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CASEY LANCE BROWN
EDUCATION
2005 M.L.A., Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. -with Distinction /Charles Eliot Traveling Fellowship
2001 B.A., Duke University, Art History / Earth + Ocean Sciences (minor). -with Distinction /Summa Cum Laude
POSITIONS
2012-24 Director of Design Research. P-REX lab /Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2011 Rome Prize Fellow. School of Fine Arts, American Academy in Rome 2008-11 Assistant Professor. Clemson University, College of Art, Architecture, and the Humanities 2007 Charles Eliot Traveling Fellow. Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
2005-07 Post-Graduate Researcher. Center for the Environment, Harvard University
EXHIBITIONS Visual Art (selected)
2024 Kudzilla Series. 2024 Lenscratch Featured Earth Week Artist (1 of 5) Kudzilla (the Hyperobject). Field Guide! Intersection Arts Center. St. Louis, MO
2023 Art x Climate, a project of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. (US Global Change Research Program). Kudzilla (the Hyperobject). NC Artist’s Exhibition, curated by Valerie Hillings/Paul Baker, NCMA and CAMRaleigh, NC.
2022 Kudzilla. Ancient Future: SAS, Satellite Art Fair, Miami Art Week. Miami, FL Kudzilla. [Un]Natural Cycles: Air, Water, Land. Center for Fine Art Photography, CO Psycho-Terratic Ai.pe (the holotype). Art in the Time of Corona, Vol.3, Dab Art, Los Angeles, Ventura, Mexico City Infra-stellar. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), International Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Power in the 21st Century, Washington, D.C. Zombie Screens. Emerge. Blue Gallery, New York City
2021 Kudzilla. Approaching Maximum: The Climate Crisis Now. VAE Raleigh. Raleigh, NC Zombie Screens [Digital Video]. Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC (moved due to pandemic to 2021] AVOID. Art in the Time of Corona, Vol.3, Dab Art, Los Angeles, Ventura, Mexico City
Kudzilla + Zombie Screens. NC Museum of Art + Click! Photofest. Raleigh, NC Pieces of Light. Durham Arts Council Bldg, NC Boundaries. Six Fee/Revolve Gallery, Asheville, NC Zombie Screens. RFAS: Virtual Retrospective. Raleigh, NC [Online]
2020 Zombie Screens. Juried by Guggenheim Curator Nat Trotman, Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, NC Kudzilla. eco-consciousness. Santa Fe, NM Zombie Screens [St. Corona]. Art in the Time of Corona, Vol.1, Dab Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Hollow Heroes. Perspectives: AMERICA. VA IMP Ensemble Series (Zombie Screens), UMKC Conservatory, MO
2018 Memoirs of a Screen. [un]Inhabited. Bridgewater, VA Modules. Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2017 Memoirs of a Screen. Art on the Atlanta Beltline. Atlanta, GA The Big Picture. (Denver, CO and select cities)
2016 Memoirs of a Screen. THE FENCE. Georgia Exhibition, Atlanta, Savannah, & more, GA Memoirs of a Screen. Moscow Foto Awards. Landscape + Cityscape. Moscow, Russia Memoirs of a Screen. ACAS. Lincoln Center. Contemporary Art Survey. Fort Collins, CO Memoirs of a Screen. Where We Are Going/Where Have We Been. MINT Museum, Atlanta, GA
2015 Landscapes of Speculation. Scope Art Fair, Vol. 5. Miami. Landscape: Rural vs. Urban. Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK Fifth Annual Exposure Awards. City and Beyond, Paris, France North Carolina: Memoirs of a Screen. Selected Artist, Elder Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2014 Visual Narratives. Center for Fine Art Photography/Medium Festival, San Diego, CA and Fort Collins, CO Best of Photography 2013. Photographer’s Forum (Book + Online) Landscapes of Speculation. Story of the Creative 2013. See.Me Gallery, New York City
