BRAD BROWN
Born in North Carolina in 1964. Currently lives and works in San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
1987
BFA Painting and Printmaking Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2018
Paintings, Space 124, San Francisco, CA
2015
Love Gasoline, Gridspace, Brooklyn, NY
16 Paintings, Shibumi Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2012
New and Selected- Paintings and Drawings, Weigand Gallery, Belmont, CA
2010
Serials, Todd Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
Piece, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Getting Used to Using Each Other, Jundt Art Museum, Spokane, WA
Collector, Lemberg Gallery, Detroit, MI
2005
The Wall and the Page, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
By and By, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
one sixteenth for every quarter and eighth, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Landscapes and Mugshots (and 32 Witnesses), Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
The Look Stains, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001
The Look Stains, Fassbender Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
A Sucking System, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1999
New Etchings and a Wall Installation, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1998
Blind Fields, SF Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawings, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Headlands, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1995
The Liberty of Caged Animals, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1994
The Look Stains (Fragments and Notations), Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
More than 700 Years, SFAI, Fort Mason Campus, San Francisco, CA
Summer Choices, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2017
This Is Not Normal, Fo Kia Nou 24/7, Athens, Greece
2016
Plus One, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
2014
Simply Drawn: Gifts from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Columbus Museum, Georgia
Shark’s Ink: Collaborations, Pattern Shop Studio, Denver, CO
2013
Yes, No, Maybe: Artists Working at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Ink, Paper, Scissors, Kimball Art Center, Park City, Utah
Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center, Katonah Museum of art, Katonah, NY
2012
Happy Birthday, John Cage, Feldman Gallery at PNCA, Portland, OR
2011
One Thing Leads to Another: Seriality in Works on Paper, ICA, San Jose, CA
Absence/Presence, University Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA
Magna Carta, Cain Schulte Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008
Abstract Mash-Up, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
2007
New Directions in American Drawing, Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA
New Directions in American Drawing, Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
Printerly Prints, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut
2006
Fine Art of the Print, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
2005
Marking Time Mapping Thought, San Francisco Arts Commission, SF, CA
The Fine Art of Prints, Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
2004
Fine Lines, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
2003
In the Making—Contemporary Drawing from a Private Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2001
Current Holdings: Bay Area Drawing, Palo Alto Art Center, CA
Brad Brown, Gay Outlaw, Laurie Reid, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Kinds of Drawing, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2000
The Great Novel Exhibition, Palo Alto Art Center, CA
1998
Continuing in California, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
1997
New Work: Drawings Today, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
1996
Interior Lines, Palo Alto Art Center, CA
1995
Obsession (Juror, Gary Garrels), Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1994
Selections Fall, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1993
Drawing First (Juror, Ann Philbin), Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Object, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020
David M. Roth, “Brad Brown and Christopher Miles at Patricia Sweetow”, Square Cylinder, January 21
2019
Vázquez-Concepción, Ángel Rafael, Interview with Brad Brown, The Cranium Corporation podcast series, July 6
Marioni, Tom, Vision #6, published by Crown Point Press
2013
Judith Brodie and Adam Greenhalgh, Yes, No, Maybe, National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue
Linda Geary, Studio Visit, published by Edition One Books
2012
Kenneth Baker, “Brown Likes Things Unresolved”, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb 11
Kathan Brown, Know That You Are Lucky, published by Crown Point Press
David M. Roth, “One Thing Leads to Another”, Square Cylinder, January 17
2009
Brian Shure, Magical Secrets About Chine Colle’, published by Crown Point Press
2008
Lea Feinstein, “Abstract Mash-Up”, Artnews, December
2005
Linda Yablonsky, “Brad Brown”, Elle Décor, October
Damien Knoll, “Here’s to the Lookers”, Chicago Journal, November 10
2004
Kenneth Baker, “Arresting Art in State of Fluxus”, San Francisco Chronicle, May 15
2002
Stephanie Cash, “Surviving and Thriving”, Art in America, November
2001
Damien Knoll, “Singular Moments Glimpsed in Chaotic Times”, Chicago Journal, April 12
Maria Porges, “Brad Brown at Susan Cummins”, Art in America, March
2000
Kenneth Baker, “Brad Brown”, Artnews, December
Kenneth Baker, “Piecing Together Meaning from Brown’s Fragments”, SF Chronicle, September 16
1998
Kenneth Baker, “Brad Brown”, Artnews, May
Kenneth Baker, “Exciting Drawings Created by a Roll of the Dice”, SF Chronicle, February 5
1997
Reena Jana, “New Work: Drawings Today”, Flash Art, October
David Bonetti, “’Drawings’: A Portrait of Young Artists”, SF Examiner, January 29
1995
Kenneth Baker, “Brad Brown- The Unfinished Line”, Artnews, March
1994
Kenneth Baker, “Exciting Glimpse of Artist’s Process”, SF Chronicle, January 8
Betty Klausner, “Brad Brown”, Art in America, July
Holland Cotter, “Selections Fall ‘94”, NY Times, September 23
Jamie Brunson, “San Francisco Fax, Brad Brown”, Art Issues, March
Sylvia Ruben, “State of the Art in the Bay Area”, SF Chronicle, January
David Bonetti, “Alternative Production Looks from Floor Up”, SF Examiner
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
MoMA, New York, NY
SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
Arkansas Museum of Art, Little Rock, AK
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Jundt Museum of Art, Spokane, WA
International Collage Center, Milton, PA
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Art Bank Program, US Department of State, Washington, DC
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
AWARDS
2007
Workshop Residency- Dieu Donne’ Papermill, NY, NY
2000
Artist in Residence- ARCUS PROJECT, Moriya, Japan
1998
California Arts Council Grant, Sacramento, CA
1999
Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute
1997
Ruth Chenven Foundation Grant, New York, NY
Artist in Residence- Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Artist in Residence- Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1996
Western States Art Federation Grant, Sante Fe, NM