Brian Alfred was born in 1974 in Pittsburgh, PA. Known for his paintings, collages and animations that examine the ways in which perception of our surroundings and culture is mediated by technology, his works present a flattened, depopulated and predominantly urban world derived from found images.
Brian Alfred
Biography
Brian Alfred was born in 1974 in Pittsburgh, PA. Known for his paintings, collages and animations that examine the ways in which perception of our surroundings and culture is mediated by technology, his works present a flattened, depopulated and predominantly urban world derived from found images. His thematic concerns – including the signifiers of modernist idealism and technological progress, conspiracy theories and the growing prevalence of surveillance in the post-9/11 world – have led him to focus on images featuring architecture, machinery, interiors, urban and suburban landscapes, as well as text. The world as depicted by Alfred is distanced, banal – as in visually unremarkable – yet highly charged with possible meanings.
1997 – BFA, Pennsylvania State University
1999 – MFA, Yale University / Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award
Penn State Alumni Award
2005
New York Foundation of the Arts Inspiration Award
2003
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999
Phelps Berdan Memorial Award
Skowhegan Match Scholarship
1997
Edwin Zoller Scholarship
Exhibitions
2016
In Praise of Shadows’ Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York
2015
It Takes A Million Years To Become Diamonds So Let’s All Just Burn Like Coal Until
The Sky Is Black’ Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York
2014
New Animations’ Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
Beauty In Danger’ Salon 94 Video Wall, New York
2013
Storms and Stress’ Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012
It’s Already The End Of The World’ Frist Center for Visual Art, Nashville
2011
Co-op’ Giraud Segalot Pissarro, New York
Rise Above’ Haunch of Venison, London
2010
It’s Already The End Of The World’ Haunch of Venison, New York (catalog)
2009
Majic Window’ Studio La Citta, Verona
2008
Millions Now Living Will Never Die!!!’ Haunch of Venison, Berlin (catalog)
2007
Global Warning,’ SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Surveillance,’ Haunch of Venison, Zurich (catalog)
Space is the Place!’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2005
Paper and Pixels,’ Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Conspiracy?,’ Haunch of Venison, London(enhanced CD ROM catalog)
2004
The Future is Now!,’ Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ(enhancedCD ROM catalog)
Overload,’ Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Fallout,’ Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA
2003
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles (enhanced CD ROM catalog)
2002
Max Protetch Gallery, New York (enhanced CD ROM catalog)
