ABBREVIATED CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1995 Master of Fine Arts in Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1993 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Printmaking, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN – Emeritus Fellow
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
FELLOWSHIPS + RESIDENCIES
2016 Artist-in-Residence, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast, United Kingdom
2011 Nominee (Finalist), Brother Thomas Fellowship, The Boston Foundation, Boston, MA
2008 Salzburg Kunstlerhaus, Artist-in-Residence Program, Salzburg, Austria - awarded but deferred
2007 School of Visual Arts, Artist-in-Residence Program, New York, NY
2006 Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Artist-in-Residence Program, Johnson, VT
2001 Emerging Artist Grant, Durham Arts Council
2000 Fellowship, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Artist-in-Residence Program, Mt. San Angelo, Sweet Briar, VA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Boston Art Windows: A Project of the City of Boston, Lafayette Corporate Center, Boston, MA
2009 Louisianna Tech University, Ruston, LA
Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State University, Framingham, MA
2008 The Gallery at Penn College, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, PA
Material, Memphis, TN
Murray State University, Murray, KY
2007 University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA
University of North Alabama, Florence, AL
2006 The University of Delaware, Newark, DE
2005 Eichold Gallery, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN
2004 Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Walsh Gallery, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
2003 Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
2002 Artspace, Raleigh, NC
2001 Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
2000 Arkansas State University, Fine Arts Center, Jonesboro, AR
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
1999 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 Cossitt Gallery, Memphis, TN
1996 David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993 Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “142nd Royal Ulster Academy of Arts (RUA) Annual”, Ulster Museum, Belfast, United Kingdom
“193rd Annual Exhibition”, Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts, Dublin, Ireland
2021 “Salonathon”, Platform Arts, Belfast, United Kingdom
2019 “How The Image Echoes”, PS² Project Space, Belfast, United Kingdom
“Truth”, Wederman Gallery, Lasell College, (curated by Stephen Fischer), Newton, MA
2016 "Facsimile", Room 83 Spring, Watertown, MA
"FFWD", Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast, United Kingdom
"Raw", Catalyst Arts, Belfast, United Kingdom
2014 "Big Picture II", Atlantic Works Gallery, Boston, MA
2013 "Material Anthology", Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN
"Tune-In, Paint-Out", Online at CuratingContemporary.com
"Present Tense", Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN
2012 "-ology", Amstel 41 Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and online at o-l-o-g-y.com
"Fifteenth Aniversary Retrospective" Young Blood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011 "Artspace 25: Collective Consciousness", Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
"Charged Brushes: Ten Artists from The Painting Center Registry", The Painting Center, New York, NY
2010 "Small Works", 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
"The Object of Nostalgia", A+D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2009 "2009 Biennial", New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester,NH
"Plus One", Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
"Generation 3K", ATAC Gallery, Framingham, MA
"Encaustic Works 2009", (juried by Heather Hutchison), Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
"Northeast Prize Show", (juried by William Stover), Kathryn Schulz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2008 "Gulf-South Regional Contemporary Exhibition", Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art Gallery (BECA), New Orleans, LA
2007 "The Red Clay Survey: 2007 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art", (juried by Margaret Lazzari), Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
"Internal Landscapes", Clayton Street Gallery, Athens, GA
"Second Annual Encaustic Invitational", Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ
"Drawing on Alabama", (juried by Florence Neal), Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL
2006 "Outwin Boochever Portraiture Exhibition", (juried by panel), National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washnigton, DC
"Pink Days, Azure Nights", Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
2005 "Information in Formation", Visual Arts Gallery, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
"A Link To The Past: Contemporary Artists Inspired by the Renaissance", Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA
2004 "Drawing: New Directions", Elon University, Elon, NC
"Seventh Annual SECAC Members' Exhibition", (juried by George Kinghorn), Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, FL
"Limit Edge Boundary Asymptote: The Fine Lines of Human Space", City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
"Focus/Alabama", Space 301, Mobile, AL
2003 "Encaustic Works 2003:Fourth International Juried Biennial", (juried by Tracey Brashkoff), Marist College Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
"Drawing Upon Structure", Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
"School's Out: Emerging Artists from the Southeast", City Art Gallery, Columbia, SC
"Switchyard", Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2002 "Brian Bishop, Ashley Oates, Kelly Popoff", Southside Gallery, Oxford, MS
"Bi-State Art Exhibition", (juried by Sam Corso), Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, MS - Merit Award
"Body", Musawwir Art Space, Midland Park, NJ
2001 "Working Drawings", Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, NC
"August Art", Rawspace, New York, NY
2000 "Homegrown", Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC
"Vital Signs: Drawing as Inquiry", (juried by Robert Reed), Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT - Grand Prize
1999 "MAX ‘99", (curated by Buzz Spector), Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
"Memphis Arts Council Invitational", Memphis College of Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1997 "Will?", Old Dominion University, University Gallery, Norfolk, VA
"Restart:", Gallery 111, Johannesburg, Gauteng, Republic of South Africa
1996 "Arts in the Park - Then and Now: Tenth Anniversary Exhibit", Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Promus Hotel Corporation, Memphis, TN
First Tennessee Memphis Collection, First Tennessee Bancorporation
Marriott Hotels, Inc.
Northwest Airlines, Inc.
Various Private Collections - New York, NY; London, Egland, UK; Detroit, MI; Memphis, TN; Nashville, TN; St.Petersburg, FL;
Washington, DC; Phildelphia, PA; Oxford, MS; Seattle, WA, Wilmington, DE; Los Angeles, CA; Little Rock, AR; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Work included in - Visual Culture, by Alexis L. Boylan, MIT Press (Essential Knowledge Series), pub. August 11, 2020
Jamaica Plain Gazette, “Brian Bishop: New Perspectives, Old Methods” by Kristin Bonelli, August, 27, 2009
Encaustic Works 2009, essay by Heather Hutchison, *Exhibition Catalogue
Artscope,"Centerfold", Volume 4, Numer 2, May/June 2009
ArtSEEN,"Drawing Conclusions", Volume 5, Spring 2007
NY ARTS, "Artist's Voice", Volume 12, Issue 5/6, May/June 2007
The Washington Post, "Portraiture's Harsh Lessons" by Blake Gopnik, June 25, 2006
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "Colorful Melange Blends Well", by Jerry Cullum March 12, 2006
The Commercial Appeal, "A Splash of Great Painting" by Frederic Koeppel, January 21, 2005
The Star-Ledger, "Connecting Art and the Everyday" by Dan Bischoff, Sunday, August 1, 2004
Art Papers, Exhibition Review "Homegrown" by Linda Johnson Dougherty, Volume 26, Issue 1; Jan./Feb. 2002
The Spectator, "The Spaces Between: Brian Bishop's 'The Longest Year' " by Glenn Perkins, December 26, 2001
New York Times, "Among a Show of Drawings, Looking for Ones with Bite" by William Zimmer, May 14, 2000
The Memphis Flyer, "... Offering up an earful and eyeful" by Cory Dugan, March, 1998
New American Paintings, Open Studio Competition, 1998
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
Professor of Art, Framingham State University
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