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