Brian Conley Bio

Pseudanuran Gigantica—installation, “Becoming Animal,” curated by Nato Thompson,

MassMoCA, North Adams, MA (cat.)

Decipherment of Linear X­—installation, Safn Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland

Decipherment of Linear X—installation, Penn State University, University Park, PA

“Mash- Up!” – group show, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

Decipherment of Linear X—solo show, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Decipherment of Linear X—artist’s book, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

WAR!—installation, “Noise/Space,” UKS Unge Kunstneres Samfund Gallery,

Oslo,Norway

Sound Performance for Linear X— performance, “Sound/Unsound,” International Sound

Art Conference, curated by Allen S. Weiss, New York University,

New York, NY

“Red Archive” —group show, curated by Sarah Pierce, Metropolitan Complex,

Dublin, Ireland

“Trunk Show” —group show, King House, Roscommon; Sirius Art Centre, Cobh,

Cork, Ireland

Co-Editor, “Past Forward” audio CD curated with Christoph Cox, Cabinet Magazine

WAR!—radio performance, UNAM/National Autonomous University of Mexico,

Mexico City, Mexico

Gravitropism in Neitherworld—radio performance, Resonance 104, London, England

“Affinity Archives” —group show, Metropolitan Complex, Dublin, Ireland

Co-Editor “Lift” audio CD curated with Christoph Cox, Cabinet Magazine

Co-Editor, “Juvenalia” audio CD curated with Christoph Cox, Cabinet Magazine

Fragments—installation, “Statements,” ArtBasel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)

Pseudanuran Gigantica— installation, “Unlimited,” ArtBasel, Basel, Switzerland (cat.)

IVT.1—installation, Artissima, Turin, Italy

Cabinet Magazine, Editor-at-Large, Brooklyn, NY (2002-2010)

“BitStreams: Art in the Digital Age” —group show, curated by Larry Rinder and Debra

Singer, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat. and CD)

“Marks of Omission” —group show (with Roman Ondak and Phil Collins), Arthouse

Multimedia Center, Dublin, Ireland

Pseudanuran Gigantica—residency/commission, curated by Lisa Corrin, ArtPace

Foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX (cat.)

BitStreams—audio CD compilation, JDK Productions, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Squalus Acanthus—installation, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden

“evo1” —group show, Gallery L, Moscow, Russia

Cabinet Magazine, Senior Editor, Brooklyn, NY

Xenotransplantation—group show, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, England

Xenotransplantation—group show, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

“Carnival in the Eye of the Storm: War/ Art/ New Technologies in Kosovo”

—group show, curated by Trebor Scholz, Pacific Northwest College of Art,

Portland, OR

Field of Delineations Passing Through a System of Coordinates—audio CD compilation,

Architecture of the Incidental, GD Stereo/Pogus Productions, Chester, NY

“WTC” —group show, Zingmagazine, New York, NY

“Multiple Sensations”—group show, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,

San Francisco, CA

“Haulin’ Ass” —group show, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“The Pierogi Flat Files” —group show, Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

Cabinet, founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief (with Sina Najafi), New York

Immaterial Incorporated, founder and Co-Director (with Sina Najafi), Brooklyn, NY

WAR!—live interactive performance between New York (WBAI) and Belgrade, Serbia

(Radio B-92), with Jeremy Scahill, organized with Sina Najafi and Immaterial

Incorporated, New York, NY

Empty—radio performance, “On the State of Experimental Sound Art,” French National

Radio, curated by Allen S. Weiss, Paris, France

WAR!—radio performance, “Other Voices: Echoes from a War Zone,” Austrian National

Radio, curated by Gordon Paunovic (Radio B2-92 Belgrade, Serbia),

Vienna, Austria

“Heap of Language: Robert Smithson and Poetry” —symposium (co-curated with Sina

Najafi), Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York, NY

“Wild/Life”—installation, curated by Amy Cappellazzo, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,

Greensboro, NC (cat.)

New Splendid III, editor, audio art and music compilation recording, New York, NY

Empty, “Psychogeographical Dip,” audio CD compilation, GD Stereo/Pogus Productions,

Chester, NY
1997

Robert Smithson’s “Dead Tree”—installation (with Joe Amrhein), Pierogi 2000 and

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

Tree at Pierogi 2000, Editor (with Joe Amrhein), exhibition catalogue,

Brooklyn, NY

“2001” —group show, curated by Bruce Pearson, Williamsburg Art Center,

Brooklyn, NY

“Current/Undercurrent”—group show, curated by Charlotta Kotik and Joe Amrhein,

Brooklyn Museum, NY

Squalus Acanthus—installation, Kunstart 96, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)

“New York Artists” —group show, Galerie Guth & Maas, Reutlingen (Stuttgart),

Germany

WAR!—radio performance: interactive broadcast between WKCR, New York and

WFMU, New Jersey

“(constriction)”—collective installation, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, (cat.)

