TONY BROWN
Tony Brown Biography
The multi disciplinary artist Tony Brown from LA holds a Master’s degree in Fine Art from MFA, California State University Long Beach and has been showing his works with George Billis Gallery in Culver City, Nicoletta Rusconi Gallery in Milan, Italy, and various other galleries and art spaces. His latest focus lies on ceramics. Tony Brown’s collectors include celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Mark Ruffalo and Jake Gyllenhaal as well as The State of Hawaii Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI.
EDUCATION
2000 MFA, California State University Long Beach
1994 BFA, University of Hawaii at Manoa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Overlay, D2 Art, Inglewood, CA
2020 All options are on the table”, Little Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Tony Brown Show, D2 Art, Inglewood, CA
2019 Garden Party, D2 Art, Inglewood, CA
2016 Ether ore, Start Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, solo
2015 Reliving 3, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
2015 10,000ft2 show/retrospective, 600 E. 4thst, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Recollections, Arapahoe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Outtakes and inlay, David Draper Gallery, Hollywood, CA
2012 Untitled, Compound Project, Malibu, CA
2011 Internal, X-ray Installation, Huntington Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Espacio, Santa Monica, CA, Solo
11-11 George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
08-10 To Be Titled, Compound Project, Malibu, CA
04-10 Unfold Nicoletta Rusconi Gallery, Milan, IT
07-09 George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
03-08 Recessed, DCA Fine Arts, Santa Monica, CA
02-07 In and Around the House, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
11-05 Ten Foot Pole Productions, Los Angeles, CA
10-04 Ten Foot Pole Productions, Los Angeles, CA
12-03 Ruminations, Viento Y Agua Gallery, Long Beach, CA
10-03 Recent Ruminations, Pavo Real Gallery, Lake Hughes, CA
09-02 2 1/2 D Urbanatural, Soapbox, Venice, CA
09-01 New Paintings Soapbox, Venice, CA
12-99 Simple Poetics, Gallery B Long Beach, CA
04-99 Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: INVITED
2016 Jolly night at the races, derelict building, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Yern WPCA, Milwaukee, WI
2012 Four artists, The Hollywood, Hollywood, CA
2011 Come_Le_Lucciole, Nicoletta Rusconi Gallery, Milan, IT
2011 Westward eye, Beth Mcneil Art Group, New York, NY
2010 On Paper, George Billis Gallery, Culver City, CA
2010 Group Summer Art Show, George Billis Gallery, Culver City CA
2010 ReCreate L.A., Tree People, Cold Water Canyon Park, CA
2010 Milan Art Fair, Nicoletta Rusconi Gallery, Italy
2010 Bologna Art Fair, Nicoletta Rusconi Gallery, Italy
2010 FADA, Los Angeles Art Show, George Billis Gallery
2010 Woodie, Attic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Plucked, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
2009 Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, George Billis Gallery
2009 EXPOSED, Bixby Knolls, CA
2009 Rock and Elegance, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curator Hillary Metz
2008 Suspended Animation, site-specific installation for FOCA, Curator Miguel Nelson
2007 Tree House Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Behind Closed Doors, Tahoe, CA
2006 Free Transposition, Hamburg, Germany
2006 Vern In Heat, 55 Mercer Gallery, NY
2006 Transnormal, New York Arts Magazine Gallery, NY
2006 Inner Space, Outer Limits, Walker Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
2005 Tiger Tiger Rain Rain, Jackson House, Venice, CA
2005 VERN, Interjacent I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Group Show, Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Hand Sought, Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Reliving, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
2004 Inverse, SCA Project Gallery, Pomona, CA
2004 VERN at the Mirror, Madrid, Spain
2004 Playing Card Show, Seoul, Korea, with catalogue
2004 Identification, Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Reliving, Werby Gallery, CSULB, Long Beach, CA
2003 Placebo, Canvas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 VERN: Berlin, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin, Germany
2003 Romanian Literature Museum, Bucharest, Romania
2002 Melting Point Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 VERN: UrbanLab, Chicago, IL
2002 ReOrganica Soapbox Gallery, Venice, CA
2000 Push Pece Gallery, Santa Anna, CA
2000 Mapdancing Gumbo Garden, Hollywood, CA
2000 Ceramics/Fibers Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
2000 Re-Generation Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Figurative Configuration Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 In Search of Milieu, Gallery C, CSULB, with catalogue
