About

BRIAN McCUTCHEON (b.1965)

EDU­CA­TION
M.F.A., Cran­brook Acad­emy of Art, 1995
B.F.A., Col­orado State Uni­ver­sity, 1991
School of Archi­tec­ture, Uni­ver­sity of Michi­gan, 1984 – 88
 

SELECTED EXHI­BI­TIONS 

2011
Brian McCutcheon: Out Of This World, Solo Exhi­bi­tion, Indi­anapo­lis Museum of Art, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana curated by Lisa Freiman
500 Spe­cial Project, Efry­omson Pavil­lion, Indi­anapo­lis Museum of Art,Indianapolis, Indiana

2010
Round­about, Glas­gow Inter­na­tional Arts Fes­ti­val, Glas­gow, Scot­land
small architecture/​BIG LAND­SCAPES, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana

2008
Focus Mid­west, Mid­west Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Carmel,Indiana
Back­yard, Mid­west Museum of Con­tem­po­rary Art, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
UP, Indi­anapo­lis Air­port Author­ity Com­mis­sion, Indi­anapo­lis, Indiana

2007
Loader, White River State Park com­mis­sion, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana

2006
Car­di­nals, Mass­a­chu­setts Avenue Pub­lic Art Project, Indi­anapo­lis, Indiana

2005
Bevy, Rev­o­lu­tion, Fer­n­dale, Michi­gan
Arch, Abing­ton Arts Cen­ter, Abing­ton, Penn­syl­va­nia
Tor­rid, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutz­town Uni­ver­sity, Kutz­town, Penn­syl­va­nia
Fancy, Carbon14, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
The Auto Show, The Arts Cen­ter of the Capi­tol Region, Troy, New York
Domes­tic Force, Guest Room Project, Chicago, Illi­nois

2004
Sculp­ture at Ever­green House Bien­nial, John Hop­kins Uni­ver­sity, Bal­ti­more, Mary­land
Head Games, Rev­o­lu­tion, Fer­n­dale, Michigan

2003
Won­der­land, The Arts Cen­ter of the Capi­tol Region, Troy, New York
Spec­tac­u­lar Ver­nac­u­lar, School at the Art Insti­tute of Chicago, Chicago, Illi­nois
Bien­nial, Galeri Nasional Indone­sia, Jakarta, Indone­sia
The Seat of Imag­i­na­tion, Abing­ton Arts Cen­ter, Abing­ton, Penn­syl­va­nia
The Sub­ver­sive Poten­tial of Visual Plea­sure: Brian McCutcheon and Matthew McConville, Goucher Col­lege, Bal­ti­more, Mary­land
One Sky Above, Bur­nished Char­iot Gallery, New Lon­don, Con­necti­cut
The Other Tra­di­tion: Alter­na­tive Rep­re­sen­ta­tions and Eccen­tric Abstrac­tion in Philadel­phia 1967 – 2003, Rosenwald-​Wolf Gallery, Philadel­phia, Pennsylvania

2002
Major­ity Rules, Free Gallery, Glas­gow, Scot­land
Bounce, Rev­o­lu­tion, Fer­n­dale, Michi­gan
Heinzel­maen­nchen, Goethe Insti­tute, New York, New York
Sculp­ture from Philadel­phia, Edin­boro Uni­ver­sity, Edin­boro, Penn­syl­va­nia
The Stray Show, Kings­bury Place, Chicago, Illinois

2001
Open House, Bemis Cen­ter for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
Flight, Abing­ton Art Cen­ter, Abing­ton, Penn­syl­va­nia
Mixed­me­dia, Rosenwald-​Wolfe Gallery, Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Future Imper­fect, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutz­town Uni­ver­sity, Kutz­town, Penn­syl­va­nia
Itin­er­ant Sculp­tors, New York, New York
Sculp­ture with the flat­files, Pierogi, Brook­lyn, New York
Cre­ative Artist Net­work 1984 – 2000 Exhi­bi­tion, The Philadel­phia Fund, Philadel­phia Penn­syl­va­nia
Con­tem­po­rary Sculp­ture at Chester­wood, Chester­wood Art Museum, Stock­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts
Tak­ing Stock, Gallery Joe, Philadel­phia, Pennsylvania

