New York based artist, Kadar Brock’s artistic practice is a collection of records of performative acts of erasure and self reflective edits, consciously undoing that of which is just as consciously done through a system of laborious processes. Through a repeated system of painting, sanding, priming and scraping, Brock’s paintings are a result of a compilation of multiple compositions stacked on top of each other then merged through the act of eradication. What results through the process is an abstraction which subtly gestures at the information beneath. A series of ruptures and tears on the surfaces of the canvas, resulting from the physical strain the work goes through, co exists with the various exposed layers of paint. This survey of artifacts, tracing of Brock’s decisions towards the making or erasing of a mark, are an ongoing dance of informational accretion. The resulting data is one which informs and reveals through absence. An absence which allows for a space that embraces failure as part of a creative process and serves as platform for the consideration of that which withers away or is retracted in balance with the act of erasure itself. 

CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1980, New York, NY.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

EDUCATION
2002
BFA, Cooper Union School of Art, New York, New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
home of traveler, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea

2022
the purple rose ashram of the new age, PATRON, Chicago, IL

2019
bury enchantment, PATRON Projects | New York, New York, NY

2017
summon artifact, PATRON Gallery, Chicago IL

2016
gifts ungiven, Vigo Gallery, London, UK

2015
Cast With Flashback Cast With Flashback, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
Unburial Rites, Vigo Gallery, London, UK

2014
scry 2, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL

2013
dredge, The Hole, New York, NY

2012
disenchant magic item, Vigo Gallery, London, UK
Evil Dead 2, (two person show with Matt Jones,) Horton Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2010
Unclaimed Space, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY
Conjuring and Dispelling, Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan

2006
Painting can you take me to heaven, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY

2005
Human After All, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY (two person exhibition with Matt Jones)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Facture Fracture, CHART, New York, NY
Arcadian Revival, The Macedonia Institute, Ghent, NY
Companions, Gana Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)

2023
Narrative Alters, Gana Art, Seoul, South Korea

2022
Belief in a Disenchanted World, Mother Gallery, New York, NY
From Confucius to Christ, Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, NY
September to Remember, Gana Art Nineone, Seoul, South Korea
In With The Old - P.A.D. Retrospective, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY 

2021
Domestic Ritual, Baik + Khneysser, Los Angeles, LA

Sunny Side Up, S.U.N.N.Y., New York, NY

2 Gather, Studio E, Seattle, WA

2020
SITE: Art and Architecture in the Digital Space, Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI
In Pursuit of a Meaningful Mark, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

2018
9999, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Wall Space, NY(G), Brooklyn, NY

2017
Summer, PATRON, Chicago, IL
12 x 12, 2016, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Cause The Grass Don’t Grow and The Sky Ain’t Blue, Praz Delavallade, Paris, France
Though You’ve Hit a Bump, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015
Theory of Forms, PATRON, Chicago, IL
Space and Matter, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
New Vibrations, Brand New Gallery, Milano, IT
Surface Tension, Flag Foundation, New York, NY
Summertime, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey

2014
Brand New Second Hand, Vigo Gallery, London, UK
3A Project: Abstraction-Absorption-Attribution, Bodson Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Warp and Weft, The Hole, New York, NY

2013
Paint Off, Paint On, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
XSTRACTION, The Hole, New York, NY
The Example, Bleecker Street Arts Club, New York, NY
Painted Perfect, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

2012
Hue + Cry, curated by Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Sotheby’s S/2, New York, NY
Ululation, Vigo Gallery, London, UK
News from Chicago and New York, organized by Henning Strassburger, Fiebach Minninger, Cologne, Germany
Portrait of a Generation, [cat.] The Hole, New York, NY
Changing States of Matter, [cat.] Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
Kadar Brock, Jason Gringler, Jim Lee, The Proposition, New York, NY

