Philip Van Keuren was born in Dallas in 1948 and received his B.F.A. (1974) and M.F.A. (1977) degrees in studio art from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He currently serves as professor of art. Van Keuren was the director of the Pollock Gallery for the Division of Art at the Meadows School from 1991 through 2012, where he curated a number of notable exhibitions.
Van Keuren attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York in 1975 and is a 1978 and 2009 Fellow of MacDowell. During the early 1980s Van Keuren constructed architectural models for the renowned American architects I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, and Philip Johnson, among others, and was a visiting artist at Brown University in 1989.
Van Keuren completed a poetry residency at the Vermont Studio Center in March 2007. His book Monody: Selected Poems 1978–2009 was published in conjunction with the exhibition Philip Van Keuren: Forty Years of Works on Paper 1969–2009 at The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) in Dallas. As an artist he has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1971, including a one-person show at the IPA Gallery/Islensk grafik, Reykjavík, Iceland, in 2011.
