Exhibitions

1966 The Poets of San Francisco, Piedmont Gallery, Oakland, CA
1967  Monterey Pop Festival, invitational show, Monterey, CA
1967  10th Art Annual, juried exhibition, Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery, CA
1969  Group Show, de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, CA
1969  One-Man Show, Raychem Corporation, CA
1969  San Francisco Art Festival, juried exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF
1970  Dirty Pictures, Psychology Today Magazine, traveling exhibit
1970  The 30th North American International Salon, California State Exhibition, Sacramento, CA
1971  35mm Annual, Popular Photography Magazine
1971  Color Annual, Popular Photography Magazine
1971  Image Circle Show, group exhibit, The Focus Gallery, SF
1971  New Photographics '71, national competition and exhibit, Central Washington State, WA
1971  San Francisco Art Festival, invitational, San Francisco Civic Arts Commission, SF
1971  San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Show, San Francisco Art Institute, SF
1972  Color Annual, Popular Photography Magazine
1973  CREATIVITY 73, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1973  Focuserie, national competitive exhibit, Erie, PA
1973  Memoirs of a Space Cadet, one-man show, Valley Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
1974  Beat Poets, invitational exhibition, deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
1974  CREATIVITY 74, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1974  New Photographics '74, national competition and exhibit, Central Washington State, WA
1974  Selection of Beat Photographs, acquired, Archives of American Artist, Smithsonian Institution
1974  THE ONE SHOW, New York Advertising Club, competition and exhibition, NY
1975  Poets of the Cities, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1975  Portrait of America, competition and a USA Bicentennial tour by the Smithsonian
1975  San Francisco Renaissance: The Beats 1950-60, Gotham Book Mart Gallery, New York, NY
1975  1st All California Photo Show, juried exhibit, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, CA
1975  CREATIVITY 75, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1975  EROTICA, 1st Annual Erotic Art, juried exhibit, Triforium Galleries, San Diego, CA
1975  FIRST LIGHT, national competition/traveling exhibit, The Focus Gallery, SF
1975  Poets of the Cities, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1975  Portrait of America, competition and a USA Bicentennial tour by the Smithsonian
1976  CREATIVITY 76, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1976  E. PLURIBUS UNUM, national competition/traveling exhibit, Floating Foundation, NY
1976  Nude and Erotic Exhibition, juried exhibit, East Bay Artists Association
1976  The 1976 Exhibition of American Photography, juried exhibit, Andromeda Gallery, NY
1977  CREATIVITY 77, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1977  New Photographics '77, national competition and exhibit, Central Washington State, WA
1977  The Last Gathering of Beats, acquired, Archives of American Artists, Smithsonian Institution
1978  CREATIVITY 78, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1978  From the Studio: A Commercial Viewpoint, Camerawork Gallery, SF
1978  KQED Auction Fine Art Exhibition, Crown Zellerbach Plaza Gallery, SF
1978  National Group Exhibit, juried exhibit, Ligoa Duncan Gallery, NY
1979  58th Annual, New York Art Directors Club, international competition and exhibition, NY
1979  AMERICAN VISION, national competition and exhibition, New York University
1979  CREATIVITY 79, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1979  PhotoGraphis '79, annual competition and showcase
