Gregory Brellochs is a Philadelphia-based artist, Professor, and the Visual and Performing Arts, Chair at Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey. Brellochs’ work has been recognized through awards such as the 2018 Meyer’s Family Award for Contemporary Arts, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists CDP Fellowship, the Wind Challenge Exhibition Series at the Fleisher Art Memorial, and the William D. Davis Award for Drawing at the Art of the State Exhibition in Harrisburg, PA. Brellochs has held numerous solo exhibitions and has been featured in a number of prestigious juried and curated group exhibitions both regionally and nationally. His work is included in the contemporary drawings collection of the Viewing Program through The Drawing Center in New York City. Brellochs earned his B.F.A. from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, and an M.F.A. from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.

Fellowships/Awards/ Honors:

2019 Works on Paper II, Juror’s Award, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA2019   

2018    Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

The Woodmere Annual: 77th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror’s Award, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2011    William D. Davis Memorial Award, Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

2009    Career Development Program Fellowship, Center for Emerging Visual Artists,  Philadelphia, PA

             Works on Paper 2009, Juror’s Award, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown. NJ

2007    The Wind Challenge Exhibitions Series, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

2004    Independence Foundation Nominee, 2005, MFA Faculty Nomination, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1997    Graduation with Distinction, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Solo Exhibitions:

2018      What IS & What If, 14th Annual Betsey Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

              Gregory Brellochs @ Allens Lane Art Center, Philadelphia, PA

2016      Quintessence, Duke Gallery, Wallingford, PA

2012      Immersion, Marlin Gallery at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ

2009      Biomorphic, Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY

2008      Symbiote Hybrids, AXD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007      The Wind Challenge Exhibitions 2007-2008, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA

              Material_Mind, Clay College at Cumberland County College, Millville, NJ

2006      An Evolution of Form, Marlin Gallery at Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ

Geomorphic, Clay College at Cumberland County College, Millville, NJ

2005      Organicist Sculpture and Drawing, Clay College at Cumberland County College, Millville, NJ

2004      Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1999      Current Drawings, Opus One, Munich, Germany

 Two and Three Person Exhibitions:

2022      Twofold, Park Towne Place, Philadelphia, PA (Curator: Clare Finin)

2020      Growth Determined, Hot Bed Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2018      Visions of Biophilia, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

2017      Evolving Dynamics, Azavea, Philadelphia, PA (Curator: Eric Preisendanz)

2015      Microverse, The Haverford School, Haverford, PA

2013      Discovery and Perception, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA (Curator: Susan Cotes)

2012      Abstractions, Perkins Center for the Arts, Collingswood, NJ (Curators: Philip Carrol and Karen Chigouinis)

2011      Lay of the Land, Bluestone Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2010      The Imagined, CDP Fellowship Spotlight Exhibition, CFEVA Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Other Worlds, AXD Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2021      New Now, Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA

Inliquid Benefit, Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA

2020     NATURphilosophie, 1241 Artspace, Philadelphia, PA (curator: Brooke Hein)

Inliquid Benefit, Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA

2019      Downriver in the Multiverse, Alumni Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

 Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA (Jurors: Janet Koplos, Rachelle Mozman Solano, Dr. Marin R. Sullivan)

              Your Plus One, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA

Works on Paper II, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (Juror: Rochelle Toner)

              Inliquid Benefit, Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA

2018     The Line Miami @ Aqua Art Fair, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL

The Woodmere Annual: 77th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA (Juror: Syd Carpenter)

Navigating Elements, 2018 Arts Annual Exhibition, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (Jurors: Ysable Pinyol and Jodi Throckmorton)

2015     The Woodmere Annual: 74th Annual Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA (Jurors: the Dufala Brothers)

Cosmos: Imagining the Universe, Annmarie Sculpture Garden &Arts Center, Dowell, MD

2014      Snowflake Salon, 110 Church Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA (Juror: Linda Francis)

              Surface, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA (Juror: Lorraine Riesenbach)

2013      Curious Investigations, Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA (Curator: Susan Cotes)

CFEVA Artists at the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, Philadelphia, PA

Art Mobile, Bucks County, PA (Curator: Joan Menapace)

Transformation, Flying Kite, Philadelphia, PA

2012      Why Drawing? University of Wisconsin La Crosse, La Crosse, WI (Curator: John Ready)

Artists and Their Mentors, Gallery 50, Bridgeton, NJ

Annual Juried Exhibition, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

2011      Black and White, BWAC, Brooklyn, NY

Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

2010      The Philadelphia Artist Salon on the Main Line, Lower Merion, PA

Between the Studio and Facebook, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA (Curator: Chuck Thurow)

Material Motion, Dalet Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Curator: Amie Potsic)

Free Form, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ (Curator: Mary Salvante)

CFEVA Fellows, Middlesex County College, Middlesex, NJ

2009      CFEVA Exchange, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

Works on Paper 2009, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ (Jurors: Syd Sachs, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery)

Vitreous: Of Optics and Seeing, Esther Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

              Art + Soul Food, MM Partners, Philadelphia, PA

              Treasures, Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, Philadelphia, PA

Introduction ’09, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

2008      Grand Small Works, F.U.E.L Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2007      Street Button, Winter Invitational 2007, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

              (Curators: Claire Iltis, Heather Shoemaker, and William Pym)

microBiophilia, the Hicks Gallery at Bucks County College, PA (Curator: Susan Hagen)

2005      Faculty Exhibition, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2004      Works on Paper 2004, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA (Juror: Jordan Kantor, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, NY)

5 into 1, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA (Jurors: Paul Hubbard and Lucartha Kohler)

1999      Thomas Art Exhibition, Thomas Architects and Engineers, Ithaca, NY

1997      Senior Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

              The Crosby Show, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

 Guest Lectures, Juror, Artist Talks & Panel Discussions:

2020      Wind Fellowships and Wind Young Fellowships, Inliquid, Philadelphia, PA, Juror

2019      The Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA, Works on Paper, juror

2018      Camden County Senior Show, Cherry Hill, NJ, juror

2016      Swarthmore University, Swarthmore, PA, visiting artist

2014      Art Blooms, Cherry Hill Township Art Exhibit, Cherry Hill, NJ, juror

2012      University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, La Crosse, WI, guest speaker and visiting critic

Medford Art Center, Medford, NJ, Works on Paper, juror

2011      Art Blooms, Cherry Hill Township Art Exhibit, Cherry Hill, NJ, juror

2010      Middlesex County College, Middlesex, NJ, Free Form artist talk

2009      Lawrence College, Appleton, WI, ‘An Intersection of Art, Science and Philosophy through the Art of Gregory Brellochs’, guest speaker and visiting critic

2007      Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA, Wind Challenge Exhibition artist talk

Bucks County College, Newtown, PA, microBiophilia panel discussion

 Artist Residencies:

2019      ArtLab at the Mountain Lake Biological Station, University of Virginia, Pembroke, VA

 Artist Registries:

The Drawing Center: Viewing Program, New York, NY (since 2006)

 Collegiate Affiliation:

Camden County College, Blackwood, NJ

  • Professor (2005-present)

  • Visual Arts, Coordinator (since 2014)

  • Visual and Performing Arts, Chair (since 2018)

 Education:

2004    M.F.A. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1997    B.F.A. Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA