SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Galatea: Myth, Love, and Transformation, M Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
2023 MUSE, The Carr Center Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 Coarse, Madison College, Madison WI
2021 Behind the Mask, Norwest Gallery of Art, Detroit, MI
2016 Wayne Community College, Detroit, MI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
2024 October 3-6: Atlanta Art Fair
2024 Two-Person Show, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2023 London Art Biennale, Selected Artist
2023 Regional Biennial Group Show, Marshall Fredricks Sculpture Museum
2023 Shapes of Influence, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
2023 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Conference, Cincinnati, OH
2023 The Journey of Ceramics, Jingdezhen International Ceramic Art Biennale, China
2022 Here & Now, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, Hamilton, OH
2022 Carroll Harris Simms National Black Art Competition and Exhibition, Dallas African American Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2022 93rd Michigan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2022 Young Sculptors Exhibition, National Sculptors Society
2021 Anything Goes, Gutman Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2021 Regional Biennial Juried Exhibition, Marshall Fredricks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI
2020 Visions of Detroit, curated by Jennifer Evans, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, MI
2020 Art of Soul, National Afro-American Museum, Wilberforce, OH
2019 Charles H. Wright African American History Museum Art Auction
2018 Art Expo New York
2017 Harlem Fine Arts Show, Chicago, IL
2016 30 Americans, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
2014 Art Prize, Grand Rapids, MI (Cocoon Unleashed was selected as part of commercial advertisement for the event)
SELECTED ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND COMMUNITY OUTREACH
2024 Artist residency/public commission with the City of Madison, WI (awarded in 2023, active through 2025)
2024 Artist residency/teaching workshops with the Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
2024 Lyme Academy of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT: The Object-Model Relationship: A Sculpture Workshop with Grzegorz Gwiazda
2018 Rome Art Workshops Residency, Rome, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2023 African American Museum of Dallas
AWARDS
2023 Visual Arts Fellow, Kresge Arts, Detroit, MI
2023 National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Emerging Artist Fellowship
2023 27th Carroll Harris Simms Sculpture Award, African American Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX
2022 Eleanor Smith Michigan Potters Guild Award, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
2021 Honorable Mention, Regional Biennial Exhibition, Marshall Fredricks Sculpture Museum, Saginaw, MI
2018 Honorable Mention, Black Creativity Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
2017 Gilda Award winner, Kresge Arts, Detroit, MI
2017 Winner, Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Bloomfield Hills, MI
EDUCATION
2015 Oakland Community College, Oakland, MI
2013 San Francisco Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA; Berkley High School, Berkley, MI
SELECTED PRESS
Hooper, Ryan Patrick, “Meet Detroit’s Monument Man,” HOUR DETROIT Magazine, February 15, 2024
Trussoni, Isaac, “Detroit artist Austin Brantley returns to Madison to create a sculpture for Madison’s Darbo-Worthington neighborhood,” Madison 365, June 7, 2023
Green, Randiah Camille, “Detroit sculptor Austen Brantley to build statue honoring late Tuskegee Airman Alexander Jefferson,” Detroit Metro Times, October 4, 2022
Dunn, Patrick, “Austen Brantley: The Quiet Sculptor,” SEEN Magazine, June 30, 2022
Benberry, Blake, “BLAC Artist of the Week: Austen Brantley- Figurative Sculptor and Native Detroiter,” BLAC Detroit, January 28, 2022.
Feighan, Maureen, “Eight Detroit Artists to Watch in 2022,” The Detroit News, January 4, 2022.
Hinds, Julie, “She’s a civil rights icon you likely never heard of. Now her statue will be seen in Detroit,” Detroit Free Press, April 11, 2019