BIOGRAPHY

Born: Mexia, Texas, 1989

Resides: Los Angeles, California
Education: California College of the Arts (M.F.A., 2014); University of North Texas (B.F.A., 2011)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Blessed Are the Mosquitoes,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

2019 “Allegiance,” Sewanee Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.
“Darling Divined,” New Museum, New York.

“Unholy Ghosts,” Various Small Fires, Los Angeles.

2017 “A Slow Reckoning,” Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas.

2015 “Hearts, Hands and Other Members,” Conduit Gallery, Dallas.
“This Is Real Life,” Johansson Projects, Oakland, California.

 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 “If You Have Ghosts,” Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile.
“Duro Olowu; Seeing,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

2019 “Plumb Line: Charles White and the Contemporary,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles.

2018 “Made in LA: 2018,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
“Material Futurity,” Law Warschaw Gallery, Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota.
“Ear to the Ground: Earth and Element in Contemporary Art,” New Orleans Museum of Art.
“Transitory Emplacements,” McColl Center for Art + Innovation, Charlotte, North Carolina.

2017 “Unhomely,” Denny Gallery, New York.
“Los Angeles Bound,” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York.
“Non Non Violence,” Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco.
“Material: Hard and Soft,” Meadows Gallery, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, Texas.

2015 “Beyond Material: Woven Values,” Work Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

2014 “The Possible,” Berkeley Art Museum, California.

2013 “3rd Ghetto Biennale,” Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Cohen, Alina. “Diedrick Brackens Weaves 21st-Century Concerns into Moving Tapestries,” Artsy (February 19).

2019 Finkel, Jori. “Texan Artist Diedrick Brackens Weaves Black History into His Tapestries,” W Magazine (November 12).
  Smith, Melissa. “An Artist Whose Intricate Weavings Explore the Meaning of Home,” T: New York Times Style Magazine (August 7).
  Easter, Makeda. “Ron Athey, Carmen Argote and Diedrick Brackens Win Artadia Awards,” Los Angeles Times (March 14).

Ferguson, Bruce W. “Layers of the Loom,” LaLa (Winter).

2018 Simmons, William J. “30 Under 35 2019: Diedrick Brackens Deals in the Composite of the Past and Present,” Cultured (November 29).
  Moon, Kevin. “A Multiplicity of Perspectives: ‘Made in LA 2018’ Succeeds by Refusing to Define a Los Angeles Aesthetic,” Artnews (August 22).

2017 Brackens, Diedrick. “Diasporic Design,” Cooper Hewitt, New York (September 15).
  “Glenn Ligon in Conversation with Diedrick Brackens,” Queer Threads, ed. John Chaich: Ammon Books.

2015 Smart, Lauren. “Diedrick Brackens Unravels Life’s Narratives in Fabric,” Dallas Observer (September 15).
Stuebner, Anton. “Diedrick Brackens: This Is Real Life,” Art Practical (March 31).