Iona Rozeal Brown Bio

Born: Washington D.C. 1966

EDUCATION

2002
M.F.A. Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

1999
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, B.F.A., Painting

San Francisco Art Institute, Valedictorian, Deans Honor List

1996
Pratt Institute, Honor List, Brooklyn, NY

1995
Montgomery County Community College, Honor List, Takoma Park, MD

1991
B.S. Kinesiological Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004
“ a3 the revolution: televised, terrorized, sexualized,” Caren Golden
Fine Art, NYC (Sept 23- Oct 23)

“ iona rozeal brown,” Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (October)

“ iona rozeal brown,” G Fine Art, Washington, DC (October)

“Bling BlAsian Bling,” The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA (two
person exhibition with Stella Lai), April 8 – May 8

“ Matrix 152,” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
(March 4 – June 13, 2004)

“ a3... “black on both sides,” Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta,
GA (January 22 – May 14) (catalog)

2003
“a3…”black on both sides,” solo installation at Scope Art Fair, Miami, FL

2002
“a3…”black on both sides,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

“a3…”black on both sides,” Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA

2000
“homecoming,” Pavillion Fine Arts, Takoma Park, MD

1999
“many faces,” Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995
“iona 101,” Gallery Upstairs, Takoma Park, MD

“Soul Tapping,” St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church,
Washington, DC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004
“ Notorious Impropriety,” curated with Franklin Sirmans, Samson Projects,
Boston, MA, (September 17, 2004)

2003
“ Pop Rocks,” curated by Daria Brit Shapiro & Caren Golden, Caren Golden Fine Art, NYC

“ New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art,“ Smithsonian Institute, Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture,Washington, DC (September 29 – April 25)

“BlackBelt,” Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, Oct. 2003 – Jan. 4, 2004
traveling to Santa Monica Museum of Art, (opening Dec. 10, 2004)
(catalogue)

2003
“Transcontinental,” New Image Art, Hollywood, CA (Oct. 18-Nov. 8)

“ Census 03,” Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC
(August 15 – October 6)

“OnLine,” curated by Charlie Finch, George Negroponte & Robert Storr,
Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY (May 29-August 15)

“Skin Deep,” Numark Gallery, Washington
D.C. (March 14- April 26)

“Americas Remixed,” curated by Franklin
Sirmans, Comune di Milano,
Milan, Italy

“New Wave,” Kravets/Wehby gallery, curated by Franklin Sirmans, NYC

“International Paper,” UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
January 25 - April 27, 2003 (catalog)

“Group Exhibition,” La Raza Galeria Posada, Sacramento, CA,
November 15 – December 21, 2002

2002-3
“Mass Appeal: The Art Object and Hip Hop Culture,” curated by Franklin
Sirmans. Traveling exhibition with venues at Gallery 101 Ottawa, Canada (August 29 – Oct. 12, 2002); Arts Intercultural, Montreal, Quebec (March 5 – April 5, 2003); The Khyber Centre for the Arts,
Halifax, Nova Scotia (May 12 – June 7, 2003); The Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick (Sept. 12 – Oct. 26, 2003)

2002
“Champion,” curated by Sheldon LaPierre,Zinc Gallery,Stockholm,Sweden

M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2001
FFWD Contemporary Art Fair, Hotel Nash, Room curated by Franklin Sirmans, Miami Beach, FL

Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999
Frenzy: Artists Initiates=d Auction and Art Sale to Benefit the Luggage Store Gallery/509 Cultural Center, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Future Shock: New Langton Arts, Live and Silent Auction, San Francisco

Skowhegan Film Festival, Skowhegan, ME. (video screening)

B.F.A. Show 1999, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Radical Performance Fest, Somart Gallery. San Francisco, CA

Zyzzyva in Black and White, Diego Rivera Gallery, curated by Naomie Kramer & Howard Junker, San Francisco, CA with publication in “The Journal of West Coast Writers and Artists”

1998
Ultra Down, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Afro Solo, Z Space Studio, San Francisco, CA

Portraiture, The Abstract Zone, Emeryville, CA

Bused, Crucible Cell Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Annual Juried Luggage Show, The Luggage Store Gallery, curated by Bill Berksen, San Francisco, CA

GRANTS/AWARDS

2004
Matrix Artist, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

2002
Blair Dickinson Award, Yale University

2001
Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale University

1999
Camille Hanks Crosby Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and
Sculpture

1998-9
Honor Student Painting Studio, San Francisco Art Institute

Supplemental Materials Award, San Francisco Art Institute

1997-8
Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute

Student Grant, San Francisco Art Institute

1996-7
Merit Scholarship, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Presidential Grant, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1994-5
Women’s Community Art Award, Montgomery County Community
College, Takoma Park, MD

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