Mia Brownell : Resume

MIA BROWNELL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022
Zoonotic Tonic
Friesen + Lantz Fine Art, Sun Valley, ID

Garden Variety
MAPSpace, Port Chester, NY

2018
Mia Brownell: Plate to Platelets
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

Plate to Platelets: and other things that travel and bind

Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities, Univ of CO, Denver

2015

At The Still Point, There The Dance Is

Lemmerman Gallery, Jersey City, NJ

2014

Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting

J. Cacciola Gallery, New York, NY

Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting: Traveling Ten-Year Survey

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting: Traveling Ten-Year Survey

Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntington, PA

Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting: Traveling Ten-Year Survey

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

2013

Food Physics

James Beard Foundation, New York, NY

2010

Stomach Acid Dreams

Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Mia Brownell: Paintings

Museum of Arts and Culture, New Rochelle, NY

2008

Adventures of a Reluctant Omnivore

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

Adventures of a Reluctant Omnivore

ArtGate Gallery, New York, NY

2007

Proteomics

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

Pears & Polypeptides

Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA

2006

Complexities of the Garden

Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY

2005

Mia Brownell: New Paintings

Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

2003

Zymotic Tonic

Duke University Union Brown Gallery, Durham, NC

1998

Prelude to a Stomach Acid Dream

Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY

1995

Internal Icons

Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Coup d'Esprit, Austin,TX

2023
The Inevitability of Abscence, Culture Lab LIC, Long Lisland City, New York, NY
As Is, ART06870, Old Greenwhich, CT
In Medias Res, URSA Gallery, Bridgeport, CT
Festive Holidy show, Vanda Gallery, New Rochelle, NY

2022
Extraordinary Still Life, Visual Arts Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Skeptical Realism, Artspace, Richmond, VA (Two person exhibition)
Among Friends, Equity Gallery, NYC

2021
Luscious. Tasty. Delicious., Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY

2020
Pollinators, Riverside Park and Art Students League of New York, NYC (on line)
Pop Up Art Party, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (on line)

2019

Skeptical Realism, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (Two person exhibition)
Foodie Fever, Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, NYC Curated by Lombardi
Collection at Rose Hill, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

2018
Sour Milk, Greenwich, CT. Curated by Ben Quesnel and Christine Stiver
Real Unreal, Western Connecticut State University
Among Friends, DUMBO open studios, Brooklyn, NY
Lost Pollinators, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO
Take Home a Nude, NYAA, New York, NY

2017

Stand Still, Allouche Gallery, New York, NY

Take Home a Nude, NYAA, New York, NY

2016

Sloan Fine Art Salon, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, IL

Faculty Exhibition, Southern CT State University, New Haven

2015

Conventional Biopolymers, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO

Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY

Murmuration Collective, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Visualized, University of Connecticut, Storrs

2014

Friesen Gallery. Sun Valley, ID

Peristalsis, Air Circulation. Brooklyn, NY

Art in Embassy Program. Hong Kong, China

2013

Natural Selections, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Food Physics, Center for Geometry and Physics, SUNY Stony Brook, NY

Science Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science, D.C.

Eye on the Storm, Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport,Curated by D. Lombardi

Eye on the Storm, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, FL,Curated by D. Lombardi Undertow, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Cut Paste Sew, Gallery 138, New York, NY

2012

Young Masters Art Prize, Gallery 27, London, UK

Young Masters Art Prize, Sphinx Fine Art, London, UK

Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY

It's Your Nature, Hans Weiss Newspace, Manchester.Classen-Sullivan

Legitimate Vagina, Miranda Arts Project Space, Port Chester, NY

Awakened, AFA Gallery, New York, NY

Love (or not), Temporary Contemporary, Asbury Park, NJ.

Zooey, Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY. Curated by Lesley Heller Midsummer Night's Dream, Gallery 138, New York, NY

Scope, Presented by Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Unnatural Variations, Akus Gallery, Willimantic. Elizabeth Peterson

Wild At Heart, Thinkspace Gallery, Culver City, CA

2011

Lush Life, Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA

Scope, Presented by Sloan Fine Art, Miami, FL

Horsplay, UB Art Gallery (SUNY), Buffalo, NY. Curated by Bill Maynes

Plus 1, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Mia Brownell, Mira Hecht, Jason Rohlf, Judy a Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL

Kin, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Food, Laverne Krause Gallery, Eugene, OR. Curated by Allison Carruth

Ten years, Grimshaw-Gudewicz Gallery, Fall River, MA. Curated by K.Hancock

2010

Girls Just Want to Have Funds, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY.

