BRIAN DEGRAW
(b.1974)
Lives and Works in New York City
Solo Exhibitions
2024 ‘SP555’ , James Fuentes, Los Angeles CA
2023 ‘Thank You Dean Blunt’ , Soccer Club Club. Chicago IL
2022 ‘Gamma’, James Fuentes, New York NY
2019 ‘Solarium Demos’, Wish-Less, Tokyo, Japan
‘Scratch Acid Ketosis’, Real Estate Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
2015 Solo Presentation at Allen & Eldridge, New York NY
2011 ‘As The World Burns’, James Fuentes, New York NY
2008 Solo Exhibition, Le Confort Moderne, Poiters, France
2007 ‘Behead the Genre’, James Fuentes, New York NY
2004 Solo Exhibition, Dazed Gallery, London UK
2002 ‘Danger Came Smiling’, The Annex/Aaron Rose, Los Angeles CA
2001 Solo Exhibition ,(curated by Bjarne Melgaard), UKS Galleri, Oslo, Norway
2001 Solo Exhibition, Sub Commandante Marcos, Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibitions
2024
‘Brian DeGraw & Maia Naveriani : Works on Paper’ (two person show) Tanya Leighton, Berlin GER
‘The rose is the rose and is the cat’ (Brian DeGraw, Tamo Jugeli, & Tamara K.E.) , Polina Berlin Gallery, NY
‘Emotional Intelligence II’ , Polina Berlin Gallery, NY
2023
‘The Rejectionists’ , Pace Gallery, New York, NY
‘Consensual Ennui’ , The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
’The Painting Show’ , ArtBeat Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
‘Le Langage Du Corps’ , Agnes B , La Fab , Paris FR
‘ Evening of the Day’ , Galerie Julien Cadet , Paris FR
‘ Emotional Rescue’ , Galleria Annarumma, Napoli, Italy
2022 ’10 Years’ , Wish-Less, Tokyo, Japan
‘ New York Eye and Ear Control’ , Boo-Hooray, Montauk NY
‘ Unsafe At Any Speed ‘ curated by Kenny Schacter, Morton Street Partners, New York NY
‘ Twenty One Humors’ , Pace Gallery, New York NY
2021 ‘Its Not What You Think It Is’ , Tramps , New York NY
‘New Wave Cosmos’ , Wish-Less, Tokyo, Japan
2020 ‘Travelers Perspective’ , Colossal Youth Exhibitions, Brooklyn NY
2019 Frieze New York, New York NY
‘Meet Me in the Bathroom’, The Hole, New York NY
2018 ‘Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done’, MOMA, New York NY
’New York by Night’ , curated by Spencer Sweeney , HdM gallery, Beijing, China
‘Real Estate Fine Arts’, Center for Subtropical Affairs at Miami Basel, Miami, Florida
‘Benders’, Real Estate Fine Art, Brooklyn NY
2017 ‘Peace Pieces’ (two person exhibition w/ Spencer Sweeney), Hysteric Glamour, Tokyo, Japan
‘Drawing Island’ , The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn NY
’SIGH’, The LODGE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 ‘Ry Fyan and Brian DeGraw’ at Allen & Eldridge, New York NY
‘Inoshikacho: the Boar , the Deer, and the Butterflies’, Ace Hotel, New York NY
2015 ‘Unorthodox’, The Jewish Museum, New York NY
‘Slam Section’, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Hotels’, Loyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
2014 ‘This is Our Art This is Our Music’, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 ‘MusIQUE, PlastIQUE’, galerie du jour Agnes b., New York NY
‘Do Your Thing’, White Columns, New York NY
‘Portrait of a Generation’, The Hole, New York NY
2011 ‘MusIQUE, PlastIQUE’, galerie du jour agnès b., Paris, France
2009 ‘New York Minute’, Macro Future Museum, Rome, Italy
2008 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
2007 ‘Dream & Trauma’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
‘The Fractured Figure’, Curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Dakis Joannou, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
‘The Process VI’, Swiss Institute, New York NY
2006 ‘Panic Room’ - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, Curated by Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
‘The Rest is Total Silence’, ATM Gallery, New York
‘The Process IV’, Binz39, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 ‘Reverberations’, Curated by James Fuentes, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise at Passerby, New York
‘Indigestible Correctness Part II’, Curated by Lizzi Bougatsos and Rita Ackermann, Kenny Schachter, New York
‘The Human Face is an Empty Force’, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘Giles Deacon, Steven Shearer, and Brian DeGraw’, Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy
‘Concrete Castle’, curated by Rita Ackermann, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
‘The Process II’, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
‘What’s New’ curated by Rita Ackermann, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
‘Hello Kitty 30th Birthday’, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2003 ‘The Process’, Kunsthalle, St. Gallen, Switzerland
‘New York Dirty’, Gallery Claska, Tokyo , Japan
‘A New York Scene’, galerie du jour agnès b, Paris, France
‘Survival of the Shittest’, Curated by James Fuentes, The Proposition, New York NY
‘Culture Keeps Model Brain Handy Made of Its Grain to Put in the Place of Your Own’, American Fine Arts Co. , New York NY
2002 ‘Little America’, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘High Times’ (two person exhibition w Spencer Sweeney), Hysteric Glamour, Tokyo, Japan
2001 ‘Sunshine’, Alleged Galleries, New York NY
‘Precious Cargo’, KBond, Los Angeles, CA
‘Welcome to the Playground of the Fearless’, Entropy, New York NY
2000 ‘God Bless America’, Alleged Galleries, New York NY
1999 ‘Dope’, American Fine Arts, New York NY
Notable Performances:
— Pace Gallery (NY) ‘Agnes Martin: Music for Healing ‘, 2021 (Brian DeGraw & Lizzi Bougatsos)
—The Kitchen ( NY) ‘Spring Gala benefit honoring ANOHNI’ live performance, 2019 (w/ Gang Gang Dance)
—The Broad Museum (Los Angeles) ‘Happenings’ live performance, 2018 (w/ Gang Gang Dance)
— Museum of Modern Art (NY) music composition/performance, 2018 (in collaboration w/ Deborah Hay and the Judson Dance Theater)
—BAM Howard Gilman Theatre (Brooklyn NY) ‘The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane, 2018
—Performa 17 (Harlem, NY) Biennial opening performance honoring Yoko Ono, 2017
—Milk Studios (NY) Ford Fusion ‘The Art of Fusion’ audio/visual performance, 2013
—Milk Studios (Los Angeles) Ford Fusion ‘The Art of Fusion’ audio/visual performance, 2013
— Whitney Biennial (NY) installation/ audio visual performance, 2008 (w/ Gang Gang Dance)
— 88 Boadrum ( Brooklyn NY) music composition/live performance with 88 drummers, 2008
—The Institute of Contemporary Art (London) audio/visual performance, 2007 (Brian DeGraw & Alexis Taylor)
Public Collections:
Museum of Modern Art (NY)
Dakis Joannou Collection
Agnes B Collection
Zabludowicz Collection
LAC Collection
Madeira Corporate Services Collection
Ragnarock Museum
Residencies:
Dragon Hill Residence, Mougins, FR (upcoming)
Superzoom Art Residency, Ardeche FR
Le Confort Moderne, Poiters FR