2024

"Onwards", Anton Kern, New York

2023

"Still", Palazzo Cavanis, Venice
“Crosstalk”, Almine Rech, Shanghai
“Still”, Almine Rech, Venice

2022

"More", Almine Rech, Brussels
"New Year", Corvi-Mora, London
“Something or Other”, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago

2021

"More Days", Almine Rech, Paris

2020

“Waiting”, Anton Kern, New York
“Sound”, Almine Rech, Shanghai

2019

“Fugue”, Almine Rech, Paris

2018

“Pressing On”, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
“Così fan tutte”, Gallery Met, Met Opera, New York

2017

Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Major Minor”, Corvi Mora, London, UK
“Brian Calvin | Wendy White”, Cabinet, Milan, Italy (two person exhibition)
“States”, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels

2016

Early Work, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Hours”, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
“The Meditations: Chicago 1991 - 1999”, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (cat)

2015

“End of Messages”, Mu.ZEE, Ostend
“End of Messages”, Le Consortium, Dijon

2014

Anton Kern Gallery, New York (cat)

2013

Corvi-Mora, London
“End of Messages”, The Finley Gallery, Los Angeles

2011

Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago

2010

Corvi-Mora, London

2009

“Head”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2007

Corvi-Mora, London
“Things”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

2006

Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2005

Corvi-Mora, London
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

2004

Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2003

Corvi-Mora, London
“The Conversation”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

2002

“Unreal”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

2001

Corvi-Mora, London

2000

“Days”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

1999

“It's Easy to Make Friends”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

1998

“Good News”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

1996

“God's Plot & John Wilkes Booth”, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago

1994

“New Paintings: Brian Calvin”, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago

2023

“The Echo of Picasso”, Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga
“Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism”, Almine Rech, London
“Tondo”, organized by Patricia Pericas, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2022

“Something Like a Self. Brian Calvin - William N. Copley - Karl Wirsum”, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf
“Speed to Roam”, Tif Sigfrids, Athens
“Romancing Relevance”, Woaw Gallery, Central, Hong Kong
“Marriage: From Antiques to Contemporary Art”, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo,
“BodyLand”, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

2021

“Salon de Peinture”, Almine Rech, New York
“Brian Calvin Marcus Jahmal”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

2020

“Painting Someone”, Almine Rech, Shanghai
“Sympathetic Magnetic”, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
“Summer”, Almine Rech, Paris
“Spring”, Almine Rech, Paris

2018

“Cliché”, Almine Rech, New York
“Line and Verse”, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

2017

“Tomorrow’s Man 4”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“la mère la mer”, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
“American Genre: Contemporary Painting”, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland
“Forest on the Edge of Time”, The Pit II, Los Angeles
“Los Angeles: A Fiction”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon

2016

“Implosion 20”, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
“Outside”, curated by Matthew Higgs, Karma, Amagansett, New York
“Los Angeles - A Fiction", Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
“Wild Style: Exhibition of Figurative Art”, Peres Projects, Berlin (cat)
“What's Up?”, Soho Revue, London

2015

"About Face", Kanye Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles
"The Guston Effect", Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston
"Intimate Paintings", Half Gallery, New York
"The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes), a show by Eric Troncy" - Almine Rech Gallery, Paris 
“Tracing Shadows”, PLATEAU, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
“SELF: Portraits of Artists in their Absence”, National Academy Museum & School, New York

2014

“Another Cat Show”, 356 Mission, Los Angeles

2013

“California Landscape Into Abstraction: Works From The Orange County Museum of Art”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (cat)

2012

“About Face”, ACME, Los Angeles
“We The People”, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York

2011

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
“Dystopia”, CAPC Museé d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux (cat)

2010

“This and That”, Corvi-Mora, London

2009

“Electric Mud”, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston

2008

“Dinner and a Group Show”, GBE@passerby, New York
“Pretty Ugly”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Maccarone, New York
“Live Undead”, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

2007

“Good Morning, Midnight”, Casey Kaplan, New York (curated by Bruce Hainley)
“If everybody had an Ocean. Brian Wilson an art exhibition”, Tate St Ives,
St Ives; CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux
“Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative”, Thomas Dane, London (cat)
“After Cezanne”, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2006