Highlights from the Collection, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Nature/Culture, Castel Gallery, College of New Rochelle

Where Lies Beauty, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT. Curated by C.Roznoy Aldrich Museum Radius Exhibition, Ridgefield Guild of Artisits, CT

Amuse Bouche, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Just Art 2010, Twelve 21, New York, NY. (New York Civil Liberties Union)

8 Eyes, Jennifer Jane Gallery, New Haven, CT. Curated by Steven DiGiovanni CIGE, Beijing, China. Presented by Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague, CZ

AAF, London, UK. Presented by Bo Lee Gallery

Red Dot, New York, NY. Presented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY Black and White, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

Contemporary Still Life, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ

Alumni Art Exhibition, Zamoiski Segal Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Close to Nature, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK

2009

A Taste of Young New York, Dvorak Sec Contemporary, Prague, CZ

AAF, Amsterdam, NL. Presented by Bo Lee Gallery

Art London, London, UK. Presented by Bo Lee Gallery

Moments of Macabre, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath, UK

Potluck Series, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY

Germ Welfare, The Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ Treasure Chest, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

From the Studio, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

2008

How To Cook A Wolf, Dinter Fine Art, New York, NY

Summer Salon, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY

Leave Nature to Nature, Artgate, New York, NY

Pretty Things: Confronting the Sensuous, Artspace, New Haven. Curator:Pepe Local Growing Conditions, Westchester Arts Council, Curator: Kenise Barnes The Westchester Biennial, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY.

US Department of State, Art in Embassies Program, Port Louis, Mauritius

2007

US Department of State, Art in Embassies Program,Port Louis, Mauritius Punchbowl, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL. Presented by Gallery 138, NY, NY

Flow Art Fair, Miami, FL. Presented by Kenise Barnes Fine Art

2006

YEA! (Young Emerging Artists), Westchester Arts Council, White Plains, NY. Modern Edens: Permutations of Paradise, Spur Projects, Portola Valley,CA

Survive/Thrive/Alive, Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery,Bronx, NY

SCSU women in the Arts, Lyman Gallery, New Haven

Scope New York, Art Fair, New York, New York Presented by Metaphor

Seven, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY. Curator: Lynn Stien

2005

Caspar David Séance, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

Synthesis and Distribution: Experiments in Collaboration, Pace University, NYC Reality Show, Kenise Barns Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

Faculty Show, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven

Scope Hamptons, Art Fair, Metaphor and Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn

Flash Art Fair, Milan, Italy Presented by Jack the Pelican Presents

Art Chicago, Presented by Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY

She Blinded Me With Science, Gallery 138, New York, NY

2004

Breathing Space, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY

Media Loft Gallery, New Rochelle, New York.

Faculty Exhibition, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven

Shifting Affinities,Yale University School of Art, New Haven.

Second Nature, Fish Tank Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. Curator: Linda Dennis Fabrication, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA

2003

White Columns, Curated Artist Registry

Samson Fine Arts, New York, New York. Curator: Maeve Gyenes

Faculty Plus, Southeast Louisiana University

Flat File Exhibition, artSPACE, New Haven

2002

Claiming the Spirit. Brandeis University, Waltham, MA

Food. Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, New York.

Works on Paper. ArtSpace, New Haven, Connecticut.

The Nature of Things. Gallery 138, New York, New York. Curator: B. Maxwell

Symbology. Times Square Lobby Gallery, New York, New York.

Insight/OnSight. Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, CT. (catalogue)

Big Orbit ten years of spin. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo. Curator: Gerald Mead. Works on Paper. The Park Avenue Armory. Presented by Samson Fine Art, NYC Zg Gallery. Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois. Curator: Myra Casis.

Planet Earth. New Gallery at the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida. Holding Pattern. Grimshaw-Gudewicz Art Gallery, MA. Curator: Hancock.

2001

Reflections. NCC Gallery, Norwalk, Connecticut. Curator: Susan Hardesty. Drawing Today. Arons Art Gallery, Hamden, Connecticut.

Drawing National. Montgomery College, Rockville, Maryland.

Final Thoughts. Gallery in the Wood, South Windsor, CT

Grrrls!. Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven. Curator: M Kruck and L Soutter. Third National. Studio 4 West Gallery, Piermont, New York.

Environmental Injustices. Gallery of Social/Political Art, Boston.

2000

Untitled (space) opens the flatfile. Untitled (space), New Haven, Connecticut Unknown Generation X. Danforth Gallery,Curator: Mark Bessire.

4 x 4: 4 Mediums by 4 Artists. Chautauqua Center, Curator: Cynnie Gaasch. Fabulous Food. NCC Gallery, Norwalk. Curator: Susan Hardesty.

By the Palette, For the Palate. University of Minnesota Alumni Show.

Alcazar Gallery, Baltimore School for the Arts

Culture of Class, Decker Gallery at the Maryland Institute, College of Art

1999

Fire & Ice: Nature and Technology. Attleboro Museum, Massachusetts.

Tackling Meaning. Red Chair Gallery, Kansas Illusions.

Kleist Center of Art and Drama, Cleveland, Ohio.

Apocalypse. Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York. American Sentences. Sponsored Reality, Union City, New Jersey.

Stills in Life, Appleton Art Center, Appleton, Wisconsin.

The Feast, Fine Art Celebrating Food. South Windsor, CT

You are what you eat. Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill

1998

Constant Cravings. Constance Lindolm Fine Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Art for Environmental Advocacy. University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. The Inanimate: 12 Artists on Still Life. Burchfield-Penney Art Center

1997

Biohazard. Walter/McBean Gallery at the San Francisco Art Institute

Remix. MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York

Consum(e)ation: Food, Fetishes, and Fantasy. Tufts University Art Gallery, MA Artist Residency Exchange, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT

Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA

Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT

Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT

National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC

State University of New York, Buffalo, NY

University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT

Wellington Management, Boston, MA

SELECT AWARDS AND HONORS

2022 NYSCA ArtsWestchester Individual Artist Grant
2020 City of Geneva, NY, Public Art Commission.
2018 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist (October).

2015 US Department of State, Art In Embassies Program, Hong Kong.

2014 Santa Fe Art Institute, Food Justice Residency. (Not able to attend)

2013 GlogauAir Residency, Berlin, Germany

2012 University of Connecticut Health Center, Public Art Commission.

2012 New York Foundation for the Arts, MARK Program.

2010 New York Foundation for the Arts, Strategic Opportunity Stipend.

2010 The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Radius Program.

2009 American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist (January).

2008 New York Foundation for the Arts, Strategic Opportunity Stipend.

2007 US Department of State, Art In Embassies Program.

2006 New York Foundation for the Arts, Strategic Opportunity Stipend.

2005 New York Foundation for the Arts, Strategic Opportunity Stipend.

2003 White Columns, Curated Artist Registry.

2000 Millay Colony for the Arts Fellowship.

EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Art, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT

AWARDS FROM CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY

2022 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2022 Faculty Creative Acitvity and Research Grant, SCSU
2021 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2020 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2019 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2018 Sabbatical leave
2018 Connecticut State University Research Grant
2018 Faculty Creative Acitvity and Research Grant, SCSU
2017 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2016 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2015 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2015 Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University

2014 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2013 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2011 Creative Activity Award Program, Southern Connecticut State University
2011 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2011 Sabbatical leave

2010 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2009 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2008 Promotion to Professor

2008 Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University

2008 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2007 Faculty Scholar Award, Southern Connecticut State University

2007 Board of Trustees Award for Research, S. Connecticut State University

2007 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2007 Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University

2006 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2005 Connecticut State University Research Grant

2005 Sabbatical leave

2003 Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor

2003 Research Reassigned Time, Southern Connecticut State University

2001 - 2013 Faculty Development Grant(s), SCSU

EDUCATION

1995 MFA Painting, State University of New York, Buffalo

1993 BFA Painting, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

1993 Minor Ethics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh

Studied Painting, Parsons School of Design, Paris

Studied Printmaking, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Studied Philosophy, The American University of Paris

Studied Painting, Maryland Institute, College of Art

Studied Dance, Peabody Institute, Johns Hopkins University

High School, Baltimore School for the Arts

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Brownell, Mia. The Ocean State Review. University of Rhode Island, 2018. Featured and on cover.

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Priority, C. “10 Point Profile: Mia Brownell” Ladder & Key. Web post January 7, 2018

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Rudell, Rebecca. "Raw Beauty: The Socially Conscious art of Mia Brownell" At Buffalo Magazine. Summer Issue 2016. Pg 22-27

Kerry, John (Secretary of State) and Hart, Clifford (Consul General). Art in Embassies, Hong Kong. 2015 Pgs 6-9. Catalog.

