Education

• 1994 Yale University School of Art, MFA
• 1992 Parsons School of Design, BFA
• 1986 SUNY at Albany, Political Science, BA

Solo Exhibitions

• 2010 Faraway Nearby: Addressing Suburbia, Nerman Musem of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
• 2009 Levittown, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
• 2006 Gadget (serial exhibition), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
• Die or Join, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
• 2005 For the Gentle Wind Doth Move Silently Invisibly, Cleveland Public Art, Mall B, Cleveland, OH
• 2000 Llano del Rio, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, CA
• 1999 Llano del Rio, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
• 1998 Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
• Common Consent, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
• 1996 Overmounted Interior, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

• 2010 On and Off the Wall: Seven Sculptors, CRG Gallery, NY
• Faraway, near By, Addressing Suburbia, Nerman Musem of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
• 2009 Parsons Pink Slips: Selected Work by the Department of Fine Arts Adjunct Faculty, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
• Art Brussels, 27th Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
• Chelsea visits Havana, Tenth Havana Biennial, Museos Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba(cat.)
• Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
• 2008 Art Basel, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami Beach, FL
• Ours: Democracy in the Age of Branding, The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, NY
• Mildred’s Lane, Alexander Gray Associates Gallery, New York, NY
• 2007 Mr. President, University Art Museum, University at SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
• 40 Years of Public Art, The Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, NY (cat.)
• 2006 THE BONG SHOW or This Is Not a Pipe, Curated by Beverly Semmes, Leslie Tonkanow Gallery, New York, NY
• Liverpool Biennial International 06, Liverpool, United Kingdom
• Collection/Selection, Curated by Francine Benjo and Potassio Pliffi, Esso Gallery and Books, New York, NY
• 2005 Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, organized by Valerie Smith, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (cat.)
• Library, Contermporary Art Galleries at University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT
• 2004 The Voting Booth Project, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
• Lustwarande 04: Disorientation By Beauty, De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands (cat.)
• Extinct Extant: Art in the Environment II, part of The Big Nothing, The Schuylkill Center, Philadelphia, PA
• 2003 Absence into Presence: The Art, Architecture and Design of Remembrance, Aronson Galleries, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
• Metrospective, New York City Hall Park, New York, NY
• Pursuit of Happiness, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (cat.)
• Eire | Land, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA (cat.)
• 2002 I Bienal Ceará América, De ponta-cabeça, Bienal de Arte Contemporânea das
• Americas, Fortaleza-Ceará, Brazil (cat.) Curated by Jan Joet and Philippe Van Cauteren
• The Presidential Suite, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (cat.)
• Never Never Land, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, NJ
• Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More… On Collecting, guest curated by Ingrid Shaffner for Independent Curators International (traveling), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA (cat.)
• 2001 Alumni Choice: An Exhibition of Works on Paper, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (cat.)
• Sonsbeek 9: LocusFocus, organized by Jan Hoet, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, Netherlands (cat.)
• Crossing the Line, organized by Valerie Smith, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (cat.)
• Never Never Land, Contemporary Art Center, Tampa, FL
• Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More… On Collecting, guest curated by Ingrid Shaffner for Independent Curators International (traveling), Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA (cat.)
• 2000 Over the Edges: The Corners of Ghent, a part of the Charles V 1500-2000 Project, organized by Jan Hoet for the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium (cat.)
• Innuendo, Dee Glasoe, New York, NY
• Never Never Land, University Galleries at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL (traveling)
• 1999 Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, curated by Amy Wolf, organized by the Public Art Fund, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York
• Free Coke, GreeneNaftali Inc., New York
• Holding Court, Entwistle, London, England
• 1998 Genius loci, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland (cat.)
• Young Americans 2, The Saatchi Collection, London, England (cat.)
• Here: Artists’ Interventions at the Aldrich Museum, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT
• Light on the New Millennium, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea
• 1997 projects.doc: Selections from the Robert J. Schiffler Collection and Archive, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
• 9 to 5 @ MetroTech: New Commissions for the Commons, sponsored by Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
• Tableaux, curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL and The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
• AJAR, curated by Atle Gerhardsen, Galleri F15, Moss, Norway (cat.)
• Heaven-Private View: Public View, curated by Joshua Decter, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
• 1996 Intermission, curated by Matthew Ritchie and Toland Grinnell, part of “Can We Talk: A Forum on Dialogue,” Basilico Fine Arts, New York
• Adicere Animos, la Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea e Pinacoteca Nazionale, Cesena, Italy (cat.)
• Verrückt, Museum der Stadt, Arlosen, Germany (cat.)
• Handmade/Readymades, Bertha & Karl Leubdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York (cat.)
• 1995 Verrückt, Schloss Agathenburg, Agatheburg, Germany (cat.)
• Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Arts, New York
• Customized Terror, Artist’s Space, New York (cat.)
• Möbius Strip, Basilico Fine Art, New York (cat.)
• 1994 The Shape of Time, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

