BRANDON
LIPCHIK

Brandon Lipchik, Absolute Darlings, Installation View, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, 2024

was born in Erie (US) in 1993. Lives and works in Paris (FR).

Brandon Lipchik’s images, rendered on the computer and then transferred to canvas by hand, deconstruct different perspectives and layer them together to create a multi-perspective visual collage. His works are reminiscent of footage from CCTV cameras that monitor a room from various angles or drones circling a subject.

“When I paint, I realize how much control I have over perspective. Just like a filmmaker, I determine what the viewer should see — whereas the filmmaker is limited to what the camera or physics provide. I often use a floating head perspective or an over-the-shoulder view to literally look down on the character, as in a movie, or to emphasize that they are being observed. You could even say that I provide an out-of-body or spiritual view of my simulated characters,” Lipchik says.

The often garishly lit, vividly colored, multi-perspective images echo typical tropes of Americana, yet as mythically charged pop culture sites. Lipchik deconstructs bodies, spaces, plants, objects, and fauna, reducing them to rudimentary, abstract, hard-edged shapes, while juxtaposing them with painterly, softer mark-making and gestural brushstrokes. His figures are reminiscent of early computer animation. Undoubtedly, Lipchik’s paintings also explore the concept of “machine people” — new connections between the organic, technology, and AI — and an era poised to radically transform humanity, relationships, and art. However, this Modernism 2.0 is not driven by the belief in progress and the optimism of the early 20th century but rather by uncertainty. His scenes are fantastical, grotesque, and decadent, forming a kaleidoscopic visual language where myth, technology, and magic intersect.
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting – Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, (US)
Digital Language Art – Brown University, Providence, (US)
2023 Booklet: Brandon Lipchik, publication by DCV and Robert Grunenberg
2022 Moonbeams of Allegory, publication by Hatje Cantz and Kunstpalais Erlangen
2025 Mohilef Studios Summer Residency (CA, USA)
2020 The Garage Residency, Amsterdam, (NL)
2019 Palazzo Monti Residency, Brescia, (IT)
2018 So Far Residency, Montpellier, (FR)
2018 Oli Epp’s Summer Residency, The Koppel Project Hive, London, (GR)
2014 Brooks Fellowship Award Winner, Snowmass Village, (US)
2011 Northwestern Pennsylvania Artists Association Scholar, Erie, (US)
2011 Rhode Island School of Design Scholarship, Providence, (US)
2024 Absolute Darlings, Robert Grunenberg (DE)
2022 Moonbeams of Allegory, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen, (DE)
2021 Above the Surface, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2021 Inground, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, (US)
2020 Visions of Song, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2020 Upcoming Spring, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, (FR)
2019 Visions of Song, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2018 Nu Digital, Galerie Julien Cadet, Paris, (FR)
2024 Portrait of a Man, Museum X, Beijing, (CHN)
2024 Licked by the waves, Museum More, Gorssel, (NL)
2023 SIRANI, Galerie Judin, Berlin (DE)
2023 Winterausstellung, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin (DE)
2023 IMAGINE — 10 Unrealized Projects, Robert Grunenberg, (DE)
2022 In Search of the Present, EMMA Museum Helsinki, Helsinki, (FI)
2022 Art Brussels (Double feature booth with Sonja Yakovleva), Brussels, (BE)
2021 THE ARTIST IS ONLINE, König Galerie, Berlin, (DE)
2020 Sincere Intentions, Robert Grunenberg, Berlin, (DE)
2020 Arena, East Projects, New York, (US)
2019-2020 Kunst nach den sozialen Medien, Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig, (DE)
2019 Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, (IT)
2019 Expo Chicago, Richard Heller Gallery, Chicago, (US)
2019 Group Show Pop Up, Galerie Julien Cadet, Montpellier, (FR)
2019 Post Digital Pop, The Garage, Amsterdam, (NL)
2019 Something New, Something Borrowed, Plastic Murs, Valencia, (ES)
2019 Time Bomb, Wadstrom Tonnheim Gallery, Marbella, (ES)
2019 Ultra Light Beams, Mount Analogue, Seattle, (US)
2018 Last Minute, Art Haps Gallery, New York, (US)
2018 While Supplies Last, Seattle, (US)
2016 Senior Invitational Exhibition, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, (US)
2016 RISD Annual Senior Thesis Show, Providence, (US)
2015 Erie Art Museum’s 92nd Annual Spring Show, Erie, (US)