Kat Keene elevates the human experience into something stylish, visually stunning and deeply felt.
Her diverse body of work across commercials, music videos, television and video journalism stands out for its emotional integrity and passionate engagement with the messy, complicated and ultimately beautiful business of being alive.
From the moment Kat first picked up a camera as a teenager in North Carolina, she has been guided by a driving curiosity about the world and its inhabitants. That has lead her to Canadian mountaintops and the depths of the Sahara, but also into the intimate confidences of people who have trusted her in telling their stories. Her work with brands like Amazon, Lincoln and Verizon is marked by a similar sense of collaboration, as she leverages her unique capacity for connection and singular taste in fashion, interior design and music in the service of expressing essential truths.
Kat launched her career as one of the youngest directors in MTV history when she lent her signature lens to the inaugural seasons of the blockbuster 16 & Pregnant and Teen Mom series — later writing about her experience for The Guardian when research showed the shows dramatically reduced teen pregnancy. In the years since, Kat has traveled the world creating short films and photographs for National Geographic, directed documentary series exploring aspects of the human condition from surviving domestic violence to slaying beauty school, and found a vibrant niche in brand work.
After 15 years of the LA/NY shuffle, Kat now divides her time between her home in New Mexico and the driver’s seat of a truck heading towards the most interesting place on the map.