Brian Hawkins
brian.christopher.hawkins@gmail.com
2014 MFA in Visual Art – Printmaking, with honors, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 BA in Studio Art and Art History, summa cum laude, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
Selected Exhibitions
2022 Boston Short Film Festival Boston, Massachusetts
Brussels Independent Film Festival Brussels, Belgium
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival Lafayette, Louisiana
Fest Anča International Animation Festival Stanica, Žilina, Slovakia
Festival Francophone Short Films in Harlem New York City, New York
Le français, langue mondiale : l’exemple des États-Unis Representation de l’OIF, New York, New York
Verona International Film Festival Verona, Italy
2021 Annecy International Animation Film Festival Annecy, France
GLAS Animation Festival Berkeley, California (online)
St. Louis International Film Festival St. Louis, Missouri
2020 Fest Anča International Animation Festival Stanica, Žilina, Slovakia
2019 The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
2018 Open Spaces, Murmurations Jewish Vocational Services, Kansas City, Missouri
2017 10x10 Small Works Showcase ArtsKC Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2015 Salad Days Are Gone PrintSpace, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
2014 Paper Trails (solo) Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
CINESONIKA 4 Vancity Theatre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Pint n Print Sweetie’s Art Bar, San Francisco, California
Print Sounds Love Garden, Lawrence, Kansas
Prints & Paupers Salon Wonder Fair, Lawrence, Kansas
2013 SIGGRAPH Dailies Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California
Crown Heights Film Festival FiveMyles, Brooklyn, New York
Darkness at the Edge... Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Juried Student Art Exhibition Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Peep Show Hashinger Hall Black Box Theater, Lawrence, Kansas
2012 A Night of Animation and Syncopation Wonder Fair, Lawrence, Kansas
Don’t Look Back HTL3 Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
Print Invitational Wonder Fair, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 Jonathan Metzger and Brian Hawkins Kansas Union Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas
2010 Missouri Oklahoma Arkansas Kansas 4-State Regional Exhibition Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Missouri
Dossier Magazine Exhibition UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Honors & Awards
2022 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant
Best Animated Short, Chasse Galerite, Cinema on the Bayou Festival, Lafayette, Louisiana
Best Animation, Chasse Galerite, Verona International Film Festival, Verona, Italy
The Puffin Foundation Grant
The Tarkovski Grant for Chasse Galerite
2020 Terra Foundation for American Art, Summer Residency Artist Fellow, Giverny, France
(cancelled due to Covid-19 pandemic)
2017 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Round Three, for “Asiminier: Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles”
Rocket Grant, for “Asiminier: Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles”
2014 School of the Arts, Student Travel Grant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
2013 Best Animation, the Archivist, Crown Heights Film Festival, Brooklyn, New York
Frans Masereel Centrum Student Residency, Kasterlee, Belgium
School of the Arts, Student Travel Grant, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
2010 Southwest Missouri Museum Associates Purchase Award for the Springfield Art Museum’s Collection2002 1st Place, National History Day Competition in Missouri, Junior Individual Documentary
3rd Place, National History Day Competition, Junior Individual Documentary
Loman D. Cansler Folk History Prize
Strickland African-American History Prize
Publications
Lakin, Max. “Can Kansas City’s Open Spaces Biennial Help Bridge the Divide in One of America’s Most Segregated Cities?” Artnet 31 August, 2018.
"Best Laid Plans.” Walk This Dot Around, Bracelet Press, 2016.
9th International DRAWING Annual (INDA 9) An Annual Juried Exhibition-In- Print, 2015.
LMA Grafikas nodaļa | AAL Printmaking Department blog interview regarding À la Poupée & the Chine-Collés, 8 October, 2013.
Ostmeyer, Andy. “Burnt District.” Joplin Globe 25 September, 2011, A1+5. Engle, Tim.
“Naked Ambitions.” Kansas City Star 24 January, 2011, D1.
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.2, 2011.
Rafiner, Tom. Caught Between Three Fires. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2010
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.1, 2010.