| Education | |
| 1984 | Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley |
| Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME | |
| 1981 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Teaching | |
| 2022-2023 | University of San Francisco, Distinguished Visiting Artist |
| 2022 | School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Low Residency MFA Program |
| 2022 | California College of the Arts, MFA Advisor |
| 1996-2022 | San Francisco Art Institute, Professor |
| 2008 | Hans Burkhardt Lectureship, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2005 | Master Class in Painting, University of California at Santa Cruz |
| 1997-1999 | University of California at Berkeley, Visiting Faculty |
| California College of the Arts, Faculty Lecturer | |
| Solo Exhibitions (Selected) | |
| 2015 | Better Living Through Design, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2010 | Simulations, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 | All Consuming Identity, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | Rainbow Play Systems, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1999 | The Wish to the Thought, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1998 | It’s Hard To Be Happy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (brochure) |
| 1997 | Died of Laughter, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 | Sleepy Hollow, Feature, New York, NY |
| 1994 | Ring Posies, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1993 | “This may be play to you, ‘tis death to me.”, Feature, New York, NY |
| 1992 | “You, oh queen, are the fairest in the land.”, Feature, New York, NY |
| 1991 | Little Men, Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Brett Reichman New Paintings, Feature, New York, NY | |
| 1989 | Fobbo Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Think Tank, San Francisco , CA | |
| 1985 | Martin Weber Gallery/ Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA |
| Group Exhibitions (Selected) | |
| 2024 | I’ll Be Your Mirror: Reflections on the Contemporary Queer, multiple venues, Detroit, MI (forthcoming) |
| 2023 | If I’d known then: the Art and Architecture Faculty Triennial, Thacher Gallery, San Francisco |
| 2022 | Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, curated by Jack Pierson and Catherine Opie |
| 2021 | SFAI 150: A Spirit of Disruption, Walter and McBean Galleries, curated by Margaret Tedesco and Leila Weefur, San Francisco, CA |
| 2020 | The de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, curated by Enrique Chagoya, Mildred Howard, Hung Liu |
| The Many Faces of Bill Arning, Andew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2019 | More Than 700 Years, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA |
| 2017 | Art AIDS America, curated by Rock Hushka and Jonathan Katz, Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue) |
| 2016 | Tight Ass: Labor Intensive Drawing and Realism, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curator) |
| Catastrophe, curated by John Waters, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA | |
| Summer Reverie, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Art AIDS America, curated by Rock Hushka and Jonathan Katz; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY (catalogue) | |
| 2015 | Art, AIDS, America, curated by Rock Hushka and Jonathan Katz, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA (catalogue) |
| “Retrospective: Paule Anglim (1923-2015): a memorial exhibition commemorating 50 years of support and collaboration”, Gallery Paule Anglim, SF, CA | |
| 2013 | New, Now, Next, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2012 | Contemporary Painting, 1960 To The Present, Selections From The SFMOMA Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, curated by Gary Garrels, San Francisco, CA |
| All I Want is a Picture of You, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2011 | I Am Not Monogamous, I Heart Poetry, Feature Inc. New York, NY |
| 2010 | Silence, Exile, and Cunning, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, curated by Frances McCormack (brochure), Sonoma, CA |
| 2008 | Kiki: The Proof Is In The Pudding, Ratio 3 Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Pacific Light: A Survey of California Watercolor 1908-2008, Nordic Watercolor Museum (Nordiska Akvarellmuseet), Skärhamn, Sweden, (catalogue) | |
| 2007 | Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907-2007, The International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 | Center for Modern and Contemporary Art Grand Opening, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR |
| 2002 | Art in Embassies: Paris, France, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in partnership with the United States Department of State, Paris (brochure), Paris, France |
| 2001 | Extraordinary, Walter and McBean Gallery, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn, San Francisco, CA |
| Showtime, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2000 | Light Fantastic, Walter & McBean Gallery, curated by Constance Lewallen, San Francisco, CA |
| Of The Moment: Contemporary Art From The Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| A Lasting Legacy:Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA | |
| Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1999 | New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| Eye Candy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, CA | |
| 1998 | The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, SF, CA |
| Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, CA | |
| 1997 | Flying Buttress Please, Torch Gallery, Amersterdam, Netherlands |
| Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Gardens Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) | |
| About Face, Transamerica, San Francisco, CA (brochure) | |
| 1996 | Approaching the New Millenium, Berkeley Art Museum,Berkeley, CA |
| Sampling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1995 | In A Different Light, Berkeley Art Museum, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, Berkeley, CA (catalogue) |
| I Gaze A Gazely Stare, Feature, New York, NY | |
| Representational Drawings, Feature, New York, NY | |
| Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR | |
| 1994 | Arabesque, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY |
| Can You Always Believe Your Eyes: Recent American Drawings, Museum of Contemporary Art DeBeyard, curated by Rob Peree and Lydia Schouten, Breda, The Netherlands | |
| And, Feature, New York, NY | |
| Jonathan Hammer, The Books: Read ’em and Weep, Matthew Marks Gallery,(collaboration with Jonathan Hammer and Kevin Killian), New York, NY | |
| 1993 | Beyond Loss, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC |
| Exquisite Corpse,Drawing Center, New York, NY (catalogue) | |
| Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, curated by Tom Patchett, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1992 | The Anti-Masculine, Kim Light Gallery, curated by Bill Arning, Los Angeles, CA |
| Perverse/Nature, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| Why Painting? Susan Cummins Gallery, curated by Bill Berkeson, Mill Valley, CA | |
| Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1991 | Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) |
| Selections San Francisco/Bay Area, The Drawing Center, NY | |
| Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1990 | Que Overdose! Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, curated by Nayland Blake, San Francisco, CA (brochure) |
| San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, traveled to Columbia (catalogue) | |
| Public Collections | |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA | |
| Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA | |
| Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA | |
| Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR | |
| Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD | |
| Kamm Teapot Foundation, Statesville, NC | |
| Grants | |
| 2022 | Eureka Fellowship, Fleischhaker Foundation (nominated) |
| 2019 | Situational: The Body in Contemporary Art, SFAI Faculty Development Grant |
| Eureka Fellowship, Fleischhaker Foundation (nominated) | |
| 2018 | Giovanni Bellini: Landscapes of Faith, Getty Museum, SFAI Faculty Development Grant |
| 2017 | The Venice Biennale, SFAI Faculty Development Grant |
| 2016 | Ingres, The Prado Museum, SFAI Faculty Development Grant |
| 2012 | The Morgan Library, SFAI Faculty Development Grant |
| 2005 | San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty Development Grant. |
| 2001 | San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty Development Grant |
| 1999 | Art Council Grant (Artadia), San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 | SECA Award, SFMOMA (finalist) |
| 1992 | Eureka Fellowship, Fleischhaker Foundation (nominated) |
| 1985 | SECA Award, SFMOMA (nominated) |
| Lectures | |
| 2023 | Rainbow Play Systems: Queer motifs in the work of Brett Reichman, University of San Francisco |
| 2019 | Queer Bodies: Hyperspatialization, Situational: The Body in Contemporary Painting, Symposium Chair, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2014 | Art and Anatomy: The historical and contemporary condition, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2013 | Visiting Artist, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY |
| Graduate Lecture Series, CCA, San Francisco, CA | |
| 2009 | Guest Lecturer, Conceptual Representation, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2008 | Graduate Lecture Series, CCA, San Francisco, CA |
| Hans Burkhardt Lectureship, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA | |
| 2006 | Guest Lecturer, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA |
| 2005 | Visiting Artist, Master Class in Painting, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA |
| 2001 | Guest Lecturer, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
| Guest Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | |
| Graduate Lecture Series, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1999 | Guest Lecturer, The Armand Hammer World College, Las Vegas, NM |
| 1998 | Guest Lecturer, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA | |
| 1997 | Guest Lecturer, “Day Without Art”, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
| 1996 | Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| Guest Lecturer, “Noon Lecture Series”, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA | |
| Art Fairs | |
| 2017 | Untitled, San Francisco, Artadia Foundation, San Francisco, CA |
| 2013 | The Armory Show, New York, Angles Gallery |
| Los Angeles Contemporary, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2012 | Art Platform, Los Angeles, Angles Gallery |
| Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Angles Gallery | |
| 2011 | Artmrkt, San Francisco, Gallery Paule Anglim |
| 2008 | Art Chicago, Gallery Paule Anglim |
| 2007 | Art Chicago, Gallery Paule Anglim |
| 2004 | AADA Art Fair, New York, PPOW Gallery |
| 1998-2003 | San Francisco International Art Exposition, SF, CA, Rena Bransten Gallery |
| 1998-2003 | The New York Armory Show, Rena Bransten Gallery |
| 2000-2003 | Chicago International Art Exposition, Rena Bransten Gallery |
| 2002 | Miami International Art Exposition, Rena Bransten Gallery |
| 1995 | The Grammercy Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Rena Bransten Gallery |