email: owens.brent@gmail.com
Bio
1980 Born in South Carolina
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Education
2003 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Grab Bag Sack, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009 The Gnastic Pursuit, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Group Exhibitions
2011
These Friends at The Ace, presented by This:Los Angeles, The Ace Hotel, New York, NY
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Working Artists, Art Crating, Brooklyn, NY
Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
Scope Art Show, English Kills Art Gallery booth, New York, NY
The Mother Ship, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
These Friends 2, This: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2010
English Kills Minor, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
NurtureART Benefit, Zieher Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Dieu Donné Benefit and Auction, Dieu Donné, New York, NY
The Third Year Anniversary Show, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Common Jive, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Solitary Pleasures, The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Collaborative Forgeries, or Forged Collaborations, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY
The Permanent Collection: Vol. 1, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
I Wish I Was Dead Biennial: Works by Unsettled and Unsettling Natures,
Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2009
Impart to Product/Part of the Process? Or Quest, Phantom, Vestigium,
Centotto, Brooklyn, NY
ABCYZ.ORG, Silvershed, New York, NY
Gods of Mars, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007
Knucklehead Blues, a two person exhibition, English Kills Art Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Performance
2010 Hayseed and Squirrel’s Moonshine Tasting, Fred Torres Collaborations, New York
Artist Talk
2010 The Ricotta Collaborations, Centotto, Brooklyn, NY
Bibliography
“Artists in Bushwick,” by Stephen Truax, The Brooklyn Rail, July 2011
“Bushwick Art Scene, For Love of the Game, by Emily Nathan, ARTNET.COM, June 2011
“Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker Magazine, May 9, 2011
“Is The Campiest Camp Necessarily Naive?,” by Dierdre Hering, L Magazine, April 13, 2011
“Brent Owens Grab Bag Sack at English Kills,” video by James Kalm, ARTREVIEW.COM, April 27, 2011
“Art Uncovered” interview with Thomas Seely, BREAKTHRURADIO.COM, March 29, 2011
“In The Studio: Brent Owens at English Kills,” Stephen Truax, BUSHWICKBK.COM, March 10, 2011
“Brent Owens gets a Woody at English Kills,” Daniel Larkin, HYPERALLERGIC.COM, November 16, 2009
“Aesthetic Cleansing”, James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail, October 2009
“Adolescent Art,” Stephen Truax, BUSHWICKBK.COM, September 22, 2009
“Authentic Beauty, or The Real Phony,” James Kalm, The Brooklyn Rail,
February 2008