Brett Walker
1697 23rd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
makeartbrettwalker@gmail.com
www.everybodydoesntlikebrettwalker.com
(415) 889-3753

Selected Exhibitions

2010	Alternate Selves – Lexington, KY – Lexington Art League

2009	Rattle My Cage – Seattle, WA – Vermillion Superheroes – Chiang Mai, Thailand – Look At This Gallery Call and Response – Seattle, WA – Crawl Space Gallery The CVG Show – Bremerton, WA – Collective Visions Gallery

2008

Vertical Hold – Ellensburg, WA – Gallery One Mass Consumption – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center New American Talent: 23 – Austin, TX – Arthouse at the Jones Center (catalog) On, Of, and About Paper – Orange County, CA – Center for Contemporary Art (catalog) International Video Art Festival – Naples, Italy, MagMart

2007	Punch + Soil International Juried Exhibition – Seattle, WA – SOIL Gallery Detroit International Film and Video Festival – Detroit, MI – Museum of New Art This is/not a Room Full of Peanuts – Seattle, WA – Artists Reformation Project Mass Mass Media – Seattle, WA – 911 Media Arts Center

2006	McSweeney’s Wholphin Film Screening – Seattle, WA Drawing 101 – Seattle, WA – Artists Reformation Project Senior Thesis Index – Portland, ME – Institute for Contemporary Art The Projection Walk: Neighborhood Watch – Tampa, FL

2004	Living Green: Examining Sustainability – Portland, ME – Institute for Contemporary Art Showered in Sound – Portland, ME – SPACE Gallery Merit Scholarship Show – Portland, ME – Maine College of Art

Education
University of California, Berkeley – projected graduation spring 2012
Master of Fine Arts degree, Department of Art Practice

Maine College of Art – graduated May 14, 2006 with honors
Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Photography, honor roll student

Art Institute of Seattle – graduated December 19, 2002
Associates of Applied Arts degree in Commercial Photography from the School of Design

Professional Experience
Competitive Beardsman – Competed in the North American Beard and Moustache Competition, winning second place in the Full Natural Beard with Styled Moustache category, July 2008
Competitive Barista – Competed in regional and national level barista competitions, 2007-2009
Darkroom Mentor – Youth in Focus – Seattle, WA, January 2007 – December 2007
Guest Lecturer – Upgrade! Seattle, 911 Media Arts Center – Seattle, WA, December 14, 2006
Student Teacher – Peter Shellenberger’s Intro to Photography Class – Maine College of Art, Fall 2005
Intern – Benham Gallery – Seattle, WA, 2002

Grants and Awards
ArtistTrust Grant for Artist Projects, 2009
Maine College of Art Talent Award Scholarship, 2003

Residencies
Pace House – Stonington, ME, 2010

Bibliography
Young, Spencer. Converse Play, “Talk: Brett Walker” 4/28/10
Hackett, Regina. Another Bouncing Ball, Seattle, WA, “Brett Walker – The Meaning of Emerging” 12/23/09
Hackett, Regina. Another Bouncing Ball, Seattle, WA, “Love Children Free Themselves from the Cross” 4/7/09
Graves, Jen. The Stranger SLOG, Seattle, WA, “Soon-to-Be Hanging” 3/24/09
Griffin, Elizabeth. Journal Newspaper, Seattle, WA, “Pick of the crop coffee baristas succeed at regional competition” 2/2/09
Graves, Jen. The Stranger, Seattle, WA, “Stranger Suggests” 12/12 – 12/19/2007