About:
Noah Breuer is an American artist originally from Berkeley, California. His creative work examines themes of family, identity, labor and diaspora. His current project examines the visual legacy of "Carl Breuer and Sons," his jewish family’s former textile printing business, founded 1897 in Bohemia and seized by the Nazis in 1939. Breuer holds a BFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA from Columbia University and a graduate research certificate in traditional woodblock printmaking and paper-making from Kyoto Seika University in Japan.
Breuer's recent solo exhibitions include Reclamation at the National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library (Cedar Rapids, IA 2023), Table Settings at Urban Glass (Brooklyn, NY, 2023), Something Stolen / Something New at Atelier Circulaire, (Montreal, QC, 2022) , Cabbage at VisArts (Rockville, MD 2021).
His artist books have been published by the San Francisco Center for the Book, as well as, Small Editions in Brooklyn, New York. His work is in the permanent collections of the New York Public Library and the Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Breuer currently works as an Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo SUNY.
Contact:
NoahBreuer(at)gmail.com
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EDUCATION:
2007 - MFA, Visual Art, Columbia University, New York, NY
2005 - Graduate Research Certificate in woodblock printmaking + papermaking,
Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
2004 - BFA, Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2024 - Artist in Residence, Atelier Pavlica, Hroznová Lhota, Czech Republic
2021 - Community Studio Fellowship, Dieu Donné, Brooklyn, NY
2020 - Material Exploration Award, Surface Design Association
2020 - New Faculty Summer Research/Creative Scholarship Grant, Auburn University
2019 - California Society of Printmakers Residency at The W.O.R.K.S. Printshop, Vallejo, CA
2019 - Artist in Residence, Bullseye Projects, Emeryville, CA
2018 - Small Plates Program, publishing stipend, San Francisco Center for the Book, CA
2016 - Artist in Residence, Summer Craft Forum, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
2016 - Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2015 - Faculty Development Grant, Fashion Institute of Technology / SUNY, New York, NY
2015 - Adjunct Professional Development Grant, New York University, New York, NY
2014 - Artist in Residence, Hotel Pupik, Scheifling, Austria
2013 - Artist in Residence, Grin City, Grinnell, IA
2011 - Fellowship Award + Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2010 - Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2009 - Artist in Residence, Ox-Bow School the Art, Saugatuck, MI
2009 - Artist in Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA
2007 - Morton Frank Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, NY
2005-07 - LeRoy Neiman Fellowship, Columbia University School of Art, New York, NY
2001 - John Chironna Memorial Scholarship Award, RISD, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024: Návrat (Return), Moravian Beauty Foundation, Břeclav, Czech Republic
2023: Reclamation, National Czech and Slovak Museum & Library, Cedar Rapids, IA
2023: Recast, Wilson Hall Gallery, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
2023: Table Settings, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, NY
2022: Something Stolen / Something New, Atelier Circulaire, Montreal, Québec, Canada
2021: Cabbage, Vis Arts Center, Rockville, MD
2020: Heirloom, Sheetz Gallery, Penn State, Altoona, PA
2020: Something Borrowed / Something Broken, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
2019: Seams, Hoover Public Library Galleries, Hoover, AL
2019: CB&S Werkstätte, Spudnik Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018: Bohemian Showroom, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME
2018: Lucerna, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2018: The Tatra Tassels, Kala Art Institute, Milvia/Addison Windows Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017: Factory Recall, Zughaus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2005: In Japan, Kyoten Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
TWO & THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2022: Postscript: Noah Breuer & Golnar Adili, Kent State U. Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH
2022: Good On Paper: Noah Breuer & Liz Chalfin, Samford University Gallery, Birmingham, AL
2021: Iteration Multiplier: Noah Breuer & Charlene Liu, IMPACT 11, Hong Kong, China
2021: Means of Production, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2021: A Social Practice, Moon Gallery at Berry College, Athens, GA
2019: California Society of Printmakers AiR Exhibition, InCahoots, Petaluma, CA
2014: Unseemly Creases, Noah Breuer & Ben Garthus, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY
2014: Radical Perception: A Love Triangle, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024: Hotel Pupik - 35 Years, Echoraum, Vienna, Austria
2024: The Laser Printmaker, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, IA
2024: Printed & Stitched, San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA
2024: The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now and Then, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2024: Printed & Stitched, Grace Hudson Museum, Ukiah, CA
