Brandon Coley Cox

In residence
May - June, 2018

Brandon Coley Cox is an emerging artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Printmaking and one the Grant Wood Fellowship recipients at the University of Iowa. He earned his MFA from Yale University, along with the Ely Harwood Schless Award for Excellence in Painting. Cox has been awarded other residencies in the past at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in Times Square and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Cox has work in several permanent collections including The International Print Museum in Southern California and the Museum of Paper and Watermark in Fabriano, Italy. He begins teaching painting at The Cooper Union this fall.

His current studio practice involves the expansion and conflation of painting, drawing, printmaking and ceramics. He creates paper from found urban materials and fuses it into plaster which is various shades of black and embedded with specifically chosen objects. Hammered pieces of metal, meteorites, powdered tires, shredded steel bits, natural crystals, etched copper plates, and royal purple velvet fabrics all combine within one piece to create an unexpected yet intriguing experience that directly relates to being able to perceive a kind of blackness that is not so easily definable.

AWARDS

2015
Rome Prize Nomination
Rema Hort Mann Award Nomination
Honorary Ely Harwood Schless Memorial Fund Award for Excellence in Painting, Yale University

2014
Barry Cohen Award for Excellence, Yale University

2009
Camille Hanks-Cosby Scholarship, Skowhegan, MN

2007
Dean’s List, The University of the Arts

2004
Granville T. Woods Full Scholarship for Academic Achievement

RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS

2017
Visiting Critic, Graphic Design Department, Maryland Institute College of Art
Visiting Assistant Professor, Grant Wood Fellowship, Printmaking Department, University of Iowa
Visiting Artist, Painting Department, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

2016
Guest Critic, Fine Arts Department, Pratt University

2015
Artist in Residence, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY

2010
Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Fellowship, New York, NY

2009
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Residency, Skowhegan, ME

2007
Printmaking/Papermaking/Book Art Residency at The Museum of Paper & Watermarks, Fabriano, Italy
Artist in Residence, Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

Artist's Website:
http://bcoxart.com/home.html