Bret Shirley Curriculum Vitae
Born 1980 San Jose, CA Lives/Works in Brooklyn, NY
Education:
BFA in Photography
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, 2004
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Your Love is Like an Oil Well -IRL, Chinatown NY
2021
Holes Dug for the Sake of Filling -IRL, Brooklyn NY
2019
Thank God It’s Friday, Doesn’t Matter to Me -Pablo Cardoza, Houston TX
2016
New World -Cardoza Fine Art, Houston TX
2015
Rising Through the Infinite -Blaffer Museum Windows Into Houston, Houston TX
2014
VALU+ judgement -Cardoza Fine Art, Houston TX
2004
After All This, We See What We Have and Want Less -Media Arts Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY
Selected Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2018
Issue 0
-Flak Magazine, pub. 9/18
2015
Typically Esoteric
-Gallery Homeland, Houston TX
2014
MIAMI CONNECTION -Cardoza West, Austin TX
2013
WAX
-Cardoza Fine Art, Houston TX
Time+Process
-Main Street Projects, Houston TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023
BASH -Tinney Contemporary at The Bobby Hotel, Nashville TN
Romantic Radiations -The Yard, Brooklyn NY
2022
Houston is a Scam Rap Tape -Pablo Cardoza Gallery, Houston TX
DUOS -Peripheral Space, Los Angeles CA
2019
When the Wind Comes Behind the Rain -Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY
2018
UnderGround: CAMH Gala and Auction -Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
Trade Show
-My Friend, Paris TX
2017
Trae a tu Abuela Tambien -Nativitas, Mexico City, MX
The Big Show
-Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX
Inaugural Lending
-Galveston Art Lending Library, Galveston TX
2016
Payday Lenders
-Cardoza Fine Art, Houston TX
Garage Sale, and So Can You -Suplex Projects, Houston TX
Healing
-EAST, Austin TX
2015
Flora Obscura: Blaffer Museum Gala -Blaffer Museum, Houston TX
SONICWORKS (as Drone Bros) -DiverseWorks, Houston TX
2011
Luck of the Draw -DiverseWorks, Houston, TX
2008
Monster Show 3
-Domy Books, Houston TX
2003
8.5X11
-Jen Bekman Gallery , New York NY
Residencies
Vermont Studio Center -Johnson, VT 3/20-4/20
SWALE/SpaceHL -Governor’s Island, NY 9/18-6/19
RioBravo Xochimilco -Oaxaca, MX 2/18-3/18
Selected Bibliography
Robert Boyd, Bret Shirley’s Waxy Breakdown, The Great God Pan is Dead, Nov 21, 2012
Bill Arning, Houston Loves its Eccentrics, Art in America, May 1, 2016
Chris Becker, The Most Wanted, Houston City Book, Nov 16, 2016
Paul Middendorf and Michael McFadden, Year in Review: What we Saw, Free Press Houston, Jan 18, 2017
Catherine Gonzales, Conversations, BonPhilosophia, Aug 10, 2017