1980  CREATIVITY 80, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1980-1984  KQED Auction Fine Art Exhibition, Crown Zellerbach Plaza Gallery, SF
1981  60th Annual, New York Art Directors Club, international competition and exhibition, NY
1981  Creativity in the Commercial World, international invitational exhibit, Focus Gallery, SF
1981  Erotic Photography an Exhibition, national juried show, published by Demarais Studio Press
1982  Kerouaciana, 25 Years On The Road, Naropa Institute, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts
1982  CREATIVITY 82, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1983  CREATIVITY 83, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1984  63rd Annual, New York Art Directors Club, international competition and exhibition, NY
1984  CREATIVITY 84, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1984  THE ONE SHOW, New York Advertising Club, competition and exhibition, NY
1985-92  Christmas Card Art, California Museum Of Photography, University of Calif., Riverside
1986  CREATIVITY 86, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1987  66th Annual, New York Art Directors Club, international competition and exhibition, NY
1987  THE ONE SHOW, New York Advertising Club, competition and exhibition, NY
1990  AMI-EXPO, Art/Video international digital competition and exhibit, NY
1990  CREATIVITY 90, Art Direction Magazine, international competition and traveling exhibit
1994  BEAT ART-visual works by and about the Beat Generation, New York University, NY
1994  Beat Generation Event, Parco Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
1995  Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1995  Our Visual Future, Multi Digital Exhibition, invitational, Academy of Art College, SF
1996  Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney's loan to Walker Art Center, MN
1996  Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney's loan to de Young Museum, SF
1996  CCAC: Past, Present, and Future, 90th Anniversary Festival, work of distinguished alumni
1996  Counter Culture/Haight-Ashbury: 1964-1968, solo show, Great Modern Pictures, NY
1996  REBELS: Beat Artists and Poets of the 1950s, The National Portrait Gallery, Wash., DC
1997  Angelheaded Hipsters, Caffe Centro, solo show, digital and traditional prints, SF
1998  Bob Dylan-The 1998 International Conference at Stanford University, 2 man exhibit, CA
1999  Bad Company, Beat & Counter-Culture exhibit, SkyDeck Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999  Angelheaded Hipsters, solo exhibition, Beyond Baroque Gallery, Venice, CA
1999  Bad Company, 3 person exhibition, SkyDeck Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999  The Art of Rock & Roll group show, SkyDeck Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000  Larry Keenan Gallery, Beat News Exhibition, Big Bridge
2000  Angelheaded Hipsters, Color Arts Gallery, solo show, digital prints, San Francisco, CA
2000  Angelheaded Hipsters, solo exhibition, permanent installation, Dollar Studios, Emeryville, CA
2001  The Whole World is Watching, group show, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
2001  Beat Photography Exhibit, solo show, The Hills Gallery, digital and traditional prints, Oakland, CA
2001  How Extraordinary that the World Exists!, HELLO by Aleksandra Mir, Group Show, CCAC Gallery
2002  Postcards from the Underground, Beat and Counter-Culture retrospective, Calumet Photographic, SF
2003  The ART in Commercial Art: 4+ Decades Retrospective, Solo exhibit, Sarber's Montclair Gallery
2003  International Photography Awards Exhibition, juried, Los Angeles
2003  Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, juried exhibit


