becky.brwnDELETETHISTEXT@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, 2012; Concentration in Painting
University of the Arts, Berlin; Class of Gregor Schneider. Semester exchange: spring/summer, 2011
Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, 2005 (magna cum laude); Concentration in Visual Arts and English, Honors in Visual Arts
Maryland Institute College of Art, Center For Art + Culture, Aix-en-Provence, France; spring 2004
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE
DNA Residency, sponsored by Freight+Volume Gallery, Provincetown, PA, 2023, 2022, 2019, 2016
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, 2018
The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2018
Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, Wyoming, 2018
North Street Collective, Willits, CA, 2018
Visiting Resident Artist, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016-17
Saltonstall Foundation Residency, Ithaca, NY; 2016
DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA; 2016 and 2019
Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, NY: 2015
Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, NYC; 2014 – 2016
I-Park Foundation Artist in Residence Program, East Haddam, CT: 2013
Stonehouse Residency for Contemporary Arts, Miramonte, CA: 2013
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA: 2012
The WhyNot Place, Delhi, India: July, 2010
Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY: December, 2008
Vermont Studio Center: November, 2007
SOLO and COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS
2024 Two-Person Exhibition, Good Naked Gallery at Future Fair, NYC
2022 Meet on the Ledge, Undercurrent, Brooklyn, NY (3-person)
2022 Dream-Revision-Endeavor: Becky Brown and Annette Cords, Raft of Sanity, Buffalo, NY
2022 Community Has Its Limits, Incident Report, Hudson, NY
2021 Dream-Restart-Experience: Becky Brown and Annette Cords, PS122 Gallery, NYC
2020 Select All the Images with Anxiety, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
2018 The System Is Down, Arts + Leisure Gallery, NYC
2017 Cognition-Stroll: Becky Brown + Annette Cords; Project ARTspace, NYC
2017 Yes You, Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2016 Obvious Oblivious, Dixon Place, NYC
2015 I am Trying Not to Skim, Fort Gondo Complex for the Arts; St. Louis, MO
2014 Data, Dust, Kent Place Gallery; Summit, NJ
2012 The Sidewalk and the Sign, HiArt Gallery, NYC
2010 Warm and Heavy: Becky Brown and Marianna Ellenberg; X3 Projects, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Apex is Nothing, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NYC
Dear Being, Last Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Hot Mess, Shelter Gallery, NYC
2023
Search and Rescue, Readymade Gallery, Orleans, MA
2022
Make Me Belong to You, Good Naked Gallery, NYC
Amid/In WNY 2022, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Kindred, Raft of Sanity, Buffalo, NY
2021
We Sell Lamp, Store Space, Kingston, NY
Cadeaux, Raft of Sanity, Buffalo, NY
Pen Pals, That Time of the Month, in support of NY NICE (online) Live on Five (benefit), Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY
2020
CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response, curated by Carmen Hermo, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
Pungent Dystopia, Freight+Volume Gallery, NYC
Wedding of the Waters, curated by A. Will Brown, Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
PLAY/GROUND, organized by Resource:Art and the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, Buffalo, NY
Darkest Before Dawn: Art in a Time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY
November 2nd, M Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
100 Artists for the Orchid Foundation, VU Galleries (online)
2019
Likely Stories, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, NYC, curated by Freight+Volume Gallery
Tell Us Plainly What You Mean, Aquarius Studios, Queens, NY
Lucky Draw Spring Benefit, SculptureCenter, Queens, NY
Bring Something Pink, Look&Listen and Atelier Seruse, PAC Marseille, France
2018
Saunter Trek Escort Parade… (S.T.E.P….), Queens Museum and Flux Factory, NYC
Summer of Love, Freight + Volume Gallery and Arts + Leisure Gallery, NYC
Plus One, Project ARTspace, NYC
Anti-Nostalgia, The Carrack, Durham, NC
Everybody in the Pool, ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA
2017
Sunday Painter, Laundromat Art Space, Miami, FL
King of the Cockroaches, Hercules Art Studio Program, NYC
King of the Cockroaches, Guest Room, Carrboro, NC
2016
Artistic Developments: Artists and the Language of Real Estate Advertising, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
Portal Art Fair; Federal Hall National Memorial, NYC
Time with Others, Mary Sky, Burlington, VT
DNA Artist Residency Show, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2015
Open Sessions 3, The Drawing Center, NYC
Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-15, The Drawing Center, NYC
Open Sessions at the Poor Farm, Poor Farm Experiment, Manawa, WI
Open Sessions video screening; Queens Museum, NYC
Headaches and Mysteries (exhibition and poetry reading; co-curated with Jen Currin); Brooklyn, NY
Colors, Louis B. James Gallery, NYC
Beg, Borrow or Steal, Recess at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY
Paintings in Trees, People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2014
No, said the Fruit Bowl, Governor’s Island Art Fair, NYC
Iceberg’s Tongue, YoungArts Foundation, Miami, FL
Correspondence: Works and Writings Between NYC and Catskill, Publication Studio Hudson, Catskill, NY
Underdonk Selects; Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
Polish; Rox Gallery, NYC
Time In Benefit Auction, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC
Becky Brown, Kirsten Lamb, Taylor McKenzie-Veal, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence RI
2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, curated by Phong Bui, Industry City; Brooklyn, NY
Miami University Young Painters; Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Image Search, Court Square, Queens, NY
Picture Trail, I-Park Foundation; East Haddam, CT
Novella Gallery Inaugural Benefit; Novella Gallery, NYC
Empty Vestibules: Pictures, Pictures, Pictures and Spaces; This Red Door, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
Time In Benefit Auction; Marianne Boesky Gallery, NYC
2012
Home Goods, Court Square, Queens, NY
I Walk Like a Building, Hunter College MFA Thesis Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, NYC
Taste, Small Black Door, Ridgewood, NY
2011
J.J. Holdings and Friends, at J.J. Holdings, NYC
Red Coat Column Kite, 2-person screening, Cleopatra’s Berlin, Germany / Wschodnia Gallery, Lodz, Poland
Leo Baeck Salon #9, with Klasse Gregor Schneider, Berlin, Germany
Road to Nowhere—True Stories, MASC Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Five Quarters, Kunstfabrik, Berlin, Germany
Living Live, at the LGBT Center, NYC
2010
Fool’s House, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, NYC
The Transforming State, Religare Arts Initiative, Delhi, India
Hell, No! St. Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn NY
Dance Ghost, Vaudeville Park Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Paper Works, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009
Party at Chris’s House, curated by Phong Bui, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn NY
ShapeShifting: Reinventing Heritage, Division of Human Works, Brooklyn NY
It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2002-2008
New Work: Art From the Workers at the New Museum, Stanton Chapter, NYC, 2008
183rd ANNUAL: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, NYC, 2008
Fluid Fields. The Painting Center, NYC, 2007
Is Your Wife on Mars? Solo Mixed Media Installation; Gallery 221, List Art Center at Brown University, 2005
My Love is Mighty Wide. Solo Exhibition: Painting, collage, ephemera; List Art Center Lobby, 2004
Blue Tarp #1. Collaborative Exhibition/Live Performance. Abandoned Warehouse, Brooklyn NY, 2004
Local Stops. Solo Mixed Media Installation; List Art Center, Brown University, 2003
Winterlude. Paintings; List Art Center, Brown University, 2002
Ongoing
Flat Files. Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn NY
COMMISSIONS and AWARDS
Bronx Council on the Arts, “Bronx Recognizes Its Own” Award, 2018
Facebook Artist in Residence Commission, 225 Park Avenue South, NYC, 2017
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, 2016
Becky’s Trail, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, Connecticut; 2013 – 2018 (a series of 10 site-specific sign- paintings along a wooded trail)
Finalist, Grant Wood Fellowship in Painting, University of Iowa, 2015
Hunter College / University of the Arts, Berlin, Exchange Scholarship, 2011
John Koch Award, National Academy Museum, 2008
Roberta Joslin Award for Excellence in Art, Brown University Visual Arts Dept., 2005
ART CRITICISM, PUBLICATIONS, EVENTS
Contributing writer for Art in America, Brooklyn Rail and artcritical.com, 2007-present
Recent texts (see “Text” for links):
“The Memphis Group,” Art in America, April 2015
“Mike Cloud: Bad Faith and Universal Technique,” Art in America, January 2015
“Camille Henrot: The Restless Earth,” Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2014
“Not on the High Line: Scenes from the Gramsci Monument,” artcritical.com, October 2013
“Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth,” Brooklyn Rail, May 2013
Visiting Artist Speaker Series, University at Buffalo, 2021
Poetry and Groceries, with Michael Swierz/Deep Time Chicago, Weinberg Newton Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2021
Artist Lecture, “That Time of the Month” studio visit group for womxn & non-binary artists, 2021
“Currents: An Overwhelming Response” – Screening and Reading (live performance), A.I.R. Gallery, 2020
“Everything Looks Distorted Already: Joan Linder Interviewed by Becky Brown,” Cornelia Magazine, 2020
Visiting Artist Lecture, Ithaca College, 2020
“Painter’s Progress,” catalogue essay accompanying “Take Five” Exhibition, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, 2019
Visiting Artist Lecture, Visual and Critical Studies Department, School of Visual Arts, NYC, 2019
“The System Is Down,” Catalogue accompanying exhibition, published by Arts+Leisure Gallery, including interview with Art Historian Cary Levine and poems by Kristina Martino
“An evening of theater fragments, poems, songs, multiple costumes and two ukuleles” with Tom Cole, soup aka Amy Fung-yi Lee, Catherine Pikula and Larry Krone; Arts+Leisure Gallery, NYC, 2018
Visiting Artist Lecture, Queensborough Community College (Drawing Program), NYC, 2018
Collage City: A Panel Discussion with Lisa Sigal, Gaylord Fields and Laura Y. Liu, Project ARTspace, 2017
Hanes Visiting Artist Lecture, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
Experiments and Disorders, Literary Series (reader), Dixon Place, 2016
Visiting Artist Lecture, Texas State University, 2016
“Blinking, transfixed,” reading program (organizer and reader), The Drawing Center, 2015
A Critics’ Roundtable on “The Forever Now” at MoMA with Raphael Rubinstein, Dennis Kardon, Carrie Moyer, Nora Griffin and Jason Stopa; artcritical.com, 2015
Graduate Admissions Panel, Hunter College MFA Program, 2014
Review Panel: Becky Brown, Raphael Rubinstein, Dennis Kardon; National Academy Museum, NYC, 2013
Guest Lecturer: Seminar on Collaborative Practice, Parsons/The New School, NYC, 2013
Younger Than Pontius Pilate, a Review Panel considering the New Museum’s The Generational: Younger Than Jesus Moderated by David Cohen at the National Academy Museum, New York, 2009
Artist texts, Younger Than Jesus, New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, 2008
Catalogue text, Girl and a Gun, Abaton Garage, Jersey City, NJ, 2008
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Les Gommes: Becky Brown and Annette Cords at PS122,” by Axel Bishop, Two Coats of Paint, 2021
“Dream-Restart-Experience: Becky Brown and Annette Cords in Conversation,” Art Spiel, 2021
Tender Buttons (artwork, writing and music), Moistworks, 2020
“Dwelling in Ambivalence: Pungent Dystopia at Freight+Volume,” NYC, by Ben Tripp, Whitehot Magazine, 2020
Artwork “Search” featured alongside book review “Tech, Please!” Bookforum, 2020
“CURRENTS: An Overwhelming Response” catalogue, including artwork and poem “Sorry Not Sorry,” 2020
Daily Trumpet, Instagram Project by Jonathan Horowitz, 2018
Featured Listing: The System Is Down at Arts+Leisure Gallery, artcritical.com, 2018
Elephant Magazine Image of the Day: “I Want to Squeeze You,” Freight+Volume Gallery, 2018
Mary Sky Season Catalogue, Published by Mary Sky, Hancock, VT, 2018
Cognition-Stroll: Annette Cords and Becky Brown, Jonathan Goodman, Arte Fuse, 2017
Excess Baggage: Interview with Chennie Huang, CH Reviews, 2017
Becky Brown, Annette Cords and Accidental Poetry, Two Coats of Paint, 2017
Becky Brown on Sunday Painter podcast (interview), 2016
Portal – An Art Show at the Federal Hall National Memorial, by Karin Bravin, Site Specific, 2016
Becky Brown at Fink and Theel Contemporary (interview), 2015
Metaphysics of the Kitchen, by Tatiana Istomina, Metaleptic Stories, 2014
Overlapping Codes: Becky Brown and Annette Cords by David Anaya Maya, The Bottom Line, Drawing Center, 2014
Gems Among the Ruins: Governors Island Art Fair Fills Colonel’s Row by Ken Johnson, New York Times, 2014
Summer Lingers at the Governors Island Art Fair by Sarah Cascone, Artnet News
Governors Island Art Fair Lodges in NY Harbor’s Military Ruins by Allison Meier, Hyperallergic, 2014
Art, a Balm After the Storm: ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy” by Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2013
Influx of Information, by Chennie Huang, 2012
Becky Brown by Emily Schlemowitz, Hunter College MA candidate in Art History, 2012
Becky Brown by Paola Cabal, for The Transforming State catalogue, Religare Arts Initiative; Delhi, India, 2010
TEACHING
Assistant Professor of Painting, SUNY University at Buffalo, current
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art, Hunter College: Fall 2012 – 2019
Part-Time Faculty, Parsons School of Design, Fine Arts Program, 2018
Visiting Resident Artist/Visiting Faculty, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016-17
Adjunct Instructor in Visual Art, Brown University: Fall 2013 – Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant, Introductory Drawing with Professor Lisa Corinne Davis (undergraduate), Hunter College, 2012
Teaching Assistant, Beginning and Advanced Painting with Professor Carrie Moyer (undergraduate), , 2011
Teaching Assistant, Combined Media Seminar with Professor Tom Weaver (graduate), Hunter College, 2010
Teaching Artist, Time In Children’s Art Initiative, 2011 – 2019
Teaching Artist, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY: 2019
Text as Image Workshop; Albany Public High Schools, Albany, NY, 2018; in conjunction with Millay Colony’s Art Education Program
Found Object Sculpture Workshop; NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY; 2016