SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Forthcoming Exhibition, Casemore Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021
How to Get On Cable Television, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery, San Francisco, CA
WHAT? IS ? ART?, Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA
2020
Who Do You Really Think That You Are?, Premier Jr., San Francisco CA
2017
SECA Award Exhibition (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2016
Tourist, Sydhavn Station, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
In that Case: Havruta in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
2014
Matter of Fact, San Francisco International Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA
2013
Matter of Fact, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Trip, Eli Ridgway Gallery Project Space, San Francisco, CA
2010
Equivalent Exposure, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Common Senses, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
2009
A Field Guide to the Atmosphere, Ping Pong Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
If We Let Ourselves Go, Partisan Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Life's Daily Tasks, Reading Frenzy, Portland, OR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Smoke and Mirrors: Magical Thinking in Contemporary Art, Boca Rotan Museum of Art, Boca Rotan, FL
Paris Photo, Paris, France
The Holographic Sky, San Francisco Arts Education Project, San Francisco, CA
Pyramid Scheme, Bass and Reiner, San Francisco, CA
2022
Paris Photo, Paris, France
Mirror of Divine Beauty, Cushion Works, San Francisco, CA
Soapbox Derby, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
2021
Spirit of Disruption, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2020
Strange Days: Hit Pause, White Columns, New York, NY
Run On, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida
2019
Handless Operation, Casemore Kirkeby, San Francisco, CA
2018
Jackpot, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA (commissioned video)
Re-Evaluation Station, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Academic Practice: Bay Area Photography Now, Coulter Art Gallery, Stanford University, CA
2016
Chain Reaction 12, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Mistaken Impressions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
2015
Tongue-in-Cheek, diRosa, Napa Valley, CA
Self Made, Bolinas Museum of Art, Bolinas, CA
2014
Paraprodokians and Rubber Chickens, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Marylhurst, OR
OK Great THANKS THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS, ACME. Los Angeles, CA
2013
TWISTED SISTERS: Reimaging Urban Portraiture, Museum Barengasse, Zurich Switzerland, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2012
PlayBack, Queen’s Nails, San Francisco, CA
10 Artists Walk From Home, Will Brown, San Francisco, CA
2011
Better A Live Ass Than A Dead Lion, Eli Ridgway Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Isn’t it Obvious, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
2010
Fade In, University of Texas Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX
Curator: Lucky Dragons
Passport, San Francisco Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA
Smokebath, an online exhibition, Curator: Peter Sutherland
Alchemy, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
There’s a Way In Which. PLAySPACE, San Francisco, CA
Paper Awesome, Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2009
Leaf, Video Window, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Hot and Cold, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
Women on Nature, Verge Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Curator: Emily Prince
Kala Fellowship Residency Show, Kala Institute of Art, Berkeley, CA
Deadpan Exchange, K2, Izmir, Turkey, Curator: Jon Rubin
Sisyphus Office, Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX, Curator: Jonn Herschend
Front and Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Destination, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA
Deadpan Exchange, The Lab, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Jonn Herschend
2008
NY Book Fair, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Material World, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Albedo, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Never Been to Tehran, Aurora Picture Show, Houston TX, Curator: Jon Rubin
Wrong Number, Jack Hanley, San Francisco, CA, Curator: Keegan McHargue
Deadpan, Super Bien Collective, Berlin, Germany
BIBILIOGRAPHY
Blue, Max, “Faking female magicians”, SF Examiner, Oct 2021
Walsh, Theodora, “Critic’s Pick: Cake Taxi”, Art Forum, June 2021
Scott K., Andrea. “Strange Days: Hit Pause, The New Yorker, May 2020
O’Toole, Erin, “Lindsey White”, SFMOMA SECA Catalog, July 2017
Gheith, Jenny, “In Conversation with Lindsey White”, SFMOMA SECA Catalog, February 16, 2017
Desmarais, Charles, “Solid exhibition of unstable art at SFMOMA”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 14, 2017
Whiting, Sam, “Meeting the winners of 2017 SECA Award at SFMOMA, San Francisco Chronicle, June 29, 2017
Lutz, Leora, “Seeing SECA” Art LTD., February, 24, 2017
Cotton, Charlotte. “Photography is Magic!” Aperture, 2015
White, Lindsey. "The American Road Trip." The Photographer's Playbook, Ed. Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, Aperture, 2014
Fulford, Jason. "SF Dispatch." Aperture, Spring 2013, p. 13
Baker, Kenneth, “Duchamp pops up in White’s work”, SF Chronicle, January 2013, p. E2
Hotchkiss, Sarah, “Matter of Fact, Eli Ridgway Gallery”, KQED Blog, December 2012
Untitled (formerly Self Portrait), Featuring contributions from Matt Connors, Luke Fischbeck, David Horvitz, Tamara Shopsin, Jordan Stein, and Lindsey White,
self-published in collaboration with Jordan Stein, 2012
Kluth, Mary Ann, “Isn’t Obvious?”, Art Practical, April 2011
Le Duc, Aimee, “Lindsey White’s Equivalent Exposure”, SF Appeal, June 2010
Baker, Kenneth, “Equivalent Exposure” at Baer Ridgway, SF Chronicle, July 2010,p. E1.
Smoke Bath, Seems, 2010, unpaginated (16 illustrations).
