Owen Brown

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. The source of my practice is the world with all its beauty and confusion – nature, so alien and alluring, the social, equally baffling but no less wonderful, and the uncomfortable friction between that, and our internal interpretations. Life eludes easy understanding or conclusion: what are we seeing when we really think about it and how did we miss it before?

Bio

Owen Brown was born in Chicago, trained as a classical musician, took his first art class at 23, and much of what he’s wanted to do since then has been paint.

Brown holds degrees from Yale College and the University of Chicago, and was a degree student at California College of the Arts. He lived for over 30 years in San Francisco, where he was represented by Meridian Gallery. He now lives in Minneapolis.

Brown has exhibited in juried shows and solo exhibits throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. His works have been acquired by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Nature Conservancy, and the Weisman Museum of Minneapolis, and can be found in collections in this country, Europe, and Asia. Brown has had residencies at Air Le Parc in France in 2017...

I have degrees from
* Yale College,
* The University of Chicago, and;
* San Francisco State University,

and have completed advanced coursework in engineering at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

And art? three years at California College of Arts when it was CCAC convinced me that I didn't need yet another degree!

2025
Galerie Genuss “From Black Mountain Ranch,” (SOLO show) Berlin, Germany, April 2025
Veronique Wantz Gallery “The Summer Group” show, Minneapolis, MN May – August 2025
Unity Gallery “Social Justice”, St. Paul. MN June - August 2025


2024
Veronique Wantz Gallery “The Winter Group” show, Minneapolis, MN November - January 2025
JCC of Minnesota Myriorama Redux (SOLO show) Sabes Center, Minneapolis, MN August – September 2024
“Listen Speak” Installation at the Mill City Museum Minneapolis, MN June – August 2024
JCC of Minnesota Visions of Nothing (SOLO show) St Paul, MN June – July 2024
Argyle Zebra Alchemy St Paul, Minnesota January – March 2024

2023
Veronique Wantz Gallery “Myriorama” (SOLO show), Minneapolis, MN October – November 2023
Argyle Zebra The “Small” show St Paul, MN November – December 2023
Veronique Wantz Gallery The Artful Present Minneapolis, MN November – December 2023
Gallery onetwentyeight “I See Summer” New York, New York June 2023
ARC Gallery “Color” Chicago, IL January – February 2023

2022
Florence Contemporary New Visions Florence, Italy September – October 2022
Veronique Wantz Gallery The Summer Show Minneapolis, MN August – September 2022
118 Art Gallery (Online) New Editions July – August 2022
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