Hello, I have been a working artist for over 30 years. I have worked with art galleries, theater companies, television production companies and children's book self publishing projects as well as photojournalism.
Brigette Burns
https://www.brigetteburns.com
__________________________________________________ ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR
Solo Exhibitions
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
"For a Long Time I Would Go to Bed Early”, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Brigette Burns,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
“On the Other Side Beyond the Mirror,” Project Room, Acuna-Hansen Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
“Brigette Burns,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA “New Work,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Shores Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Centre d'Etudes d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme in Saintes, France “Very Pink,” Mendenhall-Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, CA
“Intimate Dramas,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, CA “Shrimp Bisque,” Dirt gallery, Hollywood, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
“See Jane Run”Contemporary Art about Childhood-Bedford Gallery 2006 including Kim Dingle, Beverly Simmes, Martin Mull etc.
2004
Walnut Creek, CA
“Take This Bread,” Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2002
“New Tales to Tell: West Coast Narrative Art,” San Luis Obispo Art Center,
San Luis Obispo, CA
“Miniature Show,” Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Kaleidoscope: Color systems in painting,” Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Odd Drawings,” Cypress College, Cypress, CA (curated by Tyler Stallings)
“Are You Interested?” Women's Center of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Holly Myers)
“The Inaugural Exhibition,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Representing L.A.,” Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (curated by Gordon Fuglie)
2001
“18th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2000 “Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent,” Millard Sheets Gallery
“Spurgeon Experience,” Santa Ana, CA
1995 “1st Annual Group Show,” 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
“Genderplex,” Puffin Room, New York, NY “Cabaret,” W.O.W., New York, NY
Selected Collections:
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Art Collection
Robert Mailer Anderson, San Francisco, CA
President, The Bower Museum, Fullerton, CA.
Polly Anderson, CEO New Mexico, PBS. Albuquerque, New Mex Tullman Art Collection, Chicago, IL
David Kroll, Baimbridge, WA
Julia Salazar-Executive Director, Eagle Rock Art Center LA, CA
Bibliography
2005 Mendenhall, Lauri, “Purely Passionate,” Coast, February, p. 144
2004 Cheng, DeWitt, “Brigette Burns,” ARTnews, October, Vol. 103, No. 9, p. 193
Westbrook, Lindsey, “Brigette Burns at Heather Marx Gallery,” Artweek, October, Vol. 35, Issue 8, p. 14
Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings, Number 49 January, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA; p. 30-33
2002 Janku, Laura Richard, “Brigette Burns: New Work,” Contemporary, October, p. 88-89
“Chipping away at conformity,”
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Datebook, July 28, p. 21
Bing, Alison, “Fresh Paint,” sfgate.com Art ePick, July 18-24
Kaleidoscope: Color systems in painting (exhibition catalogue), Raid Projects Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA, June
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Nasty Town! The Little Girls Understand,” OC Weekly, April 12–18
Berry, Colin, “ 'The Inaugural Exhibition' at Heather Marx Gallery,” Artweek, February,
Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 25
2001 Chang, Richard, “Art Comes of Age in L.A.,” Orange County Register, November 4
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Burns Baby, Burns,” OC Weekly, January 19–28 2000 Belz, Carl, New American Paintings, edition 31, December (cover)
Carasso, Roberta, review, Artweek, November, Vol. 11, Issue 31
Johnstone, Mark, Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery,
Stallings, Tyler, “Intimate Dramas,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Chapman, CA
Carasso, Roberta, “Through a Woman’s Eye,” Laguna Newspost, May 25
1995 L’Ardennais, Charleville-Mezieres, Les Coulisses de las Creation, France, no. 58
Illustration
2025 Ugly Brown Shoes Author Suzanne Hill
2023 Muppie & Mimi
Author Chrissy Carnesi
2022 Juliet’s Dragon Author Brianna Carroll
2021 Don’t Eat That Nonsense Author Darlene Perry
2020 Scottie & The Bunny Author Jeanne Bunting
2019 Scottie & The Squirrel Author Darlene Perry
2000 Boots
Author Sara Cornett
Grants /Awards
2011 KRQE NEWS- Week 14 contest Winner-Photography
2009 Taos Bentley Super 8 Film Festival-“Best Cinematography”
2002-03 California Arts Council: Artist Fellowship Award for the Visual Arts
1990-95 1990
Film Credits/ Scenic Painting/Production Design etc
Martin Izquierdo Studios, Costume and prop construction 1990’s -2016 freelance NYC
Center Theater Group, The Depot- Culver City, CA –Assistant to lead scenic-Andrew Hammer
Affiliated with Mark Taper Forum 2003
Original Productions/Monster House, SEASON 1 Los Angeles, CA-Lead Scenic Television, reality show –Discovery Channel- 2003-2004
Original Productions/Seven Lives Exposed, Los Angeles, CA-Lead Scenic Television, reality show-The Playboy Channel 2004
U.N.I.M.A. Foreign Exchange Grant, France Cultural Affairs de Francais Grant for foreign study
Capistrano Playhouse/Annual Melodrama- 3 consecutive years, San Juan Capistrano, CA – Assistant to lead scenic. 2004-2007
O-Productions/Kung Pow, Lead scenic-Film, San Juan Capistrano, CA 2000
Vert Entertainment/The Great Gabble-Production Design-Lead Scenic-Costumes-etc.