2017 The Summer of Love Experience: Art, Fashion & Rock and Roll, deYoung Museum, San Francisco CA
2017 The Summer of Love, From the collections of the Bancroft Library, Bancroft Library, Berkeley CA
2017 The Summer of Love, Groovy highlights at OMCA, Oakland Museum, CA
2018 Ship of Dreams: Artists, Poets and Visionaries of the S. S. Vallejo, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas CA
2019 Beat Visions and the Counterculture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Larry Keenan and his work - Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965 at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY in 1995

Larry Keenan and his work - Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965 at The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY in 1995

Beat and Counter-Culture Publications

City Lights Journal #3, City Lights Books, cover photograph
A Kind of Beatness, 1975, Mark Green, CITY Magazine, San Francisco
The Beat Book, Arthur and Glee Knight, 1974, The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual
The Beat Diary, Arthur and Kit Knight, 1977, The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual
The Beat Journey, Arthur and Kit Knight 1978, vol. 8, The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual
Genesis Angels, Aram Saroyan, William Morrow & Co.
Beat Generation, Yves Pellec, Editions Subervie, France
Neal Cassady, Forsta Tredjedelen, BakhÂll Bolker, Sweden
The Unspeakable Visions of the Individual, vol. 10, Arthur and Kit Knight
September Blackberries, Michael McClure, New Directions Books
Jaguar Skies, Michael McClure, New Directions Books
Antechamber & Other Poems, Michael McClure, New Directions Books
Fragments of Perseus, Michael McClure, New Directions Books
Michael McClure, Selected Poems, by Michael McClure, New Directions Books
Scratching the Beat Surface, Michael McClure, Prentice Hall/Penguin
Bob Dylan Biograph, CBS Records, photograph in the booklet with album
When San Francisco was Cool, 1991, Herbert Gold, Image Magazine
The Holy Goof, a biography of Neal Cassady, William Plummer, Prentice Hall
Dharma Lion, A Biography of Allen Ginsberg, Michael Schumacher, St. Martin's Press
Birth of the Beat Generation, Steven Watson, Pantheon Books
Scratching the Beat Surface, Michael McClure, North Point Press
Sista Dagen Ipoetskolan, Åke Högman, Aftonbladet/Kulture, Sweden
The Beat Generation, Rhino Word Beat, Book inside 3 CD set, Rhino Records
On the Road Again, October 1995, Vogue Magazine
The Beat Goes On, November 1995, Interview Magazine
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, show catalog
REBELS: Beat Artists and Poets of the 1950s, The National Portrait Gallery, show catalog, web site
Beat Culture, by Bonita Y. Lei, Hsiung-Shih Art Monthly magazine, Taiwan
Beatnik to digital, photographer spans eras, Mike Fitelson, The Montclarion
Long Live the BEATS, by Chiori Santiago, San Jose Mercury News
Beat Culture and the New America, by Kevin Ring, Beat Scene magazine, England
Anni Beati, by Emanuele Bevilacqua, Il Venerdi di Repubblica magazine, Italy
Oakland Photographer Takes Photo Exhibit of Beat Poets On the Road, by Les Cowan, MPN
I Want To Take You Higher, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Chronicle Books
Hey Lew, homage to Lew Welch, by Magda Cregg, Bolinas
Jack Kerouac Angelheaded Hipster, Steve Turner, Bloomsfield Publishing, England
Die letzten tage der Beats, by Dirk Görtler, Chelsea Hotel Magazine, Germany
Witnessing the Beats: The Last 5 Minutes, by Joan Dahlgren, North Beach NOW
ICONS, Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, San Francisco Examiner Magazine
Reclaiming San Francisco, by Nancy Peters, City Lights Books
The BEAT Experience, Red Hot Organization, Voyager CD-ROM
Women of the Beat Generation, Brenda Knight, Conari Press
A Conversation with Larry Keenan & Dale Smith, by Stephen Scobie, On the Tracks magazine
Scholars dissect Dylan's work, by Karyn Hunt, San Diego Union Tribune
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, Larry Keenan, an interview Parts 1 & 2, Beat Scene magazine, UK
Beat Writers at Work, by The Paris Review, Random House
Bob Dylan Live, The Royal Albert Hall Concert 1966, Columbia CD set/booklet
Huge Dreams, by Michael McClure, Penguin/Viking
Rain Mirror, by Michael McClure, New Directions Books
The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, by Holly George-Warren, Hyperion Books
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art/Norton
1999 Sundance Film Festival, program photograph for The Source
Postcards from the Underground, a postcard book by Larry Keenan, City Lights Publishing
Screaming with Joy: The Life of Allen Ginsberg, Graham Caveney, Bloomsbury Publishers, UK
Elements of Style, History Books, by Michael Kaplan, GQ Magazine, Oct. 1999
Images of the Underground, by Peter Hegarty, Alameda Journal and The Montclarion newspapers
Bohemia Lost, by Dana Giola, San Francisco Magazine
Les AnnÈes Pop, exhibition catalog, Centre Georges Pompidou, France
Down the Highway, by Howard Sounes, Transworld Publishers (Random House), UK
My Love Affair with Bookshops, by Fang-Ling Jong, Hong Kong
Then and Now: City Lights, by Debra Scherer, L'Uomo Vogue, Italy
The BEAT Generation in San Francisco: A Literary Tour, by Bill Morgan, City Lights Books
Buddhism is not Un-American, by Carl Freire, Kyoto Journal #54, Japan
Hip: a History, by John Leland published by Harper Collins
Studio A, Dylan Review, W.W. Norton Publishing
Once Upon a Velvet Eternity, by Connie Kachel White, The Shocker, WSU Alumni Assoc.
Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll, Continuum Press


Text and Drugs and Rock ’N’ Roll, by Simon Warner, published by Bloomsbury 2013
Our Summer of Love, San Francisco magazine, June 2017

Larry’s ‘Bad Company’ photograph featured on Simon Warners ‘Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll’ , by Bloombery 2013

Larry’s ‘Bad Company’ photograph featured on Simon Warners ‘Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll’ , by Bloombery 2013

