Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Stephen Sollins

Born: 1967; Washington, DC
Education: 1997; MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY; 1990; BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Awards: 2005; Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship; 2001; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; 2000; MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH; 1997; Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visuals Arts
Solo Exhibitions: 2012; Piecework, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; 2010; New Thoughts, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2009; Letters Home, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; 2007; Static Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2005; Domestic Scenes, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2004; Home Sweet Home, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; 2003; Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2002; Dwelling, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Public Notice, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; 1999; Poetry/Predictions, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 1998; Last Portraits, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Recent Work, Sara Meltzer’s On View, New York, NY; 1990; Fried Okra in Central City, Proctor Art Center, Annandale, NY
Group Exhibitions: 2011–12; Slipstreams, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT; 2009; Paper / Mylar / Vellum, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; 2008; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Collection, Brooklyn Museum, NY; The Seditious Stitch, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID; Wonders of Numbers: Art about Mathematics, Heckscher Museum of Art, Hungtington, NY; Social Construct/Human Nature, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA; Art and Math, Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA; 2007; Home Sweet Home, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA. Traveled to: Bedford Gallery at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Salina Art Center, KS, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, and the Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University,University Park.; A Stitch in Time, Kalmanovitz Library, University of California, San Francisco; Site Inscription, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York, NY; Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; 2006; Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA; Next Next, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; Space of Transmission, Contemp, Brooklyn, NY; Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY; 2005; Motion/Stasis, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, LA; Raw Data: Conceptual Art in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; 2004; Drawings, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY; Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Perfect Pitch, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; 2003–4; Threads, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM; 2003; Fall Selections, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM; Kojo Griffin, Sarah Lovitt, Stephen Sollins, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Manic, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY; Off the Press, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; 2002; 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; 9/11: Art and Observance, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, NY; Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC, Greensboro, NC; Boundless/Silence, DC Moore, New York, NY; Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign; Get in Line, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY; The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenue, New York, NY; One Hand Clapping, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Parsing the Line, The Work Space, New York, NY (curator); 2001; The Armory Show, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY; Black White and Read All Over, Sloan Miyasato, San Francisco, CA; Edgescapes, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY, Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA; Gallery Artists, Brian Gross Fine Art at Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA; Unruled, Exhibit A, New York, NY; 2000; Gary Baldwin, Brian Block, Stephen Sollins, The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY; Good Business is the Best Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY; Hokin Arts Center, Columbia College, Chicago, IL; Invented Spaces, The Work Space, New York, NY; The Meat Market Art Fair, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY; Microwave 2, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY; Winter Paper, Catherine Moore Gallery, New York, NY; 1999; 1999 Benefit (Invitational), White Columns, New York, NY; Belt, A Space in Between, London, England (organized by Elisabeth Condon); The Crest Hardware Show # 5, Brooklyn, NY, (curated by Gene Pool); DUMBO: Art Under the Bridge, Brooklyn, NY; 1998; AIM: Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY; The Crest Hardware Show #4, Brooklyn, NY; Ezra Coen, Amanda Guest, Stephen Sollins, Sullivan Street Frames, New York, NY, (curated by Eyal Danieli); Fresh Work 2, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, FL; Selections ‘98, The Drawing Center, New York, NY; 1997; 68 Jay at 450, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY; Blue Lagoon (School of Visual Arts thesis exhibition), White Columns, New York, NY; Dumbo: Art Under the Bridge, Brooklyn, NY; Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artist’s Space, New York, NY; 1996; Reframing Tradition, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT; 1995; New Work ‘95, Artspace, New Haven, CT; 1993; I’m Useless to the Culture but God Loves Me, Five Day Forecast, San Francisco, CA
