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Steve Keister was born in 1949 Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He attended Tyler school of Art where he received his BFA in 1971 and MFA in 1973 and moved to New York City later that year. Keister is a sculptor and ceramicist whose works have been exhibited at The Whitney Museum, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. He currently teaches ceramics at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.
Keister’s varied body of work includes a variety of media and he works both sculpturally and as a painter. Early works, such as his U.S.O series are made from ply wood and mixed media, while later works such as the Glyph series, are made of glazed ceramic shapes arranged on acrylic painted wood. Some of his works are heavily influenced by Mexican culture as seen in his collection of dinnerware and his recent work that also uses glazed glass attached onto an acrylic covered wood panels to create Mayan inspired images of people and creatures.