Brian Michael Dunn

Discipline: Visual Arts

Based In: Washington, DC

Year at Millay: 2011

Awards/Honors: Grant Recipient, Individual Artist Award Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD (2019); Fellow, Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship, Washington, DC (2018); Grant Recipient, Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, Baltimore, MD (2011); Pollock- Krasner Fellow, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY (2008); Participant, MARNmentorship, Milwaukee Artist Resource Network, Milwaukee, WI (2007); Artist-in-Residence, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT (2003); Award Winner, Arches Biennial Print Award, Arches Student Print Exhibition, Boston, MA (2003).

Website: https://brianmichaeldunn.com/home.html

Brian Michael Dunn (b. 1982, Milwaukee, Wisconsin) creates paintings and sculptures that mine the visual language of mass reproduction. Dunn received a Bachelor’s of Fine Art in Painting from Boston University and a Master’s of Fine Art from Cornell University. Dunn is an alumnus of the Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship and was awarded a DC Art Bank Grant in 2022 and a Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grant in 2019. Dunn attended the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York and the Yale Norfolk School of Art in Norfolk, Connecticut. Recent commissions include Google Headquarters in Arlington, Virginia and Costa Palmas Residences, Cabo, Mexico. Dunn’s work has been exhibited throughout the region, including solo exhibitions at the Montpelier Art Center in Laurel, Maryland and Hamiltonian Artists Gallery in Washington, DC. Other recent exhibitions include the Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; Pazo Fine Arts, Kensington, Maryland; Woskob Family Gallery at Penn State University, State College, Pennsylvania; Mono Practice and The Reinstitute, Baltimore, Maryland; Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lipani Gallery at Fordham University, Ventana 244, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, New York.