Bruce Price
764 Jackson, Denver, CO 80206
BPrice2331@gmail.com
720 840 4540
Resides: Denver, CO
Education: 2004- 2006
Maine College of Art, Portland, ME MFA
Studio Advisors: Jeremy Gilbert-Rolf, Shirley Kaneda
1994-1997 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, Denver, CO BFA
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Harmonious Dissonance
2026 The Surface of Last Scattering, Nick Ryan Gallery, Boulder, CO
2024 Polyphony, Nick Ryan Gallery, Denver, CO
2021 Polychrome, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, CO
2017 Sinner in Gingham, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2014 Large Paintings, Colorado State Capitol Building, Denver, CO
2013 Forces at Play, Alumni Gallery, RMCAD, Denver, CO
2013 Purity is Death, Transgression Divine, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 Works on paper, 2007-2012, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2013 Convivial Living, curator: Adam Milner, ShowPen Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 I am a Cloud, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 Knowing How to not Know, Rude Gallery, Denver, CO
2007 The Plane Upon Which Events Happen, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2005 Full, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2004 Fill, The New York Paintings, Plus Zeile Judish Gallery, Denver, CO
2003 Lozenge Paintings, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Vertical Articulation, Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver
2001 Painting in the Age of Transparency, Ron Judish Fine Arts Gallery, Denver, CO
2001 Arbitrary Intent, OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Walter, Studio 314, New York, NY
1999 Truncated Infinities and Floating Absolutes, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1997 Between Rigor and Indulgence, Rule Modern & Contemporary, Denver, CO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 The Nth Dimension, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2016 Drawing Never Dies, Redline, Denver, CO
2014 Ternion, David B Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2014 Be a Cloud not a Grid, Vertigo Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 Provisional Painting, Ground Swell Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 Soft Subversion, Pirate Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, CO
2012 Stuff(ed), Laundry on Lawrence, Denver, CO
2011 Exit, Redline, Denver, CO
2009 DenMi, Miami, FL, Miami Basel
2009 You of All People! Here of All Places!, Redline, Denver, CO
2009 Impulse my Cranial, two-person show, Green Dot at Redline, Denver, CO
2008 Spatial Investigations: New Art from Redline, Redline Studios and Gallery, Denver, CO
2008 Dialog Denver, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2007 Pattern Recognition, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO (Michael Chavez Curator)
2007 SLICE: Art Miami 2007, Miami, FL
2006 Extended Remix, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
2006 Decades of Influence: Colorado 1985-Present, Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2003 View from Denver, Kai Feng University, Kai Feng, Henan Province, People's Republic of China
2003 Stripe, A two person show, Phillip J Steele Gallery, Denver, CO
2002 Flat out, Cornell DeWitt Gallery, New York, NY, Cydney Payton, Curator
2002 Archipelago: An Intimate Immensity, Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver
2002 Random Acts of Beauty, Foothills Art, Denver, Golden, CO
2001 Summer Stock, Ron Judish Fine Arts Gallery/Denver, Denver, CO
2001 Post Point, Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Denver, CO
2000 Call and Response, Singer Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 Horse, Ron Judish Fine Arts Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 Volume, Ron Judish Fine Arts Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 Colorado 2000, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Ingrid Schaffner Juror
1999 Colorado Abstraction 1975 - 1999, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
1999 Cambridge Art Association National Prize Show, Cambridge, MA
1998 Pleiades Gallery, Juried Exhibition, New York, Ivan Karp Juror
1998 Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, GA, Holly Solomon, Juror
