KEITHLYN STETER ALVES
Fine Artist
Works
THE CONDUIT
women's adornment as constraint, removal as liberation
In the Dark, Mistaken for the Sun
not everything that glows is the sun: where light becomes unreliable
Films
A Story of Suffering and Healing
a connection through video of life and sexuality
Miscellaneous
film as film, from dreams to love
Biography
Keithlyn Steter Alves is a multidisciplinary artist from a Brazilian background, currently based in Florida. Raised within a religious framework that emphasized the body as a site of purity and discipline, her work reflects an ongoing negotiation with and departure from those values. Acts such as cutting her hair short, emerge not only as personal decisions, but as gestures of resistance. Rejecting ideals of preservation, modesty, and control that once shaped her understanding of the body.
Working across sculpture, installation, and material experimentation, Steter Alves’s practice explores themes of power, enforced beauty, and the tension between reverence and rebellion. Her work investigates how systems of belief embed themselves into physical form, questioning what it means to reclaim autonomy over one’s body in the aftermath of imposed identity.
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CV
Exhibitions and Publications
- [CC]: To Control the Conduit | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Apr 6 - 10, 2026
- Solo show: In the Dark, Mistaken for the Sun | Savage Gallery, Sarasota, FL Feb 27 - 28, 2026
- The Distance of Blue | Millennium Film Workshop, NY Mar 6, 2026
- Backstage | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Jan 30 - Feb 15, 2026
- 3140: The Space Between | SPAACES Gallery, Sarasota, FL Jan 29 - Feb 7, 2026
- The Distance of Blue | The Wrong Biennale 7th Edition, Virtual Gallery Nov 1, 2025 - Mar 31, 2026
- Inside the Black Cube | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota FL Oct 3 - Nov 2, 2025
- Reflections II | Raw Space, Vero Beach, FL Sep 5 - 27, 2025
- Unfinished | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Sep 5 - 20, 2025
- Oddities | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota FL Nov 1 - 16, 2024
- Dog Days | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Sept 6 - Oct 5, 2024
- Best of Ringling | Ulla Searing Center Exhibition Hall & Crossley’s Virtual Gallery, Sarasota, FL Apr 17, 2024
- Big Girls Don't Cry | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Feb 17 - 23, 2024
- CLUSTERF*#K!??!? | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Dec 1, 2023 - Feb 2, 2024
- I am who I am | Crossley Gallery, Sarasota, FL Oct 13 - 21, 2023
- Girls Right The World Publication | Virtual Gallery - Issue Seven, Spring 2023, Virtual Gallery Feb 2023
- Indian River State College: Art Competition | IRSC Virtual Gallery Apr 2020
- Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools: Art Competition | Hobe Sound Gallery, Hobe Sound, FL 2020
- Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools: Art Competition | Hobe Sound Gallery, Hobe Sound, FL 2019
- Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools: Art Competition | Hobe Sound Gallery, Hobe Sound FL 2018
Leadership and Awards
- Ringling College of Art and Design Student Ambassador Sep 2025 - Present
- American Chemical Society Scholar 2022 - Present
- Best of Ringling Art Competition: Apr 2026
- Ringling College of Art and Design Trustee Nominee Jan 2025
- QuestBridge National College Match Finalist Dec 2021
- QuestBridge College Prep Scholar Mar 2021
- Yale Norfolk School of Art Nominee Jan 2025
- Ringling SGA Fine Arts Senator 2024 - 2025
- Best of Ringling Art Competition: Bronze Jurors Selection April 2024
- Fine Arts Student Spotlight Sep 2023
- Girls Right The World Publication Feb 2023
- American Chemical Society Project SEED Scholar 2022
- The Gates Scholarship Finalist Nov 2021 - 2022
- Duke TIP 2017 - 2022
- Indian River State College 1st Place Art Competition April 2020
- Florida Association of Christian Colleges and Schools (FACCS): Art Competition
- 1st place award 2020
- 2nd place award 2020
- 1st place award 2019
- 2nd place award 2019
- 1st place award 2018
Artist Talks
- Saint Edward’s School: Port St. Lucie, FL Nov 2025
Collections
- Private Collection: Sarasota, FL
- Private Collection: Vero Beach, FL
Education
- Ringling College of Art and Design (RCAD) | BFA August 2022 - May 2026 - School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) | BFA Spring 2025