Education
2019 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Art History Minor, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Grants & Awards
2024 Emerging Artist Award, Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Award, nominated by Museum of Wisconsin Art, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Wisconsin Visual Artists
2021 Grant, gener8tor Art, Jurors: Danny Báez, An Duplan, Maria Frederique, Nicole Soukup, Vincent Uribe, Lucy Mensah
2020 Grant Finalist, Fellowship.art
2020 Finalist, Mary L. Nohl Fellowship, emerging artist category
2020 Fellowship, Abert Family Curatorial Fellowship, Milwaukee Art Museum
2019 Fellowship, Bridge Work 05, Plum Blossom Initiative
2018 Fellowship, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship Grant, Yale University
Residencies
2024 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2021 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2018 Yale Norfolk School of Art, Yale University, Norfolk, CT
Works on Loan
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions
2023 Two Person Exhibition, Fractured Systems: Phoenix S. Brown and Claire Smith, Saint Kate Arts Hotel, Milwaukee, WI
2023 Two Person Exhibition, Can't Stand The Rain: Ashley Lucietto and Phoenix Brown, Portrait Society Gallery of Contemporary Art, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Solo Exhibition, You’re Not Afraid of the Dark, Green Gallery West, Milwaukee, WI
2022 Solo Exhibition, Like Smoke and Fire, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Beloit, WI
2021 Solo Exhibition, I Remember/But It Hasn’t Happened Yet, Blue Room, Sheboygan, WI
2021 Solo Exhibition, Art is Her, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
2018 Two Person Exhibition, Olivia Burke/Phoenix Brown, Gluon Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Knock First, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2024 Tall Shadow In Short Order, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2023 Untitled Art Fair, Portrait Society Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2023 Other Art Fair, AMFM, Chicago, IL
2022 Then As Now: Woodland Pattern 1980 - 2022, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2021 The Shapes of Truths Told, Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI
2021 Punching Bag Punchline, Real Tinsel, Milwaukee, WI
2021 63 Annual Beloit + Vicinity Exhibition, Wright Museum of Art, Beloit College, Sheboygan, WI
2021 Unraveled. Restructured. Revealed: Where Contemporary Art and Diverse Perspectives Intersect, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton WI
2020 I’ll Make You Sorry, Virtual exhibition in benefit of The Butterfly Collective, presented by Green Gallery, NADA Miami, Miami, FL
2020 Bridge Work, Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, WI
2020 40th Annual SECURA Fine Arts Exhibition, Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI
2019 Deeper Than My Shadow, Senior Thesis Exhibition, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2019 46th Annual Juried Show, Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2019 2nd Midwest Open, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018 Honeymoon Phase, Terrain Exhibitions, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Norfolk, CT
2017 Crosscurrents, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Public Works
2024 Street Mural, 27th Street and Highland Ave, organized by LUNA, Milwaukee, WI
Teaching, Lectures & Dialogues
2021 Workshop, Mary Nohl–Inspired Vessel Paintings with Phoenix S. Brown, John Michael Kohler Art Center
2021 Dialogue with Dr. Rina Kundu Little, Lynden Innovative Educators Institute: Uprooted, Lynden Sculpture Garden
2020 Panel discussion, I’ll Make You Sorry: The Importance of Protest, NADA Miami
2020 Podcast, Artists We Know, Episode #22
2019 Visiting Artist, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
2019 Artist Presentation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Writing Projects
“(Post-It) Notes on Duality,” The Hand-Off series, Bunker Projects
Press
Albers, Andrea. "Milwaukee residents applaud new traffic calming projects in high injury areas". TMJ4 Milwaukee. July 2024. Web
Christie, Milo. “Artist of the Week: Phoenix Brown”. LVL3. August 2022. Web.
Downing, Andy. “Phoenix Brown continues to evolve with ‘Metamorphose’”. Columbus Alive. February 2022. Web.
Fransisco Salas, Rafael. “Reinvention, Revolution: An Experiment in the Museum of the Future is Taking Shape in Appleton, Wisconsin”. New City Art. April 2021. Web.
Juarez, Frank. "Phoenix S. Brown." Artdose Magazine July 2020: 4. Print.
New American Paintings No. 149 Midwest. 2020. Print.
Rovito, Rich. "These Are the Winners of the Wisconsin Visual Art Achievement Awards". Milwaukee Magazine. April 2024. Web.
Schinder, John. “Meet Phoenix Brown”. Milwaukee Lifestyle Magazine. December 2022. Web