Brian Garbrecht (he/him) is a multidisciplinary artist and graduate student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln ('26.) In 2022 he received his Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts with high honors from Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, where he was a member of the McNair Scholars Program. At NEIU, he won several awards including Best in Show at the 2022 and 2023 Juried Student Art + Design Exhibitions, and the Dr. Bernard J. Brommel Award For Outstanding Student Research and Creative Activity. As a member of the McNair Scholars Program, Brian received a research fellowship to create an in-progress series about the self-identity of adult adoptees titled Identities of Adoption. Brian mixes photography, printmaking, time-based work, archives, important documents, and installation to explore the ideas of self, truth, and identity. He is a 2021 Honorable Mention recipient for the Dorthea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University for his in-progress series Forest From A Tree. He was also a 2020 recipient of the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) Student Award for Innovations in Imaging. Brian’s work has been shown in dozens of juried exhibitions across the United States, along with solo exhibitions at Bradley University, and Northeastern Illinois University.
brianjgarbrecht@gmail.com
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