Brandon Neubauer (b. 1978) studied at New York University (1996-2000) where he received his BFA in Film and Television, graduating with honors. Upon graduating he began to work as a documentary filmmaker, and cinematographer. His award winning cinematography has been featured in documentaries screened on HBO, Showtime, and VH1..
 
He has participated in group exhibitions throughout New York City, including: Night of a Thousand Drawings, Artist's Space (2003), Surfeit, Zone: Chelsea (2004), See Something / Say Something, Lefferts Space (2004), Pattern Making, Maiden Brooklyn (2005), Repeat After Me, Flux Factory (2006), Impossibly Familiar, Art Gotham (2007), and Open Ground East, Nuevo Estilo Unisex (2008). In 2004 he joined Open Ground, a collective of more than twenty-five artists. As a member he has participated-in and helped to produce Open Season, and See Also:, at the collective's gallery in Brooklyn (2004). His work was featured in their first international exhibition, New Yorker Künstler Kommen in den Wedding, mounted at Galerie Scherer8 in Berlin, Germany (2005).
 
His first solo-exhibition, Fractured Landscapes, took place during the summer of 2005 while an artist in residence at Life Bomb, an art space in Berlin, Germany.
 
As a member of DeMO, a small artists collective specializing in light installations and immersive environments, he helped to visualize and produce five shows in seven months including, M.I.A., at the Happy Ending (2005), and Into the Distance / Cylanders and Snakes / Light Plane, at the DUMBO Arts Festival (2005).
 
Since 2002 he has worked as a political activist as a member of Time's UP!, an environmental advocacy group based in Manhattan's East Village. As a member he led a year-long campaign in preparation for the nationwide convergence in protest of the Republican National Convention in 2004. During that year he was featured in an extensive article in New York Magazine and quoted in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and interviewed on Democracy Now!. In 2005 he was singled-out, along with three other activists, in a civil suit by the city of New York for publicizing Critical Mass, a monthly bicycle celebration, occurring in over 400 cities around the world. The case was dropped in 2007 in a landmark civil rights decision, in which the New York Police Department changed rules around public demonstrations, now requiring any gathering of 50 or more people in a public space to attain a permit.
 
In 2006 he was an associate editor for Artworld Digest, a nationally-distributed magazine featuring the work of nearly one hundred artists. In the Summer of 2006 he attended the Vermont Studio Center for a one month residency, while his work was featured on the cover of the Brooklyn Review, a publication of Brooklyn College.
 
During the Summer of 2007 he was awarded a one-month residency and fellowship from the Constance Saltonstall Foundation For the Arts. He studied under Peter Garfield at the New School, in a self-directed studio critique class during the Fall of 2008. Most recently, he was awarded a fellowship from the BCAT/BRIC Rotunda Gallery Video fellowship, and will be producing Brooklyn-specific video projects through the program between 2009 and 2010.