Mia Brownell
Mia Brownell
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Duke University Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Durham, NC
1998
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY
Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Gallery 138, New York, NY
2004
Breathing Space, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
Media Loft Gallery, New Rochelle, New York.
Faculty Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven
Shifting Affinities,Yale University School of Art, New Haven
Curator: Paul Clabby
Second Nature, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, New York.
Curator: Linda Dennis
Fabrication, Bruce Gallery,
Edinboro University, Edinboro Pennsylvania.
2003
Samson Fine Arts, New York, New York.
Curator/Director: Maeve Gyenes.
Faculty Plus, Southeast Louisiana University.
Flat File Exhibition, Artspace, New Haven
2002
Claiming the Spirit. Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Curator: Wendy Tarlow Kaplan and Linda Poras.
Food. Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York.
Works on Paper. ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut.
The Nature of Things. Gallery 138, New York, New York.
Curator: Brookie Maxwell.
Symbology. Times Square Lobby Gallery, New York, New York.
Curator: Cyn McLean.
Insight/OnSight. Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. (catalogue)
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Big Orbit ten years of spin. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Curator: Gerald Mead. (catalogue)
Works on Paper. The Park Avenue Armory represented by Samson Fine Art,
New York, New York.
Zg Gallery. Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
Curator: Myra Casis.
Planet Earth. New Gallery at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Curator: Sherry Gache.
Holding Pattern. Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, Fall River, Massachusetts.
Curator: Kathleen Hancock.
2001
Reflections. NCC Gallery, Norwalk, Connecticut. Curator: Susan Hardesty.
Drawing Today. Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, Connecticut. Curator: Ben Westbrock.
Drawing National. Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.
Final Thoughts. Gallery in the Wood, South Windsor, Connecticut.
(Invited) Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy.
Grrrls!. Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut.
Curator: Martin Kruck and Lucy Soutter. (catalogue)
Third National. Studio 4 West Gallery, Piermont, New York.
Jurors: Patricia Gutierrez, Betty DeMarco, and Pamela Fedele.
Environmental Injustices. Gallery of Social/Political Art, Boston. MA .
2000
Untitled (space) opens the flatfile. Untitled (space), New Haven, Connecticut
Unknown Generation X. Danforth Gallery, The Maine Artists Space,
Curator: Mark Bessire.
4 x 4: 4 Mediums by 4 Artists. Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts,
Curator: Cynnie Gaasch.
Fabulous Food. NCC Gallery, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk
Curator: Susan Hardesty.
By the Palette, For the Palate. Nash Gallery at the University of Minnesota
Alumni Show. Alcazar Gallery, Baltimore School for the Arts, Maryland.
Culture of Class: Issues of Class in North American Culture. Decker Gallery at the
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. Curator: Will Hipps.
1999
Fire & Ice: Nature and Technology. Attleboro Museum, Massachusetts.
Tackling Meaning, The Curator’s Playbook. Red Chair Gallery, Kansas
Illusions. Kleist Center of Art and Drama, Cleveland, Ohio.
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Apocalypse. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Juror: Terrance Lindall
American Sentences. Sponsored Reality, Union City, New Jersey.
Curator: David Melamed
Stills in Life, Appleton Art Center, Appleton, Wisconsin. Invitational.
