Brandon Anschultz
St. Louis, MO
Born 1972
EDUCATION
2002
Washington University in St. Louis, Master of Fine Art
1997
Louisiana Tech University, Bachelor of Fine Arts
SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015
Below Horizon, Regards, Chicago
2014
Suddenly Last Summer, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
2013
All that Heaven Allows (with Benjamin Edelberg), Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, St. Louis, curated by Jessica Baran
2012
Press Pause, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis
Brandon Anschultz: Pacer, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, curated by Dominic Molon
2011
Ingredients for Humble Magic, (with Adam Farcus), The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago
Due Diligence Done, (with John Tallman), Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia
2010
Stick Around For Joy, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis; Longue Vue House and Garden, New Orleans
Brandon Anschultz, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
2008
Transmission/Destination, Center of Creative Arts, St. Louis, curated by Shannon Fitzgerald
Object, @ Space Contemporary, Santa Ana, California
2007
Round- New Sculpture, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
2006
Transmissions, A Room with a View Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fission Friction Fiction, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
New & Recent, Gallery Thirteen 13, Murphysboro, IL
2005
Scape, St. Louis University Museum of Art, Contemporary Project Gallery
2003
In the Ether, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
The Country Squire, Blind Spot Gallery, St. Louis
2002
Re:configure, (with Gina T. Alvarez), Hartz Gallery and Wildwood Press, St. Louis
Configure, (with Gina T. Alvarez), fortgondo.compound for the arts, St. Louis
Gaze Manly, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
New American Painting, Midwest Edition, Elmhurst Art Museum, curated by Staci Boris
2014
The Tyranny of Good Taste, The Charlotte Street Foundation’s La Esquina, Kansas City, curated by Danny Orendorff
2013
The Tyranny of Good Taste, Columbia College, Chicago, curated by Danny Orendorff
2012
Die Erklarte Aussterllung, Kunstlerhaus Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria
Analog, curated by Transience, St. Louis
All Good Things Become Wild and Free, H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art, Carthage College, Kenosha, Wisconsin, curated by Danny Orendorff
2011
Build Up, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
2010
Violence, Exhibition Agency, Chicago; Los Caminos, St. Louis
2009
Jasmine plus B, Front Desk Apparatus, New York City, curated by Amy Granat
Amass, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, curated by Dana Turkovic
2008
About Abstraction, Chapman University, Orange, CA
2007
Perspectives, Brooks Museum, Memphis
St. Louis Painters, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
Truck, Urban Culture Projects – La Esquina, Kansas City
2006
Personal Logics / Approaches to the Abstract, White Flag Projects, St. Louis
2005
Overseas Exchange, Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan
8 the Hard Way, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis
2004
Everything You Ever wanted to Know about Art, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis
Showcase 2: St. Louis Painting and Sculpture Invitational, Sheldon Art Gallery, St. Louis
SCCC Multimedia Invitational, Donald D. Shook Art Gallery, St. Charles Community College, St. Charles, MO
Danforth Scholars, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis
2003
Schmidt’s Picks: A Look at New Art in St. Louis Art Since 1990, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis
On and On ‘til the Break of Dawn, Mossa, St. Louis
Untitled: The Sequel, fortgondo.compound for the arts, St. Louis
2002
Speakers & Screen, group exhibition of short-film and video, fortgondo.compound for the arts, St. Louis
Tough, fortgondo.compound for the arts, St. Louis
PUBLICATIONS and REVIEWS
2015
New Amerian Painting, Issue 113
2014
Gay, Malcolm, Great Rivers Bienniel in Review, The Riverfront Times, June 5
2013
Nardi, Sarah, “The Tyranny of Good Taste” goes High Concept and Low Brow, The Chicago Reader, November 18
2012
Baran, Jessica, Pacer, Riverfront Times, April 5
Barone, Laura Elizabeth, Pacer at the Contemporary, Temporary Art, April 5
2011
Wolfson, Elizabeth, Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz, Art:21 Blog, February 25
2010
Weber, Candice, Violence, Time Out Chicago, November 24,
Itinerary, Sculpture Magazine, September
Baran, Jessica, Brandon Anschultz: Stick Around for Joy, Riverfront Times, June
Cooper, Ivy, Anschultz’ Paintings do Double Duty, St. Louis Beacon, June
2009
Strandell, Mary Ann, The No-Ship Travelogue, Review Magazine, January
2007
Knowles, Susan W., Perspectives, Art Papers, November/December
Self, Dana, The Manly Art, Bigger is better at the Dolphin, The Pitch, June 21
Spraygraphic Interview with Brandon Anschultz, www.spraygraphic.com, August 20
Koeppel, Fredric, Perspectives, Memphis Commercial Appeal, June 22
St. Louis Painters 2007 Invitational, catalog, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art
2006
PERSONAL LOGICS/approaches to the abstract, catalog, White Flag Projects,
Bonetti, David, Fission, Friction, Fiction, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 17
Callahan, Teresa, Fission, Friction, Fiction, West End Word, September 27
2005
Cooper, Ivy, Scape, Riverfront Times, April 20
2004
Bonetti, David, Three Gallery Shows, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 18
Callahan, Teresa, Pure and Simple, Re: configure in review, West End Word, #51
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
2013
Gateway Foundation, Great Rivers Bienniel Award, juried by Mel Chin, Lowery Stokes Sims, and Lynne Warren
2011
Cite Internationale des Arts, residency, Paris, France
2010
ACRE Residency, Steuben, Wisconsin
2007
Emerson Visiting Critics and Curators, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
2005
Best Local Artist, Riverfront Times, St. Louis
2004
Emerson Visiting Critics and Curators, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
2002
Wildwood Press Emerging Artist Grant, St. Louis, Missouri
2000
Danforth Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis
School of Art Scholarship, Washington University in St. Louis