EDUCATION

1984

Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skohegan, ME

1982

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006

All Consuming Identity, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

2005

Rainbow Play Systems, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1999

The Wish to the Thought, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

1998

It’s Hard to be Happy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (brochure)

1997

Died of Laughter, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1996

Sleepy Hollow, Feature, New York, NY

1994

Ring Posies, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993

“This may be play to you, tis death to me.” Feature, New York, NY

1992

“You, oh queen, are the fairest in the land.” Feature, New York, NY

1991

Little Men, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Feature, New York, NY

1989

Fobbo Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Think Tank, San Fransisco, CA

1985

Martin Weber Gallery / ATA, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907 – 2007, The International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA

2002

Art in Embassies: Paris, France, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

2001

Extraordinary, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco,CA, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn

Showtime, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000

Light Fantastic, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Constance Lewallen

Of The Moment: Contemporary Art From The Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999

New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Eye Candy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley,CA

The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997

Flying Buttress Please, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Gardens Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

About Face, Transamerica, San Francisco, CA (brochure)

1996

Approaching the New Millenium, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Sampling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1995 In A Different Light, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder (catalogue)

I Gaze A Gazely Stare, Feature, New York, NY

Representational Drawings, Feature, New York, NY

Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR

1994

Arabesque, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY

Can You Always Believe Your Eyes: Recent American Drawings, Museum of Contemporary Art DeBeyard, Breda, The Netherlands. Curated by Rob Perée and Lydia Scouten

And, Feature, New York, NY

Jonathan Hammer, The Books: Read ‘em and Weep, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (collaboration with Jonathan Hammer and Kevin Killian)

1993

Beyond Loss, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Center, New York, NY. Traveling exhibition (catalogue)

Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Tom Patchett

Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco, CA

1992

The Anti-Masculine, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Bill Arning

Perverse/Nature, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Why Painting?, Susan Cummings Gallery, Mill Valley, CA. Curated by Bill Berkeson

Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco, CA

1991

Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

Selections, San Francisco/Bay Area, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1990

Que Overdose!, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Fancisco, CA. Curated by Nayland Blake (brochure)

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to Columbia (catalogue)

1988

Nightmare on Valencia Street, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Crocker Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

1987

Connections, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

ART EXPOSITIONS

2004

AADA Art Fair, New York , NY, PPOW Gallery

2003-1998

San Francisco International Art Exposition, SF, CA, Rena Bransten Gallery

The New York Armory Show, New York, NY, Rena Bransten Gallery

2003-2000

Chicago International Art Exposition, Rena Bransten Gallery

2002

Miami International Art Exposition, Rena Bransten Gallery

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

LECTURES

2001

Graduate Lecture Series, California College of Arts and Crafts

Guest Lecturer, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Guest Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley

1999

Guest Lecturer, The Armand Hammer World College, Las Vegas, NM

1998

Guest Lecturer, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute

Guest Lecturer, "Day Without Art", University of California at Berkeley

1995

Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute

Guest Lecturer, Noon Lecture Series", University of California at Berkeley

GRANTS

2001 San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty Development Grant

1999 Art Council Grant, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRPAHY

2006

Little, Carl. “Brett Reichman at P.P.O.W.,” Art in America, January 2006.

2000

Bonetti, David. “Painting Show Evokes Movements,” San Francisco Examiner, Janaury 7, p.C7.

1999

“Dove va l'arte Duemila?”, Tema Celeste, November-Decmeber, No 76.

1998

Sciaccaluga, Maurizio. “Chimatelo Godzilla” (Call it Godzilla), Tema Celeste, October-December, pp. 42-51, 98-100.

Bonetti, David. “International Art Fair Dazzler,” San Francisco Examiner, October 2, pp. C1, C12.

Curtis, Cathy. “Art Reviews: Pieces of Theater in Light, Shadow,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, p. F3K.

Helfand, Glen. “Hot Stuff: Aesthetic Relief in LA,” Bay Area Reporter, August 13, Vol. 28, No. 23, pp.38-41

Knaff, Devorah. “Cheap and Tawdry-or is it art,” Orange County Register, July 12, p. 28.

1997

Berk, Amy. “A Conversation with Brett Reichman,” ArtWeek, September, Vol. 28, p. 9.

Porges, Maria. “Reviews:Brett Reichman, Rena Bransten Gallery,” Artforum, September, XXXVI, No. 1, p. 130.

Bonetti, David. “The Young at Art,” San Francisco Examiner, June 18, pp. C1, C9.

Helfand, Glen. “Toy Stories,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 9-15, vol. 13, No. 28, p 65.

Bonetti, David. “Gallery Watch,” San Francisco Examiner, April 17, pp. C1, C9.

Friedman, Roberto. “Gallery Hop,” Bay Area Reporter, April 17, p. 46.

1995

Bonetti, David. “Looking at Art in a Different Light,” San Francisco Examiner, January 11, pp. B1, B5.

Duncan, Michael. “Queering the Discourse,” Art in America, July, pp. 27-31.

Friedman, Roberto. “Different (Brush) Strokes,” Bay Area Reporter, January 19, pp. 1, 43.

Friedman, Roberto. “Painting the Way Out of the Closet,” Lifestyle, April, pp. 30, 32.

Galloway, Munro. “Manifest Disney:l’Eden Selon Disney: Culture Pop et Peinture,” Art Press (special issue on painting), pp. 163-166.

1994

Baker, Kennneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, p. B4.

Bonetti, David. “Exploring the Beauty of Beauty,” San Francisco Examiner, June 1, p. B3.

1993

Tager, Alisa. Tema Celeste, Winter, p. 82.

“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, November 15.

1992

Baker, Kenneth. “How Culture Defeats Nature,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, pp. E1, E4.

Bonetti, David. “Still a Metaphor for Life?” San Francisco Examiner, April 17, p. C2.

Bonetti, David. “’Healing,''Nature,' Get Group Treatment,” San Francisco Examiner, May 29, p. D11.

Ewert, Mark and Mitchell Watkins. Ruh Roh!, Issue One, December (published by Feature, New York and Instituting Contemporary Ideas.

1991

Bonetti, David. “Childlike Show Reveals Artits’s Hidden Elf,” San Francisco Examiner, November 29.

Out/Look, Fall, p. 1.

Watten, Barrett. “Camp Mythologies,” ArtWeek, December 5.

1990

Abbott, Steve, “Gay Iconography ‘In Context’,” Bay Area Reporter, September 20.

1989

Baker, Kenneth. “Painter’s Show: Fobbo Boffo,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 4.

1986

Helfand, Glen. “Connecting with Four Emerging Local Artists,” San Francisco Sentinel,February 6.

CATALOGS

2003 Art-A Sex Book, John Waters and Bruce Hainley

2002 Art in Embassies, United States Depart of State, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1998 Brett Reichman: It's Hard to be Happy, Orange County Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1997 Bay Area Now, Yerbe Buena Center for the Arts, San Fancisco, CA

About Face, Transamerica Corporation

1995 Blake, Nayland and Rinder, Lawrence. In A Different Light, Berkeley Art Museum, CA

1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquise, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1991 Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

1990 Blake, Nayland. Que Overdose, Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA