Marcus Brutus (b. 1991, Silver Spring, MD) ) is a self-taught, Washington, DC–based artist who holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University, Queens. Most recently, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions: Lotus Blossom, Harper’s, Los Angeles (2024) Poetics of Exile, Stems Gallery, Paris (2023); At the Rendez-vous of Victory, Carl Koystál, Stockholm (2022); Maiden Voyage, Harper’s, New York (2022); Good Night Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning, Library Street Collective, Detroit (2020); Marcus Brutus: The Truth That Never Hurts, Harper's, East Hampton (2020); and Go To Work. Get Your Money and Come Home. You Don’t Live There, Harper’s, East Hampton (2019). Brutus was included in the 2019 group presentation American African American, curated by Arnold Lehman, at Phillips, New York, as well as group shows at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (2025); The Shepherd, Detroit (2025); Harper’s, Los Angeles and East Hampton (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020); Zeitz MOCAA, Capetown (2023); Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles (2023); Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2022 and 2021); König Galerie, Berlin (2021); and Carl Kostyál, Stockholm (2021). His work has been acquired by the Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC. Brutus’s painting Bus Stop appears on the cover of the anthology The Movement for Black Lives: Philosophical Perspectives, published in September 2021 by Oxford University Press. His first monograph Marcus Brutus: The Uhmericans, which features an essay by Gagosian director and curator Antwaun Sargent, was published by Harper’s in 2019.
