Brian Finke

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Education
1998
Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, New York City, 1998


Solo Exhibitions
2005
�2-4-6-8,� Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
�Brian Finke: American Cheerleaders & Football Players,� Art Chicago, Project Space,
Catherine Edelman Gallery
2003
�Brian Finke: American Cheerleaders & Football Players,� ClampArt, New York City


Group Exhibitions
2005
�Gods and Monsters,� Ambrosino Gallery, North Miami, Florida
�This dream, America,� Art League of Long Island/Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery, Dix Hills,
New York (Curator, Keith Miller)
�FOTORELIEF and UNICEF Photography Exhibition and Auction,� Milk Studios, New York City
�Rock and Royalty to Erase MS: 12th Annual Event,� The Westin Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles
�Live Out Loud 4th Annual Gala,� Chelsea Art Museum, New York City
2004
�Postcards From the Edge,� Visual AIDS at Brent Sikkema, New York City
�Growing up Absurd: Boys Becoming Men in an Irrational World,� Radiant Light Gallery,Portland, ME
�First Annual PhotoNY Invitational,� lyonswiergallery, New York City
�PhotoNY,� ClampArt booth, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City
�FotoFest,� FotoArte. Brazil
�Unbroken: Photography Subjects Speak Out,� Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York City
�Young Portfolio Acquisitions 2003," Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kitakoma-gun, Yamanashi, Japan
�Teenage Kicks,� Hibernian Royal Academy, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
�Discoveries,� FotoFest, Houston, Texas
2003
�Boys of Summer: Photographs of and about Men,� ClampArt, New York City
�Photo L.A.: The 12th Los Angeles Photographic Print Exposition,� ClampArt, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica, California
2002
�48-hour Photo Exhibit (Selected Works by 48 NYC-based Photographers),� Arts International,
New York City
De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam
2001
The Netherlands Photography Institute, Rotterdam
The Light Factory, North Carolina
2000
The Capital Building, Washington, DC
1998
New Century Artist Gallery, New York City
1996
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas


Grants/Awards
2004
New York Federation for the Arts Fellowship
One of 12 artists nominated for the International Center for Photography�s annual Infinity Award, Young Photographer category
Nomination Award (Category of Education, Recreation, Sports and Technology), Humanity Photo Awards, China Folklore Photographic Association, Beijing, China
2003
7th International Prize for Young Photo Journalism 2003, Agfa and Das BildForum, Honorable Mention
2001
World Press Photo Masterclass
Photo District News, 30 Under 30
1998
Child Labor and the Global Village: Photography for Social Change Grant
Award of Excellence, The Alexia Foundation for World Peace


Projects
Books:
Robert Pledge and Peter Hay Halpert, FOTORELIEF (FOTORELIEF and UNICEF: New York City, 2005), no. 35, full-page illus.
2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players, Photographs by Brian Finke (Umbrage Editions: New York City, 2003)
Tina Schelhorn and Dr. Peter V. Brinkemper, 7th International Prize for Young Photo Journalism 2003 (Edition Braus: Heidelberg, Germany, 2003), p. 71, full-page color illus.
Alice Rose George, Ed., Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs (Scalo Books: New York City, 2002), pp. 122-123


Publications
Clients:
AT&T; (Ogilvy)
Cingular (BBDO)
Details
Discover
ESPNU (Wieden + Kennedy)
Entertainment Weekly
Fortune
GEO
GQ
IBM (Ogilvy)
Life
Los Angeles Times Magazine
Men�s Journal
Newsweek
New York Magazine
Nike (Wieden + Kennedy)
The New York Times Magazine
The New Yorker
Outside
Parade
Rolling Stone
Time