Philip Van Keuren
Associate Professor of Art and Curatorial Studies
M.F.A., Southern Methodist University

Philip Van Keuren has taught foundation, sculpture, and printmaking classes at SMU since 1989. As director of the Division of Art's Pollock Gallery, he has organized and curated over 60 exhibitions since 1990 and designed and written nearly 30 exhibition publications during that same period. His catalogues received Texas Association of Museums Mitchell Wilder Awards for Excellence in museum publications in 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2001.

During the early 1980s he constructed numerous building models for the renowned American architects I. M. Pei, Henry Cobb, and Philip Johnson. Van Keuren attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in New York in 1975 and is a 1978 Fellow of the MacDowell Artists Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. As an artist he has participated in over 50 solo and group exhibitions since 1971, including numerous exhibitions at the Dallas Museum of Art and a group exhibition at the Alternative Museum in New York City in 1983. Van Keuren is also a keen gardener and student of garden history.