Organizing The Physical Evidence (all white, all black)
2018
High definition dual-channel video (color), two high definition monitors and players, wall mounts, framed
39.50 x 49 x 3.25 inches, 100.33 x 124.46 x 8.26 centimeters
TRT: 19 min, 32 sec, loop
Sunset Geometry
2018
High definition single-channel video (color), high definition monitor and player, wall mount, framed
37.25 x 22.25 x 3.25 inches, 94.62 x 56.52 x 8.26 centimeters
TRT: 28 min., 41 sec., loop
Brian Bress
Astronauts #1 (on broken circles and lines)
2018
High definition three-channel video (color), three high definition monitors and players, wall mounts, framed
37.25 x 72.9 x 3.25 inches, 94.62 x 185.17 x 8.26 centimeters
TRT 25 min., 02 sec., loop
Landscape Friend
2018
High definition single-channel video (color), high definition monitor and player, wall mount, framed
37.25 x 22.25 x 4 inches, 94.62 x 56.52 x 10.16 centimeters
TRT: 17 min., 30 sec., loop
Installation of Brian Bress Slicers, June 2018
Inverted Looking (for Josef Albers)
2017
High definition dual-channel video (color), high definition monitors and players embedded in collage and flashe on stretched linen
58.25 x 63 x 3 inches, 147.96 x 160.02 x 7.62 centimeters
TRT 15 min., 00 sec., loop
Installation of Brian Bress: In Lieu of Flowers Send Memes, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA, April 29 - June 17, 2017
Brian Bress
Members Only (colorpicker)
2017
High definition single-channel video (color), high definition monitor and player, wall mount, framed
40.75 x 23.125 x 2.5 in / 103.51 x 58.75 x 6.35 cm
TRT 22:30 Loop
Biography
Born 1975 in Norfolk, VA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, Skowhegan, ME
2006 MFA, Painting & Drawing, University of California, Los Angeles
1998 BFA, Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Brian Bress: Pictures Become You, Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Gallery, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Another Fine Mess, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
2017
Brian Bress: In Lieu of Flowers Send Memes, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
The Imperfect Tense (for Josef Albers), Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (public commission)
2016
The Desmond Six, Time Equities, Inc. Art-in-Buildings, New York, NY
In the Box: Brian Bress, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO (catalogue)
Brian Bress, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Brian Bress: A Toyota's a Toyota, Los Angeles Nomadic Division at The Desmond, Los Angeles, CA
Brian Bress: Make Your Own Friends, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (traveling)
2014
You Can't Sleep on a Door, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Brian Bress: Idiom (Brian, Raffi, Britt), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Artists in Residence #3 Studio Shows: Brian Bress, Riccardo Giacconi, Katerina Seda and Luca Trevisani, Museo d'arte contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Brian Bress, Galeria Marta Cevera, Madrid, Spain
2012
Interventions: Brian Bress, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara,CA
Brian Bress: Status Report, New Museum, New York, NY
Under Performing, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Creative Ideas for Every Season, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Creative Ideas for Every Season, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
2009
The Royal Box, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Project Room, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Pardon Me, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Sometimes You Are Just A Hat, RC Art Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2003
Brian Bress: New Drawings, Open-End Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Paradox: The Body in the Age of Al, The Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA
Do Something To It. Do Something Else To It. Ericka Beckman, Kwame Brathwaite, Brian Bress, Carl Cheng, Holly Coulis, Katy Cowan, Tomory Dodge, Noël Dolla, Nathan Mabry, T. Kelly Mason, Pat O’Neill, Robert Overby, Bernard Piffaretti, Michael Rey, Adam Silverman, Lew Thomas and Claude Viallat, Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Brian Bress and Nathan Mabry: Totems, Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Screens: Virtual Material, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Boston, MA
Biennale of Moving Images 2016, FAENA ART MIami, FL; traveled to Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Commercial Break, Public Art Fund 40th Anniversary exhibition, Times Square, New York, NY
2016
Mark Leckey: Containers and Their Drivers, MOMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
INDECISIVE MOMENT, Suwon Photography Festival, Suwon, South Korea
Moving Image Biennial, Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland (traveling)
Hydroponic Forms, Galerie Ampersand, Cologne, Germany
Painting2, Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico
2015
Dopplegänging, Work|Release, Norfolk, VA
SECOND WAVE: Aesthetics of 80s in Today's Contemporary Art, Culver Center of the Arts / Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
San Diego Collects, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
PLAY: Process, Activism, Subversion, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Mark Leckey: UniAddDumThs, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Personalities: Fantasy and Identity in Photography and New Media, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Desert, CA
2014
Mark Leckey: Lending Enchantment to Vulgar Materials, WIELS Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium
Sniff the Space Flat on Your Face, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA
OK Great THANKS this is SO RIDICULOUS, curated by Brion Nuda Rosch, ACME., Los Angeles, CA
Mark Leckey: UniAddDumThs, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2013
Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
The Scandalized Mask, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, curated by Mark Leckey, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK. Traveled to De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea, East Sussex, UK
Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Nathan Mabry, T. Kelly Mason, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Raze; Revert; Repeat, Pepin Moore, Los Angeles, CA
This Was Funny Yesterday, College of Creative Studies at UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA
Photography is Magic!, Daegu Photo Biennial 2012, Daegu, Korea
Four by Four: Collector Series, University of Denver, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO
2011
Future Present: Five Artists, Five Weeks, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
