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BiographyBrian Rochefort (b. 1985) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design (2007) and participated in the Lillian Fellowship Residency at the Archie Bray Foundation (2009). Rochefort's first solo museum exhibition, Absorption by the Sun, was exhibited at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA (2019). Solo gallery exhibitions include Van Doren Waxter and 11R, New York, NY; Massimo De Carlo, London and Milan; Caterina Tognon, Venice, Italy; Sorry We're Closed, Brussels, Belgium; and Bernier Eliades, Athens. Group exhibitions include: The Cabin, Los Angeles, CA; Sorry We're Closed, Brussels; Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, NY; and Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA. Rochefort was included in the museum exhibitions Artifices Instables, Stories of Ceramics at Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco; Cool Clay at Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Regarding George Ohr at Boca Raton Museum of Art, FL; and From Funk to Punk at Everson Museum of Art, NY.
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Brian Rochefort
The Hunter January 11 - March 2, 2024Van Doren Waxter is very pleased to announce Brian Rochefort: The Hunter, a striking exhibition of new, never before shown ceramic sculptures covered in optically charged glazes and finishes at...Read more -
Brian Rochefort: 5 4 3 2 1
2nd Floor January 14 - February 26, 2022Van Doren Waxter is delighted to open an exhibition of highly activated glazed stoneware and glass works suggesting forms and phenomena in the natural world by Los Angeles-based artist Brian...Read more -
Brian Rochefort
2030: 2nd Floor January 9 - February 16, 2019Van Doren Waxter is delighted to open a new exhibition by Los Angeles based artist Brian Rochefort, on view from January 9 – February 16, 2019 at 23 East 73rd...Read more -
Brian Rochefort
HotSpots: 195 Chrystie St November 3 - December 22, 2017Van Doren Waxter is pleased to announce Brian Rochefort’s debut solo exhibition in New York, presenting new ceramic sculptures inspired by Rochefort’s recent year-long travels throughout South and Central America...Read more
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Art Basel Miami Beach
Booth G4 December 6 - 8, 2024Van Doren Waxter will present a select group of works that embody expressionism and restraint. The variety of formalist impulses behind this concept will be...Read more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
December 8 - 10, 2023Meridians : Alan Shields Kabinett : Alan Shields: Works on PaperRead more -
Art Basel Miami Beach
December 1 - 3, 2022Main Booth Marsha Cottrell Karin Davie Moira Dryer Judy Fiskin Helen Frankenthaler Carmen Herrera Vera Molnar Mariah Robertson Dorothea Rockburne Jackie Saccoccio Hedda Sterne Anne...Read more -
The Armory Show
September 9 - 11, 2022Works By: Caetano de Almeida Marsha Cottrell Jeronimo Elespe Jessie Henson David Hockney Volker Hüller Joshua Nathanson Evan Nesbit Gareth Nyandoro Mariah Robertson Brian Rochefort...Read more -
Dallas Art Fair
April 21 - 24, 2022Caetano de Almeida James Brooks Marsha Cottrell Richard Diebenkorn Jeronimo Elespe Jessie Henson Hans Hofmann Volker Hüller Robert Motherwell Joshua Nathanson Evan Nesbit Harvey Quaytman...Read more -
The Armory Show
March 5 - 8, 2020
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Volcanic Ash and Lush Tropics Inspire Brian Rochefort’s Unearthly Ceramics
Colossal | By Grace EbertSeptember 10, 2024 -
How Artist Brian Rochefort Finds Inspiration Through Exotic Travel
Galerie | by Jacoba UristJuly 19, 2024 -
8 Must-See Solo Gallery Shows in February 2024
Galerie | by Paul LasterFebruary 5, 2024 -
How an Encounter With Cheetahs in the Serengeti Led to Artist Brian Rochefort’s Latest Exhibition
Cultured | By Sophie LeeJanuary 15, 2024 -
A Sculptor Who Makes Ceramics Inspired by Volcanoes
By Janelle Zara, T Magazine, August 7, 2019 -
5 Design Hotspots at this year’s Venice Biennale
by Anna Talley, An Interior, May 30, 2019 -
Brian Rochefort Will Have Venice Show During Biennale
By Annie Armstrong, Artnews , April 17, 2019 -
Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
by Caroline Goldstein, Artnet News, January 7, 2019 -
An Impression of Otherness: Brian Rochefort at Van Doren Waxter
Artcritical, December 30, 2017 -
35 Unmissable Gallery Shows to See in New York City This November
by Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, October 26, 2017 -
34 Unmissable Gallery Shows to See in New York City This November
by Sarah Cascone, Artnet News, October 26, 2017 -
These 20 Artists Are Shaping the Future of Ceramics
by Casey Lesser, Artsy, February 22, 2017 -
Two Shows with Brian Rochefort Focus on his Painting
by Bill Rogers, cfile, June 2, 2016 -
The Colorful Meltdown: BRIAN ROCHEFORT
by Erica Olson, Ligné Magazine, March 1, 2015