Bio

Brandon Wilkinson is a Pacific Northwest based painter and academic reference librarian. His work often

utilizes photographic source materials to create landscape based work which tends toward

environmentalism and existential allegory.http://brandonwilkinson.com/

Statement

I broke up with a long-term girlfriend who I was cohabitating with at the beginning of the winter and found

myself, abruptly, homeless. I’ve been sleeping in my car and at friend’s houses since. This series of

photographs attempts to express the texture of that experience through snapshots of my everyday life.

The stigma of homelessness is alive and well, even as the displaced population in Portland continues to

grow in response to rising housing costs. I present these photos as evidence that living without a home

doesn’t need to mean living without dignity or joy. My art is an attempt to deepen and extend empathy…

mine and yours.

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                        b. 1979 Redmond, OR

                        Education

2001                 BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

                        Solo Exhibitions

2013               The Shore: Paintings and Drawings, K&F Coffee House, Portland, OR.

2010               Paintings, Emerge Interactive, Emerge Interactive, Portland, OR.

2009                 Paintings, The Know, Portland, OR.

2008                 Friends, Vices, and Fantasies, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR.

Group Exhibitions

2007                 Blackfish Group Show, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA.

2006                 Blackfish Group Show, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY.

2005                 New Paintings, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR.

2005                 Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR.

2005                 New members, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR.

2001                 Erotic, Eager Wally Gallery, Portland, OR.

2001                 PNCA Thesis Exhibit, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.