2023: Art In Craft Media 2023, Birchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY
2023: 2023 MAPC Juried Members’ Exhibition, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
2023: PRINTED & STITCHED, Art Ark, San Jose, CA
2022: Flashing the Leather, Alabama Contemporary Art Center, Mobile, AL
2022: 33rd National Drawing & Print Competitive Exhibition, Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore, MD
2021: Concept Collect, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
2021: 107th Annual Membership Exhibit, California Society of Printmakers, Online Exhibition
2021: Import/Export, Kent State University, Kent, OH
2021: 41th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2021: New Editions, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2020: Devotion: Sewing the Sacred, Surface Design Association Journal
2020: Sanctuary, Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA
2020: Fragile, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2020: Now, More Than Ever, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2020: Surface Impressions, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE
2020: 40th Annual National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN
2020: CAA ARTexchange, Hokin Project Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2020: Sympoiesis: Printmaking in the Expanded Field, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2020: Calamity, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Rome, GA
2019: North American Print Biennial, Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2019: PaperWest Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
2019: Portrait: The Kentler Flatfiles in 58 Works, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY
2019: On the Tip of My Tongue, Carnation Contemporary, Portland, OR
2019: The Laser Printmaker, Dallas University, Dallas, TX
2019: SGCI Members Traveling Exhibition, The University of Texas Arlington Gallery, Arlington, TX
2019: Faculty Triennial, Jule Collins Smith Museum of Art, Auburn, AL
2019: 199c, BLDG, Covington, KY
2019: Domestic Oasis, Gallery 1010, Knoxvillie, TN
2019: 13th Annual California Centered: Printmaking Exhibition, Merced County Arts Council, Merced, CA
2018-19: Hot Off the Press, Carnegie Art Center, Turlock, CA
2018: Pressing Matters, San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA
2018: DISCURSIVE, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2018: Show Your Hand, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY
2018: Berkeley Civic Center Art Exhibition 2018, Berkeley, CA
2018: Artist's Annual, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2017: Framwerk, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017: Made in Oregon, White Box Gallery, Portland, OR
2016: Endless Biennial, 20/20 Gallery, New York, NY
2016: Victory Garden, Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2016: No Regrets, LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
2016: The Genuine Article, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
2016: Near Mint, Land Gallery, Portland, OR
2016: Automic, Small Engine Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2016: Safe at Home: A Short Survey of Baseball Art, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2015 - New Prints 2015/Autumn, International Print Center New York, NY
2015 - Homecoming, Flatbed Press Gallery, Austin, TX
2015 - Select 2015, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
2015 - Distortion Exchange Portfolio Exhibition, Southern Graphics Conference International, UT Knoxville, TN
2015 - Select 2015, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
2015 - New Views 2015, FIT Faculty Exhibition, John R. Reeves Great Hall, New York, NY
2015 - Collection, Lynn and Carl Goldstein Gallery @ FIT, New York, NY
2014 - Art Show Today, Planthouse Gallery New York, NY
2014 - Somewheres and Nowheres, International Print Center New York, NY
2014 - Radical Perception: A Love Triangle, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Invitational, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
2014 - Captured: NYU Faculty Printmaking Exhibition, Barney Building, New York, NY
2013 - Personal Desire Propaganda, 111 Front Street, Brooklyn, NY
2013 - How You Gonna Get Back to Jersey? Planthouse Gallery, New York, NY
2013 - Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York, NY
2013 - New Prints 2013 / Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY
2013 - Ink, Press, Repeat, National Juried Printmaking Exhibition, William Patterson University Galleries, Wayne, NJ
2012 - It's A Small, Small World, Family Business Gallery, New York, NY
2012 - Published by the Artist, International Print Center New York, NY
2011 - Can't Hear the Revolution, Kunsthalle Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
2011 - Hello tomorrow: Bay Area Artists Envision the Future, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
2011 - Deep/Shallow, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011 - Works of Art to Make You Pause, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ
2011 - New Prints 2011/Winter Print Exhibition, International Print Center, New York, NY
2010 - Show Me Some Skin, SHO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010 - New Prints Spring 2010, Selected by Philip Pearlstein, International Print Center, New York, NY
