Bradly Brown
Born: El Paso, TX
Resides: Houston, TX
EDUCATION:
- Texas Christian University
MFA in Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, 2013
- University of North Texas
BFA in Photography, School of Visual Arts, 2002
EXHIBITION RECORDS:
Group Exhibitions (As Artist)
- 2026
YARD, Idea Fund Project (multiple locations), Houston, TX - 2024
Layer Cake, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX - 2023
SPHERE Salón Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
150 Years 150 Artists, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX - 2020
Culture Hole TV, episode 3: Drugs, Culture Hole, Dallas, TX
Togethering, Houston Center For Photography, Houston, TX
Imagery: Seen and Unseen, Lee College Gallery, Houston, TX
Image for Concept: Indirect Representation in Photography, The Hand Art Center, Stetson University, DeLand, FL - 2019
Image for Concept: Indirect Representation in Photography, The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Daytona, FL
Borgen Wolfe (vinyl decal edition), online storefront - 2018
The Ends of Our Index Fingers Are Mute, Solar Studios at Rice University, Houston, TX - 2017
Sculptures in Art Alley, Sawyer Yards Creative Campus, Houston, TX
Untitled (How Does it Feel), Private Eye Gallery, Houston, TX
North Set Residency Exhibition, Bea Ying Projects, Houston, TX
Aspect 2017, Houston Community College – Central Gallery, Houston, TX - 2016
Lawndale Artist Studio Program 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
place/holder, The University of Texas at Dallas Main Gallery, Dallas, TX
2016 Fall Faculty Exhibit, Houston Community College (Central Campus), Houston, TX
In Good Company, Gallery 219 (Eastfield College), Dallas, TX
Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX - 2015
Household, Tarleton State University, Stephenville, TX
Private Practice, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX - 2014
Sympathy for the Devil, Hello Project Gallery, Houston, TX
Dallas Biennial (DB14), Richland College, Dallas, TX
Dallas Biennial (DB14), 500 Singleton, Dallas, TX - 2013
This Life Will Self-Destruct in 10…9…8…, Berlin Becher Triennial, Berlin Glas e.V., Berlin, Germany
Acceleration, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Subject to Change/PRKD, FIG Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
Amarillo Entropy, The Power Station, Dallas, TX
Transmission, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Fort Worth, TX - 2012
Mercury Retrograde, 500 X, Dallas, TX
Sons and Daughters of the Sun and Star II, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan
Sons and Daughters of the Sun and Star I, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX
The Bridged Exhibition, 500 Singleton, Dallas, TX - 2011
Fresh Meat College Expo, 500 X, Dallas, TX
Soundgazing, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY - 2009
Brave Brooklyn, The Open Space Alliance, Brooklyn, NY - 2007
Agent On The Road, Art Palace, Austin, TX
The Audience Is Listening, Road Agent, Dallas, TX - 2006
Two by Two, amFAR benefit, Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX
Feral Nature, University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
Solo Exhibitions (As Artist)
- 2016
Oligopoly, San Jacinto College South Gallery, Houston, TX - 2013
For a Limited Time Only, Moudy Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX - 2007
Beastly Words, Road Agent, Dallas, TX - 2006
Barnyard, Road Agent, Dallas, TX - 2002
15,540 miles, Conduit Gallery, Dallas, TX
CURATION & PRODUCTION:
San Jacinto College South Campus Gallery
2018–Present
Gallery Director / Curator
- 2026
Camaro Lucinda: Justin Plakas
Click Bait
Artists Include: Kalee Appleton, Melanie Clemmons, Bryan Cope, Lina Dib, Ryan Goolsby, Timothy Harding, Zak Loyd, Paho Mann, Leigh Merrill, and Kris Pierce.
