Brian Alfred is an artist, musician, and curator based out of Brooklyn, and has shown his work internationally for the past seventeen years. Alfred is the recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Purchase Award, the New York Foundation of the Arts Inspiration Award, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.

This is the first of two interviews with Brian, the second interview can be found by clicking here.

He is an alumnus of Yale, Skowhegan, and Penn State. His work is in the collections of institutions such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

Alfred is also the creator and host of the Sound & Vision podcast, which features conversations with contemporary artists and musicians.

Flatiron​ 2018

 

Central Park 2017