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Brian Novatny

Born in Wadsworth, OH   1964

Currently living in Brooklyn, NY                               

 

EDUCATION

1990                          Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT,   M.F.A.

1987                          Columbus College of Art & Design,  Columbus, OH,  B.F.A.

                 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019 Marcia Wood Gallery, “Portraiture”, Atlanta, GA

2017 ADA Gallery, ”This Must Be the Place”,  Richmond, VA

2015                          ADA Gallery, Richmond, VA

Marcia Wood Gallery, “Lost and Found”,  Atlanta, GA

2014                          Mulherin + Pollard, “A Salior’s Diary”,   New York, NY

2013                          Sonoma State University Gallery,  Rohnert Park, CA

2012                          Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

ADA Gallery,  Richmond, VA

2011                          Mulherin + Pollard, “Picture Fishing”,  New York, NY

2007                         Galerie Schuster, Berlin, GERMANY

                                  George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006                         Galerie Schuster,  Frankfurt,  GERMANY

                                  Marcia Wood Gallery,   Atlanta,  GA

2005                         Heriard-Cimino Gallery,  New Orleans, LA

                                  Marcia Wood Gallery,  Atlanta, GA

                                  Davidson Contemporary,  Seattle,  WA

2004                         Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin, GERMANY

2003                         Galerie Schuster,   Frankfurt, GERMANY

                                  Davidson Gallery,   Seattle, WA

2002                         Heriard-Cimino Gallery,  New Orleans, LA

2001                          Davidson Gallery,   Seattle, WA

Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin, GERMANY 

Mangel Gallery,   Philadelphia, PA

                                  George Billis Gallery,   New York, NY

2000                         Heriard-Cimino Gallery,   New Orleans, LA

Elliot Smith Gallery,   St. Louis, MO

Frumkin/Duval Gallery,   Santa Monica, CA

1999                          George Billis Gallery,    New York, NY

                                  Washington County Museum of Art,    Hagerstown, MD  

                                  Heriard-Cimino Gallery,   New Orleans, LA

1998                          George Billis Gallery,     New York, NY

                                  Lee Hansley Gallery,    Raleigh, NC

                                  Elliot Smith Gallery,     St. Louis, MO

1997                          George Billis Gallery,     New York, NY

1996                          Spangler Cummings Gallery,   Columbus, OH

1993                          Roberta Kuhn Gallery,   Columbus, OH

                                                                                                 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020                         Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, “DRAWN: Concept and Craft”, Winston-Salem, NC

2019                         Sede Circolo Ricreativo Culturale ‘3 Agosto’, “Still Utopia”, Venice, ITALY

                                  Chungbuk National University, “Exit 2019”,  Chungbuk, Cheongju, SOUTH KOREA

2018                         The Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina,  “(Pre)Crtano(Drawn)Over”, Novi Sad, SERBIA

2017                         Massachusetts College of Art & Design, “DRAW/Boston”, Boston, MASS

2015                         Southampton Art Center, “Surface of Revolution”, Southampton, NY

Wave Hill, “Wrath: Force of Nature”, Bronx, NY

Dali Contemporary Art Center,  “Mapping Madness”, Dali City, Yunnan Province CHINA

2014                         Inside Out Art Museum, “Mapping Madness”,  Beijing, CHINA

2013                         MC Gallery, “Sing Sweet Songs of Conviction”,  New York, NY

2012                         Inside Out Art Museum,  Beijing, CHINA

Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery,  “Stuck”  , curated by Jonathan Newman,  Brooklyn, NY

2010                         Knoxville Museum of Art,  “Uncertain Terrain”,  Knoxville, TN

Westbeth Gallery,  “Urban Mythos”, NY, NY

2009                        Korea Gallery,  group show , NY NY

Spruill Center for the Arts, “Go Figure”, Atlanta

2008                        Gallery MC,  group show, NY NY

2007                        Heriard-Cimino Gallery, “The Figure Revisited”,  New Orleans, LA

2006                        Ambrosino Gallery, “Conversations”,   Miami, FLA

2004                        Kunstverein Speyer- Kulturhof Flachgasse,   Speyer, GERMANY

Center on Contemporary Art, “Domicile,   Seattle, WA

Columbus College of Art & Design,”125th Anniversary Alumni Exhibition”, Columbus, OH

2003                        Mississippi Museum of Art,  “Art a Century Apart:1903 and 2003”, Jackson, MS

2002                        Waddington & Tribby Fine Art, Boca Raton, FL

Bronx River Art Center,  “Physical Units”, Bronx, NY

William Carey College, two-person exhibition, Gulfport, MS

2000                        Galerie Schuster,   Frankfurt, GERMANY

                                  Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, “Portraits”, Sherman Oaks, CA

                                  Davidson Galleries, “Corporeal”, Seattle, WA

1999                          Frumkin/Duval Gallery, “Wrapped-up”, Santa Monica, CA                                    

1998                          Bucheon Gallery,   San Francisco, CA

                                  Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, “25th Anniversary Exhibition”, Sherman Oaks, CA

                                  Liquid Gallery, “Cover Story”, Hoboken, NJ

1996                          Queens Library, “The Modern Landscape”, Queens, NY

                                   La Colline, “INNsight Art Show”,  Mill Neck, NY

1995                          Layton Gallery,  Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design,    Milwaukee, WI

1993                          Oxford Gallery, Rochester, NY

1992                          Marymount Manhattan College Gallery,  New York, NY,  Broken Narratives      

                                  Oxford Gallery, “New Beginnings, three-person exhibition”, Rochester, NY

                                  Roberta Kuhn Gallery, Columbus, OH

1991                          New Haven Paint & Clay Club, “90th Annual Art Exhibition”, New Haven, CT

1989                          Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH,  “79th  Annual Columbus Art League Exhibition”

1988                          Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, “78th  Annual Columbus Art League Exhibition”

 

AWARDS

2017                          The Adolf Gottlieb Foundation Grant

1999                          The Basil H. Alkazzi Award (USA)

1990                          Richard Welling Prize in recognition of excellence in drawing, Yale University School of Art

1989                          Louise Sheperd-Hengst  Award and Purchase Award,  Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

1988                          Valentine Award and Purchase Award, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Felicia Feaster, review, Atlanta Journal-Constitution,  Atlanta, GA   March 12, 2015

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Roberta Smith, review, New York Times, New York, NY  Dec  2011

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McLellan, Marian, review, New Orleans Art Review, Sept/Oct 2002

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Hall, Jaqueline, review,  The Columbus Dispatch, illus.,  June, 1989

COLLECTIONS

Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, CHINA

University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN

The Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts, New York, NY

Knoxville Museum of Art,  Knoxville, TN

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Progressive Insurance Co., Middle Village, OH

Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD

The Daum Museum of Contemporary Arts, Sedalia, MO

Reader’s Digest, Inc., White Plains, NY