Brian Bress

American video artist and filmmaker (b. 24 February 1975, Norfolk, Virginia); lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Brian Bress is widely renowned in contemporary art, with videos and installation pieces in permanent collections at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitney Museum Of American Art and other notable US museums and galleries. He also collaborated with renowned British synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys, directing the "Invisible" music video for the band's eleventh studio album, Elysium, released in September 2012 by Parlophone. Bress also created an eponymous installation for the band, utilized as the promotional single's artwork. Brian Bress studied film, animation and video at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), graduating with his BFA degree in 1998. He earned a Master's degree in Painting and Drawing from the University Of California-Los Angeles in 2006 and attended the 2007 Skowhegan School Of Painting And Sculpture in Maine. In 2012, Bress participated in the "Stowaway Series" project at New York's New Museum with his Status Report video piece. The following year, his Idiom (Brian, Raffi, Britt) video appeared at LACMA's Stark Bar in Los Angeles, California. Brian Bress had a retrospective exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts in 2015, which later traveled to the Denver Museum Of Contemporary Art and several other museums.