Grant M. Brownlow

Biography

Grant M. Brownlow is a Michigan-born and raised interdisciplinary artist and educator working across print-based processes and mixed-media paintings. Grant creates intricate industrial-inspired compositions exploring the post-industrial Midwestern psyche. The work, informed by his life and upbringing around post-industrial and automotive-centered ephemera, confronts ideas including class, identity, distortion of influences, and self-destructive tendencies in the Rust Belt and beyond.

Grant studied studio art at Albion College after which he earned an MFA at Purdue University in 2024. Grant’s technical expertise is centered in drawing, painting, and printmaking techniques with an emphasis in lithography and screen print. Grant is an active artistic community member serving on the board of the Mid American Print Council. Prior to his current role at Oberlin, Grant served as a studio manger within the Cranbrook Academy of Art’s printmaking and sculpture departments in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.