“Red Eye. LA Artists from the Rubell Family Collection”, Rubell Family Collection, Miami

2004

California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
“Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art”, CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
“Now and Then Some”, Claremont College, Claremont (curated by David Pagel)

2003

Prague Biennale 1, Veletrzní Palác, Prague
“Giverny”, Salon 94, New York
“Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; MCA, San Diego; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia; CCAC Watts Institute, Oakland (cat)
“Ishtar”, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, Minnesota (curated by Bruce Hainley) (cat)
“The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 AD”, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
“The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes”, Stazione Leopolda, Florence (curated by Francesco Bonami & Raf Simons) (cat)
“Youngstars”, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
“Painting Pictures”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (cat)
“Dear Painter, paint me”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main (cat)

2002

“Collectors Program: Sammlung Köhn”, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
“Grey Gardens”, Michael Kohn Gallery (curated by Bruce Hainley)
“The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London”, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
“Paintings”, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
“Dear Painter, paint me”, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (cat)

2001

“The Americans. New Art”, Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat)
“The Devil Is In The Details”, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston

2000

“Collector's Choice”, Exit Art, New York
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

1999

“Meanwhile...”, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo

1996

“Brian Calvin, Suzanne Doremus, Edward Henderson & Deborah Orapallo”, Foster Gallery, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, Wisconsin

1995

“X-sightings”, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1994

“Created Here: a Salon d'Ecole”, Richard Himmel Gallery, Chicago
“Recent Paintings”, Gallery 2, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
“Don Baum's Grab Bag”, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
“Discontents & Debutantes: Brian Calvin & Mike Cockrill”, Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

1993

“Whose Broad Stripes & Bright Stars: Death, Reverence & the Struggle for Equality in America”, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago

2018

Brian Calvin, “Duet (with Chorus)”, Flood Editions

2016

Brian Calvin, John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, "Brian Calvin: The Meditations: Chicago 1991 - 1999", Corbett Vs. Dempsey (cat)

2014

Anton Kern Gallery, "Brian Calvin", Black Dog Publishing

2011

Jonathan Griffin, “Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting”, Phaidon Press, pp.70-71
Mark Von Schlegell, “New Dystopia”, Sternberg Press, pp. 153 & 171
Devin Johnston, “Traveler Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

2007

Thomas Dane, London “Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative”, Valerio Valerio Publishers, p.27
“RED EYE, LA Artists From the The Rubell Family Collection”, texts by Michael Darling and Michael Holte, Ecuador

2005

Kraus, Tumlir & McFadden, “LA Artland”, Black Dog Publishing, pp.76-77
Alex Farquharson, “Brian Wilson: An Art Book”, Four Corners Books

2004

Devin Johnston, “Looking Out”, Lung, Issue 8

2021

Evan Pricco, "The Everlasting Waiting", Juxtapoz Magazine, Winter

2017

Brain Calvin, “Artists’ Artists: Brian Calvin”, Frieze.com, September 26
Lisa Davidson, “Brian Calvin at Anton Kern Gallery”, BlouinArtInfo.com, September 10
Sasha Bogojev, "Brian Calvin Paints Luscious Lips and Gap-Toothed Faces in London", Juxtapoz Magazine, May 26

2016

Nicholas Forrest, "Brian Calvin's "Hours" of Painterly Pauses at Almine Rech Gallery", BlouinArtInfo.com, March 17

2015

Bill Powers, "Flow West", MuseMagazine.it, September 29
David Page, "'About Face' a disparate collection, enhanced by those around it", LATimes.com, August 7
Judicael Lavrador, "Brian Calvin, mission impassible", Liberation.fr, June 26

2014

Anne Prentnieks, “Brian Calvin”, Artforum.com, September

2013

Thomas Davis, “Brian Calvin at the Corvi-Mora Gallery”, Hero magazine, October 28
“Brian Calvin’s L.A. Youths: the artist behind Raf Simons’ spring 13 prints”, SSENSE, May
T.S., “7 Questions: Brian Calvin”, Painting in L.A. Blog, 24 April