2011
“…”, The Hole, New York, NY
Point. Line. Plane., Hannah Barry Gallery, London, UK
An Instance of Vibration, curated by Peter Makebish, Anonymous, New York, NY
Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
Out of Practice, curated by Nudashank, Art Blog Art Blog Summer Space, New York, NY
Paper A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, NY
Pieced Together, HKJB, Brooklyn, NY
The Sultans Played Creole, curated by James Cope, Champion, Austin, TX

2010
Perseids, Curated by Sorine Anderson & Kari Adelaide, Custer Observatory, Southold, NY
Night Fishing, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY
Substance Abuse, curated by Colin Huerter, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York, NY
In Dialogue, [cat.] curated by Peter Makebish, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
Informal Relations, curated by Scot Grow, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
in.flec.tion., [cat.] Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Quick While Still, [cat.] curated by Colin Huerter, Heist Pop-Up, New York, NY
Nothing Is Wrong If It Feels Good, curated by David Ostrowski, Mike Potter Projects, Cologne, Germany
New Mirrors, curated by Herb Tam, Exit Art, New York, NY

2009
Too Big To Fail, sponsored by NADA and LaMontagne Gallery, 395 Flatbush Extension, Brooklyn, NY
Quick While Still, Motus Fort, Tokyo, Japan
The Cursed Chateau, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
Candygrammar, curated by Michael Wilson, 999 Metropolitan, Brooklyn, NY

2008
I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl, Curated by Anat Ebgi, Terence Koh, and Jenny Schlenzka, Asia Song Society, New York, NY

2007
Stuff: international contemporary art from the collection of Burt Aaron, Detroit MOCA, Detroit, MI

2006
MASH, Design District, Miami, FL
Breezer, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
New York Style, Angel Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Junge Abstrakte, Temporary, Düsseldorf, Germany

2005
NBC, curated by Matt Jones, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
In The Ring, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
Human After All (two person exhibition with Matt Jones), BUIA Gallery, New York, NY

2004
The Frisbee Art Fair, Miami, FL
Crystalis, The Peekskill Project, Peekskill, NY
One for GrandMa, Capsule Gallery, New York, NY
NINETEENEIGHTY: Art Show, RARE, New York, NY
Deceptively Naïve, W/O Walls, ~ScopeNY, New York, NY

2003
We Do What We Like and We Like What We Do, Atlantic Conference, Brooklyn, NY
The Beginning is the End, Atlantic Conference, Brooklyn, NY

2002
Native, The House, Miami, FL

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
2022
Andrew Russeth, “A Brief Guide to the Wide, Wild World of Art Schools and Residencies,” The New York Times Style Magazine, July 6
Freya Herring,”Dream Palace,” Vogue Living Australia, April

2021
”In Majorca With Kadar Brock,” Platform Art, December
”The Antithesis of the ‘White, Modern Box,’The New York Times, February 23

2019
Matt Jones, “Kadar Brock’s Bury Enchantment,” Aptly Journal, December
Brainard Carey, “Kadar Brock,” Yale Radio interview, July 
“Brooklyn Painters,” DUEL Magazine Issue #3, March
Brian Alfred, “Kadar Brock,” Sound & Vision Podcast, January 24

2018
Elizabeth Marguiles, “Elizabeth Margulies Selects Her Top Five Emerging Artists of 2018,” Galerie Magazine, December 17

2016
“Kadar Brock at Vigo Gallery, London” ARTnews, October 7
Michael Shaw, “Ep #142: Kadar Brock, Brooklyn-based painter, doing it full-time,” The Conversation, June 4

2015
Fernando Mastrangelo, “Kadar Brock: The Unconventional Painter,” Cultured Magazine, August
Katherine McMahon, “Habitat: Kadar Brock,” ARTnews, July
Francesca Gavin, “The Most Exciting Group Shows to See This Summer,” Dazed Digital, Summer
Laura de Gunzburg, “The Season in Art,” Cultured Magazine, April
Kat Herriman, “Paint, Scrub, and Repeat,” W Magazine, January