Brownell, Mia. "Launching Your Art Career: A Practical Guide for Artists" by Alix Sloan. p. 115. Contributor

--. New York Times. Image published in calendar of Connecticut Metropolitan Section. October 26, 2014. pg 9.

Dunne, Susan. "SCSU Teacher Exhibits 'Delicious, Disgusting' Paintings" Hartford Courant. October 14, 2014.

Nord, Kristin. "Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting: Mia Brownell Mixes art and Science" Art Scope Magazine. September/October 2014. pg 48-49

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Gouveia, Georgette. "Still Full of Life" WAG Magazine. July 2014

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--. "Genetically Modified Organisms: GMOs & Wellness" SVPN Magazine. Spotlight feature pages 140-141. April/May 2014

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Docimo, Michelle. "Housatonic Museum of Art Exhibits 'Eye on the Storm" Artes Magazine. July 26, 2013

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--. "Unnatural Variations: A Playful Look at Science and Art at ECSU" Hartford Courant. March 26, 2012

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Kuspit, Donald. "The New Naturalism" Artnet Magazine. November 22, 2010

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Spoor, Nathan. "Mia Brownell: Stomach Acid Dreams" Hi-Fructose Magazine. August 24, 2010

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Tracey O'Shaughnessy. "Where Lies Beauty" Republican-American. Tuesday, June 29, 2010 section 3D

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--. Carnegie Mellon Today. January 2009, Vol.6 No 1

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Lee, Phil. “Mia Brownell”, Chicago Art Journal, (University of Chicago. Michael Tymkiw and Christina Yu, Editors). 2007 Issue. Featured Artist.

--. “Art in Embassies Exhibition” (Port Louis, Mauritius: United States Embassy, 2007)

--. “ Catch it while you can.” Washingtonian Magazine, December 2007 Issue. Image.

Doherty, Donna. “Art with a Twist.” New Haven Register, November 25, 2007. Featured.

Doherty, Donna. “Hartt’s Best.” Hartford Courant, November 18, 2007.

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--. “ 2 SCSU professors honored by board.” New Haven Register, August 2, 2007.

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BOOKS

Contributor, Hi-Fructose Box Set 4, 2018

Contributor, Launching Your Art Career: A Practical Guide for Artists by Alix Sloan. p. 115.

Contributor, 100 Creative Drawing Ideas. Compiled and edited by Anna Held Audette (Shambhala Publications, Inc. Boston, MA.) p. 158-9. Animated by a Photo Collage Contributor, 2008

Desk Diary, United States Department of State (Global Publishing Solutions, Vienna Austria). Featuring Art in Embassies Program exhibiting artists.

FILM

Featured in 'Where Lies Beauty' a documentrary film by Carina Tautu. The Mattatuck Museum commissioned this film to document the Josephine McMillen and Lois Livingston McMillen Exhibit featuring the dynamic art of five women artists. The film reveals the aesthetic and intellectual instigations behind each of the artists’ creations as well as the precise and painstaking detail required in the art-making process. The artists are: Leah Joo, Susan Madasci, Mia Brownell, Afarin Rahmanifar, and Eleanor Miller.

ARTIST LECTURES, PANELS, JUDGE & CRITIC

2024 Artisit Talk, Association of Medical Illustrators Conference, Rochester, NY
2022 Artist Talk, Future Histories Studio, SUNY Stony Brook
2019 Artist Talk, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2018 Interview, Fulginiti Pavilion for Bioethics and Humanities, Denver, CO
2016 Artist Talk, SCSU School of Business, New Haven, CT

2016 Artist Talk, SUNY Potsdam, NY

2016 Artist Talk, Life Drawing Montmartre, Paris, France

2016 Artist Talk, Academy of Aerospace and Engineering, Windsor, CT

2015 Keynote Speaker, CT Art Education Association Conference, Cromwell

2014 Artist Talk, Board of Education, Greenwich, CT

2014 Artist Talk, Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon, PA

2014 Artist Talk, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ

2013 Artist Talk, SUNY Stony Brook, NY

2012 Artist Talk, Sacred Heart University, Trumbull, CT

2011 Artist Talk, Lyme Academy of Art, Old Lyme, CT

2011 Panelist, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT

2011 Juror, Mill Gallery, Guildford Art Center, CT