Brendan Sullivan
BrendanSullivanArt@gmail.com
b. 1990, Framingham, MA.
Education
MFA, Painting, New York Academy of Art, 2018
BFA, Painting, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2014
New York Professional Outreach Program, New York 2013
Exhibitions
o Modern Male, Bowersock Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
o Light/Dark,Gallery 263, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2019
o NYAA MFA Thesis Show, New York Academy of Art, 2018
o Single Fare, Highline Stages, September 2017, New York, New York
o Giverny Residency Show, New York Academy of Art, Spring 2018
o Book Ends, Herter Gallery at Herter Gallery-Amherst, Massachusetts, 2017
o Tribeca Ball 2017 & 2018., New York Academy of Art
o Deck The Walls, Wilkinson Hall, NYC 2016 & 2017
o 2017/2018 Open Studios – New York Academy of Art
o On The Body, Gallery 263, Cambridge Massachusetts
o Focus on Figures 2017: North River Arts Society, Marshfield, Massachusetts
o 2015 Grand National Exhibition, American Artists Professional League, Salmagundi Club, NYC.
o Seventh Annual Drawing and Painting Competition and Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
o Focus on Figures 2016: A Juried Figureand Portrait Exhibit, North River Arts Society, Marshfield, Massachusetts
o Saxonville Open Studios, Framingham, Massachusetts, 2015, 2016, 2019
o State of Being: A Collection of Figurative and Portrait Art, Piano Craft Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, 2015
o BFA Thesis Show “In Limbo”, Student Union Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, December 2013
o 2013 UMass Junior/Senior Awards Exhibition
Residencies
o Altos de Chavon School of Design Teaching Residency. Instructed “Anatomical Drawing/ Advanced Figure Drawing” to undergraduate students during summer semester 2018 in in La Romana, Dominican Republic.
o Terra Foundation for American Art/Claude Monet Foundation, Giverny, France 2017
o UMASS- Summer Studio Art Program, Paris/LaNapoule, France, 2013
Awards
o Bob Colacello Portrait Award 2017
o Jason Talley Travel Award 2017
o Merit Scholar Award, New York Academy of Art, 2017
o 3rd place, Focus on Figures 2016, Juried by Juan Jr. Ramirez
o University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Arts Council Grant Recipient, 2013)
o 2013 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Senior Exhibition Award