2000
Sculp­ture with the flat­files, Pierogi, Brook­lyn, New York
Bien­nial 2000, Delaware Art Museum, Wilm­ing­ton, Delaware
Inau­gural Sculp­ture Exhi­bi­tion at the Atrium, The Arts Cen­ter of the Capi­tol Region, Troy, New York 
Con­tem­po­rary Sculp­ture at Chester­wood, Chester­wood Art Museum, Stock­bridge, Mass­a­chu­setts
Clar­ity of Seduc­tion, Net­work Gallery, Cran­brook Art Museum, Bloom­field Hills, Michigan

1999
Solo Exhi­bi­tion, Wood­mere Art Museum, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Fall, Win­ter, Spring Group Exhi­bi­tions, Cre­ative Artist Net­work, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Group Exhibit, Long Beach Island Foun­da­tion of Arts and Sci­ences, Long Beach Island, New Jer­sey
Group Exhibit, John­son Ate­lier, Hamil­ton, New Jer­sey
Bird­park, Sculp­ture Park Instal­la­tion, Gallery Joe, Philadel­phia, Pennsylvania

1998
Fall, Win­ter, Spring Group Exhi­bi­tions, Cre­ative Artist Net­work, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Sculp­ture instal­la­tion, Philadel­phia Fringe Fes­ti­val, Philadel­phia Penn­syl­va­nia
Go, Bor­rof­ski Gallery, Philadel­phia, Pennsylvania

1997
Heard, Art­fronts Project Win­dow Instal­la­tion, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Nexus Selects, Nexus Foun­da­tion for Today’s Art, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Solo Show, St. Joseph’s Uni­ver­sity Gallery, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
The Last Fron­tier, Gal­leries at Moore Col­lege of Art, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Octo­ber, Win­dow on Broad Instal­la­tion, Rosenwald-​Wolf Gallery, Philadel­phia
Group Exhi­bi­tion, Delaware Cen­ter for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Wilm­ing­ton, Delaware

1995
Inter­sec­tions and Inter­stices, Col­lab­o­ra­tive Project, Pon­tiac, Michi­gan
First Cup of the Day, Rev­o­lu­tion Gallery Project, Fer­n­dale, Michi­gan
 

HON­ORS
2010 Pollock-​Krasner Foun­da­tion Grant, New York, NY
2009 Artist-​In-​Residence Sculp­ture Space, Utica, New York
2009 Efroym­son Fund Grant
2008 Indi­anapo­lis Air­port Com­mis­sion, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
2007 Efroym­son Con­tem­po­rary Arts Fel­low­ship
2007 Finalist/​Runner-​up, 500 Fes­ti­val Legacy Project, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
2007 Loader, Whiter River Sculp­ture Park Selec­tion, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
2006 Indi­anapo­lis Arts Coun­cil Com­mis­sion, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
2005 Penn­syl­va­nia Coun­cil on the Arts Indi­vid­ual Artist Fel­low­ship
2004 Final­ist: Bat­tery Marine Carousel Project, New York, New York
2004 Artist-​in-​Residence, Sculp­ture Space, Utica, New York (did not attend)
2002 Spe­cial Oppor­tu­ni­ties Stipend, Penn­syl­va­nia Coun­cil on the Arts
2000 Artist-​in Res­i­dence, Bemis Cen­ter for Con­tem­po­rary Art Res­i­dency Pro­gram, Omaha, Nebraska
1998 Cre­ative Artist Net­work Rep­re­sen­ta­tion Grant, Cre­ative Artist Net­work, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
1997 Art­fronts Project Grant, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
 

