Keto Green is a contemporary artist from Detroit, Michigan and an 2022 Emerging Artist Fellow. He creates artwork from found objects, including painted doors that represent his personal struggle and relationship with hardships such as evictions and oppressive poverty conditions. His series of paintings feature various portraits and faces, created on various objects such as found doors, windows, plywood, canvases and handcrafted furniture to highlight the differences in one another and bring to light the beauty he sees in life, despite ongoing challenges he faces.
I am driven to push love and peace into the world no matter my mishaps. I aim to stop violence, uplift mental health and self-love. Unity is key and it starts within. I aim to unite races and nationalities for the better cause of human love and the pursuit of happiness.” – Keto Green
His unique perspective seeks to showcase different minds and perspectives to bring forth his shared reality, through the lens of love. The collection of work is created with his whole soul and heart, and represent a time and place in each other’s lives that shares emotions ranging from struggle and sadness to love and happiness. He attended Lawrence Tech University in Southfield, Michigan and has participated in programs at the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Inside Out and has received recognition from Brad Pitt’s “Make it Right” Foundation.
