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

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

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

Oz Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

Private collections