M.F.A., Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, 1980.

B.F.A., Photography, Oregon State University, 1976.

Utah Arts Council, Visual Artist Grant, 1997.

French Ministry of Culture and National Endowment for the Arts, Residency

Fellowship at LaNapoule Foundation, France, Fall 1993.

National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship Grant, 1992.

Art Matters Inc., Project Grant, 1989.

National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, 1988.

Polaroid Corporation Artist Support Program, Materials Purchase Award, 1984,

1985, 1987, 1993.

 

Illinois Museum of the Holocaust, Evanston IL. 

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

 

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV.

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT.

Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France.

Polaroid Corporation International Collection, Offenbach, Germany.

Contemporary Oregon Photographers Permanent Collection, Oregon Arts

Commission, Salem, OR.

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, March 2007.

Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA, October 2005.

Willamette University, Salem, OR, October 2005.

Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland OR, October 2005

Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR, October 2005

Yakima Valley College, Yakima, WA, March 2001

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, December 1999.

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, September 1992.

Auburn University, Art Department, Auburn, AL, February 1992.

Salt Lake City Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, August, 1988.

Wellesley College, Photography Department, Wellesley, MA, February 1988.

University of Connecticut, Storrs, February 1988.

Smith College Photography Department, Northampton, MA, February 1988.

Rhode Island School of Design Photography Department, November 1980.

 

Violence over the Land, Indians and Empires in the Early American West by Ned Blackhawk, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, p. 264,  2006 

The Land through a Lens; Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Andy Grundberg, Smithsonian Institution, pp. 26-27, 2003

Against Amnesia, Contemporay Women Writers and the Crises of Historical

Memory by Nancy J. Peterson, University of Pennsylvania Press,

Philadelphia, pp. 18-19, 41, 2001.

Black and White Photography: An International Collection by James Luciana,

Rockport Press, p. 23, 2000.

Tourism, Art, and Place by Lucy R. Lippard (photograph and discussion of work),

The NewPress, New York, 1999.

Constructions of Memory - Harvard Design Magazine article entitled ”The Struggle

of Dawning Intelligence” by Rebecca Solnit, Harvard University Press,

Cambridge, MA, pp. 52-57, Fall 1999.

The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society, by Lucy R.

Lippard (photograph and discussion of work), The New Press, New York,

pp. 182-183, 1997.

Sweet Medicine: Photographs by Drex Brooks, with a foreword by James Welch

and essay by Patricia Limerick, published by the University of New Mexico

Press, Albuquerque, 1995.

Between Heaven and Home, Contemporary American Landscape Photographs,

published byNational Museum of American Art and University of New Mexico

Press, Albuquerque, plates 13 and 42, 1992.

Colorado: Visions of an American Landscape, by Kenneth I. Helphand; Ellen

Manchester, photo editor; Roberts Rhinehart, publishers, p.106, 1991.

Work on Web Sites:

http//www.cartermuseum.org

http//www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/sweet_medicine/
http//www.legacy-project.org Introduction Video and in the Visual Arts Library

http//nmaa-ryder.si.edu/helios/cngobbrood01.html National Museum of

http//osulibrary.orst.edu/noteworthy_collections/art/images/medicine.htm

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, December 2006 – May 2007.

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. Arvada, CO, December 1999-January

2000.

Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, November, 1993, "Sweet Medicine".

Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR, February, 1993, "Sweet Medicine".

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, September-October,1992,"Sweet

Medicine".

Auburn University Art Gallery, Auburn, AL, February, 1992, "Sweet Medicine".

University of Missouri--St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, March, 1991, "Sweet Medicine".

Utah State University Photography Gallery, Logan, UT, February, 1991, "Sweet

Medicine".

University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, Fall, 1990, "Sweet Medicine".

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, June/July, 1986,

"Photographs from the Ranch, 1981 - 1986".

E.J. Bellocq Gallery, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA, February, 1986.

Smith College, Northampton, MA, October, 1984.

Prairie State College 1983/84 Exhibition Series, Chicago Heights, IL, January,

1984.

Cornell University, Hartell Gallery, Ithaca, NY, December, 1982.

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, April/May, 1982.

Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI,

October, 1981.

International Center of Photography, Education Gallery, New York, NY,

February, 1981.

State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, February, 1980.



Selected Group Shows:

“The Land through a Lens; Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art

Museum”, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Traveling in United

States, 2003-2005.

“Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self”, International

Center of Photography, New York, NY, December, 2003. Travelling

in 2004.

“American Perspective: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection”,

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, September of 2000.

Travelling to other venues in Japan and U.S.A.

“A View of Eight” , 1997 Utah Arts Council’s Visual Arts Fellowship Award

Finalists, Salt Lake Art Center, January-April 1997, (catalog published).

“Art and the Law, Twenty-first Annual Exhibition”, organized by West Publishing.

Traveling to Kresge Art Museum, University of Tulsa College of Law,

Miami University Art Museum, and others, 1996-97 (catalog published).

“Photographing the American West”, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art,

Great Falls, MT, January-March, 1995.

“The West as Subject”, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College

of Denver, Denver, CO, January/February, 1994.

"Between Heaven and Home, Contemporary American Landscape Photographs",

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC,

March 1992, then traveling, (book published).

"Recent Acquisitions", Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT,

June/July, 1990.

"The Political Landscape", SPE Regional Conference, Anderson Ranch Arts

Center, Snowmass Village, CO, October, 1989.

"Photographic Strategies, Surveys of Persons, Environments, Themes,"

Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 4-person show,

Februrary, 1988.

"Regional Photographers, Works from the Permanent Collection", Denver

Art Museum, Denver, CO, March to June, 1987.

"American Color", New Mexico State University, 1987 through 1988.

Traveling Exhibition.

"Combined Influences", Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies,

Los Angeles, CA, May, 1986.

"Another Great Love Affair", Invitational Multimedia Exhibition, Denver

Art Museum, Denver, CO, February, 1986, (catalog published).

Project Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, with Susan Ressler, (two-person show),

November, 1985.

"In the Arena; Levels in Political Dialect", C.E.P.A. Gallery, Buffalo, NY,

three-person show with video by Carole Conde and Carl Beveridge,

January, 1985.

"American Photography Today", University of Denver, Arvada Center for the

Arts and Humanities, and Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, December, 1984

through January,1985.

"Between Twelve and Twenty", Barnes Gallery, Loomis Chafee School,

Windsor, CT, April to June, 1982, (catalog published).

"European Travel Photographs", with Martha Leinroth (two-person show);

exhibits at: The Colorado Photograhic Arts Center, Denver, CO, December,

1980 to January, 1981, and The Photography Gallery at Rhode Island School

of Design, Providence, RI, February, 1981.

"Independent American Photography", one of twenty American photographers

invited by the
Polish Art Union to exhibit in Warsaw, Katowice, Krakow, and

Gdansk, Poland, Summer, 1980.