2010 - Wounded in Action, National Museum of Health and Medicine at Walter Reed, Washington, DC : and University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD : and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2009 - A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999 – 2009,
2009 - Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2009 - Contemporary Prints: 1999-2009, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009 - Up and Coming, New Printmakers, Hunderton Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2009 - New Prints Spring 2009, Selected by Polly Apfelbaum, International Print Center, New York, NY
2009 - The Practice of Joy Before Death; It Just Wouldn’t Be a Party Without You, Scaramouche c/o Fruit and Flower Deli Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Hello tomorrow: Bay Area Artists Envision the Future, David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA
2008 - Death of the Bush Era, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA
2008 - How Does A Patriot Act? Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2008 - New Prints Winter 2008, International Print Center New York, NY, and Costal Carolina University, Conway, SC
2008 - RISD NYC Alumni Biennial, The Old American Can Factory, Brooklyn, NY
2007 - Neiman Center Publications, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2007 - Four Person RISD Alumni Exhibition, Caelum Gallery, New York, NY
2007 - Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Thesis Exhibition, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
2007 - Summer Festival Exhibition, Ise Cultural Foundation, New York, NY
2006 - “Yo! What Happened to Peace?” An Exhibition of Peace, Anti-War, Anti-Occupation Prints, Chicago 2006, Rome 2007, Los Angeles 2007, Brussels 2007, London 2007, Stockholm 2008
2005 - Kyoten Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan
2005 - The 9th Exchange Exhibition of Prints, Museum of Contemporary Art at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
COLLECTIONS
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
University of Oregon Design Library Artists’ Book Collection, Eugene, OR
Alfred R. Goldstein Library, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
Fleet Library, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR
Bancroft Library Special Collections, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
TALKS and WORKSHOPS
2024 - Frottage Werkstette, Art Brut Center Gugging, Klosterneuburg, Austria
2020 - Artist to Artist Lecture, Schneider Museum of Art, University of Southern Oregon, OR
2020 - CB&S Risograph Workshop, Hokin Project Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
2019 - CB&S Rubbing Workshop, Jule Collins Smith Museum, Auburn, AL
2018 - CB&S Rubbing Workshop, Pickwick Press, Portland, ME
2018 - CB&S Rubbing Workshop, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
2013 - New Prints 2013/Autumn, International Print Center New York, New York, NY
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2022 - Banner Flags of Resistance and Revolution, Portfolio Exchange Organizer,
Mid-American Print Council Remote Symposium, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 2022
2020 - CB&S Risograph Workshop, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL
2020 - Mapping Personal Histories / Navigating Political Tides,
Southern Graphics Council International Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2019 - The Rubbing Workshop: Authorship, Appropriation and Labor,
SECAC Conference, Chattanooga, TN, 2019
2016 - Distorted Expectations: Illusions of Materiality in Prints,
Southern Graphics Council International Conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
PRESS & BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 - Marsh, Rachel, Cuttings, Exhibition Review,
Printmaking Today, Volume 32, Issue 128, Winter 2023
2021 - Jenkins, Mark, “In the galleries: A rock-and-roll odyssey through sex, race and religion.”
The Washington Post, 24 December 2021.
2021 - Maenpaa, Matt, Firehouse Art Center premiers Means of Production,
The Longmont Reader, July 9, 2021
2021 - Nguyen, Brittany, Uncovering the Heritage Silhouette,
Columbia University School of the Arts Web Publication, March 18th, 2021
2019 - Rakin-Zrihen, Rachel, Vallejo artist residency explores ironic Holocaust connection, Vallejo Times-Herald, July 9, 2019
2016 - Ho, Wuon-Gean, Future Fusion, Printmaking Today, Winter 2016 issue, p. 21
2016 - Hanley, Sarah Kirk, Edition Reviews, Art in Print, Volume 5, Number 6, March - April 2016
2009 - Genocchio, Benjamin. By Invitation Only, The New York Times, August 21, 2009
PUBLICATIONS:
2024 - Hirsch, Robert, The Power of Resilience and Hope – Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now and Then, Exhibition catalog, CEPA Gallery, 2024
2023 - 2023 Art In Craft Media, Exhibition Catalog
Birchfield Penny Art Center, 2023
2024 - Hanley, Sarah Kirk, Reclamation, Exhibition Catalog, 2023
2023 - Printed and Stitched Exhibition Catalog, 2023
2020 - Devotion: Sewing the Sacred, Surface Design Journal, October 2020
2020 - Now, More Than Ever, Wassaic Project 2020 Exhibition Book, August 2020
2018 - DISCURSIVE, exhibition catalog, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
2009 - A Decade of Printmaking: 1999-2009, The LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University Catalog
2007 - Yo! What Happened to Peace? An Exhibition of Pro-Peace, Anti-War, Anti-Occupation Prints,