Biography

Brian Alfred was born in 1974 in Pittsburgh, PA. Known for his paintings, collages and animations that examine the ways in which perception of our surroundings and culture is mediated by technology, his works present a flattened, depopulated and predominantly urban world derived from found images.

Biography

Brian Alfred was born in 1974 in Pittsburgh, PA. Known for his paintings, collages and animations that examine the ways in which perception of our surroundings and culture is mediated by technology, his works present a flattened, depopulated and predominantly urban world derived from found images. His thematic concerns – including the signifiers of modernist idealism and technological progress, conspiracy theories and the growing prevalence of surveillance in the post-9/11 world – have led him to focus on images featuring architecture, machinery, interiors, urban and suburban landscapes, as well as text. The world as depicted by Alfred is distanced, banal – as in visually unremarkable – yet highly charged with possible meanings.


1997 – BFA, Pennsylvania State University

1999 – MFA, Yale University / Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture


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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

 

Exhibitions

2016

In Praise of Shadows’ Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York

2015

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

2014

New Animations’ Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beauty In Danger’ Salon 94 Video Wall, New York

2013

Storms and Stress’ Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

2012

It’s Already The End Of The World’ Frist Center for Visual Art, Nashville

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(enhancedCD 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

Videos

Brian Alfred – An Artist Discusses His Experience

 

Documentary on Brian Alfred

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