The Feast, Fine Art Celebrating Food. Gallery in the Wood, South Windsor, CT
You are what you eat. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill, New York
1998
Constant Cravings. Constance Lindolm Fine Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Art for Environmental Advocacy. Adell McMillan Gallery at the University of Oregon,
Eugene, Oregon.(catalogue)
The Inanimate: 12 Artists on Still Life. Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State
College. Curator: Gerald C. Mead. (catalogue)
1997
Biohazard. Walter/McBean Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, California. Invitational. (catalogue)
Remix. MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Consum(e)ation: Food, Fetishes, and Fantasy. Tufts University Art Gallery,
Medford, Massachusetts. Invitational. (catalogue)
Artist Residency Exchange: Western New York. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts
Center, Buffalo, New York. (catalogue)
GALLERY AFFILIATION
Slide files
White Columns, 320 W 13th St., New York, NY
Artist Space, 38 Green St., New York, NY
Nurture Art, 475 Keap St., Brooklyn, NY
Flat files
Art Space, 50 Orange St., New Haven, CT
Works available
Brooklyn
Uptown
Westchester
Metaphor Contemporary Art, 382 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn, NY
Samson Fine Art, 1150 5th Ave., New York, NY
Kenise Barnes Fine Art, 1955 Palmer Ave., Larchmont, NY
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AWARDS FROM CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
2005
2003
2001 - 2005
Sabbatical leave (ranked first in university) for Spring semester 2005
Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University
Faculty Development Grant, Southern Connecticut State University
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND HONORS
2004
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2001
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1999
1998
1997
1995
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1994
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1992
1989-1993
1989
Edinboro University exhibition stipend, Edinboro Pennsylvania.
Duke University exhibition stipend, Durham, North Carolina.
Studio 4 West Gallery Artist Award, Piermont, New York.
Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship, Austerlitz, NY; One month residency
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Artist Award, Brooklyn, New York.
Kentucky Foundation For Women Grant, Louisville, KY.
San Francisco Art Institute exhibition stipend, San Francisco, CA.
New York State Council on the Arts Grant.
Mark Diamond Research Grant. Buffalo, NY;
Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, One month residency for the creation of paintings.
State University of New York Teaching Fellowship. Buffalo, NY. Scholarship/stipend
Liquitex product grant award.
Frances Hook Scholarship. Grant award to use toward painting materials.
Carnegie Mellon University Research Initiative Grant.
Carnegie Mellon University Merit Scholarship.
Congressional Art Award
LECTURES AND PANELS
Lectures are presentations of my work unless otherwise noted
2005
2004
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2004
2004
2003
2003
2002
2000
2000
1999
1999
1998
1997
1997
1995
1994
SUNY Potsdam. Potsdan, New York. Visiting Artist/Critic
Southern Connecticut State University Honors College Program.
Fairfield High School/ Fairfield Ludlowe High School
Southeast Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana
Edinboro University, Edinboro Pennsylvania.
Maryland Institute, College of Art. Baltimore, MD. Visiting Artist/Critic
Wesleyan University. Middletown, CT. Panelist, “Professional development for Artists”
Brandeis University, Women’s Studies Research Center, Waltham, MA.
Invited to be a Panelist, “Artists Discuss Their Work”
Maryland Institute, College of Art. Baltimore. Symposium respondent,
“Culture of Class: Issues of Class in North America.”
Southern Connecticut State University Woman Studies Program.
Southern Connecticut State University Graduate Art Education Program.
Southern Connecticut State University Woman Studies Program.
Murray State University Celebrate Woman Conference. Murray, Kentucky.
Panelist, “Women in Academia.” Moderator: Dr. Stephanie Schechner.
Murray State University, Kentucky Women’s Leadership Network. Murray, KY.
Panelist, “Women in the Arts.” Moderator: Dr. Constance Alexander.
Murray State University Art Department, Murray, Kentucky.
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York.
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont.
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reviews, works reproduced, and other publications
International Festival of Arts and Ideas Catalogue, “Shifting Affinities”, New Haven,
Connecticut, 2004
Dialogue, “Art, Calendar of Events Duke University”, May 16, 2003 page 10
Elizabeth Licata, Big Orbit Gallery, Ten Years of Spin, Big Orbit Catalogue, Buffalo, 2002.
Judy Birke, “Insight/Onsite”, New Haven Register, Sunday March 31, 2002, F6.
David B. Boyce, “Artists explore patterns in BCC exhibit”, Standard-Times, February, 2002
Hank Hoffman, “Mia Brownell; You Art What You Eat”, New Haven Advocate, October
18-24, 2001, 28.
