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Born and raised in Gilly in the canton of Vaud, Pierre Keller studied music at the Geneva Conservatory and graphic design at the École des beaux-arts et d’arts appliqués in Lausanne. After graduating, he became assistant to the Italian artist and designer Eugenio Carmi (1920–2016) in Genoa in 1965 and worked at the Radinter agency in Geneva the following year. He was drawn to New York at an early age, living with Christo and meeting artists such as Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe. He participated four times (1966, 1968, 1970, 1972) in the Poster Biennale in Warsaw, where his contributions were awarded prizes.

Keller's career as a visual artist began in 1968. In the same year, he received the Swiss Federal Scholarship for both fine and applied arts. His work "KILO-ART," which precisely reflects the weight of his art, became legendary. Since 1975, he has been working with a Polaroid SX-70 camera on his numerous travels, which has become a simple and quick tool for his photographic diary in the social underground of cities. In 1975, he represented Switzerland at the

9th Biennale des jeunes artistes in Paris and in 1983 at the São Paulo Biennial.

In 1995, he was appointed director of the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, which gained international significance under his dynamic leadership. In 2007, he was awarded the Swiss Design Prize in the Merit category for his life's work.

Pierre Keller combines many talents, which he knows how to put to good use with his unique and highly efficient entrepreneurial drive and his global network.