GILLIAN BROWN
2151 185th Street #14, Fairfield, IA 52557
641 472-5069
gillianbrown@alumni.brown.edu
EDUCATION
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, photography
MAE, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
BA, Brown University, Providence, RI, art major
AWARDS AND HONORS
2010, 1993 Iowa Arts Council Grants
1999-2000 Bunting Fellowship, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, photography ($20,000)
1990 Art Matters, Inc., New York, NY, Grant
1990,87 Maryland State Arts Council Work-In-Progress Grants
1985,84 The Artists Foundation and Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
1980 Purchase Award, “Eccentricities,” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1979 Ford Foundation Traveling Scholarship
1977 Purchase Award, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS AND INSTALLATIONS
2022
The Quality of Being Fleeting: Cherie Sampson and Gillian Brown
May 27 – September 12, 2022, Currents Gallery 826, Canyon Road, Santa Fe
2013, 2003
Icon Gallery, Fairfield, IA
2009
“On Becoming,” St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA;
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
2005
“Parallel Play”, Flatfile Gallery, Chicago
2007
“Minding matter,” Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA;
“Fieldwork: Placing Space in the Colorfield Remix,” Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD (solo)
2006
“Five Works on Becoming,” Montepelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD
2004
“each/other,” project room, Flatfile Galleries, Chicago
“Turnaround,” Flatfile Galleries, Project Room
2003
“Each/Other: Vanishing Point,” I Space Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, site work
1996
Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery, Washington, DC
1992
Jones, Troyer, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC
1990
Notre Dame College, Baltimore, MD
Washington Project for the Arts, two permanent site works
1987
“Constructions,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC;
Gatehouse Gallery, Mount Vernon College, Washington, DC
1986
Andover Gallery, Andover, MA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Earth’s Other: A Group Show of Experimental Prints
Sept 30 – Dec 30, 2022, Currents Gallery 826, Canyon Road, Santa Fe
2017
“The Internal Machine,” The Center for Book Arts, NY, NY 10001
2014, 2016, 2022
“Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival,” NM
2013
“Private Universes/Personal Spaces,” SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2012
“Refocus: Multicultural Focus,” Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, an installation of recent work, part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, organized by the Getty Museum
2009
“Residual Reality,” Robert Heinecken’s students and contemporaries, UWEC, Eau Claire, WI
2008
Flatfile Gallery, Chicago, video sculptures
2007
International Film Festival, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
2006
“Black/White,” Flatfile Galleries, Chicago
“The visible and the invisible,” Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
2001
“Sound and Fury,” Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000
“Rapture,” Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1999
“A Range of Views,” Bunting Gallery, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA
1998
“Each/Other,” Des Moines Art Center, projected video installation, in “Iowa Artists”
“22 Dollhouses,” Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Paraphotography,” Maier Museum, Lynchburg, VA, guest curated by Charles Hagen
1997
“Meditations,” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
“Thresholds: Limits of Perception,” Eight Floor Gallery, NY, NY
1996
“Anxious Libraries,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1995
“The Drawing Show,” Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
“Iowa Artists,” Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
1994
“Boston Now,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Off the Mall,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“A View from Baltimore to Washington,” Fine Arts Gallery, University of MD, Baltimore County
“Doubletake,” Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC
1992-94
“Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980,” Laguna Museum of Art (traveling); DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA; Friends of Photography, San Francisco; Des Moines Art Center
1991
“Bedrooms,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New York, NY
1990
“Other Rooms,” a Kunstraum project, Morgan Annex, Washington, DC
“Photographic Installations,” Photofest, Houston Center for Photography
“Options ’90,” Washington Project for the Arts
“Constructed Spaces,” Photographic Resource Center, Boston
1989
“Installation,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
“Extended Photographs,” Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, MD
“In Site,” Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Corporation, Los Angeles
“Maryland On View,” Maryland Art Place, Baltimore
1988
“Representation, Perception, Conception,” Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Fullerton Museum
“Site Works by Gillian Brown, Kate Erickson and Mel Zeiger Dan Graham, Jeff Weiss,” St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s City, Maryland
1987
“Living Spaces,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
“Constructed Narratives,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, New York, NY (three person)
“Poetics of Space: Contemporary Photographic Works,” Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
1986
“Out of LA,” Allied Arts Gallery, Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas
“The Altered Image,” Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA
1985
“Celebrating Two Decades in Photography,” Frederick S. Wight Galleries, UCLA
1982-3
“New American Photographs,” The Art Gallery, California State College, San Bernadino (traveling)
1982
“Inquiry,” Frederick S. Wight Galleries, UCLA
1981
“Five American Photographers,” Minneapolis College of Art and Design
“Photography, Five Directions,” Rex Wignall Museum Gallery, Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA
“Multicultural Focus–A Photography Exhibition for the Los Angeles Bicentennial,”
Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
“Photofusion,” Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY
1980
“Eccentricities,” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS OF ARTIST’S WORK
(*INDICATES REPRODUCTION OF WORK)
2017
McGlynn, Tom: “The Internal Machine,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 13
2016
*Hugunin, James R: Afterinage: Critical Essays on Photography, JEF Books, DeKalb, IL
2013
Wider, Susan, “Private Universes/Personal Spaces,” THE, Santa Fe Magazine for the Arts, June
2008
Mahoney, J. W., “Report from Washington, D.C.,” Art in America, May
2007
*Magner, J.J., “Artist Profile: Gillian Brown,” Hill Rag, Washington, D.C., November
*Photography from the Pompidou Center, 30th anniversary photography catalog from collection, Paris
2004
*Michael Klant: Grundkurs Kunst 4 – Aktion, Kinetik, Neue Medien, Braunschweig: Schroedel, 2004, pp.152/153 (textbook and DVD compiling new media works).