2012

Bruce Hainley, “Sadgasm”, Spike, Issue 34, Winter, pp.79-89
William Oliver, “The, Now, Next – Raf Simons Talks to Dazed, Reflecting on His Stellar Collection, Dior Couture, LA Artist Brian Calvin and Grunge”, dazeddigital.com, June 28

2009

Judicaël Lavrador, “Qu-est-ce Que La Peinture Aujourd’hui?”, Beaux Arts Éditions, November, pp.70-71

2006

Bridget Goodbody, “Brian Calvin at Anton Kern Gallery”, Time Out New York, September 28-October 4, p.72
Sonia Campagnola, “Focus Los Angeles”, Flash Art International, January/February, p.69

2005

Charlotte Mullins, “Telling Tales”, Vogue, October, pp.117-120
Cathy Horyn, “Raf”, The New York Times, September 18
“Brian Calvin”, Flash Art, July-September, Vol.38. No.243
David Pagel, “Sober, steady, yet electrifying”, L.A. Times, May 13, p.E24

2004

Michael Wilson, “Brian Calvin”, Artforum, December, p.195
Jack Bankowsky, “Best of 2004”, Artforum, December, pp.162-163
David Cohen, “Ellen Gallagher: Exelento. Brian Calvin. James Rielly”, New York Sun, October 7
Ken Johnson, “Brian Calvin at Anton Kern”, The New York Times, September 17
Christopher Knight, “Coastal Confluence”, LA Times Sunday, February 1, pp.E1,41,48-49

2003

Sara Harrison, “Brian Calvin”, Time Out, September 17-24, p.62
Fisun Güner, “Brian Calvin”, Metro, September 9, p.22
Jessica Lack, “Brian Calvin”, The Guardian (G2), September 8, p.18
“Still Waters Run Deep”, ArtReview, September, p.22
David Pagel, “The Unmemorable Now Unforgettable”, The Los Angeles Times, May 9, p.E21
Marc Foxx, The Los Angeles Times, May 9, p.E21

2002

“Focus Painting Part I”, Flash Art, Vol.XXXIV. No.226, October, p.80
Brian Sewell, “The Galleries Show at the Royal Academy”, Metro Life (Evening Standard), 19-25 September, pp.48-49
Roberta Smith, “The Staying Power (and it's Not a Freeze Frame) of Paint”, The New York Times, July 21, pp.25,27
Zoo, March, No.12, p.84
Ilaria Bonacossa, “The Americans: New Art”, Flash Art, January, p.48

2001

Bruce Hainley, “Brian Calvin”, Artforum, February, pp.140-141
David Gleeson, “Brian Calvin”, Time Out, No.1609, p.59
Jennifer Higgie, “Brian Calvin”, Frieze, September, pp.89,96
Susan Corrigan, “New York Sucks”, i-D, October, pp.184-190
Martin Herbert, “States of the Art”, ArtReview, Autumn, pp.50-51
Mark Sladen, “Young Americans”, Blueprint, November, pp.50-56

2000

Bruce Hainley, Artforum, Best of 2000 Issue, December, p.133
Alison Gingeras, “Subversion du Kitsch: Conjectures on Conceptual Uses of
Figurative Realism”, Art Press, Paris, December, pp.28-36

1999

Hanatsubakll, No.585, Tokyo, March
Monty DiPietro, “Brian Calvin: Documenting the Moments in the Nooks and
Crannies of Life”, The Japan Times, December 25

1998

After Hours, No.7, Tokyo, October
LUNG, No.7, Chicago

1997

New American Paintings, No.11, Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MS, August
Chicago Review, Vol.43, No.1, Chicago, Winter

1996

Todd Meyers, “Reviews: Brian Calvin”, New Art Examiner, April
Susan Buck-Morse, “Galleries”, Chicago Tribune, February 2
Margaret Hawkins, “Evil is the Watchword in Separate Exhibitions”, Chicago Sun Times, January 19

Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
DePaul Art Museum, Chicago
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), San Diego
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Portland Art Museum, Portland