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Brian Ellison plutolenz@gmail.com 281-914-1941
EDUCATION 2007 BA, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
Exhbitions 2021
Community Artist Collective (Third Ward Exhibit)
Houston, TX
2021
Bloomberg/Greenwood Art Project
Tulsa, OK
2021
In Bloom Art Exhibit/Juneteenth Art show
Tulsa,OK
2021
Mid-American Arts Alliance Kansas City, MO
2021
Google Arts & Culture Online Exhibition Greenwood Art Project Tulsa,OK
2020
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston The Black Man Project
Rites of passage installation
2020
Aritst4Artist, Houston,Tx (Virtual Gallery))
Exhibitions 2020
CONTEMORARY ARTS MUSUEM RITE OF PASSAGE INSTALLATION
EXHIBITIONS 2019
UnMASKulinity , Google Seattle,WA UnMASKulinity,
George Kaiser Foundation Tulsa,OK
Jefferson Pinder: Fire and Movement, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
Brian Ellison & Black Love Festival, Presented by the Black School, Houston, TX
UnMASKulinity, Film Screening, HMAC, Houston, TX
UnMASKulinity, Film Screening Hines Center of Spirituality and Prayer, Houston, TX 2018 UnMASKulinity, Film Screening, MATCH Theater, Houston, TX
A Day in The Tr3, Film Screening, Museum of Fine Arts , Houston, TX
What’s The New News (site specific installation), curated by Nathaniel Donnett, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
2017 You Are Enough, Round 47: The Act of Doing: Preserving, Revitalizing and Protecting Third Ward, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
You Are Enough: Community Healing Circle installation, Community Block Party, Houston, TX
2016 Art on the Avenue, curated by Jennie Ash, Winter Street Studios, Houston, TX
2015 Black Lives Matter Houston, panelist, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX
AWARDS AND HONORS
-Project freeway 2020 grant recipient UnMASKulinity 3rd,ward
-John Steven Kellett Foundation Grant recipient
-Let Creativity Happen 2019, Houston Arts Alliance,
-Grant recipient 2018 Idea Fund Round 10, Andy Warhol Foundation,
-Grant recipient 2017 First Place Awardee, Art on the Avenue, Houston, TX
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2020
Project Freeway Diverse work Andy Warhol Residency
2019
48.? Race, Health & Motherhood Round 50 Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (October 2019- March 2020)
2017
You Are Enough, Round 47: The Act of Doing: Preserving, Revitalizing and Protecting Third Ward, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX (October 2017-March 2018)