Education

1986 Aegean Institute, Galatas, Greece
1978 School of Fine Arts, University of California, Berkeley
1976 BFA, Cooper Union, New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2020 Winter Blues (and Greens,) Shubert Theater, New Haven, CT
2012 Intuitive Paintings, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, MA
2005 Site Works, Mixed Media Gallery, Block Island, RI
1995 Brian Wendler, Tofias Gallery, Waltham, MA
1994 Garden Light, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, MA
1990 Paintings: Brian Wendler, Mona Berman Fine Arts, New Haven, CT
1986 Glimpses of Possible Meaning, Mona Berman Fine Arts, New Haven, CT

Group Exhibitions

2021 Guilford Art League 73rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Lenny Moskowitz
2019 - present  Hollycroft Foundation Sculpture Shore in Clinton, Madison, New London, and Stonington CT
2019 Connections, Willoughby Wallace Memorial Library, Branford, CT
2011 Pathways to Landscape, Ridgefield Guild of Artists, Ridgefield, CT
Curator: Dean Fisher
Scale, A-Space Gallery at West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT
2010 Guilford Art League 63rd Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Richard Carleton
Gallery Artists, Gail Browne Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Locations/6 Views, A-Space Gallery at West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT
2009 Monday Night Drawing, Willoughby Wallace Library, Stony Creek, CT
2008 Painting as Presence, Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Juror: William Bailey
Abstraction Distraction, A-Space Gallery, West Cove Studios, West Haven, CT
2007 Making Connections: James Caudle and Brian Wendler, Golden Street Gallery, New London, CT
Lawrence Morelli and Brian Gill Wendler, Kehler Liddell Gallery, New Haven, CT
2006 Summer Salon, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, MA
Gallery Artists, Mixed Media Gallery, Block Island, RI
63rd Annual Connecticut Artists Exhibition, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
2005-2019
Hollycroft Foundation Sculpture Mile, Madison, CT
2004 Artists of Dragon, River Street Gallery, New Haven, CT
2002 Aiken, Wendler, and O'Connell, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, Ma
2000 The Figure, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, MA
Art 2000, 42nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT
1999 Last Dance, Cameo Gallery, New York, NY
Art on Artists, The TImes Square Lobby Gallery, New York, NY
1999-2019
City-Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
1998 Brian Wendler and James Caudle, Cafe Routier, Old Saybrook,CT
1997 The Food Show, Cameo Gallery, New York, NY
Flowers, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, MA
1996 36th Annual Barnum Festival Juried Art Exhibition, Discovery Museum,
Bridgeport, CT Jurors: Robert Cottingham and Janice LaMotta
1995 Gallery Artists, Cameo Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Brian Wendler, Garden Light, 234 Gallery@Hannah, Wellfleet, MA
1993 Connecticut Art 23rd annual Competition, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
Juror: Paula Cooper
1992 Abstract Painting, Artra Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Body Works, Points of Departure, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
Connecticut Vision, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Juror: Patrick McCaughy, Dir. Wadsworth Athenaeum
1989 Abstractions: Four Painters, Chandler Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

Grants and Honors

2019  Elected President of the Hollycroft Foundation
2005 Artist Fellowship Grant for Painting,
Connecticut Commission for Culture and Tourism

Collections

Mayor's Art Collection, New Haven, CT
Chubb Insurance Headquarters, Long Wharf Maritime Center, New Haven, CT
CIGNA, Metro Center, Hartford, CT
SBC Network Technology Center, New Haven, CT
PepsiCo, Inc. Headquarters, Hartford, CT and Greenfield Office Complex, MA
The Shawmut Data Processing Center, Talcott Plaza, Hartford, CT
Private Collections