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Brian Bress (born 1975) is an American artist, living and working in Los Angeles. Bress earned an MFA in the Department of Painting and Drawing at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2006 and a BFA in Film, Video & Animation from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2006. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2007. In 2002 he had a fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center. Bress's video, "It's Been A Long Day" won first prize at MOCA Miami's short film festival, Optic Nerve XIII in 2011. In 2012 Bress was a guest at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Bress is represented by Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles where he has had two solo exhibitions. His work has also been exhibited at Zach Feuer Gallery, Freight and Volume, and SUNDAY in New York. His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami.

Bress's video 'Status Report' (2009) was exhibited at the New Museum in 2012 as part of the Museum's Stowaway Series. His videos have also been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia ; LA><ART, Los Angeles ; Diverse Works, Houston; University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa; and Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton. His video 'Under Cover' (2007) was included in the comprehensive survey exhibition “California Video: Artists and Histories” presented at the Getty Museum in 2008.

"Bress has produced a number of self-starring, character-driven videos that with a deft sleight of handcraft spin this kind of viewer vertigo down a rabbit-hole dug somewhere between the worlds of Cindy Sherman and Pee Wee Herman."

Selected exhibitions
2012 2011 2009 2007 2006 2003
 * Interventions: Brian Bress, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
 * Brian Bress: Status Report, New Museum, New York, NY
 * Brian Bress: Under Performing, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
 * Creative Ideas for Every Season, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT
 * Creative Ideas for Every Season, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
 * The Royal Box, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA
 * Pardon Me, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 * Project Room, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
 * Sometimes You Are Just A Hat, RC Art Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
 * Brian Bress: New Drawings, Open-End gallery, Chicago, IL