PRESS
Alone In A Crowd, Philadel­phia Weekly, Novem­ber 18, 1998, Ger­ard Brown
A Gar­den Where Sculp­ture Grows Abun­dant, New York Times, August 22, 1999, Fred B. Adel­son
Sculp­tors Guild Play­ing For Keeps In Hamil­ton Exhi­bi­tion, Newark Star-​Ledger, July 25, 1999, Dan Bischoff
City Paper, August 27-​September 2,1999
Small Move, Big Space, Philadel­phia Weekly, Octo­ber 20, 1999, Roberta Fal­lon
Cre­ative Arts Net­work, Art Mat­ters, pgs. 58 – 67, 62 photo
Field Trip, Philadel­phia Weekly, April 19, 2000, Roberta Fal­lon
The Play­ful Side of Art, Wilm­ing­ton Sun­day News Jour­nal, April 16, 2000, pg. 12 – 14, 12 photo, Gary Mul­li­nax
Per­fect Strangers, Philadel­phia Weekly, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2001, pg. 60 photo, Roberta Fal­lon
Air­borne Ease, Philadel­phia Weekly, Feb­ru­ary 28, 2001, pg. 60, Roberta Fal­lon
Explor­ing Technology’s Human Side, Read­ing Eagle/​Reading Times, Feb­ru­ary 23, 2001, pg. W8 photo, Ron Schira
Con­tem­po­rary Sculp­ture 2000, Art New Eng­land, vol­ume 22 num­ber 1, Doris Birm­ing­ham
Kite Sit­ing, West U Exam­iner, Jan­u­ary 16, 2002, photo George Rosen­blatt
Fea­tured Artist, latier​rase​mueve​.com, Sau Paulo, Brazil
Cre­ative Alliance: Brian McCutcheon and Matthew McConville, Radar, Issue 5 –2003, pg. 19, photo, Jack Liv­ingston
Twists on Mas­culin­ity, Bal­ti­more Sun, April 10, 2003, pg. 14T, photo, Glen McNatt
The New Hand­some, Bal­ti­more City Paper, April 16 – 22, 2003, Gadi Dechter
Top Ten: The Year in Art, Bal­ti­more City Paper, Decem­ber 17 – 23, 2003, Gadi Dechter
Alone Together: Small Won­ders, Metroland, Octo­ber 16 – 22, 2003, pg. 36, David Brick­man
Tip of the Week, New­c­ity Chicago, Octo­ber 9, 2003, pg. 17, Michael Work­man
Arts Plea­sures: Head Games, Metro­times, March 3 – 9, 2004, pg. 16, Lisa M. Collins
Heads Have Lead Role at Rev­o­lu­tion, Detroit Free Press, Sun­day, March 21, 2004, pg. 8G, Keri Guten Cohen
Hot Mama, Chicago Tri­bune, May 26, 2004, pg. 1, Bill Daley
Sculp­ture at Ever­green, Radar, Issue June/​July 2004, pg. 45, Karen Howard
Sculp­ture at Ever­green, Bal­ti­more Weekly, May 5 – 12, 2004, pg. 15, Mike Giu­liano
What a Site, Tow­son Times, May 19, 2004, pg. 48, Mike Giu­liano
Ever­green, Bal­ti­more Sun, May 6, 2004, pg 16T, Glenn McNatt
Sculp­ture at Ever­green, Bal­ti­more Gazette, May 3, 2004, pg. 7, photo, Will Kirk
Fea­ture Showreel, Inter­ac­tive Adver­tis­ing Bureau, Spain, Madrid, Palmira Díaz Man­zanares, direc­tor
Sculp­ture at Ever­green, Sculp­ture Mag­a­zine, July/​August, 2004, Vol. 23, No. 6, pg. 15
A Beau­ti­ful Day in the Neigh­bor­hood, Metro­times, Feb­ru­ary 16 – 22, 2005, pg. 25, Mar­sha Miro
Sketches, Phi­ladle­phia Weekly, March 30-​April 5, 2005, pg.33, Roberta Fal­lon
Truth, Lies and Pub­lic Art, Nuvo, July 12 – 19, 2006, pg. 29, Julianna Thi­bodeaux
Earth­mover As Art, Nuvo, May 28 — June 4, 2008, pg. 17, photo, Richard McCoy
IMA’s Art and Nature Park, Nuvo, June 16 – 23, 2010, pg. 14 – 20, Julianna Thi­bodeaux
Mak­ing It (lit­er­ally) In Indy, Nuvo, Aug 11 – 18, 2010, pg. 18, photo, Susan Watt Grade

PUB­LI­CA­TIONS
Tail­light Tech, Cus­tom Rod­der Mag­a­zine, May 2006, co-​authored with Damon Lee, Brian McCutcheon photos.

