BRENT STEEN
Born 1974, Dallas, TX
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2001 M.F.A. University of Houston, Houston, TX
1998 B.F.A. University of North Texas, Denton, TX
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011 So Different, So Appealing, Churner & Churner, Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY
2010 do I know you, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
TXT, James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Still Lifes: Seeing Violet, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
What's Bin Did and What's Bin Hid, 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY
2008 The Exquisite Line, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
2007 Brittle Pages, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Options Within Realism, Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY
2006 Please Love Me, Walker’s Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, WI
Belief and Doubt, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2005 A Thousand Words, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Life for Awhile, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
2003 Projections, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
The Core Show, The Glassell School Of Art, Museum Of Fine Arts Houston,
Houston, TX
Come Forward: Emerging Artists from Texas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
(catalogue)
2002 Core Samples, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
The Core Show, The Glassell School of Art, Museum Of Fine Arts Houston, Houston,
TX
2001 Black Air: New Film and Video from Houston, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
it’s okay…okay, Small Projects Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX (solo)
MFA Thesis Exhibition, The Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX
2000 Out of the Ordinary, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, catalogue
1999 Extremely Shorts II, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
1998 Hybrid Norms, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX
RESIDENCIES & GRANTS
2003 Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Individual Artist Grant
2001 Core Artist-in-Residence, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
TX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007 French, Christopher, “Brent Steen”, Art Papers. July/August, p. 60.
Johnson, Patricia C., “Being drawn into a conversation”, Houston Chronicle, April 28,
p. E3.
2005 White, Michelle, “Brent Steen: Life for Awhile”, Artlies, Winter 2005, p. 92.
Readings section, Harper’s Magazine, February 2005, p. 17.
2004 Johnson, Patricia C., “Artists drawing distinctions after all these years”, Houston
Chronicle, December 18, 2004, p.E1,3.
Jacobson, Heidi Zuckerman, “in God we trust”, exhibition catalog essay.
Jankauskas, Jennifer, “Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas”, Artlies #38, Spring,
pp. 72-73.
Johnson, Patricia C., "Five Houston artists honored with Artadia awards", Houston
Chronicle, April 28.
Come Forward: Emerging Art in Texas, exhibition catalogue, Dallas, TX: Dallas
Museum of Art, 2003.
2002 Davenport, Bill, “Tire Iron #47: Brent Steen, Inman Gallery”, www.glasstire.com,
June 6.
2002 Core Yearbook, exhibition catalogue, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston.
Davenport, Bill. “Core 2002 Exhibition”, Tire Iron #46, www.glasstire.com, April 4.
2000 Dumbadze, Alexander. “Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas,” New Art
Examiner, November, pp. 59-60.
Out of the Ordinary: New Art From Texas, exhibition catalog, Houston, TX”
Contemporary Arts Museum, catalog essay by Paola Morsiani.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Gallery Representation: