Brian Higbee

Brian Higbee was born and raised in Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania, a small jazz town at the edge of the Delaware River and a stop over for hikers passing through on the Appalachian Trail.  He began painting at a young age and continues his practice in the Hudson Valley. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally and is the recipient of 2 grants from the Puffin Foundation. He lives and works in Highland, NY.

I  make small, quiet oil paintings. My most recent series, Future Perfect, address the impending doom of climate change. The series includes paintings of extreme storms, flooding, droughts, fire and pipeline explosions. My previous series, Western State Terrorism, highlight the devastating impact of war by the US military and coalition forces in Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Palestine. The paintings include bombings, remote drone warfare, tactical strafing, torture, and overt destruction of civilian infrastructure 

Brian Higbee                                                

Exhibitions, Awards and Residency's

2024    Future Perfect (Solo Show), Marathon Gallery, Ellenville, NY

            SmallWORKS 2024, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY 

2023    Small Works by Strangers, Super Secret Projects, Beacon, NY

            Global Meltdown, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY

            Timeless, AMH Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY

            106th Annual Juried Exhibition, Greenwich Art Society, Greenwich, CT

            2023 Juried Members Exhibition, Edward Hopper House Museum and Study            

            Center, Nyack, NY

2022     small WORKS, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY

2021     Hudson Valley Imprints, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY

2018    Forget Me Not, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY

            Alchemy, AS/Artists Studios, Artsy, NY, NY 

2014    Pixelated, Here Art, NY, NY

            Future Perfect, Way Out Gallery, Rensslaerville, NY

            Conversations: Space&Time, GalleryEll, London, EN

            Structures, Printmaking Center of New Jersey, Branchburg, NJ

            Zines and the World of ABC No Rio, Center for Book Arts, NY

2013    Illuminators, OK Harris Works of Art, NY, NY

            Ghost Modernism, Quartair, Den Haag, NL 

            Bose Pacia, Brooklyn, NY- Residency

            Our Ocean is a Park, v.3, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

2012   Our Ocean is a Park, v.2, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

           Ad Libitum, ABC No Rio, NY, NY

2011   32 Below, St. Cecilia's Gallery, Brooklyn NY

           Our Ocean is a Park, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY

           Toys, Studio Theater Gallery, Middlesex County College, Edison, NJ

           Refuge Reading Room Exhibit, Space 1026, Philadelphia, PA

2010   Forward, Here, Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

           Texas Firehouse Season Open 2010, Texas Firehouse, Long Island City, NY

           No Assumption, 1235 Monroe St, NE, Minneapolis, MN

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