BRIAN FELDMAN
Lives and works in Orlando, FL

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

2010 Photo Trade: Mount Rushmore, Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Keystone, SD
2010 Fringe of Nature, Wekiwa Springs State Park, Apopka, FL
2010 67 Books, Orlando Public Library, Orlando, FL
2010 Happiness Hurts, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2010 Tilikunundrum, Private Residence, Orlando, FL
2010 Brian Feldman Marries Anybody*, Orange County Courthouse, Orlando, FL
2010 The Swan Boat Talks, Lake Eola Park, Orlando, FL
2010 Brian Feldman likes this., Facebook
2009 “Take My Beard, Please!”, Urban Stylez Barbershop, Orlando, FL
2009 The Singing Menorah, Track Shack, Orlando, FL
2009 Lotto PooL, PooL Art Fair @ Carlton Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
2009 Pedestrian, or Walking: Impossible, 12 Most Dangerous Intersections, Orlando, FL
2009 Sloth, The Cameo Theatre, Orlando, FL
2009 Under the Covers, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2009 What’s Next?, Twitter + Various Physical Locations Determined By Followers
2009 Brian Feldman Eats Everything Off The Menu At Loving Hut, Orlando, FL
2009 24 Hour Jump, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2009 Under the Covers, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2009 Feldman’s Infamous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, Dandelion, Orlando, FL
2009 Brian Feldman Reads This Newspaper In Its Entirety, Frames Forever & Art Gallery, Winter Park, FL
2009 The End of Television: Part III, Frames Forever & Art Gallery, Winter Park, FL
2009 sleepwalk, Frames Forever & Art Gallery, Winter Park, FL
2009 Trying to Cry, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2009 txt, Kerouac House, Orlando, FL
2009 The End of Television: Part II, Say It Loud, Orlando, FL
2009 Why Would They Do That?, Carl T. Langford Park, Orlando, FL
2009 Twitter of the Shrew, Twitter
2008 ChanuIKEA®, IKEA Orlando, Orlando, FL
2008 Cracker Barrel® Old Country Chanukah (TFD), Cracker Barrel, Orlando, FL
2008 I Am a Red Chair, IKEA Orlando, Orlando, FL
2008 Link 33, LYNX (Central Florida Regional Transportation Authority) buses, Sanford, FL
2008 Leap Year Day, Orlando City Hall at City Commons Plaza, Orlando, FL
2007 Hanukkah in Little Havanaka (TFD), Camposition Studio, Miami, FL
2007 Death by Chocolate, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2006 Home for the Hanukkahs (TFD), Shakespeare Center, Orlando, FL
2005 Chanukah Spectacular (TFD), Performance Space 1112, Orlando, FL
2004 Chanukah with The Feldman Dynamic, Studio 6107, Sanford, FL
2004 I Shouldn’t Be Here Right Now, Orlando Fringe Festival @ Will’s Pub, Orlando, FL
2004 The Feldman Dynamic, Orlando Fringe Festival @ Shakespeare Center, Orlando, FL
2003 The Feldman Dynamic, FringeNYC @ The Kraine Theater, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 Blunder Bungle, Museum of My Neighbor’s Backyard (MoMNB), Orlando, FL
2007 Juried Camera Phone Picture Show (1st Place), Stardust Video & Coffee, Orlando, FL
2006 Photobooth Art Show, Stardust Video & Coffee, Orlando, FL

EXPERIENCE

2003-pres. Brian Feldman Projects (Artistic Director), Orlando, FL
2007 Enzian Theater FilmSlam (Producer), Maitland, FL
2006 Flicks on Fairbanks (Curator), Winter Park, FL
2004-05 Group 101 Films Orlando (Director), Downtown Media Arts Center, Orlando, FL

RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

2009 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
2008 United Arts of Central Florida (Professional Development Grant / Performing Arts)
2006 Broward County Cultural Division (Public Art & Design Program / Media Arts)

