Eric J. Brown’s paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the East coast and the South, including the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
the Serengeti Plains Gallery in Montclair, New Jersey; the Fulton County Arts
Council Southwest Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia; and Ann Connelly Fine Art in Louisiana. Brown was the first artist to have a solo exhibit at the
Louisiana State Archives Gallery.
In addition, his work is in public and corporate collections, including those of the Southern University Museum in Baton Rouge, LA (also the Shreveport, and New Orleans Museum branches) and the National Redevelopment, LLC and Real Estate Services in Newark, New Jersey.
Mr. Brown was recently honored by the Essex County Chapter of the Link’s Inc. in New Jersey and received an honorable mention in Essex Exposed 3 as an artist of South Orange, New Jersey.
Mr. Brown was selected to be one of a dozen artists chosen to represent the south for the Bombay Sapphire National Juried Exhibit. NAACP Unsung Hero Award for Contributions to the Arts. Mr. Brown was selected to be one seven to represent the United States to exhibit in Cuba for the “Seven VS Seven” exhibit.
Eric J. Brown was born in Jersey City, N.J., in 1972.
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Born 1972 in Jersey City, NJ
SOLO ART EXHIBITS
2015-18- Metro Airport, “Flouting / Landing”, Baton Rouge, LA
2011-12- Shaw Center for the Arts, “Text / Context”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Rodneyna Hart.
2011- Southern University Shreveport Museum, “Untitled”, Shreveport, LA. Curator Vivian Kerr
2011- Secretary of State Louisiana State Archives, “Scrolls in Vessel”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator
Rodneyna Hart
2010- Shaw Center for the Arts, “The Blue Room”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Eric J. Brown
2010- LA DOTD Federal Credit Union’s Artist Crossing Gallery, Denham Springs, LA. Curator Lisa Gill
· 2009- Mayor of Baker (Office and Municipal Building) “Art & Sculpture”, Baker LA.
2007- N Gallery “The Creators Breath”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Mark Nicoff
2007- Art Council of Baton Rouge, “Spiritual DNA”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Rachel Bergeron
2003/2004- Hoboken PNC Bank, Hoboken, NJ, Curator Terrence Brown.
2002 – Southern University Founders’ Day Program, “Abstract Expression for Convoluted Times”, Smith-
Brown Memorial Student Union Heritage Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA, Curator Eric J. Brown, (March, 2002)
2001 – Essex County College Art Gallery, “Placebo MindStates-The Chi Soul Child Experience”, Student
Life and Activities Office, Newark, NJ, Curator Eric J. Brown, (October 2001).
GROUP
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2017- Elizabethan Gallery, “Hot Art Cool Nights”, Baton Rouge, LA Curator Liz Walker
2017- Elizabethan Gallery, “Black History”, Baton Rouge, LA Curator Liz Walker
2013- 14 Kress Gallery, “Blue Era” Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Chris Turnner
2012- Kress Gallery, “History and Innovation” Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Chris Turnner
2012- Louis DeAngelo Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Louis DeAngelo
2010- Ann Connelly Fine Art, “Sculpt”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Amy Coe
2010- Ann Connelly Fine Art, “Small Works Show”, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Amy Coe
2009- N Gallery, Baton Rouge LA. Curator Mark Nicoff
2008- N Gallery, “N is in”, Baton Rouge LA. Curator Mark Nicoff.
2008- LA DOTD Federal Credit Union’s Artist Crossing Gallery, “Sweet on Art”, Denham Springs, LA.,
Curator Lisa Gill.
2007- N Gallery, “The Holiday Show”, Baton Rouge LA. Curator Mark Nicoff.
2007- N Gallery, “Black & White”, Baton Rouge LA. Curator Mark Nicoff.
2007- Esopi Gallery, “True Abstraction”, (Featured Artist), Baton Rouge, LA.
2004- Art in the Atrium, “Red Velvet Cake,” Atrium Gallery, Morristown, NJ, Curator
Russell Murray.
2003 – Serengeti Plains Gallery, Montclair, NJ, Curator Charles Thompson.
2002 – Ellen Ashley Gallery, “Hip Hop & Hot,” (Featured Artist), Newark, NJ, Curator Cedric Ashley.
2001 – Ellen Ashley Gallery, “Genesis”, (Featured Artist), Newark, NJ, Curator Cedric Ashley.
INVITATIONAL
2019- – Glassel Gallery, “LUNA 18” Regional Invitational Baton Rouge, LA. Curator K. Malia Krolack,
2018- the Jose Marti Community Arts Collective Central “international Spirit” International Invitational
Havana. Cuba, Curator Brian Hebert
2018- Fulton County Arts Council South West Arts Center “international Spirit Persistance & Resistance”
International Invitational Atlanta, Ga, Curator Brian Hebert.
2017- Glassel Gallery, “Off to See the Wizard” Invitational Baton Rouge, LA. Curator K. Malia Krolack,
2014- Glassel Gallery, “Recycled State” Invitational Baton Rouge, LA. Curator K. Malia Krolack,
2012- Fulton County Arts Council Southwest Arts Center, “Occupy The Globe:
Repossessing Our Planet”, National Invitational Atlanta, Ga. Curator Brain Hebert.
2011- Glassell Gallery, “Decadence”, State Invitational Baton Rouge, LA. Curator K. Malia Krolack
2011- Arts Council of Baton Rouge, “Prospective”, Regional Invitational Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Ann
Connelly.
2008- Fulton County Arts Council South West Arts Center “Funk-tional-ism National Invitational”, Atlanta,
Ga., Curator Brian Hebert.
JURIED SHOW
2018-Monmouth Museum “Does It Match the Couch? A Juried Exploration of Color” Lincroft, N.J.
Curator Catherine Clark
2014- Prospect 3 Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA. Curator Rodneyna Hart.
& Ms. Rain
2013- L’entrepot Gallery, Bombay Sapphire “Artisan Series” Nation & Regional New Orleans, LA. Curator
Andre Guichard.
2012- Fulton County Arts Council Southwest Arts Center, “Deep Roots Fallen Leaves”, National
Invitational Atlanta, Ga. Curator Brain Hebert.
2008 – Louisiana State Museum, “LPB Juried Art Exhibition Auction”, Baton Rouge, LA.
2002- South Orange Art Gallery Juried Show (now known as Pierro Gallery of South Orange), “ESSEX
EXPOSED3.” Curator Marilyn Kushner of the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, (October 2002)
MUSEUM EXHIBITS
2011- Southern University Shreveport Museum, “Untitled”, Solo exhibit, Shreveport, LA. Curator Vivian
Kerr
2002 – Southern University Museum Foundation System Museum, for museums on both campuses in
Baton Rouge, Shreveport, and New Orleans, LA. Curator Vivian Kerr