Brian Conley Bio

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Born 1951, Chicago

Selected Exhibitions | Projects
2010
Solo Show: “Miniature War in Iraq…and now Afghanistan,” The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY (February 12–April 21)
2008
Group Exhibition: “Bay Area Now 5,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, July 19–November 16(“Miniature Iraq War in Las Vegas”)
Solo Show: “Decipherment of Linear X,” Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
2007
Installation, in “Ensemble” curated by Christian Marclay, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Installation, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland
Performance, Iraq Miniature Wargame, Las Vegas
Group show, “(Un)Natural Selection”, Pierogi Gallery, New York
Group Show, Pierogi Gallery, Berlin
2006
Installations, “Swarm,” “Multiplication,” Insight / Out, Wanas Art Foundation, Sweden
Factitious, PIEROGI Brooklyn, June–July. Traveled to Leipzig, Germany, November–December
Group Show, SuperLowRez, Vertex List, New York
2005
Installation, “Pseudanuran Gigantica,” in Becoming Animal, MassMoca, North Adams, MA
SAFN Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (March 5–April 17)
2004
Solo Show, “The Decipherment of Linear X,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Collaborative show, “Romanticism Detached,” PS1/Grizedale/Henry Moore Foundation, NY, NY
Installation, “Noise/Space,” UKS Unge Kunstneres Samfund Gallery, Oslo
Performance, “Sount/Unsound,” Tesch Schook, New York University, New York
Group Show, “Red Archive,” Metropolitan Complex, Dublin
Editor-at-Large, Cabinet Magazine, New York
2003
Radio Broadcast, UNAM National Autonymous University of Mexico, Mexico City
Radio Broadcast, Resonance 104, London
Group Show, “Affinity Archives,” Metropolitan Complex, Dublin
Editor-at-Large, Cabinet Magazine, New York
2002
Installation, Statements, “Fragments,” Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Installation, Art Unlimited, “Pseudanuran Gigantica,” Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Installation, “Artissima,” Turin, Italy
Compilation, Audio CD, Radio 100, JDK Productions, Amsterdam
Editor-at-Large, Cabinet Magazine, New York
2001
Group Show, “BitStreams”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Group Show, “Marks of Omission”, Arthouse, Dublin
Solo Show / Residency, ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
Compilation, Audio CD, “BitStreams”, JdK Productions, Amsterdam
Installation, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm
Group Show, “evo1,” Gallery L, Moscow
Senior Editor (with Sina Najafi), Cabinet Magazine, issues 2 through 6.
2000
Solo Show, “Xenotransplantation”, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London
Solo Show, “Xenotransplantation”, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm
Co-Director and Co-Editor (with Sina Najafi), Immaterial Incorporated, a non-profit organization for art and culture which produces Cabinet a quarterly magazine; ; a series of audio CD’s of sound art; a CD-Rom series of artist projects and cultural issues.
Group Show, “War/Art/New Technologies” exhibition and conference curated by Trebor Scholz, Portland
Compilation, Audio CD, “Architecture of the Incidental” edited by Geoff Dugan, text by Allen Weiss Video,”WTC”, Zingmagazine, New York
Group Show, Pierogi Gallery traveling exhibition, Yeurba Buena Center, San Francisco; Post Gallery, Los Angeles; Art Institute, Kansas City
1999
Radio Performance, “WAR!”, a live interactive performance between New York (WBAI) and Belgrade, Serbia (Radio B2-92), organized with Sina Najafi and Immaterial Incorporated.
Co-Curator (with Sina Najafi), “Heap of Language: Robert Smithson and Poetry” Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York
Installation, Stetson University, Florida
Group Show, Pierogi 2000 Gallery, New York
Radio Broadcast, French National Radio, “On the State of Experimental Sound Art”, edited by Allen Weiss, Paris
Radio Broadcast, Austrian National Radio, “Other Voices: Echoes From a War Zone” curated by Gordon Paunovic of Radio B2-92 Belgrade, Serbia, April 29, 1999, Vienna
1998
Installation, “Wild/Life” curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Editor, “New Splendid III” a compilation of audio art and music
Compilation, audio CD, “Psychogeographical Dip” edited by Geoff Dugan
1997
Sound Installation, American Composers Forum, Sonic Circuits traveling festival.
Co-curator (with Joe Amrhein) “ Robert Smithson’s Dead Tree,”, Pierogi with John Weber Gallery, New York
Editor (with Joe Amrhein), exhibition catalog, “Robert Smithson: a Collection of Writings on the Occasion of the Installation of Dead Tree at Pierogi”, New York
Group Show, “2001”, curated by Bruce Pearson, Williamsburg Art Center, New York
Group Show, “Current/Undercurrent”, curated by Charlotta Kotik and Joe Amrhein, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1996
Installation, “Kunstart 96”, Bochenheimer Depot, Frankfurt, Germany
Group Show, “New York Artists”, Galerie Guth & Maas, Reutlingen (Stuttgart), Germany
Radio Performance, “WAR!”, interactive broadcast between WKCR (Columbia University Radio) New York and WFMU New Jersey
Installation, “(constriction)” a collective sound installation, Pierogi 2000, New York
Installation, “(constriction)”, Art Exchange Show, Wall Street, New York
Group Show, curated by David Scher, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
Group Show, “Fictional Archives – Four Walls”, Leung Institute, Oslo, Norway
Group Show, “Dissociationism”, Four Walls, New York
1995
Solo Show, “Superior / (Cranial)”, Pierogi 2000 Gallery, New York
Group Show, “Multiples”, Pierogi 2000, New York
1994
Editor, “New Splendid II,” a compilation of audio art and music from the U.S., Europe, Morocco
Radio Performance, “Cornucopia,” Ljubljana, Slovenia
Radio Broadcast, “New Splendid,” Austrian National Radio (ORF), Vienna
1993
Video Screening, “0, 1, 2, 3…,” Film + Arc International Film Festival, Graz, Austria
Installation, “Hecatomb,” Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York
Group Show, “New York in Sarajevo – Art Umjetnost,” Obala Theatre, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
Radio Broadcast, “Double Pelican,” R.A.M.S. Project, Vienna, Austria
Group show, “Propaganda,” M.A.P., Baltimore, Maryland
Artist’s Book, “Tribute,” a book of posters about the Gulf War Group Show, “Body Modification,”curated by Sarah Kellner, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York
1992
Group Show, “240 Minuten,” curated by Lothar Hempel and Georg Fraf, Esther Schipper Galleryand Art Cologne, Germany
Group Show, “Proposals for an AIDS Memorial,” Municipal Art Society and Public Art Fund, Clocktower, P.S.1, New York

