Born 1969 in Visalia, CA
Lives and Work in Los Angeles, CA
Education
1994
MFA, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
1991
BA, University of California at Berkeley
Solo exhibitions
2023
Almine Rech, Shanghai, China (upcoming)
'Still', Palazzo Cavanis, Venice, Italy
2022
'More', Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
'New Year', Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2021
'More Days', Almine Rech, Paris Matignon, France
2019
'Fugue', Almine Rech, Paris, France
2018
‘Pressing On’, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
‘Così fan tutte’, Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York, USA
2017
'Brian Calvin', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Major Minor', Corvi-Mora, London, UK
'States', Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2016
'Brian Calvin: Early Work', Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
'Hours', Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
'The Meditations: Chicago 1991 - 1999', Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2015
'End of Messages', Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Travels to Mu.ZEE, Ostende, Belgium
2014
‘Brian Calvin’ Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2013
‘Brian Calvin’, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
‘End of Messages’, The Finley Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011
‘Brian Calvin: New Paintings’, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2010
‘Brian Calvin’, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
2009
'Head', Anton Kern, New York
2007
‘Brian Calvin’, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
‘Things’, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California, USA
2006
‘Brian Calvin’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
2005
Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, California, USA
2004
Anton Kern, New York
2003
Corvi-Mora, London
'The Conversation', Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2002
'Unreal', Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
2001
Corvi-Mora, London
2000
"Days", Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
1999
"It's Easy to Make Friends", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
1998
"Good News", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
1996
"God's Plot & John Wilkes Booth", Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
1994
"New Paintings: Brian Calvin", Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago
Selected group exhibitions
2022
'Romancing Relevance', Woaw Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
'Marriage: From Antiques to Contemporary Art', WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
‘Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths’, Aishti Foundation, Lebanon
2021
'Salon de Peinture', Almine Rech, New York, NY, USA
'Eau de Vallotton', Tif Sigfrids, New York, NY, USA
'La Bohème', ALFONSO ARTIACO, Naples, Italy
'36 Paintings', Harper’s Books, East Hampton, NY, USA
'Brian Calvin Marcus Jahmal curated by Chris Martin', Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020
‘Summer’, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
'Painting Someone', Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
2018
'Line and Verse', Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
2017'
'American Genre: Contemporary Painting', Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine, USA
'Brian Calvin', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Los Angeles, une fiction’, MAC, Lyon, France
'Brian Calvin/Wendy White', Cabinet, Milan, Italy
'Forest on the Edge of Time', The Pit II, Los Angeles, CA
2016
'6 Implosion 20', Anton Kern Gallery, New York
'Los Angeles: A Fiction', Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
'Outside', curated by Matthew Higgs, Karma, Amagansett, New York
'Wild Style', Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2015
'The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes), a show by Eric Troncy', Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
'Tracing Shadows', Plateau, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2013
"California Landscape Into Abstraction: Works From The Orange County Museum of Art", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (cat)
2012
"About Face", ACME, Los Angeles
"We The People", Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York
2011
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
"Dystopia", CAPC Museé d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
2010
"This and That", Corvi-Mora, London
2009
"Electric Mud", Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston
2008
"Dinner and a Group Show", GBE@passerby, New York
"Pretty Ugly", Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Maccarone, New York
"Live Undead", Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
2007
"Good Morning, Midnight", Casey Kaplan, New York (curated by Bruce Hainley)
"If everybody had an Ocean. Brian Wilson an art exhibition", Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK; CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
"Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative", Thomas Dane, London
"After Cezanne", MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2006
"Red Eye. LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection", Rubell Family Collection, Miami
2004
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
"Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art", CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
"Now and Then Some", Claremont College, Claremont (curated by David Pagel)
2003
Prague Biennale 1, Veletrzní Palác, Prague
"Giverny", Salon 94, New York
"Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; MCA San Diego; Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia; CCAC Watts Institute, Oakland (cat)
"Ishtar", Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, Minnesota (curated by Bruce Hainley) (cat)
"The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 AD", Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
"The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes", Stazione Leopolda, Florence (curated by Francesco Bonami & Raf Simons) (cat)
"Youngstars", Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
"Painting Pictures", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
"Dear Painter, paint me", Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (cat)
2002
"Collectors Program: Sammlung Köhn", Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
"Grey Gardens", Michael Kohn Gallery, (curated by Bruce Hainley)
"The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London", The Royal Academy of Arts, London
"Paintings", Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
"Dear Painter, paint me", Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat.)
2001
"The Americans. New Art", Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.)
"The Devil Is In The Details", Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
2000
"Collector's Choice", Exit Art, New York
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
1999
"Meanwhile...", Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
1996
"Brian Calvin, Suzanne Doremus, Edward Henderson & Deborah Orapallo", Foster Gallery, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, Wisconsin
1995
"X-sightings", Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1994
"Created Here: a Salon d'Ecole", Richard Himmel Gallery, Chicago
"Recent Paintings", Gallery 2, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
"Don Baum's Grab Bag", Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
"Discontents & Debutantes: Brian Calvin & Mike Cockrill", Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
1993
"Whose Broad Stripes & Bright Stars: Death, Reverence & the Struggle for Equality in America", Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago
Collections
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, USA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA