Gillian Brown

Gillian Brown was born in Manchester, NH, in 1951. She received her BA from Brown University, her MAE from Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA in photography from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has since been honored with multiple awards and grants, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a one-year fellowship from Radcliffe Institute at Harvard. Her work has been exhibited widely, and to much acclaim, at institutions such as the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. Her art is also in the collections of multiple museums and galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Seattle Art Museum. Working with video, photography, and paintings and drawings, Brown explores complex ideas about perception, reality, and consciousness. She currently resides in an ecovillage in Fairfield, Iowa, and teaches as an adjunct assistant professor of art at Maharishi University.