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Education

2011
MFA, Painting and Printmaking, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2006
BFA, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Crest Foods, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY 

2020
No Living, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

2017
Where the Fire Started, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Imaginary Friend, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia, PA

2016
The Living Room, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

2015
Family Portraits
, Hood Gallery, Brooklyn NY

Selected Group and Two Person Exhibitions

2023
Presentation for Milano Drawing Week in collaboration with Ramo Collection, Zero Gallery, Milan, Italy
Lush, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
The Death of Beauty, Sargents Daughters, Los Angeles, CA

2022
Blind Field, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Inside Out, Scroll, New York, NY
Benefit Art Auction 2022, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
Acid Garden, Charles Moffett Gallery, New York, NY

2021
Brandi Twilley, Platform by David Zwirner, Online Presentation
Christmas in July, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY
Time Takes a Cigarette, Josh Lilly Gallery, London, UK

2020
Interiors: Hello from the Living Room, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Small Joys, Sargents Daughters, Online Presentation

2019
La Plage, Zero Gallery, Milan, Italy
777, 444 Club, Brooklyn, NY
Garden, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
kNow you Won’t, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY
Practice, Vacation, New York, NY
Dark Spring, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

2018
Vision of the other Worlds, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
After Exit, Smart Objects, Landers, CA
On Anxiety, Cleve Carney Museum, Chicago, IL
In Her Own Image: Women’s Self Portraiture 1900-2017, Concord Center for the Arts, Concord, MA
Painted Faces, Motherbrook Community Center, Dedham, MA
Herding Cats Again, Cat Box Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2017
NSFW: Female Gaze, The Museum of Sex, New York, NY
Birdy in Chains and Nails, Brandi & Rebecca Twilley, Bible, New York, NY
Nasty Woman, Knockdown Center, Queens, NY

2016
XXXmASS, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY
I Want to Believe, Bomb Pop Up Productions, New york, NY
Home, Function/Dysfunction, Make Believe, Hewitt Gallery of Art, New York, NY
Costermonger, Belmacz Gallery, London, UK

2015
Shoulders of Champagne, Lord Ludd, Philadelphia, PA
The Landscape Changes 30 Times, Anahita Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Rebecca Twilley and Brandi Twilley, A.k.a. Gallery, Oklahoma City, OK
Not Alone, equestrian portraits in collaboration with Jennifer Rubell, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK

2014
Diptychs, in collaboration with Jennifer Rubell, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
Aloe, Hood Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY

Awards/Honors

2023
Visiting Artist, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2022
Haven Foundation Grant, Brewer, Maine

2020.
Visiting Artist, Purchase College, Purchase, NY

2018
Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Quebec, Canada

2017
Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Visiting Artist, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2011
Blair Dickinson Memorial Prize, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2010
Robert Schoelkopf Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Barry Schactman Scholarship, Yale University, New Haven, CT

2009
Momentum Painting Prize, Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, OKC, OK

2002
Best of Fine Arts Department, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA

Selected Press

2023

Bryan Martin, “Brandi Twilley’s Grocery Store Therapeutics,” Frieze Magazine, New York, NY

Emily Colucci, “Brandi Twilley Memorializes the Home of Rock Bottom (Prices) at Sargent’s Daughters,” Filthy Dreams, New York, NY

David Hiroshi Jager, “Painter Brandi Twilley, a Kind of Midwestern Dickens, Depicts the Workaday Lives of Blue-Collar Americans With Searing Vividness,” The New York Sun, New York, NY

Annika Olsen, “Artists to Watch This Month: 10 Solo Gallery Exhibitions to Seek Out in September in New York,” Artnet, New York, NY

Editors: Must See pick, “Crest Foods,” Art Forum, New York, NY

2022

Brainard, Carey, “Brandi Twilley,” Yale University Radio, New Haven, CT

2021

Maggie, Levine, “Working with Memory,” Artwrite, New York, NY

Artnet Editors, “Feeling Overwhelmed? 16 Artists Share Their Self Care Tips,” Artnet, New York, NY

