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JUSTIN BRICE
Born Justin Brice Guariglia, 1974, New Jersey, USA
Artist known for his work on ecological issues.
Lives and works in New York City.
EDUCATION
1997 (BA) Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA
1996 Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
1995 Casa Artom, Venice, Italy
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
HUMAN KIND NESS, Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
REDUCE SPEED NOW!, Somerset House, London, UK
WE ARE THE ASTEROID III, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, USC Fisher Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018
We Are The Asteroid II, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, USA
Climate Signals: Engaging New York City in the Climate Conversation, The Climate Museum, New York City, NY, USA
Like a Thief in the Night: Justin Brice Guariglia, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Landscapes: Justin Brice Guariglia, Art Brussels, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2017
Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Phenomena ad Noumena, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO, USA
Intervention: After Ice, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Intervention: After Ice, New York City, NY, USA
After Nature, TwoThirtyOne Projects, New York City, NY, USA
Field Notes: Omega Block I, Russo Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
2016
Topographies of the Anthropocene, Lincoln Center Global Exchange, New York City, NY, USA
2009
Planet Shanghai, Chobi Mela V, Festival of Photography, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shaolin, Aperture Foundation/Utah Valley University Woodbury Museum, Orem, UT, USA
2008
Shaolin, Aperture Foundation/National Geographic Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Shaolin, Aperture Foundation/Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007
Qi, Amelia Johnson Contemporary Gallery, Hong Kong
Qi, Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Qi, The Aperture Foundation Gallery & The Rubin Museum, New York City, NY, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Mare Nostrum, 58th Venice Biennale, Official Collateral Event, Venice, Italy
Imagine Climate: Artists on Climate Change, Anderson Ranch, CO, USA
iBiennale, Honolulu, HI, USA
2.7°, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Ghisla Art Collection Foundation, Locarno, Switzerland
2018
For Freedoms, 50 States Initiative Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, USA, Oklahoma City, OK, USA Los Angeles, CA, USA
Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY, USA
Expo Chicago, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
2017
Wisdom & Nature, Le Ciel Foundation
Phillips New York City, NY, USA; Phillips Paris, France; Phillips London, UK
2016
For Freedoms, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Summer Group Show, 1 Grand Army Plaza, New York City, NY, USA
PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
2017 After Ice, app launched for Earth Day, 2017
2016 Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) mission with NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab
2015 Operation Ice Bridge (OIB) mission with NASA/Goddard
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS
2021 Distinguished Climate Fellow and Special Envoy to the Ecological Crisis Pratt School of Architecture and Urban Design
2021 Senior Fellow, and Artist-in-Residence, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA
2019 Shortlisted, COAL Prize, COAL, Paris, FR
2019 Finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), New York City, NY, USA
2018-2021 Artist-in-Residence, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, USA
2018-2020 Fellow, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA
2017 Fellow, Howard Foundation, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
2017 Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2019
State of the Planet, Guest Blogger, "Mixing Art and Environmental Science to Catalyze Social Change", May 10
Justin Brice Guariglia with Phong Bui, Phong Bui, The Brooklyn Rail, April 3
Climate Signs, Emily Raboteau, The New York Review, February 1
2018
Ask a Scientist: How to Deal with a Climate-Change Skeptic, Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, November 17
Art and the Environment: Museums Adjust to a New Climate, Greg Morrison, Sotheby’s Museum Network, November 9
When Art Mimics Highway Signage, Courtney Lindwall, Onearth from the National Resources Defense Council, October 9
Public Art with a Goal: Spur Climate Conversations, Devi Lockwood, Yale Climate Connections, October 4
Justin Brice Guariglia Hopes His Expo Chicago Installation We Are The Asteroid II Will Raise Eco-Awareness, Marissa De La Cerda, Chicago Reader, September 25
This Artist Is Raising Environmental Awareness All Across New York, Colleen Curry, Galerie Magazine, September 10
Signs of Climate Change Pop Up in New York — Really, Erin Blakemore, The Washington Post, September 9
‘Art Can Play a Valuable Role’: Climate Change Installations Appear in New York, Oliver Milman, The Guardian, September 4
