— is currently researching interesting events that he observed at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory located on the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, this past December.

Brandon Boan is an artist, collaborator, and former linotypist.

He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from The University of North Carolina at

Charlotte in 2005, Masters of Fine Arts at The University of Delaware in 2007, and the

Distinguished Alumni Award The University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2019.

He has been invited to exhibit in many national and international institutions,

museums, and galleries including the Carnegie Museum of Art where he made ceramic

objects cast from museum maintenance tools (i.e. mops, rags, sponges). This work

was exhibited in the Pittsburgh Biennial at CMOA. He has been

a three-time visiting and exhibited artist-in-residence at Cose Cosmiche (Arthur Craven

Foundation), Milan, Italy––where he performed together with the I8I collective a multinational

relay of audio/video feedback loops on the topic of “the collective song

voice”–– to excite the extraterrestrial mythos of human sorrow. Other residencies and

exhibiting spaces include The National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg,

Russia; Stockholm Fringe Festival, Sweden; Annuale Festival, Scotland; and The

Pontifícia Universidade Católic, São Paulo, Brazil.

Starting in 2006, Brandon Boan and Swedish artist Backa Carin Ivarsdotter have collaborated on multiple

two-person exhibitions based on topics surrounding “landscape”. One, titled Groveling Gleam

was an interactive robotic installation exhibited at Svensk Form, Stockholm.

Boan’s artist collective known as the “I8I” was founded in 2007 on Venice Beach

California and has created over 30 exhibitions with artists Abby Donovan, Thomas Hughes, and Jason Rhodes.

Boan directed and co-founded Tip Type — an art and neighborhood focused Linotype

studio know locally as a “working museum”. Tip Type considered the materiality of language,

technology and community in Wilkinsburg PA, 2013-2018.

Boan has been a visiting artist and faculty at Ohio University,

The International Ceramics Studio Hungary, and The University of Oregon.

contact: b.boanstudio[at]gmail.com