Independent Short Film, Raffi Bagdasarian Director, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Commercial Art/Restaurant Murals
Calfifornia Pizza Kitchen- David Early Fine Art- Restaurant wall paintings
Marie Callendars Restaurants – David Early Fine Art- Charcoal drawings
El Torito Restaurants- David Early Fine Art- computer design for large mural
Illustration
EEInternational – Childrens Illustration for English Language Books
Canyon Comixs-The Topanga Messenger –cartoonist
Okumu and the Magic Drum, written by Milton Olimadi-Publish in 2018
The Meeting at Got Keyo- the Legend of Min Lyec, Eve Lawino-Published 2015-2016 SOLA Creative- Santiago Oaks Project Parks Dept.
Scottie & The Squirrel- Jeanne Bunting -Published 2016 Scottie & The Bunny-Jeanne Bunting -Publish in 2018
Photography
Cuba News, Cuba, New Mexico, Photojournalist 2011-2014
Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot” Memoire, Nov 2008
Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot” Cowboy for Hire, October 2008 Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot” Morning Comfort, October 2008 Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot”, Silhouette Log Cabin, Dec 2008 Cuba News, Cuba, New Mexico, “Lindrith Rodeo”, 2011
Upstairs at Duroc- Paris France Literary Journal- Issue 14, 2013
Upstairs at Duroc – Paris France Literary Journal – Issue 15, 2014
Art Auction Contributions
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca Taos Art Museum, Taos, New Mexico
Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Ca
OTHER ART RELATED-ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS :
Assistant to Curator-Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca . 1999-2001. Tyler Stallings Curator.
Gallery Assistant- Elga Wimmer Gallery NYC 1996-1997
Gallery Assistant and Coordinator to Richard Bellamy- Oil & Steel Gallery, LIC, NY 1987-1990
Artist Assistant to painter American Alfred Leslie 1987-1988
Education:
BA Hunter College, New York, New York 1990 Painting, Art History, Theater Design
Puppetry/Performance/ Institut International de la Marionette, Charleville-Mezieres, France 1990 & 1995
New York Clown & Mask workshop, NYC Theatre De Complicite Workshop, NYC
BKC Photo, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
https://www.brigetteburns.com
__________________________________________________ ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR
Solo Exhibitions
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
"For a Long Time I Would Go to Bed Early”, Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Brigette Burns,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
“On the Other Side Beyond the Mirror,” Project Room, Acuna-Hansen Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
“Brigette Burns,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA “New Work,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Shores Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Centre d'Etudes d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme in Saintes, France “Very Pink,” Mendenhall-Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, CA
“Intimate Dramas,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, CA “Shrimp Bisque,” Dirt gallery, Hollywood, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
“See Jane Run”Contemporary Art about Childhood-Bedford Gallery 2006 including Kim Dingle, Beverly Simmes, Martin Mull etc.
2004
Walnut Creek, CA
“Take This Bread,” Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2002
“New Tales to Tell: West Coast Narrative Art,” San Luis Obispo Art Center,
San Luis Obispo, CA
“Miniature Show,” Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Kaleidoscope: Color systems in painting,” Raid Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Odd Drawings,” Cypress College, Cypress, CA (curated by Tyler Stallings)
“Are You Interested?” Women's Center of Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Holly Myers)
“The Inaugural Exhibition,” Heather Marx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Representing L.A.,” Laguna Beach Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (curated by Gordon Fuglie)
2001
“18th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2000 “Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent,” Millard Sheets Gallery
“Spurgeon Experience,” Santa Ana, CA
1995 “1st Annual Group Show,” 68 Jay Street, Brooklyn, NY
“Genderplex,” Puffin Room, New York, NY “Cabaret,” W.O.W., New York, NY
Selected Collections:
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Art Collection
Robert Mailer Anderson, San Francisco, CA
President, The Bower Museum, Fullerton, CA.