2011 Galileo on the Gianicolo, Video w/ P Rudy & E Eckert. American Academy- Rome Landscapes of Speculation, American Academy in Rome, Italy
AWARDS + FELLOWSHIPS + GRANTS
2023 SAS Selected Artist. Miami Art Week (works on billboards, bus stops, and at Satellite Art Show) 2022 Generation Atomic. Nuclear Power + Art (Hon. mention). 2021 Architectural Photography Masterprize (Hon. mention, Exterior Cityscapes) 2020 CRITICAL MASS FINALIST. Photolucida. 2020 1st Prize. NeoPopRealism Book Cover. Visions of the Future, NYC. 2017 Regional Artist Project Grant. North Carolina Arts Council. 2016 THE FENCE. Selected Artist, GA Edition. 2015 Moscow. International Foto Awards, Memoirs of a Screen 2015 Fine Art-Landscapes. Int'l Photography Awards, Memoirs of a Screen 2015 Fine Art- Honorable Mention. Fine Art Photography Awards, London, UK 2010-11 ROME PRIZE. Fellow, School of Fine Arts, American Academy in Rome
2009 Mobility After the City. Toyota Research Inst. of North America (w/ A. Berger)
2009 Finalist, Reburbia. Intl. Design Competition. Dwell Magazine + Inhabit.com
2008 Le Grand Pari de l’Agglomération Parisienne. Team Selection. France
2006 Reclaiming Extractive Landscapes. US EPA, (w/ A. Berger, P-REX/MIT)
2005 Harvard Vision of Sustainability 2020: Art and Design Competition
2007 CHARLES ELIOT Traveling Fellowship. Top Ranking Graduate, Harvard University
2004 Janet Webel Prize for Excellence in Design. Top Honors, Harvard University
2001 BENENSON AWARD in the Arts. Top honors, Duke University Art DepartmentPUBLICATIONS Selected
Brown, Casey Lance. “Kudzilla: An Ethnobotanical Monster Myth” Kerb 29: WILD. RMIT, 2022. Brown, Casey Lance. “Piscinarii: The Fishpond Speculators of Rome” LA+ Speculation. UPenn, 2022. Brown, Casey Lance. “First in Time Is First in Line” LA+ Time. UPenn, 2018. “Interburbia” (w/ A. Berger, K. Laberteaux) in Infinite Suburbia. Ed. A. Berger, J. Kotkin. New York, NY: PAPress, 2017. 232-246. “The Rise of Stateless Space” in LA+ Tyranny. UPenn, 2016. "Metabolic WasteBelts" in Archis 1: Volume 47, w/ Center for Advanced Urbanism, 2016. “Landscape Switching” (w/ Holmes, R) Kerb 22: Journal of Landscape Architecture, 2014. “Where Americans Live: An Environmental and Geographical Tally” (w/ A. Berger, C. Kousky, K. Laberteaux, and R. Zeckhauser). Harvard J of Real Estate - Navigating Investments with Ethical Risk, 39-50, 2013. “Chernobyl” in Encyclopedia of Energy, ed. M. Pierce, Golson Media: Salem Press, 2012. “A New Systemic Nature For Mussolini’s Landscape Urbanism” (w/ A. Berger) in Dirt, ed. M. Born, H. Furján, and L. Jencks, with P. M. Crosby. PennDesign; Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2012, pp. 252-261. Waste to Place (w/ A. Berger and V. Ketellapper). TIffany & Co. Foundation, Printed by Puritan Press, 2012. “The Challenge of Degraded Environments: How Common Biases Impair Effective Policy” (w/ A. Berger, C. Kousky, and R. Zeckhauser). Risk Analysis, Vol. 31(9): 1423-1433, Sept 2011. “Sourcing the Next American Fuel Network” (w/ A. Berger). Landscape Architecture China, 1: 100-106, 2011. “The Five Neglects: Risks Gone Amiss” (w/ A. Berger, C. Kousky, and R. Zeckhauser) in Learning from Catastrophes, H. Kunreuther and M. Useem (eds.), Philadelphia, PA: Wharton School Publishing, 2009. “Digital simulation and reclamation” (w/ A. Berger) in Designing the Reclaimed Landscape. Ed. A. Berger. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis, 2008. 117-124. “Open-pit opportunities: pre-mine design strategies” (w/ A. Berger) in Designing the Reclaimed Landscape. Ed. A. Berger. New York, NY: Taylor and Francis, 2008. 125-128. “Re-seeding Nansha” in Nansha Coastal City: Landscape and Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta. Eds. A. Berger and M. Crawford. Harvard University Graduate School of Design, 2006.
