Curriculum Vitae
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2012
SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, 2008
The Suburban, Chicago, IL, 2005.
SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, 2004
SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, 2002.
works on paper, inc., Los Angeles, 1999.
LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, 1997.
Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Courtyard Installation, Los Angeles, 1995
Sue Spaid Fine Art, Courtyard Installation, Los Angeles, 1994.
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1993
Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, 1989
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1988
911 Contemporary Arts, Seattle, Washington, 1986
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2017
“Stephen Berens & Elizabeth Bryant”, The Suburban Walkers Point, Milwaukee, WI.
“everything’s coming up roses” curated by Patrick Nickell, LAVA, Los Angles, CA.
2016
“(Not So) Still Life”, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York.
“Urbanature”, curated by Constance Mallison, Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter College of Art and Design,
Pasadena,CA.
2015
“Oasis”, curated by John O’Brien, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, CA.
“Xtreme Archive: Project X 1992-1999”, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA.
2014
“The Nature of the Unnatural”, Elizabeth Bryant, A.J. Collins, Christopher Miles,
curated by Pat Nickell, Nan Rae Gallery, Woodbury University, Burbank, CA.
“Another Cats Show”, 356 Mission Road, Los Angeles, CA.
2013
“Lithuanian Overlay”, Artist’s Project with Stephen Berens, Roski Station Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
“Parallax Views”, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA.
2012
“Overlap”, Artist’s Project with Stephen Berens and The Suburban Gallery, ArtPlatform/Co-Lab, Santa Monica, CA.
“Facing West/Looking East”, curated by Richard Turner, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA.
“The Nature of Things”, co-curated by Virginia Katz and Constance Mallison, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“Refocus”, organized by Sheila Pinkel as part of Pacific Standard Time, Arena Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2011
“Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?”, Green Gallery, Yale School of Art, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
“Urbanature”, online exhibition curated by Constance Mallison, Times Quotidian, Los Angeles.
2010
“Newtonland”, curated by Michelle Grabner, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO.
“Shells, Prisms”, curated by Roger Dickes, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA.
“Photo-Environment”, curated by Andrea Harris, OCC Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, CA.
“Faculty Biennale”, CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Contemporary Photograms: Uniquely Simple”, curated by Darryl Curran, DNJ Gallery, Los Angeles.
2009
“Counter Intelligence”, curated by Marco Rios, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, CSULA, Los Angeles
2008
“Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture”, curated by Tyler Stallings, UCR/California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
“Never Ending Beginnings”, CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
“Incognito”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2006
“Interspace”, SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles
“Faculty Exhibition”, CSULA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
2005
“Blooming: A Summer Garden for the Picking”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
“Very Early Pictures”, Luckman Gallery, CSULA, Los Angeles and Arcadia University Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania.
2004
“Travelogue: Scene from Los Angeles”, curated by Yolanda McKay, Tom Bradley Terminal, LAX, Los Angeles, CA.
“Incognito”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
“OH”, curated by Mery Lynn McCorkle, Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA.
2003
“Art & Affinities: Sources and Influences”, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA.
2002
“Inheriting Matisse”, curated by Michelle Grabner, Rocket Gallery, London, England.
2001
“Flip”, Art Workshop Lazareti, L.A./Croatia Exchange, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
“Post-Landscape: Between Nature and Culture”, curated by Rebecca McGrew, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA.
“Cultivated”, TransAmerica Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“One Night Stand”,, Farmer’s Daughter Motel, Los Angeles.
“Elizabeth Bryant”, curated by Eve Luckring, Orange Coast College Photography Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA.
2000
“Inaugural Show”, Gallery 2211, Los Angeles, CA.
“Flip”, L.A./Croatia Exchange, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles.
“Elizabeth Bryant, Jochen Flinzer, Christopher French”, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York.
“Faculty Exhibition 2000”, California State University, Los Angeles.
1999
“East of Eden: Profane Gardens”, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
“Pasadena Adjacent”, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica.
1998
“Renovations”, curated by John O’Brian, The Brewery Project, Los Angeles.
“LArt Exhibition”, CSULA Student Union Contemporary Art Collection, Los Angeles.
“$100 Benefit Show”, POST, Los Angeles.
1997
“Notions of the 19th Century”, curated by Meg Linton, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA.
