Brendan Lott
Born 1976, California
Education
2006 MFA, StanfordUniversity
2001 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Play in Progress, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Pure States Cannot Evolve into Mixed States, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Making Infinity Imaginable, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Up and Down and Top and Bottom and Charm and Strange, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Paintings of the Vernacular, Autzen Gallery, Portland State University, OR
2009Paintings of the Vernacular, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions (Oct 2009), San
Francisco, CA
2008 Photo Miami Fair, MiamiFL, featured by Stephen Cohen Gallery
Memories I'll Never Have, San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2004 Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 A Star Is Born: Ten Years Later, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Newton’s Prisms, CypressCollegeArtGallery, Cypress, CA
2014 Miami Project, Walter Maciel Gallery, Miami, FL
ArtMRKT, San Francisco, CA
2013ArtPadSF, Walter Maciel Gallery, Room 17, San Francisco, CA
Miami Project, Walter Maciel Gallery, Miami, FL
2012 MoCA Fresh Auction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Miami Project, Walter Maciel Gallery, Miami, FL
ArtPadSF, Walter Maciel Gallery, Room 17, San Francisco, CA
2011MISAPPROPRIATION, group show withRay Beldner, Sonja Schenk, Annie
Seaton, Orange Studio, Culver City, CA
Beneath the Picture, Ambach and Rice, Seattle, WA
2010 Valley of the Dolls, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Marked: A Show of Figure, Like the Spice Gallery, New York, NY
2009A Thin Slice: San Francisco Art Institute Alumni & Faculty, Baer Ridgway
Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
LA MoCA Fresh Auction, Los Angeles, CA
Dark Americana, Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
SF Weekly Masterminds Finalist Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2008The Allegory of the Mountain, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, LA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions (continued)
2008Dress Right, Apartment 3, Los Angeles, CA
Reconciling America: Miraculous Encounters with the Mundane, San Francisco
Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007SupaStore, Elizabeth Paige Smith, Venice, CA
Corpus Humorous, Shatford Library, Pasadena, CA
Phaedra's Love, Hangar 1018, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Commission Gallery 2005, San Francisco, CA
Welton Gallery, StanfordUniversity, Palo Alto, CA
2005 Sweeney Gallery, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart, Germany
Musée d'Art Modern et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Southern Exposure Auction, San Francisco, CA
2004 NewFangle Exhibition, San Francisco, CA
Luggage Store Gallery Auction San Francisco, CA
2003 Build Gallery San Francisco, CA
Introductions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Kunstraum B/2,Leipzig,Germany
2002 111 Minna St. Gallery,San Francisco, CA
Independent Exposure,Houston, TX
Buero Spors,Berlin,Germany
2001 New Nothing Cinema,San Francisco, CA
Green Bean,Greensboro, NC
1999 REVelation Film Festival,AdelaidePerth, Australia
1998 Vrij Media Café,Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sleazarna, Terminal Bar,Prague, Czech Republic
Bumbershoot Festival,Seattle, WA
EuroUnderground Festival, various cities
Artist's Television Access,San Francisco, CA
1997Plovdiv Film Festival,Bulgaria
Sacramento Film Festival, Sacramento, CA
Public Collections
Los AngelesMuseum of Contemporary Art
Ritz Carlton, Chicago, IL
Awards and Scholarships
2012Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2004-2006E. Eric and Elizabeth D. Johnson Fellowship in Studio Art
2005Murphy & Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts
1999-2001Bernard Osher Scholarship, with the San Francisco Art Institute
2001Osher Summer Travel Abroad Award
2001San Francisco Art Institute Spring Show Award
Press
Huffington Post, January 2011
LA Weekly, People Issue: Brendan Lott, 2010
SF Examiner, May 2009
Glen Helfand's 2008 Top 10, SF Bay Guardian, Dec 2008
Gawker Artists
DC’s – Dennis Cooper’s Blog – The Paintings of Brendan Lott, April 2008
sf360.org – Screen Test, San Jose, June 2008
Smyles and Fish, Cover, Nov 2007
ArtWeek, Feburary 2006
SF Weekly, House of Tudor, April 16-22, 2003
Cinema Close Ups radio interview 90.7 KALX May 25, 2002
Punk Planet March/April 2001
Eurounderground.com
The Stranger, Seattle April 1996