Marcus Brutus (b. 1991, Silver Spring, MD) is a self-taught, New York City-based artist who holds a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John’s University, Queens, NY. Most recently, his work has been the subject of solo exhibitions: Poetics of Exile, Stems Gallery, Paris (2023); At the Rendez-vous of Victory, Carl Koystál, Stockholm (2022); Good Night Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning, Library Street Collective, Detroit (2020-21); 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 König Galerie, Berlin (2021); Arsenal Contemporary, New York (2021); Carl Kostyál, Stockholm (2021); Gana Art, Seoul (2021); and Harper’s, Los Angeles and East Hampton (2021 and 2020). His work has been acquired by the Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA. 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. In 2021, Brutus collaborated with streetwear brand Kith to reimagine its logo. 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.
