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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
Jerry Cullum, review, ArtsATL, Atlanta, GA March 5, 2015
Roberta Smith, review, New York Times, New York, NY Dec 2011
Diane McClintock, review, Art Paper, Atlanta, GA, Sept/Oct 2005
McLellan, Marian, review, New Orleans Art Review, Sept/Oct 2002
MacCash, Doug, review, Times Picayune Laignappe, New Orleans, LA, Aug, 2002
Prescott, Jean, review, The Sun Herald, Gulfort, MS, Sun. Jan. 27,2002
Scott, Bill, review, Art in America, Apr. 2000
Jeff Daniel, review, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, illus., Sun. Apr. 30, 2000
Macello, Dave, interview article, Art & Antiques, Jan. 2000
Naves, Mario, review, New York Observer, Nov. 29, 1999
Willard, Pat, interview article, Brooklyn Bridge Magazine, Nov./Dec. 1999
Daniel, Jeff, review, St. Louis Post Dispatch, illus. Sun., Apr. 12,1998
Ross, Clare, review, Dialogue: Midwest Art Journal, illus., Nov./Dec. 1996
Koeninger, Kay, review, The Columbus Dispatch, illus., Sun. Oct. 6,1996
Harris, Karen, “1995-1996 Exhibitions”, Marymount Manhattan College Gallery Catalogue
Auer, James, review, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Sun. Nov. 12, 1995
Constable, Lesley, review, The Columbus Dispatch, illus., Sun. May 9,1993
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