*Click on shows for info, bolded shows are solo
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
Selected Exhibitions
2018
Planned Passage, Situations, NY
Queen of the Trap, Echo Park Film Center, NY
2014
Donation Silent Aution: Gonzo and Cheese Doodle, The Kitchen, NY
2012
Speisekino, ZKU, Berlin, Germany
Channel to Channel, Vaudville Park, NY
2011
Life in a Peaceful New World, Interstate Projects, NY
Small Works for Big Change 2011!. SRLP's 6th Annual Benefit, NY
2010
Weasel, Inman Gallery, Houston Tx
Valie Export of the Dolls, NADA Artists Ball, NY
The Exquisite Landscape, ICP, NY
Corps Exquis, Galapagos, NY
K.R.A.P., Bruce High Quality present Field of Dreams, NY
Greater New York, PS1/MoMA, NY
Ecstatic, St. Cecilia's Convent, NY
Experimental Medical Film, Curated by Barbara Hammer part of Medical Film Symposium, Pa
2009
Open Call for artist, Frieze Projects, London, England
Open Call, Location One, NY NY
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, NYJamie Raadcliff:The Exhibition, Lowsalt Gallery, Glasgow Scotland
LACE Benefit Art Auction 2009, LA, Ca
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
2007
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
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
Awards / Residencies
2015 Visiting Artist Queens College
2012 ZKU Residency Berlin Germany
2009 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship
2009 Location One Residency, Supported by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
2008 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2006/07 Bard/ICP Scholarship Recipient
Press 2011
Britt, Douglas, "Weasel: A Show About Art Fakes at Inman Annex", 29-95 Art, 1.6. 2011
Bise, Michael, "Weasel", might be good, 1.8. 2011
Press 2010
Klaasmeyer, Kellyl, "Weasel", Houstin Press, 12.16. 2010
"The NADA Emerging Artist: Brina Thurston", The L Magazine, 11.10. 2010
Wallin, Yasha, "Halloween Fair", Art in America.com, 11.2. 2010
Douglas, Sarah, "Ghouls Haunt Halloween Ball", Artinfo.com, 11.1. 2010
Field of Dreams, Art Forum.com/Diary/ Scene and Heard, 7.28. 2010
Own This City, "Socrates Sculprute Park EAF09", Timeout New York
Romano, Jowy, "Snowed In", Subway Art Blog, 12.27. 2010
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,
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
brinathurston@gmail.com
