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brian bartz
brian bartz
b. 1994
Education
2020
UC Berkeley, MFA Art Practice
,
certificate in New Media (BCNM)
2017
Reed College, BA Studio Art
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2024
Blood Sweat and Tears (with Quinn Isaacs), Project B, Rutgers Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
2021
Clipping, UW Parkside Foundation Gallery, Kenosha, WI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Zephyr Coating, 120710, Berkeley, CA
Diaphane, Soldes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2024
A Light That Cuts Across, Glue Projects (Small Works SF), San Francisco, CA
In The Group Chat, Collapse Contemporary, Pilsen, Chicago, IL
Open Door, Confloptus, Oakland, CA
Bird Culture, Pallas, San Francisco, CA
2023
Alchemical Transformations, Well Well Projects, Portland, OR
Pyramid Scheme, Bass and Reiner, San Francsisco, CA
Slow Connection (with Kelley O’Leary and Tino Gonzales), Pallas Gallery, San Francisco, CA
If I'd Known Then, Thacher Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Aggregate Animated Shorts, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
A Between, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2021
50th Annual, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
2019
Murphy Cadogan Exhibition, SOMarts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
Laughter And Tears, Embark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Support the Tropes, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA
Repeat Three Times, Worth-Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017
Aggregates, Feldenheimer Gallery, Portland, OR
Reed Arts Week: Borders, Feldenheimer Gallery, Portland, OR
HPC, Reed Studios, Portland, OR
Awards & Fellowships
2019
San Francisco Foundation Cadogan Award
Eisner Prize for excellence in creative practice
2018
Berkeley Center For New Media (BCNM) summer research fellowship
2017
Reed College Commendation for Excellence in Scholarship
Reed College Summer Internship Award
2016
Kaspar T. Locher Summer Creative Fellowship
Curation
2024-2025
Co-Curator, Living Room Light Exchange Season 10
2023-2024
Co-Curator, Living Room Light Exchange Season 9
Residencies
2024
Winslow House Projects
2023
Pallas Gallery Artist in Residence, San Francsico, CA
2021
Kala Artist Residency, Berkeley, CA
2019
ACRE Artist Residency, Steuben, WI
2017
Resident Artist, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
Press & Publications
2021
BAMPFA MFA 50th Brochure
Terrain: Art & Crisis in Downtown Oakland (as contributing author),
written about in artforum
2019
Art Practical: Scenic Overlook: Brian Bartz's Techno-Plant Systems
Berkeley Center For New Media: Summer Dispatch
Root Division MFA Now Archive Publication
Embark Gallery: Laughter and Tears Catalog
2017
Reed College Creative Review
Talks
2021
Lost Information, Projected Transparency: artist talk
Berkeley Art Musuem 50th annual MFA exhibition artist talks
Teaching
2025
Adjunct Faculty, Senior Design Projects, University of San Francisco, CA
Adjunct Faculty, Digital Media Design, University of San Francisco, CA
2024
Adjunct Faculty, Digital Media Design, University of San Francisco, CA
2023
Adjunct Faculty, Interaction Design, University of San Francisco, CA
Adjunct Faculty, Visual Communications II, University of San Francisco, CA
2020
Lecturer, Digital Photography: Foundations, UC Berkeley, CA
2019
Graduate Student Instructor, Critical Practices, UC Berkeley, CA
2017
Graduate Student Instructor, Digital Photography: Foundations, UC Berkeley, CA