2003
*Wolf-Krantz, Claire: “Gillian Brown and McCaslin Frick at I Space,” Art in America, October
*Camper, Fred: “Small Victories: Gillian Brown at I Space,” Chicago Reader, February 28
Review, Mouthtomouth, Spring 2003.
1998
*Hagan, Charles: Paraphotography, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA, catalog
*Dorsey, John: “Creating big impact on a small scale,” Baltimore Sun, February 18 *
*Torres, Anna Maria & Pelli, Denis: Thresholds: Limits of Perception, NY Arts Magazine, catalog
1997
*Kemmerer, Allison: The Constructed Photograph, Addison Gallery of American Art, catalog
1996
*Protzman, Ferdinand: “It’s the Thought that Counts,” The Washington Post, March
1995
*Renner, Eric: Pinhole Photography, Focal Press, Boston *
1994
*Miller, Lenore D.: “Manipulated Environments: Photomontage into Sculpture,” Camerawork, Spring/Summer
1993
*Desmarais, Charles: Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (book published in conjunction with show)
1991
*Louie, Elaine: “Artists Give Bedrooms a Nautical Motif,” New York Times, January 31
1990
*Dorsey, John: “Local retrospective explores photography’s illusionistic nature,” The Baltimore Sun, October 10
*Welzenbach, Michael: “Non-Stock Options,” The Washington Post, January 17 *
*Dorsey, John: “‘Options’ offers thought-provoking installations,” The Baltimore Sun, January 12
*Wise, Kelly: “When photographers create their own fictional worlds,” The Boston Globe, April 21
1989
Dorsey, John: “Photograph as social commentary,” The Baltimore Sun, April 15
1988
*Raczka, Robert: “At About Now,” Re: Presentation Conception/Perception, LACPS, catalog
1988
*Power, Mark: “Trends & Talent ’88 – Photography,” Museum and Arts Washington, Jan/Feb
1987
*Norklun, Kathi: “Living Spaces,” Artweek, June 6
Gilroy, Roger: “Gillian Brown, Ron O’Donnell, Calum Colvin,” New Art Examiner, April
*Thorson, Alice: “Exposing the lie of the photograph – with wit,” The Washington Times, February 5
*Lewis, Jo Ann: “Ewing’s ‘Constructions’,” The Washington Post, January 31
*Laurent, Amy: “Capturing the Poetics of Space,” Artweek, January 17, Vol. 18, no. 2
1986
*Ludlow, Cynthia: “Explorations of Space,” The Santa Fe Reporter, December 22
*Petra, Tina: “Gillian Brown: Mixed Media installations and Silver Gelatin Prints,” Art New England, April, Vol.7, no. 4
Wise, Kelly: “A multifaceted look at the art of collage,” The Boston Globe, March 4
1985
*Hugunin, James R.: “Uni/Diversity of California, Los Angeles,” Celebrating Two Decades in Photography, The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, catalog
Jussim, Estelle and Elizabeth Lindquist-Cock, Landscape as Photograph, Yale University Press
1984
*Sward, Marilyn and Catherine Reeve: Breaking the Boundaries: Alternative Surfaces and Processes for Photographers, Prentice Hall, Boston
1982
*New American Photographs, California State College, San Bernadino, catalog
*Keating, Tim: “Performance as Photograph/Photograph as Performance,” Inquiry, The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, catalog
*Portner, Dinah Berland: “Photography L.A., The Hot And The Cool,” L.A. Weekly, February 5-11
1981
*Multicultural Focus–A Photography Exhibition for the Los Angeles Bicentennial, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, catalog
1980
*Coleman, A.D.: “Hybridization: A Photographic Tradition,” Photofusion, Pratt Institute, New York, NY, catalog
*Hugunin, James: “Mocking Objects,” Afterimage, October, Vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 12-15
*”The Altered Subject,” Quiver, no. 6, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia
1979
*Photography Year/1979 Edition, Time/Life Books, Alexandria, VA *
Wilson, William: “Perception: Field of View,” Los Angeles Times, May 30
1978
*Artweek, December 8, Vol. 9, no. 42 *
*Insights/Contemporary Female Self-Portraits, David Godine Press, Boston
*Contemporary California Photography, Cameraworks Press, San Francisco, p. 53, catalog
COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Art Museum, Princeton University
Bibliotheque National, Paris
Stephen Mindich, Boston Phoenix
California Institute of the Arts Valencia
California Museum of Photograph, UC Riverside
Centre George Pompideau, Paris
Erie Art Center, Erie, PA
Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA
The Hechinger Collection, International Arts and Artists
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Japan
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.A. Art Collection, Northern Illinois University
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Seattle Art Museum
VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES
Illinois State University; Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Rochester Institute of Technology; St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s, Maryland
GUEST LECTURES
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
UCLA
Loyola Marymount College, Los Angeles
California State College, San Bernadino
Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore
MIU, Fairfield, Iowa
Rochester Institute of Technology
University of Chicago
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Pomona College, Clairmont, CA
Tisch School of Art, NYU
University of Iowa, Iowa City
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
San Francisco Art Institute