BRENT WATANABE
Seattle, WA
Email: brent@creepco.com
EDUCATION
1995 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Drawing and Painting
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2011
"This Heavy Load" (solo show), 4Culture Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Game Theory", Cornish College of the Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA
Artist in Residence, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2010
Screening, Animated Art, Portland Film Center, Portland, OR
Screening, Animated Art, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
“Cultural Transcendence”, Wing Luke Museum, Seattle, WA
2009
“So Long” (artist residency and solo exhibition), Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Stack:Heap:Loop v 1.5”, Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival, Seattle, WA
2008
“Stack:Heap:Loop” (solo exhibition), McLeod Residency, Seattle, WA
2007
Inclusion in The Curated Artist Registry, White Columns, New York, NY
Screening, "Thrift Store Tape #3", DOS Screenings, The Distillery, Boston MA
Live video performance with musical group Factums (also featuring Rodney Graham Band), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006
Live video performance with musical group Factums, Jewel Box Theater, Seattle, WA
“Artist Trust Auction”, Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
Live video performance with musical group Subtle, Decibel Music Festival, Seattle, WA
“Malfunction: Sentimental Ghost is Missing”, Soil Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2005
“A.TV”, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, BoxLAND, Paris, France
“SIUEFF”, Priceless Works Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Heritage Center, Springfield, OH
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Neuer Standort, Vienna, Austria
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Axiom Theater, Houston, TX
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Independent Exposure, San Francisco, CA
“Whiz Bang”, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Harvestworks, New York, NY
Screening, “John Henry (Ding Dong Bell)”, Portland Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR
2002
“Lava 2002” (Noodleworks Invitational), Noodleworks, Seattle, WA
“Artist Trust Auction”, Bank of America Gallery, Seattle, WA
2001
"Art Dialogue" (a screening of selected works), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Hanabuki" (collaboration with Jeffry Mitchell), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Inflate", Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Thrift Store Tapes", Commencement Gallery, Tacoma, WA
"Faux Naturale", Fuzzy Engine, Seattle, WA
"Mania", Fuzzy Engine, Seattle, WA
2000
"Look Both Ways", Fuzzy Engine, Seattle, WA
"The El Camino Effect", Fuzzy Engine, Seattle, WA
"Home", Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Jeffry Mitchell and Friends", Zeitgeist, Seattle, WA
"Shrinky Dinks", Zeitgeist, Seattle, WA
1999
Screening, "ABC Living Room", artsEdge Festival, Seattle, WA
Screening, "Two Nights", Seattle Poetry Festival, Seattle, WA
Screening, "Welcome", 12emes Recontres Video Art Plastique, Normandy, France
1998
Screening, "Welcome" and "Produkt", MicroCineFest, Baltimore, MD
"Sound', Project 416, Seattle, WA
"ATM Art Show", Crocodile Cafe, Seattle, WA
"artsEdge", Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Screening, "Welcome", Beanbag Theater, Amarillo, TX
Screening, "Welcome", Fringeware Festival, Austin, TX
Screening, "Welcome", The Lodge Theater, Baltimore, MD
Screening, "Produkt", Independent Exposure, Seattle, WA
Screening, "Welcome", Attack of the Art Films, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Screening, "Welcome" and "Produkt", Offline (a nationally syndicated, NEA sponsored video arts program), Ithaca, NY
1997
Screening, "Good Morning", American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Screening, "Produkt" and "Untitled", Alibi Room, Seattle, WA
"Zine Fiend", Project 416, Seattle, WA
1996
"Northwest Annual", Center on Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA
"Dead", Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Freak Out!" (exhibition with Peter Bagge and Jim Blanchard), Vox Populi Gallery, Seattle, WA
RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS
2011
MacDowell Fellowship, MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH
2009
Artist in Residence, Jack Straw New Media Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996
Award, “Visions of the U.S.”, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS AND HONORS
Grant Jury Panelist, Jack Straw Foundation (Seattle, WA), 2009
Grant Jury Panelist, Artist Trust Foundation (Seattle, WA), 2006
Guest Lecturer, University of Puget Sound (Tacoma, WA), 2006
Guest Lecturer, Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA), 2005
Guest Lecturer, South Seattle Community College (Seattle, WA), 2003
Guest Lecturer, Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), 2001
Best of Festival, ArtsEdge Festival (Seattle, WA), 1999
Best of the Northwest Video Program, Bumbershoot Arts Festival (Seattle, WA), 1999
Best of Festival, ArtsEdge Festival (Seattle, WA), 1998
Best of the Northwest Video Program, Bumbershoot Arts Festival (Seattle, WA), 1998
Finalist, Fiction, 14th Annual Vision of U.S. Competition, American Film Institute (Los Angeles, CA), 1997
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Graves, Jen, “Against Transcendence”, The Stranger, March 2, 2010
Guppy, Nancy, “Art Zone with Nancy Guppy”, Seattle Channel, aired February 26, 2010
Upchurch, Michael, “Wing Luke exhibit pushes video's boundaries all over the place”, The Seattle Times, January 28th, 2010
Delaurenti, Christopher, “Banshee Improv, Fluxus, and Birds That Emote in Morse Code”, The Stranger, December 15, 2009
Upchurch, Michael, “Brent Watanabe's 'So Long' blends low- and high-tech”, The Seattle Times, November 13, 2009
Vroom, Steven, “Only an Eye”, Capitol Hill Times, November 10, 2009
Upchurch, Michael, “'Kerfuffle' is a beautiful way of looking at the mess we're in”, The Seattle Times, September 4th, 2009
Grant, Adriana, “Brent Watanabe at McLeod Residence”, The Seattle Weekly, October 22, 2008
Guppy, Nancy, “Art Zone with Nancy Guppy”, Seattle Channel, aired October 2, 2008
Lippens, Nate, "'Malfunction' has more than a ghost of a chance to be a hit", The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, December 22, 2006
Mudede, Charles, "Flashes, Flushes, Flows of Noises", The Stranger, December 19, 2006
Cassidy, Laura, "Killer Apps", Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, December Issue, 2006
Arning, Bill, "Thrift Store Tape #3", Aspect Magazine, The Chronicle of New Media, Volume 2, 2003
Im, Soyon, "There's no place like...", Seattle Weekly, August 16, 2000
Rose, Cynthia, "Alternative Art, A New Accounting" (interview and photo), The Seattle Times, December 17, 1998
