Colin Brown was born in Dundee, Scotland in 1962
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee 1982 - 1987
B.A. Honours Degree in Fine Art (Painting) 1986
Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Painting) 1987
AWARDS
The John Kinross Scholarship 1987 Awarded by The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Studied in Florence, Italy The Pollock-Krasner Award 1996 Major Artist's Grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Aspect Painting Prize 2005
COLLECTIONS
Work represented in private collections in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, U.S.A., New Zealand, Japan, and in Public Collections of the Highland Regional Council, Scotland; Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hanover, Germany, Grampian Arts Trust, Scotland; Hibernian Football Club, Edinburgh.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 'Primavera' The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2021 'In Bloom' Kilmorack Gallery
2020 ‘Days in Europa’, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2019 ‘Love Letter to Europe’, Kilmorack Gallery, Scotland
2018 Lemond Gallery, Glasgow Fraser Gallery, St Andrews
2017 ‘New Work’, Kilmorack Gallery, Scotland
2016 The Marlin Project, Gallery Different, London
2014 Fraser East, St Andrews
2013 Icon Gallery, Singapore
2010 Panter and Hall, London
2008 'Yesterday is Here', John Briggs Gallery, Stonehaven
2007 'Heroes and Icons', Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow
2007 'New Paintings', Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen
2004 Urban Dada, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen. Woodend Barn Art Centre, Banchory
2003 Circle Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 Woodend Barn Art Centre, Banchory
1999 Nord/LB Galerie, Braunschweig, Germany
1998 Galerie Bongartz + Partner, Hanover, Germany
1997 Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness Carron Works, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
1996 Galerie Friedhelm Huter, Anrath, Germany Meffan Institute, Forfar
1994 Stadt Kramer Museum, Kempen, Germany
1993 Galerie Kulturfabrik, Krefeld, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Caledonian’, Thompsons Gallery, Harpenden, ‘Through the Trees’, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, RSW Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh Fraser Gallery, St Andrews
2023 ‘Folk at Heart’, The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London, Cameron Contemporary, Brighton + Hove AAF Battersea, with Masterpiece, Art Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow, Kilmorack Gallery, Scotland,Braemar Gallery, Scotland, Fraser Gallery, St Andrews, Lemond Gallery, Glasgow
2022 ‘Caledonian’, Thompson’s Gallery, London, AAF Hampstead, with Air Contemporary, London
2021 ‘A Flower in Winter’, Kilmorack Gallery, Scotland, Air Contemporary, London,
Fidra Fine Art, Gullane, According To McGee, York Red Rag Gallery, Cheltenham
2020 Cameron Contemporary, Brighton + Hove
2019 Stafford Gallery, London Union Gallery, Edinburgh Modern Artists Gallery, Reading Fidra Fine Art, Gullane
2018 Art Salon, Bath Thompson’s Gallery, London Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
2017 Panter + Hall, London (Scottish Show)
2016 Union Gallery, Edinburgh Richard Hagen, Broadway Visual Arts Scotland: CONVERGE RSA, Edinburgh
2015 Panter and Hall, London Mansfield Park Gallery, Glasgow Velvet Easel Gallery, Edinburgh Roger Billcliffe Gallery, Glasgow GROUP 13 Smithy Gallery, Blanefield, Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly
2014 Group 13 Collective, Union Gallery, Edinburgh, Icon Gallery, Singapore Modern Artists Gallery, Reading Fraser Gallery, St Andrews Richard Hagen, Broadway Kilmorack Gallery, Beauly Urbane Art, Edinburgh
2013 'Mind the Gap', touring exhibition, Korea Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition, Edinburgh
2012 'On a Grand Scale', Gallery 27 Cork Street, London V.A.S., R.S.A., Edinburgh The Scottish Show, Panter + Hall, London Fraser Gallery, St Andrews McAuley Fine Art, Edinburgh Stafford Gallery, London Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Banchory Saffron Gallery, Battle, East Sussex Lightbox Museum (Ingram Collection), Woking, Surrey
2011 Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow Richard Hagen Gallery, Broadway, Union Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 'The Scottish Show', Oakham Contemporary, London Richard Hagen Gallery, Broadway JHW Fine Art, London Paisley Art Institute
2009 'Chasing Flames', Turn-Berlin Galerie, Berlin Panter and Hall, London 'Paintwork', Galerie Borchardt, Hamburg 'The Scottish Show', Oakham Contemporary, London London Art Fair (with Panter and Hall) 'The Painted Word', Woodend Barn Arts Centre, Banchory
2008 100 Years of Scottish Painting, Panter and Hall, London Art London (with Panter and Hall) Latitude 57° - A Line of Thought, Aberdeen, 20/21 British Art Fair, London "Progressive Transformations", Limousine Bull, Aberdeen
2007 Panter and Hall, London Adam Gallery, Bath ArtLondon (with Panter and Hall) Fraser Gallery, Dundee "Home Grown Talent", Duff House, Banff Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Aspect Prizewinners, Adam Gallery, London Art Chicago, U.S.A. (with Adam Gallery, London)
PUBLICATIONS
Colin Brown’s work has featured in many publications including ‘Collage- Assembling Contemporary Art’, a major overview of international collage artists edited by Blanche Craig (Black Dog Publishing. London 2008) and ‘Cutting Edges’ A survey of contemporary collage, edited by James Gallagher and Robert Klanten (Gestalten, Berlin 2011).