SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2008 The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle, preview exhibition, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
The Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007 Great Sea Creatures & the Earth on the Back of the Giant Turtle, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
2006 Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2005 Great Sea Creatures & Punica Granatum, City Art, Columbia, SC
Great Sea Creatures & Punica Granatum, Jackson Gallery & Sculpture Garden, Aiken, SC
2004 The Great Fish & Every Kind of Plant that Bears Seed, Jackson Gallery & Sculpture Garden,
Aiken, SC
2002 Verdir, Chicago, IL
2001 80808 Vista Studios, Columbia, SC
Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken, SC
2000 Gallery 701, Columbia, SC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 The Inventory, if ART Gallery, Columbia, SC
20th Anniversary Juried Art Exhibition, South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, SC
2007 Art Miami, Miami, FL
The Warming Landscape, www.thebruise.com
The Project Room, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
Kleinformat / Small Format, The Columbia – Kaiserslautern Exchange, if ART Gallery,
Columbia, SC
A Holiday Exhibition, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2006 South Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, The City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC
Take The Field, Winfield Studio & Wilmington Street Gallery, Winfield, KS
South Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, Pickens County Museum of Art & History,
Pickens, SC
A Holiday Exhibition, Mary Pauline Gallery, Augusta, GA
2004 Aberration/Pollination, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, IL
South Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC
South Carolina Birds: A Fine Arts Exhibition, Franklin G. Burroughs - Simeon B. Chapin Art
Museum, Myrtle Beach, SC
2003 The Felt Moment, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
2001 Procession, Fresh Pastabilities, Columbia, SC
Phobia 2001, Thirteenth Floor Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 The Muse, Gallery 701, Columbia, SC
Aritsta Vista 2000, Columbia, SC
1999 USC Student Art Show, McKissick Museum, Columbia, SC
Foundation, Gallery 701, Columbia, SC
BIO
Thornton was born in 1976 and raised in Aiken, South Carolina. In the spring of 1999, Thornton received his BFA from the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. While at Carolina, he studied painting with Philip Mullen and Jim Steven.
Following college graduation, Thornton worked in a studio space at Gallery 701 in Columbia, SC. Gallery 701, a cultural center for visual and performing arts, once held one of the largest collections of Columbia, SC artists. In February 2000, Thornton had his first solo show at 701. It was in preparation for this show that he began using his 10 x 10 inch painting format.
In June 2000, Thornton moved to a family house in Modoc, SC, where he worked for a year. Thornton then moved to Chicago in August 2001 and was employed as Gallery Director at Mongerson Galleries and Assistant Preparator at Russell Bowman Art Advisory. While in Chicago, it became apparent that the South was a significant aspect of Thornton’s work and it ultimately lead him to return to Aiken in August of 2005. Currently, Brown Thornton lives and works in a warehouse studio in Aiken, South Carolina.
Hollis Brown Thornton