Becky Brown is a painter and visual artist born and raised in Manhattan, currently living in Buffalo, NY. Her work uses hand-painted lettering, found text and irregular pattern to restore attention and a human touch in the face of advancing online culture. She received her BA from Brown University, her MFA from Hunter College and is an Assistant Professor at SUNY University at Buffalo. Solo and two-person exhibitions include PS122 Gallery (NYC), Arts+Leisure Gallery (NYC), the Handwerker Gallery (Ithaca, NY), Raft of Sanity (Buffalo, NY) and Fort Gondo (St. Louis, MO). Group exhibitions include The Drawing Center, Queens Museum, Freight+Volume Gallery, Pratt Manhattan Gallery and A.I.R. Gallery (all NYC); Last Projects (Los Angeles); Buffalo Institute of Contemporary Art and Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY), CICA Museum (Gyeonggi-do, Korea) and Religare Arts Initiative (Delhi, India). She has received grant funding from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and Bronx Council on the Arts. Her work has been written about in the New York Times, the New York Observer, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint and Art Spiel, among others.