BIOGRAPHY

Born 1971 in Memphis, TN; Currently based between Boston, Massachusetts (USA) and Belfast, Northern Ireland (UK)

Brian Bishop is an artist and educator who teaches painting and drawing at Framingham State University while maintaining a studio in both Boston and Belfast. He attended The School of Visual Arts in New York, NY; Memphis College of Art in Memphis, TN (BFA 1993); and Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI (MFA 1995). His studio practice focused on photography and its relationship with the discursive and lyrical nature of painting has been widely exhibited nationally and internationally. In addition to an early curatorial career, he has taught on both the undergraduate and graduate level for over twenty-eight years.