Katya Kazakina, “How David Zwirner’s Click-to-Buy E-Commerce Company Evolved From a Goodwill Project Into a Money-Making Machine,” Artnet, New York, NY

2020

Caroline Chandler, “Interview: Brandi Twilley and Life in the Studio,” Two Coats of Paint, New York, NY

Ryan Martin, “Brandi Twilley Paints Surreptitious Sanctuaries” Artslay, San Fransisco, CA

Eileen Kinsella, “Editors Picks: 11 Events to Add to your Calendar This Week,” Artnet, New York, NY

Laura Jacobs, “Brandi Twilley-No Living,” Airmail, New York, NY

2019

Joanna Fateman, “Dark Spring,” The New Yorker, New York, NY

Gabriella Angeletti and Margaret Carrigan, “Three Exhibitions to See in New York this Weekend,” The Art News Paper, New York, NY

Cristina Cruz, “16 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World this Week,” Artnet News, New York, NY

2018

Seph Rodney, “Wondering the Artist’s Studios of Dumbo,” Hyperallergic, New York, NY

Howard Halle, “Check Out These Top Group Exhibitions at Art Galleries this Summer,” Time Out, New York, NY

2017

John Yau, “A Painters Dreams Go Up In Smoke,” Hyperallergic, New York, NY

Rebecca Bengal, “To Burn Again,” Affidavit, New York, NY

Matthew Jeffrey Abrams, “Brandi Twilley|Where the Fire Started,” Four on the Floor, New York, NY

Seph Rodney, “Seeking Escape in Paintings of a Childhood Home,” Hyperallergic, New York, NY

Howard Halle, “Top five New York Art Shows this Week,” Time Out New York, New York, NY

Rob Grams, “8 Breathtaking Art Exhibitions You Can Only See this Summer in NYC,” Secret NYC, New York, NY

Artspace Editors, “7 Emerging Artists to Watch this July,” Artspace, New York, NY

Sarah Cascone, “Editor’s Pick: 14 Things to See in New York this Week,” Artnet News, New York, NY

Nancy Davidson, “One Question One Answer,” Romanov Grave, New York, NY

Cat Kron, “Brandi Twilley Lord Ludd,” Art Forum in print March issue, New York, NY

Stan Mir, “It’s nothing Close to Fantasy: Brandi Twilley’s imaginary Friend,” Hyperallergic, New York, NY

James Diaz, “Interview with Artist Brandi Twilley,” Antiheroine Chic, New York, NY

Alina Cohen, “Anti-Trump Art Show ‘Nasty Women’ to Benefit Planned Parenthood,” New york Observer, New York, NY

Pricsilla Frank “Nearly 700 ‘Nasty Women’ Artists Have Teamed Up To Protest Trump,” Huffington Post, New York, NY

Paddy Johnson “More Evidence We Live in a Dystopian Hellscape,” ArtF city, New York, NY

Emily Colucci “Every Day Will Be Like A Holiday With ‘XXXmASS’ At Kate Werble Gallery,” Filthy Dreams, New York, NY

2016

John Yau, “Indelible Stains” Hyperallergic, New York, NY

Ken Johnson, “Brandi Twilley “The Living Room,” The New York Times, New York, NY

Johanna Fateman, “Brandi Twilley Sargent’s Daughters,” Art Forum Critic’s Picks, New York, NY

Emily Colucci, “Burning Down the House: An interview with Brandi Twilley on “The Living Room,” Art F City, New York, NY

Howard Halle, “Top Five New York Art shows this Week,” Time Out, New York, NY

Sarah Cascone, “Brandi Twilley: The Living Room,” Artnet News, New York, NY

Diana Shi, “Artist Paints the Fire that Destroyed her Childhood Home,” Vice Creators, New York, NY

Kat Herriman, “Brandi Twilley Finds Truth in Flames,” Blouin Artinfo, New York, NY

Alex Greenberger, “Opening: Brandi Twilley at Sargent’s Daughters,” Art News

Elizabeth Insogna, “In Conversation with Brandi Twilley,” The Huffington Post, New York, NY