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Biography - Edgar Bryan

EDGAR BRYAN

Born 1970 in Birmingham, Alabama

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education

2001	University of California Los Angeles, MFA
1998	The Art Institute of Chicago, BFA

Solo Exhibitions

2008	Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007	c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2006	Regen Projects, Los Angeles
	Galleria II Capricorno, Venice

2002	China Art Objects, Los Angeles

Group Exhibitions

2007	“Back to Nature,” Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
	“From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art,” Museum
	of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2005	“There is No Such Thing as the World”, MGM, Oslo, Norway
	“Kids of the Black Hole” Stalke Galleri, Coppenhagen, Denmark
	“Kiss Kiss”, C/O Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
	“Drunk vs. Stoned 2,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
	“The Early Show,” White Columns, New York

2004	“The Undiscovered Country” curated by Russell Ferguson, UCLA Hammer
	Museum, Los Angeles. Exh. cat.
	“Likeness : Portraits of Artists by Other Artists,” curated by Matthew Higgs ,CCA
	Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, travels to McColl Center
	for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA;
	Dalhousie University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; University Art
	Museum, California State University at Long Beach; Illingworth Kerr Gallery,
	Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Contemporary Art
	Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach. Exh. Cat.
	“100 Artists see God”, Organized by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston for
	Independent Curators International, New York, travels to The Contemporary Jewish
	Museum San Fransisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Institute of
	Contemporary Arts, London, England; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,
	Virginia Beach; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading,Pennsylvania;
	Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee. Exh. Cat.
	“Never Never Landscapes”, curated by Kristy Bell, Atle Gerhardsen, Galerie
	GmbH,Berlin
	“Drunk vs. Stoned”, The General Store with Gavin Brown, Passerby at Gavin
	Brown’s Enterprise, New York
	“Kommando Pfannenkuchen”, Deutsche und Amerikanische Kunst, Daniel Hug
	Gallery, Los Angeles
	“Singing My Own Song”, ACME, Los Angeles
	“SPF, Self Portrait”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica

2003	“Intimates”, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
	China Art Objects, Los Angeles

2002	“Hello, My Name Is…”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
	“Hamstead Achieved”, Curated by Neil Mulholland and Alex Pollard, K Jackson’s,
	Lady Lawson St., Edinburgh

2001	“Snapshot; New Art from Los Angeles”, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Exh. Cat.
	“Drageur”, Transmission, Glasgow, Scotland
	“Self Portraits”, (collaborative with Laura Owens), Laura Owens Studio, Eagle
	Rock, Los Angeles
	“Canceled Art Fair”, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
	“And She Will Have Your Eyes…” Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva

2000	“Echo Park Projects”, Curated by Katy Brennin, Los Angeles
	“Hot Sauce”, The Law Office, Chicago

1999	“True Value”, Storefront exhibition, Chicago”Chicago Artists”, Gallery 312, Chicago

Public Collections

The Astup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Bibliography

2008	Time Out New York, pg. 79, March 13-19, 2008

2006	Catalogue, Edgar Bryan, published by c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
	and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2006
	Wood, Eve, “Edgar Bryan” artUS, November 2006, p.7
	Wood, Eve, “Edgar Bryan” Flash Art, October 2006, p.118
	Pagel, Davis, “Benefiting from a looser approach” Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2006, E26
	Saltz, Jerry, “Selected by the Stars,” The Art Newspaper, June 16-17, 2006

2005	Yablonsky, Linda, “What Makes a Painting a Painting?,” ARTnews online, April 2005
	Rubinstein, Raphael, “Person, Place and Thing”, Art in America, January 2005

2004	Catalogue, Likenesses: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists. San Francisco :
	CCA Wattis Institute; and New York : Independent Curators International, 2004
	Catalogue, 100 Artists See God. New York: Independent Curators International, 2004.
	Catalogue, The Undiscovered Country. Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum, 2004
	“Show Examines Painting’s Role in History,” Art Business News, December 1
	“The Hammer,” The OC Art Blog, Contemporary Art in Orange County, December

2003	Pagel, David. “Family, Friends, and other ‘Intimates’,”, Los Angeles Times,
	August 29, 2003
2002	Thomas, Mary. “Carnegie Exhibit Introduces Lively Range of Young Talent,
	Curator Duo”, Pittsburgh Gazette, July 13, 2002
	Pagel, David, “A Touch of Classicism, Mixed With Romanticism,” The Los
	Angeles Times, February 15, 2002, p. F32.
	Pagel, David. “Trouble Creeps Into Paradise”, Los Angeles Times, February

2001	Catalogue, Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles. Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer
	Museum, 2001
	Subotnik, Ali. “Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles”, Frieze, issue 62, October,
	page 99- 100.
	Tumlir, Jan, “Snapshot: LA exhibit of work of 25 artists,” Artforum, October
	Goodale, Gloria, “Art goes West: Young Artists are packing up their easels and
	moving to the burgeoning scene in L.A.,” The Christian Monitor, July 6