Joan Brown
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Selected Works122

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Previous Sales 29

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Feb 2026 · $21.6K
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Paintings: $19.6K medianSculpture/objects: $5.1K medianWorks on paper: $8.3K medianEditioned prints: $2.4K medianPosters/ephemera: $597K medianUnclassified lots: $1.5K median
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BFA, 1955 · Valencia, CA, USA
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Recent News17

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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) has announced a major survey exhibition titled 'MATRIX: 50 Years of Experimentation,' schedu…
exhibitionsJun 2, 2026
Domenick Ammirati returns to New York after a year-long writing residency in Siena and Provincetown to cover the spring art fairs, including Frieze Ne…
cultureMay 19, 2026
Vanity Fair's Nate Freeman reports on New York's spring art season, where auction houses are poised to sell at least $2.6 billion in art alongside maj…
marketMay 15, 2026
SFMOMA has opened 'Matisse’s Femme au chapeau: A Modern Scandal,' an exhibition that revisits the 1905 debut of Henri Matisse's iconic painting at the…
exhibitionsMay 14, 2026
The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts have launched a major collaborative exhibition titled 'A Nation of Artist…
exhibitionsApr 21, 2026
Northern California's di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has listed its 217-acre Napa campus for sale at $10.9 million after years of financial strug…
newsJan 21, 2026
Six years after announcing plans to deaccession its 1,600-work collection—the world's foremost trove of Post-war Northern California art—the di Rosa C…
exhibitionsJan 21, 2026
At the opening of San Francisco's FOG Design and Art fair, prominent collector Komal Shah navigated the crowded aisles, stopping to chat with a who's …
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Two exhibitions opening in January at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis explore themes of cultural origins, legacy, and …
exhibitionsJan 5, 2026
New York's fall auction week in November 2025 saw major houses Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips collectively bring in over $2 billion, signaling re…
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Christie’s New York concluded its 20th and 21st Century Art sales week on November 21, 2025, generating a total of $964.5 million, the auction house’s…
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Christie's 21st-century evening sale on Wednesday, November 2025, achieved a hammer total of $99.7 million on 44 lots, within the pre-sale estimate of…
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Christie's 21st Century Evening Sale on November 20 achieved $123.6 million across 45 lots, with a 98% sell-through rate. The top lot was Andy Warhol'…
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Christie’s 21st-century evening sale at Rockefeller Centre in New York on 19 November achieved $99.5 million before fees ($123.5 million with fees), s…
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Christie’s 21st-century evening sale on Wednesday set new auction records for women artists Firelei Báez, Joan Brown, and Olga de Amaral. Báez’s paint…
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The University of California, Irvine has finalized its acquisition of the Orange County Museum of Art, creating a new unified institution named the UC…
newsSep 29, 2025
The di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art has opened a new satellite museum, di Rosa San Francisco, at the Minnesota Street Project. The debut exhibitio…
exhibitionsAug 7, 2025
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JOAN BROWN

523 W 24th St, New York, NY 10011, United States

May 5, 2023 — Jun 17, 2023

Joan Brown

Joan Brown

4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Jan 1, 2023 — May 27, 2023

Joan Brown — May 27, 2023 – Sept. 24, 2023

Joan Brown

Joan Brown

151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

Nov 19, 2022 — Mar 12, 2023

Floor 7 Joan Brown Nov 19, 2022–Mar 12, 2023

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Art Fair Appearances2

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TEFAF New York — New York
2025
Art Basel Miami Beach — Miami Beach
2024
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Exhibition
Making Moves: A Collection of Feminisms
Nov 2, 2025
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TEFAF New York 2025
May 9, 2025
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2024
Dec 2, 2024
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