BRITTA URNESS
Portales, NM
brittaurness@gmail.com
www.brittaurness.com
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023
Regalos, Hecho Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Either Or/Neither Nor, Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University (solo
2022
Manifest Folly, Eula Mae Edwards Gallery, Clovis, NM (solo)
2020
Sorry, I'm Not Leaving, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI (solo)
Holiday Benefit Featured Artist, Reach Studio Art Center, Lansing, MI
2019
City Art Connections, Eclectic Gallery, Battle Creek, MI
Inner Workings, Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University
The Black Arts Tarot 1: Major Arcana, University of Nebraska-Omaha
Selections in Printmaking from the Permanent Collection, Waage Gallery, Fergus Falls, MN, curated by Lori Charest
2018
The Black Arts Tarot 1: Major Arcana, Colorado Mesa University, CMU art gallery, Grand Junction, CO
A Gathering of Perspectives Cultivating Community, Waage Gallery, Fergus Falls, MN
Sometimes Bluebird, (SCENE)Metrospace, East Lansing, MI (three person)
Dear Creature, Delta College Galleria, Saginaw, MI (solo)
Hatchback 12, Hatch Art, Detroit, MI
too bad the good times don't last (Boom/Bust Cycles), Tressa Jones organizer, Southern Graphics Council International Conference, Las Vegas, NV
MINIPRINT International Exhibition, JVS Project Space, New York, NY
Superstitions, West Virginia University School of Art and Design
2017
Themeless, Whitdel Arts, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI
Art Girl Starter Pack, Robin Theatre, Lansing, MI
Pop Up: Special Edition, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
Star-Crossed Lovers, Morissey Gallery, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
Transcendental Depths, Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2016
Ain't No Real Wound, Hatch Art Collective Cafe 1923, Hamtramck, MI (solo)
Indirect Messaging, Greater Lansing Arts Council, Lansing, MI (solo)
Small Works, Lemonade Stand Gallery, Key West, FL
2015
93rd Annual All Media Show, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Resurrected: The Early Works, Satellite Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
2014
Party Lines, Smart Clothes Gallery, New York City, NY
2013
Headspace, Rubies Paradise, Lansing MI (solo)
BESIDE OURSELVES, Milkmaid Gallery EL, East Lansing, MI (two-person)
Instructions_13, SCENE(Metrospace), East Lansing, MI
B3: Blooms, Bugs and Beasts, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2012
LOVE FOR SALE (you know you need it), work-detroit, Detroit, MI
NOTABLE
2023
Juror, East Lansing Art Festival
2021
Curator, Never Not Nature: Megan Heeres, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Art Lab, East Lansing, MI
Juror, East Lansing Art Festival
2020
Juror, East Lansing Art Festival
Juror, Arts Council of Greater Lansing Art in the Sky, Lansing, MI
2019
Co-curator, Holiday Exhibiton, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI
Featured Artist, REACH Studio Art Center Holiday Exhibition, Lansing, MI
2018
Instructor, Pirate Printing Workshops, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
2017
Instructor, smARTS Workshop, Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI
2016
Juror, Michigan 8th Congressional District High School Arts Exhibition
2015
Recipient, Chris Clark Fellowship for Creative Professionals, Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI
Juror, East Lansing Art Festival
Juror, Change of Seasons, Arts Council of White Lake, Whitehall, MI
2013
Curator, Instructions_13, (SCENE)Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
2012
Committee Member, Chris Clark Fellowship Program for Creative Professionals, Arts Council of Greater Lansing, Lansing, MI
2010
Curator, Oblique Patience, (SCENE)Metrospace East Lansing, MI
Visiting Artist, studio visits and public lecture, Luther College, Decorah, IA
PRINT EXCHANGES
2022
Reappriation, organized by Alanna Austin, MAPC Conference, Kent State University, OH
2019
The Black Arts Tarot II: Minor Arcana, organized by Matthew Hanson Weller, Grand Junction, CO
(un)Necessary Duplicates, organized by Megan O'Connor, Wayne State College, Wayne, NE
2018
The Black Arts Tarot, organized by JC Cox, Minnesota State- Fergus Falls, Fergus Falls, MN
too bad the good times don't last (Boom/Bust Cycles), organized by Tressa Jones, SCGI Conference, Las Vegas, NV
2017
Superstitions, organized by Stephanie Alainz, West Virginia University
Value of Sum, organized by Matthew Hanson-Weller, Durango, CO
Star-Crossed Lovers, organized by Alison Filley, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, IA
2016
Solidarity: Postcards for Peace at Standing Rock, organized by Aunna Escobedo-Wickham, Madison, W
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Cover Art, Lansing City Pulse, 19 July 2017, Volume 16, Issue 38 ed.: 1. Print.
Henderson, Carlee. “Following the instructions: Art show at (SCENE)Metrospace challenges artists with limitations.” lansingcitypulse.com. web. 1 Nov. 2013. 8 Nov. 2013.
Velez, Pedro. “Eye Exam: Museum Porn Arrives in the Midwest.” Newcity
Art. Newcity Communications, Inc. 27 Nov. 2012. Web. 22 Nov. 2013.
Downs, Davis, et al. Face, Figure, Identity. Chicago: Sproketbox Media. 2012. Print.
Studio Visit Magazine. Volume 10. (2010): 164-5. Print.2009
"Pop Art Portraits." Grand Rapids Herald-Review, 25 Apr. 2009. Print.
Sturdevant, Andy. “Don’t Forget Where You Are: Two Iowa Artists Discuss the Flood of 2008.” MentalContagion . web. July 2008.
EDUCATION
2008 MFA, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking minor, University of Iowa
2007 MA, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking minor, University of Iowa
2004 BFA, Studio Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2022- present Assistant Professor, painting + drawing, Eastern New Mexico Univeristy
2018 - 2022 Art Lab Studio Educator, Eli and Elythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
2011-2021 Adjunct Instructor, drawing, printmaking, painting + professional practices, Michigan State Univeristy
2011 - 2018 Academic Advisor, Department of Art, Art History + Design, Michigan State Univeristy
2008 - 2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, art foundations + drawing, Michigan State Univeristy
2007-8 Instructor of Record, drawing and elements of art, University of Iowa
2005 - 2007 Teaching Assistant, drawing, elements of art + painting, University of Iowa
