Keith Piper (1960- ) is a multimedia artist, curator, and researcher.  In the early 1980s, Piper was a founder member of the Blk Art Group a cohort of young artists of African Caribbean descent. They were inspired by the British Black Arts Movement and sought to answer what Black art was and the future for Black artists.  ⁠He established a research-driven approach to his practice prioritizing exploration over an attachment to any particular media. This means he moves from painting to photography to computer technology fairly easily.  Piper received his BA in Fine Art from Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham in 1983. He received his MA in Environmental Media from the Royal College of Art in 1986. He received two honorary doctorates from the University of Wolverhampton and Coventry University in 2002 and 2023 respectively.  ⁠