Dyer, Carol, “Lindsey White at Ping Pong Gallery”, Artsweek, May 2009, p. 46.
“Local Artist of the Week: Lindsey White,” SF Guardian, March 11, 2009, p. 22.
“Magic Moments”, SF Weekly, March 30, 2009
Lindsey White, iheartphotograph.blogspot.com, March 30, 2009
The Whole Wide World, self-published sculptural book, 2008
Get Together, SF Weekly, November 29, 2006
RESIDENCIES
2024
Stoveworks, Chattanooga, TN
2021
Latitude, Chicago, IL (virtual due to covid)
2012
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Marin, CA
2010
Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist in Residence, Marin, CA
2008
Kala Institute of Art, Artist in Residence, Berkeley, CA
Artist in Residence, Claire Lillienthal Middle School, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Whitney Museum of Art Library, New York, NY
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
UCSF Mission Bay Hospital
Private Collections
CURATORIAL/ARTIST COLLABORATIONS
2012- Present Will Brown is a collaborative project based in a storefront space in
San Francisco’s Mission District. Our main objective is to manipulate the structures of exhibition-making as a critical practice. Will Brown is Lindsey White, Jordan Stein, and David Kasprzak. Will Brown has hosted 8 exhibitions and over 35 one night events at our San Francisco storefront, along with ten offsite exhibitions with Bay Area institutions. www.wearewillbrown.com
WILL BROWN EXHIBITIONS
(all hosted at our 24th Street Storefront)
2014 Bruce Conner’s Metaphysical Services: This is a Bruce Conner Exhibition
2013 The Ghost of James Lee Byars: A Retrospective
Supreme Condominium Exhibition
OFF SITE EXHIBITIONS
2018 Ether, Walter and McBean Galleries at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2016 Matrix 259, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
Dr. Rhodes Chiropractic, Stone Soup, Ghent, Belgium
2014 Elephant Graveyard: Will Brown on Bruce Conner, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Inherent Vice: This is not a Bruce Conner Exhibition, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Bauhaus Baunshaus, Capp Street Project Anniversary, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA
2013 THAT POSSUM HAS BEEN HERE SINCE THE BEGINNING: SELECTIONS FROM THE HEADLANDS COLLECTION, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin CA
Sea Stories Between the Tides, Highlight Gallery
City of Busappearances, Wattis Institute/Kadist Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2012 John Seastrunk: Happy Holidays to All, Southern Exposure/Machine Project
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
2017 SECA Award Finalists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2016 Creative Work Fund Grant, San Francisco, CA
2012 Alternative Exposure Award, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
RESIDENCIES
2013 Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, California
WILL BROWN BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brown, Will, “Bruce Conner Brass Handles, J&L Books, October 2016
Garrels Gary & Freiling, Bruce Conner: It’s All True, University of California Press, July 2016
Howard, Rachel, “Art group Will Brown adds green glow to ’70s installation”, San Francisco Chronicle, June 2015 http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Art-group-Will-Brown-adds-green-glow-to-70s-6320096.php
Burke, Sarah, East Bay Express, “BAM/PFA's Fluorescent Green Past” June 2015 http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/bam-pfas-fluorescent-green-past/Content?oid=4330435,
New York Times, T Magazine. Tauba Auerbach, Under the Influence. February, 2014
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/under-the-influence-tauba-auerbach-on-book-fairs-knitwear-and-the-grateful-dead/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
Bad at Sports, Will Brown, Episode 388, <badsports.com>, February 2013
Martinez , Christina Catherine, “Meet Will Brown: Meta-Curating”, ArtSlant, February, 2013
Hotchkiss, Sarah, “Best New Space: Will Brown, San Francisco”, Art Practical, <artpractical.com>, August 2012
Gerrity, Jeanne Best Exhibition in a New Gallery: Manitoba Museum of Finds Art, Will Brown, Art Practical, <artpractical.com>, August 2012
Pritkin, Renny , “Best Imaginary National Enquirer Headline: “Will Brown Born in Same Mission District Storefront in Which His Ancestor Died” and Best Exhibition: Manitoba Museum of Finds Art”, Art Practical, August 2012
McDowell, Tara Artforum Critics' Picks, Manitoba Museum of Finds Art, Artforum, June <artforum.com>, 2012
Hotchkiss, Sarah, “Treasures from the 'Mooseum:' The Manitoba Museum of Finds Art”, KQED Blog, May 2012
Gemmell, Grace-Yvette, Who Is Will Brown? Meet the Team Behind an Experimental Gallery, Illegitimate Business, and Comedy Drawing School, Artlog, <artlog.com>, March 2012
Westbrook, Lindsey, “And all for the want of a horseshoe nail...I mean, a name. The story of San Francisco's greatest new art space, Will Brown”, CCA Alumni News, May 2012
Martinez, Christina Catherine, Invaluable Objects, ArtSlant, February 2012
McCarthy, Allison, “Illegitimate Business” Exposes the underbelly of the Artworld”, 7x7 Arts and Culture, February 2012
Bellamy, Dodie, “Illegitimate Business”, SFMoMA Open Space Blog, January 2012
Pritikin, Renny, Illegitimate Business, Art Practical, January 2012
Beard, Dena, “Looking Back: Looking Forward”, Frieze, <frieze.com>, December, 2012