Grants and Awards
2005
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship, New York
2003-4
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship, New York
2002
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, 911 Grant, New York
2001
ArtPace Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas
1997
International Art Critics Association/U.S.A., Awarded “Robert Smithson’s Dead Tree” one of the best exhibitions in the U.S. for 1996-97
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship, New York
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship, New York
1982
University of Minnesota, Fellowship, Philosophy, Minneapolis
1978
Whitney Museum, Helena Rubenstein Grant, Painting, New York

Teaching
2005-07 California College of the Arts, Graduate Program, San Francisco
2003 ExTeresa Arte Actuel INBA, Tutorial Program in Sound Installation, Mexico City
1999 Parsons School of Design, Graduate Program in Sculpture, New York
1997 University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Program in Sculpture, Philadelphia
1982-86 Parsons School of Design, Instructor, Theory and Fine Arts, New York
1982-83 New York University, Instructor, Philosophy, New York
1978-81 University of Minnesota, Instructor, Philosophy, Minneapolis
1971-73 National Science Foundation, Research Assistanship, Experimental Psychology, Wash.D.C.

Publications
2004
Journal, Decipherment of Linear X, PIEROGI Brooklyn
1999
Catalog Essay, “Birth of a Notion?”, Kunst Als Teamwork, curator–Marion Piffer-Damiani, Kunsthalle, Vienna
1997
Catalog Introduction and Co-Editor, “Robert Smithson’s Dead Tree”, Pierogi 2000, New York
1996
Review, “Dissociationism”, Zingmagazine, New York
Catalog Essay, Joe Amrhein at Earl McGrath Gallery, New York
“WAR!”, WKCR On Air Program Guide, Feb vol xii, No.2, Columbia University, New York
1995
Catalog Essay, David Scher at Pierogi 2000 Gallery, New York
1985
Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, “Theories of Pictorial Representation: Nelson Goodman’s Relativism and
the Similarity Theory”, University of Minnesota

