Phoenix S Brown
b. 1997, Cincinnati, OH
Lives and works in Milwaukee, WI
Education
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts,
art history minor, Milwaukee
Institute of Art & Design,
Milwaukee, WI
Selected Solo // Two-Person Exhibitions
2022 Solo Exhibition,
Wright Musuem of Art,
Beloit College, Beloit, WI
(forthcoming)
2021 Solo Exhibtition,
I Remember/But It Hasn’t
Happened Yet, Blue Room,
Sheboygan, WI
Solo Exhibition, Art is Her,
Trout Museum of Art,
Appleton, WI
2018 Two-Person Exhibition,
Gluon Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Punching Bag/Punchline,
Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI
The Shapes of Truths Told,
Woodland Pattern Book Center,
Milwaukee, WI
NAP Gallery, New American
Paintings, MIDWEST ISSUE
#149, virtual exhibition
63rd Annual Beloit & Vicinity
Exhibition, Wright Museum
of Art, Beloit College,
Beloit, WI
Unraveled. Restructured.
Revealed: Where
Contemporary Art and
Diverse Perspectives
Intersect, Trout Museum of
Art, Appleton WI
2020 I’ll Make You Sorry, virtual
exhibition benefit for
The Butterfly Collective,
The Green Gallery,
NADA Miami art fair,
Miami, FL
Bridge Work,
Allen Priebe Gallery,
University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh,
Oshkosh WI
40th Annual SECURA Fine
Arts Exhibition,Trout
Museum of Art,
Appleton, WI
2020 Emerging Artists
Exhibition, Var Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI
2019 GHOOST $HOW X,
The Green Gallery West,
Milwaukee WI
Departure & Reflection,
Var West Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI
2019 Juried Senior
Exhibition, Layton Gallery,
Milwaukee Institute
of Art & Design,
Milwaukee,WI
Deeper Than My Shadow,
Senior Thesis Exhibition,
Milwaukee Institute of
Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
46th Annual Juried Show,
Union Art Gallery,
University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, WI
2nd Midwest Open,
Woman Made Gallery,
Chicago, IL
2018 Honeymoon Phase,
Terrain Exhibitions,
Yale Norfolk School of Art,
Norfolk, CT
2017 Crosscurrents,
Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Performance
2021 Live AV: Work It Out,
live film composition perfomance
by Phoenix Brown &
Steph Wetter,
Film:"Best Practices",
Jorge Guevara, 6:16,
Usable Space Gallery,
Milwaukee, WI
Selected Commissions
2021 Private Collector, gener8tor Art
Private Collector, Milwaukee, WI
Private Collector, Wauwatosa, WI
Private Collector, Brooklyn, NY
Private Collector, Madison, WI
2020 Private Collector, facilitated by
Trout Museum of Art
Appleton, WI
Private Collector, Milwaukee,
WI
Private Collector, Milwaukee,
WI
2019 Private Collector, Chicago, IL
Current Works on Loan
2019 Milwaukee Institute of Art &
Design, Milwaukee, WI
Honors // Awards
2021 Grant Recipient, gener8tor Art,
$15K individual artist grant,
2021 cohort
2020 Grant Finalist, Mary L. Nohl
Fellowship, emerging artist
category
Grant Finalist, Fellowship.art
Abert Family Curatorial Fellowship,
Milwaukee Art Museum
2019 Bridge Work 05, Plum Blossom
Initiative, professional
development program,
Milwaukee, WI
2018 Ellen Battell Stoeckel
Fellowship, Yale University
Residencies
2021 Artist-in-Residence,
Lynden Sculpture Garden,
Brown Deer/Milwaukee, WI
Artist-in-Residence,
Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH, virtual
2018 Artist-in-Residence,
Yale Norfolk School of Art,
Yale University, Norfolk, CT
Talks // Podcasts
2021 Making Today Series, in
conversation with creative
writer Jacqeline Kolosov,
Texas Tech Univeristy -
School of Art, Lubbock, TX,
inaugural virtual event
In conversation with
Dr. Rina Kundu Little, Lynden
Innovative Educators
Institute: Uprooted,
Lynden Sculpture Garden,
Brown Deer, WI,
virtual event
2020 Panel discussion, I’ll Make
You Sorry: The Importance
of Protest, NADA Miami 2020,
Miami, FL, virtual event
Artist talk, Artdose Talks
with Phoenix Brown,
organized by Artdose
Magazine, virtual
Podcast, Artists We Know,
Episode #22
2019 Visiting Artist Lecture,
Milwaukee
Institute of Art & Design,
Milwaukee, WI
Artist Presentation,
University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, WI
Artist Presentation, Union
Gallery,University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
Milwaukee, WI
Podcast, PG & Friends,
Episode #5
Publications
“(Post-It) Notes on Duality”, The Hand-Off series, Bunker Projects. May 2021. Web
Selected Bibliography
Fox Cities Magazine Sept. 2020. Print. Front Cover
Fransisco Salas, Rafael. “Reinvention, Revolution: An Experiment in the Museum of the Future is Taking Shape in Appleton, Wisconsin”. New City Art. April 2021. Web
Higgins, Jim. “2020 Nohl Fellowship winners include artists Nirmal Raja, Ck Ledesma”. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Web
Juarez, Frank. "Phoenix Brown." Artdose Magazine July 2020: 4. Print. Front Cover
McNulty, Ty. "UWM Art Show: Common Themes Were on Display." Media Milwaukee. 28 Apr. 2019. Web.
Murphy, Brendan. "Visual Art: Riverwest Gallery Sees the Future." Urban Milwaukee. 5 July 2019. Web.
New American Paintings No. 149 Midwest. 2020. Print. Forthcoming