COL­LEC­TIONS
Sigid Berwind, New­town Square, Penn­syl­va­nia
Tony Atkin, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Clau­dia W. Wells, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Cre­ative Artists Net­work, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Lester Marks, Hous­ton, Texas
Bemis Cen­ter for Con­tem­po­rary Art, Omaha, Nebraska
One9ine, New York, New York
Tim Mast, Detroit, Michi­gan
Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin, Green Bay

TEACH­ING
2010 – 2012 Vis­it­ing Lec­turer, Her­ron School of Art, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
2005 – 2010 Instruc­tor, School at the Art Insti­tute of Chicago, Chicago, Illi­nois
FYP Core Stu­dio, Archi­tec­ture, Inte­rior Archi­tec­ture and Designed
Objects Grad Sem­i­nar
2005– Adjunct Fac­ulty, Her­ron School of Art, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
Sculp­ture, 3D Foun­da­tions, Pro­fes­sional Prac­tices
2004 Chair, Sculp­ture, Kutz­town Uni­ver­sity, Kutz­town, Penn­syl­va­nia Intro Sculp­ture, Sculp­ture Stu­dio
2002– 2004 Adjunct Fac­ulty, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, Penn­syl­va­nia Sculp­ture, Sculp­ture Foun­da­tions
2001 Adjunct Fac­ulty, Moore Col­lege of Art, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia Sculp­ture
2000 Lec­turer, Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia Foun­da­tion Pro­gram
1996 – 2001 Lec­turer, Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Mixed-​Media Sculp­ture, Con­tin­u­ing Stud­ies Pro­gram
 

RELATED
2010 Co-​Founder, Indanapo­lis Fab­ri­ca­tions, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
2007 Guest Lec­turer, Uni­ver­sity of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
2004 Vis­it­ing Artist, Uni­ver­sity of Wis­con­sin, Green Bay, Wis­con­sin
2003 Guest Lec­turer, School at the Art Insti­tute of Chicago, Chicago, Illi­nois
2002 Guest Lec­turer, The Dal­ton School, New York, New York
Guest Lec­turer, Cran­brook Acad­emy of Art, Bloom­field Hills, Michi­gan
2000 Guest Lec­turer, Cran­brook Acad­emy of Art, Bloom­field Hills, Michi­gan
Guest Lec­turer, Beaver Col­lege, Glen­side, Penn­syl­va­nia
1999 Vis­it­ing Artist, Uni­ver­sity of Penn­syl­va­nia, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
1998 Inter­na­tional Cast Iron Con­fer­ence, John­son Ate­lier, Hamil­ton, NJ
1997 Vis­it­ing Artist, St. Joeseph’s Uni­ver­sity, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
1996 – 2010 Self-​employed fab­ri­ca­tion con­trac­tor, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia and Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana
1995 – 2004 Shop Super­vi­sor, Depart­ment of Sculp­ture, Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, Philadel­phia, PA.
1995 Shop Super­vi­sor, Depart­ment of Ceram­ics, Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, Philadel­phia, PA.
1995 Guest Lec­turer, Swarth­more Col­lege, Swarth­more, Penn­syl­va­nia
Guest Lec­turer, Sum­mer M.F.A. Pro­gram, Uni­ver­sity of the Arts, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
Awarded Artist Res­i­dency (five year position),The Clay Stu­dio, Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia
1994 – 1995 Teach­ing Assist­ant­ship, Cran­brook Acad­emy of Art
1994 Pro­duc­tion Staff, Pewabic Pot­tery, Detroit, Michi­gan
1992 – 1993 Res­i­dent Artist, Ore­gon School of Arts and Crafts
1992 Assis­tant to Cura­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy, Port­land Art Museum