Brianna Bass

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

2022     MFA Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2013 BFA Painting and Drawing, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN

2012 King’s College Study Abroad Program, London, England 

2008     Governor’s School for the Arts, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 


SOLO SHOWS

2025    Ex Nihilo, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN

2024    Scintillator, Ladies Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Big Bounce, Latchkey Gallery, “The Apartment,” New York, NY

2023    Scattering the Constant, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY

2022    Penumbra, Noh-Arts in Naples, Italy

            Three-Pointed Sphere, Channel to Channel, Chattanooga, TN

2020    Chromaphone, Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

            On the Hum, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN 

2019    Dream Queue, at Frequency Arts, Chattanooga, TN

2018    Carnival Glass, at Frequency Arts, Chattanooga, TN

2013    Frank, Apothecary Gallery, Chattanooga, TN


TWO-PERSON SHOWS

2024    Lattice, with Cat Balco at Connecticut State University, CT

2024    Expo Chicago with Luis Sahagun via Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY

2023    Untitled Art Fair with Ivelissee Jiménez via Latchkey Gallery, Miami, FL

2022    Image Schema with Ivelisse Jiménez, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY

2021    Coloratura at Le Swamp, Knoxville, TN

            Modular Stages with Brian Jobe, Channel to Channel, Nashville, TN


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024    Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL 

            Exteroception, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY 

            Transcendental and Beyond, Addison Rowe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

            Paper as Matrix, Paper as Party, Parny La Lont, London, UK

            Dance in the Waterfall, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN

            Snake Show, Electric Shed, Nashville, TN

2023    Rose Tinted Glasses, curated by Saša Bogojev, Ojiri Gallery, London, UK

            Considering Female Abstractions, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX.

            After Eden, Latchkey Gallery, New York, NY

            Beyond the Mesh, W Gallery, Chicago, IL 

            Fifty Reds in their Minds, Red Arrow Gallery, Nashville, TN

            Polymath, curated by Mike Calway-Fagen, Charleston, WV. 

2022    Garden, Ladies Room, Los Angeles, CA

            Vibrant Matters, Jeffery Deitch, New York, NY

            Vibrant Matters, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

            10268#, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2020    No Masters, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

2021    Redirecting, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China

            Knoxville Local, Knoxville, TN

2019    SECAC Juried Exhibition, Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN

            Dogwood Regional Arts Juried Exhibition, The Emporium Arts Center, Knoxville, TN

            Apophany, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2018    Destill: A Survey of Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Committee of New Forms, Nashville, TN

2017   Offline, Chattanooga, TN

           Girls Favorite, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN

RESIDENCIES

2022    Noh-Art Foundation, Naples, Italy

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2024     The Art Invocation, founder and curator

2021     Comfort Riddle, MHM Residency Exhibition, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN

2019     Mineral House Media Residency Exhibition, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN 

2018     Mineral House Media Residency Exhibition, Fluorescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN 

2017-2022 Mineral House Media (Project) founder, writer, and curator. 

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

2025 Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing Installation at Yale: Sol LeWitt Foundation via Paula Cooper

        Gallery NYC. Wall Drawing 824.

Visiting Artist & Lecture at University of Louisville, Louisville, KY

ARTIST TALKS 

2025      Visiting Artist at University - Hite Art Institute

2024     Drawing South Podcast, Host Mike Windy. 

2021     Chromavores: Color Theory in Current Painting, Yale University, New Haven, CT

             Coloratura, Le Swamp artist interview and discussion. Knoxville, Tennessee. 

             Live in Studio with Jennifer Terzian. 

             Art Fight Podcast, Joe Nolan and Brian Siskind. Episode 115

2020     Chromaphone, Brick City Gallery at Missouri State University. 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2022     Yale College

SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS 

2022. Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize for Excellence in Painting, Yale School of Art

2011 Committee Chair for Student Advisory Board

             Drawing Award, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Juried Exhibition 

             Lillian B. Feinstein Scholarship 

2010     Peggy Stagmire Scholarship 


NOTABLE COLLECTIONS

Morgan Stanley Art Collection

Sealy Collection

Green Family Art Foundation

Ernesto Esposito Collection

SoHo House

      Jimenez-Colon Collection