Awards

2003  Honorable Mention, International Photography Awards
1990  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 90
1990  First Place, Best Commercial Digital Still, Art and Video Award, AMI-EXPO
1987  ANDY Award of Distinction, Advertising Club of New York
1987  Top Ten, Best 100 Annual Reports, A/R
1987  2 Excellence Awards, New York Art Directors Club, 66th Annual
1986  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 86
1984  Excellence Award, New York Art Directors Club, 63rd Annual
1984  Excellence Award, New York Advertising Club, THE ONE SHOW
1984  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 84
1983  Best in Category, Printing Industries of America
1983  Excellence Award, Printing Industries of America
1983  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 83
1983  Best AD Campaign Award, Electronic Engineering Magazine
1983  Best Annual Report Cover, Venture Magazine
1982  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 82
1981  First Place Award, Portraiture, Industrial Photography Magazine
1981  2 Excellence Awards, New York Art Directors Club, 60th Annual
1980  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 80
1979  Best of the New York AD Club 58th Annual, Graphis Magazine
1979  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 79
1979  Award Annual, Industrial Photography Magazine
1979  Excellence Award, New York Art Directors Club, 58th Annual
1978  Award Annual, Industrial Photography Magazine
1978  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 78
1978  First Place, Second Place, San Francisco Advertising Club
1978  Excellence Award, Communication Arts, Art Annual
1978  Merit Award, East Bay Advertising & Marketing Club
1977  Third Place, Merit Award, Financial World Magazine
1977  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 77
1976  Excellence Award, Printing Industries of America
1976  Merit Award, East Bay Artists Assoc., Nude & Erotic Exhibition
1976  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 76
1976  First Place, Third Place, San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts
1975  Excellence Award, Printing Industries of America
1975  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 75
1975  Excellence Award, San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts
1975  Best of the One Show, Graphis Magazine
1974  Merit Award, Western Advertising Club
1974  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 74
1974  Excellence Award, New York Advertising Club, THE ONE SHOW
1973  Distinction Award, Art Direction Magazine, CREATIVITY 73
1973  Excellence Award, San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts
1973  Distinction Award, National Advertising Federation
1972  Excellence Award, San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts
1972  Merit Award, Western Advertising Club
1971  Excellence Award, San Francisco Society of Communicating Arts
1971  James D. Phelan Award, highest award to California-born artist, Phelan Foundation
1970  Special Citation, Psychology Today Magazine, Dirty Pictures
1969  Purchase Award, San Francisco Art Festival, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF
1966  Kneller Foundation Scholarship, 2 month East/West European tour, Kneller Foundation
1964  First Place, San Francisco Chronicle's Photography Contest
1963  Third Place, Student Architectural Contest, California Home Show, SF
1961  First Place "Freddy Award", Mosaics, National Ceramics Show, SF

Larry Keenan 1961 - First Place "Freddy Award", Mosaics, National Ceramics Show, SF

Larry Keenan 1961 - First Place "Freddy Award", Mosaics, National Ceramics Show, SF

Performance Media


Keenan, Award Winning Documentary, DVD by Kurt Hemmer, PhD, Harper College
Rebel Roar, The Sound of Michael McClure, DVD by Kurt Hemmer, PhD, Harper College
Summer of Love, KRON TV, special documentary presentation, 30 still photos televised
Readers and Writers, The Big Read: Battle of the Books, Last Gathering photo as intro, BBC4 Television
Sweet November, Warner Bros. Film using three Beat prints as background props
Bob Dylan's Biography, Chrisman Films, using 2 Dylan/Beat prints for "Biography", A&E Television
Beat Culture, 40' banner and Duratrans displays at One Embarcadero Center, SF
The Source, photograph used in national advertising for the film by Chuck Workman
The Source, photograph used in the film by Chuck Workman
1999 Sundance Film Festival, program photograph for The Source
West Coast Live, PBS radio show live interview at the SkyDeck Gallery's Bad Company exhibit
Bravo! Style and Arts Channel, Arts & Minds, interviewed at Dennis Hopper's Four Decades show
The Steve Baker Show, KVMR FM radio, interviewed live with Dale Smith about Dylan and Beats
The Last Beat Movie, Sundance Channel TV, interviewed at home with Beat photos and McClure
In the Life, PBS TV, Allen Ginsberg Memorial segment for gay news the year 1997
Beat Culture and the New America exhibit, interviewed at home on the KRON TV 6:00 News
Beat Photograph from the Whitney Museum featured on CBS News Sunday Morning television
The BEAT Experience, Red Hot Organization, Voyager CD-ROM
Title image for The National Portrait Gallery's REBELS: Beat Artists and Poets web site and show catalog
Building facade and icon image for the Smithsonian's REBELS: Beat Artists and Poets
Mondo Bongo, a web site interactive Beat Bar/Cafe, 20 Beat photographs shown, Blue Wolf prod
Performed as an instructor in a TV commercial for the Academy of Art College
Digital techniques and interview featured on the PBS television program Computer Chronicles
Willow Mixed Media produced a half hour computer artist's profile for cable television.
1969 Directed, edited film and sound for 2 films on the artist Jesse Allen for the Vorpal Galleries
Filmed the Mayan, Inca & Aztec Indians in Central and South America for PBS-TV, HBJ Books

Award winning intimate portrait of legendary photographer Larry Keenan, capturing the transformation of the Beat Generation into the burgeoning ‘60’s rock counterculture and his visionary work beyond. Produced by Kurt Hemmer and Co-produced by Tom K…

Award winning intimate portrait of legendary photographer Larry Keenan, capturing the transformation of the Beat Generation into the burgeoning ‘60’s rock counterculture and his visionary work beyond. Produced by Kurt Hemmer and Co-produced by Tom Knoff. - Berkeley Film Festival 2011

Byline Publications

"Surrealscapes" - Camera 35 magazine
"How It's Done/8" - On Campus magazine
"At the End of the Road" - On Campus magazine
"How It's Done/24" - On Campus magazine
"Final Frame" - Darkroom Photography magazine
"Evolution of the Package Cover" - Deluxe PhotoLab manual
"Photo Composition Illustration" - Professional Photographer magazine
"Postcards from the Underground" - Postcard book by Larry Keenan, City Lights Publishers

Postcards from the Underground: Portraits of the Beat Era by Larry Keenan, 2001

Postcards from the Underground: Portraits of the Beat Era by Larry Keenan, 2001

Reviews/Interviews in Publications

"Computer Magic" by Matthew Leeds, .Info magazine
"Digital Photography" by Mikkel Aaland with Rudolph Burger, Random House
"MORRISON, A Feast of Friends" by Frank Lisciandro, Warner Books
"4-Man Show", Piedmont Gallery, Oakland Tribune
"Phelan Awards Exhibit" by Joan Murray, Artweek magazine
"Museum Presents Prize-Winning Photographers" by Miriam Dugan Cross, Oakland Tribune
"Haveman and Image" by Joan Murray, Artweek magazine
"Phelan Awards Exhibit" by Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle
"Photographics/74" by Joan Murray, Artweek magazine
"First Light" by Joan Murray, Artweek magazine
"Digital Retouching with Digi-View & Digi-Paint" by John Foust, NewTek Times magazine
"Author Recaps 'Beat' Era", California College of Arts and Crafts 'Review'
"3-D bridge shirt launches firm" by Lindajoy Fenley, Marin Independent Journal
"Portfolio Larry Keenan", by John McNaulty, The Island Journal
"Sista Dagen Ipoetskolan", Åke Högman, Aftonbladet/Kulture (Sweden)
"Larry Keenan's Show-and-Tell" by David Halsey, Photo District News magazine
"Oakland Photographer and Printer Team Up", Micro Publishing News
"Fractals for New Age Greeting Cards" by David Walker, Photo District News
"Special Effects Move to the Desktop" by Hal Stucker, Photo District News
"Digital Fantasies: The Latest in Backgrounds" by Bob Weibel, Photo District News
"Alamedan's works at N.Y. museum" by Barbara Stevenson, Times-Star
"The rebel Beats embraced" by Laurence Chollet, The Sunday Record
"Beatnik to digital, photographer spans eras" by Mike Fitelson, The Montclarion
"Witnessing the Beats: The Last 5 Minutes" by Joan Dahlgren, North Beach NOW
"Oakland Photographer Takes Photo Exhibit of Beat Poets On the Road", by Les Cowan, MPN
"Red Hot Beats" by Andrew Jervis, On The One magazine
"Photographic Images in the Digital Era", BitWeaver
"Photography in the Time of BitWeavers", BitWeaver
"The Bit Weavers's Loom, KEENAN", BitWeaver
"Beat Culture", by Bonita Y. Lei, Hsiung-Shih Art Monthly magazine, Taiwan
"Long Live the BEATS", by Chiori Santiago, San Jose Mercury News
"Counterculture", Antiques and The Arts Weekly, New York City
"The Beat goes on in Keenan's photos", by Everett Johannes, Times-Star
"Beat Culture and the New America", by Kevin Ring, Beat Scene magazine, England
"Anni Beati", by Emanuele Bevilacqua, Il Venerdi di Repubblica magazine, Italy
"Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, Larry Keenan", an interview Parts 1 & 2, Beat Scene magazine, UK
"Die letzten tage der Beats", by Dirk Görtler, Chelsea Hotel Magazine, Germany
"A Conversation with Larry Keenan & Dale Smith", by Stephen Scobie, On the Tracks magazine
"Endless Night, Encyclopedia of the Doors" by Victoria Ridley
"Say F-Death and Cheese", "Hungry Man, Man", by Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle
"All the news that fits about print" Publisher's Row, by Anneli Rufus, East Bay Express
"Images of the Underground, by Peter Hegarty, Alameda Journal and The Montclarion newspapers
"Beat Eye" by Kevin Ring, JustBooks.com web site, UK
"You got there just in time", web site interview by Carl Williams, JustBooks.com, UK
"Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited" by Clinton Heylin, Morrow
"Down the Highway" by Howard Sounes, Transworld Publishers (Random House), UK
"Life as an Act of Continuous Exploration", by F. Murphy www.thresholdofvisibility.com/larryk.html
"City Lights and the Counterculture: 1961-1974",Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle - Article
"Keenan Exhibit Spans Four Decades", by Katherine Pfrommer, Oakland Tribune

