CV
Born 1974 in Pittsburgh, PA
EDUCATION
1999 MFA, Yale University
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1997 BFA, Pennsylvania State University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 ‘The Beauty in Danger/The Danger in Beauty’ Galerie Springmann, Berlin,
Germany
‘Storms and Stress’ Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012 ‘It’s Already The End Of The World’ Frist Center for Visual Art, Nashville, TN
2011 ‘Co-op’ Giraud Segalot Pissarro, New York
‘Rise Above’ Haunch of Venison, London
2010 ‘It’s Already The End Of The World’ Haunch of Venison, New York (catalog)
2009 ‘Majic Window’ Studio La Citta, Verona
2008 ‘Millions Now Living Will Never Die!!!’ Haunch of Venison, Berlin (catalog)
2007 ‘Global Warning,’ SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2006 ‘Surveillance,’ Haunch of Venison, Zurich (catalog)
‘Space is the Place!’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Paper and Pixels,’ Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Conspiracy?,’ Haunch of Venison, London (enhanced CD ROM catalog)
2004 ‘The Future is Now!,’ Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (enhanced CD
ROM catalog)
‘Overload,’ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
‘Fallout,’ Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA
2003 Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles (enhanced CD ROM catalog)
2002 Max Protetch Gallery, New York (enhanced CD ROM catalog)
2000 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 ‘Mercury Retrograde:Animated Realities’, Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, NYC
2012 ‘exUrban Screens’, The Frankston Arts Centre/Cube 37, Melbourne, Australia
15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
‘Sourced’, Steven Vail Fine Arts, Des Moines, Iowa
2011 ‘Beyond’, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
‘Videosphere: A New Generation’, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
‘Animations’ Big Screen Project, Big Screen Plaza, NY, NY
‘Printer’s Proof’, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, NY, NY
2010 ‘12th International Cairo Bienniale’ Cairo, Egypt
‘The Big Screen Project’ Eventi Plaza HD Screen, NY, NY
‘Me, Undoubtedly. 1309 Faces’ Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
‘Aichi Triennale’, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
‘Surface Tension’, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
‘OneDotZero’, EMPAC Digital Art Center, Troy, NY
‘New Art For A New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2010”, Orange
County Museum of Art, CA
2009 ‘Mercury Retrograde: Animated Realities’ Big Medium Gallery, Austin, Texas
2008 ‘Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art.’ Contemporary Art
Center Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
‘Ru Ru Ru Landscape: How I see the World Around Me’ Shizuoka Prefecture
Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan
‘Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks’ @ Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Denmark
2007 ‘The Shapes of Space,’ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
‘System Error: War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning,’ Palazzo delle Papesse,
Sienna, Italy
‘Art Fair Tokyo.’ Tokyo, Japan
‘Art Film.’ Art Basel, Switzerland
2006 ‘The 59th Minute’, Times Square Panasonic Astrovision Screen, Creative Time,
NYC
‘American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition,’ American
Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
‘Radar : Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection’, Denver Art
Museum
‘New Code’, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
‘Signal Channel : Contemporary Video Art’, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts,
Omaha, NE
2005 ‘Produced at Eyebeam’, Eyebeam, NYC
‘Surface’, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, NYC
‘Art/+><Work’, Office Space, NYC
2004 ‘Metropolis,’ The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
‘Art and Architecture 1900-2000,’ Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Trouble in Paradise,’ Van Brunt Gallery, New York
‘Happy Ending,’ Kingfisher Projects, Queens, NY
2003 ‘Toxic,’ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
‘Digital Showcase,’ Austin Museum of Digital Art
1999 ‘Group Show,’ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
‘MFA Thesis Exhibition,’ Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 Hutson, Laura, ‘Installation View:Brian Alfred’ Nashville Scene. Oct 2, 2012.
2010 Flavorwire, Daily Art Pick, Paul Laster, Feb 3, 2010.
‘Brian Alfred:The End of the World’ Nowness, Jan 19, 2010.
2008 Bradley, Kimberly ‘Artnet.de Digest.’ Artnet.com, Feb 2008.
Stephenson, Sarah ‘Brian Alfred: Millions Now Living Will Never Die!!!’
ArtKrush, Issue 80, March 19, 2008
‘Brian Alfred.’ ArtNews Magazine, June 2008.
2007 Cash, Stephanie ‘Report from Colorado.’ Art in America, Feb 2007.
Goto, Shigeo ‘Brian Alfred.’ Esquire Magazine Japan, June 2007.
Satterthwaite, Julian ‘Flat But Expressive.’ The Daily Yomiuru, April 7, 2007.
2006 Boucher, Brian ‘Brian Alfred at Mary Boone.’ Art in America, June/July 2006.
Vogel, Carol ‘Big and Bold.’ The New York Times, March 3, 2006.
2005 The New Yorker. ‘Brian Alfred.’ Goings On About Town, September 19,
2005.
Zinman, Greg. ‘Brian Alfred: Paper and Pixels.’ ArtKrush, Issue 15,
September, 2005
Johnson, Ken. ‘Surface.’ The New York Times, June 24, 2005.
2004 The New Yorker. ‘Trouble in Paradise.’ June 28, 2004.
Johnson, Ken. ‘Brian Alfred.’ The New York Times, March 26, 2004, E37.
The New Yorker. ‘Brian Alfred.’ Goings On About Town, April 5, 2004.
The Village Voice. ‘Brian Alfred.’ Voice Choices, April 5, 2004.
Time Out New York. ‘Brian Alfred.’ Critic’s Picks, Time Out New York, April
5, 2004.
Alfred, Darrin. ’The Garden in the Machine: The Paintings of Brian Alfred.’
Loud Paper 4, no. 3 (2004).
Nilsen, Richard. ‘Artist Dissects Life.’ The Arizona Republic, November 21, 2004
Schepper, Ron. ‘Sounding Board: Brian Alfred.’ Grooves Magazine, July
2004.
2003 Tema Celeste. ‘Brian Alfred,’ September/October 2003.
Worman, Alex. ‘LA Confidential,’ Artnet Magazine, 2003.
Dwell Magazine. ‘The Art of Architecture,’ September 2003.
2002 Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting, New York: Phaidon Press, 2002.
ZingMagazine. ‘Why I Don’t Leave the House,’ Fall 2002.
XLR8R Magazine. ‘Surreal Sounds,’ 2002.
Casa Brutus (Japan). ‘NY Art,’ November 2002.
2001 Robinson, Walter. ‘Weekend Update.’ Artnet Magazine, 2001.
Afterhours (Tokyo). ‘Brian Alfred.’ 15 (2001): 50–55.
Harris, Jane. ‘Brian Alfred at Max Protetch.’ Art in America, December
2001.
Humphrey, David. ‘New York E-Mail.’ Art Issues, Spring 2001.
Johnson, Ken. ‘Brian Alfred.’ The New York Times, March 9, 2001, E37.
AWARDS
2011 Excellence Award, Japan Media Arts Festival
2008 Penn State Alumni Achievement Award
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
Penn State Alumni Award
2005 New York Foundation of the Arts Inspiration Award
2003 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999 Phelps Berdan Memorial Award
Skowhegan Match Scholarship
1997 Edwin Zoller Scholarship
COLLECTIONS
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York
Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey
Orange County Museum of Art, California