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(solo + two/three person shows in bold)
2024
The Warmth of the Day Leaves Shadows on the Ground, curated by Gattopardo, The Pit, Los Angeles CA
Postmarked P.S., Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
2023
Ditch Market (as Happy Hour), Ditch Projects, Springfield OR
2022
Riso Dreams, organized and curated by Darin Klein, Dog & Pony, Spokane WA
Happy Hour Ceramics, Gattopardo, Los Angeles CA
Ditch Market (as Happy Hour), Ditch Projects, Springfield OR
2019
West Coast Craft (as Happy Hour), Fort Mason Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA + Row DTLA, Los Angeles CA
2018
Layered, curated by Easton Miller, ALSO, Los Angeles CA
2017
Trust Fall, curated by Easton Miller, ALSO, Los Angeles CA
I <3 TL, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University East Gallery, Claremont CA
The Collectivists, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
2016
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Open Range, Woskob Family Gallery / Penn State College of Arts and Architecture, State College, PA
Risky Behavior, Field Projects, NY NY
Union Pacific, organized by Angela Kallus, Circuit 12 Contemporary, Dallas, TX
The Garden, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA
Some More, curated by David Pagel, Claremont Graduate University East Gallery, Claremont CA
2015
Breaking Pattern, curated by Matthew Deleget & Rossana Martinez, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland OR
Recent Aquisitions, Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping; from Mystic Diagrams to Data Visualizations, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk CA (catalog)
Plant People, Gar Gallery, Galveston Artist Residency, Galveston TX
2014
NOW-ism: Abstraction Today, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (catalog)
Everyday Abstraction: Contemporary Abstract Painting, Jered Sprecher, Margaret Crowley, Brian Porray, and Megan Kathol-Berset, Curated by Benjamin Gardner, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Des Moines IA (catalog)
Five by Five, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cut**Copy**Paste, Beers Contemporary, London, UK
Dazed & Confused, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
|*/N0_N3W_M00N\*|, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Art for Art's Sake: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
2013
New Neon: Light, Paint and Photography, Bedford Gallery, Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
Art for Art's Sake, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
The 10th Circle, curated by David Pagel, Vast Space Projects, Las Vegas, NV (catalog)
2012
-(\DARKHOR5E/)-, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Daylight Saving Time, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
2011
Supersymmetry for SP33D FR34KS, Western Project, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Recipients, CUE Foundation, New York, NY (catalog)
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tompkins West, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Spectrum, W. Keith and Janet Kellogg University Art Gallery, Pomona, CA
2010
Drawing, Tompkins Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Construction Zone, Western Project, Los Angeles,
Moon Zero X-M, Donna Beam Fine Art, Las Vegas, NV (solo)
Free Range, organized by Mikayla Whitmore, Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Significantly Other, curated by Anthony Alston, Sierra Arts, Reno, NV
2009
Sush Machida Gaikotsu and Brian Porray, Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2008
Greater L.A. Masters of Fine Art (GLAMFA), CSU, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
EDUCATION:
2010 MFA, UNLV
2006 BFA, UNR
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES:
2012 Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2010 Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Pizzuti Collection, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont CA
Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
City of Las Vegas
John and Geraldine Lilley Museum of Art, Reno, NV
WORKSHOPS/LECTURES:
2017 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Biola University
2017 Panel Discussion in conjunction with Body High at TSA Los Angeles
2014 Panel Discussion, Drake University in conjunction with Everyday Abstraction exhibition, moderated by Benjamin Gardner
2014 Visiting Artist, Claremont Graduate University
2013 Panel Discussion, Vast Space Projects in conjunction with The 10th Circle exhibition, moderated by David Pagel
2012 Artist-In-Residence Lecture Series, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
2011 Re-Visions of LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
- Lewis, Nathaniel/Tatum, Stephen, Morta Las Vegas: CSI and the Problem of the West, University of Nebraska Press, 2017
- Baude, Dawn-Michelle, Zeit: Mystified is Normal, Desert Companion Magazine, June 2015
- Huete, Betsy, Plant People, Glasstire {Texas Visual Art}, Apr. 2, 2015
- Burns, Emily, Brian Porray, Maake Magazine Issue #1, 2015 (interview)
- Starr Review, Brian Porray's Big Picture at the Pizzuti Collection, Jan 9, 2015
- Fraleigh, Angela, Five Questions with Brian Porray, www.angelafraleigh.com, Sep. 3, 2014
- Kolaj Magazine, Aug. 27, 2014
- Pagel, David, Brian Porray's Chaos in Focus at Western Project, Los Angeles Times, Feb. 21, 2014
- Caldwell, Ellen C., Guest Stars and Sci Fi: Brian Porray at Western Project, New American Paintings Blog, Mar 19, 2014
- Juxtapoz Magazine, Brian Porray "|*/N0_N3W_M00N\*|" @ Western Project, Los Angeles, Mar 20, 2014
- Baude, Dawn-Michelle, Barrick's Art for Art's Sake - Winsome Visual Stunts and Optical Contortions, Las Vegas Weekly, Feb 26, 2014
- Thvndermag, Brian Porray - collage psicodélico, Feb 7, 2014
- Peterson, Kristen, Large, energetic and loud: works from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Las Vegas Weekly, Jan 29, 2014
- ichinichiichinin, 01/01/2014
- Hoelscher, Jason, Pattern and Deregulation: Beauty and Non-Order in Contemporary Painting, ArtPulse Magazine, vol. 4, no. 17, November 2013 (feature)
- Surface & Surface, 10/15/2013
- MutantSpace, Brian Porray's Paintings are an Acid Trip Through the Excesses of Sin City. 08/29/13
- Pagel, David., The10th Circle, exhibition catalogue, Smacksheets publishing. 2013.
- Baude, Dawn-Michelle, The 10th Circle is a vibrant, thought-provoking triumph, Las Vegas Weekly, Mar 6, 2013.
- Peterson, Kristin, Sorry Dante, David Pagel takes it one hotter in '10th Circle' at VAST, Las Vegas Weekly, Feb 27, 2013
- Myers, Holly, Brian Porray at Western Project, Modern Painters Magazine, Vol. 24 Issue 8, p95, October 2012
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- Patternprints Journal July 1, 2012
- Caldwell, Ellen C., Western Project's Brian Porray, New American Paintings Blog, May 22, 2012
- A/ART Nov. 1, 2011
- Structure and Imagery: In Chelsea Today, 6/16/2011
- TRYHARDER 6/14/2011
- In Conversation: Kelli Craig and Brian Porray @ Weekend Gallery, June 17, 2011
- Schultz, Charles M., The Work of Caitlin Lonegan, Micah Daw, Kristin Hass, Brian Porray, and Janet Bruhn, Joan Mitchell Foundation 2010 MFA Grant Recipients Catalog, 2010.
- Platow, Raphaela, New American Paintings, #87 MFA Annual
- Sultan, Terrie, New American Paintings, #84
- TRYHARDER 4/20/2010
- Hagen, Phil, NPR Desert Companion, September/October 2009 (cover/feature)