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Brian Wills
b. 1970 Lexington, KY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1996 AM, SSP, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA
1996 JD, SSP, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
1992 BA, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2014 Blessed Oblivion, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Artists We Like, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Seemingly, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA (Solo show)
Veils, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Strength of Illusion: Line and Light, Dominique Fiat, Paris (Two person show)
The Value of a Line, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2013 Oscillations, Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, CA (Solo show)
Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID (Solo show)
2012 Summer 2012, Nye + Brown, LA
Unwound, Nye + Brown, LA (Solo show)
Summer of Jack: Jack Brogan, Catherine Cone Gallery, Culver City, CA
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
2011 Lords & The New Creatures, Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, CA
New Works, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (Solo show)
I Don’t Know Where But She Sends Me There, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA
What’s New Pussycat?, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Paintings, NYEHAUS, New York, NY (Solo show)
Gray Day, Roberts and Tilton, Culver City, CA
Swell: Art 1950- 2010, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Metro Pictures, Nyehaus, New York, NY
Bubble and Squeak, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings and Sculpture, Marine, Venice, CA
Karl Hutter Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (Two-person show)
2009 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX (Solo show)
2008 Gallery Min Min, Tokyo (Two-person show)
String Theory, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA (Solo show)
2007 Themes and Variations: New Abstraction in Los Angeles, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Fleeing the Scene, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Bel-Air, CA
Consequence, Museum 52, London
2006 The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA (Solo show)
LA Art Scene: Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills, CA
2005 Sight Lines: Recent Work from Los Angeles, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne
2004 Sight Lines, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
Scope Los Angeles, Scope Circle Committee for Emerging Art, Christies, Beverly Hills, CA
2003 What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Optics, Gensler, Los Angeles, CA
Group exhibition and auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014 Lauren Buscemi, “Brian Wills: Artist Profile”, Art Ltd Magazine
2013 Christopher Knight “Brian Wills Shows His Invigorating Stripes at Nye + Brown”, Los Angeles Times, December 5, 2013
Shaw, Michael “Brian Wills”, Artscene, December 2013
2012 Reviews In Brief, “Peter Alexander, Brian Wills”, Modern Painters, April 2012
Peter Frank, “Brian Wills”, Huffington Post, February 2012
2011 Lisa Turvey, “Brian Wills”, Artforum, February 2011
2010 Christopher Knight, “A Gray Area Marks he Mood”, Los Angeles Times, Novembe 26, 2010
2009 Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Cool Threads”, Houston Press, December 2009
2008 B. Vansiel, “Art Scene: West Coast Artists Brighten Dog Days of Summer at Providence’s 5 Traverse Gallery”,
The Providence Journal, August 14, 2008
Shana Nys Dambrot, “Brian Wills: String Theory”, Art Review, June 2008
2007 Christopher Knight, “45 Painters Under 45”, Los Angeles Times, December 2, 2007
Peter Frank, “Themes and Variations at the Torrance Art Museum, Artweek, December 2007
2006 Annie Buckley, “Brian Wills at The Happy Lion”, Artweek , September 2006
Holly Myers, “Complexity from a Familiar Formula”, Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2006
Vanity Fair, “The Art Universe”, 2006
2005 Claudia Funke, “Neues von der Westküste,” Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Nr.64
2004 Thomas McGovern, “Sightlines at The Happy Lion,” Artweek, September 2004
Holly Myers, “Extending off into the Horizon”, Los Angeles Times, review, June 18, 2004
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Jarl Mohn Family Foundation
Fundación/Colección Jumex
Dallas Price Van Breda
The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
The Progressive Corporation
The Estee Lauder Collection
Palm Springs Art Museum