Including IRL_Place, a participatory glass-mosaic take on Reddit’s r/place - 2025
Cheese Grits: Tay Butler and Brittainy Lauback
Be Kind, Rewind: In collaboration with Matt and Sara Broussard of the Houston Toy Museum - 2024
Arm Candy: Iva Kinnaird and Emily Peacock
Solastalgia
Artists Include: Heather L. Johnson, Cathie Kayser, Cindee Klement, Renata Lucia, and Ellen H. Ray. - 2023
A Seemingly Organized Arrangement of Line, Shape, and Color
Artists Include: Mike Robins, Gary Schott, and Matthew Tabor
Walking in Antarctica: Helen Glazer, Courtesy of ExhibitsUSA, and Mid-America Arts Alliance
Like Dust, I Lose All Form Once I Hit Water: Curated by Junior Fernandez
Artists Include: J. Bilhan, Evan Coleman, F. Tibiezas Dager, Eric Hernandez, M.A. Guevara, and Christien Vargas. - 2022
Small Wonders, Insects in Focus: Bob Sober, Courtesy of ExhibitsUSA, and Mid-America Arts Alliance
Burning Bones Press
Artists Include: Pat Barton, Michael Bise, Blaine Davis, Tess Doyle, Lillian Evans, Francesca Fuchs, Jessica Guerra, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Carlos Hernandez, Liv Johnson, Amber Kaiser, Cathie Kayser, Mark Masterson, Patrick Masterson, Eileen McClellan, Nicola Parente, Eric Pearce, Lamar Peterson, Linda Ridgeway, Charlotte Seifert, Julie Speed, James Surls and Charles Tanner
Redux, SJC Alumni Exhibition
Artists Include: Amaechina Blot, Imhotep Blot, Karolina Cantu, Rodrigo Gamarra, Michael Karydas, Disha Khakheria, Eden Lopez, Matthew Napoli, Ariel Rivera, Jeri Venegas, Tristan Veronie - 2021
Don’t Call It a Comeback: Houston Zinefest 2021 - 2020
The Ways They Are
Artists Include: Carris Adams, Sebastien Boncy, and Matt Manalo - 2019
Golf Coast: Bayou City Upcycled Mini-Golf
The Brain Tree Project: John Bavaro
Super Tuning: Trey Duvall
The Body Follows
Artists Include: Ann Wood, Daniela Antelo & Julia Barbosa Landois - 2018
Carrot Cake: The Life and Career of Chuck Jones
League City Legacy: The Butler Longhorn Museum
semigloss. Magazine: 2012–2016
Co-founder / Art Director
- 2016
Sound Issue Release and Installation, B4B3L4B, Oakland, CA
Sound Issue Listening Event at the James Turrell Skyspace at Rice University, Houston, TX
Sound Issue Release and Installation, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX - 2015
Sound Issue Release and Installation, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
semigloss. Magazine Presents: Sympathy for the Devil, Hello Project Gallery, Houston, TX - 2014
DB14 Issue and Release, Texas Theatre, Dallas, TX - 2013
Future Issue and Release, Beefhaus, Dallas, TX
Failure Issue and Release, That That, Dallas, TX
Ephemera Issue and Release, Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX - 2012
Place Issue and Release, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX
HOMECOMING! Committee Artist Collective, 2011–2014
Founding Member
- 2014
The Eagle Has Landed, Fort Worth, TX (multiple pop-up locations)
MacGuffin, AndX Art Space, Fort Worth, TX - 2013
Friskt kopplat, hälften brunnet. (Quickly connected, half burned.),
CentralTrak –The Artist Residency of the University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX
Post Communiqué (Available Space), Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
GIF THE FUCK OUT, Apophenia Underground’s Deep Ellum Windows, Dallas, TX - 2012
Hands on an Art Body, Oliver Francis Gallery, Dallas, TX - 2011
Launch Party, 2525 Wiesenberger, Fort Worth, TX
RESIDENCIES:
- 2017
North Set Residency, Bea Ying Projects, Houston, TX - 2016
TXRX Labs, Artist Support Grant, Houston, TX - 2015–2016
Lawndale Art Center, The Lawndale Artist Studio Program (Round 10), Houston, TX