New Haven Register, “Drawing Today exhibit opens at Hamden Hall”, September 25, 2001, D12
Chris Thompson, “Rumination X,” The Portland Phoenix, October 27, 2000, 20.
Portland Press Herald, Image of painting with exhibition announcement, October 15, 2000, A1.
Connecticut Review, 1999 - 2002 editions. Images of paintings on cover & interior.
Anthony Bannon, “Art show: 42-lb. frog, 1950 toaster, cheese noodles and cosmic mouse,” The
Chautauqan Daily, August 16, 2000.
Richard Huntington, “At home and abroad,” Buffalo News, August 1, 2000, Gusto Section.
Heather Lustfeldt, “The Exhibit as Clinic at Red Chair,” Review: News Features and Art in
Kansas City, January 19, 2000, 19.
Jacqueline Luzar, “Good Art is No Illusion,” The Exponent, November 1999, Arts & Ent.
Steve Starger, “Give in to Food Fantasies,” Journal Inquirer, July 2, 1999, Living section.
Marquis Who’sWho of American Women , 21st Edition.
Delta Smith, Eco Arts., Eugene, Oregon, University of Oregon Cultural Forum, 1998.
Dr. Arlette Klaric, Contemporary Constructs of Still Life , Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Catalogue, Buffalo State College, 1998.
Richard Huntington, “Everywhere at Once,” The Buffalo News, February 27, 1998, Arts & Ent.
Richard Huntington, “Backward Glances,” The Buffalo News, January 4, 1998, Arts &
Ent.
The Inanimate: 12 Artists on Still Life Interprets a Traditional Subject, Burchfield-Penney Art
Center, Buffalo State College, 1997-98, 1.
Colin Berry, “An Outside View of SFAI’s Walter McBean Gallery” CitySearch ,
December - February .http://www.citysearch7.com/E/E/SFOCA/0011/23/22/Biohazard.
San Francisco Weekly, “Hazmat Alert,” December 3-9.
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William Degen Fleig, Our Distance Is The Danger , San Francisco, California: San
Francisco art Institute, 1997.
Richard Huntington, “Body of Work, Well-thought-out still lifes that look deep inside,” The
Buffalo News, December 12, 1997, 32- Gusto Section.
Richard Huntington, “What’s Eating The Artist,” The Buffalo News, November 14, 1997, sect E.
Consume(e)attain Fur, fruit or flesh. What’s your passion? , Medford, Massachusetts:
Tufts Journal, 1997) Volume 18, 4.
John Worden, Mia Brownell, Buffalo, New York: Hallwalls Inc., 1997, .3-4.
Richard Huntington, “In photo and frame, artists sing the body eclectic,” The Buffalo News,
February 14, 1997, Entertainment section.
Richard Huntington, “INSIDE STORIES, Canvases from Brownells body of work," The Buffalo
News. May 5, 1995.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2003-Present
1998-2003
1997-1998
1996-1997
1995-1997
1995-1997
1993-1995
Associate Professor, Department of Art, Southern Connecticut State University.
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Southern Connecticut State University.
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Murray State University; Murray, KY.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Niagara County Community College, NY.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, State University College at Buffalo.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Art, State University of New York at Buffalo.
COURSES TAUGHT
Design Fundamentals, Introductory Drawing, Intermediate Drawing, Figure Drawing, Advanced Drawing,
Graduate Drawing, Creative Drawing, Surface Development, Introductory Painting, Intermediate Painting,
Advanced Painting, and Graduate Painting.
EDUCATION
1995
Master of Fine Arts, State University of New York University at Buffalo.
1993
Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University.
Studied
Parsons School of Design
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
The American University of Paris
Maryland Institute, College of Art
High School
Baltimore School for the Arts
Dance training
Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University
Conservatory of Geneva, Switzerland