Tommy Keith is a photographer based in Toronto, Canada. He makes photographs of people and places close to where he lives, and his projects often involve returning to the same areas over extended periods of time. 

Contact
Email: tommy.c.keith@gmail.com
Instagram: @t0mmykeith 

Solo Exhibitions
2022    Seeing in the Dark, SFO Museum, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2026    Proof 32, Gallery 44, Toronto, ON
2026    Arcanite Pictures: Oracle in the Aperture, Light Work, Syracuse, NY
2025    EMC Contemporary Launch, Cry Baby Gallery, Toronto, ON
2025    Hapax Magazine, Until Now, Hapax Living Room, London, UK
2024    On Paper, Grimsby Public Art Gallery, Grimsby, ON
2024    On the Shelf, Filter Space, Chicago, IL
2023    Encontros da Imagem Photobook Exhibition, Galeria da Estação, Braga, Portugal
2021    MFA Thesis Show, Hokin Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020    Knotweed, Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
2019    III: Annual Filter Photo Members Exhibition, Fogelson Studio, Chicago, IL
2019    Something Borrowed, Something New, Art Metropole, Toronto, ON
2018    Summer Sun Day Dream, The Lab @ Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA
2017    This is Two Personal, Working Title, Toronto, ON

Awards & Grants
2026    Canada Council for the Arts, Micro-grant
2023    Lucie Photo Book Prize, Finalist
2023    Encontros da Imagem Photobook Award, Finalist
2022    The Burtynsky Grant, Honourable Mention
2021     Daylight Photo Award, Juror’s Pick
2021     Albert P. Weisman Award, Columbia College Chicago
2020    John Mulvany and Bob Thall Scholarship, Columbia College Chicago
2020    Dwight W. Follett Continuing Graduate Student Fellowship
2019     Flash Forward Emerging Photographer, The Magenta Foundation

Education
MFA in Photography, Columbia College Chicago, 2021
BFA in Film Production, Concordia University, 2016

Artist Books
Don’t Forget to Wave, Self-published, Edition of 100, 2023

Collections
Library and Archives Canada
CONTACT Photobook Lab
Rooney’s Photobook Shop

Selected Press & Publications
Courrier International, “Le Petit Monde du Lac,” 1 Oct 2025.
The Globe and Mail, “Opinion: Where the lakers play,” 22 Aug 2025.
FotoFilmic, “Open Exhibition Honourable Mention,” Apr 2025.
Hapax Magazine, “Issue 6,” Christiane Monarchi & Gordon MacDonald, Nov 2024. 
Fisheye Magazine, “Favorites #498,” Melina Ill & Apolline Coëffet, 24 Jun 2024.
Overlapse Books, “Stir the Pot,” Tiffany Jones, 25 Apr 2024.
Arcanite Pictures, “By the Lake,” Brian Van Lau, 22 Feb 2024. 
Booooooom, “Circles,” Anna Schneider, Oct 2022.
Booooooom, “Don’t Forget to Wave,” 27 Oct 2022.
Der Greif Issue 14, “Issue 14: Yes To All,” Sylvie Fleury, Sep 2021.
Der Greif, “Artist Feature,” 23 Jun 2021.
Columbia College Chicago Press, “Mirrors, Men, Mist, Milk,” Mar 2021.
Skylark Editions, “Postcards from the Pandemic,” 15 Dec 2020.
Der Greif, “Guest-Room,” Marie Gomis-Trezise, Sep 2020.
Vogue Italia, “When I becomes we, even illness becomes wellness,” 28 Apr 2020.
The Magenta Foundation, “Flash Forward,” Sep 2019.
The Heavy Collective, “Friday Fry Up,” Jack Harries, 16 Nov 2017.
Fiiiirst, “Edition 2,” Guillaume Tomasi, 2 Jul 2017.
Dazed Magazine, “The most evocative photo stories of the month,” Ashleigh Kane, 2 May 2016.