Born 1968 in San Diego, CA.

Education
1991 University of California at Berkeley, BA .

Solo Exhibitions
2006 Solo Exhibition, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Durham NC.
2005

Solo Exhibition, Carol Shen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Meditations, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
2004 Reflections of Revolution, Provisions Gallery, GAEA Foundation, Washington D.C.

Blackness, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY.
2003 Revolution, P·P·O·W, New York, NY.
2001 MultiFaceted, P·P·O·W, New York, NY.

Public Work, CAP project, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY.
1998 Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA.
1997 Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, NJ.
1994 Politically Correct?, David Raymond Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1993 Automatic, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

Public Projects
2006 Packer Collegiate Collaborative School Project, Brooklyn, NY.
2005

Social Movements Collaborative Project (Multiple Northern Californian locations), CA.

Gateway Community Development Project, Prince George’s County, MD.
2004 Philadelphia Department of Recreation Mural Arts Program Collaborative Projects, PA.

Headlands Center for the Arts Peace and Mindfulness Collaborative Project, CA.

Bowling Green Collaborative project, Bowling Green, OH.

Reinvented: A Collaboration Workshop, with Wendy Ewald and Galeria de Luz, Oaxaca, Mexico.

2003 Revolution: Celebrate Harlem 127th Street, New York, NY.

Wayne State University Collaborative Community Project Development, Detroit, MI.

South (Central) Los Angeles - Divine, West Vernon Elementary/6 Months space, Los Angeles, CA.

Martin Luther King Jr.- AHIMSA project, Harlem, NY.
2002 June Jordan Collaborative Project, Harlem, NY.

Columbus: Tobacco, West Central Health District Dept. of Health, Columbus, GA.

Learning, Buckingham, Browne and Nichols Project, Cambridge, MA.

2001 Information for Peace and Democracy, CAP project, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY.

(De)Segregation, Harvard School of Education, Cambridge, MA.

Harlem Development/Gentrification Collaborative Project, Harlem, NY.

Chatham/Art Omi Collaborative Project, Chatham, NY.

2000 Issues of Hip-Hop (Society), Brooklyn, NY.

Issues of Barbados, with Pedro Nogeura’s U.C. Undergraduate Caribbean Sociology Course.

Public Work, 6th St. Photo Workshop and Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999 Public Work, Greenwich Country Day School, Greenwich, CT.

Community Healthcare Network/Lower East Side Center, New York, NY.

Service and Protection, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY.

Separations, Multiple Site Public Project, University of California, San Diego, CA.
1997 First Night Newark Celebration, Communal Resolutions, Newark, NJ.

All You Can Eat (Capitalism), Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, ME.
1996 See What I See, Public work with Satellite Academy students, New York, NY.
1994 Afrikans, Public Work, McClymmons High School, Oakland, CA.

Public Work, Cohen Alley, San Francisco, CA.
1993 Public Work, 6th St. Photo Workshop, San Francisco, CA.

Relative Concerns, SF Arts Commission, San Francisco, CA.
1992 Homelessness, Public Work, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

Teaching-Learning Public Work, SF MOMA, San Francisco, CA
1990 Commission for the City of San Francisco, Youth Expo at City Hall, San Francisco, CA.

Group Exhibitions

2007

2005

Portraiture Now: Framing Memory, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC.

Change Methods, Provisions Gallery, Washington D.C.

Contemporary Portraiture, Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY.

The Other Mainstream, Selections from the collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn, Arizona State University-Nelson fine Arts center, Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ.

2004

Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride, Smithsonian Anacostia Museum Washington D.C.
Traveling to the African American Museum of Philadelphia, PA.

Social Studies/Brown V. Board of Ed. 40th Anniversary, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Walls of Heritage, Walls of Pride, The Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge, MA.

Impact: New Mural Projects, P·P·O·W, New York, NY.
2003 Community Interactions, Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit, MI.

Black President Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

Coming Home Exhibition, with Student from South Hampton Schools, Parrish Museum, NY.

2002 Cut, Pulled, Colored & Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL.

Social Landscape, P·P·O·W, New York, NY.
2001 Boomerang: Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY.

