Bret Slater

Mixed Media

Bret Slater (born 1987 in Bronx, NY) received his BFA in Painting + Drawing from Purchase College, State University of New York in 2009. In 2011, he received his MFA in Studio Art from SMU in Dallas, Texas. Since then, he has had solo exhibitions in Chicago, Dallas, New York, Brussels, Zürich, and Portugal. Slater’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Museum im Kulturspeicher Würzburg, Germany, and works can be found in the public collections of the Dallas Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. He lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Slater states: when I see a form that captivates me, be it that of well-designed architecture, automobiles, machinery, jury-rigged structures, or makeshift objects, I feel truly connected to both myself as well as something bigger, or at least, something pertaining to a story or source that is other than mine, with its own history.