HONORS AND AWARDS:
- 2025
Living the Values Award, San Jacinto College, Chancellor Selection - 2019, 2024, 2025
Exceptional Service Recognition, San Jacinto College - 2014
Fort Worth Weekly’s Visionary Award - 2013
Fort Worth Weekly’s Best of Culture 2013, Top Five Artworks, for Attention Retention - 2013
Mercedes Benz Financial Services (MBFS) Scholarship - 2008
Bean Distinguished Lecture Series, St. Anselm College - 2002
Robert Eger Scholarship for Photography, University of North Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Brandon Zech and Lucia Simek, “Art Dirt: Talking About Institutional Critique” (podcast; HOMECOMING! Committee discussed at 13:22), Glasstire, October 18, 2026
Joseph Staley, “Inside the Uncanny Attraction of Houston’s Newest Art Duo“, Houston Chronicle, April 7, 2024
Óscar Omar Rosales Ambriz, ed., Catálogo Final Version Sphere: SPHERE Salón Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo 2023, Primera Edición, SPHERE Salón Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, 2023
Rick de Yampert, “Camera-less Photography Exhibit Opens at Hand Art Center“, Stetson Today, Stetson University, January 8, 2020
Michael Hardy, “A Houston Photo Exhibit Captures the Sense of Solidarity From the Pandemic’s Early Days“, Texas Monthly, August 11, 2020
Ernie Manouse, “WATCH: Golf Coast | Mockingbird and Armadillo“, Houston Public Media, August 30, 2019
Catherine Lu, “Art Gallery Transforms Houston’s Bayous Into A Mini-Golf Course“, Houston Public Media, August 28, 2019
Christopher Blay, “‘Golf Coast’: San Jacinto College’s Interactive Mini-Golf Art Exhibition“, Glasstire, August 15, 2019
Jesse Morgan Barnett, “New Online Storefront Offers Vinyl Decals by Texas Artists“, Glasstire, June 27, 2019
Catherine Lu, “South Houston Gallery Hopes to Become Cultural Hub“, Houston Public Media, October 23, 2018
Christina Rees and Brandon Zech, “Glasstire Top Five” (North Set Residency), Glasstire, April 27, 2017
Diane Durant, “Re-presentation and the Problem of True Stories“, place/holder, The University of Texas at Dallas, September 2016
Brandon Zech, “Escaping the Narrative Trap of Video Art“, Glasstire, May 21, 2016
Jerome Weeks, “Bradly Brown and The Art of Staying Busy“, KERA’s Art + Seek, April 4, 2014
Anthony Mariani, “Visionary Awards“, Fort Worth Weekly, March 19–25, 2014
Peter Simek, “Why is a Blow-Up Calder Sculpture Popping Up All Over Fort Worth?“, D Magazine, February 26, 2014
Jimmy Fowler, “Semigloss: Sparkling Prose“, Fort Worth Weekly, January 22, 2014
Lucia Simek and Kenji Kajiya, Sons and Daughters of the Sun and Star: A Collaborative Art Exhibition between Texas Christian University and Hiroshima City University, exhibition catalog, 2014
Clara Béniac, “How I learned to Love Glass at Berlin Glass e.V.”, Art Connect Berlin, December 19, 2013
Betsy Lewis, “Acceleration at Dallas Contemporary’s Alive for 35 Spans Generations“, Dallas Observer, November 11, 2013
“Best Of Culture 2013” (Top Five Artworks: Attention Retention), Fort Worth Weekly, September 25, 2013
Jamie Laughlin, “The Art of Playfulness“, Dallas Observer, March 14, 2013
Cassandra Emswiler, “Art Reviews: Transmission at FWCA”, D Magazine, January 30, 2013
“Gallery” (Transmission at Fort Worth Contemporary Arts), Fort Worth Weekly, January 16, 2013
Margaret Meehan, “Mirror Mirror #7: HOMECOMING! Committee“, Glasstire, May 4, 2012
Bianca Bartz, “Time-Lapse Cosmetics“, Trend Hunter, July 18, 2011
William Staley, Starved Magazine, no. 2 (fall 2008): 28–33
Kaitlin Ingram, “Animalistic Art“, Dallas Observer, September 27, 2007
Matthew Bourbon, “Boys Will Be Boys”, Flash Art, no. 249, July–September 2006
