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BIO - BRYSON RAND
Bryson was born in Phoenix, AZ in 1982 as the son of an Air Force pilot, and spent his childhood living around the world on Air Force bases. In the summer of 2019 Bryson attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and has received an MFA from Yale School of Art (2015), a Masters in Art Education from the School of Visual Arts (2009), and a BFA from University of Colorado (2004). Bryson's first solo exhibition, 'Some Small Fever', was held at La MaMa Galleria (NYC) in the Spring of 2017. His photographs have been exhibited across the United States in group exhibitions at Fraenkel Gallery, Regen Projects, Yossi Milo Gallery, The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, Abrons Art Center, as well as internationally at Denker+Schneider Gallery in Berlin, and at Museo Universitario Del Chopo in Mexico City. Bryson’s work is held in the collections of the Leslie Lohman Museum, Oz Art, and numerous private collections. He has published two books with Raw Meat Collective, 'Some Small Fever' (2017) and 'The Origins of Color' (2018) and one book with Dashwood Books, 'Waters' (2017).  Bryson’s work has been included in numerous publications, including Der Greif, Dear Dave, Matte Magazine, VICE, and NEWSPAPER and has been featured on ArtForum.com. Bryson is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Photography at Bard College and lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Ryan.

CV - BRYSON RAND 

Education 


Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

Participant, 2019

Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT   

Master of Fine Art, 2015 


School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

Master of Arts in Teaching, 2009 

University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2004

Solo Exhibitions

2017     Some Small Fever, La Mama Galleria, New York 

Selected Group Exhibition History 

2022

Harness, with Patrick McNabb, Empty Circle Gallery, Brooklyn

Some Kinds of Queery, Cusp, Hangzhou, China

2021

What A Body Moves Through, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR 

2020    

The World Within, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York

Suddenly Last Summer, Auxier Kline, New York

2018    

Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York 

New York Photos, Dencker+Schneider Gallery, Berlin, DE

Divina Comedia, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico 

Haptic Tactics, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York 

Queering Space, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY

2017    

Lonely Planet, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL

Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:, Re: Art Show, New York

Magic Mirror, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York

Unframed, ACRIA, New York

2016     

Tomorrow’s Man: Curated by Jack Pierson, Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno

LOVE 2016, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 

2015    

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Curated by Katy Grannan, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Inside the Episode, Curated by Jack Pierson, LAUNCH F18, New York

Lovely Dark, Curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Danziger Gallery, New York

Publications

The Origins of Color (with Vincent Tiley), Raw Meat Collective, 2018

Waters, Dashwood Books, 2017

Some Small Fever, Raw Meat Collective, 2017

The Company We Keep (with Kyle Quinn), Raw Meat Collective, 2016

Matte Magazine #37: Bryson Rand, 2015 

Selected Bibliography

A New Nothing Vol. 3, Sleeper Studio Press, 2021

Primal Sight, Gnomic Books, 2021

Der Grief, Issue 12, 2019

Dear Dave, No. 26, 2018

NEWSPAPER, Vol. V, No. 2, 2017

Critics’ Picks: Bryson Rand, La MaMa Galleria, Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, artforum.com, May 2017

NEWSPAPER, Vol. V, No. 1, 2016 


Vice: The Fiction Issue 2015, “The Love Trip”, Brian Booker, 2015 

Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. VI: Failure, 2014

Teaching Experience

Bard College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2021-current

Maine College of Art, Graduate Thesis Advisor, 2018-2019

Yale University Art Gallery, Wurtele Gallery Teacher, 2013-2015

Yale Norfolk School of Art, Teaching Fellow, 2014

Lectures & Artist Talks

2021

Bard College, Rochester Institute of Technology, Blue Sky Gallery, Pratt Institute

2020

Harvard University (Guest Critic), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fordham University, Wesleyan University, University of Arizona 

2018

Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design (Guest Critic), Maine College of Art (Guest Critic), Hunter College, Printed Matter

2017

Williams College, School of Visual Arts, La MaMa Galleria

2016

Maine College of Art

Conference and Panel Presentations

Hugh Steers: 2017, presented by Visual AIDS, MoMA PS1 New York Art Book Fair, 2017

Hugh Steers and David Wojnarowicz, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2017

Artist as Citizen, with Angie Keefer, M Lamar, Paul Pfeiffer, and A.L. Steiner, Yale School of Art, New Haven, 2017

The View From Here, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, 2017

Teaching Experience

Rutgers University, Part Time Lecturer, 2023-current

Bard College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2021-current

Maine College of Art, Graduate Thesis Advisor, 2018-2019

Yale University Art Gallery, Wurtele Gallery Teacher, 2013-2015

Yale Norfolk School of Art, Teaching Fellow, 2014

Honors & Awards

Silver List, Silver Eye Center for Photography, 2022

Robert Giard Grant (Finalist), Queer|Art & Robert Giard Foundation, 2020

John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale School of Art, 2015

Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (Nominee), Yale School of Art, 2015 


The Seton Elm and Ivy Award, The City of New Haven and Yale University, 2014 

Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, 2009

Collections

Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York

Oz Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Private Collections