Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Carol Bruns (b. Des Moines, Iowa 1943) is an artist living in Brooklyn, New York, working continuously for sixty years in sculpture and drawing. She graduated NYU 1966 in Fine Arts, then attended the Art Students League, NYC, and l'Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France. She first exhibited in 1975 at OK Harris Gallery showing wall works made from found supports cloaked with cloth and thin, colored plaster. In 1980 she was guest artist at the Caraccio Etching Studio, Orion Editions published her prints, and in 2002 she received a printmaking fellowship at the Women's Studio Workshop.
From 2000-2006 she was in four two-person exhibitions at the Tew Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. Group exhibitions continued throughout this time as well as community organizing (Dumbo Open Studios), curating (Persona, A New Look at Portraits 1997; Festival of Political Pleasure 2017), publishing artist's books (Pages, with Robert Jacks), and stage décor (Bellerophon Dance Company). In 2013 she was interviewed by Gorky's Granddaughter.
Her most recent exhibitions have been a solo at White Columns in 2023, Zurcher Gallery 2021 and 2023, SRO Gallery in Brooklyn in 2017-18, Sculpture Space in Long Island City, 2017, and The Parlour Bushwick in 2015. The artist published a 100-page book of drawings and photographs, A View in 2024, organized around a history of political dissent.
Ms. Bruns has been awarded the following: Monson Residency, Monson, Maine, 2025; VCCA Residency, Amherst, Virginia, 2023; the Saltonstall Residency, Ithaca, New York, 2019; The Women's Studio Workshop in 2002; the MyMA Grant 2024, Tree of Life grant 2019, and the Artists' Fellowship grant 2018.