About
Born 1983, Houston, TX
Currently based in Brooklyn, NY
Available for commissions and is happy to travel wherever.
Education
MFA in photography, Hartford Art School, 2012
BA in history, University of Houston, 2009
Partial Publication List
(includes fine art press and editorial commissions)
PDN, Hotshoe International, VICE, Bloomberg Businessweek, CNN, The New York Times (magazine & newspaper),
Dwell, The Wire, Inc., Telegraph UK, The Sunday Times Magazine, Esquire Russia, Aesthetica, Smith Journal,
Exit Magazine, Vogue Girl Korea, Houston Chronicle, AARP, Spot, Tendencias Fashionmag, Süddeutsche Zeitung,
The Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography, among others
Exhibitions
Ctrl + P: Photography Taken Offline, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL November 2013 - January 2014
The Curve: Choice Award Winners, Center, Santa Fe, NM, June - July 2013
Exposure 2013, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston, MA, June - July 2013
Home: Where We Live, Mpls Photo Center, Minneapolis, MN, May - June, 2013
Blue Collar, Red Dust, One Eyed Jacks Gallery, Brighton, UK, March - May 2013
Slideluck London V, The Chocolate Theatre, London, UK, April 2013
No Culture Icons, Village Books, Leeds, UK, February 2013
What Happens When Your'e Lost, 25 CPW New York, NY, November 2012
What Happens When You're Lost, Joseloff Gallery, Univeristy of Hartford, CT, August 2012
Call and Response, New Orleans Photo Alliance, New Orleans, LA, April - May 2012
The Wild and The Innocent, Clic NYC, New York, NY, March - April 2012
Annual Print Auction Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, January - February 2012
Dawn Till Dusk, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, June - July 2011
Grays the Mountain Sends, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, May - June 2011 (solo)
Points of Departure, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, April - May 2011
Land Use Survey, Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY, July - August 2010
Lonesome Travelers, Art League Houston, Houston TX, July - August 2010
28th Annual Juried Membership Exhibition, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, July - August 2010
No Culture Icons, FotoFreo Fringe Festival, Fremantle, Australia, March 2010
Emerging Artistsʼ Auction, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, NY, October 2009
Slow Exposures, Peach State Aerodrome, Zebulon, GA, September 2009
Gallery Wanted Paris, Paris, France, March - May 2009
Lieux communs, L'épicerie moderne, Feyzin, France, January - February 2009
Fjord, Meet Waradise, New York, NY, November 2008
Lieux communs, Doxart Gallery, Lyon, France, October - November 2008
Footprints, Green Spot, Amsterdam, Netherlands September 2008
Milchstraße, Università iuav di Venezia, Italy, July 2008
Cultivate Beauty, The 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY, May 2008
Must Not Sleep/Must Warn Others, Wonderful Union Gallery, Seattle, WA, October - November 2007
Cultivated, Mars Bar, San Francisco, CA, October 2007
Something About You, Salon Mijangos Gallery, San Antonio, TX, September - October 2007
SPIN: Txt Me L8r, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX, August 2007
Take Us Anywhere, But Take Us Now, Warehouse Gallery, Washington DC, May 2007
Some Faces and Bikes, American University Spiritual Center, Washington, DC, September 2006
Annual Juried Exhibition, The Art Alliance Center of Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, TX, November - December 2005
Golden Ghost Awards, Commerce Street Artists' Warehouse, Houston, TX, September 2005
Brownlee Curry Juried Student Art Exhibition, Watkins College of Art, Nashville, TN, October - December 2004
Annual Juried Exhibition, The Art Alliance Center of Clear Lake, Nassau Bay, TX, November - December 2003
Public Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Awards
Winner, Aperture Portfolio Prize, 2013
Best in Show at PRC's Exposure 2013 at Boston University
First Place, CENTER's Gallerist Choice Award, 2013
Flash Forward Emerging Photographers, Magenta Foundation, 2013
Nominee, MACK First Book Award, 2013
Finalist, CDS/Honickman First Book Prize, 2012
Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship, 2011
Merit Scholarship, Hartford Art School, 2010
Visiting Artist
Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, 2013
Houston Center for Photography, 2011
Press, Publications, Interviews, Features, etc
Tsomondo, Dzana, "Prospecting the Cold Vein," PDN, pg 94-98, in print, July, 2013
Feeny, Mark, "Wide world of lives, living in annual ‘Exposure’ show," Boston Globe, online, June 11, 2013
"Small Towns, Big Country," The Sunday Times Magazine, in print, May 12, 2013
McDermott, Theodore. "The Minor Outsider," VICE, vol 20, no. 4, pg 116 - 122, in print, April 2013
Smylie, Jack. "Bryan Schutmaat Interview," Post New, online, April 2013
Punch the Camera, Issue 3, in print, April 2013
The Heavy Collective, questionnaire, online, April 18, 2013
Smithson, Aline. "Center Awards: Gallerist's Choice Awards: 1st Place Winner: Bryan Schutmaat," Lenscratch, online, April 10, 2013
"The Seed economy," Modern Farmer, issue 1, in print and online, Spring 2013
Schumann, Aaron. "In Conversation with Bryan Schutmaat," Hotshoe International, issue 182, pg 32-41, in print, February/March 2013
