Brian Hegepeth has blended the concerns and methods of Pop, Conceptual, and appropriation art with craft-making and popular culture to create his own unique iconography, often controversial and always engaging. His work explores contemporary obsessions with sex and desire; race and gender; and celebrity, media, commerce, and fame. A survey of his diverse output demonstrates the alternately political, prosaic, spiritual, and crass approaches by which Hedgepeth examines life in all its gory details, mapping the human arc between life and death.

Born 1970, lives and works in New York

Education

1997
MFA, University of California, Davis, CA
1994
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1992
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD


Awards

35th Publication Design Competition, 2005
Gold Medal, Art Directors Club 79th Annual Awards, 2004
Silver Medal, Art Directors Club 79th Annual Awards, 2004
Merit Award, The Society of Publication Designers, 2004
New York State Council on the Arts, Sponsored Project, 2000
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Cintas Foundation, 2001
Awards in the Visual Arts, Art Matters, Inc. 1999
New York Foundation for the Arts, Art Matters, Inc.1999
National Endowment for the Arts, 1998
National Studio Program at P.S.1., Long Island City, NY,1998

Selected Exhibitions

2009

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, GB, 27 November
Tate Britain, London, GB, 31 October
Artsonje Center, Seoul, KR, 12 November - 12 February 2010
Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, JP, May
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, JP, 23 May - 29 July, travelling show
Hauser &Wirth, Zürich, CH, 24 January - 7 March

2008

Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, GB, 24 September - 16 November, travels to Hiroshima 2009
Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London, GB, 30 June - 16 November
79A Brick Lane, London, GB
Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, IT

2007
Stasis/Front, Salon 94, New York - double solo show
Stasis/Front, The Project, New York - double solo show
Exactly 29 Days (32 Days), Medium, St. Barth - French West Indies, residency and solo exhibition
Wrong Number, Jack Hanley, San Francisco
Georg Kargl, Vienna


2006
USA Today, Royal Academy of Arts, London (Oct. '06)
Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, curated by Matthew Higgs
The Swan Is Very Peaceful, Richard Telles Fine Art, LA, (July/Aug, 2006)
Jack Hanley, San Francisco, CA, (solo, June '06)
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Day For Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Le Retour de la Colonne Durutti, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany, curated by Gyonata Bonvincini
The Armory Show, New York, NY (White Columns, NY and Jack Hanley, San Francisco)


2005
Prosopopoeia, HOTEL, London.
Liste, Basel Art Fair.
White Room, White Columns, New York, NY.
Art2102, Los Angeles, CA.
The Armory Show, New York, NY.
Trade, White Columns, New York, NY.


2004
Bulletin Board, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Brian Hedgepeth, Drawings and Polaroids, Richard Dadd Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Rebus, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2002
Art Point, Midway Contemporary Art - Miami, FL
The Stray Show, Midway Contemporary Art - Chicago, IL
Multiplicity, Midway Contemporary Art, St.Paul, MN
2001
Being There, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Artist of the Month, April 2001, Artists Space Gallery, New York, NY


2000
Faculty 2000, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Conversation Piece, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA -
The Future of the Body, Richmond Art Center, Oakland, CA


1999
Bring in the Actual Photo, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA -


1998
All of Me, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Camouflage, Lanai Motel/Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Covert Pleasures, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Spoon Full of Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA


1997
Introductions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
New Work, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Deep Forest, Four Walls, San Francisco, CA


1995
Big Bundle of Joy, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA


1994
Skowhegan Annual Exhibition


1992
Word and Image, Bauhouse Gallery, Baltimore MD


1991
Art Gallery of Fell's Point, Baltimore, MD - "8th National Miniature Show"


Bibliography


2007
Morgan Falconer, 'Brian Hedgepeth at Salon 94 and The Project, New York', Frieze, September 2007


2006
Glen Helfand, 'Brian Hedgepeth at Jack Hanley', Artforum, Sept. 06
Glen Helfand, Art on Paper, Sept. 2006
Peter Eleey, '2006 Whitney Biennial', Frieze, Summer 06
Cedar Lewisohn, 'Debut: Brian Hedgepeth at Hotel, London', ArtReview, April 06


2005
D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY - "Bebe le Strange"
Perry Rubenstein, New York, NY - "Sticks and Stones"
'Trade', Gay City News, March.
Roberta Smith, New York Times, "Making an Entrance at Any Age", May 6.
James Gardner, "Bebe Le Strange", New York Post, July 23rd.


2002
Aaron van Dyke, 'Multiplicity', New Art Examiner, June.


1999
David Hunt, 'Bring in the Actual Photo', Flash Art, September.


1998
'When urgency Becomes Form at four Walls Gallery', Artweek, March.


1997
Kenneth Baker, 'Singular Colours with Ranbows of Meaning' San Francisco Chronicle, June.
'Hair Piece-Introductions at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco Bay Guardian, July.