Bryson Rand lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with his husband Ryan and their dogs, Frankie and Beans. bryson.rand@gmail.com
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1982 Born in Phoenix, AZ.
EDUCATION
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2015 MFA, Yale School of Art
2009 MAT Art Education, School of Visual Arts, New York
2004 BFA, University of Colorado Boulder
SOLO SHOWS
2017 Some Small Fever, La Mama La Galleria, New York
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2024 Hovering, Capsule Venice, Venice, Italy
2022 Harness, with Patrick McNabb, Curated by Peter Clough, The Empty Circle Gallery, New York
Some Kinds of Queery, Cusp, Hangzhou, China
2021 What A Body Moves Through, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
Seeing Nature, Zeit Contemporary, New York
2020 Suddenly Last Summer, (online) Auxier/Kline, New York
The World Within: Interiority and Photography, (online) Zeit Contemporary, New York
2018 Intimacy, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
New York Photographs, Dencker + Schneider, Berlin, Germany
Divina Comedia, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
If Happy Little Bluebirds Fly, Abrons Art Center, New York
Queering Space, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Haptic Tactics, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York
2017 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re, Re: Art Show, Brooklyn, NY
Discursive Selves, Westbeth Gallery, New York
Magic Mirror, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:, Re: Art Show, Brookyln, NY
Picturing Family, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven
2016 Queering Space, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven
Tomorrow’s Man: Curated by Jack Pierson, Sheppard Contemporary, University 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: Yale MFA Photo 2015, Green Hall Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven; Danziger
Gallery, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
ONLINE SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Shadow Has A Dream, (online) Zeit Contemporary, New York
2018 The Floating Bridge, (online) Zeit Contemporary, New York
RESIDENCIES
2024 Vermont Studio Center (accepted)
2019 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
PUBLICATIONS
2018 The Origins of Color (with Vincent Tiley), Raw Meat Collective
2017 Waters, Dashwood Zines
Some Small Fever, Raw Meat Collective
2016 The Company We Keep (with Kyle Quinn), Raw Meat Collective
2015 Matte Magazine, #37: Bryson Rand
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 A New Nothing Vol. 3, Sleeper Studio Press
2019 Der Greif, No. 12 ‘Blame the Algorithm’
2018 Spunk: Art & Perspectives, Issue No. 12: Day For Night
2017 Dear Dave, No. 26
NEWSPAPER, Vol. V, No. 2
2016 Math Magazine, Issue Two
NEWSPAPER, Vol. V, No. 1
2015 Tabula Rasa, Volume 2: The Fixation Issue, “Chris, Isom, Jasper, Phil, Richard, Rob.”
Vice: The Fiction Issue 2015, “The Love Trip”, Brian Booker
2014 Palimpsest: Yale Literary and Arts Magazine, Vol. VI: Failure
SELECTED REVIEWS/INTERVIEWS
2020 “Ron Gregg in Conversation with Bryson Rand”, Zeit Contemporary Art, zeitcontemporaryart.com, January,
2020
2018 “Some Small Fever: Picturing the Queer Domestic Uncanny—A Conversation with Bryson Rand”, Max
Andrucki, Geo Humanities, Vol. 1, Issue 1
2017 “Critics’ Picks: Bryson Rand, La MaMa Galleria”, Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, artforum.com, May 2017
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Bard College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 2021-current
Rutgers University, Part Time Lecturer, 2023
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
2022 Silver List, Silver Eye Center for Photography
2019 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
Oz Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Private collections