Bibliography: Artforum, Natalie Sciortino Rinehart , March, 2009; Art Papers, Micah Malone, January 2008; MetroActive, Michael S. Gant, June 13, 2007; San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 28, 2005; San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 4, 2005; San Francisco Guardian, Clark Buckner, May 25, 2005; Raw Data, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2005 (catalogue); The Times-Picayune, Doug MacCash, March 4, 2005; Gambit Weekly, Eric Brookhardt, February 22, 2005; Sculpture, Denise Carvalho, January-February, 2004; Art on Paper, Glen Helfand, May-June, 2003; Art on Paper, Claire Barliant, January-February 2003; The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, October 4, 2002; Drawings of Choice, Krannert Art Museum, 2002 (catalogue); 9/11: Art and Observance, Visual Arts Museum, 2002 (catalogue); Art on Paper, Lytle Shaw, March-April, 2002; The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, March 4, 2002; The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, February 15, 2002; Time Out New York, Galleries, February 14-21, 2002; Dwelling, Essay by Elizabeth Finch, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002 (catalogue); The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, April 19, 2002; Time Out New York, Sarah Schmerler, May 2-9, 2002; The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, January 19, 2001; The Village Voice, Recommended Choices, Kim Levin, October 24, 2000; The New York Times, Holland Cotter, August 23, 1998; San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti, Gallery Watch, August 14, 1998; San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, Sollins’ ‘Last Portraits’ Make Art of Obituaries, July 16, 1998; The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, March 16, 1998; New York City Search.com, Charles Hutchinson, March, 1998; Fresh Work 2, Southeast Museum of Photography, 1998 (catalogue); Internet Art Resources, Karen Chambers, March 1998; News-Journal Online, Laura Stewart, June, 1998; Time Out New York, Choices, February 19-26, 1998; The Village Voice, Choices, Kim Levin, February 10, 1998; The New York Times, William Zimmer, May 12, 1996
Selected Collections: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; The Achenbach Foundation at The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA; Agnes Gund, New York, NY; Raymond Learsy, New York, NY; Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY; Ruth Braunstein, San Francisco, CA; Patricia and Morris Orden, New York, NY; Progressive Corporation; Citgroup; Private Collections


		Born 1967 Washington, DC Education 1997 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1990 BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Awards 2005 Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship 2001 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship 2000 MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH 1997 Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visuals Arts Solo Exhibitions 2012 Piecework, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY 2010 New Thoughts, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2009 Letters Home, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA 2007 Static Drawings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2005 Domestic Scenes, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2004 Home Sweet Home, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2003 Recent Work, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2002 Dwelling, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Public Notice, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA 1999 Poetry/Predictions, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1998 Last Portraits, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Recent Work, Sara Meltzer’s On View, New York, NY 1990 Fried Okra in Central City, Proctor Art Center, Annandale, NY Group Exhibitions 2011–12 Slipstreams, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT 2009 Paper / Mylar / Vellum, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2008 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Collection, Brooklyn Museum, NY The Seditious Stitch, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, ID Wonders of Numbers: Art about Mathematics, Heckscher Museum of Art, Hungtington, NY Social Construct/Human Nature, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA Art and Math, Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA 2007 Home Sweet Home, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond, VA. Traveled to: Bedford Gallery at the Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA, Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, Salina Art Center, KS, Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY, Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, and the Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University,University Park. A Stitch in Time, Kalmanovitz Library, University of California, San Francisco Site Inscription, Paul Rodgers/9W, New York, NY Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA 2006 Embroidered Stories/Knitted Tales, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA Next Next, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY Space of Transmission, Contemp, Brooklyn, NY Threads of