Climate Museum Sends Distress Signals to Stimulate Discussion, Laura van Straaten, The New York Times, August 30
What Will Art Look Like in 100 Years? We Asked 16 Contemporary Artists to Predict the Future, Artnet News, June 12
Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene, Vernon Press, Essay
Artists on Climate Change: The Exhibition Tackling a Global Crisis, Nadja Sayej, The Guardian, May 30
Artists Show Their Power to Effect Change, Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper, May 28
Artists Deliver Climate-Change Message That Time Is Running Out, Helen Stoilas, The Art Newspaper, May 28
The End of Nature at Storm King Art Center, Carl Swanson, New York Magazine/Vulture, May 26
Climate Change Think Tank, Alaska Museum, and Artist Launch Collaboration to Tell Story of Thawing Permafrost, Woods Hole Research Center, Anchorage Museum of Art, May 25
A Right or a Privilege? Artists Speak Out on the Met Policy, Laura van Straaten, The New York Times, March 1
Artist Ai Weiwei’s Journey Following Refugees Takes Him to Puerto Rico, Laura van Straaten, NBC News, February 25
2017
As Waters Rise, Artists Answer a Call to Action, Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper, December 8
Justin Guariglia (’97): Beyond Photography, Maria Henson, Wake Forest University Alumni Magazine, October 9
Climate-Change Art Exhibit Was Almost Swallowed by Hurricane Irma, Erin Blakemore, The Washington Post, September 23
These Are the Faces of Art Activism Today, Guest Editor: Pharrell Williams; Written by Laura van Straaten, Departures, September 19
The Iceman Cometh: Guariglia Flies with NASA To Make Eco-Art, Carol Strickland, Art in America, September 12
Coming Soon To Mar-A-Lago: These Giant Artworks About Climate Change, Eillie Anzilotti, Fast Company, September 1
A Man on a Eco-Mission in Mixed Media, Ted Loos, The New York Times, August 29
Justin Brice Guariglia’s Powerful Photos of Melting Glaciers, Alina Cohen, Galerie, August 26
This Artist Turns Aerial Photography Into Prints That’ll Last Forever, Elizabeth Stinson, Wired, August 28
This Artist’s New Landscape Studies Are of Melting Glaciers, Kyle Chayka, The Verge, August 22
Images of Melting Glaciers Head to Backyard of Trump’s Florida Home, Helen Stoilas, The Art Newspaper, July 12
Land Art, Julia Halperin, Cultured Magazine, July 1, 2017
An Artist Finds Inspiration For His Art in Science, Ellie Kincaid, The Wall Street Journal, May 5
On Earth Day, One Artist Launches a Secret Project to Show What New York Will Look Like Underwater, Julia Halperin, Artnet, April 22
A Guide to Museums Getting Political This Year, Jane L. Levere, The New York Times, March 13
The Visceral Climate Experience, Sonja van Renssen, Nature Climate Change, March, 2017
Artist Teams Up with NASA on Climate Education, Sara Peach, Yale Climate Connections, January 24
2016
Artist Justin Brice Guariglia Works With NASA To Raise Awareness of Rising Sea Levels, Julia Travers, SciArt Magazine, November 18
Above the Ice, an Artist Goes Deep, Chau Tu, Science Friday, October 19
The Melting Ice Sheet, The Artist, And The Space Agency, Jessica Leber, Fast Coexist, October 12
Art and Science Meld as NASA Announces a New Artist Collaboration, Hilarie M. Sheets, The New York Times, September 16
NASA’s New Artist Has An Amazing Climate Change Tattoo, Jessica Leber, Fast Coexist, September 16
LECTURES & TALKS
2019
Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lectures, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA
WE ARE THE ASTEROID, Talk with Timothy Morton, Pratt Institute, New York City, NY, USA
The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis Symposium, Christies, New York City, NY, USA
Photo+Sphere, Keynote Speaker, Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC, USA
Sunrise Movement, Green New Deal talk, New York City, NY, USA
2018
The State(s) We’re In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations, Deutsches Haus at NYU, New York City, NY, USA
Reckoning with the Climate Crisis, New York Review of Books, New York City, NY, USA
Earth Works Symposium, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Action Through Art, The Explorer’s Club, New York City, NY, USA
Artist talk, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
AR in Action Industry Summit, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
Polar Opposites: A Brown Arts Initiative Symposium on Art & Environment, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
2017
Can Art Inspired by Science Change the World?, Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, USA
World Science Festival, New York City, NY, USA
Global Wellness Summit, The Breakers, Palm Beach, FL, USA
The New Normal, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride, CO, USA
Science & Climate Change March, Dupont Underground, Washington, D.C., USA
EcoArt Project Salon Series: Greenland’s Melting Glaciers, TwoThirtyOne Projects, New York City, NY, USA
2016
Year Four Labs: Future Textiles, Parsons School of Design, New York City, NY, USA
SXSL, The White House, Washington, D.C., USA
The Astronaut and the Artist, Lincoln Center Global Exchange, New York City, NY, USA