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Kyle Bravo
BIO
Kyle Bravo lives and works in the upper 9th Ward of New Orleans. Along with his wife, artist Jenny LeBlanc, he founded the printmaking studio, Hot Iron Press in 2002. He currently teaches visual art at Lusher Charter High School in New Orleans and also teaches and manages the printshop at Louisiana Artworks – a center for visual art in New Orleans. Kyle is a founding member of The Front, an artist-run exhibition space in New Orleans, and his work has been shown in a multitude of exhibitions both nationally and internationally from New Orleans to New York to Tokyo. Kyle is the former organizer of The NOLA Bookfair, an annual event in celebration of independent publishing and alternative media, and he is the editor of the book Making Stuff and Doing Things: A Collection of DIY Guides to Doing Just About Everything, published by Microcosm Publishing.
RESUME
Education
M.F.A.
2004 Studio Art University of North Carolina
B.F.A. 2000 Studio Art Louisiana State University
Grants
2008 The
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Career Opportunity Grant
2008 Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, Economic Opportunity Grant
2007 ARTDOCS and The Idea Village, ARTDOCS Rx Grant
2006 Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation, Artist Grant
2006 Arthouse at the Jones Center, Emergency Artist Relief Grant
2006 Alliance of Artist Communities, Gulf Coast Artist Hurricane Relief Grant
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2009 Snowball,
collaboration with Jenny LeBlanc and Claire Rau, Open Studio, Toronto, ON
(catalogue)
2008 Open Peril, collaboration with Jenny LeBlanc, The Front, New
Orleans, LA
2008 Face Off, collaborative performance with Jenny LeBlanc, Art
For Arts’ Sake, Julia St, New Orleans, LA
2007 Kyle Bravo and Jenny LeBlanc Face Off, collaboration with Jenny
LeBlanc, The Big Top Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 Remains, two person show with Jenny LeBlanc, University of Montevallo
Art Gallery, Montevallo, AL
2005 A.R.M. (Art, Ready-to-Make); collaboration with Jenny LeBlanc,
Colby Sawyer Univ. Art Gallery, New London, NH
2004 Moments and Movements, Durham Art Guild, Durham, NC (solo)
2003 Birds and Americas, Alcott Gallery, Hanes Art Center, UNC, Chapel
Hill, NC (solo)
1997 Rocket to Heaven, Burn Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA (solo)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Things Fall Apart, The Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Way
Down in New Orleans, travelling exhibition 2008 - 09: Civilian Art Projects,
Washington, D.C.; Super Alright Creative Studio, Austin, TX; The Front, New
Orleans, LA
The St. Claude Collective, Universal Furniture, Prospect.1, New Orleans,
LA
2007
Ad-lib
Americana, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Flipbooks: Votre Pouce Fait Son Cinema, traveling exhibition: Le
Grand Cordel, Lendroit, Office de Tourisme, and LISAA, Renne, France
2006
The
International Flipbook Festival, Traveling Exhibition from 2006 –
’07: Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, UK; Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA;
Little Cakes Gallery, New York, NY; Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Remembering What Care Forgot, ABC No Rio, New York, NY
The Arts Formally Known As Prints, Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Seppuku, Irregular Rhythm Asylum, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Alphabet:
An Exhibition of Hand Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography; Traveling
Exhibition from 2005 – ‘09: Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, MICA,
Baltimore, MD; Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL; M-80,
Milwaukee, WI; Workhorse Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Northern Illinois University,
DeKalb, IL; Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA, Minneapolis
College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN; Cooper Union, New York, NY
Books and Prints, Galleria Sottoportego, Scuola Internazionale di
Grafica, Venice, Italy
PrintROOM, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004
What
the Book?, The Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Art of Zines 04, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Felix Variations: Artists Respond to Felix Gonzales-Torres, Playspace,
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Projet Mobilivre/Bookmobile Project, US/Can traveling exhibition
Stay Tuned: Hypnotic Videos by Contemporary Artists, The Studio,
Armonk, NY
2003
Open
For Action: Political Artist Books, Center for Book Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Book,
Transformer Gallery, Washington, DC
Reading Room, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Collections
ABC No
Rio Zine Library, New York, NY
Civic Media Center & Library, Gainesville, FL
Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
LSU Hill Memorial Library, Baton Rouge, LA
Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green, OH
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA
VCU Cabell Library Special Collections, Richmond, VA
Selected Print and Internet Bibliography
Jason
Urban, “SGC Panel: Performance Prints,” Printeresting Blog, March
26, 2009
http://printeresting.org/2009/03/26/sgc-panel-performance-prints/
Author unknown, “Must-See Shows,” NOW Magazine, March 12 –
18, 2009, 66
Gar Michael Dault, “Memorials to a Landscape Under Assault,” The
Globe and Mail, March 21, 2009
Claire Ruud, “Artists’ Space: Hot Iron Press,” …might
be good #114, Fluent Collaborative E-journal, January 23, 2009
http://www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/artistsspace/index/114
Althea Murphy Price, “For the Love of the Process,” Press Play
Print Blog, December 4, 2008
http://pressplayprint.com/?s=kyle+bravo&x=0&y=0
Dan Fox and Leo McGovern, “Kyle Bravo Doesn’t Front, He’s
Making Stuff and Doing Things,” Antigravity Magazine,
vol. 6 no. 1, Nov. 2008, cover feature, 20-21
Doug MacCash, “Outdoor Outlandishness,” Times Picayune, Lagniappe
section, Oct. 3, 2008, 3, 14-15
Mr. McGinnis, “New Orleans: Alive and Printing!,” Print Fetish
Blog, November 9, 2007
http://printfetish.com/2007/11/new_orleans_alive_and_printing_1.html
Diane Mack, Interview, WWNO, New Orleans, LA, October 27, 2006
J. Powers, “Murmurs: Print,” Clamor Magazine Online, January/February
2006
http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/35-5/content/murmurs_print.php
Sonya Shrier, “What the Book?,” The Brooklyn Rail, November, 2004
William Zimmer, “Art Review; Taking In Videos (And Feeling Faint),”
The New York Times, May 23, 2004
Susan Broili, “Arts: These Birds Don’t Fly,” Chapel Hill
Herald, March 19, 2004, 1, 3
Current Employment
Aug, 2008
– present Teacher, Lusher Charter High School, New Orleans, LA
(Visual Art Certificate of Artistry Levels 1-3, Art Elective, and Business
Computer classes)
Aug, 2008
– present Printshop Manager, Louisiana Artworks, New Orleans, LA
(maintain printshop, teach and organize community printmaking classes)
2002 –
present Director, Hot Iron Press, New Orleans, LA
(letterpress and screenprinting studio)
Gallery Affilitation
The Front,
New Orleans, LA