2014
Molly Gottschalk, “The Top 10 Artists Under 35 in 2014,” Artsy, January
Lisa Schiff, “The Top Nine Trending Artists Under 40 in Miami,” Artsy, January
Mariana Cashdan, “Up and Coming: Dungeons & Dragons Guides the Abstract Painting of One of New York’s Hottest Artists,” Artsy, December
Alex Bacon, “Kadar Brock,” The Miami Rail, February

2013
Francesca Gavin, “First Shot,” Dazed and Confused, September
Allyson Shiffman, “Dungeons, Dragons, and Art,” Interview Magazine Online, September

2012
Matt Jones, “In Conversation: Matt Jones Interviews Kadar Brock,” NYarts Magazine, July
Francesca Gavin, “Abstract Art Revolution,” Dazed and Confused, January
Kari Adelaide, “”…” @ The Hole,” White Hot Magazine, February

2011
“…”, The L Magazine, December
Danny Gold, “In Miami, the Art World Takes a Shine to Bowery Gallerist Kathy Grayson,” The Local East Village Blog, NYTimes, December
Charlie Finch, “Drink Your Lola Cola,” Artnet, December
Sharon Butler,“Exchanging Studio Visits with Kadar Brock,” Two Coats of Paint, August
Sharon Butler, “The New Casualists,” The Brooklyn Rail, June

2010
Andrew M Goldstein, “In New York: Gallery Openings This Week,” ArtInfo, November 17
Michael Tomeo, “All Signs Point to Yes: An Interview with Kadar Brock,” Daily Serving, June 7
Sharon Butler, “New Mirrors: Painting in a Transparent World,” The Brooklyn Rail, February

2009
David Goodman, “Compositions Based on Chance,” BOMBlog, October 12
Qi Peng, “Assassination: Kadar Brock,” Examiner, March 2
Ana Finel Honigman, “New Work,” Future Claw, February

2008
“Young Bloods,” CITY Magazine, November
John Russel, “Hot Box,” Useless Magazine #8, October
Chris Bors, “Weekend Picks: Kadar Brock in New York.” ArtInfo, May 30
Dan Adler, “Art in Review: You Only Live Once,” Artforum, May
Ana Finel Honigman. “Bright Now,” Style.Com Style File Blog, May
Jon Davies, “Reviews; Kadar Brock: You Only Live Once,” Artkrush, Issue 80, March 19
R.C. Baker, “Spring Preview: Spring Picks,” The Village Voice, March 5

2007
Christopher Russe, “Reviews: The Dominant Planets Of,” Artillery, Summer
“The Wisemen,” Japanese GQ, Nov-Dec

2006
D. Dominic Lombardi, “Man Bites Consciousness,” NY ARTS, September/October
D. Dominic Lombardi, “Painting Can You Take Me To Heaven?,” DART, Fall
Roberta Smith, “Last Chance,” The New York Times, May 26
Roberta Smith. “Art in Review,” The New York Times, May 19

2005
Roberta Smith, “Making An Entrance At Any Age,” The New York Times, May 6
Charlie Finch, “The Decline and Fall of Painting,” Artnet, April 27

2004
Paul Laster, “NINETEENEIGHTY,” Flavorpill, July 23

2002
Michael Hamersly, “Everyday Things Take on New Twists,” The Miami Herald. June 21


AWARDS / LECTURES / RESIDENCIES
2023
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL

2021
CCA Andratx, Center for Contemporary Art, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain

2020
Artist Residency, CCA Andratx, Center for Contemporary Art, Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Artist Residency, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy

2019
Artist Residency, The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, NY
Artist Residency, Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy

2005
Guest Lecturer/Visiting Artist, Parsons MFA Program, New York, NY
Guest Lecturer/Visiting Artist, School of Visual Arts MFA Program, New York, NY

COLLECTIONS 

The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
Hassan Otaibi Collection, Saudi Arabia 
David Roberts Art Foundation, London 
Taylor Art Collection, London
Numerous Semi-Private collections in the United Kingdom, Europe and United States