDowell, he wrote three new fables for his work-in-progress, The Book of the Unknown. His second novel, Lighter Than Vanity, would be published in 2005.
