Brianna M. McIntyre
b. 1992 St. Louis, Missouri
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Graduated 2017)
Furniture and Designed Objects | Fiber and Material Studies
Selected Awards, Honors, Residences
2022 Regional Arts Commission Artist Support Grant Recipient | St. Louis, MO
2021 The Luminary St. Louis Futures Fund Grant Recipient | St. Louis, MO
2020 Women & Their Work Artist-In-Residence | Austin, TX
2019 Project Fielding Teacher’s Collective | Board Member | Chicago, IL (ongoing)
2017 SAIC Sculpture Scholarship for Anderson Ranch Art Center | Snowmass Village, CO
2016 Archibald Motley, Jr. Student Fund Award | Chicago, IL
Projects & Symposia & Appearances
2022 Rite of Location | Public Artist | Occupy Vacancy | St. Louis, MO
2020 African American Craft Summit | Invited Participant | Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage | Washington, D.C.
2020 Duro Oluwu: Seeing Chicago | Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL Project Management, Exhibition Design, Fabrication
2019 Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power | Museum of Contemporary Art | Chicago, IL (Cur: Grace Deveney)
2019 Project Fielding” Teacher’s Collective | Board Member
2019 About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and New Queer Art | Wrightwood 659, Project Management, Exhibition Design, Fabrication, Chicago, IL
2018 Supreme Being: The Symmetry of What You Saw and What You Say | Clough Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College | Exhibition Design, Fabrication | Memphis, TN
2017 Soft: Film by Da’Niro Elle Brown | Performance | PopRally Presents: Twilight Brothers MOMA, Manhattan, NY
2017 Doing the Most: Rashayla Marie Brown Presents Brianna McIntyre | Artist Talk | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
2017 Unsettling the Canon: De-centering Dominant Paradigms/Decolonizing Art Education Symposium | Co-organizer | Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
2016 De Nue Exchange: Artist Grant and Opportunity Fair Exhibition Program | Organizer | Leroy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
2016 Black at SAIC: 30 American Panel Discussion | Panelist | LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, IL
Exhibitions
2021 LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION | Group Exhibition | Northern-Southern Gallery | Austin, TX
2017 Not In My Name | Group Exhibition | SAIC @ Expo | Chicago, Chicago, IL
2017 If It Feels Good" Group Exhibition | YO:U, Wicker Park, Chicago, IL
2017 SAIC: Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016 CONNECT: Hyde Park Arts Festival | Hyde Park, Chicago, IL
2016 Out of Order | Group Exhibition | Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016 De Nue | SITE Galleries Chicago, IL
2016 SAIC 150th/ SSCAC 75th Joint Anniversary "Shared History" Exhibition | South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
2015 Re-visioning The Archives | SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
Curatorial Experience
2017 If It Feels Good | Co-Curator | Group Exhibition | YO:U Wicker Park, Chicago IL
2016 Out of Order | Co-Curator | Group Exhibition | Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery Chicago, IL
2016 De Nue | Co-Curator | Group Exhibition | SITE Galleries, Chicago, IL
2016 SAIC 150th/ SSCAC 75th Joint Anniversary "Shared History" Exhibition | Co-curator South Side Community Art Center, Chicago, IL
Publications and Talks
2022 “Diversity and Inclusion in Instructional Shops”, Student Shop Managers Conference 2022, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, July 2022.
2021 “Rising Stars: Check Out Occupy Vacancy”, Voyage STL Magazine, November 2021.
2021 “Luminary Gallery Awards $60K In Grants to St. Louis Artists Working for Social Change”, St. Louis Public Radio, Jeremy D Goodwin, April 2021.
2020 “Brianna McIntyre awarded Women & Their Work studio residency”, Sight Lines Magazine, September 2020.
2019 “What would Chicago be like with no jails?’: New SAIC exhibit challenges artists and Chicagoans to reimagine criminal justice”, Chicago Tribune, Darcel Rockett, August 2019.
2016 “SAIC students explore different kinds of blackness in 'De Nue'”, Chicago Reader, Aimee Levitt, September 2016.