Curriculum Vitae

Education

2007 ▫M.F.A., Studio Art, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1993 ▫B.F.A. Sculpture, State University of New York at Buffalo

Selected Exhibitions

2022
▫The Current: A Center for Contemporary Art, Stowe, VT, “Exposed: Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition.”
▫Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, “Eyesight and Insight: Lens on American Art.”
2021
▫Shelburne Museum Online Exhibition, “Spectacles at Shelburne Museum,” video work created for online exhibition as part of “Eyesight and Insight: Lens on American Art.” 2020
▫Curatorsquared, Virtual Views Exhibition, “ExtraNatural” curated by Ginger Dugganand Judy Hoos Fox.
2019
▫Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT, “Small Worlds: Miniatures in Contemporary Art”
2018
▫Michele and Michael Cohen Hall for the Integrative Creative Arts, UVM, Burlington, VT, “Screen Works”, video exhibition where my “Unlawning America” video was on display
2017
▫Burlington City Arts, BCA Center, Burlington, VT, “Unlawning America” a new project consisting of photographs, video, designed elements and a sculptural planter commissioned to be exhibited in the “Of Land and Local” exhibition.
▫Coach Barn Gallery, Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT, “Unlawning America” a new project consisting of photographs, video, designed elements and outdoor site-specifics works commissioned to be exhibited in the “Of Land and Local” exhibition.
2016
▫National Climate and Atmospheric Research Center, UCAR Center for Science Education Gallery, Boulder, CO, “EcoArts Connections: History of Visual Arts in Boulder.”
▫Billings Library, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, “Monarch Release,” new original work consisting of a performance and installation for the event “Sixth Extinction Café.”
2015
▫Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, “Systems, Cycles and Floating Goats” a new project commissioned for the “Eyes on the Land” exhibition.
2014
▫The Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, “Picture Books.”
▫Bush Barn Art Center, Salem, OR, “Curios and Curiosities.”
2013
▫Solo: New City Gallerie, Burlington, VT, “Ecologies,” my work was featured in the main gallery. Thematically related work by other artists was shown in the galleries peripheral exhibition spaces.
▫Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT, “Of Land and Local.”
▫Butter Projects, Royal Oaks, MI, “The Order of Things.”
▫Dolan Center Art Gallery, Friends Academy, Locust Valley, NY, “Very Small Objects/Selective Unveiling,” a two-person exhibition.
2012
▫Solo: Durick Library, Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, “The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects.”
▫Cornell Cooperative Extension Agroforestry Center’s Sluisaw Model Forest, “From Whale Oil to Whole Foods,” a three-site exhibition hosted by Greene County Council On The Arts.
2011
▫Solo: The University of Colorado Natural History Museum, Boulder, CO, “Bird Shift: The Anthropogenic Ornithology of North America.”
▫Solo: “Bus Birding”: a commissioned public art project on Boulder County public buses and at selected bus stops. The project was accompanied by a series of related public events hosted by EcoArts Connections, Boulder County, CO.
▫Schuylkill Environmental Education Center, “Facts and Fables: Stories from the Natural World” Philadelphia, PA.
▫Platform, an exhibition space sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara, “micro-topologies.”
▫Vancouver Art Gallery, “Family Fuse Weekend”: my project “The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects” was featured as an interactive art project.
2010
▫Solo: The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN, “The New Birds of New Harmony.”
▫United Nations Environment Program Exhibition, Bohemian National Hall Gallery, New York, NY, “Subtantialis Corporis Mixti.”
▫ArtSites Gallery, Riverhead, NY, “Bird Shift.”
▫The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, “Connectivity Lost.”
▫McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL, “The Backyard.”
2009
▫Cynthia Wood Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX, “Systems of Sustainability: Art, Innovation Action”: A three day symposium. My participation includes a site-specific sculptural work installed on campus, a multi-media presentation and performative guided tour.
▫ Missouri State University Art & Design Gallery, Springfield, MO, “Troubles in Paradise.”
2008
▫Solo: Kansas Union Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, “Reimagining the Environment at The University of Kansas.”
▫Solo: Paragraph Gallery, Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO, “Teach the Starlings in Kansas City.”
▫Deutsche Bank 60 Wall Gallery, New York, NY, "Feeling the Heat: Artists, Scientists, and Climate Change."
▫H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, “New, Three.”
▫KU Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, “Biodiversity is.”
▫H & R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO, “Kansas City Flatfile.”
▫La Esquina, Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO, “Locate | Navigate.”
▫Online exhibition: greenmuseum.org, “Conducting Mobility,” curated by Claude Willey and Ryan Griffis.
2007
▫Solo: Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL, “The Highway Expedition.”
▫Solo: Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS, “Very Big Show about Very Small Objects.”
▫Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany, “Say It Isn’t So,” curated by Peter Friese, Guido Boulboullé, Susanne Witzgall.
▫Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO, “Weather Report: Art & Climate Change,” curated by Lucy Lippard. ▫Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL, “MFA 2007.”
▫I-Space Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Dookie,” curated by Deke Weaver.
▫OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL, “Collected.”
2006
▫Solo: The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN, “Teach the Starlings.”
▫Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA, “Back to Nature.”
▫Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, “EARTH.”
2005
▫Solo: Stevenson Union Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, “The Collier Classification System.”
▫OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL, “Mind in Matter: Constructions of the Built Environment.”
▫Washington University, St. Louis, MO, “Elements of Scale.”
▫Green Lantern, Chicago, IL, “Collier, Eichron, Picard.”
2004
▫Solo: The Cloyde Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO, “I’ll Have a Starling.”
▫Solo: CSPS Gallery, Legion Arts, Cedar Rapids, IA, “Very Small Objects: A New System of Classification.”
▫Grand Central Art Center, California State University Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, “The Bird Show, Artist Invitational.”
▫McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL “Huge Detail” (a two person show).
▫Cedarhurst Center for the Arts, Mt. Vernon, IL, “Lucky Thirteen.”
▫Hartman Center Art Gallery, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, “International Environmental Art Exhibition.”
2003
▫Solo: Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Earth and Water
▫Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI, “Artists Defend Democracy,” curated by Troy West and Claudia Flynn.
▫Carnegie Art Center, Tonawanda, NY, “Art of the Encyclopedic,” curated by Paul Vanouse.
2002
▫Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba, “Ejercicios/Laboratorios” (Three person show with Paul Vanouse and Caroline Koebel).
2001
▫Solo: Galería Raúl Martínez, Cuban Book Institute, Palacio del Segundo Cabo, Havana, Cuba “Rock Collecting Project.”
▫Solo: CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art), Buffalo, NY, “Two Projects.”
▫Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI “Artists Defend the Environment,” Curated by Troy West and Claudia Flynn.