“Anniversary Celebration Exhibition”, Luckman Fine Art Gallery, California State University Los Angeles.
1996
“Absence”, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA.
“Pursuing the Undocumentable”, curated by Sue Spaid, Butterfield & Butterfield, Los Angeles.
“Diverse Visions: Current Work by Art Faculty”, Fine Art Gallery, California State University Los Angeles.
“Group Show”, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
1995
“Contemporary Photography: The California Focus”, Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center,Los Angeles.
“Program for Paradise”, Site Work for Project X at the Remsen Bird Hillside Theatre, Los Angeles.
“SMS/Inaugural Exhibition”, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“Sixteenth Annual Benefit Exhibition and Auction”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.
1994
“Transtextualism”, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica.
“Contemporary Collections”, Re:Solution Gallery, Hollywood, CA.
“Point of View”, Faculty Exhibition, Fine Art Gallery, California State University Los Angeles.
“Art in the Office: An L.A. Sampler”, Nossaman, Gunther, Knox & Elliot, Los Angeles.
“LACPS Contemporary Collections”, Gallery at 777, Los Angeles.
“Re..Photo Construct”, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.
“Experimental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram Since 1919”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Co.
“Photograms”, Gallery 954, Chicago Illinois.
“Trophies”, Curated by Wendy Adest, CSULA Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1993
“From Concept to Realism”, Random Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Suitably Appointed.”, Project X at the Muckenthaler, Fullerton, CA.
“The Shooting Gallery”, Arboretum Studios, Santa Monica, CA
“Beyond the Spectacle”, Site Specific Project curated by Sue Spaid for the Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA.
“Patron Print Preview”, Ruth Bloom Gallery for LACPS, Santa Monica.
1992
“Project X at FAR Bazzar”, Site Specific Project at the Old Federal Reserve Building, Los Angeles.
“Retroactive”, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville.
“Breaking Barriers”, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
“One Nine Special”, Site Specific Project at Union Station, Los Angeles.
“Summer Lightning”, Site Specific Project at the Dreadnought Seamen’s Hospital, London, England.
“Objects/Objets”, El Camino College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA.
“Boomerang”, Benefit Exhibition for Act Up L.A. and The Magic Johnson Foundation, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA.
1991
“Picture Plane to Object: Photographic Reality to Photographic Experience”, curated by Darryl Curran, Brea Cultural & Civic Center, Brea, CA
1990
“Systems”, curated by Ed Leffingwell, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Seductive Deceptions: The Theatrical Image”, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville.
“Biennial I”, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA.
1989
“Variations Los Angeles: The Image”, Peter Frank, co-curator, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
“Selections”, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York.
“The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the ’80’s”, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
1988
“From Main to Santa Fe: A Downtown Art Odyssey”, Security Pacific Corporation Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles.
“One of a Kind”, Orange Coast College Gallery, Costa Mesa, California.
1987
“Breaking Through the Looking Glass: East”, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York.
“Breaking Through the Looking Glass: West”, Fahey/Kline Gallery,Los Angeles.
“Wall Street 5 + 1”, Abstraction Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Broken Heart Art”, SPARC, Venice, California and The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles.
“Artlandish”, Installation Show, Masonic Temple, Los Angeles.
“Working it Out”, curated by Bea Nettles, Catskill Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York.
1986
“Bodies and Dreams”, White Columns, New York.
“LACE Annuale”, curated by Ned Rifkin, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
“Personal Icons”, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.
“The Flower Show”, Los Angeles Design Center Gallery.
1985
“New Talent: Los Angeles”, Jones Troyer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Photograms”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
“El Grupo Maximo”, Galleria-by-the Water, Los Angeles.
“The Emblem Show”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.
1984
“From History to Action”, curated by Lucy Lippard, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles
1983
“Contemporary Collage: Extension”, Gallery of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California.
“Bryant, Houghton, Westheimer”, B.C. Space Gallery, Laguna Beach.
“The Television Show: Video Photographs”, Robert Friedus Gallery, New York.
1982
“Image Manipulations”, Mount St. Mary’s College Gallery, Los Angeles.
1981
“Photofusion”, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
“Multi-Cultural Focus”, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1980
“Light Sensitive”, Thomas Center Gallery, Gainesville, Florida.
“Floridian Photographs”, Image Gallery, Sarasota, Florida.
