Born in 1982 in Phoenix, USA, currently based in New York, USA.
EDUCATION
2015
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, USA
2019
Master of Fine Art, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
2009
Master of Arts in Teaching, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2004
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
The Shadow Has A Dream, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2018
The Floating Bridge, Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2017
Some Small Fever, La Mama Galleria, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy (curated by Manuela Lietti)
2022
Harness, (Two-person exhibition) with Patrick McNabb curated by Peter Clough, The
Empty Circle, New York, USA
Some Kinds of Queery, Cusp, Hangzhou, China
2021
What A Body Moves Through, (Three-person Exhibition), Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, USA
2020
The World Within, (Two-person exhibition), Zeit Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Suddenly Last Summer, Auxier Kline, New York, USA
Midnight Moon, (Online Exhibition), Raw Meat Collective, New York, USA
2018
New York Photos, (Three-person Exhibition), Dencker+Schneider Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
Divina Comedia, Museo Universitario Del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
If Happy Little Blue Birds Fly, Abrons Arts Center, New York, USA
Haptic Tactics, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, USA
Queering Space, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY, USA
2017
Lonely Planet, Gavlak, Palm Beach, USA
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:, Re: Art Show, New York, USA
Discursive Selves, Westbeth Gallery, New York, USA
Magic Mirror, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, USA
Unframed, ACRIA, New York, USA
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:, Re: Art Show, New York, USA
Picturing Family, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
2016
Queering Space, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
Treading Water, TGIF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Tomorrow’s Man: Curated by Jack Pierson, Sheppard Contemporary, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
LOVE 2016, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA
2015
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Curated by Katy Grannan, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Inside the Episode, Curated by Jack Pierson, LAUNCH F18, New York, USA
Lovely Dark, Curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles and Danziger Gallery, New York, USA
RESIDENCIES
2024
Vermont Studio Center (accepted)
2019
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
PUBLICATIONS
2018
The Origins of Color, Raw Meat Collective
2017
Waters, Dashwood Books
Some Small Fever, Raw Meat Collective
2016
The Company We Keep (with Kyle Quinn), Raw Meat Collective
2015
Matte Magazine #37: Bryson Rand,
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021
A New Nothing Vol. 3, Sleeper Studio Press, 2021
2019
Der Grief, Issue 12, 2019
2018
Dear Dave, No. 26, 2018
2017
Critics’ Picks: Bryson Rand, La MaMa Galleria, Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, artforum.com, May 2017
NEWSPAPER, Vol. V, No. 2, 2017
Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. VII: Risk, 2017
2016
Math Magazine, Issue Two, 2016
NEWSPAPER, Vol. V, No. 1, 2016
Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. VII: Hybrid, 2016
2015
Tabula Rasa, Volume 2: The Fixation Issue, “Chris, Isom, Jasper, Phil, Richard, Rob.”, 2015
Vice: The Fiction Issue 2015, “The Love Trip”, Brian Booker, 2015
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Petra Bibeau, artpractical.com, August 12, 2015
What the Heart Wants, Colleen Kelsey, interviewmagazine.com, June 4, 2015
Self Publish, Be naughty: Bryson Rand, selfpublishbehappy.com, June 2, 2015
2014
Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. VI: Failure, 2014
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2021-current
Bard College, Visiting Assistant Professor
2023
Rutgers University, Lecturer
2018-2019
Maine College of Art, Graduate Thesis Advisor
2014
Yale University Art Gallery, Wurtele Gallery Teacher
2013-2015
Yale Norfolk School of Art, Teaching Fellow
JURIES
2021-2024
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture Admissions
ARTIST LECTURES
2024
Capsule Venice
Center of Photography at Woodstock
2021
Bard College
Rochester Institute of Technology
Blue Sky Gallery
Pratt Institute
2020
Guest Critic, Harvard University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Fordham University
Wesleyan University
University of Arizona
2018
Harvard University, Camrbidge
Guest Critic, Rhode Island School of Design
Guest Critic, Maine College of Art
Hunter College
2017
Williams College
School of Visual Arts
2016
School of Visual Arts
Maine College of Art
CONFERENCE & PANEL PRESENTATIONS
2018
Origins of Color, with Evan Garza and Vincent Tiley, Printed Matter, New York, USA
2017
Hugh Steers: 2017, presented by Visual AIDS, MoMA PS1 New York Art Book Fair, New York, USA
Hugh Steers and David Wojnarowicz, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
Artist as Citizen, with Angie Keefer, M Lamar, Paul Pfeiffer, and A.L. Steiner, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA
The View from Here, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, USA
2016
NEWSPAPER Release and Discussion, Printed Matter, New York, USA
HORNORS & AWARDS
2022
Silver List, Silver Eye Center for Photography
2020
Robert Giard Grant (Finalist), Queer|Art & Robert Giard Foundation
2015
John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale School of Art
Toby Devan Lewis Fellowship (Nominee), Yale School of Art
2014
The Seton Elm and Ivy Award, The City of New Haven and Yale University
2009
Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visual Arts, New York
COLLECTIONS
Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY, USA
Oz Art NWA, Bentonville, AR, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, Bulwark Special Collections, New York, NY, USA
Yale University Library, Haas Arts Special Collections, New Haven, CT, USA
Private Collections