Publications as Author and Published Interviews

▫New Village Press, “Of A Personal Nature,” authored contribution to Ecoart in Action: Activities, Case Studies and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities. 2022. 54-60

▫The Cultural Society, contributor to The Public Life of Chemistry, a book of poetry and letters by Joel Bettridge. 2018. 48-50.

▫City of Burlington Conservation Newsletter, “Unlawning America: A Call to Inaction,” 5/1/2018.

▫ MIT/Whitechapel Press, selection from “The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects,” included in The Object, Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Antony Hudek. May 2014. 153-154.

▫ Cover artist and contributing author (text and images) of “Why Do Flying Carp Jump,” for Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas #16. 2013. 244-254.

▫Published interview by Jeremy Beaudry for Nature Study, An Ambivalent Guide, printed booklet created for “Facts and Fables: Stories of The Natural World” at The Schulkill Center for Environmental Education, Philadelphia, PA, 2011. 36-39.

▫Selections from “The Collier Classification System for Very Small Objects,” by Brian Collier, Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas #8, 2005. 178-185.

Books and Exhibition Catalogues featuring my work

▫University of Chicago Press, critical analysis of my project “Roadkill Shrines” and use of my image in Displaying Death and Animating Life: Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science and Everyday Life (Animal Lives) by Jane Desmond. August 2016.

▫Thames & Hudson Publishers, inclusion of my project “The Highway Expedition” and a quote from my artist statement in Art & Ecology Now by Andrew Brown. June 2014. 112-113.

▫Environmental Anthropology, Ed. Helen Kopina and Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet. “Requiem for Roadkill: Death and Denial on America’s Roads,” 46-57, by Jane Desmond, includes extended discussion of my project Roadkill Shrines. Routledge Press.

▫Subtantialis Corporis Mixti, Exhibition Catalog, Mark Cevenka, Curator, Published by The United Nations Enviroment Program & the Czech Center of New York. ▫Say It Isn't So : Naturwissenschaften im Vissier der Kunst / Art Trains its Sights on the Natural Sciences. Ed. Peter Friese, Guido Boulboulle, and Susanne Wittzgall. *“In the Laboratory of Doubt: Six Chapters on the Subject of Art and Science / Im Laboratorium des Zweifels: Sechs Kapitel zum Thema Kunst und Wissenschaft”: Section III, 22-25. By Peter Friese. In English and German. Weserberg: Museum fur moderne Kunst, 2007. *“Kunstlerinnen und Kunstler, Artists” / “Brian Collier.” 116-121.

▫Weather Report: Art and Climate Change. Ed. Kirsten Gerdes. Essays by Lucy Lippard, Stephanie Smith and Andrew C. Rivkin. Published by The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.