"Grays the Mountain Sends," M&C Saatchi Corporate Galerie, online, March 2013
Dam, Christopher. "Bryan Schutmaat’s Grays the Mountain Sends Series," A & H Mag, online, February 25, 2013
"Bryan Schutmaat," Flak Photo, online, February 11, 2013
"Grays the Mountain Sends," Time Machine Magazine, online, February 2013
"Bryan Schutmaat," Veine Magazine, interview, online, January 31, 2013
"The Promised Land," Daylight, online, January 20, 2013
"Translation is a Human Interchange," Works That Work, issue 1, in print, Winter 2013
Tews, Catharina. "Getrübte Sicht: Bryan Schutmaat," Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, online, December 21, 2012
Zavos, Alison. "Contemplative Portraits and Landscapes Capture the American West," Feature Shoot, online, December 9, 2012
Saddoris, Jeffery. "The Inner Landscapes of Common Men: Bryan Schutmaat," Faded and Blurred, online, December 2012
Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley. "The Land that Gives Birth to Freedom," The Great Leap Sideways, online, November 24, 2012
Storm, Christian. "Singing a Sad Song with Photographs," VICE, online, November 17, 2012
Siddall, Liv. "Bryan Schutmaat's moving series discovers the inner landscapes of ex-miners," It's Nice That, online, November 15, 2012
What Happens When You're Lost, publication of Hartford Art School's MFA photo class of '12 with essay by Ron Jude, in print, November 2012
"Bryan Schutmaat," Booooooom, online October 29, 2012
Russell, Lauren. "Beauty, Sorrow of American West," CNN, online, October 26, 2012
Saccardo, Nadia. "The Midwest Frieze," Smith Journal, vol. 02, pg 105-111 in print, Autumn 2012
"The Master Builder," Wire, no. 343, pg 46-53, in print, September 2012
"Documenting Quiet Spaces," Aesthetica, no. 45, pg 38 -45, in print, February/March 2012
Wolff, Tobias. "Hunters in the Snow," Esquire Russia, no. 73, pg 120-121, in print, January 2012
"Bryan Schutmaat," The Trend Net, online, December 1, 2011
Teuton, Jeffrey. "Spotlight," Spot, pg 48, in print, Fall 2011
"Dear America," Campaign for Zara, in print and online, September 2011
Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley. "An Essay on Bryan Schutmaat's Heartland," The Great Leap Sideways, online, September 2011
"A Celebration of Inc. 500 Workers," Inc., pg 235, in print, September 2011
Wisse, Pieter, "Photographer #342: Bryan Schutmaat," 500 Photographers, online, July 26, 2011
Points of Departure, publication of Hartford Art School's MFA photo class of '12, pg 10, in print, May 2011
Brubaker, Marc Brubaker. "Bryan Schutmaat Mines the Rockies," Houston Press, online May 6, 2011
Dansby, Andrew. "Light, camera and the fading action of the past," Houston Chronicle, vol. 110, no. 204, pg f20-21, in print, May 5, 2011
"Bryan Schutmaat," iGNANT, online, April 1, 2011
Pollock, David. "Photo Talks: Bryan Schutmaat," Urbanautica, online, April 2011
"Bryan Schutmaat: Heartland," Landscape Stories, online, April 2011
"The Bright Stuff." Dwell, vol. 11, no. 5, pg 68-74, in print, April 2011
"Bryan Schutmaat," Netherworld Photography Magazine, online, April 2011
Frieser, Hannah. "Shaping the Image," Spot, vol. 28, no. 2, pg 35, in print, Fall 2010
"Feature Interview: Bryan Schutmaat," Swoond, online, October 28, 2010
Identity Sucks, World Identity Lab, pg 92-93 and spine, in print October 2010
"Heartland," Unless You Will, issue 10, online, October 2010
Schuberg Philis, photo gallery, online, October 2010
"Western Frieze," Sucker Punch, online, August 26, 2010
Cruces, Adam. "Hello, I would like to talk about #6," I Like This Blog, online, July 26, 2010
Fernández-Cañadas, Daniel. "Photo After 1980: Creer es Ver," Tendencias Fashion Mag, no.153, pg 82-85, in print, June 2010
Magnenat, Pauline. "Interview with Bryan Schutmaat," All of this is Rocket Science, online June 10, 2010
Roensch, Rob. "I Won the Bronze Medal," Annalemma, online, June 2010
Poncz Magazine, no. 2, online, Summer 2010
"Heartland," Exit Magazine, volume 3, issue 22, pg 50-59, in print, Spring/Summer 2010
Hoogwaerts, Romke. Mossless, interview, online, May 2010
Kim, So Eun. "Strange Scenery," Vogue Girl Korea, no. 98, pg 220, in print, April 2010
Wheat Toast, online, Spring 2010
Cherry, Jon. Mull it Over, interview, online, January 12, 2010
Estate, Triangle Triangle, in print, December 2009
Photographs on the Brain, LPV Magazine, pg 11, in print, December 2009
"Bryan Schutmaat," Conscientious, online, November 25, 2009
Humble Arts Foundation, Group Show, no. 26, online, fall 2009
Atwood, Margaret. Mort en lisière, Éditions Robert Laffont, front cover, in print, September 2009
FAQ Magazine, issue 6, online, August 2009
Zornoza, Andrew. Where I Stay, Tarpaulin Sky Press, front cover, in print, May 2009
The Collector's Guide to Emerging Art Photography, Humble Arts Foundation, pg 140, in print, March 2009
All Things Ordinary, front cover and pg 3, in print, March 2009
"(Un)Placed," Entopic Group, online, January 2009
Lapsus Magazine, no. 1, cover and pg 15, online, January 2009
Albala, Carlos and Ana Perez. "Blanco y Negro," Madrid Underground, issue 13, pg 21, in print, June 2008
F-Stop Magazine, issue 27, online, February/March 2008
Humble Arts Foundation, Group Show, no. 20, online, January 2008
You Look Like You've Seen a Ghost, Must Not Sleep/Must Warn Others, Wonderful Union, in print, October, 2007
"We've Moved On. Why Can't You?" Muffin Gospel, online, August 2007
And many more blogs.
