BIOGRAPHY
Born 1971 in Memphis, TN (USA); Currently based between Belfast, Northern Ireland and Birmingham, England
Brian Bishop is a visual artist and educator based in the UK who teaches at Birmingham School of Art. He attended The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY; Memphis College of Art in Memphis, TN (BFA 1993); and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI (MFA 1995). Prior to joining the faculty at Birmingham City University in 2024, he taught at Framingham State University outside Boston, Massachusetts for sixteen years with previous faculty appointments at The University of Alabama, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and in the MFA programmes at San Francisco Art Institute, New Hampshire Institute of Art and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
His studio practice focused on photography and its relationship with the discursive and lyrical nature of painting has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. In addition to an early curatorial career, he has taught on both the undergraduate and postgraduate level for nearly three decades.