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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 AmericaBrooklyn 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