BIOGRAPHY

Born: Washington, D.C., 1966

Resides: Hyattsville, Maryland

Education: Yale University School of Art (M.F.A., 2002);

San Francisco Art Institute; (B.F.A., 1999);

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1999);

Pratt Institute (1996–97)

Website: www.ionarozealbrown.com

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007

“the epidemic of excess, the detriment of denial,” Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles.

2006

“Blending Lines,” G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson.

2004

G Fine Art, Washington, D.C.

“a3 the revolution: televised, terrorized, sexualized,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York.

Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles.

“Matrix 152,” Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford.

2003

“a3 . . . black on both sides,” Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta. Catalogue.

2002

“a3 . . . black on both sides 2,” Sandroni Rey, Venice, California, and Caren Golden Fine Art, New York.

2000

“homecoming,” Pavilion of Fine Arts, Montgomery College, Takoma Park, Maryland.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007

“Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song,” Von Lintel Gallery, New York.

“New York—States of Mind,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, New York.

“Japan, Inc.,” Kravets Wehby Gallery, New York.

2006

“Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture,”

University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, Virginia.

“Paper Trail: African American Works on Paper,” High

Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia.

“When the East Is in the House: iona rozeal brown and

Stella Lai,” Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta.

2005

“Linkages and Themes in the African Diaspora,” Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco.

“d’Afrique d’Asie,” Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York.

2004

“Notorious Impropriety,” Samson Projects, Boston.

“Bling BlAsian Bling” (with Stella Lai), The Luggage Store, San Francisco.

2003

“Pop Rocks,” Caren Golden Fine Art, New York.

“Black Belt,” Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Traveled. Catalogue.

“New Visions: Emerging Trends in African American Art,” Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture, Washington, D.C. Catalogue.

“Online,” Feigen Gallery, New York.

“International Paper: Drawings by Emerging Artists,” U.C.L.A. Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Catalogue.

Selected Bibliography

2007

Buckley, Annie. “Critics’ Picks: iona rozeal brown,” Artforum.com (July 17).

2006

Cochran, Rebecca Dimling. “Stella Lai and Iona Rozeal

Brown at Saltworks.” Art in America (November 1).

2005

Gopnik, Blake. “Go East, Young Woman!; Japan Called to

Iona Rozeal Brown and She Answered,” Washington Post (February 27).

2004

Godfrey, Sarah. City Paper (Washington, D.C., August 13).

Helfland, Glen. “Critics’ Picks: iona rozeal brown,” Artforum.com (April 13).

2003

Gopnik, Blake. “Art and Race: Making a Memorable Appearance,” Washington Post (April 6).

“Iona Rozeal Brown: Self-Portrait,” Tema Celeste, no. 95 (January–February).

Worman, Alex. “LA Confidential,” ARTnet (February 15).

Carmen Zita, “Biters of Style,” Trace, no. 43 (May).