Coady Brown (b. 1990, Baltimore, MD) received her MFA from Yale University in 2016 and her BFA from Temple University in 2012. She now lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Brown creates paintings that probe how individuals and groups navigate self-presentation, often within the charged atmosphere of nightlife. Drawing from art history, fashion, film, and lived experience, Brown composes intimate, psychologically rich scenes where colour, light, and gesture hint at mystery, autonomy, and complex human connection. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, the Columbus Museum of Art, and the X Museum, Beijing.
Solo exhibitions include Suitor, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA (2025); My Eyes Burned Bright, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2023); Rabid Heart, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Only in the Darkness Can You See the Stars, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA (2021); Electric Bloom, Taymour Grahne, London, UK (2021); Made in the Dark, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2021); Super Natural, 1969 Gallery, New York (2019); Fool Me Twice, 1969 Gallery, New York (2017).
Group exhibitions include (Upcoming) Symposium, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach (2025); To Move A Mountain, Curated by Coady Brown, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (2025); People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue, Curated by Kathy Battista, Albertz Benda, New York (2023); This Too Shall Pass, Curated by Racquel Chevremont, Venus Over Manhattan, New York (2023); Synthetic Bodies, Lyles & King, New York (2023); 10 YEARS, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Density’s Glitch, The Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA (2022); Women of Now, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (2022); House Parté, Carlye Packer, Palm Springs, CA (2022); Janus, Morgan Presents, New York (2022); City Fever, Francois Ghebaly, New York (2021); Present Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (2021); The Bedroom Show, Monya Rowe, New York (2021); This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany (2021); Hospitalet, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm, SE (2021); Contemporary Domesticity, Taymour Grahne, London, UK (2021); Domesticated, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2021); 36 Paintings, Harper's Books, East Hampton, NY (2020); Body in Motion/Traveling Bodies, Stems Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (2020) Black and White vs. Color, Richard Heller, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Stranger Things, Ramp Gallery, London, UK (2020); Fragmented Bodies, Albertz Benda, New York, NY (2020); Juxtapoz at 25: In Black and White, The Hotel at South Beach, Miami, FL (2019); Give It To Me Good, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2019); Paper View, The Hole, New York, NY (2019); The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY (2019); Entering A Song, Koenig and Clinton, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Fine Arts Work Center Fellows Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA (2019); The Anxious Body, Angell Gallery, Toronto, Canada (2017); Close Quarters, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY (2017); Can’t Touch This, Mulherin Gallery, New York, NY (2017); Sexuality, NAM Project, Milan, Italy (2017); Drive, Tomorrow Gallery, New York, NY (2016); Sunrise / Sunset, Infinity Room, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Partners, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY (2016); Double Dip, Green Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, CT (2016).