Claim: In 2012 Bress's video piece "Status Report" was exhibited at the New Museum in New York City, and also in that year, he showed five "video portraits" at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art,  which was located in a building that was at one time the Santa Barbara Post Office.
Evidence: In 2012 Bress's video piece "Status Report" was exhibited at the New Museum in New York City as part of their "Stowaway Series". Also in 2012 Bress showed five "video portraits" at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in an exhibition entitled Interventions". The Santa Barbara Museum of Art opened to the public on June 5, 1941, in a building that was at one time the Santa Barbara Post Office (1914–1932).