CV –
Michaela Pilar Brown
Select
Solo and Group Exhibitions
Artfields 2013
April 2014
Lake City SC
flashBlack: the African diasporic impulse in American
photography
January
2014
Fogelman
Galleries of Contemporary Art
the
University of Memphis
Memphis
Tennessee
I See
You
January
2014
Harvey
B. Gantt Center for African American Art and Culture
Charlotte,
NC
November
2013
South Carolina Biennial
701
Center for Contemporary Art
Columbia,
SC
November
2013
Civil Rights, Then, Now When?
I.P.
Stanback Museum
Orangeburg,
SC
November
2013
My Father’s House
Tapp’s
Art Center
Columbia,
SC
October
2013
AHA!
The
Humanities Council / Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties Awards
Columbia,
SC
June
2013
ONEx1
Columbia
Museum of Art
Group
Exhibition
Columbia,
SC
May 2013
The South Carolina Arts Gala
South
Carolina Arts Commission
Invitational
group exhibition
Columbia,
SC
April
2013
Install It III
Vista
Artist Guild
Outdoor
City Wide Installation Group exhibition
Columbia,
SC
October
2012
Whither Goes My Heart
Solo Exhibition
Goodall
Gallery
Columbia
College
Columbia,
SC
May-
June 2012
Manifesting Memory – Plantation
Legacies of the South
Group
exhibition
Charleston
Art Institute
Charleston,
SC
May 2012
The
South Carolina Arts Gala
South
Carolina Arts Commission
Invitational
group exhibition
Columbia,
SC
April
2012
Install
It II
Vista Artist Guild, McKissick
Museum
Outdoor
City Wide Installation Group exhibition
Columbia,
SC
February
– March 2012
Solo Exhibition
FAB
Gallery
South
Carolina State University
Orangeburg,
SC
February
2012
What’s Love
Group Exhibition
Columbia,
SC
September
2011
We Carry Memories Inside of We
Juried
Group Exhibition
Avery
Research Center
College
of Charleston
Charleston,
SC
September
2011
Artist in Resident Showcase
Gantt
Center for African American Art and Culture
Charlotte,
NC
September
– November 2011
Resident Exhibition
McColl
Center for Visual Art
Charlotte,
NC
June
2011
Fourth Wall Arts
Salon
Series presenter
Philadelphia,
PA
June –
July 2011
Dual Perspectives
Solo
Exhibition
Kathleen
Ogilvie Presents
Le
Cochon Noir
Philadelphia,
PA
June
2011
I am Dark but Lovely, Mixed
Media, site specific Video Installation
701
Center for Contemporary Art
April - May
2011
3DSC
Group
Exhibition
701
Center for Contemporary Art
Columbia,
SC
April
2011
One Book One Voice
Site
Specific Video installation
Commissioned
by the Columbia Museum of Art
Big
Apple, Columbia, SC
March –
April 2011
Kiting
Anastasia
and Friends Galley
Columbia,
SC
February
2011
What’s Love
Group
Exhibition
Columbia,
SC
February
- March 2010
Love (A) Fair
Anastasia
and Friends Gallery
Columbia,
SC
December
2010
Change for Change
Charity
group exhibition
Columbia,
SC
Curatorial
2009
Freedom – The Trials, Travels and
Collections of William Belk
Fairfield
County Museum, Winnsboro, SC
200
object exhibition including Ivory sculpture collection, William Belk papers,
Iranian Hostage Crisis- State Department documents. Produced 40 minute film.
Katharine Ladd – 19th Century
Voice of Fairfield County
Fairfield
County Museum, Winnsboro, SC
Documents,
objects and images from poet educator, civil war activist Katharine Ladd. Produced 20 min documentary of Ladd
descendant Mary Ladd Yongue
2008
Birthing a Community
Fairfield
County Museum, Winnsboro, SC
The York
W. Bailey Musuem, Historic Penn School, St Helena Island, SC
Midwives in Fairfield County. 30 nineteenth and twentieth
century objects, 6 information panels, directed, edited and produced, 60 minute
documentary film
Winner
of 2009 Award of Achievement
South Carolina Federation of Museums
Winner
of 2009 Award of Merit South Carolina Confederation of Local Historical
Societies
2007
To the Point
Fairfield
County Museum, Winnsboro, SC
Projectile
Points and Arrowheads from Fairfield County Collectors
Iswa
Fairfield
County Museum, Winnsboro, SC
100
years of Catawba Pottery from the Thomas Blumer and Lindsay Pettus Collections
Speak No Evil
Gallery
107 North, Winnsboro, SC
Mixed
media paintings and prints of Rachel Gibson
Phee, Phi, Photography
Gallery
107 North, Winnsboro, SC
Contemporary
Photography and Installations of Jon Ives, Errol Alger, and E. Tory Brown
2006
Pamela Burris
Gallery
107 North, Winnsboro, SC
Contemporary
Sculpture and Prints
Awards
2012
Artist Grant Vermont Studio Center Artist In Residence
2011
Undefined Magazine Emerging Artist of the Year
2011 Fall
Gantt Artist in Residence at the McColl Center for Art
Winner
of 2009 Award of Achievement South Carolina Federation of Museums
Winner
of 2009 Award of Merit South Carolina Confederation of Local Historical Societies
Winner
of 2008 Award of Merit South Carolina Confederation of Local Historical
Societies
Professional Organizations/
Service
2011 –
Present Board Member, Programming Committee Chair, Friends of African American
Art & Culture, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
2013 –
Present, Public Art Selection Committee member, One Columbia for Arts &
History, Columbia, SC
Education
1988 –
1991, 1996- 1998
Howard
University, Washington, DC Sculpture, Art History
1989 –
1990
Academic
Intern Smithsonian Institution
1990
Intern
Washington Project for the Arts
1997
Intern, International Sculpture Center
Publications
Jasper Magazine
Vol. 002 No. 004, Columbia, SC
Defying
Labels, the Work and Woman, Michaela Pilar Brown, Gunter, Mar/April 2013
Free Times
October 2012
Artists
Explore Place, Race in South Carolina, Day
The State
October 28, 2012
SC
Artist Pushes Boundaries at Columbia College, Taylor
Charleston City Paper
April 16, 2012
What’s
In a Name – Art Institute of Charleston Ponders Plantation Life
Free Times
April 2012
Art
Review – Install It 2 Feeds Growing Contemporary Art Tastes, Gilkerson
ArtSee Magazine
Mar/April 2012
Michaela
Pilar Brown, South Carolina State University, FAB Gallery review, Held, Mar
2012
Jasper Magazine
Vol. 001 No.003, Columbia, SC
Service
is the New Muse, Brown, Jan 2012
QCityMetro (blog)
Charlotte, NC
The Art of Michaela Pilar Brown, Olufunke Moses, December 2, 2011
Undefined Magazine
Book Twelve, South Carolina
The Many
Voices and Faces of Michaela Pilar Brown, Hartvigsen, June 2011
The State
What's Love': a romantic and
racy, sweet and sometimes scandalous art event
Taylor,
February 2011