EDUCATION
B.A. Yale University, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
M.F.A. Indiana University, Bloomington
SOLO AND TWO–PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany 2021 Scott Miller Projects,
Birmingham, AL
Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston, TX
Platform, Unit London, UK
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York
2020 Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL
2019 The Lodge, Los Angeles
Burning in Water, New York
Union Hall, Denver, CO
The Bundy Modern (with Mark Barry) Waitsfield, VT
2014 Flecker Gallery, Suffolk Community College, Selden, NY
2012 The Active Space, Bushwick, NY
2011 Lesley Heller Workspace, New York
2008 Lesley Heller, New York
Hebrew Home at Riverdale, New York
2006 Lesley Heller, New York
2005 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
2000 Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, New York
1996 Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
1994 Modernism, San Francisco
Ledis Flam Gallery, New York
1992, 1990, 1988, 1986 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1991 Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
1988 Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Plain Air, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
Domesticity, Volery Gallery, Dubai, U.A E.
2020 Nasty Women, Gavlak, Los Angeles, California
Sit Still: Self-Portraits in the Age of Distraction
The Armory Show, GAVLAK Booth 906
2019 Certain Women, Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston
About Face, The Painting Center, New York
2018 Sexy Xmas, The Lodge, Los Angeles, California
Stranger in a Strange Land, Castor Gallery, NY
2016 Introspective, BravinLee programs, New York
2015 Myths & Legends of the Hudson Valley, Mattewan Gallery, Beacon, NY
Fleurs Fatales, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
2014 The Reason for Beauty, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
2010 Landscapes, United States Embassy, Tunis, Tunisia
2008 Mythic Landscapes of America, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Museum of Modern Art at Pfizer, Inc. New York City
AWARDS
2020 Shandaken Projects, Paint School Master Class Fellow
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS
2002 Mosaic roundels, Royal Caribbean Cruise Terminal Port of Miami, commissioned by
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places
2001 Mosaic frieze, P.S. 178, Manhattan, commissioned by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Percent for Art
2000 Mosaic mural, Garfield Avenue Station, Jersey City, NJ Hudson-Bergen Light Rail,
commissioned by NJ Transit
1994 Mosaic murals, Houston Street Subway Station Commissioned by New York, MTA Arts for
Transit
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2018 Hunter College, MFA Program
2017 John M. Anderson Lecture Series, Penn State Univ.
2014 Pace University Department of Art, New York, NY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 James Panero, “Crtitic’s Notebook,” The New Criterion February 8 2021 Sasha Bogojev,
“Painting Things As They Are:
A Conversation with Deborah Brown,” Juxtapoz, February 8
Natasha Gural, “From Playful, Busy Self-Portraits to Mundane Still Lifes, Deborah Brown
Explores Our Collective Isolation,” Forbes online, January 21
Katie White “17 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week,” Artnet, January 18
2020 Elisabeth Condon, “Interview: Stalking Deborah Brown’s Paintings, Two Coats of Paint,
December 16
Eileen Kinsella, “Ten Events for Your Virtual Art Calendar” Artnet News, June 16, 2020
Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, “Price Check! Here’s What Sold—and for How Much—
at 2020 Armory Show,”March 9
2019 Brask Studio Visits V, Brask Publications, pp. 114-119
David Molesky, “Deborah Brown in Review,” Juxtapoz Magazine, October 7
Annabel Osberg, “Deborah Brown: Pick of the Week” Artillery Magazine, September 25
Katie White, “Editors’ Picks: 19 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This
Week,”Artnet, August 12
Molly Glentzer, “Certain Women” at Nancy Littlejohn Fine Art, Houston Chronicle, July 9
Paddy Johnson, “The Art-Making Trend Outshining Large-Scale Sculpture in NYC’s Best
Shows,” Observer, June 10
Paul Laster, “Six Must-See Figurative Painting Shows in New York, Galerie Magazine,
February 28
Sarah Cascone, “Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This
Week,”Artnet, February 4
2018 Andrea K. Scott, “Goings On,” The New Yorker, “Still Lives” at Underdonk, Brooklyn,
September 3
2017 Darren Jones, “Deborah Brown, GEARY Contemporary,” Critics’ Pick, New York,
Artforum, September 15
Sarah Cascone, “16 Things to See in New York This Week” Artnet, September 25
2016 Eileen Kinsella, “9 Must-See Summer Group Gallery Shows,”Artnet, June 30
Peter Malone, “Paintings Playfully Distilled from 18th Century European Portraiture,”
Hyperallergic, April 26
2015 The New York Times, “Things To Do in the Hudson Valley” Arts Calendar, 12/6, p. 12
Sharine Saad, “Brooklyn Bouillon de Culture” Madame Figaro, October 24, pp. 78-84
2014 Ann Landi, “Artists’ First Influences,”ARTnews, May
“The 100 Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture” Brooklyn Magazine, March 11
2012 Holland Cotter, “The Latest Vibe Moved to Brooklyn” The New York Times, June 8,
page C35 + 38
2008 Benjamin Genocchio, "From East to West,” NYT, Dec. 19
2003 New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, #44
2001 Reena Jana, “New York Reviews,” ARTnews, October, p. 174
Ken Johnson, “Art Guide,” The New York Times, 1 June, p. E34
1998 Ken Johnson, “Art Guide,” The New York Times, 3 July, p. E34
New York Times, feature Art&Antiques, Gallery Watch – ArtHaus, San Fransisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC & PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Indianapolis Museum of Art
De Cordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Bass Museum of Art, Miami
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
United States Dept. of State, U.S. Embassy, Bogota, Colombia ExxonMobil, Houston, Texas
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Raymond Learsy
Rob Thomas and Eric Suwall
Michel Cohen
Sara Vance Waddell
Ann and Mel Schaffer
Pamela and David Hornik
Nion McEvoy
Andy and Christine Hall
Beth DeWoody
