Lisa Brawn

Lisa Brawn is a Calgary based artist specializing in painted woodcut blocks. Her work is in public collections such as The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Calgary Civic Art Collection, and The University of Lethbridge collection, as well as in private collections across Canada, Europe, and the United States.

A major component of Lisa’s art practice has been exploring the possibilities for alternative art venues and interdisciplinary project spaces. Starting in 2001, her artmobile, in a 1935 vintage travel trailer, was followed by an art salon in Calgary’s Grain Exchange building. Lisa then collaborated with Milo Dlouhy and Angela Inglis to transform a downtown warehouse into an artist-run gallery and Museum of Oddities. In 2007 Brawn, Dlouhy, and Inglis collaborated on a storefront museum in Art Central, and in 2009 and 2010, Brawn and Inglis collaborated with Jane Grace on an interdisciplinary project space in a hundred year old cottage in residential NW Calgary. In 2009 Brawn transformed a 1962 Airstream into a second mobile gallery, The Bambi Media Machine, which was featured in the film I Liked You Better Before. From 2007 to 2012, Lisa operated a 17 Avenue SW window gallery, which started as La Fenêtre (curated with White...

Multimedia Design 1998–1999
Fine Arts (Drawing) ACAD 1987–1990

Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, New Normal, group exhibition, October 2021

Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, POP Apocalypse, with Phillip Bandura and Allison Morgan, September 2021

ASA TREX Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition Real Women, 2020

LA Pai Gallery, Ottawa, group exhibition, September 2020

CART Blanche, Calgary, debuted artmobile on Riverwalk, August - September 2019

Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, MUMSHO, solo show, September, 2018

Leighton Art Centre, Calgary, Bodies of Work: A Portrait & Figurative Group Exhibition, March, 2018

Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, POPSHO: Get Ready to Rumble, solo show, April, 2017

Leighton Centre, Calgary, Helios, solo show installation (eight solar powered, motion-activated horses) September, 2016

The Works Festival, Edmonton, Cabinet of Queeriosities, group show, June, 2016

Yard Dog Gallery, Austin, ¿Quién es Más Macho? solo show, May, 2016

Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, POPSHO, solo show, September-October, 2015

Glenbow Museum / Nickle Galleries, Calgary, Made in Calgary 2000's, group show, September-December, 2014

Decidedly Jazz Danceworks (DJD), Year of the Horse, collaboration, November 2014

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