“(constriction)”—collective installation: Art Exchange Show, Wall Street,

New York, NY

“Other Subjects” —group show, curated by David Scher, Jack Tilton Gallery,

New York, NY

“Fictional Archives – Four Walls” —group show, Leung Institute, Oslo, Norway

“Dissociationism”—group show, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY

Superior/(Cranial)—solo show, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

“Multiples” —group show, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY

Co-editor, “New Splendid II”, a compilation of audio art and music from the U.S.,

Europe, Morocco

Radio Performance, “Cornucopia”, Radio Studente, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Radio Broadcast, “New Splendid”, Austrian National Radio (ORF), Vienna, Austria

Video Screening, “0, 1, 2, 3…” Film + Arc International Film Festival, Graz, Austria

Installation, “Hecatomb” Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

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,

Buffalo, NY
1992

Group Show, “240 Minuten”, curated by Lothar Hempel and Georg Graf,

Esther Schipper Gallery and Art Cologne, Germany

Group Show, “Proposals for an AIDS Memorial”, Municipal Art Society and Public Art

Fund, Clocktower, P.S. 1, New York, NY

Installation, “Site”, Artist’s Studio

Co-editor, “New Splendid I”, a compilation of audio art and music from New York

and Los Angeles

Installation, “Blood!, Hope!, Energy!”, CBGB 313 Gallery, New York

Installation, “Cement and Wigs”, Jimenez-Algus Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY

Group Show, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY

Performance, “King Fracus”, Kampo Cultural Center, New York, NY

Outdoor Sculpture, “Bubble”, Jimenez-Algus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Installation, (Collaboration with Dayo Ologundudu), Jimenez-Algus Gallery,

Brooklyn, NY

Installation, “Victory”, Licha Jimenez Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Installation, (collaboration with the children of Boy’s Harbor of Harlem) funded by the

New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

Installation, “Rope and Money”, Licha Jimenez Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Outdoor Sculpture, “Ball”, Licha Jimenez Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Solo Show, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY

Solo Show, Siegel Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Solo Show, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Group Show, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY

Group Show, Dart Gallery, Chicago, Il
1980

Solo Show, Art Latitude Gallery (Ann Lauterbach, director), New York, NY

Solo Show, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minnesota, NY

Group Show, Artist’s Initiative, Minneapolis, NY

2014
American University of Cairo, Visiting Artist, Cairo, Egypt
2012
California College of the Arts, Faculty Development Grant, San Francisco
2011
California College of the Arts, Faculty Development Grant, San Francisco
2006
Wanas Foundation for Contemporary Art, Commission, Residency, Knislinge, Sweden
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Residency, Los Angeles
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
2014
American University of Cairo, Department of the Arts, Visiting Artist and Professor, Cairo, Egypt
2012

University of New Mexico, National Science Foundation, Workshop on Self-Organization, Albuquerque, NM
2011

Education Adviser, Echo/Sada for Contemporary Iraqi Art, Baghdad

2008-13
California College of the Arts, Undergraduate Program in Sculpture, Oakland, CA
2005-13
California College of the Arts, Graduate Program, San Francisco, CA

2003
ExTeresa Arte Actuel INBA, Tutorial Program in Sound Installation, Mexico City, Mexico
1999
Parsons School of Design, Graduate Program in Sculpture, New York, NY
1997
University of Pennsylvania, Visiting Lecturer, Graduate Program in Sculpture, Philadelphia, PA
1982-86
Parsons School of Design, Instructor, Theory and Fine Arts, New York, NY
1982-83
New York University, Instructor, Philosophy, New York, NY
1978-81
University of Minnesota, Instructor, Philosophy, Minneapolis, MN

2015
Stanford University, Visiting Artist, Menlo Park, CA
2014
“Deep Flesh: on the index,” Performative Lecture, Sharjah Art Gallery, American University of Cairo, Egypt
“Mirror and Windows,” moderator, Sharjah Art Gallery, American University of Cairo, Egypt
“Art Education in the Middle East,” Panelist, D-Caf Conference, Cairo
2013

“Artist Institutions,” Presenter and Moderator of roundtable discussion, Beirut Gallery, Cairo, Egypt