AWARDS

20 Coolest People in Orlando (aXis Magazine) 2010
Best Local Entertainer (Orlando Magazine Best of Orlando 2010) 2nd Place
Best Experimental Act (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2010) 1st Place
Best Thespian (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2010) 2nd Place
Best Performance Artist (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2009)
Best Experimental Act (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2009) 2nd Place
Best Thespian (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2009) 2nd Place
Best Performance Art (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2008)
Best Theater Company (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2007) 3rd Place - The Feldman Dynamic
Best Theater Troupe (Orlando Weekly Best of Orlando 2006) 2nd Place - The Feldman Dynamic

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Kyle Munzenrieder. “Complete Strangers Married in Florida to Protest for Gay Rights”, Miami New Times, Feb. 15, 2010.
Elizabeth Maupin. “Brian Feldman does marriage -- as performance art”, Orlando Sentinel, Feb. 13, 2010, p. B4.
“Marriage in the Name of Art”, ARTINFO.com, Feb. 9, 2010.
“Groom Spins The Bottle To Pick Wife”, Central Florida News 13, Feb. 8, 2010.
Bob Whitby. “Happytown”, Orlando Weekly, Feb. 4-10, 2010, p. 8.
Dewayne Bevil. “Magic Kingdom: Performance artist rounds up another project on Carousel of Progress’ birthday”, TheDailyDisney.com, Jan. 13, 2010.
Geoff Tibballs. “Artistic License”, Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing!, Aug. 4, 2009, p. 197.
Jessica Bryce Young. “the hunger artist.”, OrlandoWeekly.com, Jul. 27, 2009.
Kelly Cuculiansky. “Man plans a few jumps for art’s sake”, Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jul. 15, 2009, p. C1.
Billy Manes. “Blister”, Orlando Weekly, Jul. 9-15, 2009, p. 55.
Jay Boyar. “Sleeping on the Job”, Orlando Magazine, Jun. 2009, p. 17, 20-21.
Mark Baratelli. “AMAZING”, TheDailyCity.com, May 24, 2009.
Lauren Palazzo. “All a Flutter over Twitter?”, DramaBiz Magazine, Apr. 2009, p. 34-35.
Al Pergande. “sleepwalk”, Ink 19, Mar. 20, 2009.
Tanya Hanson. “What happens when Brian Feldman cries?”, Metromix Orlando, Mar. 6, 2009.
“Wherefore art Romeo and Juliet on Twitter?”, Times Online (London), Mar. 6, 2009.
Thomas Thorspecken. “Digital Seance”, Analog Artist Digital World, Mar. 3, 2009.
Brian Stelter. “What the End of Analog TV Looks Like”, NYTimes.com (Media Decoder Blog), February 18, 2009.
Trevor Fraser. “Oh, that Brian Feldman”, OrlandoWeekly.com, Feb. 13, 2009.
Stan Schroeder. “Shakespeare and Twitter Make an Odd Couple”, Mashable, Feb. 12, 2009.
Lindy T. Shepherd. “Rants, raves and resolutions”, Orlando Weekly, Jan. 1-7, 2009, p. 18.
“Eye On Society”, Orlando Arts Magazine, May/Jun. 2008, p. 14.
Seth Kubersky. “Live Active Cultures”, Orlando Weekly, Mar. 6, 2008, pg. 17.
Elizabeth Maupin. “A DAY TO MAKE THE LEAP”, Orlando Sentinel, Mar. 1, 2008, p. A1.
Paul Lester. “All Hail Brian Feldman!”, OrlandoSentinel.com, Feb. 29, 2008.
Contessa Brewer. “Man’s leaps of faith?”, MSNBC News Live (MSNBC). Feb. 29, 2008.
Tucker Carlson. “In Other News”, Tucker (MSNBC). Feb. 29, 2008.
Vinita Nair. “Leapin’ for the Leap Year”, ABC News NOW, Feb., 29, 2008.
“Leap Year Day”, Rocketboom, Feb. 28, 2008.
Jordan Levin. “‘Real’ drama of sharing Hanukkah meal”, Miami Herald, Dec. 1, 2007, p. E1.
Michelle Yoffee-Beard. “The Feldman Dynamic: Putting the Huh? in Hanukkah”, Orlando Leisure Magazine, Nov./Dec. 2006, p. 36.
Julie Blumenthal. “The Feldman Dynamic”, nytheatre.com, Aug. 11, 2003.

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