Kim Keever graduated in Thermal Engineering from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and was briefly a thermal engineer working primarily on NASA projects. Keever changed careers in the late 1970s to become a full-time artist, yet he has always drawn on his original vocation by retaining a scientific and innovative process in his artistic work. 

Keever first used a water tank to create landscapes, which at first glance are redolent of the Hudson River School and the German Romantic painters. In fact, they are detailed scenes that he built himself by placing objects in a 200-gallon tank. He then dropped a small amount of paint, initially just to create the impression of clouds. He became increasingly interested in the random nature of the addition of paint and in 2013 abandoned landscapes to concentrate solely on abstract images.

Kim Keever lives and works in New York City. His work is in numerous important public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn. Waterhouse & Dodd has represented Kim Keever since 2013. In addition to hosting a highly successful solo show of his work in New York, the gallery has exhibited his Abstracts in London and at art fairs throughout the United States and in Europe. The gallery has placed his work in many collections in the United States and also in South America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Australia.