Ernest Arthur Bryant III

"By appropriating and juxtaposing culturally loaded objects, images, and references, Ernest Bryant challenges our division into tribe, race, group, class, or gender, reminding us that we are all human beings constructed by our languages and our histories. As an artist who has straddled the streets and the academy ... Bryant tries to unearth the piecemeal process by which our cultural histories have been written and artificially deployed."
- Kristin Makholm, from the MCAD/Jerome Artists 2006-07 catalog

Education

2005 - BFA, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
2005 - Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

Solo Exhibitions

2008 - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (forthcoming)
2007 - Ernest A. Bryant III: Trick Baby, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis
2004 - <<KrashArt.com>>, Juxtaposition Arts, Minneapolis
2002 - The Show, Acadia Cafe, Minneapolis
2001 - Ernest Bryant, Level Music Cafe, Thessaloniki, Greece
1998 - Krash Art, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Minneapolis

Group Exhibitions

2006 - Only Human, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul
2005 - Coming Together, MOSAIC Festival, Abraham Lincoln School, Minneapolis
2003 - 30th Anniversary Gala, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis
2001-05 - Made at MCAD, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis
1998 - We Exist, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis

Public Art and Curating

2008 - Exploding Language, co-curator with Suzanne Roberts, Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis (forthcoming)
2007 - chicken party:\flight jacket potlatch, Minneapolis
2007 - Your Black Death, Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, Minnesota
2006 - Afrofuturism, co-curator with Suzanne Roberts, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland
2003 - (Flash Mob), curator, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Awards and Grants

2006 - MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowship for Emerging Artists
2006 - Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship
2005 - Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture