Keene Kopper

Info

Contact:
office (at) keenekopper (dot) com

Film Resume:here

Bio:

Keene Kopper (b. 1979) trained and worked as a design architect in Massachusetts (‘03-’05) and then in New York City for Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects (‘05-’09). While working as a design architect for six years he maintained his artistic practice, producing artwork, and curating arts-specific events.

Keene's core focuses are design, fabrication, and immersive experience; with those focuses, his work includes film and photo set and prop budgeting, design, documentation, and fabrication, exhibition design, curation, residential and commercial design, and construction. He's also the founder of May gallery & residency (2012-2016), a non-profit based in New Orleans, which has received grants from the Warhol Foundation, the Mondriaan Foundation, and a number of other local, regional, national and international foundations.

MOMO, BUTT JOINTS, at May gallery & residency, 2013

Selected Clients / Directors

HBO A24 / Sam Levinson
Interscope Records / Dave Meyers
Mad Minds / Sheldon Schwartz
R.E.I. / Fictitious Productions
Todd Lewis / Cuba Gooding Jr.
Jidenna / Alan Ferguson
Mad Pictures / Adam Donald
Ragu / The Chartrands
FOX TV / Robert Deaton & Tyler Perry

Artists

Lotte Geeven
MOMO
Nicolas Sassoon
Reynold Reynolds

+more

Keene has worked in the film and tv industry since 2015. He started as a set dresser, prop maker, leadman, and since 2018, he has focussed on set design (ADG Local 800), art direction and production design. He has a 15+ year background in architecture, construction, and contemporary art production.

He is also the founding Executive and Artistic Director (2012-2016) of May gallery & residency, a 501c3 non-profit based in New Orleans. Under his direction May has received grants from the Warhol Foundation, the Mondriaan Foundation, and a number of other local, regional, national and international foundations.

All photography and renderings by Keene Kopper unless otherwise noted.

'Keene Kopper' logo font, ManifestDestiny OT, by Jack Usine