Brett Walker
1697 23rd Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94122
makeartbrettwalker@gmail.com
www.everybodydoesntlikebrettwalker.com
(415) 889-3753
Education
University of California, Berkeley – graduated May 18th, 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, Photography, honor roll student
Art Institute of Seattle – graduated December 19, 2002
Associates of Applied Arts degree, Commercial Photography, The School of Design
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Self Titled – San Francisco, CA – FourBarrel
2007 Mass Mass Media – Seattle, WA – 911 Media Arts Center
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings
2013
The Kids Are All Right – Andover, MA – Addison Gallery of American Art
The Kids Are All Right – Greensboro, NC – Weatherspoon Art Museum
2012
NurtureArt Benefit 2012 – New York, NY – Charles Bank Gallery
The Kids Are All Right – Sheboygan, WI – John Michael Kohler Arts Center
University of California, Berkeley MFA Graduate Exhibition – Berkeley, CA – Berkeley Art Museum
2011
Film Screening – Portland, ME – Whitney Art Works
Maine College of Art Alumni Exhibition – Portland, ME – Institute for Contemporary Art
MFA Class Exhibition – Berkeley, CA – Worth Ryder Gallery
Film Screening, San Francisco, CA – Artists’ Television Access
Artists for Freedom – San Francisco, CA – Somarts
2010
Alternate Selves – Lexington, KY – Lexington Art League
GoldenState – San Francisco, CA – RVCA
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
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
Grants and Awards
Calder Hayes/Tevis Jacobs, Berkeley Art Museum Council Founders Award, 2012
University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Parent Grant, 2011
University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Division Parent Grant, 2010
ArtistTrust, Grant for Artist Projects, 2009
Maine College of Art, Talent Award Scholarship, 2003
Teaching and Lecture
Visiting Artist Lecture – Stanford University, Fall 2012
Art 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking – University of California, Berkeley, Summer 2012
Art 8: Introduction to Visual Thinking (Under John McNamara) – University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2012
Art 26: The Moving Image (Under Greg Neimeyer) – University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2010
Darkroom Mentor – Youth in Focus – Seattle, WA, January 2007 – December 2007
Guest Lecturer – Upgrade! Seattle, 911 Media Arts Center – Seattle, WA, December 2006
Intro to Photography (Under Peter Shellenberger) – Maine College of Art, Fall 2005
Residencies
John Michael Kohler Arts Center – Exhibition Artist-in-Residence – Sheboygan, WI, 2012
The Stephen 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
