b. 1977
lives and works in Brooklyn, NY


Education

2005  MFA  The Milton Avery Graduate Center for the Arts at Bard College

2001  BFA  The Cleveland Institute of Art

Solo Exhibitions

2009 

• "VALET" Romer Young Gallery.   San Fransisco, CA. Sept 18 - Oct 16.

2008

• "The Fourth Molt"   High Energy Constructs. Oct 25-Nov. 29, 2008. Los Angeles, CA. 

• "The Fourth Molt"  Harwood Arts Center. Oct 3- Oct 29, 2008. Albuquerque, NM.

2007

• "Late Holiday"   Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL

• “Discorporate”   High Energy Constructs, LA, CA


Group Exhibitions

2012

• VIP Art Fair c/o James Fuentes Gallery.   Feb 3 - 8.

2011

• "Assembly"   Edward Thorp Gallery. Sept 16 - Oct 22.      

• "Feelers."  @ SOLOWAY.  Williamsburg, Brooklyn. June 12 - July 17, Organized by Annette Wehrhahn.

• SOLOWAY @ Dependent Art Fair, W25th St. Sheraton Hotel, NY, NY. March 4th 

• "The Open Daybook Exhibition"  LACE (Los Angles Contemporary Exhibitions) LA, CA.  Jan 6 - Feb 6.

2010

•"Gender:Transgressions"  The Harwood Art Center, Traveling to University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM.

• "World's Greatest"  Daily Operation. Brooklyn, NY.  Jun 4-6.  Curated by Jon Lutz.

2009.

• "Greynbow" Horse Trader Gallery. Brooklyn, NY.  May 9 - April 11.

2008

• "Cycling Apparati"  High Energy Constructs/SolwayJones. September 2008. LA, CA.

2007

• "Black Mirror"   High Energy Constructs, LA, CA

• Monument to Paterson. Flux Factory. "Paterson Project" w/ S. Joelson. Paterson Museum, NJ.

• "One Night Stand/If Then, As If" 165 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY

2006
• "One Night Stand/Face-Off" 165 Bedford Ave. Brooklyn, NY

2005
• “See Scotland” The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock,Scotland,UK

2004
• MFA Thesis Exhibition. Bard College, UBS. Red Hook, NY

2001
• “Look, Paint.” SPACES Gallery. Cleveland, OH,  

• “48 Hours of Making.” B.K. Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College. Painesville, OH

• BFA Thesis Exhibition. Reinberger Galleries. The Cleveland Institute of Art. Cleveland, OH

2000
•SPACE Lab. “Cinematic Daydreams” SPACES Gallery. Cleveland, OH

•“Successions in Torpor.” Inside Gallery. Cleveland, OH

1999

• “Condoned Confrontations and Revelation Scrolls” Site installations accompanying “POP Impact!” The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art.

Awards

2002-2004 Graduate Scholarship Award, Bard College

2000 Joseph McCullough Tuition Scholarship

1999 Eastman-Boltman Painting Award, The Cleveland Institute of Art

1996 The Cleveland Institute of Art Portfolio Scholarship

Reviews and Publications

• The Brooklyn Rail.  "Feelers"  by Linnea Kniaz.  Jul/Aug 2011 issue.

• "The War on Christmas"  issue no. 1 - ed. by Cecila Dougherty. Faye Hirsch & Cecilia Dougherty 2011.

• Artslant - "One Night Only - Dependent Fair"  by Micelle Levy

• BeautifulDecay.com "Branden Koch's Ambiguous World."

• The Open Day Book.  Edited by David Earle.  Mark Batty Publishers.  2010.

• VECTOR Arts Journal. ed. by Peter Gregorio.  April 16, 2009.

• ArtSlant "Measuring Now" by Catherine Wagley. 2008

• Shifter Magazing Vol. 10. “Transparent White.” 2007

• Flavorpill Chicago, Online magazine. April 3-9, 2007.

• Chicago Sun times “Abstract Art Making Clear Contribution” March 30, 2007.

• Artillery Magazine Volume 1, No. 2. November 2006 pgs. 35-36.

• Shifter Magazine 9: Ruin/Monument.

• “Back from SPACELab: 10 Years of Innovation” SPACELab 1994-2004; Cat. - October 2004.

• “Best of Cleveland 2003” Cleveland Magazine, October 2003 issue.

• “Abstract Painters make the medium their own.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer; Arts and Life. Nov. 26, 2001. by Dan Tranberg.