Brice Brown (born October 10, 1972) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City.
Brown received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MFA from Pratt Institute. His work has been reviewed in the Artforum,New York Times, Art in America and The Village Voice among others. He has collaborated on limited editions with poet Denise Duhamel (for the DVD animation "Laiterie") and artist Trevor Winkfield (for the silkscreen portfolio "I Come In Search Of Walnuts"). Brown has held residencies at Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Vermont Studio Center. As a writer, Brown was an art critic for the The New York Sun from 2005 to 2008, and for City Arts from 2009 to 2010, and has written numerous exhibition catalog essays. He also published and edited an annual arts journal called The Sienese Shredder from 2006 to 2009. He is the current President of the Board of Directors of Visual AIDS in New York City.
2014
I looked down, I realized I had a body; Projective City; Paris, France; Paris-Scope @ Mixed Greens; New York, NY.
2013
Rosebud; site-specific mural installation during Texas Contemporary Art Fair; Houston, TX. In conjunction with Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY.
2012
HOMUNCULUS; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
2011
Service Everyday (Dish Queens); The Box at The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.
2010
Queening; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
2009
Service Every Day (Dish Queen); Jeff Bailey Gallery; New York, NY.
Regal Giant; installation at PULSE Miami; Miami, FL.
2008
American Boy; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
2007
Selling the sound of my voice; vertexList; Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Collaboration with Alan Shockley.
Compasses are banished; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
2005
Walnuts; Della Brown Taylor Gallery, Davis Fine Arts Building, West Virginia State University; Institute, WV.
2014
The Age of Small Things; DODGE gallery; New York, NY. Curated by Chuck Webster.
2013
Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase: An Homage; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
how you gonna get back to jersey?; Planthouse; New York, NY.
2012
Dartmouth Alumni Exhibition; The Black Family Visual Arts Center, Hanover, NH.
Summer Camp; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
Published by the Artist; International Print Center; New York, NY.
2009
It's a Schro Ro Summer!; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
Play it Forward; Schroeder Romero; New York, NY.
Collage London/New York; Fred [London]; London, UK. In conjunction with Pavel Zoubok Gallery.
Inside Abstraction; Janet Kurnatowski gallery; Brooklyn, NY.
2008
Manufactured Unreality; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY.
2007
Demoiselles Revisited; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY.
Cut, Copy, Fold; Artist Image Resource; Pittsburgh, PA. Curated by Kim Beck.
Sosabul International Exhibition; Pyeongtaek City, South Korea.
2006
Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint; William Way Gallery; Philadelphia, PA.
Abstract Landscapes; Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center; Staten Island, NY. Curated by Trevor Winkfield.
Point of Departure; Gallery 111; DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
2004
Brice Brown and Don Joint: A Marriage in Paint; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York, NY.
f#@k perfection; vertexList; Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
The Recurrent Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art; Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY.
2003
The Big Abstract Show; The Painting Center, New York City, NY. Curated by Denise Gale.
Art in a Changing World; Mahady Gallery, Marywood University; Scranton, PA. Curated by Lance Esplund.
Brown's work is included in the public collections of:
Speed Art Museum; Louisville, KY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Brown was editor of The Sienese Shredder, an annual arts and literary journal published from 2006 to 2010. Besides acting as editor, Brown contributed interviews, critical essays, and art to the publication.
He continues to helm Sienese Shredder Editions, an editions- and print-publishing project that has produced multiples with Miles Champion, Jane South, Chuck Webster, John Yau, and Trevor Winkfield.
Brown was an arts critic at The New York Sun from 2006 to 2008, and for City Arts from 2009 to 2010. He focused on design, decorative arts and antiques.
2007
"The Soul of the Painting" at Lowy The New York Sun, January 5, 2007. Exhibition review.
"A Masterpiece in Thread" at the Brooklyn Museum The New York Sun, January 25, 2007. Exhibition review.
"A Ravenous Obsession" at The Frick The New York Sun, March 8, 2007. Exhibition review.
"Form and Function" at Bard Graduate Center The New York Sun, March 22, 2007. Exhibition review.
"A Tale of Two Cities" at Onassis Cultural Center The New York Sun, April 26, 2007. Exhibition review.
"The Center of the Storm" at Williams College Museum of Art The New York Sun, July 19, 2007. Exhibition review.
"Uniting the Wild and the Rigid" at Bard Graduate Center The New York Sun, July 26, 2007. Exhibition review.
"Ingo Maurer" at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum The New York Sun, September 27, 2007. Exhibition review.
"The Father of Modern Design" at Cooper-Hewitt The New York Sun, September 27, 2007. Exhibition review.
2006
"Apres Nous, Le Deluge" Francis M. Naumann Fine Art; New York City, NY. Catalog essay.
"Carl Plansky" Fischbach Gallery, New York City, NY. Catalogue essay.
"Design for the Good Life-Modern Master; Lucien Lelong, Couturier 1918–1948" The New York Sun, March 21, 2006. Exhibition review.
"An Artist's Gamble" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York Sun, April 27, 2006. Exhibition review.
"Beasts to Wash Away the Corporeal World" at Bard Graduate Center The New York Sun, July 13, 2006. Exhibition review.
"The Little Factory that Could – A Taste for Opulence: Selections from the Collection" The New York Sun, March 9, 2006. Exhibition review.
"A Universe of Forms and Ideas" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York Sun, September 6, 2006. Exhibition review.
"Buried Treasure" at Asia Society The New York Sun, October 3, 2006. Exhibition review.
"The Medium is the Mass-Produced Message" at MoMA The New York Sun, October 12, 2006. Exhibition review.
"An Inside Voice" at Neue Gallery The New York Sun, November 2, 2006. Exhibition review.
2005
"One Coll Story after Another: Women Artists from the Collection of Dr. Gina Puzzuoli;" The Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV. Catalog essay.
2001
"Grace Martin Taylor: An American Modernist" The Orange Chicken Gallery, New York, NY. Catalog essay.
2000
"Freaks, Geeks and Carnies;" The Orange Chicken Gallery; New York, NY. Catalog essay.