“Orange Blossom Special and Souvenir of Florida”, Florida School of the Arts, Palatka, Florida.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
“(Not So) Still Life, exhibition brochure with essay by Jennifer McGregor, Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx,
New York.
“New Perspectives on the Natural”, online exhibition essay by Constance Mallison, Williamson Gallery, ArtCenter
College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
2013
“Nida Art Colony Log”, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Neringa, Lithuania.
2012
“Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road: Original Jokes About the Suburban and the Poor Farm by the Artists Who Have Exhibited Here”, Poor Farm Press, Chicago.
“Local Gallery Exhibit Channels Sol LeWitt”, feature by Jackie Demaline, Cincinnati Enquirer, September 7, 2012.
“Facing West/Looking East”, exhibition brochure with essay by Richard Turner, Oceanside Museum of Art. Oceanside, CA.
2011
“UrbanNature”, Online exhibition essay with statements by Constance Mallison, LA Times Quotidian.
2010
CAN I COME OVER TO YOUR HOUSE: The First Ten Years of The Suburban, published by The Suburban Gallery, Chicago.
2008
“Elizabeth Bryant” review by Constance Mallinson, Art in America, October, No.9.
“Truthiness: Photography as Sculpture”, Exhibition Catalog Essay by Tyler Stallings Curator, UCR/California Museum of Photography.
“Elizabeth Bryant at SolwayJones”, Review by Josef Woodard, Artweek, June, vol. 39, issue 5
“Elizabeth Bryant at SolwayJones”, Review by Eve Wood, artillery, May/June, Vol. 2, issue 5
“Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic”, article by Michelle Grabner, X-Tra, Vol. 10, No. 3
2004
“Elizabeth Bryant and Rebecca Niederlander at SolwayJones”, review by Peter Frank, Artweek.
2002
“West Coast Reviews: Elizabeth Bryant”, review by Jody Zellen, Art Papers Magazine, Atlanta, GA.
“Elizabeth Bryant at SolwayJones”, review by Eve Wood, Artweek.
2001
“Post-Landscape”, Exhibition Catalog Essay by Rebecca McGrew, Curator, Pomona College Museum of Art.
“Post-Landscape at Pomona College”, review by Thomas McGovern, Artweek.
“Cultivated” Exhibition Essay, Transamerica Pyramid.
2000
“Elizabeth Bryant”, Review by Kristina Newhouse, New Art Examiner,Chicago.
“Homage to Pasadena”, review, Art on Paper, New York.
1999
“Elizabeth Bryant at works on paper, inc.”, Review by Charlene Roth, Artweek.
“Art Picks of the Week”, Peter Frank, Los Angeles Weekly.
“East of Eden: Profane Gardens”, Exhibition Essay by Amy Gerstler X-Tra, Vol. 2, Issue 2., Los Angeles.
“Far Horizons”, Review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times
“Pasadena Adjacent”, Artist Portfolio for Project X.
1998
“Photo Poche Photogrammes”, thematic book organized by Robert Delpire, Centre National de la Photograhpie, with preface by Floris M. Neussus, Nathan Publishers, Paris.
1997
“Irony Found in Dismembered Landscapes”, review by Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times.
“The Truth Behind Artificial Nature; Elizabeth Bryant’s Third Nature Show”, Review by Ken Takahashi, BT, August 1997, Vol. 745, Tokyo, Japan.
“Notions of the Nineteenth Century”, exhibition catalog with essay by Meg Linton, Huntington Beach Art Center.
“Finding Renewal in a Bygone Era”, Review by Daniella Walsh, Orange County Register, CA.
“Parallaxis: Fifty-five Points of View”, Catalog featuring work of WESTAF Fellowship Recipients for 1995 and 1996.
“Re-Designing Eden”, visual art project for Crania: A Literary/Art Journal, Issue 1, January.
1996
“Paper or Plastic, On the Productivity of Absence”, exhibition essay by Dave Bailey for the Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University.
“Filling the Absence “, review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times.
“Phantasmic Photography: Marking Space for the Unconscious State of Wonder”, essay by Sue Spaid, Photo L.A.
1995
“Dreams & Nightmares: Contemporary Los Angeles Landscape Artists”, article by Michael Darling, Artweek, June.
