Troy Brauntuch

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Troy Brauntuch (born 1954 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American artist known for being part of the Pictures Generation, a group in the 1970s and 1980s that looked at how images and media shape meaning. He earned a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1975 and he teaches at the University of Texas; he has also been an adjunct professor at Columbia University.

Brauntuch first gained attention in 1977 with the Pictures exhibition at Artists Space in New York, sharing the stage with artists like Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, and Jack Goldstein. He has shown widely in major museums and venues around the world. Highlights include group shows at the Venice Biennale and documenta 7 in 1982, and features in MoMA’s An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture and the Hirshhorn’s Content in 1984. Through the 1980s and 1990s, his work appeared in many important exhibitions, including LACMA’s Avant-Garde in the ’80s and Whitney’s Nocturnal Visions.

Brauntuch has received notable honors, such as a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 1999 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2010. His work has been included in major survey shows like Drawing from the Modern (MoMA, 2006) and The Pictures Generation (Met, 2009), as well as Day for Night at the Whitney Biennial (2006). In recent years he has continued to exhibit with Petzel Gallery in New York, including A Strange New Beauty in 2020, and shows at Friedrich Petzel Gallery and Mai 36 Gallery in Zurich. His work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, and he lives in Austin, Texas.