Troy Brauntuch (b. 1954, Jersey City, New Jersey)
Brauntuch graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally for over fifty years.
Brauntuch exhibited in the seminal show Pictures at Artists Space in 1977 in New York, along with Jack Goldstein, Robert Longo, Philip Smith, and Sherrie Levine. His works are held in numerous private and public collections including the Pinault Foundation, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; The San Diego Contemporary ArtsMuseum, San Diego; and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Brauntuch’s work was included in Day for Night, the 2006 Whitney Biennial in New York. In the summer of 2007, a survey exhibition of his work from 1990–2007 was exhibited at the Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Grenoble, France. In 2009, his work was included in The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In 2010, JRP/Ringier published a monograph book of works from 1975–2008. His work was recently featured in Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts at the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany, which traveled to the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria in 2020.
Troy Brauntuch lives and works between New York, NY and Austin, Texas.
"Brauntuch’s real quarrel has always been with beauty: what lies beneath it and how to navigate its often seductive amorality. He is a superb technician, and few would deny this show’s funereal splendor."
—Zack Hatfield, Artforum, April 2020
Installation view, Pictures, Artists Space, New York, 1977
1954 Born in Jersey City, New Jersey
1975 Receives B.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1977 Participates in exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, New York
1982 Participates in Il Biennale di Venezia, Venice and Documenta 7, Kassel
1983 Participates in exhibitions Back to the USA at Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne and Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980, National Museum of Art, Osaka
1984 Participates in exhibition An International Survey of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and Content at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1987 Participates in exhibition Avant-Garde in the ‘80s at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1988 Participates in exhibition Art for Your Collection at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
1989 Participates in Prospect ‘89 at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, and Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York
Installation view, Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006
1990 Participates in exhibition Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, at Museum Fodor, Amsterdam
1991 Participates in exhibition American Art of the 80’s at the Palazzo delle Albere, Trento
1995 Participates in exhibition Glaube-Hoffnung-Liebe-Tod at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1998 Paticipates in exhibition Fast Forward at Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
1999 Receives Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant Participates in exhibition Texas Draws at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
2000 Participates in exhibition Modern Art Despite Modernism at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001 Participates in exhibition Brooklyn Collects at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
2005 Participates in exhibition Springtide at the ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia
2006 Participates in Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Installation view, Troy Brauntuch, A Strange New Beauty, Petzel, New York, 2020
2007 Work included in exhibition USB Openings: Drawings from the USB Art Collection, Tate Modern, London
2008 Solo exhibition at Petzel Gallery, New York
2009 Participates in exhibition The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2010 Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
2011 Participates in exhibition Time Again at SculptureCenter, Long Island City
2014 Participates in exhibition In the Crack of Dawn at LUMA/Westbau Zurich, Zurich and The Illusion of Light, Palazzo Grassi/Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
2019 Participates in exhibition Where Art Might Happen:The Early Years of Cal Arts at Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
2020 Participates in exhibition Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of Cal Arts, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
2020 Solo Exhibition A Strange New Beauty at Petzel Gallery, New York
2025 Solo Exhibition Rodeo at The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas
2026 Solo Exhibition at Petzel Gallery, New York (forthcoming)
Installation view, Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006
Installation view, Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006
Installation view, Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2006
Installation view, Springtide, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 2005
Installation view, Springtide, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 2005
Installation view, Springtide, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 2005