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• Kaizen, William R., “Brian Tolle,” BOMB, summer: pp.56-63.
• Kruk, Liedeke, Nice To Meet You: Portrait of Sonsbeek 2001, Arnhem, Netherlands, pp. 10, 29
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• McGee, Celia, “50 Artists, all ‘Crossing the Line’,” New York Daily News, August 24: p.67
• McGowan, Carl, “Exhibit Crosses Over the Line,” Newsday, August 26: p. Q14
• Roelstraete, Dieter, “Rolling Green Hills: New York City’s Irish Hunger Memorial,” DIASPORA (Mediatijdschrift no.158), pp.102-13
• Saul, Michael, “Irish Famine Memorial Begun,” The New York Daily News, March 16: p.33
• Schaffner, Ingrid et al., exhibition catalogue for Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More… On Collecting, guest curated by Ingrid Shaffner, Independent Curators International, New York, p.25
• Siggins, Lorna, “Co Mayo Famine House to Be Rebuilt in US,” The Irish Times, June 2: p.3
• Simpson, Bennett, “Crossing the Line, Queens Museum of Art, New York,” Frieze, October: pp. 96-97 (illus.)
• Sotheby’s.com, “BOMB Magazine’s 20th Anniversary On-Line Benefit Auction,” catalogue, May: p.25
• Usborne, David, “Disused Irish cow shed to grace Manhattan,” The Independent (London), May 31
• Valden, Diane, “Local Irish famine memorial is echoed in Battery Park,” The Independent (Hillsdale, NY), March 16: p.17
• Vogel, Carol, “Inside Art: A Homegrown Biennial,” The New York Times, November 16: p. E30
• Wazuka, Margaret, “Artist Brian Tolle and 1100 Architect Design Half-Acre Irish Hunger Memorial at New York City’s Battery Park City,” Design Architecture News (online), April 12
• Wehr, Anne, “Queens Sized,” TimeOut New York, August 16-23, p.46 (illus.)
• “World’s Fair Remembered Through Exhibit Lights,” Queens Chronicle, August 2: p.27-28
• 2000 Arning, Bill, “Featured Artist: Brian Tolle”, Honcho, March: pp.61-62
• “Beinecke Show Traces Americans’ Utopian Visions,” Yale Bulletin, February 11: p.5
• Blackwell, Josh, “Brian Tolle at Shoshana Wayne”, Art issues, summer: p.49.
• Bollen, Christopher, “Innuendo at Dee/Glasoe” TimeOut New York, June 29 – July 6.
• “Center For New Design At Parsons School Of Design Participates In Exhibition In Ghent,” Antiques & The Arts Weekly, June 9
• Christie’s, Contemporary Art (Day Sale), auction catalogue from May 17 sale, New York, p.44 (lot 143)
• Comte, Béatrice, “De l’art… ou du cochon,” Le Figaro, April 21
• Gisoul, Guy, “Dans les rues de Gand,” Le vif/L’express, April 14: p. 87.
• Goings On About Town, “Innuendo”, The New Yorker, July 3
• Hoet, Jan, exhibition catalogue for Over the Edges: The Corners of Ghent, a part of the Charles V 1500-2000 Project, organized by Jan Hoet for the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
• “Innuendo,” The New Yorker, July 3: p.14
• Johnson, Ken, “Innuendo at Dee/Glasoe”, The New York Times, July 7
• Loire, Cédric, “Gand, de l’autre côté du miroir,” DDO, June/July/August: pp.10-11
• “Musing on Mickey: Never Never Land Attempts to Dissect the Mouse Through Art,” City Link, November 8
• N’Diay, Michel, “’Over The Edges’: Quand le Museé déborde dans la ville… ”
• 1999 Dietz, Paula, “Making What’s Public Private”, The New York Times,
• May 2: p. 29.
• Kaplan, Renee, “And on Another Furniture Front”, Newsday, April 11.
• 1998 “9 to 5 at Metrotech: Brian Tolle,” inprocess, Spring, p.5
• Adeyemi, Ester, “Ausstellung ‘Genius Loci’ in der Kunsthalle Bern,” Berner Bolfszeitung, January 27: p.2
• Adeyemi, Ester, “Ausstellung ‘Genius Loci’ in der Kunsthalle Bern: Eine Standortbestimmung?,” Der Landbole, January 31: p.28
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• Avgikos, Jan, “Brian Tolle,” Artforum, October: pp.123-24
• Avgikos, Jan, “The Shape of Art at the End of the Century,” Sculpture, pp.46-53
• Blair, Dike, “Here: Artists’ Interventions at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,” The Thing – Internet Magazine, November 3
• “Blick auf das Naheliegende,” Zürichsee-Zeitung, January 29: p.20
• Bona, Clara and Elisabetta Pincherele, “Ho trovato l’America,” La Republica Delle Donne, August 31
• Daniel, Jeff, “What’s an Original? 2 Shows Explore the Same Theme Differently?,” St. Louis Dispatch, April 19
• Del Re, Gianmarco, “Young Americans 2: Parts I & II,” Flash Art, November/December: p.66
• “Der neue Direktor der Kunsthalle Bern befragt die Stätte seines Wirkens,” Berner Rundschau, January 29: p.10
• Eleey, Peter, “Now and Later Fails to Offer Viewers the Full Picture,” The Yale Herald, April 10: p.16
• “Erste Ausstellung des neuen Direktors,” Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, January 24: p.7
• “Genius loci,” L’Hebdo, January 29: p.82
• “’Genius loci’: Ausstellung in Kunsthalle Bern,” Der Zürcher Oberländer, January 28: p.26
• “’Genius loci’ in der Kunsthalle Bern,” Walliser Bote, January 16: p.13
• “’Genius loci’: Kunsthalle Bern,” Swiss Agenda, February 2: p.6
• Gould, Claudia and Valerie Smith (eds), 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years, NewYork: Artists Space, pp.138, 266, 284-85
• Glueck, Grace, “A Chair, a Fireplace, Binoculars: Sculpture to Be Seen on the Street,” The New York Times, January 16: p.E39
• Kimmelman, Michael, “Common Consent,” The New York Times, May 29: p.E39
• Koplos, Janet, “Bonnie Collura at Basilico Fine Arts,” Art in America, September
• Krebs, Edith, “Im weissen Würfel,” Tages Anzeiger, February 17: p.55
• “Kunsthalle de Berne: Quand l’esprit des lieux risque de passer inaperçu,” La Liberté, February 7: p.26
• Levin, Kim, “Tony Matelli”, Village Voice, February 9: p. 72.
• Light on the New Millenium, exhibition catalogue, organized as part of the ’98 Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, Korea, pp. 96 (illus.), 161
• Lombardi, D. Dominick, “’Here’ Is Where You Should Be,” The Bedford Pound Ridge Record Review, October 23
• Negrotti, Rosanna, “States of Mind,” What’s On, October 7: pp.8-9
• Oberholzer, Niklaus, “Kunst, die Räume öffnet,” Neue Nidwaldner Zeitung, January 28: p.42
• Philbrick, Harry, Here: Artists’ Interventions at the Aldrich Museum, exhibition catalogue, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, p.13
• Ramp, Stefanie, “It’s All Here,” Fairfield County Weekly, September 24-30
• Ritchie, Matthew, “Love, Sweat and Tears,” Flash Art, November/December: pp.78-81
• Saltz, Jerry, “Jason Dodge ‘Helsinki,’” TimeOut, May 7-14: p.64.
• Schwendener, Martha, “Common Consent,” TimeOut, May 21-28: p.59
• Searle, Adrian, “The Infants Liam and Noel…,” The Guardian, September 7: pp.10-11
• “Transparente Transparenz,” Berner Zeitung, January 23: p.29
• Tschanz, Françoise, “Y a-t-il un esprit dans la salle?,” Journal du Jura, February 6: p.21
• Zaugg, Fred, “Kunsthalle Bern,” Der Bund, January 23: p.7
• Zimmer, William, “A Dozen Artists at Work Within a Challenging Space,” The New York Times, November 22: p.24 (illus.)
• Zwez, Annelise, “Auf den Spuren eines Mythos am Helvetiaplatz,” Aargauer Zeitung, January 27: p.49
• 1997 Arning, Bill, “Public Address: A Show Grows in Brooklyn,” TimeOut New York, November 27-December 4: p.51
• Brunslid, Morten, “Samspill uten et tema,” Moss Avis, April 18
• Findsen, Owen, “Aronoff Exhibit Not Art, But an Art Event,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, July 13
• Findsen, Owen, “Exhibit at Aronoff is a Diverse Delight,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, July 6: pp.E1, E6
• Flor, Harald, “Samspill og solo”
• Halvorsen, Kenneth A., “Den nye kunsttrenden,” Moss Dagblad, April 21: p.29
• Hjerting, Yvonne, “Gi kunsten en sjanse!,” Observer, May 12
• Hjerting, Yvonne, “Med døren på gløtt,” Moss Dagblad, May 3: p.27
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• Skappel, Grania, “Tilfeldig på Alby?, Moss Dagblad, April 18: p.33 (illus.)
• Turner, Elise, “Scenes in Tableaux Expose Life’s Fakery, Underbelly,” Miami Herald, May 11: pp.11, 41
• “Unge kunstnere stiller ut i Galleri F 15,” Aftenposten, April 20
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• Mahoney, Robert, “Brian Tolle, ‘Overmounted Interior,’” TimeOut New York, May 15-22, No. 34: p.24
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• Servetar, Stuart, “Brian Tolle, ‘Overmounted Interior,’” New York Press, May 8-14: p.81
• Servetar, Stuart, “Ouverture: Brian Tolle,” Flash Art, Summer: p.124
• Smith, Roberta, “Enter Youth, Quieter and Subtler,” The New York Times, May 17
• Smith, Roberta, “Handmade Readymades,” The New York Times, March 3: p. C20
• Wallach, Amei, “Overrun, Soho’s Art World Shifts Ground,” The New York Times, May 12: p. H51, H54
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• Danek, Sabine, “Gegen die Geschlechtertrennung,” Szene Hamburg, November: pp.108-9
• Kock, Mechtild, “‘Ver-rückt’: Aggressiv bis leichtfüssig,” Stader Tageblatt, September 25
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• Schiff, Hajo, “New York im Schloss,” Taz Hamburg, September 27: p.23
• Servetar, Stuart, “Pick,” New York Press, July 28: p.53
• “‘Ver-rückt’ Sieben aus New York,” Stader Tageblatt, July 5
• “Ver-rückt Kunst: Sieben Junge New Yorker Stellen Aus,” Stader Tageblatt, September 20
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Selected Collections, Commissions and Public Works

• 2011 Landscape of Memory, City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada (forthcoming)
• Manhattan Bridge/Flatbush Avenue, New York, NY (forthcoming)
• 2010 Macerich, Los Cerritos, LA
• Public Art Wales, Caerphilly, Cardiff, Wales, UK
• Collins Park, City of Miami Beach, Miami Beach, FL
• 2007 Washington State Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
• 2006 New School University, New York, NY
• 2004 Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland, OH
• 2003 City Hall, New York, NY
• 2002 Irish Hunger Memorial, Battery Park City, NY
• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
• 2001 Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
• 2002 S.M.A.K. (Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art), Gent, Belgium
• GSA, Federal Courthouse, Jackson, MI, proposal

Awards

• 2008 The Art Commission of the City of New York Award for Excellence in Design
• 2003 Irish American Historical Society
• Irish American Heritage Committee – Irishman of the Year
• Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award