faculty profile

Brett Cook
Visiting Faculty
Painting

Brett Cook’s work cohesively integrates the breadth and depth of his diverse experiences with art, education, science, and spirituality. For over two decades, Cook has produced installations, exhibitions, curricula, and events widely across the United States, and internationally. His museum work features elaborate installations that make intimately personal experiences universally accessible. His public projects typically involve community workshops and collaborative art, along with music, performance, and food to create a more fluid boundary between art making, daily life, and celebration. His work is in the collections of the Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery, the Walker Art Center, and Harvard University among others

Selected Exhibitions: 
  • Supernatural, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2010
  • Face Up Exhibition, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, 2008
  • Portraiture Now, Smithsonian/National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., 2007
Selected Publications: 
  • “Pedagogy, Collaboration, and Transformation,” with Korina Jocson. Art and Social Justice Education: Culture as Commons. Routledge, 2011
  • “Collaboration and Spirituality.” Why Not Reciprocity? Ed. Tom Finkelpearl. Duke University Press, 2011
  • Who Am I in This Picture: Amherst College Portraits with Wendy Ewald. Amherst College Press, 2009
Education: 
  • B.A. in Practice of Art with a minor in education, University of California, Berkeley
  • Certificate in Herbal Medicine, Ohlone School of Herbal Medicine