“The Unlikely Artist,” Performance Lecture, Cairo, Egypt

“Cairo, Baghdad, San Francisco,” Lecturer, “Small Talks,” Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA

“On Art and Cairo,” Interviewee, KALX Radio, University of California, Berkeley, CA

“Military and the Landscape,” College Art Association, Panel Presentation, New York, NY

Artist Talk, Social Practice Program, California School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2012
Swarming and Self-Organization, Lecture, MoMA Studio, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

University of New Mexico, Visiting Artist, Workshop Leader, “Morphology and Evolution”, Albuquerque, NM

New York University, Visiting Artist, New York, NY

Montclair State University,Visiting Lecturer, Montclair, NJ

St. Olaf College,Visiting Artist, Minneapolis

Mildred’s Lane (Experimental Art School), Visiting Artist, Narrowsburg, NY

Santa Fe Institute, University of New Mexico, Southwest Museum of Biology, “I Do What You Do: On Self-Organization,” Performance Lecture, Albuquerque, NM
2011
Art Omi International Residency,Visiting Artist/Critic, Ghent, NY
Montclair State University, Visiting Artist/Grad Critiques, Montclair, NJ

Mildred’s Lane, “I Do What You Do: On Self-Organization,” Performance Lecture, Narrowsburg, NY
2010
University of Maine, Visiting Artist, Portland, ME
College of Creative Studies, Visiting Artist, Detroit, MI
Mildred’s Lane (Experimental Art School), Visiting Artist, Narrowsburg NY
College of Creative Studies, “I Do What You Do: On Self-Organization,” Performance Lecture, Detroit, MI
2009
Headlands Center for the Arts, Lecturer, San Francisco, CA
SFMOMA, Presenter, San Francisco, CA
Mildred’s Lane (Experimental School), Lecturer, Narrowsburg, NY
2008
UCLA, Visiting Artist, Los Angeles,CA
Rhode Island School of Design, Visiting Artist, Providence, RI
New Langton Arts, Lecturer, San Francisco, CA
Maine College of Art, Visiting Artist, Portland, ME
2007
University of California, Visiting Lecturer, “America and Its Wars” Symposium, Berkeley, CA
2006
University of California, Lecturer, “Art and Research” Symposium, Berkeley, CA

Cornell University, Visiting Lecturer and Program Evaluator, Department of Art, Ithaca, NY
2005
San Francisco Art Institute, Visiting Lecturer, San Francisco, CA
Chicago Art Institute, Visiting Lecturer, Chicago, IL
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, MO
2004
California College of the Arts, Keynote Speaker, Graduate Program, San Francisco, CA
UKS Unge Kunstneres Samfund Gallery, Lecturer, Oslo, Norway
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, NY
IberoAmericana Universidad, Lecturer, Mexico City, Mexico
IberoAmericana Universidad, Radio Interview, Mexico City, Mexico
Whitney Museum at Altria, Presentor, “Nomads and Residents”, New York, NY
Virginia Commonwealth University, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program in Sculpture, Richmond, VA
University of Chicago, Visiting Artist, Graduate Program in Art, Chicago, IL
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, MA
1999
Postmasters Gallery, interview/performance with William Pope L., New York, NY
Stetson University, Visiting Artist, Program in Digital Arts, DeLand, FL
1998
Brooklyn Museum, Lecturer, Brooklyn, NY
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

OTHER ACTIVITIES
2012-2014 Advisory Board Member, ArteEast, New York, NY
2011-2015 Education and Curatorial Adviser, SADA (Echo) for Contemporary Iraqi Art, Baghdad,           Iraq and Beirut, Lebanon
2009-2014 Advisory Board Member, Mildred’s Lane, Narrowsburg, NY
2005-2008 Chair, Graduate Fine Arts Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2002-2016 Editor-at-Large, Co-Editor, Cabinet magazine, New York
2004 Co-Editor, “Past Forward” audio CD, Cabinet Magazine, New York
2003 Co-Editor, “Lift” and “Juvenalia” audio CDs, Cabinet Magazine, New York
2002 Editor, “Syntax Error,” Cabinet Magazine
2001 Senior Editor, Cabinet magazine, New York
2000 Co-Editor-In-Chief, Cabinet magazine, New York
Founder and Co-Director, Immaterial Incorporated, Brooklyn, NY
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)
1998 Editor, “New Splendid III” a compilation of audio art and music
1994 Editor, “New Splendid II,” a compilation of audio art and music from the U.S., Europe, Morocco

