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