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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
- Parts & Labor, San Antonio, TX, 2025
- DNA Residency, sponsored by Freight+Volume Gallery, Provincetown, MA, 2024, 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
2025
- Word-Powered: Exploring Free Speech Through Art, National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA
- Signal Intelligence, curated by Leslie Weissman, Loft Projects, NYC
- Text-ure, CICA Museum, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
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
- Hand-painted graphic, MacDowell Fellows Engagement Committee, 2024
- 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
- “The Casserole Series Journal: The Internet is for Lying,” published by Day Job Press, 2025
- 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
- Echoes of Jensen: Pratt’s ‘The Apex is Nothing’ Asks Us to Engage Beyond Conditioned
Responses, by Stephen Wozniak, Observer, 2024 - The Apex is Nothing, The New Social Environment #1067, The Brooklyn Rail, 2024
Art Problems with Paddy Johnson, podcast, Episode 58, 2024
Silent Disco – Artist Becky Brown, What’s My Thesis? with Javier Proenza, podcast, 2024 - “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