1999 Festival of the Arts Carpenter Performing Arts Center CSULB
1998 Genital Issues, Gallery C,CSULB
1997 A Search For Origins, Gallery C, CSULB, with catalogue
1997 The Celebrated Box, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State L.A.
1997 City Dialogues: Passports, Gallery C, CSULB, with catalogue
1994 Showcase ‘94 Queen Emma Gallery Curator Masa Taira, Honolulu, HI
1994 Hawaii Invitational Sculpture Exhibition, The Honolulu Advertiser
Gallery, Curator Jay Jensen, Honolulu, HI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: JURIED
2000 New American Paintings: MFA Annual, Exhibition in Print
2000 Found Objects Exhibit, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, Juror
George Herms
2000 ANA 28 Holter Museum of Art Helena, Montana, Juror Peter Plagens
1999 Sunspot Laboratory Show Fine Arts Gallery Cal State L.A.
Polytechnic University, Pomona, Jurors Toby Moss and Jo Lauria
- Clay and InkKeith and Kellogg University Art Gallery Cal State
Polytechnic University, Pomona
1994 Graduate Art Student League Show Gallery B, Juror Kim Abeles,
CSULB
1994 17th Annual Vahki Exhibition Galleria Mesa Jurors David Pimentel and Rudy Turk,
Mesa, AZ
- Commitment to Excellence AMFAC Exhibition Center Jurors Jay
Jensen, Lucile Cooper, and Sharon Carter Smith, Honolulu, HI
- Association of Hawaii Artists Contemporary ShowAMFAC Exhibition Center
Honolulu, HI
1994 College Art ‘94 AMFAC Exhibition Center Honolulu, HI
SELCTED HONORS AND AWARDS
Grant: Beverly G. Alpay Memorial Award, 2000
Marilyn Werby Memorial Scholarship, 1999
CSULB Travel Scholarship: Italy, 1999
Yomiuri USA Outstanding Newcomer Award, Commitment to Excellence 1994
Ceramic Award, Hawaii Craftsmen 1994
Dick Hart Memorial Award Hawaii Craftsmen 1994
Honorable Mention AHA Contemporary Show 1994
Grant: Cybil Heidi Art Assistance Fund, 1994
State of Hawaii Foundation on Culture and the Arts Acquisition Award, College Art ‘94
Ceramics Hawaii Award, College Art ‘94
U of Hawaii Art Dept. J. Halley Cox Outstanding Student Award of 1992-1993
FILM AND TELEVISION PLACEMENT
Nip/Tuck, Season 4, 2006
Monk, third season of the television series created by Andy Breckman.
13 Going On 30, feature film directed by Gary Winick for Sony Pictures, 2004
Ocean’s Twelve, feature film directed by Steven Soderbergh for Warner Bros., 2004
Beck and Call, television pilot executive produced by Lisa Kudrow for Warner Bros., 2004
Dinner for Schmucks, Still in production, I don’t know anything else yet. 2010
PUBLICATIONS
ARTE Magazine, April 2010.
Several articles in German about VERN Hamburg, I can’t read but will send upon request.
Luiza Barcan, Split Dreams: Vern Group Exhibition in Romania, ArtMargins.com, July 2003
New American Paintings, MFA Annual, August, 2000 pg. 23-26
Shirle Gottlieb Comely Castoffs Press Telegram 4-12-2000, pg. C-1
Joan Rose Japanese Chamber of Commerce: 16th Annual Exhibition Honolulu Advertiser 9-94
Joan Rose Undergraduate Exhibition the Honolulu Advertiser 5-16-93, Pg. F-11
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Loro Piana
Jay Jensen, Associate Director and Chief Curator for the Contemporary Museum of Modern Art, HI
The State of Hawaii Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, HI
Martin Brest, Producer, Director, Los Angeles
Drew Barrymore, Actor, Los Angeles
Mark Ruffalo, Actor, Los Angeles
Jake Gyllenhaal, Actor, Los Angeles