1997 The Third Degree, Three-person show, Rule Modern & Contemporary, Denver, CO
1997 Red at Rule, Rule Modern & Contemporary, Denver, CO
Residences
2026 Nomadic Residency, Humbult, CA
2024 Nomadic Residency, Missoula, MT
2019 Artist invite Artist@ Red Lodge Clay Center
2016-2019 Idea Forge, University of Colorado Boulder Engineering Department, Denver, CO
2014 #MadeUpArtistResidence, Mai Wyn Fine Art, Denver, CO
2014 Epic Decade, Jamestown, RI
2008-2011 Redline Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Bibliography:
Denver Post, “The Best Art Exhibition of 2025”, Dec 28, 2025
Denver Post, “Is Bruce Price the Most Important Living Colorado Painter?”, Nov 20, 2025
Denver Post, “The Most Beautiful Things to See”, Ray Mark Rinaldi, May 2, 2024
Denver Post, “What is Drawing”, Ray Mark Rinaldi, July 29, 2016
Westword, “Reading Between the Lines”, Michael Paglia, July 26, 2016
Westword, “Abstract Artists Make you Think”, Michael Paglia, May 16, 2013
Westword, “100 Colorado Creatives”, Susan Froyd, May 21, 2013
New York Times, In Denver, Exhibits Interweave Genres, March 21, 2013
Metromode, "Pleasure and Indifference," Andrea Regan, June 2008
Denver Post, "Two local stars explore new artistic territory," Kyle MacMillan, May 18, 2007
Westword, “Triple Threat”, Michael Paglia, May 08, 2007
Westword, “Basis Loaded”, Michael Paglia, June 29, 2006
Rocky Mountain News, “MCA Exhibits an Amiable Mix,” Voelz Chandler, September 21, 2006
Westword, “Act II”, Michael Paglia, Oct 26, 2006
Westword, "Best Gallery Show Solo - FULL," Best of Westword 2006
Rocky Mountain News, “Price’s works reflect growth", Mary Chandler, Sept 16, 2005
Westword, " Paint the Town", Michael Paglia, Sept 15, 2005
Rocky Mountain News, "As museums rise, culture wins at polls", Mary Chandler, Dec 25, 2004
Rocky Mountain News, "Top of the Rocky, Top Abstract Painter", Mary Chandler, Oct 28, 2004
Denver Post, “+Zeile/Judish artists ride retro wave of 60’s, 70’s minimalism”, Kyle MacMillan, April 30, 2004
Rocky Mountain News, "Painter’s geometrical Works Prove well worth the wait", Mary Chandler, Apr. 24, 2004
Westword, "Plaids and Solids", Michael Paglia, April 22, 2004
The Denver Post, Colorado Art in NYC, Kyle MacMillan, August 13, 2002
Westword, "Looking Good", Michael Paglia, April 25, 2002
Eye-Level, "Re-viewed", Marin Brown, Winter 2002"
Westword, "Artbeat", Michael Paglia, February 14, 2002"
LODO, Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver" Sandra Phillips, January 2002
Rocky Mountain News, "Beauty of Judish show is Transparent", Mary Chandler, Dec. 8, 2001
Westword, "Straight Ahead", Michael Paglia, December 13, 2001
Westword, "Good Heavens", Michael Paglia, November 8, 2001
Rocky Mountain News, "Art as a Religious Experience", Mary Chandler, November 2, 2001
Westword, "Holy Daze", Michael Paglia, October 5, 2000
Westword, "Hanging Out", Michael Paglia, July 20, 2000
Rocky Mountain News, "Changing View of Men in Art", Mary Chandler, June 30, 2000
Westword, "Real and Imagined", Michael Paglia, March 30, 2000
Collections:
Denver Art Museum, Denver. COZillman Art Museum-University of Maine, Bangor, ME
Karl Kister & Mary Caulkin, Denver, CO
David Adjaye, London
Karen Brody & Michael Hughes, Denver, CO
Barbara Groh-Wahlström, Sweden & New York, NY
Kathy Edwards Knaus, Denver, CO
Margaret Neumann, Denver, CO
Christopher Coleman & Laleh Mehran, Denver, CO
Sue Cannon, Denver, CO
Seth Goldenberg, Jamestown, RI
William & Carole Buyers, Denver, COMartha Russo, Jamestown, CO
Andrea Gordon, Denver, CO
K Rhynus Cesark, Aspen, CO
David Dadone, Denver, CO
Linda Chambell, Denver, CO
Liz Newton, Jamestown, RI
Hannah Richert, Denver, CO
Clark Richert, Denver, CO
Gary & Kathy Emrich, Denver, CO
Cydney Payton, Big Sur, CA
Margaret Neuman, Denver, CO
Rebecca Vaughan, St. Joseph, MO
Marriott, Denver. CO
American Express
Lovedy Barbratelli, Denver, CO
Rick Gennett, Boulder, CO
Lovedy Barbatelli, Denver, CO
David Orlovsky & KC Veio, Denver / Palm Springs
Cindy Leaverton and Chris Moore, Denver, CO
Peter Simonson, Denver, CO
Jane Tannenbaum, Denver, CO
Nick Ryan, Boulder, CO
Sara Ransford, Carbondale, CO
Sonia Rae, Denver, CO
Julie Page, Denver, CO
Lauren Hansen, Boulder, CO
Constance Brines, Boulder, CO
Jim Foos, Denver, CO
Shannon Costello Duster, Boulder, CO
Sherry Wiggins, Boulder, CO
Bob Morehouse, Boulder, CO
Jerrod Johnson & Jack Betts, Denver, CO