Brent Owens
www.brentowens.net
Recipient of the 2023 National Academy of Design Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome
Bio
1980 Born in Spartanburg, South Carolina
Lives and works in Queens, NY
Education
2003 Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, Bachelor of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Arrangements with Yourself, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Enigma Hunt Tapestries, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
2018 Tablet, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
2014 For Thinkin’ Long and Dark, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Party Sub, Invisible Exports Booth, NADA Hudson, Hudson, NY
2011 Grab Bag Sack, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2009 The Gnastic Pursuit, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Select Group Exhibitions
2021 Forthcoming - Tarot Show, Brooklyn, NY
In Bloom, Padre Gallery, New York, NY
Wood, Works…Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Studio Associate at Store for Rent Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 SpaceLab, Collar Works, Troy, NY, May-July 2020
Solitaire, an online exhibition presented by Studio Associate and Proto Gomez, New York, NY
Hot Pant Fun House, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
Weird Nature, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Chew, Opalka Gallery, Sage University, Albany, NY
Faux Real, presented by Survey Survey, SK Art, New York, NY
Analog Garden, Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn, NY
Mystic Pizza, Labspace, Hillsdale, NY
2018 Brooklyn Academy of Music Benefit Auction, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Heat, Ortega y Gasset, Brooklyn, NY
Peers, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Real Sex, a two-person exhibition, Plaxall Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2017 Small Moments, Brilliant Champions Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Piles, Stacks, Lumps, and Mounds, Canal Street Market, New York, NY
Orange You Glad We Didn’t Say Bonanza, ArtHelix, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Re:Art, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
Re:re:Art, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY
SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, New York, NY
2015 Plain Airs, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Tableau, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY
NEWD Art Show, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery booth, Brooklyn, NY
Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Venice, Italy
Gift Shop, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, New York, NY
2014 Splinter Field, Brooklyn Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Great Expectations, Gallery Diet (home edition), Miami, FL
Congratulations on Everything, Wayfarers Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Public Art Fund 2013 Benefit Gala, New York, NY
I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver With Joy: An Obsession with Pier
Paolo Pasolini, presented by Invisible Exports at Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, NY
Walking with The Dutch Giant, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA
By Way of the South: Going Home, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Knickerbocker Mini Maw, Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Till Dust Gathers on Grass, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
These Friends 3, This:Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, New York
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 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
Gods of Mars, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Knucklehead Blues, a two person exhibition, English Kills Art Gallery,
Brooklyn, NY
Awards
2021 National Academy Affiliated Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome
2015 The Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant
Selected Bibliography
“Goings on About Town: Tableau,” The New Yorker, August 2015
“Brent Owens is a Contemporary Woodsman,” by Stephen Eakin, NY Arts Magazine, March, 2014
“Brawn & ‘Glitz Brut’, Brent Owens at English Kills,” by Paul D’Agostino, The L Magazine, February 26, 2014
“See Highlights From NADA Hudson’s Slimmer and Stronger Second Edition,” by Benjamin Sutton and Katya Valevich, ARTINFO.COM, July 30, 2012
“9 Artists to watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios,” by Hrag Vartanian, HYPERALLERGIC.COM, June, 2012
“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
"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