Bibliography
2008
Jendricke, Dorothea. “Critics Picks: Brian Conley,” artforum.com, June 6
Müller, Dominikus. “Rundgang in der Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig: Wie verabschiedet man sich von
Neo Rauch?” artnet, May 6
2006
Catalogue, Wanas Art Foundation, “Eight Americans,” Sweden
2005
Book, Becoming Animal, MIT Press
2003
Book, Dreaming Red: History of the ArtPace Foundation
2003
James Kalm, “Brian Conley: Pseudanuran Gigantica: Unlimited Art Basel 33 Basel, Switzerland,”
Zing Magazine, Winter/Spring 2003, No. 18. P.291
2001
ArtNews, June ; Associated Press, Miranda Leitsinger, June; The Wire, Christof Cox, London, June 2000 Time Out, London; New York Arts, Brian Holmes; Henrik Tiselius, Två utstellningar värda en extra promenad, Östermalm Tidningen, Stockholm; Mårten Castenfors, Under hajhjärna och i en kulturmotor, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm; Nils Forsberg, Brian Conley, Nöjes Guiden, 13.05.00, Stockholm; Anders Olofsson, Gå och Se!, Konsten (www.ao-ordbod.a.se), Stockholm; Daniel Boo, Brian Conley, www.alltomstockholm.se/kultur, Stockholm; Marie Helen Høvik, Brian Conley, www.artaround.se, Stockholm.
1999
Book, Unnatural Horizons, Allen S. Weiss, Princeton Architectural Press, New Jersey.
1998
Catalog, Wild/Life, Amy Cappolozzo curator, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina.; Artforum, Frances Richards, February, New York
1997
New York Times, May, Roberta Smith; Catalog, Kunstart 96, Frankfurt; Germany; Printz Magazine, October, Frankfurt, Germany; Frieze Magazine, David A. Greene, London, England; Review Magazine, Matt Freedman, May 15, New York; Time Out, May , New York
1996
Art Press, Paris, France; New York Times, (constriction), Neil Strauss; New York Times Sunday Magazine, Ellen Pall
1993
Catalog, Arc + Film International Festival, Graz, Austria; ArtVoice, Vol 4, #23, Nov., Buffalo, NY
1992
Book, Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan Bush Era, edited by Steven Heller and Karrie Jacobs, Gibbs Smith Publishing, Utah.

Panelist, Lecturer, Visiting Artist
2007
University of California, Visiting Lecturer, “America and Its Wars” Symposium, Berkeley
2006
University of California, Lecturer, Art and Research Symposium, Berkeley
2005
San Francisco Art Institute, Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco
Chicago Art Institute, Visiting Lecturer, Chicago
MassMoCA, Lecturer, “Becoming Animal,” North Adams, MA
Penn State University, Lecturer, State College, PA
Grand Arts, Lecture / Performance with Nato Thompson of MassMoCA, “Gut the Museum,”
Kansas City
2004
California College of the Arts, Keynote Speaker, Graduate Program, San Francisco, CA
UKS Unge Kunstneres Samfund Gallery, Lecturer, Oslo
Institute of Contemporary Art, Panelist, “Examining Catastrophic Sustainability,” Portland, ME
New York University, International Performance Conference, Presentor, Tisch School of the Arts
Alfred University, Institute for Electronic Arts, Resident Artist, Alfred, NY
Penn State University, Studio Art, Resident Artist, State College, PA
2003
International Studio and Curatorial Program, Visiting Critic, New York
IberoAmericana Universidad, Lecturer, Mexico City
IberoAmericana Universidad, Radio Interview, Mexico City
Nomads and Residents, Presentor, Whitney Museum at Altria, New York
Virginia Commonwealth University, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program in Sculpture, Richmond
University of Chicago, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program in Art, Chicago
2002
iNO2, Conference on Art, Architecture and Politics, Presentor, Belgrade, Serbia
New York University, International Performance Conference, Presentor, Tisch School of the Arts
2001
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Visiting Artist, Sound Art Program, Boston
1999
Postmasters Gallery, interview/performance with William Pope L., New York
Stetson University, Visiting Artist, Program in Digital Arts, Florida
1998
Brooklyn Museum, Lecturer, New York
Parsons School of Design, Lecturer, Graduate Program in Sculpture, New York
1997
Gasworks Gallery, Panelist, London
Cornerhouse Gallery, Panelist, Manchester, England
1979
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Lecture, Minnesota

Positions
2005-2007 Chair, Graduate Fine Arts Program, California College of Art, San Francisco
2002-2006 Editor-at-Large, CD Co-Editor, Cabinet magazine, New York
2001 Senior Editor, Cabinet magazine, New York
2000 Co-Editor-In-Chief, Cabinet magazine, New York
1999 Co-Founder, Cabinet magazine, New York
1999-2001 Co-Director, Immaterial Incorporated, New York
1999-2005 Board Member, Immaterial Incorporated (501 c3 Non-Profit Organization)EDUCATION:
1975-85 PhD in Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1979-81 MFA in Sculpture, University of Minnesota, Minnneapolis
1978 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum, New York
1971-74 BA in Psychology, State University of New York, Binghamton

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