Brian Alfred

Brian Alfred was born in Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania in 1974. He lives and works in New York.

Solo exhibitions

2024

  1. Beauty Is a Rare Thing, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY

2022

  1. Escape Plan, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

2021

  1. New World, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo

2019

  1. Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

2018

  1. Future Shock, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

2017

  1. Techno Garden, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo

2016

  1. In Praise of Shadows, Ameringer, McEnery, Yohe, New York

2015

  1. It Takes A Milion Years To Become Diamonds So Let’s All Just Burn Like Coal Until The Sky Is Black, Ameringer, McEnery, New York

2014

  1. New Animations, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Israel
  2. Beauty In Danger, Salon 94 Video Wall, New York

2013

  1. Storms and Stress, Hezi Cohen Gallery, Tel Aviv

2012

  1. It’s Already the End of the World, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville

2010

  1. It’s Already the End of the World, Haunch of Venison, New York

2009

  1. Majic Window, Studio la Città, Verona

2008

  1. Million Now Living Will Never Die, Haunch of Venison, Berlin

2007

  1. Global Warning, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo

2006

  1. Surveillance, Haunch of Venison, Zurich
  2. Space is the Place, Mary Boone, New York, NY

2005

  1. Paper and Pixels, Mary Boone, New York, NY
  2. Conspiracy?, Haunch of Venison, London

2004

  1. The Future is Now! Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, AZ
  2. Overload, Max Protetch, New York, NY
  3. Fallout, Samek, Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA

2003

  1. New Work, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

  1. Max Protetch, New York, NY

2000

  1. Max Protetch, New York, NY

Group exhibitions

2022

  1. CITY – COUNTRY – CONNECTIVITY, KUNST für ANGELN e.V. | Wittkielhof, Angeln, Germany
  2. Island Time, Volery Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
  3. Why I Make Art (curated by Brian Alfred), Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
  4. HOME/STUDIO, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
  5. Spring Show, MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY

2021

  1. Do You Think It Needs a Cloud?, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

2020

  1. VIDEOTOPIA, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019

  1. Fixed Contained, Kotaro Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo
  2. Alex Katz, Brian Alfred, Guy Yanai, Laurel Nakadate, Taro Komiya, Ryunosuke Yasui: Door Into Summer / M’s collection +, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
  3. Rag & Bone Mural, Houston Street, New York
  4. Art on Link, Art on LINK/NYC Kiosks, New York

2018

  1. no place like home, curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Studio la Città, Verona
  2. Senza Tema. Carta / Paper, Studio la Città, Verona
  3. Belief in Giants, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York

2017

  1. The Frame, Samsung Art TV, Samsung USA
  2. Like Oxygen, Mountain Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn

2016

  1. Tokyo / London / New York, Maho Kubota Gallery, Tokyo
  2. Room With A View, Eddy’s Room, Brooklyn, New York
  3. Audacious: Contemporary Artists Speak Out, Denver Art Museum, Denver
  4. Genbi Shinkansen, Echigo Yuzawa, Niigata Prefecture
  5. In an Illusion Village: Our Form Connected by Media Art, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori City
  6. Extended Practice, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, University Park
  7. Animated! Explorations into Moving Pictures, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, University Park

2015

  1. Black/White, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York
  2. The Search For The Real, DeBuck Gallery, New York
  3. Villissima Des artistes et des villes, Hotel Des Arts, Tolone
  4. The Everywhere Exotic, Culturadora, Art Miami
  5. Animation Screening, Marfa Contemporary (and at the Dallas Art Fair)

2014

  1. Black/White, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston
  2. Art Film, Art Basel Miami
  3. Art Film, Art Basel Hong Kong
  4. 100 Works for 100 Years: A Centennial Celebration, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair
  5. Mercury Retrograde-Animated Realities, Lafayette Art Galleries, Pennsylvania
  6. Film Cologne, Art Cologne Fair, Colonia

2013

  1. Uncanny Congruencies, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania
  2. Art Film, Art Basel Miami
  3. Mercury Retrograde:Animated Realities, Stephen Stoyanov Gallery, New York
  4. Epic Fail, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York

2012

  1. exUrban Screens, The Frankston Arts Centre/Cube 37, Melbourne
  2. 15th Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo
  3. Sourced, Steven Vail Fine Arts, Des Moines

2011

  1. Beyond, SCAI the Bathhouse, Tokyo
  2. Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

2010

  1. 12th Cairo Biennale, International Cairo Biennale, Giza
  2. Visionaries: Contemporary Art from Santa Barbara’s Private Collections, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara

2009-10

  1. Undeniably me. 1309 Faces, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg

2008

  1. Uncoordinated: Mapping Carthography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center Museum, Cincinnati
  2. Ru, Ru, Ru Landscape: how I see the world around me, Shizuoka Prefecture Museum of Art, Shizuoka
  3. Teaching an old dog new tricks, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen

2007

  1. The Shape of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  2. System error: War is a force that gives us meaning, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
  3. Cell Phone: Art and Mobile Phone, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore

2006

  1. The 59th Minute, Time Quare Panasonic Astrovision Screen, Creative Time, New York
  2. American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
  3. Radar: Selections from the Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver
  4. Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha
  5. New Code, Studio la Città, Verona

2005

  1. Produced at Eyebeam, Eyebeam, New York, NY
  2. Surface, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY
  3. Art/+><Work, 520 8th Ave Suite 1602, New York, NY

2004

  1. Metropolis, The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
  2. Art and Architecture 1900- 2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
  3. Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  4. Trouble in Paradise, Van Brunt Gallery, New York, NY
  5. Happy Ending, Kingfisher Projects, Queens, New York, NY

2003

  1. Toxic, Max Protetch, New York, NY
  2. Digital Showcase, Austin Museum of Digital Art, TX

1999

  1. Group Show, Max Gallery, New York, NY
  2. MFA, Thesis Exhibition Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT