Born in 1985; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2007 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo & Two-person Exhibitions
2022
5 4 3 2 1, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2021
Perhaps an Asteroid Hit, Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece
2019
Jaguar! Jaguar!, Massimo De Carlo, London, UK
Absorption by the Sun, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Collapse, Caterina Tognon in collaboration with Van Doren Waxter, Venice, Italy
2030, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2018
Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium
2017
HotSpots, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2016
Love Letter, Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2023
Szabolcs Bozó, Jonathan Meese, Brian Rochefort, THE 3 MUSKETEERS (TRIO DE LARGE), PLC Gstaad, Switzerland
2021
Clay Pop, Jeffrey Deitch, New York, NY
On Boxing, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2020
Artifices Instables, Stories of Ceramics, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (through 2021)
Yarrow Pickers, Harper’s Books / Harper’s Apartment, New York, NY
Mass Ornament, organized by Alison Gingeras, South Etna, Montauk, NY
Turpentine, SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2019
Cool Clay, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2017
Ceramic Biennial, CAFAM, Los Angeles, CA
From Funk to Punk: Left Coast Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
All The Small Things, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Regarding George Ohr, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2016
Cavity, Some Time Salon, San Francisco, CA
Taste My Raindrops, Mindy Solomon, Miami, FL
Marinade, BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015
In Reverse Order, The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA Art Miami, Harper’s Books, Miami, CA
Highland Park Museum of Art, Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Gerasimos Floratos and Brian Rochefort, Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium
Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY
Vault Exhibitions, AMOCA, Pomona, CA
Bibliography & Publications
2021
Dessent, Blaire, “Brian Rochefort Surface Tension: TLmag 34 Extended: Precious A Geology of Being,” TL mag, June 11
“FotoFile | Brian Rochefort’s Winning March Across Europe arrives in Greece,” Cfile, April 15
2020
Dessent, Blaire, “Brian Rochefort: Surface Tension,” TL Magazine, November
di Alessandra Laudati, Testo, “Psychedelic Nature,” Architectural Digest Italy, August
Teasdale, Charlie, “Berluti Goes Technicolour: Kris Van Assche brings his love of ceramics into the studio,” Esquire, July, 7
Leitch, Luke, “Artist Brian Rochefort, the ‘Bad Boy of Ceramics,’ Joins Kris Van Assche at Berluti,” Vogue, July 9
2019
Weinstein, Dave, “‘Cool Clay’ Explores a Playful Medium,” The CA Modernist, December 3
—, “Cool Clay artists shift perceptions of ceramics,” ARTLETTER, p 13, September – December Issue
Venezky, Emily, “Brian Rochefort: The man behind the craters,” KCRW, September 7
Zara, Janelle, “A Sculptor Who Makes Ceramics Inspired by Volcanoes,” T Magazine, August 7
Talley, Anna, “5 Design Hotspots at this year’s Venice Biennale,” An Interior, May
Armstrong, Annie, “Brian Rochefort Will Have Venice Show During Biennale,” ArtNews, April 17
Lasane, Andrew, “Globs of Color and Texture Ooze Off Brian Rochefort’s Ceramic Sculptures,” Colossal, February 24
Janet Koplos, “Brian Rochefort: 2030”, Ceramic Arts and Perception, #211
Piejko, Jennifer, “A Walk in the Jungle,” LALA Magazine, January
Goldstein, Caroline, “Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” Artnet News, January 7
Koplos, Janet, “Brian Rochefort 2030 at Van Doren Waxter Gallery, New York City,” Ceramics Art + Perception, p. 46-49, January
2017
Rhodes, David, “An Impression of Otherness: Brian Rochefort at Van Doren Waxter,” artcritical, December 30
Cascone, Sarah, “34 Unmissable Gallery Shows to See in New York City This November,” artnet news, October 26
“Artist of the week,” LVL3 Media, July Lesser, Casey, “These 20 Artists are Shaping the Future of Ceramics,” Artsy, February
2016
Vitrine, Blaire, “Love Letter – Exhibition Catalogue,” Lefebvre & Fils, October
Rogers, Bill, “Two Exhibitions with Brian Rochefort focus on his painting,” Cfile, June
2015
Olson, Erica, “Brian Rochefort Ceramics,” Ligne Magazine, March
2014
Clark, Garth, “High Mass Goblets for Glaze Worship,” Cfile, December
Awards & Honors
2018
Visiting Artist Lecturer, University of Iowa, IA
The Mistake Room, Artist Residency, Guadalajara, MX
2008/2009
Lillian Fellowship and Residency, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, MT
Collections
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
