Brian Alfred

Brian Alfred is an artist, podcaster, educator, and curator based out of Brooklyn who has shown his work internationally for the past twenty years. He is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, the NYFA Inspiration Award, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. He is an alumnus of Yale, Skowhegan, and Penn State. His work is in the collections of institutions such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, and others.

He is the host of SOUND & VISION one of the top visual arts podcasts in the world. Selected guest artists include Tom Sachs, Svenja Deininger, Chloe Wise, Fred Tomaselli, Sarah Cain, Inka Essenhigh, Sean Landers, Daniel Heidkamp, and Shara Hughes amongst others.

• BFA from Pennsylvania State University in 1997
• Studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine
• MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT in 1999

• Begin Oil Painting
• Advanced Drawing
• Independent Studies
• Special Topics
• Painting I
• Painting II
• Individual Studies
• Advanced Painting
• Advanced Painting Critique
• Digital Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

• “Future Shock,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

• “Techno Garden,” Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

• “In Praise of Shadows,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY

• “It Takes A Million Years To Become Diamonds So Let’s Just Burn Like Coal Until The Sky Is Black,” Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY

• “New Animations,” Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
• “Beauty in Danger,” Salon 94 Video Wall, New York, NY

• “Storms and Stress,” Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

• “It’s Already the End of the World,” Frist Center for Visual Art, Nashville, TN

• “Co-op,” Giraud Pissarro Ségalot, New York, NY
• “Rise Above,” Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom

• “It’s Already the End of the World,” Haunch of Venison, New York, NY

• “Majic Window,” Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

• “Millions Now Living Will Never Die!!!,” Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany

• “Global Warning,” SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan

• “Surveillance,” Haunch of Venison, Zürich, Switzerland
• “Space is the Place!,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

• “Paper and Pixels,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
• “Conspiracy?,” Haunch of Venison, London, United Kingdom

• “The Future is Now!,” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
• “Overload,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
• “Fallout,” Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

• “New Work,” Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

• Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

• Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• “Fixed Contained,” Kotaro Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “Alex Katz, Brian Alfred, Guy Yanai, Laurel Nakadate, Taro Komiya, Ryunosuke Yasui: Door Into Summer / M’s collection +,” Maho Kubota
• Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “Rag & Bone Mural,” Houston Street, New York, NY
• “Art on Link,” Art on LINK/NYC Kiosks, New York, NY

• “Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

• “The Frame,” Samsung Art TV, Samsung, USA
• “Like Oxygen,” Mountain Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

• “Room with a View,” EDDYSROOM, Brooklyn, NY
• “Art Film,” Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
• “Tokyo / London / New York,” Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
• “Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• “Genbi Shinkansen,” Echigo Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
• “In an Illusion Village: Our Form Connected by Media Art,” Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan
• “Extended Practice,” Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• “Animated! Explorations into Moving Pictures,” Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

• “BLACK | WHITE,” (curated by Brian Alfred), Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
• “The Search For The Real,” (curated by Brian Alfred), DeBuck Gallery, New York, NY
• “Villissima,” Hôtel Des Arts, Toulon, France
• “The Everywhere Exotic,” Culturadora, Art Miami New York, New York, NY

• “BLACK | WHITE,” (curated by Brian Alfred), LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA
• “Art Film,” Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
• “100 Works for 100 Years: A Centennial Celebration,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
• “Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” Lafayette Art Galleries, Lafayette College, Easton, PA
• “Film Cologne,” Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

• “Uncanny Congruencies,” Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• “Art Film,” Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL
• “Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY
• “Epic Fail,” Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY

• “exURBAN SCREENS,” Frankston Arts Centre/Cube 37, Melbourne, Australia
• 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
• “Sourced,” Steven Vail Fine Arts, Des Moines, IA

• “Beyond,” SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
• “Videosphere: A New Generation,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
• “Animations,” The Big Screen Project, Big Screen Plaza, New York, NY
• “Printer’s Proof,” Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY

• “12th International Cairo Biennale,” Cairo, Egypt
• “The Big Screen Project,” Big Screen Plaza, New York, NY
• “Me, Undoubtedly. 1309 Faces,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
• “Aichi Triennale,” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
• “Surface Tension,” South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
• “onedotzero,” The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• “New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000 – 2010,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

• “Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities,” Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
• “The Figure and Dr. Freud,” Haunch of Venison, New York, NY

• “Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art,” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
• “Ru Ru Ru Landscape: How I see the World Around Me,” Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
• “Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks,” Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen, Denmark

• “The Shapes of Space,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• “System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning,” Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy
• “Art Fair Tokyo,” Tokyo, Japan
• “Art Film,” Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

• “The 59th Minute, Times Square Panasonic Astrovision Screen,” Creative Time, New York, NY
• “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
• “Radar: Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
• “New Code,” Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
• “Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

• “Produced at Eyebeam,” Eyebeam, New York, NY
• “Surface,” Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY
• “ART!+*><WORK,” Ignivomous, New York, NY

• “Metropolis,” National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• “Art and Architecture 1900 – 2000,” Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
• “Inaugural Show,” Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• “Trouble in Paradise,” Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
• “Happy Ending,” Kingfisher Projects, Queens, NY

• “Toxic,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
• “Digital Showcase,” Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, TX

• “Group Show,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
• “MFA Thesis Exhibition,” Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

• College of Art & Architecture Faculty Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

• College of Art & Architecture Faculty Research Grant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

• Institute for the Arts and Humanities Individual Faculty Grant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• Jerome Foundation Grant, St. Paul, MN

• Carriage House Arts Residency, Islip, NY
• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

• Excellence Award, Japan Media Arts Festival

• Pennsylvania State University Alumni Achievement Award

• Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, New York, NY
• American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, New York, NY
• Pennsylvania State University Alumni Award, University Park, PA

• New York Foundation of the Arts Inspiration Award, New York, NY

• Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

• Phelps Berdan Memorial Award, Yale University, New Haven, CT
• Skowhegan Match Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME

• Edwin W. Zoller Scholarship, Penn State School of Visual Arts, University Park, PA

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