Clip of Larry Keenan from an Amiga special episode on ‘Computer Chronicles’, aired originally in 1988 on PBS.

Beta Testing

Deluxe Paint IV, Amiga version for Electronic Arts
Deluxe PhotoLab, Amiga version for Electronic Arts
Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 550c and 560c printer drivers for Creative Focus

 Speaking Engagements

1999 Featured speaker showing slides and talking about the book Postcards from the Underground at City Lights Books, SF along with Ann Charters
1999 Featured guest on The Show, talking about the books Postcards from the Underground and for The Rolling Stone Book of the Beats on Bay-TV (NBC)
1999 Featured speaker for the Rolling Stone Book of the Beats, at Borders Books and the SF main library
1978-99 Spoke to U.C Berkeley's photography, architecture and computer classes twice annually.
1989 Featured speaker at Minnesota Commercial Industrial Photographers Association meeting at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Special Effects and Photorealism
1988 Photo/Expo 88, Los Angeles Convention Center, gave featured seminar on special effects.
1972-1997 Gave talks over the years to photography classes at Merritt College, California College of Arts and Crafts, Academy of Art College and San Francisco City College
Featured speaker and/or panelist at various PPSF, ASMP and APA meetings over the past 30 years
2000-2001 Guest speaker to the advertising classes at the Academy of Art, SF.

 Studied With (from 1967)

Larry Keenan in the 1960’s

Larry Keenan in the 1960’s

Ieko Hosoe
Jack Welpott
Jerry Uelsmann
Josepha Haveman
Judy Dater
Ken Marcus
Les Krims
Lisette Model
Oliver Gagliani
Ralph Gibson
Robert Bechtle
Robert Heinecken
Robert Schwarzbach
Susan Reed
Wynn Bullock

 Work in Collections of


Allen Ginsberg
Anne Waldman
Bancroft Library
Bob Dylan
Bruce Conner
California College of the Arts
Candace Lightner
Carolyn Carr, curator The National Portrait Gallery
Carolyn Cassady
Chuck Workman
City of San Francisco
David Amram
David Burne
David Meltzer
Dennis Hopper
George Herms
Graham Nash
Gregory Corso
Harry Redl
Hell's Angels of San Francisco
Hiro Yamagata
Ieko Hosoe
Joan Baez
Kaiser Steel
Keir Dullea
Ken Kesey
Kit Hinrichs
Kneller Foundation
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lisa Phillips, curator Whitney Museum
M.H. de Young Museum
Michael McClure
Museum of Modern Art, Book Collective
Oakland Museum
Peter Coyote
Phelan Foundation
Philip Lamantia
Philip Whalen
Robert Frank
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Russ Tamblyn
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art
Smithsonian Institution, The National Portrait Gallery
Steven Watson
Stewart Brand
US Leasing
University of California Art Museum Riverside
University of California Art Museum Santa Barbara
University of North Carolina
William Burroughs

Larry Keenan in front of his permanent collection of work at the Oakland Museum, CA. Photographed by Chelsea Keenan

Larry Keenan in front of his permanent collection of work at the Oakland Museum, CA. Photographed by Chelsea Keenan