Polly Anderson, CEO New Mexico, PBS. Albuquerque, New Mex Tullman Art Collection, Chicago, IL
David Kroll, Baimbridge, WA
Julia Salazar-Executive Director, Eagle Rock Art Center LA, CA
Bibliography
2005 Mendenhall, Lauri, “Purely Passionate,” Coast, February, p. 144
2004 Cheng, DeWitt, “Brigette Burns,” ARTnews, October, Vol. 103, No. 9, p. 193
Westbrook, Lindsey, “Brigette Burns at Heather Marx Gallery,” Artweek, October, Vol. 35, Issue 8, p. 14
Zevitas, Steven T. (Editor), New American Paintings, Number 49 January, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA; p. 30-33
2002 Janku, Laura Richard, “Brigette Burns: New Work,” Contemporary, October, p. 88-89
“Chipping away at conformity,”
San Francisco Chronicle Sunday Datebook, July 28, p. 21
Bing, Alison, “Fresh Paint,” sfgate.com Art ePick, July 18-24
Kaleidoscope: Color systems in painting (exhibition catalogue), Raid Projects Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA, June
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Nasty Town! The Little Girls Understand,” OC Weekly, April 12–18
Berry, Colin, “ 'The Inaugural Exhibition' at Heather Marx Gallery,” Artweek, February,
Vol. 33, Issue 1, p. 25
2001 Chang, Richard, “Art Comes of Age in L.A.,” Orange County Register, November 4
Schoenkopf, Rebecca, “Burns Baby, Burns,” OC Weekly, January 19–28 2000 Belz, Carl, New American Paintings, edition 31, December (cover)
Carasso, Roberta, review, Artweek, November, Vol. 11, Issue 31
Johnstone, Mark, Art 2000: Applauding Revolutionary Talent, Millard Sheets Gallery,
Stallings, Tyler, “Intimate Dramas,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Chapman, CA
Carasso, Roberta, “Through a Woman’s Eye,” Laguna Newspost, May 25
1995 L’Ardennais, Charleville-Mezieres, Les Coulisses de las Creation, France, no. 58
Illustration
2025 Ugly Brown Shoes Author Suzanne Hill
2023 Muppie & Mimi
Author Chrissy Carnesi
2022 Juliet’s Dragon Author Brianna Carroll
2021 Don’t Eat That Nonsense Author Darlene Perry
2020 Scottie & The Bunny Author Jeanne Bunting
2019 Scottie & The Squirrel Author Darlene Perry
2000 Boots
Author Sara Cornett
Grants /Awards
2011 KRQE NEWS- Week 14 contest Winner-Photography
2009 Taos Bentley Super 8 Film Festival-“Best Cinematography”
2002-03 California Arts Council: Artist Fellowship Award for the Visual Arts
1990-95 1990
Film Credits/ Scenic Painting/Production Design etc
Martin Izquierdo Studios, Costume and prop construction 1990’s -2016 freelance NYC
Center Theater Group, The Depot- Culver City, CA –Assistant to lead scenic-Andrew Hammer
Affiliated with Mark Taper Forum 2003
Original Productions/Monster House, SEASON 1 Los Angeles, CA-Lead Scenic Television, reality show –Discovery Channel- 2003-2004
Original Productions/Seven Lives Exposed, Los Angeles, CA-Lead Scenic Television, reality show-The Playboy Channel 2004
U.N.I.M.A. Foreign Exchange Grant, France Cultural Affairs de Francais Grant for foreign study
Capistrano Playhouse/Annual Melodrama- 3 consecutive years, San Juan Capistrano, CA – Assistant to lead scenic. 2004-2007
O-Productions/Kung Pow, Lead scenic-Film, San Juan Capistrano, CA 2000
Vert Entertainment/The Great Gabble-Production Design-Lead Scenic-Costumes-etc.
Independent Short Film, Raffi Bagdasarian Director, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Commercial Art/Restaurant Murals
Calfifornia Pizza Kitchen- David Early Fine Art- Restaurant wall paintings
Marie Callendars Restaurants – David Early Fine Art- Charcoal drawings
El Torito Restaurants- David Early Fine Art- computer design for large mural
Illustration
EEInternational – Childrens Illustration for English Language Books
Canyon Comixs-The Topanga Messenger –cartoonist
Okumu and the Magic Drum, written by Milton Olimadi-Publish in 2018
The Meeting at Got Keyo- the Legend of Min Lyec, Eve Lawino-Published 2015-2016 SOLA Creative- Santiago Oaks Project Parks Dept.
Scottie & The Squirrel- Jeanne Bunting -Published 2016 Scottie & The Bunny-Jeanne Bunting -Publish in 2018
Photography
Cuba News, Cuba, New Mexico, Photojournalist 2011-2014
Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot” Memoire, Nov 2008
Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot” Cowboy for Hire, October 2008 Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot” Morning Comfort, October 2008 Tempo Magazine, Taos News, “Parting Shot”, Silhouette Log Cabin, Dec 2008 Cuba News, Cuba, New Mexico, “Lindrith Rodeo”, 2011
Upstairs at Duroc- Paris France Literary Journal- Issue 14, 2013
Upstairs at Duroc – Paris France Literary Journal – Issue 15, 2014
Art Auction Contributions
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca Taos Art Museum, Taos, New Mexico
Eagle Rock Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Ca
OTHER ART RELATED-ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS :
Assistant to Curator-Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Ca . 1999-2001. Tyler Stallings Curator.
Gallery Assistant- Elga Wimmer Gallery NYC 1996-1997
Gallery Assistant and Coordinator to Richard Bellamy- Oil & Steel Gallery, LIC, NY 1987-1990
Artist Assistant to painter American Alfred Leslie 1987-1988
Education:
BA Hunter College, New York, New York 1990 Painting, Art History, Theater Design
Puppetry/Performance/ Institut International de la Marionette, Charleville-Mezieres, France 1990 & 1995
New York Clown & Mask workshop, NYC Theatre De Complicite Workshop, NYC
BKC Photo, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