One Planet Under A Groove : Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY.

Hip-Hop Nation, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

InSite/OutSite, Apex Art, New York, NY.
2000 Public Project, with Art Clash, Red Clay Art Group and Sarah Jones, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY.

Unbottled: New York’s Waters, Hammond Museum, New York, NY.

Identity Show, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.

African American Artists Survey Show, Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY.
1999 Generation Z, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY.

The Process Show/Show Your Work, Pelham Bay Arts Center, New York, NY.

New Voices/New Vision, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA.
1998 The Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY.

Artists in Residence Exhibition, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY.

New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship Exhibition, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.
1997 Sunny Days/Critical Times, The Bohen Foundation, New York, NY.
1996 Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY.

Inaugural Exhibition, Rush Foundation Gallery, New York, NY.

New Jersey Biennial Exhibition, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Patterson, NJ
1995 Alternative Museum, New York, NY.

20th Anniversary Show, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
1994 Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA.

South of Market Cultural Center Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Southern Exposure’s 20th Anniversary Exhibition, San Francisco, CA.
1993 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Swig/Watkins Award Exhibition, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1992
 Luggage Store Gallery, 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA.

Awards
2005 Richard C. Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute.
2004 Headlands Center for the Arts Bridge Residency, Sausalito, CA

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists in Communities grant, with MAP of Philadelphia

2003 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Creative Communities Grant Recipient

Puffin Foundation Grant Recipient
2002 New York Post Liberty Award nomination

Jacob Lawrence Institute for the Visual Arts, Visual + Harlem program

The Rheedlen University for Community Education (TRUCE) Community Activist award
2001 Art Omi International Artist Residency
2000 Vibe Magazine, 100 Most Influential People, Places, and Things
1998 Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1997-98 Studio Museum of Harlem, Artist in Residence
1997 Skowhegan Residency Recipient

Camille Hanks Cosby Fellow
1996 ArtMatters Grant
1994 Best New Muralist Award, Precita Eyes Arts Center, San Francisco, CA
1993 Swig-Watkins Award, New Langton Arts Center, San Francisco, CA

California Exposition, All California Juried Award, for practice in painting
1992 ArtMatters Grant

Teaching and Lectures
2005 Dialogue Collaboration, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.

San Francisco State University – May 4th San Francisco, CA.

Visiting Artist Presentation – February 23rd Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Panelist, NYSCA Upstate History Alliance, Rochester, NY.

San Francisco Art Institute 2-Week Intensive – Collaboration, SFAI, San Francisco, CA.
2004 Galaria De Luz Collaboration workshop with Wendy Ewald, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Philadelphia International Mural Conference Presentation, Philadelphia, PA.

Collaboration Panel, Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin, CA.

TRUCE/NEA visiting artist project, Harlem, NY.

Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

Visiting Artist, Bowling Green, OH.

Weekend Fellow/Presentation, Gaea Foundation, Washington D.C.

Peace and Democracy, at the Democracy Collaborative, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Visiting Artist, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Visiting Artist, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY.
2003 Art in the Public Realm for Pluralism and the Open Society, College of New Jersey, NJ.

Visiting Educator/Artist, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, NC.

History and Democracy lecture/event, New York University, New York, NY.

Moderator, Dialogue: Collaboration, the New School and Queens Museum, New York, NY.

Featured Panelist, National Black Fine Arts Show, Puck Building, New York, NY.
2002 Presenter, Coalition for Essential Schools Conference, Washington D.C.

Lecture, Brooklyn College Visiting Artist Program, Brooklyn, NY.

Lecture, College of New Rochelle visiting artist Program, New Rochelle, NY.

“Collaboration for Peace and Democracy,” Triple Candie Artist Lecture Series 9/10/02, New York, NY.

“Visual Artist and Collaboration,” NYCMER annual conference w/ Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

Collaborative Art Luncheon at New School University, New York, NY.

Visiting Artist, “Brett Cook-Dizney: Concept, Technique and Social Change,” Wayne State University, Detroit, MI.
2001 Lecturer, Askwith Forum, Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA.

