Troy Brauntuch


Troy Brauntuch is an American artist known for his association with the Pictures Generation, a group of artists who came to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s exploring the relationship between images, media, and meaning. He currently teaches at the University of Texas, and previously was an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
Brauntuch received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1975 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. He first gained recognition in 1977 as a participant in the influential Pictures exhibition at Artists Space in New York City, which included artists such as Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, and Jack Goldstein.
In the following decades, Brauntuch exhibited widely in major national and international exhibitions. His work was in two group shows in 1982, including the Il Biennale di Venezia in Venice and documenta 7 in Kassel. In 1983, his work was featured in Back to the USA at Kunstmuseum Luzern in Lucerne, and Modern Nude Paintings: 1880–1980 at the National Museum of Art in Osaka. In 1984, he was included in An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as Content at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Brauntuch's work appeared in exhibitions such as Avant-Garde in the ’80s, Art for Your Collection, Prospect ’89, and Nocturnal Visions in Contemporary Painting. He continued to exhibit internationally with shows such as Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, American Art of the 80’s, and Glaube-Hoffnung-Liebe-Tod.
In the late 1990s and 2000s, Brauntuch was included in Fast Forward, Texas Draws, and Modern Art Despite Modernism. He was a recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 1999 and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010.
Brauntuch’s work was also featured in key survey exhibitions such as Drawing from the Modern 1975–2005, The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984, and Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006. Additional group exhibitions include Time Again, In the Crack of Dawn, and The Illusion of Light.
In recent years, his work has been included in Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts. He continues to exhibit with Petzel Gallery in New York, including solo exhibitions such as A Strange New Beauty in 2020.
He shows at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York, and Mai 36 Gallery in Zurich, Switzerland.His work is in the Museum of Modern Art. He lives in Austin, Texas.

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