PUBLICATIONS
2016 Essay, “Troubling the Magic Circle,” Zones of Control, ed. Pat Harrigan and Matt Kirschenbaum, MIT Press, Boston
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, New York
1985 Doctoral Dissertation in Philosophy, “Theories of Pictorial Representation: Nelson Goodman’s Relativism and the Similarity Theory”, University of Minnesota

Dayal, Mira. “Stones, Beetles, and Other Dislocated Remnants,” SFAQ/NYAQ/AQ International Arts and Culture, July 7, 2016, http://sfaq.us/2016/07/stones-beetles-and-other-dislocated-remnants-false-narratives-at-pierogi/

Creahan, D. “False Narratives at Pierogi Gallery,” Art Observed, New York, July 28, 2016, http://artobserved.com/2016/07/new-york-false-narratives-at-pierogi-gallery-through-july-31st-2016/

Militus, Joe, “Bright Arrogance, gallery C, Speed, Erotics, Emergence,” Jacket 2, 2015 http://jacket2.org/commentary/bright-arrogance-gallery-c-0 
2010
Gilbert, Alan, “Critic’s Picks–Brian Conley: Miniature War in Iraq… and Now Afghanistan,” The Village Voice, New York, March 9
Schmidt, Heinrich. “Brian Conley: Miniature War in Iraq… and Now Afghanistan, The Boiler/ Pierogi,” Vernissage TV, Switzerland, March, 2010  http://vernissage.tv/blog/?s=Brian+Conley
Bittani, Matteo, “Art in the age of videogames”, Gamescenes, http://www.gamescenes.org/2010/09/game-art-brian-conleys-miniature-war-in-iraq-and-now-afghanistan-2010.html
Corwin, Will. “Top Ten Shows in New York for March and April,” Saatchi Gallery Online, March-April, 2010 http://www.saatchigallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/will_corwins%0Dtop_10_new_york_shows_for_march_and_april/6238
Haber, John. “State of Emergency”   http://www.haberarts.com/call911.htm, Spring
2009
Borsky, Tanner. “On Groupwork,” Master’s Thesis, California College of Art
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, “Eight Americans,” Wanas Art Foundation, Sweden
2005
Book, Becoming Animal, MIT Press
2003
Book, “Dreaming Red: History of the Art” Pace Foundation
Kalm, James. “Brian Conley: Pseudanuran Gigantica: Unlimited”, Art Basel 33, Basel, Switzerland,”
Zing Magazine, Winter/Spring 2003, No. 18. P.291
2001
ArtNews, June
Leitsinger, Miranda. Associated Press, June
Cox, Christof. The Wire, London, June

Time Out, London
Holmes, Brian, New York Arts
Tiselius, Henrik. “Två utstellningar värda en extra promenad”, Östermalm Tidningen, Stockholm
Castenfors, Mårten. “Under hajhjärna och i en kulturmotor”, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm
Forsberg, Nils. “Brian Conley”, Nöjes Guiden, 13.05.00, Stockholm
Olofsson, Anders.”Gå och Se!”, Konsten (www.ao-ordbod.a.se), Stockholm
Boo,Daniel. “Brian Conley”, www.alltomstockholm.se/kultur, Stockholm
Høvik, Marie Helen., “Brian Conley”, www.artaround.se, Stockholm.
1999
Weiss, Allen S., “Unnatural Horizons”, Princeton Architectural Press, New Jersey (Book)
1998
Catalog, Wild/Life, Amy Cappolozzo curator, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina

Richards, Frances. Artforum, February, New York
1997
Smith,Roberta, New York Times, May

Catalog, Kunstart 96, Frankfurt, Germany

Printz Magazine, October, Frankfurt, Germany

Greene, David A., Frieze Magazine, London, England

Freedman, Matt, Review Magazine, May 15, New York

Time Out, May , New York
1996
Art Press, Paris, France

Strauss, Neil, “(constriction)” New York Times

Pall, Ellen, New York Times Sunday Magazine
1993
Catalog, Arc + Film International Festival, Graz, Austria; ArtVoice, Vol 4, #23, Nov., Buffalo, NY
1992
Heller, Steven and Karrie Jacobs (eds.)., “Angry Graphics: Protest Posters of the Reagan Bush Era”, Gibbs Smith Publishing, Utah. (Book)
1980
Wolff, Theodore, “On Brian Conley’s Paintings” Christian Science Monitor, Wash. DC, 1980

Museum of Modern Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Sidney and Frances Lewis Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Wanas Foundation