Introducing Bryan Schutmaat
Bryan Schutmaat is a Texas-based photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and published in the United States and abroad. He has won numerous awards, including the Aperture Portfolio Prize, Center’s Gallerist Choice Award, and the Daylight Photo Award, among many others. In 2016, Bryan earned an Aaron Siskind Individual Photographer’s Fellowship. He was also selected for PDN’s 30 new photographers to watch in 2014.
His first monograph, Grays the Mountain Sends, was published by the Silas Finch Foundation in 2013 to international critical acclaim. The Washington Post and numerous other publications cited it as one of the best photobooks of 2013, it won the photobook category in the New York Photo Awards, and it was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo First Book Award. Bryan holds a BA in history from the University of Houston and an MFA in photography from Hartford Art School. His photos can be found in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Hood Museum at Dartmouth, and numerous private collections.
(Bryan’s visit is sponsored by the Embassy of the United States of America)