“Program for Paradise”, Artist’s Catalog for Project X at the Remsen Bird Hillside Theatre, Los Angeles.
1994
“Expermental Vision: The Evolution of the Photogram Since 1919”, Exhibition Catalog, Essay by Charles Hagen, Denver Art Museum.
“REAL LIFE Magazine”, No. 23, Autumn 1994, CalArts Press, Valencia, CA.
“Transtextualism: Works to Read, See, Feel”, review by David Pagel, Los Angeles Times.
“Photo Construct Exhibit Stretches Latitude of Film”, review by Helen Cullinan, The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“When X + Y Equals More Than Z”, review by Frank Green, Cleveland Free Times.
1993
“Addressing the Idea of Home”, review by Cathy Curtis,Los Angeles Times.
“Art is Suitably Incorporated”, review by Peter Frank, Orange County Register., Long Beach, CA.
“Family Values”, review by Kay Whitney, Artweek.
“FAR Baazar at the Old Federal Reserve Bank Building, Los Angeles”, review by Peter Kosenko, Artweek.
“Art Pick of the Week: FAR Bazzar”, by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, Los Angeles.
1992
“Summer Lightning Dreadnought Seaman’s Hospital”, review by Ami Barak, Art Press International Edition, Paris, France.
“RetroActive: Recent Work by Department of Art Photography Graduate Alumni, 1963-1992”, exhibition catalog with essay by Alison Nordstrom, University of Florida, Gainesville.
“Summer Lightning II: The One Nine Special”, Art Pick of the Week by Peter Frank, LA Weekly.
“One Nine Special Makes Whistle Stop at Union Station”, article by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times.
“Talking About Art”, Interview by Molly Barnes, KPFK Radio.
“Installation Art: Summer Lightning”, review by Lynn MacRitchie, London Financial Times.
“From Bed to Nurse” review by Sara Kent, Time Out Magazine, London, England.
“Art Kaleidoscope” review and discussion by London critics, BBC Radio.
1991
“Picture Plane to Object”, exhibition brochure with essay by Darryl Curran, Brea Civic & Cultural Center, Brea, CA.
“Photo Exhibit Has Some Negatives”, review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times.
“Objects on a Picture Plane”, review by Barbara A. Williams, Daily Star Progress, Brea, CA.
“Southern California Portfolio 1991”, edited by Graham Howe and Pilar Perez, Framework/Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies.
“Art Notes: Public Art”, report by Shauna Snow, Los Angeles Times Calendar.
1990
“Biennial I Launches a Tradition”, review by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times.
“Seductive Deceptions”, exhibition catalog by Wallace Wilson, University of Florida, Gainesville.
“Muni Gallery’s ‘Focus’ Lacks Coherence”, review by Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times.
1989
“The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980’s”, exhibition catalog, essay by Joshua Smith, introduction by Merry Foresta, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
“To Be Young, Gifted and Angeleno”, by Peter Frank, Visions, Vol. 3, Summer.
“Photography in L.A.: The Emerging Image”, by Garrett White, Michael Lassell and Marilyn Babcock, L.A. Style, June.
“California Biennial I”, exhibition catalog, California Museum of Photography, Riverside.
1988
“Diversity and Congruity”, review by Brian Butler, Artweek, September.
“Seeking Alchemic Change”, review by Margaret Lazzari, Artweek.
“One of a Kind”, review by Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, February.
1987
Photography Issue, Magazine Main, October.
“Looking Glass Reflects Art’s New Identity”, review by Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July.
1986
LACE Annuale, review by Suzanne Muchnic, Los Angeles Times, September.
1984
“From History to Action”, exhibition catalog by Lucy Lippard, The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles.
GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS
Nominee for Anonymous Was A Women, 2016
Durfee Artists’ Resource for Completion Grant, 2001
NEA/WESTAF Individual Artist Fellowship, New Genres, 1996.
COMMISSIONS
Vaquero Walk, Public Art Project, City of Santa Fe Springs, CA, 2006
Double Knot, Artist designed garden with rooftop installation, Private Residence, 1999.
Santa Monica Museum of Art, Artist Project Proposal, 1991 and 1993.
City of Manhattan Beach Art in Public Places, 1991.
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies Patron Print Program, 1990.
EDUCATION
University of Florida, Gainesville, M.F.A., 1980
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, B.F.A.