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Brian Leighton Bartz
Berkeley, California
b. 1994

Education:

• 2020      UC Berkeley, MFA Art Practice, certificate in New Media (BCNM)
• 2017      Reed College, BA Studio Art

Solo Exhibitions:

• 2021      Foundation Gallery, UW Madison, WI (postponed from 2020)

Selected Group Exhibitions:

• 2022      A Between, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
• 2021      MFA 50th show, Berkeley Art Museum, CA (postponed from 2020)
• 2019      Murphy Cadogan Exhibition, SOMarts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
• 2019      Laughter And Tears, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
• 2019      Support the Tropes, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
• 2019      Repeat Three Times, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
• 2018      Re-reimagined, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
• 2017      Aggregates, Berkeley, Feldenheimer Gallery, OR
• 2017      Reed Arts Week: Borders, Feldenheimer Gallery, Portland, OR
• 2016      HPC, Reed Studios, Portland, OR
• 2016      82/28, Reed Theatre Annex, Portland, OR

Awards & Fellowships:

• 2019      San Francisco Foundation Cadogan Award
• 2019      Eisner Prize for excellence in creative practice
• 2018      Berkeley Center For New Media (BCNM) summer research fellowship
• 2017      Reed College Commendation for Excellence in Scholarship
• 2017      Reed College Summer Internship Award
• 2016      Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Fellowship

Residencies:

• 2021      Kala Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA
• 2019      ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI
• 2017      Consilience Program Resident Artist, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA

Press & Publications:

• 2021      Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland (contribuiting author)
• 2019      Art Practical: Scenic Overlook: Brian Bartz's Techno-Plant Systems
• 2019      Berkeley Center For New Media: Summer Dispatch
• 2019      Root Division MFA Now Archive Publication
• 2019      Embark Gallery: Laughter and Tears Catalog
• 2017      Reed College Creative Review

Talks:

• 2021      Lost Information, Projected Transparency: artist talk
• 2021      Berkeley Art Musuem 50th annual MFA exhibition artist talks

Teaching:

• 2022      Lecturer, Visual Communication II - University of San Francisco
• 2020      Lecturer, Digital Photography: Foundations - UC Berkeley
• 2019      Graduate Student Instructor, Critical Practices - UC Berkeley
• 2019      Graduate Student Instructor, Digital Photography: Foundations - UC Berkeley

Collections:

• 2021      KALA AIR participating artist collection
• 2017      Reed College Library Special Collections (Artist Books)

Related Work:

• 2019      Studio Intern, Trevor Paglen Studio
• 2018      Web Developer, UC Berkeley dept of Art Practice
• 2017      Studio Assistant/CNC fabricator, Vance Feldman Studio
• 2017      Studio Assistant/programmer, Gerri Ondrizek Studio
• 2015      Photography Lab Monitor, Reed College
• 2015      Sculpture Studio Assistant, Reed College