CURRICULUM VITAE
VIVIAN E. BROWNE, 1929 – 1993
1929 Born in Laurel, Florida, April 26
Lived and worked in New York City and Kern, CA
1993 Died in New York City, July 23
EDUCATION
B.S., 1950, Hunter College, M.A. in Fine Arts, Hunter College, New York, NY, 1959
University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, 1971-72
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS
Huntington Hartford Painting Fellowship, Pacific Palisades, CA, 1963
Achievement Award, National Association of Business and Professional Women
Research Council Grants, Rutgers University, NJ
Sabbatical Leave, Rutgers University, NJ
MacDowell Colony Fellowship, Peterborough, NH
Visiting Artist, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Artists and Influence, Hatch-Billops Collection, New York, NY
Guest of Honor, New York Feminist Art Institute, Women’s Center for Learning, New York, NY
Distinguished Teacher of Art, College Art Association, New York, NY
“Mayor Koch Honors Six Black Artists,” City Hall, New York, NY, 1986
FOREIGN TRAVEL
England, France, Italy, Mexico, Haiti, Portugal, Spain, Nigeria, Ghana, Guyana (S.A.), Greece, Guadalupe (F.W.I.), Jamaica (W.I.), Israel, People’s Republic of China, Egypt, Germany, Cuba and Taiwan
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Rutgers University, Faculty of Arts & Science-Newark
Professor, 1985-1992
Associate Professor, l978-1985
Chairperson (associate Professor), 1975-1978
Assistant Professor, Art Department, 1971-1975
Guest Artist:
Bakersfield College, Bakersfield, CA, 1990
Virginia Technical University, Blacksburg, VA, 1990
Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1988 Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1988
Hatch-Billops Collection,” Artist & Influences”, 1985
Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1981
Santa Cruz Porter College, Santa Cruz, CA, 1981
Moderator, “Rockefeller and the Whitney Biennial”, Visual Arts Center, New York, NY, 1976
Panel Member:
NEA – Arts Midwest, 1992
Fulbright panelist, Washington, DC, 1990
Guest Curator, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, 1988
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New York, NY 1986
Moderator, WCA/CAA Panel, “Exploring the Unknown”, 1982
Artist Talk on Art series, Landmark Gallery, New York, NY, 1980
Third World Women Artists, SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, 1978
Creative Artist series, NBC Television, l976
National Conference of Artists, 1973, 1974, 1976
Seminar on Black Artists, Mount Holyoke College, l972
Symposium on Afro-American Art, Art Students League, New York City, 1971
Consultant, 15 Pan Am Exhibition, 1968
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY “Little Men”
1999 Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA, “Vivian E. Browne, Her Mixed Media Works and the History of the Early African American Pioneers, 1800’s”
1998 June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY , “A Review: Works from the Estate”
1998 Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA, “Mostly Black and White Drawings, Paintings and Pastels”
1997 Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA, “Vivian and Her Sources”
1996 Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA, “Tribute to Black History”
1995 Bakersfield College Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA, “The Early Work”
1995 Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA, “The Middle Years”
1995 Todd Madigan Gallery, CSUBakersfield, Bakersfield, CA, “The Late Work”
1993 June Kelly Gallery, New York, NY, “Memorial Exhibition”
1993 Douglass College Library, Rutgers University, Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series, New Brunswick, NJ, “Early Works”
1993 Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, “A Memorial Exhibition”
1993 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, “For Vivian”
1992 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY , “Fragments”
1990 Virginia Technical University, Blackburg, VA
1987 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, “Sources”
1987 Shifflett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, “Rediscovering Color”
1987 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, “Recent Works”
1985 UC Santa Cruz, Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA, “Paintings and Drawings”
1985 The Bronx Museum, New York, NY, “Recent Works”
1984 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, “New Works”
1984 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, “New Works”
1983 Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, “Paintings and Drawings”
1983 Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, “Paintings and Drawings”
1982 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, “Eastern Channels”
1974 Artist House, New York, NY, “Paintings, Drawings, Etchings”
1973 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, “African Memories”
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1988 Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, NY, with William T. Williams
1985 Orlando Gallery, Sherman Oaks, CA with Vida Hackman
1980 Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, with Sandy Skoglund
1972 Countee Cullen Library, New York, NY, with Cliff Josephs
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London, United Kingdom “My Kind of Protest”
2017 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY and CAAM, Los Angeles, CA “We Wanted a Revolution”
2014 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY “Facing the Rising Sun”
1999 Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, “Symbolic Equivalents, Spacial Realities”
1999 Adobe Krow Archives for Vivian E. Browne, Bakersfield, CA, “Black Words, Black Art”
1996 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, “Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series 25th Anniversary Exhibition”
1994 Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, “In Terms of Time”
1994 YMCA, New York, NY, “Black Prints”