Memory, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Motion/Stasis, Carroll Gallery, Tulane University, LA Raw Data: Conceptual Art in Louisiana, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 2004 Drawings, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Perfect Pitch, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY 2003–4 Threads, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 2003 Fall Selections, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Fresh: Works on Paper, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Kojo Griffin, Sarah Lovitt, Stephen Sollins, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Manic, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY Off the Press, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL 2002 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 9/11: Art and Observance, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, NY Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, UNC, Greensboro, NC Boundless/Silence, DC Moore, New York, NY Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign Get in Line, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenue, New York, NY One Hand Clapping, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY Parsing the Line, The Work Space, New York, NY (curator) 2001 The Armory Show, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Black White and Read All Over, Sloan Miyasato, San Francisco, CA Edgescapes, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NY, Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA Gallery Artists, Brian Gross Fine Art at Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA Unruled, Exhibit A, New York, NY 2000 Gary Baldwin, Brian Block, Stephen Sollins, The Front Room, Brooklyn, NY Good Business is the Best Art, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY Hokin Arts Center, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Invented Spaces, The Work Space, New York, NY The Meat Market Art Fair, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY Microwave 2, 123 Watts Gallery, New York, NY Winter Paper, Catherine Moore Gallery, New York, NY 1999 1999 Benefit (Invitational), White Columns, New York, NY Belt, A Space in Between, London, England (organized by Elisabeth Condon) The Crest Hardware Show # 5, Brooklyn, NY, (curated by Gene Pool) DUMBO: Art Under the Bridge, Brooklyn, NY 1998 AIM: Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY The Crest Hardware Show #4, Brooklyn, NY Ezra Coen, Amanda Guest, Stephen Sollins, Sullivan Street Frames, New York, NY, (curated by Eyal Danieli) Fresh Work 2, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, FL Selections ‘98, The Drawing Center, New York, NY 1997 68 Jay at 450, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Blue Lagoon (School of Visual Arts thesis exhibition), White Columns, New York, NY Dumbo: Art Under the Bridge, Brooklyn, NY Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artist’s Space, New York, NY 1996 Reframing Tradition, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT 1995 New Work ‘95, Artspace, New Haven, CT 1993 I’m Useless to the Culture but God Loves Me, Five Day Forecast, San Francisco, CA Bibliography Artforum, Natalie Sciortino Rinehart , March, 2009 Art Papers, Micah Malone, January 2008 MetroActive, Michael S. Gant, June 13, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 28, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, June 4, 2005 San Francisco Guardian, Clark Buckner, May 25, 2005 Raw Data, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 2005 (catalogue) The Times-Picayune, Doug MacCash, March 4, 2005 Gambit Weekly, Eric Brookhardt, February 22, 2005 Sculpture, Denise Carvalho, January-February, 2004 Art on Paper, Glen Helfand, May-June, 2003 Art on Paper, Claire Barliant, January-February 2003 The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, October 4, 2002 Drawings of Choice, Krannert Art Museum, 2002 (catalogue) 9/11: Art and Observance, Visual Arts Museum, 2002 (catalogue) Art on Paper, Lytle Shaw, March-April, 2002 The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, March 4, 2002 The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, February 15, 2002 Time Out New York, Galleries, February 14-21, 2002 Dwelling, Essay by Elizabeth Finch, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, 2002 (catalogue) The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, April 19, 2002 Time Out New York, Sarah Schmerler, May 2-9, 2002 The New York Times, Art Guide, Ken Johnson, January 19, 2001 The Village Voice, Recommended Choices, Kim Levin, October 24, 2000 The New York Times, Holland Cotter, August 23, 1998 San Francisco Examiner, David Bonetti, Gallery Watch, August 14, 1998 San Francisco Chronicle, Kenneth Baker, Sollins’ ‘Last Portraits’ Make Art of Obituaries, July 16, 1998 The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, March 16, 1998 New York City Search.com, Charles Hutchinson, March, 1998 Fresh Work 2, Southeast Museum of Photography, 1998 (catalogue) Internet Art Resources, Karen Chambers, March 1998 News-Journal Online, Laura Stewart, June, 1998 Time Out New York, Choices, February 19-26, 1998 The Village Voice, Choices, Kim Levin, February 10, 1998 The New York Times, William Zimmer, May 12, 1996 Selected Collections The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY The Achenbach Foundation at The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA Agnes Gund, New York, NY Raymond Learsy, New York, NY Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY Ruth Braunstein, San Francisco, CA Patricia and Morris Orden, New York, NY Progressive Corporation Citgroup Private Collections