brad brown

Brad Brown is an artist working primarily on drawings and works on paper. His drawing projects tend to be large, open-ended series that can remain unfinished for years. His largest project to date, The Look Stains, began in 1987 and consists of tens of thousands of works on paper that are continually worked on, torn up, re-drawn, and re-contextualized.

Brown was born in 1964 in Raleigh, North Carolina. In 1987 he received his BFA in painting and printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University and shortly thereafter moved to Brooklyn, New York. He moved to San Francisco in 1989 and lived there until 2003. He had his first solo exhibition in 1994 in San Francisco at Southern Exposure. 

Brad Brown has been a Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellow at the San Francisco Art Institute and was awarded a residency at Arcus Project in Moriya, Japan. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and the Jundt Art Museum in Spokane, Washington. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; the Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; and the Boise Art Museum, Idaho.