Mia Brownell

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MIA BROWNELL

 

EDUCATION

1995       MFA Painting, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

1993       BFA Painting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1993       Minor in Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

 

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

               2010       Stomach Acid Dreams, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

               2008        Adventures of a Reluctant Omnivore, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

                                 Adventures of a Reluctant Omnivore, ArtGate, New York, NY

                2007       Proteomics, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

                                 Pears & Polypeptides, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA

                2006       Complexities of the Garden, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY

                2005       Mia Brownell: New Paintings, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012       Inside Out, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT. Curated by Elizabeth Peterson

2011       Lush Life, Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA

                Horseplay, UB Art Gallery (SUNY), Buffalo, NY. Curated by Bill Maynes
                Plus 1, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
                Mia Brownell, Mira Hecht, Jason Rohlf, Judy a Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
                Kin, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

                                Food, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR. Curated by Allison Carruth

                                Ten years, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Fall River, MA.

                                Curated by  Kathleen Hancock

                 2010      Girls Just Want to Have Funds, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY 

                                Highlights from the Collection, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.  

                                 Nature/Culture, Castel Gallery, College of New Rochelle

                                Where Lies Beauty, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT. Curated by Cynthia Roznoy

                                Aldrich Museum Radius Exhibition, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, CT

                                Amuse Bouche, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

                                Just Art 2010, Twelve 21, New York, NY. Curated by Catinca Tabacaru

                                8 Eyes: Photographs by four extraordinary painters, Jennifer Jane Gallery,

                                New Haven, CT

                                CIGE, Beijing, China. Presented by Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague, CZ

                                AAF, London, UK. Presented by Bo Lee Gallery

                                Black and White, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

                                Contemporary Still Life, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ

                                Alumni Art Exhibition, Zamoiski Segal Gallery, Baltimore, MD

                                Close to Nature, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK

                   2009    A Taste of Young New York, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague, CZ

                                AAF, Amsterdam, NL. Presented by Bo Lee Gallery

                                Art London, London, UK. Presented by Bo Lee Gallery

                                Moments of Macabre, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK

                                Potluck Series, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY

                                Germ Welfare, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ

                                Treasure Chest, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

                   2008    How To Cook A Wolf, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY

                                 Summer Salon, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

                                 Leave Nature to Nature, Artgate, New York, NY

                                 Pretty Things: Confronting the Sensuous, Artspace, New Haven, CT

                                 The Westchester Biennial, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY

                                 US Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Port Louis, Mauritius

                    2007    US Punchbowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

                                 YEA! (Young Emerging Artists), Westchester Arts Council, Arts Exchange Gallery

                     2006   Survive/Thrive/Alive, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, Bronx,

                                  NY Curator: Jennifer McGregor

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

Work has been reviewed by The New York Times, Boston Globe, Washingtonian Magazine, New Haven Advocate, New Haven Register, Hartford Courant, Southern Life, Yale Daily News, The Buffalo News, Art Voice, The Spectrum, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Journal News, Westchester Arts Council Journal, Antiques and The Arts Weekly, Garden Design, The Portland Phoenix, The Chautauqan Daily and the San Francisco Weekly.

Artist features in Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Chicago Art Journal, Hi–Fructose and Issues in Science and Technology.

 

SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS

2011       Commission for University of Connecticut, Cell and Genome Sciences Building
2010       New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Radius Program

2009       American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist (January)

2008       New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend

2007       US Department of State Art In Embassies Program

2006       New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend

Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery Exhibition Honorarium

2005       New York Foundation for the Arts Strategic Opportunity Stipend

2000       Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship

 

SELECT COLLECTIONS

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Wellington Management, Boston, MA

State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

Numerous Private Collections

 

TEACHING

Professor of Art at Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven