Biography:

Brian D Collier's interdisciplinary projects reveal unfamiliar natural histories of human-transformed ecosystems and the ecology of the built environment. He works in a wide variety of media including photography, drawing, video, sculpture, artist's books, installation and performance.

Collier's work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions around the U.S. and abroad. A partial list of venues include: Palazzo Galli, Fontecchio, Italy; BCA in Burlington, VT; Power Plant Gallery at Duke University; Fleming Museum; 60 Wall Gallery in NYC; Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, Germany; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; Shelburne Museum; Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL; Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA; Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and Galería Raúl Martínez, Havana, Cuba. He has received grants from the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, Illinois Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the City of Bloomington Cultural District Commission .

Reviews and articles about Collier's work have appeared in a variety of publications, among them Art in America, The New York Times, Afterimage, Art Papers Magazine, Domus, The Chicago Reader, Orion: Nature/ Culture/ Place, and The Burlington Free Press. His work is also included in the books: Art and Ecology Now from Thames and Hudson Press, The Object from MIT/Whitechapel Press, Weather Report: Art and Climate Change edited by Lucy Lippard and Say It Isn't So : Naturwissenschaften im Vissier der Kunst / Art Trains its Sights on the Natural Sciences (Weserberg: Museum für moderne Kunst). Collier's writing will be included in Ecoart In Action: Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities, from New Village Press.

Collier earned his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Buffalo. Collier was born in Bay Shore, NY. He is currently a Professor of Art & Design at Saint Michael's College in Colchester, Vermont.