BRINATHURSTON

Bio // Video // Documentation // Music


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Born 1977, New York.
Lives and works in New York

Education

2007 Master Of Fine Arts, Bard College/ICP, New York, NY
1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Tisch School of the Arts Film/Video, New York University

Solo Exhibitions

2010

Crappy Hour (BARBARTER), USA, NY NY

2009

Open Call, Location One, NY NY

2008

Dark Pump , Rivington Arms, NY NY pdf

Asshole, Cringe Series, Dean Project, LIC NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

K.R.A.P., Bruce High Quality present Field of Dreams, NY

Greater New York, PS1/MoMA, NY

A New Breed, Exit Art, NY

Domestico, Y Gallery, NY

Ecstatic, St. Cecilia's Convent, NY

Experimental Medical Film, Curated by Barbara Hammer part of Medical Film Symposium, Pa

Puss Fuss, Open Space, Baltimore MD

2009

Open Call for artist, Frieze Projects, London, England

Circular File, Performa/Public Access, NY

EAF 09, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY

Monofonus Video Collection #1: INSIDE/OUT, Trans-Peco Festival of Music and Love at El Cosmico, Marfa, Texas


They Told You So, Bitforms, NY


The Living and The Dead, Gavin Brown, NY


Le Jazz @ No Soul For Sale, X Initiative, NY


Recession Runway, NADA, NY

Jamie Raadcliff:The Exhibition, Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow Scotland

LACE Benefit Art Auction 2009, LA, Ca

Financial District , ISCP, NY

It's a Process: Ladies Night, Klaus Von Nichtsaggend Galler, NY

Performance in conjunction with Nayland Blake's Behavior , Location One , NY

2008

This One Goes up to 11 , Why and Wherefore Presents @ Monkeytown, NY

Weisse Nacht , Flandernbunker, Kiel Germany

TKTKTKTK , Why and Wherefore, NY NY

Dark Fair , Swiss Institute, NY NY

Edible Complex , Paloma, Brooklyn NY

2007

MoMA: Dutch Elm, Gavin Brown @ Passerby, NY NY

Wu-Tang Googolplex, Gavin Brown @ Passerby, NY NY

Let's Bolt, Curated by Metro Color Collisions, CSV Center, NY NY

Yellow Buckets of Blood:II, Found Gallery, LA, Ca

VideoGarden, Curated by David Smith, LIC NY

People Believe in God BecauseThey Can't Believe Their Parents Created Them, Solo MFA Theisis, Bard-ICP Studios LIC

Come One Come All, 3rd Ward, Brooklyn NY
New York Underground Film Festival, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
Bard-ICP MFA Group Thesis Show, International Center for Photography, NYC


2006

Semiennial at Monkey Town, Williamsburg, NY
Six Degrees of Separation 2: The Inner Workings of Cold Contact, Stux Gallery, NY, NY
Cabin Comforts Secret Project Robot, Williamsburg, NY
Group Show at Monkey Town, Williamsburg, NY


Awards

2009 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship
2009 Location One Residency, Supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

2009 Short listed LMCC Paris Residency
2008 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2006/07 Bard/ICP Scholarship Recipient

Press 2010

Field of Dreams, Art Forum.com/Diary/ Scene and Heard, 7.28. 2010

Own This City, "Socrates Sculprute Park EAF09", Timeout New York

Press 2009

Beck, Graham. "Notes from the Underlings", Frieze, 2009

Gregory, Alice. "EAF at Socrates Sculpture Park", Idiom Mag, 2009

"X Factor", Art Forum.com/Diary/ Scene and Heard,3.3. 2009

Bhatnagar, Priya, " CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM AROUND THE WORLD", Contemporary Annual, 2008,

Press 2008

Hoffman, Jan, "Gatekeepers to the Art World", The New York Times, March 30,
"Pulse", The New York Time Styles, February 23
Marcus, Lilit, "The STA Interview: Brina Thurston", savetheassistants.com

 

 

 

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