Stagecraft, curated by David Norr, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Object Orientation: Bodies and/as Things, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
Staff Curated Video Show, LA><Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Underground Pop, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY (catalogue)
cut/PASTE: Collage as Methodology in Contemporary Video, POST, Los Angeles, CA
do I know you, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
The Mystic's Circle, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
Portugal Arte, Lisbon, Portugal
In The Eyes of Lions, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Video Art: Replay, Part 3: Ludicrous, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Seven Card Stud, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
2009
"Now that I'm by myself," she says, "I'm not by myself, which is good" DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
COMMUNE, Black and White Gallery, New York, NY
FIRST SHOW, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
LA Woman, Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, NC
2008
Young Curators, New Ideas, Bond Street Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Free Love Gods, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
Party Favors, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Against The Grain, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
California Video: Artists and Histories, Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Living Room Paintings, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007
Rear/View, Freight + Volume, New York, NY
Stalemate, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of Arts, New York, NY
Brian Bress & Ruby Stiler, Sunday L.E.S. Gallery, New York, NY
Trudi, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
Machine Imaginaire, Lisa Boyle Gallery, Chicago, IL
Distinctive Messengers, Curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari, Los Angeles, CA
Big Secret Cache, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Image, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Kairos!, Kantor / Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Landslide: Works by Emerging California Artists, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Naïve Set Theory, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
i know you, but you don't know me, Fette’s Gallery, Culver City, CA
Greater LA MFA Exhibition and Screening, California State University, Long Beach, CA
One Shot 100x100, LA><ART, Culver City, CA
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Supersonic 2006, L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ecolux: Art in the Light of Ecology, Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
Just My Funny Way of Laughing, South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Soft-Boiled Wonderland, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Boat Show, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Rough Trade, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Latest Fiction, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
State of Emergence, LA Weekly Biennial, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Untitled Play About Gravity by Krysten Cunningham, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, offsite performance, Los Angeles, CA
Character Traits, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Exhibition #9 - Some Romantic Landscape, Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Anti-Spacesuit: The Dirty Future, G1 Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001
Fellows' Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1999
Young Guns NYC Biennial, The Art Directors Club of New York, New York, NY
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2017
Sidewalk Cinema Art Blocks presented by Aurora Picture Show, Main Street Square 1111 Main Street, Dallas Texas
2015
Strangelove: Moving Image Festival, Rock Your Body, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Granary Square, Kings Cross, London, UK
2011
Optic Nerve XIII, It's Been a Long Day and Alone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami FL
FAST-FORWARD II: A Screening of Contemporary Video Art, It's Been a Long Day, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
The View from Out There: Southern California Video Art, Creative Ideas for Every Season, The Outpost Artist Resource, Ridgewood, NY
2009
The Young Pretenders, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Mini Mini Max, Under Cover, Appetite Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Vertical Hold, The Portrait Room, Ellensburg Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA
The Imminent Failure Show, Over and Over, Hard Job, UND#2 Art Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany
Video Day SXSW, Portrait Room, Over and Over, World Report, Hard Job, Brainquest, Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin, TX
The Imminent Failure Show, Over and Over, Hard Job, The Ice Factory, Chicago, IL
DigitalForum, Portrait Room, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Neurotic Naturalism, Rock Cowboy, Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Prime Shorts -- The Best of 2003, The Hideout and the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, IL
1998
Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation, Karate Dick Boys, La Jolla, CA
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SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK
Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Exhibitions
Brian Bress and Tomory Dodge
EXPO Chicago
Septemeber 27, 2018 - April 30, 2018
Do Something To It. Do Something Else To It.
April 28 - May 26, 2018
Ericka Beckman, Kwame Brathwaite, Brian Bress, Carl Cheng, Holly Coulis, Katy Cowan, Tomory Dodge, Noël Dolla, Nathan Mabry, T. Kelly Mason, Pat O’Neill, Robert Overby, Bernard Piffaretti, Michael Rey, Adam Silverman, Lew Thomas and Claude Viallat
The Armory Show
New York, NY
March 3-6, 2016
Brian Bress, Katy Cowan, Nathan Mabry, Bernard Piffaretti and Michael Rey
Brian Bress
January 16 - March 12, 2016
The Armory Show
New York, NY
March 5-8, 2015
Brian Bress, Jennifer Boysen, Nathan Mabry, Bernard Piffaretti, Michael Rey
You Can’t Sleep on a Door
November 8, 2014 - January 3, 2015
Brian Bress
Paris Photo LA, Los Angeles, CA
April 24-27, 2014
Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Nathan Mabry, T. Kelly Mason
July 20 - September 14, 2013
Under Performing
January 7 - February 25, 2012
Seven Card Stud
September 18 - October 23, 2010
Brian Bress, Matt Connors, Mari Eastman, Peter Harkawik, Nick Herman, Alex Klein and Nathan Mabry
The Royal Box
September 12 - October 24, 2009
FIRST SHOW
April 18 - May 16, 2009
Brian Bress, Holly Coulis, Daniel Dove, Nathan Mabry, Antonio Puleo and Amanda Ross-Ho
News & Press