1994 Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY, “New York Art Scene Comes to Buffalo”
1992 Hillwood Art Museum Long Island, NY, “Printmaking Workshop”
1992 Robeson Center Gallery, NJ, “The New Jersey Project”
1992 The Gallery at Bristol Myers-Squibb, NJ, “The Expanding Circle”
1991 Kenkeleba Gallery, New York, NY, “African-American Abstraction”
1989-90 Book Traveling Exhibition, New York, NY, “Coast to Coast”
1988-90 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “Committed to Print”(traveling exhibition)
1988 The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, “Relief Printmaking in the l980’s”
1988 Black Art Festival, Atlanta, Georgia
1988 Intar Gallery, New York, NY, “Autobiography: In Her Own Image”
1987 Goddard Riverside Community Gallery, New York, NY, “Home”
1987 Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1986-87 Hampton University, Hampton, VA, “Choosing”
1986 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York, NY, “Connection-Connexus”
1986 Bergen County Museum, NJ, “Black Women”
1986 El Choppo Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico, “El Camino a Cuba”
1986 Ceros Gallery, New York, NY, “Heroic Women”
1986 Clocktower, New York, NY, “Progressions – A Cultural Legacy”, curated by Julia Hotton, Vivian Browne and Emma Amos
1986 Zeus Travia Gallery, New York, NY, “Homage to Ana Mendietta”
1986 Tweed Gallery at City Hall, Bronx, NY, “Black Visions ’86”, curated by the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx Museum
1986 Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, “Transforming Landscape”
1986 Associated American Artists, New York, NY, “Prints by Women”
1985 SoHo 20, New York, NY, “Ten from SoHo 20”
1985 Hebrew Union College, New York, NY, “Community Artscape”
1985 Cinque Gallery/The Women’s Bank, New York, NY, “A Celebration of Black Women Artists”
1984-85 Traveling Exhibition: College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY; Museum of African and American Art and Antiquities, Buffalo, NY; Louisiana State University, Shreveport, LA; Clark College, Atlanta, GA; The New Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Gallery of Art, Howard University, Washington, DC, “In a Stream of Ink”
1984 Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY, “Art Against Apartheid”
1984 Port Authority Bus Terminal, New York, NY, Installation – “Hanging Loose”
1983 Kenkelba House Gallery, New York, NY, “Jus Jass”
1982 California State College, CA, “Exchange of Sources, Expanding Powers”
1982 Basement Workshop, New York, NY, “Invitational”
1982 White Street Window Gallery, New York, NY, “Protective Devices”
1982 A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, “Invitational”
1982 P.S. 1, The Institute for Arts and Urban Resources, New York, NY, “The Wild Art Show”
1981 Illinois State University, Traveling Exhibition, “Forever Free”
1981 The New Museum, New York, NY, “Artists Invite Artists”
1981 Kenkelba House Gallery, New York, NY, “Installations in the Five Elements”
1980 O.I.A. Gallery, New York, NY, “Artists Who Make Prints”
1980 SoHo 20 Gallery, New York, NY, “Twelve”
1978 H.C. Taylor Gallery, NC, “15 Women–Part II”
1978 W.C.A., City University of New York, NY, “Women Artists ‘78”
1976 University of Connecticut, “Group Show”
1975 New York State Office Building, New York, NY, “Harlem Art Collection”
1974 Voorhees Gallery, Rutgers University, New Jersey
1974 Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, “Opening Group Show”
1973 New York Cultural Center, New York, NY, “Blacks, U.S.A. –1973”
1972 Southern Illinois University Gallery
1972 Mt. Holyoke College, New York, NY, “A New Vitality in Art: The Black Women”
1972 Carnegie Institute, New York, NY, “U.S.A. (?) 1971-72”
1971 Rhode Island University “From Life”
1968 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, “Afro-American Art Since 1950”
1968 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Martin, Victoria, “Vivian E. Browne at Bakersfield College Art Gallery, Adobe Krow Archives and CSUBakersfield”, Southern California Editor, ARTWEEK, April, 1994
Anderson, C.G., “Vivian E. Browne”, Flash Art, January, 1994
Darling, Michael, “Coming to Terms with ‘Time’”, Santa Barbara New Press, January, 1994
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Rutgers Univeristy, New Brunswick, NJ
Special Collections, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY
AT&T
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Hatch-Billops Collection
New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, New York, NY
New York State Office Building, New York, NY
Harry Bellefonte Private Collection, New York, NY
Wadsworth Ateneum, Hartford, CT
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
The National Westminster Bank of New Jersey
The Dana Library, Long Beach Ca
PUBLICATIONS
1998 SIGNS, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Cover Illustration, published by the University of Chicago
1998 Not for Sale: Feminism and Art in the USA During the 1970’s, a video tape and book by Laura
Cottingham, Hawkeye Productions, New York, NY
1986 Heresies Magazine, Illustration, 15th Issue
1980 Heresies Magazine, Illustration, 9th Issue
1979 Heresies Magazine, Photo essay on China, 8th Issue
1973 Graphics Portfolio, Contributor to: 8×10 Art Portfolio (1971-73), published by the Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY,
1972 Attica Book
1972 “Afro-American Art, Annotated Bibliography”, published by the New York City Board of Education
FILMS
1974 Black Artists in America; part four. Oakley Holmes, producer
1971 Making More Than One. Grace George Alexander, producer (WNYE/TV)
ORGANIZATION AFFILIATIONS
SOURCES
The New York Times (1989)
The Village Voice (1989)
Women Artists News (1987)
Black American Literature Forum (l985)
Who’s Who in American Art
Who’s Who Among Black Americans
Igoe, Lynn Moody, 250 Years of Afro-American Art (NY, R.R. Bowker Company: 1981)
Cederholm, Theresa Dickason, Afro-American Artists, A Bio-Bibliographic Directory (Boston, The Boston Public Library : 1973) Archives of American Art
The Adobe Crow Archieves for Vivian E. Browne