Noah Simblist, Catalogue essay for Feral Nature at University of Texas, Dallas, 2006
DISCUSSIONS & LECTURES
- Ongoing
Art Bites, organizer: a weekly series of short faculty talks about art, Fine Arts Building, San Jacinto College South Campus, Houston, TX - 2024
Gulf Streams EP 52, hosted by Dr. Weston Twardowski and produced by Rice’s Center for Environmental Studies, and KPFT Houston, October 21, 2024
Layer Cake, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX, January 25, 2024 - 2015
2015–2016 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Artist Talk, Lawndale Art Center, September 16, 2015 - 2014
Tuesday Evening Lecture at the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, March 4, 2014 - 2013
Guided Tour, Acceleration, Dallas Contemporary
Guided Tour, MAC PAC Tour of DallasSITES: Available Space, Dallas Museum of Art - 2011
All Together Now, Fort Worth Contemporary Arts
WORKSHOPS:
- 2026
Exquisite Corpse Drawing Workshop, YARD, Idea Fund Project, Houston, TX - 2016
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Summer Art Camp and Art Study - 2015
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Teen/Artist Project - 2013
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Gallery and Studio Connections
The Rachofsky Warehouse: Summer Workshop for Students - 2012
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth: Drawing from the Collection - 2011
Fort Worth ISD Educators Sculpture Workshop, Texas Christian University - 2008
Alternative Process Photography, St. Anselm College
COMMITTEE / PANEL INVOLVEMENT:
- 2024
Texas Art Handling Olympics, Guest Judge, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, March 7, 2024 - 2021
Houston Arts Alliance: The Support for Artists and Creative Individuals (SACI) Panel - 2019–2021
Artists for Hope: Juror, San Jacinto College Dance Program - 2018–2019
Lyceum Committee: Committee Chair, San Jacinto College - 2011–2013
Gallery Committee: Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Texas Christian University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
SAN JACINTO COLLEGE, Houston, TX: 2018–Present
Professor of Fine Arts & Gallery Director
Classes include: Sculpture, Digital Media, Photography, Drawing, Design, and Art Appreciation
SAN JACINTO COLLEGE, Houston, TX: 2016–2018
Adjunct Lecturer
Classes include: Photography I & II and Drawing I & II
HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Houston, TX: 2015–2018
Adjunct Professor: Photography and Digital Art
Classes include: Digital Media and Photography
DAVID SHELTON GALLERY, Houston, TX: 2014–2016
Associate Director
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, Fort Worth, TX: 2012–2013
Adjunct Professor: Drawing, Design, and Sculpture
FORT WORTH CONTEMPORARY ARTS, Fort Worth, TX: 2011–2013
Media Manager / Associate Director
STRATEGY STUDIO, New York, NY: 2010–2011
Print/web design, principal photographer, corporate branding
Clients included: ASME, Bat Blue, Cartesian Capital, PineBridge Investments, YMCA
THE HAPPY CORP. GLOBAL, New York, NY: 2007–2009
Graphic design, principal photographer, event production
Clients included: MoMA, Apple, Brooklyn Brewery, Dewar’s, Edelman PR, VH1
TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS / RADIUM Records: 2006–2015
Art Direction, graphic design, and illustration, photo archivist
THE WOODY GUTHRIE ARCHIVE, New York, NY: 2007–2011
Archive photographer, creative services
The Live Wire, Woody Guthrie, 2007. (2008 Grammy Recipient, Best Historical Album)
My Name Is New York, 2011
CHRISTIE’S auction house, New York, NY: 2005–2007
Image processor, photo retoucher, photo assistant, image archiving