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
Exhibitions
2024 Plein(s) Écran(s) sur le Festival d’Annecy, La Cinémathèque Québécoise,
Montreal, Quebec
2023 Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Musée McCord Stewart,
Montreal, Quebec
Tricentennaire de La Vieille Mine, École Lamarque, Old Mines, Missouri
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, Maysles Documentary Center,
New York, New York
GIRAF 18 Festival of Indepedent Animation, Alberta, Canada
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 Sounds, 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
2023 GLAS Animation Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
Nous Foundation, Le Lab laureate
Vimeo Staff Pick, Chasse Galerite
2022 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
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, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
The Tarkovski Grant, 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 Collection
2002 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
Presentations & Publications
2023 Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of NYU, panel,
New York, New York.
Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of Columbia University,
panel, New York, New York.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” University of Missouri School of
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Columbia, Missouri
2022 “Toujours Icitte,” French-Canadian Legacy Podcast, Episode 93
2020 Rafiner, Tom. R.L.Y. Peyton: An American Journey, 1824-1863. Harrisonville:
Burnt District Press, 2020.
2019 “Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Big Muddy River Speaker Series,
Kansas City, Missouri
2018 “Murmurations,” Global Roots Radio with Nilufar Movahedi, KKFI,
September 23, 2018.
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.
2017 “Missouri French Creoles,” Central Standard with Gina Kaufmann, KCUR,
November 9, 2017.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Missouri Valley Sunday Speaker Series,
Kansas City, Missouri
2015 9th International DRAWING Annual (INDA 9) An Annual Juried Exhibition-In-
Print, 2015.
2011 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.
2010 Rafiner, Tom. Caught Between Three Fires. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2010.
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.1, 2010.
Teaching
2024 Adjunct Instructor of French, University of Missouri - Columbia,
School of Languages Literatures and Cultures
2017 - present Lecturer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2016 - 2017 Lecturer, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Art and
Art History
2015 - 2020 Photographer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2015 - 2016 Teaching Faculty, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking, The Illustration Academy, Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
Exhibitions
2024 Plein(s) Écran(s) sur le Festival d’Annecy, La Cinémathèque Québécoise,
Montreal, Quebec
2023 Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Musée McCord Stewart,
Montreal, Quebec
Tricentennaire de La Vieille Mine, École Lamarque, Old Mines, Missouri
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, Maysles Documentary Center,
New York, New York
GIRAF 18 Festival of Indepedent Animation, Alberta, Canada
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 Sounds, 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
2023 GLAS Animation Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
Nous Foundation, Le Lab laureate
Vimeo Staff Pick, Chasse Galerite
2022 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
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, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
The Tarkovski Grant, 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 Collection
2002 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
Presentations & Publications
2023 Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of NYU, panel,
New York, New York.
Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of Columbia University,
panel, New York, New York.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” University of Missouri School of
Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Columbia, Missouri
2022 “Toujours Icitte,” French-Canadian Legacy Podcast, Episode 93
2020 Rafiner, Tom. R.L.Y. Peyton: An American Journey, 1824-1863. Harrisonville:
Burnt District Press, 2020.
2019 “Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Big Muddy River Speaker Series,
Kansas City, Missouri
2018 “Murmurations,” Global Roots Radio with Nilufar Movahedi, KKFI,
September 23, 2018.
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.
2017 “Missouri French Creoles,” Central Standard with Gina Kaufmann, KCUR,
November 9, 2017.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Missouri Valley Sunday Speaker Series,
Kansas City, Missouri
2015 9th International DRAWING Annual (INDA 9) An Annual Juried Exhibition-In-
Print, 2015.
2011 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.
2010 Rafiner, Tom. Caught Between Three Fires. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2010.
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.1, 2010.
Teaching
2024 Adjunct Instructor of French, University of Missouri - Columbia,
School of Languages Literatures and Cultures
2017 - present Lecturer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2016 - 2017 Lecturer, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Art and
Art History
2015 - 2020 Photographer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2015 - 2016 Teaching Faculty, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking, The Illustration Academy, Kansas City, Missouri
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
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
Exhibitions
2024 Plein(s) Écran(s) sur le Festival d’Annecy, La Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, Quebec
2023 Festival International du Film sur l’Art, Musée McCord Stewart, Montreal, Quebec
Tricentennaire de la Vieille Mine, École Lamarque, Old Mines, Missouri
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, Maysles Documentary Center, New York City, New York
GIRAF 18 Festival of Indepedent Animation, Alberta, Canada
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 Sounds, 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
2023 GLAS Animation Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
Nous Foundation, Le Lab laureate
Vimeo Staff Pick, Chasse Galerite
2022 ArtsKC Inspiration Grant, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
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, Le Petit Bœuf aux cornes d’or
The Tarkovski Grant, 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 Collection
2002 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
Presentations & Publications
2023 Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of NYU, panel, New York, New York.
Francophone Short Films in Harlem at La Maison Française of Columbia University, panel, New York, New York.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” University of Missouri School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Columbia, Missouri
2022 “Toujours Icitte,” French-Canadian Legacy Podcast, Episode 93
2020 Rafiner, Tom. R.L.Y. Peyton: An American Journey, 1824-1863. Harrisonville: Burnt District Press, 2020.
2019 “Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Big Muddy River Speaker Series, Kansas City, Missouri
2018 “Murmurations,” Global Roots Radio with Nilufar Movahedi, KKFI, September 23, 2018.
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.
2017 “Missouri French Creoles,” Central Standard with Gina Kaufmann, KCUR, November 9, 2017.
“Folklore of the Missouri French Creoles,” Missouri Valley Sunday Speaker Series, Kansas City, Missouri
2015 9th International DRAWING Annual (INDA 9) An Annual Juried Exhibition-In- Print, 2015.
2011 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.
2010 Rafiner, Tom. Caught Between Three Fires. Bloomington: Xlibris, 2010.
Dossier Magazine Issue 2.1, 2010.
Teaching
2024 Adjunct Instructor of French, University of Missouri - Columbia, School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
2017 - present Lecturer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2016 - 2017 Lecturer, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Department of Art and Art History
2015 - 2020 Photographer, University of Kansas, Department of Visual Art
2015 - 2016 Teaching Faculty, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, Kansas
2011 Visiting Lecturer in Printmaking, The Illustration Academy, Kansas City, Missouri