Publications
2004

"Collaborating Voice: The Harlem Development/Gentrification Project," Mantis Poetry Journal

Poetry and Politics issue, Stanford University Press, September 2004.

Bibliography
2007

2003		 O'Sullivan, Michael. "Portraiture That Paints Engaging Images," Washington Post, June 1, 2007.

Elizabeth Valdez, Art In America, December 2003.

Liv Wright. International Review of African American Art, Hampton U., vol. 18, number 4.

Catalogue: Black President:Fela Kuti, New Museum of Art.
2002 Cook-Dizney, Brett. Interview. TRACE magazine, Spring 2002 .

Garvey, Marianne. “Portraits for the People is Artist’s Aim,” New York Post, August 12, 2002.

Gierer, Larry. "Activist Art," Columbus Ledger Enquirer, April 26th, 2002.
2001 2001 Takahashi, Corey ."One World One Groove," New York Newsday, October 2001.

One Planet Under a Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art. Catalogue, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2001.

Reid, Calvin. Review, Art In America, October 2001.

Soloman, Deborah. "The Downtowning of Uptown," The New York Times Magazine, August 16, 2001.

Leland, John. "In the Ateliers of Harlem," The New York Times, June 14, p. F9.

Folkes, Toure. "Flippin’ the Lens," Volume.com, June 2001.

Sullivan James. "Hip-Hop Nation Show has a Rap on Black Culture," The San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 2001, p. D1.

Cotter, Holland. Review, The New York Times, May 11, 2001.

Fasching-Gray, Benjamin. (art listings), Shout, May, 2001, p. 10.

Levin, Kim. Short List, The Village Voice, May 1, 2001, p. 80.

Worth, Alexi. Review, The New Yorker, April 23, 2001, p. 37.

Perez, Miriam. "The Education of Clinton Hill," City Limits: New York’s Urban Affairs Magazine, February 2001, p. 5.
2000 Lee, Felicia. "A Hip-Hop Artist Brings It All Back Home," The New York Times.

Prigoff, Jim and Robin Dunix. "Walls of Heritage-Walls of Pride," Pomegranate Press.

Henn, Jennifer. "Artist Joins in Student’s Search for Identities," Southampton Press.
1999 Heiss, Alanna. Interview, Conaissance Des Arts.

Keatings, Peter. "The Color of Joy," Blaze Magazine.

Johnson, Brett. "Brett Cook-Dizney Profile," The Source.

Caccamise, Bob. WABC News.
1998 NY1 News, "Expressions of Harlem"

Young, Victoria. "Where Art Often Mourns, Memorials to Life," New York Times.
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Brackett, Charmain Z., "Artist Combines Messages in Works," Augusta Chronicle.

Sollie, Emily and Kent Kimes. "Painting Fetes Arts Advocates," Augusta Chronicle.
1997 Pickett, Dar la L., "Artist Paints a Message," Maine Sentinel.
1996 Drescher, Timothy W., Street Dialectics: The Art of Brett Cook Dizney, Urbanus Books
1995 Watkins, Eileen. "Review of New Jersey Arts Annual," New Jersey Star Ledger.

Watkins, Eileen. "City W/Out Walls 20th Anniversary Show," New Jersey Star Ledger.

Raynor, Vivien. "City Without Walls 20th Anniversary Show," New York Times.
1994 Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle/Examiner.

Roche, Harry. San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Drescher, Timothy W., "San Francisco Community Murals," Pogo Press.
1993 Roche, Harry. "Critic’s Choice," San Francisco Bay Guardian.

Helfand, Glen. "Critic’s Choice," San Francisco Weekly.

Leonard, Andrew. "Critic’s Choice," San Francisco Bay Guardian.
1992 Porges, Maria. "On the Scene, San Francisco, CA," Artweek ArtSpace Magazine.
1991 Brezinski, Jamey. Review of “Wet Paint” competition.
1990 Kaufman, Laura. "Vandal or Artist?," Los Angeles Times.

Pincus, Robert. "Social Questions in a Medium of Questions," San Diego Union.

Olman, Lea. "Social Questions in a Medium of Questions," Los Angeles Times.