Brian Kershisnik

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Early Life and Education

Brian T. Kershisnik was born in 1962 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the fourth and last son of excellent parents. Because of his father's employment as a petroleum geologist, he grew up in Luanda Angola, Bangkok Thailand, Conroe Texas, and Islamabad Pakistan.

Kershisnik graduated from high school early, not because of sterling merit, but because the American Embassy in Islamabad Pakistan was burned and he was evacuated and the seniors graduated.

After a year of college at the University of Utah searching in vain for vocation, he served for a time as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Denmark. He returned to the USA to study art at Brigham Young University, during which studies he received a grant to study in London for six months. He received a BFA in Painting and Drawing from BYU in 1988. Kershisnik completed his graduate studies in Printmaking at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Career

Since the early nineties, Kershisnik’s work has been displayed in several solo and group exhibitions.


Solo Exhibitions:

. Brian Kershisnik and Joe Adams Collaborative Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions:
Honors and Publications
In 2006, Kershisnik was awarded an Award of Merit by the Museum of Church History & Art in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1998 and 1997, he was a Fellowship Finalist in the Visual Arts in a competition sponsored by the Utah Arts Council in Salt Lake City, Utah. In 1996, Kershisnik was named Best of Show at the Springville Museum of Art’s Spring Salon exhibit. Collections of his works are held at the BYU Museum of Art, the Salt Lake County Building, the Springville Museum of Art, the Eccles Community Art Center in Ogden, Illinois State University, the Tanner Law Library at BYU, the Museum of Church History & Art, and the University of Ohio in Athens. Kershisnik has also released multiple books and catalogues, contributed to periodicals, and has had his work featured in various articles. Three of his paintings -- Woman with Infant Flying, When to Stop, and Lovers Running -- were featured in the fall 2007 issue of The Clark Memorandum. The paintings were used to illustrate the article, “Peacemaking: Our Essential Work in the Last Days” by Chieko N. Okazaki. Kershisnik is a former part-time faculty in the Visual Arts Department at BYU.
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Family Life

After completing graduate studies in Austin Texas, Kershisnik and his young family moved to Kanosh, a very small town in central Utah, where he paints and works on his house and studio. He is not so young anymore and has 3 excellent children.

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References

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