VISUALS FEATURED /Art
“The Myth of Kudzilla“ Mountain Xpress, April 2023. “Extinction”. Murze Magazine. Issue #9. 2020 Berger, A. and J. Kotkin, eds. Infinite Suburbia. PAPress, 2017. Multiple mappings. “Virgil, Pietro Da Cortona, and the Heroism of Aeneas,” by Michael J. Putnam. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 59/60: 2014/2015. SeeMe Online Featured Artist Gallery. http://www.see.me/creators/caseylancebrown Brash, Hand, and Orff. Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park: PAPress, 2011, 191. American Academy in Rome Fine Arts Index, 2010-2011. <http://sofa.aarome.org/2010-2011/casey-lance-brown-1> “Leading Thinkers and Doers” Summer/Fall 2010, v.63:3. Clemson World Magazine. “Best Architecture of the Decade” Jan 2010. Mammoth. <http://m.ammoth.us/blog/> MacDonald, J. and H.G. Clarke, eds. Studioworks 10. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 2004.
EXHIBITIONS Design (selected)
2016 Future of Suburbia. Center for Advanced Urbanism, MIT. Cambridge, MA 2014 IABR: Urban by Nature. International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam 2013 Urban Border, Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, China 2011 Thick Border, Institute for Wishful Thinking (IWT, Online) 2010 Envisioning Organization: Architecture and Information. Knowlton, OSU
2010 HYDROCITY: A Symposium on Hydrology/Urbanism. (w/ A. Berger) Toronto
2010 REBURBIA: A Suburban Design Competition Big Box Biofuel, Dwell/Inhabit
2009 Le Grand Pari(s) Porous City, Cite d’le Architecture (w/ Studio 09), Paris
2006 Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America. (w/ A. Berger), Harvard
2005 Harvard Vision of Sustainability 2020. Harvard University
2004 Studioworks Annual Exhibition. x2, Harvard University, GSD
2002 Permanent Logo Design, Folkmoot USA-State International Festival, Non-profitINVITED LECTURES + CRITIC
2023 Topography [hosted by Ashley Hoden. Interview 2021 VAE: Approaching Maximum. Artist Talk. Raleigh 2020 CAM-Raleigh. Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh, NC. Artist Talk 2020 Ecoartspace. Landscapes of Invasion. Artist Talk 2018 MIT Suburban Autonomous Futures. Critic/ Adviser 2017 Hyperloop One Competition. Juror 2016 UTennessee-Knoxville. Critic 2015 Center for Advanced Urbanism (M.I.T.) Critic 2014 DREDGEFEST - Louisiana. Speculative Design Workshop, Lectures 2014 Center for Advanced Urbanism (M.I.T.) Lecture 2013 Media Lab (M.I.T.). Lecture 2012 Duke University. Field Trip Adjunct, Geomorphology 2012 Oslo School of Architecture & Design (Norway). Critic/Workshop 2011 Harvard University (GSD). Critic
2011 American Academy in Rome. School of Fine Arts 2011 Terragrams Feature Delivering the Landscape Series, Switzerland
2010 M.I.T. Reader/Critic, DUSP
2008 Clemson University. Lecture, Digital Rep.
2008 Oslo School of Architecture & Design (Norway). Critic/Workshop
2007 Aarhus School of Architecture (Denmark). Visiting Lecturer/Critic
2006 Harvard University (PREX2). Conference Presenter/Panelist
2006 Harvard University (GSD). Lecture, Digital Rep.
2005 Yale University. Critic, School of Architecture
2009 Jim Self Center on the Future. NPR News/ETV SC