Brian Collier's projects, installations, and public interventions range across a wide variety of media, including websites, video, sculpture, photography, drawing, artist's books, and performance. His diverse practice focuses on ways in which elements of the non-human natural world exist, or have reinserted themselves, in severely human-altered habitats. Through his projects, he disseminates information about these sites, often proposing strategies to re-evaluate the weedy margins of the human-dominated landscape. He is founder and president of The Society for a Re-Natural Environment .

Collier's work has appeared widely in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad. A partial list of venues include: Deutsche Bank's 60 Wall Gallery in NYC, Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, in Bremen, Germany; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO; Rowland Contemporary, Chicago, IL; Contemporary Art Center, North Adams, MA; Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana, Cuba; CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; and Galería Raúl Martínez, Havana, Cuba. He has received grants from the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, Illinois Arts Council, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the City of Bloomington Cultural District Commission .

Reviews and articles about Collier's work have appeared in a variety of publications, among them Art in America, The New York Times, Afterimage, Art Papers Magazine, The Chicago Reader, Orion: Nature/ Culture/ Place, and the book, Say It Isn't So : Naturwissenschaften im Vissier der Kunst / Art Trains its Sights on the Natural Sciences (Weserberg: Museum für moderne Kunst).

Collier earned his MFA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his BFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Collier is currently teaching in both the Interdisciplinary Art and Sculpture programs at the Kansas City Art Institute. He was born in Bay Shore, NY in 1970 and currently lives and works in Kansas City, Mo and Bloomington, IL.