• BA, Brown University, 2005; Double major in Visual Arts and English
  
• MFA, Hunter College, 2012; Concentration in Painting

Becky Brown was born in Manhattan and currently lives in Buffalo, NY. Her work celebrates material presence and the handmade mark as productive alternatives to the screen, with the power to restore attention and joy. She collects text from online life (news, advertising, communication), using bright, hand-painted lettering to reinscribe language with a human touch.

Solo and two-person exhibitions include PS122 Gallery (NYC), Arts+Leisure Gallery (NYC), the Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca, NY), Raft of Sanity (Buffalo, NY) and Fort Gondo (St. Louis, MO). Group exhibitions include The Drawing Center, Queens Museum, Freight+Volume Gallery, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and A.I.R. Gallery (all NYC); Last Projects (Los Angeles); Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art and Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY) and Religare Arts Initiative (Delhi, India). She has been an artist-in-residence at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Edward Albee and Saltonstall Foundations, among others. Her installation “No, said the Fruit Bowl,” in the kitchen of an abandoned home on Governors Island, was described in the New York Times as “machines vomiting as if in a bulimic’s nightmare.” She has received grant funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Bronx Council on the Arts. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, the New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint and Art Spiel, among others. Her critical writing has been published in Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail.

• ART 211LAB Basic Painting
• ART 494LAB Senior Thesis