Britton Tolliver___________________________________________________

Born January 5 1976
Kingsport, Tennessee

Education________________________________________________________

2006 MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art
2004 BFA East Tennessee State University

Solo Exhibitions___________________________________________________

2010 Fixed Illusion, GOLDEN, Chicago, IL.
The Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt, Kinkead Contemporary,
Los Angeles, CA.

Group Exhibitions__________________________________________________

2011 Baker's Dozen, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
Working Title, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY.
2010 Meat Locker, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
2009 (If LA changed it's name to Miami, we'd be there),
The Pink Flamingo Art Fair, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
LA Abstraction, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.
Group Exhibition, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
Splinter of the Mind's Eye, curated by Joseph Wolin,
Philip Slein Gallery, Saint Louis, MO.
2008 Always Kiss Me Goodnight, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.
Summer Solo Projects, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.
Alma Mater, Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA.
Architecture on the Cusp of Contemporary Landscape, William King
Museum, Abingdon, VA.
2007 Runaway, Yachtclub Gallery, Detroit, MI.
Summer Group Show, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
Reality Bites, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
2006 Can I Borrow Your Spaceship?, Contemporary Art Institute Detroit,
Detroit, MI.

Awards__________________________________________________________

2008 Altoids Emerging Artist Award, Nominee, New Museum, New York, NY.
2004 Pamela Appelbaum Wyatt Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art Merit
Scholarship (Teaching Assistantship).

2002 Ruth Adams Scholarship, East Tennessee State University.

Bibliography______________________________________________________

Byloos, Matty, "Studio Visit with Britton Tolliver", Small Doggies, March 2011.
Emmenegger, McClean Ashley, " A Search for the Sky Underneath the Dirt",
Flavorpill, 2010.
Beal, Dickinson, "Philip Slein evokes Pollock, George Lucas", West End Word,
July 8 2009.
Cooper, Ivy, " Take a look….the Mind's Eye" at Slein", St. Louis Beacon, 2009.
Gorton, Brianna and Jenia Gorton, "Britton Tolliver at Kinkead Contemporary",
Artslant.com., 2008.
2008 Altoids Emerging Art in America, New Museum, (Catalogue).
Gordon, Ann, "Studio Sensation: Canvase and Crevices, Real Detroit Weekly, 2007.
Dault, Gary Michael, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario Canada.
New American Paintings, vol 65 pp. 142-145, 2006.