curriculum vita

EDUCATION

  • 1991 M.F.A. Printmaking, The University of Texas at Austin

  • 1988 B.F.A. Painting, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

HONORS

  • 2022 Commission for Zions Bancorporation for 2 monumental oil paintings and 20 large drawings on display at Zions Technology Center, Midvale, UT

  • 2017 First Place Award, Spiritual & Religious, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

  • 2017 Invited to serve on Advisory Board for the establishment of a Mormon Arts Center in New York City, NY

  • 2014 Commission for the State of Utah Public Art Program with the University of Utah Virginia Tanner Dance Program and College of Education for two large paintings for the interior of the Beverly Taylor-Sorenson Complex for Dance and Education on the University of Utah Campus

  • 2013 Selected by the periodical 15 Bytes as one of Utah’s 15 Most Influential Artists

  • 2011 Art in Embassies Program, US Embassy in Kuwait

  • 2010 Governor’s Mansion Artist Award, Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2006 Award of Merit, Museum of Church History and Art

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2024 The Difficult Part: Brian Kershisnik, a Mid-Career Retrospective, Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo UT

  • 2024 Joe & Brian: 30 Years of Friendship and Art , Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

  • 2024 (Since 2005) Annual Show at Meyer Gallery, Park City, UT (February)

  • 2023 (Since 1997) Annual Show at David Ericson Fine Art, Salt Lake City, UT (September)

  • 2019 New Paintings by Brian Kershisnik, New Vision Art Show, June 2019, newvisionart.com

  • 2016 Looking for Something, Prince Gallery, Potomac, MD, Looking for Something Else, Lazenby Gallery, Belmont, MA

  • 2013 Eyes Wide Open, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

  • 2011 A Man with Dogs, Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

  • 2010 Nice Words, Mesa Contemporary Arts, Mesa, AZ

  • 2007 Brian Kershisnik: Painting from Life, Major Exhibition of Large Works, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2019 The Wonder of It, New Vision Art Show, November 15 thru December 2019

  • 2019 Ars Moriendi: The Art of Death and Dying, October 16, 2019 thru January 15, 2020, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

  • 2019 SELF: Explorations of Identity, September 4, 2019 thru May 16, 2020, Springville Museum of Art, Springville, UT

  • 2019 Big Work, Writ & Vision Exhibition, July 19 thru August 15, 2019, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT

  • 2018 31st Annual Christmas Creche Exhibit, December 1-5, 2018, Palo Alto, CA

  • 2018 Salt Lake Print Collective Event, November 2, 2018, , Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2018 The Interpretation Thereof, BYU Museum of Art, Provo, UT

  • 2017 Immediate Present, Riverside Church, New York City, NY

  • 2017 No Prints without Pressure, Writ & Vision, Provo, UT

  • 2016 Monstalgia, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

  • 2015 The Sort of Romantics, Harris Fine Arts Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

  • 2014 Utah’s 15: The State’s Most Influential Artists, Rio Gallery, Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2012 J. Kirk Richards & Brian Kershisnik, St. George Art Museum, St. George, UT

  • 2011 Bible, with Fidalis Buehler and Andrew Ballsteadt, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

  • 2010 Cover: Art Defining Music, Estel Gallery, Nashville, TN

  • 2009 Types and Shadows: Intimations of Divinity, BYU Museum of Art, Provo, UT

PUBLICATIONS

  • 2018 Looking for Something, (2018), London: Unicorn Publishing

  • 2002 Norris, Leslie and Mark Magleby, Painting from Life, (2002), Madison, WI: Guild Publishing

OTHER

  • 2020 Artful, episode 1, BYUtv, April 26, 2020, available at https://www.byutv.org/player/b5a3af8f-cb9f-4e8e-85eb-2a2de8761c84/artful-brian-kershisnik-and-paige-anderson

  • 2019 (Annual event 2011 to present) Lecture on recently acquired 'Nativity’, Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

  • 2019 Interview with Glen Nelson, Brian Kershisnik is Looking for Something, Center for Latter-day Saint Arts, September 1, 2019, podcast found at https://www.centerfor latterdaysaintarts.org/podcast?author=5aa6e74b27978fc75c362ebe

  • 2019 TEDx Talk, Brian Kershisnik: Harvesting from Chaos, published May 3, 2019, talk found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1o5s-p0sp8

  • 2019 Semi-annual Studio Open Houses in April and October (20?? to present)

  • 2018 Terryl Givins interview with Brian Kershisnik, Surprising Angels, Maxwell Institute, September 27, 2018, interview found on YouTube at https://bit.ly/ytmic5

  • 2018 Shawn Rossiter, “all the world’s a stage, and brian kershisnik paints it”, 15 bytes, article found at http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/all-the-worlds-a-stage-and-brian-kershisnik-paints-it/#comment-291652

  • 2015 Advice for Artists, 5 Ideas from Brian Kershisnik, conversation with Steve Olpin, of The Talking Fly, April 22, 2015, found on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBwRR6d2w3s

  • 2013 Joe and Brian, The Talking Fly: A filmmaker’s sketchbook, YouTube Channel

  • 2011 I’m a Mormon, Regional Artist, and Life Balance Seeker, https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2_ZZfCFKsJQ

  • 2010 Artists at Work: The Spirit of Art, LDS Church History Museum

  • 2009 Thinking Aloud with Marcus Smith, KBYU FM89 Radio Interview (1/28/09)

  • 2007 Artist in Residence, Utah Museum of Fine Art

  • 2007 Stewardship and the Leak, Lecture at the UMFA Auditorium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

  • 2007 UtahNOW, KUED TV Documentary (2/23/07)